US09614385B2
An apparatus and method for full-orientation over-the-air charging includes a receiver coil associated with a portable electronic device for wireless charging; and a repeater coil associated with a device selectively configured to engage or support the portable electronic device for wireless charging, wherein the device is one of a cover, holster, or case for the portable electronic device; wherein, when the device is selectively engaged or supporting the portable electronic device, a portion of the repeater coil overlaps a portion of the receiver coil forming a magnetic coupling therebetween and supporting wireless charging of the portable electronic device in a plurality of orientations of the portable electronic device relative to a transmitter coil.
US09614380B2
A hysteretic current mode buck-boost voltage regulator including a buck-boost voltage converter, a switching controller, a window circuit, a ramp circuit, and a timing circuit. The timing circuit may be additional ramp circuits. The voltage converter is toggled between first and second switching states during a boost mode, is toggled between third and fourth switching states during a buck mode, and is sequentially cycled through each switching state during a buck-boost mode. The ramp circuit develops a ramp voltage that simulates current through the voltage converter, and switching is determined using the ramp voltage compared with window voltages provided by the window circuit. The window voltages establish frequency, and may be adjusted based on the input and output voltages. The timing circuit provides timing indications during the buck-boost mode to ensure that the second and fourth switching states have approximately the same duration to provide symmetry of the ramp signal.
US09614378B2
An inductive charging interface with magnetic retention can be used for charging electronic devices and accessories. For example, a magnetic core of an inductive charging configuration may be divided into two magnetic elements, one element can be housed within a receptacle or receiving connector of housing of an electric device and the other element can be housed within a plug or transmission connector. The poles of the two elements of the magnetic core may create a magnetic field to retain the plug connector in an aligned, mated position with the receptacle connector of the electronic device in addition to directing magnetic flux to flow in a circular path around and between the two elements of the magnetic core, thereby inducing a current for charging the internal battery of a device.
US09614364B2
A detection system of distributed generation islanding based on power frequency carrier, the detection system comprising: a power frequency carrier signal generating device; a power frequency carrier signal detection device; a signal coupling transformer; a substation bus; a distribution power generator (DG); and a safety isolation breaker, wherein the power frequency carrier signal generating device comprises a voltage and current monitor circuit, the power frequency carrier signal generating device is connected with the signal coupling transformer through four three phase four line power cables, and the signal coupling transformer is connected with substation bus through 3 power cables.
US09614362B2
An overcurrent protection device satisfactorily detects overcurrent without adding complicated component or occupying large space. Penetration member penetrates board face A having a first wiring circuit and face B with a second one, transmitting heat from face A to B. Connection/disconnection part is inserted into first wiring circuit, switching current to heat generation part for generating heat with current, formed in portion of first circuit, continued with one end of penetration member. Temperature detection member disposed near or abutted against other end of penetration member on face B detects transmitted heat, outputting signal. Control part controls connection/disconnection part on signal. Heat generation part is narrower than width w1 not generating heat in steady state, having width w2 to raise temperature upon overcurrent, and being sandwiched between patterns with width w1. Control part turns off current with heat generation part temperature raised to or above prescribed threshold.
US09614358B2
A cable connector is provided for coupling to and mounted within the internal cavity of an electrical box for securing an electrical cable passing through an opening in the electrical box. The cable connector includes a body having a first end positioned next to or adjacent the cable opening in the electrical box and a second end spaced from the first end and the cable opening. At least one and typically two retaining members are spring biased from the first end of the body and extend into a cable passage of the body toward the second end. A front wall is provided at the second end of the body with an opening for receiving the wires and forming a stop member to prevent the armor sheathing from passing through the front wall.
US09614356B2
A modular accessory system is structured to be mounted in a panel board including a housing assembly and a number of conductors with each conductor having a number of stabs extending therefrom. The modular accessory system includes an interface assembly structured to be selectively coupled to the panel board and a number of modules disposed on the interface assembly. Each module is structured to at least monitor or regulate one or more attributes of the panel board.
US09614349B2
A method for switching a wavelength of a tunable wavelength laser, which is provided with a temperature control device for an etalon and a wavelength detecting section for identifying a wavelength of the laser by a front/back ratio of the etalon, the wavelength of the laser being set in a target wavelength on the basis of a detection result of the wavelength detecting section, and the method comprises: driving the laser at a first wavelength; suppressing output of light of the laser in response to a command indicating an optical output at a second wavelength; starting control of the temperature control device towards a second etalon temperature corresponding to the second wavelength; and before the etalon reaches the second etalon temperature, detecting that the etalon reaches a temperature range corresponding to an allowable wavelength range corresponding to the second wavelength, and cancelling the suppression of light in response thereto.
US09614348B2
A light source arrangement is provided. The light source arrangement may include a plurality of semiconductor laser light sources, each having an optical axis. The semiconductor laser light sources are arranged in such a way that their optical axes are oriented parallel to one another so that respective laser light emission sides of the semiconductor laser light sources point in the same spatial direction. The light source arrangement may further include a deflection unit configured to collect and influence beam paths of the laser light emitted by the semiconductor laser light sources in order to form a beam bundle. The semiconductor laser light sources are arranged on a surface of a carrier, distributed at least two-dimensionally over the surface.
US09614337B2
A connector for coupling a medical sensor to a medical monitor includes a first pin coupled and a second pin each electrically coupled to a first LED and to a second LED, respectively, of an emitter of the medical sensor. The connector includes a third pin electrically coupled to a cathode and a fourth pin electrically coupled to an anode of a detector of the medical sensor. The first pin and the second pin are arranged to have 180 degree symmetry relative to one another, and the third pin and the fourth pin are arranged to have 180 degree symmetry relative to one another.
US09614323B2
An electrical connector having a squib connector housing a plurality of socket contacts and a squib assembly housing a plurality of pin contacts for insertion in the socket contacts when the squib connector and squib assembly are moved in a mating direction and mated. A retaining means provided for retaining the squib connector and squib assembly in a fully mated condition. A spring, acting in a direction opposite the mating direction, provides a resisting force to oppose mating. During the application of a mating force to overcome the resisting force of the spring and move the squib connector and squib assembly in the mating direction, and prior to the squib connector and squib assembly reaching the fully mated condition, removal of the resisting force of the spring is triggered and the mating force is applied to moving the squib connector and squib assembly to the fully mated condition.
US09614316B2
A tamper resistant receptacle having a propeller shutter assembly comprising a propeller shutter comprising a central hub with an annual opening, a pair of radially extending arms, and a wing block disposed on the end of each arm. The shutter assembly also includes an anchor for attaching the propeller to the receptacle body and a spring member to bias the propeller in the “closed” position. The wing blocks are sized to block a respect one of the hot and neutral openings of a standard 15-amp electrical receptacle. The wing blocks each include a ramp or inclined cam surface. These surfaces are juxtaposed such that when a plug blade hit one surface and cams past it to cause rotation of the propeller, the opposite plug blade cams down and past the other surface to cause rotation of the propeller in the same direction. This configuration causes the propeller to translate vertical force from the plug blades into rotational force in a direction and of sufficient force to overcome the spring bias of the spring and rotate the propeller wing block out of the way of the electrical contacts such that the blades can “plug in” to the device's electrical contacts.
US09614315B2
The electrical connector includes: a housing having a terminal space therein; and a connector terminal to be housed in the terminal space. The connector terminal includes: a terminal body operable to be inserted into the terminal space; and a lance formed at the terminal body for preventing the terminal body from being pulled out of the terminal space. The terminal space includes a pair of walls. The lance includes: a first elastically deformable portion outwardly extending from the terminal body; and a second elastically deformable portion being continuous with a distal end of the first portion, and being disposed outwardly of the first portion relative to the terminal body. A gap is formed between the terminal body and each of the walls, and the first and second portions can pass the gap in an elastically deformed condition.
US09614307B2
A connector in an electronic device includes a case, a supporting element, and an elastic element. The case defines a through hole and a plurality of latching portions protruding from an inner surface of the case surrounding the through hole. The latching portions include an engaging surface and a guiding surface adjacent to the engaging surface. The supporting element is partially received in the through hole. The supporting element includes terminal recesses and resisting pieces engaging with the engaging surface. The elastic element is partially received in the supporting element and supplied a resilient force. When the supporting element is moved away from the case, the resisting piece is separated from the engaging surface to make contact with the guiding surface under the resilient force. If reassembly of the connector contacts is not in the predetermined order the electronic device will be locked down.
US09614304B2
An electrical connector forms electrical contact by tightening of a movable, electrically-conductive spiral around un-insulated wire or wires. The spiral coils around the wire multiple times and tightens on the wire(s) when either one or the other end, or both ends, of the spiral is/are rotated relative to the other. Various housing portions may be provided for connection to different portions of the spiral, to facilitate the tightening of the spiral and to cooperate with a latch/lock system to retain the spiral in tightened condition. Multiple spirals may be provided in one connector, including spirals that tighten around separate wires at opposite ends/side of the connector and/or in spiral ports extending transversely from a main spiral(s). Terminal ends or additional spiral units/ports may be connected to a given spiral, either permanently, semi-permanently, or detachably, for producing a wide variety of configurations and modular connection devices.
US09614301B2
The invention describes a spring-three terminal connection (1) for the terminal connection of electrical conductors, having an insulating-material housing (2) which has at least one conductor insertion opening (12) for the insertion of an electrical conductor, at least one clamping spring (5) which has a contact limb (7), a clamping limb (10) and a spring bow (8) which connects the contact limb (7) and the clamping limb (10) to one another, and having at least one operating button (15) which is accommodated in the insulating-material housing such that it can be displaced and which has an operating area (14) for making contact with the clamping limb (10) and moving the clamping limb (10) in the direction of the contact limb (7) for opening the clamping point when the operating button (15) is displaced in the direction of the interior of the insulating-material housing (2). The insulating-material housing (2) contains at least one button opening (16) for accommodating an associated operating button (15), said button opening being open in the direction of an associated conductor insertion opening (12). The operating button (15), which is mounted in this button opening (16) such that it can be displaced, forms part of the wall arrangement of the conductor insertion opening (12). Starting from a mouth section (50) which adjoins the conductor insertion opening (12), the button opening (16) is widened in the direction of the hack (51) of the button opening (16), said back being situated opposite the conductor insertion opening (12). The cross section of the operating button (15) is matched to the widening contour of the button opening (16).
US09614292B2
A broad-band circularly-polarized antenna is presented. The circularly-polarized antenna includes at least four monopole antenna elements having respective at least four radiating surfaces with respective at least four normals. The monopole antenna elements are arranged around a vertical axis. The normals of the respective radiating surfaces are perpendicular to and point away from the vertical axis. The broad-band circularly-polarized antenna includes at least one feed network communicatively coupled to edge portions of the at least four monopole antenna elements. A first antenna element is driven with a first driving phase offset by 90 degrees from a second driving phase used to drive a second antenna element. The second driving phase is offset by 90 degrees from a third driving phase used to drive a third monopole antenna element. The third driving phase is offset by 90 degrees from a fourth driving phase used to drive a fourth antenna element.
US09614287B2
A multi-band antenna can be associated with at least one electronic device. The antenna includes a single power supply point; at least one first resonant circuit for resonating at a first frequency; and at least one second resonant circuit for resonating at a second frequency. The resonant circuits are electrically connected to each other. The connection point between the resonant circuits corresponds to the single power supply point. The antenna can be used simultaneously over multiple bands.
US09614262B2
A battery temperature raising system and a control method thereof are provided. The battery temperature raising system includes a power supply that operates a heater attached to a battery module. The heater is configured to increase a battery temperature and a variable resistor mounted on a circuit between the heater and the power supply adjusts a heating value of the heater based on an adjustment state of a resistance value. A heater relay is mounted on the circuit between the heater and the power supply and opens and closes the circuit to selectively turn on/off the heater. A first sensor senses the battery temperature and a second sensor senses a heater temperature. A controller outputs a control signal to operate the heater relay to selectively turn on/off the heater based on temperature information sensed by the sensors and a control signal to adjust the resistance value of the variable resistor.
US09614260B2
Discussed herein is a battery pack configured to have a structure in which a battery pack case is provided at the upper part and the lower part thereof with a coolant inlet port and a coolant outlet port, respectively, the battery pack case is provided with a coolant introduction part and a coolant discharge part, the coolant introduction part includes (a) a parallel introduction part adjacent to the coolant inlet port, the parallel introduction part extending in parallel to a top of the unit cell stack and (b) an inclined introduction part connected to the parallel introduction part, the inclined introduction part extending from the coolant inlet port to an end of the battery pack case opposite to the coolant inlet port such that a distance between the inclined introduction part and the top of the unit cell stack is gradually decreased.
US09614256B2
A lithium ion battery includes a first substrate having a first main surface, and a lid including a conductive cover element, the lid being attached to the first main surface. A cavity is formed between the first substrate and the lid. The battery further includes an electrolyte disposed in the cavity. An anode of the battery includes a component made of a semiconductor material and is formed at the first substrate, and a cathode of the battery is formed at the lid.
US09614244B2
A system for a flow cell for a hybrid flow battery, comprising: a redox plate comprising a plurality of electrolyte flow channels; conductive inserts attached to the redox plate between adjacent electrolyte flow channels; a redox electrode attached to a surface of the redox plate; a plating electrode, comprising: a plurality of folded fins with an oscillating cross-section, the plurality of folded fins comprising: a first planar surface; a second planar surface, parallel to the first planar surface; a plurality of ridges intersecting the first and second planar surfaces such that the plurality of ridges divide the first planar surface into a first plurality of strips, and divide the second planar surface into a second plurality of strips; and a membrane barrier. In this way, the capacity and performance of hybrid flow batteries may be maximized, through decreasing the reaction kinetics, mass transport and ohmic resistance losses at both electrodes.
US09614243B2
A multilayered structure suitable as an electrode in a power source and a method of producing the same. The structure comprises a conductive laminar layer; and an enzyme layer containing an essentially dry enzyme capable of oxidizing or dehydrogenating carbohydrate material under suitable conditions. Because the enzymatic anode layer and the fuel containing layer are not interacting during the production and since they are kept latent during storage time, the power source will remain stable for extended periods of time, thus increasing the utility of the power source.
US09614242B2
Provided are a polymer electrolyte composition, an electrolyte membrane, a membrane electrolyte assembly, and a fuel cell. The polymer electrolyte composition according to an exemplary embodiment of this application includes a first solvent, a second solvent which is different from the first solvent, and a polymer which is reacted with the first solvent and the second solvent, in which the polymer includes a functional group which reacts with the first solvent by a first reaction energy and with the second solvent by a second reaction energy, and the second reaction energy is smaller than the first reaction energy.
US09614240B2
The invention relates to a cooling system for a fuel cell (2), comprising a main heat-transfer-fluid circuit including a main circulation pump (6) and a heat exchanger (8) with the exterior, which feed an upstream pipe (12) supplying the fluid to the cells (4) of the fuel cell, said fluid leaving the cells via a downstream pipe (14) in order to return to the main pump. The system is characterised in that a secondary circuit, comprising a secondary circulation device (30) that circulates the fluid in an alternate manner, is connected in parallel with the main circuit to the upstream (12) and downstream (14) pipes and in that one or more controlled valves (10, 16) allow the main circuit and the secondary circuit to operate independently.
US09614230B2
The invention relates to methods and articles for coupling a fuel cell layer to a second structure. The fuel cell layer includes a superior fuel cell surface, an inferior fuel cell surface, and a perimeter fuel cell surface. An adhesive structure is adhered to the superior, inferior, and perimeter fuel cell surfaces to form a coupling or seal between the fuel cell layer and the second structure.
US09614228B2
A mixed metal oxide material of tantalumand titanium is provided for use in a fuel cell. The material may comprise between 1 and 20 at. % tantalum. The mixed metal oxide may form the core of a core-shell composite material, used as a catalyst support, in which a catalyst such as platinum forms the shell. The catalyst may be applied as a single monolayer, and is preferably between 6.5 and 9.3 monolayers thick.
US09614222B2
The present invention is a negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising at least a silicon-silicon oxide composite and a carbon coating formed on a surface of the silicon-silicon oxide composite, wherein at least the silicon-silicon oxide composite is doped with lithium, and a ratio I(SiC)/I(Si) of a peak intensity I(SiC) attributable to SiC of 2θ=35.8±0.2° to a peak intensity I(Si) attributable to Si of 2θ=28.4±0.2° satisfies a relation of I(SiC)/I(Si)≦0.03, when x-ray diffraction using Cu-Kα ray. As a result, there is provided a negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte that is superior in first efficiency and cycle durability to a conventional negative electrode material.
US09614218B2
A composite carbon particle for use in a negative electrode of a lithium-ion secondary battery, the composite carbon particle including a core particle composed of a carbon material obtained by heating, at not higher than 2500° C., petroleum coke having a Hardgrove grindability index (HGI value) of 30 to 60 (defined by ASTM D409), and a covering layer composed of a carbonaceous material obtained by heating an organic compound at 1000° C. to 2000° C. The composite carbon particle has a 50% particle diameter (D50) of 1 μm to 30 μm in a volume-based cumulative particle size distribution as measured by a laser diffraction method.
US09614216B2
The invention provides a negative electrode material for lithium ion secondary battery, including a composite particle of a first particle containing a carbonic substance A and a second particle containing silicon, which are combined with a carbonic substance B, wherein, when a cross-section of the composite particle is observed with respect to: the content of silicon atom in a core region in a circle having a center thereof on the midpoint of the major axis, which constitutes the maximum length, and having a radius of ⅛ of the length of the minor axis orthogonally intersecting the major axis at the midpoint thereof, and the content thereof in a rim region extending from the circumference to a depth of ⅛ of the length of the minor axis, the ratio of the content in the rim region to that in the core region is 2 or higher.
US09614211B2
Provided is a lithium ion battery including a battery can, a battery core received in the battery can, electrolyte filled in the battery can, and a battery cover assembled to the battery can. The battery can or the battery cover is provided with a pressure relief valve, and the pressure relief valve is coupled with a mesh cover defining a number of through holes therein. According to the present invention, when thermal runaway occurs to the lithium ion battery, the pressure relief valve breaks timely. Only gases and electrolyte vapor can pass through the mesh cover. Solid particles cannot pass through the mesh cover. Therefore, ignition of the flammable gases, the electrolyte vapor and the high temperature solid particles in the surrounding air afar from the pressure relief valve is avoided and the safety performance of the lithium ion battery can be improved remarkably.
US09614202B2
An electronic device may include a battery well and a plurality of tabs. The battery well may receive a disk-shaped battery and may include an annular sidewall, an open end, an end wall and a recess. The open end may be disposed at a first end of the sidewall. The end wall may be substantially perpendicular to the sidewall at a second end of the sidewall and axially between the recess and the open end. The recess may be disposed at the second end of the sidewall and adjacent the end wall. The recess may be adapted to receive a portion of the battery therein. The tabs may be disposed at the open end and may extend radially inward from the sidewall to releasably retain the battery in the battery well. The tabs may define a plane that is substantially parallel to the end wall.
US09614201B2
A sealing element (10) for sealing battery cells (18) of a battery module (34) for the purely electric drive of a motor vehicle has a first sealing disk (12) for a seal-forming attachment between a housing (32) and a first attachment frame (44), a second sealing disk (14) spaced from the first sealing disk (12) for a seal-forming attachment between the housing (32) and a second attachment frame (46), and receptacle pockets (16), connecting the first and second sealing disks (12, 14) for accommodating battery cells (18) therein. The first and second sealing disks (12, 14) and the receptacle pockets (16) are manufactured in one piece from a common sealing material. Thus, the battery cells (18) can be sealed with respect to a cooling medium that flows through the housing (32) thereby avoiding the risk of electrical short-circuits via the cooling medium.
US09614197B2
An onboard battery includes an accommodation case that has a hollow cross section formed with multiple cavities 9a, and at least one battery module that has at least one battery cell and is accommodated in the accommodation case. At least one disposition depression that communicates with one of the multiple cavities and is opened upward is formed in a portion positioned below the at least one battery module in the accommodation case, and at least one heater that heats the at least one battery cell is disposed in the at least one disposition depression so as not to be in contact with the at least one battery cell.
US09614196B2
Disclosed herein is a battery pack including (a) a module assembly including two or more battery modules, each of which includes a chargeable and dischargeable battery cell, the battery modules being stacked to have a two layer structure including an upper layer and a lower layer while being in contact with each other in a lateral direction, (b) a first upper layer connection member and a second upper layer connection member mounted at the upper layer module assembly, (c) a first lower layer connection member and a second lower layer connection member mounted at the lower layer module assembly, (d) a pair of side support members, (e) insulation members mounted at interfaces between the sides of the upper and lower layer module assemblies and the side support members, and (f) a first lower end support member and a second lower end support member.
US09614189B2
Disclosed are an organic electroluminescent display and a method for preparing the same, and a display device. The organic electroluminescent display comprises: a base substrate; an organic electroluminescent pixel array, which is set on the base substrate; a packaging coverplate or a packaging film, which is covered outside the organic electroluminescent pixel array; and a phase difference film and a polarization functional film located inside the packaging coverplate or the packaging film and attached to the organic electroluminescent pixel array in turn. In the organic electroluminescent display according to the invention, the unnecessary films, such as a TAC films that need to be attached to the two sides of a polarization functional film in an existing circular sheet polarizer and a binding agent layer, etc., can be omitted, thereby the transmittance of a display can be improved, and the contrast of a display can be increased; moreover, the overall thickness of a display may be reduced, and the problem of being difficult to roll up may be avoided; and there exists no interference of oxygen and aqueous vapor, thus the durability of the circular sheet polarizer can be increased.
US09614182B2
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method including forming a display device on a substrate; and forming a thin-film encapsulation layer on the display device, the thin-film encapsulation layer including at least one inorganic layer that includes low-temperature viscosity transition (LVT) inorganic materials, wherein forming the thin-film encapsulation layer includes irradiating energy beams toward the thin-film encapsulation layer during formation of the thin-film encapsulation layer.
US09614181B2
Provided is an organic light emitting display apparatus. The apparatus may include a substrate including a display region where an image is realized and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The apparatus includes an organic light emitting unit including a first electrode, an intermediate layer, and a second electrode, which are disposed in the display region and are sequentially stacked on the substrate. The apparatus also includes a first inorganic film including a first low temperature viscosity transition (LVT) inorganic material having a first viscosity transition temperature, and covering the organic light emitting unit; and a second inorganic film including a second LVT inorganic material having a second viscosity transition temperature lower than the first viscosity transition temperature, and formed in the non-display region.
US09614177B2
The present invention provides an OLED package method and an OLED package structure. The method comprises steps of: providing a substrate (1) to be packaged, and a package cover plate (2); forming an inorganic protective frame (11) in a round at the edges of the substrate (1); manufacturing an OLED element (12) on the substrate (1) inside the inorganic protective frame (11); pasting a solid glue film (21) on the package cover plate (2); forming an adhesive (22) in a round on the package cover plate (2) corresponding to a location of the inorganic protective frame (11); oppositely attaching the substrate (1) and the package cover plate (2), and the substrate (1) and the package cover plate (2) are affixed together by the solid glue film (21) and the adhesive (22) to accomplish the package to the substrate (1) with the package cover plate (2).
US09614170B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer interposed therebetween. The organic compound layer includes a plurality of emitting layers at least including a first emitting layer and a second emitting layer. The first emitting layer contains a first host material and a fluorescent first luminescent material. The second emitting layer contains a second luminescent material that is different from the first luminescent material. A difference ΔST(H1) between singlet energy EgS(H1) of the first host material and an energy gap Eg77K(H1) at 77[K] of the first host material satisfies a specific relationship. One of the first luminescent material and the second luminescent material has a main peak wavelength from 400 nm to less than 500 nm and the other of the first luminescent material and the second luminescent material has a main peak wavelength from 500 nm to 700 nm.
US09614169B2
A method is provided for forming a back contact perovskite solar cell. A substrate is coated with a positive electrode layer. The positive electrode layer is then conformally coated with a first insulator. A plurality of negative electrode segments are selectively deposited overlying the first insulator layer, and a second insulator layer is conformally deposited overlying the negative electrode segments and first insulator layer. The second insulator layer is selectively etched to expose the negative electrode segments, and an n-type semiconductor is selectively deposited overlying each exposed negative electrode segment to form n-type contacts. The first and second insulator layers are then selectively etched to expose positive electrode segments. A p-type semiconductor is selectively deposited over each exposed positive electrode segment to form p-type contacts. Finally, a hybrid organic/inorganic perovskite (e.g., CH3NH3Pbl3-XClX) layer is conformally deposited overlying the p-type and n-type contacts. A back contact solar cell is also provided.
US09614167B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode display including an organic light emitting display panel configured to display an image, and a lower passivation film attached to a bottom of the organic light emitting diode display panel. The lower passivation film includes a support film that is in contact with the organic light emitting diode display panel, and a stress adjustment layer formed beneath the support film and configured to reduce a bending stress to be induced in the organic light emitting display panel when the organic light emitting display panel and the lower passivation film are bent.
US09614161B2
The present specification relates to an organic electronic device in which a new compound, which can improve the life span, the efficiency, the electrochemical stability and the thermal stability of the organic electronic device, is included in an organic material layer.
US09614156B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for producing a flexible display panel. The method includes the following steps of: providing a bearing substrate and a transparent substrate arranged with the flexible display panel; setting a laser irradiation path and irradiating the bearing substrate by using a laser along the set laser irradiation path to form a mark region on the bearing substrate; placing the flexible display panel on the mark region correspondingly; irradiating from a side of the transparent substrate by re-using the laser along the set laser irradiation path, to peel off the flexible display panel from the transparent substrate; and separating the flexible display panel from the mark region on the bearing substrate to obtain the flexible display panel.
US09614153B2
Methods of selectively forming a metal-doped chalcogenide material comprise exposing a chalcogenide material to a transition metal solution, and incorporating transition metal of the transition solution into the chalcogenide material without substantially incorporating the transition metal into an adjacent material. The chalcogenide material is not silver selenide. Another method comprises forming a chalcogenide material adjacent to and in contact with an insulative material, exposing the chalcogenide material and the insulative material to a transition metal solution, and diffusing transition metal of the transition metal solution into the chalcogenide material while substantially no transition metal diffuses into the insulative material. A method of doping a chalcogenide material of a memory cell with at least one transition metal without using an etch or chemical mechanical planarization process to remove the transition metal from an insulative material of the memory cell is also disclosed, wherein the chalcogenide material is not silver selenide.
US09614137B2
A light emitting device includes: a heat dissipative board; a wiring board which adheres and is fixed to the heat dissipative board and in which a through-hole is formed; a light-emitting element which is mounted on a front surface of the heat dissipative board which is exposed through the through-hole of the wiring board; a bonding wire which connects the light-emitting element and the wiring board; and a light-reflecting member which covers a surface of an inner peripheral wall of the through-hole excluding disposition places of the light-emitting element and the bonding wire.
US09614125B2
A composite element chip includes a substrate; and a plurality of semiconductor thin-films disposed on the substrate and arranged in a predetermined direction which is a first direction. Each semiconductor thin-film includes an array of a plurality of light emitting portions which are arranged so that adjacent light emitting portions are displaced from each other by a predetermined distance in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, the plurality of light emitting portions being arranged along an imaginary line. Each semiconductor thin-film has a first end that is parallel to the second direction; and a second end that extends along a pattern in which the plurality of light emitting portions are arranged and is parallel to the imaginary line. A semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof, a printing head, and an image forming apparatus are also disclosed.
US09614124B2
A substrate having an annealed AlN layer includes a substrate made of a material selected from among a group including sapphire, silicon carbide (SiC), and aluminum nitride (AlN), and an aluminum nitride (AlN) layer formed on the substrate and having a thickness of 100 nm or greater. The aluminum nitride layer is annealed at a prescribed annealing temperature and in a nitrogen/carbon monoxide (N2/CO) mixed gas atmosphere, and the nitrogen/carbon monoxide (N2/CO) mixed gas has a mixture ratio of N2 gas/CO gas in a range of 0.95/0.05 to 0.4/0.6.
US09614121B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor light-emitting device is provided that includes forming a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, forming an active layer by alternately forming a plurality of quantum well layers grown at a first temperature and a plurality of quantum barrier layers grown at a second temperature higher than the first temperature, and forming a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer.
US09614118B2
An apparatus for deposition of a plurality of elements onto a solar cell substrate that comprises: a housing; a transporting apparatus to transport the substrate in and out of the housing; a first tubing apparatus to deliver powders of a first elements to the housing; a first source material tube located outside of the housing and joined to a feeder tube of the tubing apparatus; a valve located inside of the first source material tube sufficient to block access between the first source material tube and the first feeder tube; a first heating tube located inside of the housing and connected to the first feeder tube; a similar second tubing apparatus to deliver powders of a second elements to the housing; a loading station for loading the substrate onto the transporting apparatus; one or more thermal sources to heat the housing and the first and second heating tube.
US09614112B2
A semiconductor device is provided that includes an array of imaging cells realized from a plurality of layers formed on a substrate, wherein the plurality of layers includes at least one modulation doped quantum well structure spaced from at least one quantum dot structure. Each respective imaging cell includes an imaging region spaced from a corresponding charge storage region. The at least one quantum dot structure of the imaging region generates photocurrent arising from absorption of incident electromagnetic radiation. The at least one modulation doped quantum well structure defines a buried channel for lateral transfer of the photocurrent for charge accumulation in the charge storage region and output therefrom. The at least one modulation doped quantum well structure and the at least one quantum dot structure of each imaging cell can be disposed within a resonant cavity that receives the incident electromagnetic radiation or below a structured metal film having a periodic array of holes.
US09614111B2
The present invention provides a CIGS film substantially free from oxidation of a front surface thereof and a CIGS solar cell employing the CIGS film and substantially free from reduction and variation in conversion efficiency. The CIGS film, which is used as a light absorbing layer for the CIGS solar cell, includes: a first region having a Ga/(In+Ga) ratio progressively reduced along its thickness toward a predetermined first thickness position from a back surface of the CIGS film; a second region having a Ga/(In+Ga) ratio progressively increased along its thickness toward a predetermined second thickness position from the first region; and a third region provided on the second region and having a Ga/(In+Ga) ratio progressively reduced along its thickness toward the front surface of the CIGS film.
US09614110B2
Disclosed is a photo detector. The photo detector includes: a conductive substrate; an insulating layer formed on the conductive substrate; a single-layer graphene formed at one part of an upper end of the insulating layer and formed in one layer; a multi-layer graphene formed at the other part of the upper end of the insulating layer and formed in multiple layers; a first electrode formed at an end of the single-layer graphene; and a second electrode formed at an end of the multi-layer graphene.
US09614107B2
A plate varactor includes a dielectric substrate and a first electrode embedded in a surface of the substrate. A capacitor dielectric layer is disposed over the first electrode, and a layer of graphene is formed over the dielectric layer to contribute a quantum capacitance component to the dielectric layer. An upper electrode is formed on the layer of graphene. Other embodiments and methods for fabrication are also included.
US09614105B2
A charge-trapping NOR (CT-NOR) memory device and methods of fabricating a CT-NOR memory device utilizing silicon-rich nitride (SiRN) in a charge-trapping (CT) layer of the CT-NOR memory device.
US09614094B2
An object is to suppress operation delay caused when a semiconductor device that amplifies and outputs an error between two potentials returns from a standby mode. Electrical connection between an output terminal of a transconductance amplifier and one electrode of a capacitor is controlled by a transistor whose channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor layer. Consequently, turning off the transistor allows the one electrode of the capacitor to hold charge for a long time even if the transconductance amplifier is in the standby mode. Moreover, when the transconductance amplifier returns from the standby mode, turning on the transistor makes it possible to settle charging and discharging of the capacitor in a short time. As a result, the operation of the semiconductor device can enter into a steady state in a short time.
US09614092B2
A thin film transistor array panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an insulating substrate; a polycrystal semiconductor layer formed on the insulating substrate; a buffer layer formed below the polycrystal semiconductor layer and containing fluorine; a gate electrode overlapping the polycrystal semiconductor layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode overlapping the polycrystal semiconductor layer and separated from each other; and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode.
US09614089B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate and a protection element over the gate stack. A top of the protection element is wider than a bottom of the protection element. The semiconductor device structure also includes a spacer element over a side surface of the protection element and a sidewall of the gate stack. The semiconductor device structure further includes a conductive contact electrically connected to a conductive feature over the semiconductor substrate.
US09614087B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first semiconductor layer on a substrate, forming a bottom source/drain region on the first semiconductor layer, forming a second semiconductor layer on the bottom source/drain region, patterning the second semiconductor layer into a plurality of fins extending from the bottom source/drain region vertically with respect to the substrate, forming a gate structure around the plurality of fins, forming a top source/drain region on each of the plurality of fins, oxidizing the first semiconductor layer to form an oxide layer in place of the first semiconductor layer, wherein a volume of the oxide layer is larger than a volume of the first semiconductor layer prior to the oxidation, and producing a strain in each of the plurality of fins due to the larger volume of the oxide layer.
US09614084B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a channel region and a recess, wherein the recess is located at both side of the channel region; a gate structure formed over the channel region; a first SiP layer covering bottom corners of the gate structure and the recess; and a second SiP layer formed over the first SiP layer and in the recess, wherein the second SiP layer has a phosphorus concentration higher than that of the first SiP layer.
US09614083B2
A transistor having a narrow bandgap semiconductor source/drain region is described. The transistor includes a gate electrode formed on a gate dielectric layer formed on a silicon layer. A pair of source/drain regions are formed on opposite sides of the gate electrode wherein said pair of source/drain regions comprise a narrow bandgap semiconductor film formed in the silicon layer on opposite sides of the gate electrode.
US09614081B2
A gate insulating film and a gate electrode of non-single crystalline silicon for forming an nMOS transistor are provided on a silicon substrate. Using the gate electrode as a mask, n-type dopants having a relatively large mass number (70 or more) such as As ions or Sb ions are implanted, to form a source/drain region of the nMOS transistor, whereby the gate electrode is amorphized. Subsequently, a silicon oxide film is provided to cover the gate electrode, at a temperature which is less than the one at which recrystallization of the gate electrode occurs. Thereafter, thermal processing is performed at a temperature of about 1000° C., whereby high compressive residual stress is exerted on the gate electrode, and high tensile stress is applied to a channel region under the gate electrode. As a result, carrier mobility of the nMOS transistor is enhanced.
US09614076B2
There is formed a first concave portion that extends inside a semiconductor substrate from a main surface thereof. An insulating film is formed over the main surface, over a side wall and a bottom wall of the first concave portion so as to cover an element and to form a capped hollow in the first concave portion. A first hole portion is formed in the insulating film so as to reach the hollow in the first concave portion from an upper surface of the insulating film, and to reach the semiconductor substrate on the bottom wall of the first concave portion while leaving the insulating film over the side wall of the first concave portion. There is formed a second hole portion that reaches the conductive portion from the upper surface of the insulating film. The first and second hole portions are formed by the same etching treatment.
US09614063B2
This disclosure describes a method of making a tunnel barrier-based electronic device, in which the tunnel barrier and transport channel are made of the same material—graphene. A homoepitaxial tunnel barrier/transport device is created using a monolayer chemically modified graphene sheet as a tunnel barrier on another monolayer graphene sheet. This device displays enhanced spintronic properties over heteroepitaxial devices and is the first to use graphene as both the tunnel barrier and channel.
US09614060B2
A nanowire device of the present description may be produced with the incorporation of at least one underlayer etch stop formed during the fabrication of at least one nanowire transistor in order to assist in protecting source structures and/or drain structures from damage that may result from fabrication processes. The underlayer etch stop may prevent damage to the source structures and/or drain the structures, when the material used in the fabrication of the source structures and/or the drain structures is susceptible to being etched by the processes used in the removal of the sacrificial materials, i.e. low selectively to the source structure and/or the drain structure materials, such that potential shorting between the transistor gate electrodes and contacts formed for the source structures and/or the drain structures may be prevented.
US09614058B2
One illustrative device disclosed herein includes a substrate fin formed in a substrate comprised of a first semiconductor material, wherein at least a sidewall of the substrate fin is positioned substantially in a <100> crystallographic direction of the crystalline structure of the substrate, a replacement fin structure positioned above the substrate fin, wherein the replacement fin structure is comprised of a semiconductor material that is different from the first semiconductor material, and a gate structure positioned around at least a portion of the replacement fin structure.
US09614056B2
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a fin that is positioned above and vertically spaced apart from an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, the fin having an upper surface, a lower surface and first and second side surfaces, wherein an axis of the fin in a height direction of the fin is oriented substantially parallel to the upper surface of the substrate, and wherein a first side surface of the fin contacts a first insulating material, forming a gate structure around the upper surface, the second side surface and the lower surface of the fin, and forming a gate contact structure that is conductively coupled to the gate structure.
US09614055B2
A semiconductor device has an FET of a trench-gate structure obtained by disposing a conductive layer, which will be a gate, in a trench extended in the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the upper surface of the trench-gate conductive layer is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The conductive layer of the trench gate is formed to have a substantially flat or concave upper surface and the upper surface is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. After etching of the semiconductor substrate to form the upper surface of the conductive layer of the trench gate, a channel region and a source region are formed by ion implantation so that the semiconductor device is free from occurrence of a source offset.
US09614052B2
A device includes a conductive layer including a bottom portion, and a sidewall portion over the bottom portion, wherein the sidewall portion is connected to an end of the bottom portion. An aluminum-containing layer overlaps the bottom portion of the conductive layer, wherein a top surface of the aluminum-containing layer is substantially level with a top edge of the sidewall portion of the conductive layer. An aluminum oxide layer is overlying the aluminum-containing layer. A copper-containing region is over the aluminum oxide layer, and is spaced apart from the aluminum-containing layer by the aluminum oxide layer. The copper-containing region is electrically coupled to the aluminum-containing layer through the top edge of the sidewall portion of the conductive layer.
US09614046B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a host substrate and an upper surface, an active area, a substrate opening in the semiconductor substrate that is partially defined by a recessed surface, and a thermally conductive layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate that extends between the recessed surface and a portion of the semiconductor substrate within the active area. A method for fabricating the semiconductor device includes defining an active area, forming a gate electrode over a channel in the active area, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode in the active area on opposite sides of the gate electrode, etching a substrate opening in the semiconductor substrate that is partially defined by the recessed surface, and depositing a thermally conductive layer over the semiconductor substrate that extends between the recessed surface and a portion of the semiconductor substrate over the channel.
US09614036B2
The present invention provides a manufacture method of an oxide semiconductor TFT substrate, and the method comprises steps of: 1, forming a gate (2) on a substrate (1); 2, deposing a gate isolation layer (3); 3, forming an island shaped oxide semiconductor layer (4); 4, forming an island shaped photoresistor layer (6) and an island shaped etching stopper layer (5), and the island shaped etching stopper layer (5) covers a central part (41) of the island shaped oxide semiconductor layer (4) and exposes two side parts (43) of the island shaped oxide semiconductor layer (4); 5, implementing ion implantation process to the two side parts (43) of the island shaped oxide semiconductor layer (4); 6, lifting off the island shaped photoresistor layer (6); 7, forming a source/a drain (7), and the source/the drain (7) contact the two side parts (43) of the island shaped oxide semiconductor layer (4) to establish electrical connections; 8, deposing and patterning a protecting layer (8); 9, deposing and patterning a pixel electrode layer (9); 10, implementing anneal process.
US09614035B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin protruding from a substrate and extending in a first direction, first and second gate structures intersecting the fin, a recess formed in the fin between the first and second gate structures, a device isolation layer which fills the recess, and which has an upper surface protruded outwardly from the fin and disposed to be coplanar with upper surfaces of the first and second gate structures, a liner formed along a side walls of the device isolation layer protruded outwardly from the fin and a source/drain region disposed at both sides of the recess and spaced apart from the device isolation layer.
US09614033B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor device comprises a first load terminal contact area at a first side of a semiconductor body. A second load terminal contact area is at a second side of the semiconductor body opposite to the first side. A control terminal contact area is at the second side of the semiconductor body. An isolation structure extends through the semiconductor body between the first and second sides. The isolation structure electrically isolates a first part of the semiconductor body from a second part of the semiconductor body. A first thickness of the first part of the semiconductor body is smaller than a second thickness of the second part of the semiconductor body.
US09614032B2
A semiconductor device comprises a transistor in a semiconductor body having a first main surface and a second main surface, the first main surface being opposite to the second main surface. The transistor comprises a source region at the first main surface, a drain region, a body region, a drift zone, and a gate electrode at the body region. The body region and the drift zone are disposed along a first direction between the source region and the drain region, the first direction being parallel to the first main surface. The gate electrode is disposed in trenches extending in the first direction. The transistor further comprises an insulating layer adjacent to the second main surface of the body region. The source region vertically extends to the second main surface.
US09614027B2
Devices and methods for forming a device are disclosed. The device includes a substrate with a device region having a length and a width direction. An isolation region surrounds the device region of which an isolation edge abuts the device region. A transistor is disposed in the device region. The transistor includes a gate disposed between first and second source/drain (S/D) regions. A silicide block is disposed on the transistor. The silicide block covers at least the isolation edge adjacent to the gate. The silicide block prevents formation of a silicide contact at least at the isolation edge adjacent to the gate.
US09614023B2
A resistor device includes a resistor body disposed in a substrate and doped with a first type of dopant, an insulating layer disposed above the resistor body, and at least one gate structure disposed above the insulating layer and above the resistor body. A method includes applying a bias voltage to at least a first gate structure disposed above an insulating layer disposed above a resistor body disposed in a substrate and doped with a first type of dopant to affect a resistance of the resistor body.
US09614021B2
An improved organic light-emitting display apparatus prevents damage of wiring due to a mask during the manufacturing process, and a manufacturing method thereof. An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a display unit formed on a substrate, a pad unit formed at one outer side of the display unit on the substrate, a wiring unit formed as a multilayer structure on the substrate to couple the display unit to the pad unit, a thin film encapsulating layer covering the display unit, and a protrusion unit that does not overlap the uppermost layer of wiring of the multilayered wiring unit.
US09614013B2
A transparent organic light-emitting display device may include a lower transparent substrate having a pixel region and a boundary region disposed between adjacent pixel regions, a solar cell disposed on the lower transparent substrate, a display structure disposed on the solar cell, and an overcoat layer disposed between the solar cell and the display structure, in which the overcoat layer electrically insulates the display structure from the solar cell.
US09614012B2
There has been a problem that difference in refractive index between an opposite substrate or a moisture barrier layer provided thereover, and air is maintained large, and light extraction efficiency is low. Further, there has been a problem that peeling or cracking due to the moisture barrier layer is easily generated, which leads to deteriorate the reliability and lifetime of a light-emitting element. A light-emitting element comprises a pixel electrode, an electroluminescent layer, a transparent electrode, a passivation film, a stress relieving layer, and a low refractive index layer, all of which are stacked sequentially. The stress relieving layer serves to prevent peeling of the passivation film. The low refractive index layer serves to reduce reflectivity of light generated in the electroluminescent layer in emitting to air. Therefore, a light-emitting element with high reliability and long lifetime and a display device using the light-emitting element can be provided.
US09614002B1
A bidirectional memory cell includes a write unit and a read unit. The write unit and the read unit each include an MTJ structure having a first and second pinned layers and a free layer. The first and second pinned layers are separated from the free layer by at least one tunnel barrier. The first pinned layer is electrically coupled to a first write line through a first diode. The second pinned layer is electrically connected to a second word line through a second diode. The free layer is electrically coupled to a first bit line. Additionally, the free layer of the read unit is magnetically coupled to the free layer of the write unit.
US09614001B2
An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of bus lines (1, 2) provided in a pixel region, a plurality of signal terminals (5) provided in a connection terminal region (K), connection lines (3), additional signal terminals (11), test lines (8), and switching elements (4). The switching elements (4) are divided into a plurality of groups, and can control connections between the bus lines and the test lines (8) on a group basis, and connection elements (12) that each include a diode or a switching element and connect the signal terminals (5) to each other are provided in the connection terminal region (K).
US09613998B2
A backside illumination image sensor and a method for reducing a dark current of the backside illumination image sensor. The backside illumination image sensor comprises: a photodiode, a first conductive type isolated layer (120); a gate structure of a pass transistor, corresponding to the first conductive type isolated layer (120) and formed on an upper surface of a first conductive type semiconductor substrate (100), the gate structure (130) comprising: gate oxide (131), a gate layer (132), and a gate sidewall (133), and the gate structure (130) correspondingly covering the photodiode; and a floating diffusion zone (140), formed in the first conductive type semiconductor substrate (100) and having second conductive type heavy doping. In the backside illumination image sensor, a defect does not easily appear on a surface, right above the photodiode, of the first conductive type semiconductor substrate (100), so that a dark current is effectively prevented from being produced.
US09613991B2
The display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT), which includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, and source and drain electrodes, on the substrate member, a passivation layer on the TFT and having an opening to expose a portion of the drain electrode, and a pixel electrode directly on the drain electrode and only within the opening.
US09613983B2
The invention provides a display motherboard, a display panel and a display device for solving the problem of unsmooth cutting of the display motherboard in the prior art during cutting. In the display motherboard, the display panel and the display device provided by the present invention, a cutting area of the display motherboard is provided with a raised portion on one side close to sealant, and the raised portion can make the cutting stress more concentrated when the display motherboard is cut, so that adhesion of the sealant to substrates is reduced and thus the display motherboard is cut more smoothly.
US09613979B2
Manufactured in a method of manufacturing according to an embodiment is a semiconductor memory device including: control gate electrodes; a semiconductor layer; and a charge accumulation layer. In this method of manufacturing, inter-layer insulating layers and sacrifice layers are stacked alternately, an opening that penetrates the inter-layer insulating layers and sacrifice layers is formed, a first insulating layer, the charge accumulation layer, and the semiconductor layer are formed in the opening, the sacrifice layer and part of the first insulating layer are removed, and the control gate electrodes are formed. An internal diameter of the opening is smaller the more downwardly a portion of the opening is positioned. A film thickness of the first insulating layer is smaller the more downwardly a portion of the first insulating layer is positioned.
US09613973B2
The present disclosure includes memory having a continuous channel, and methods of processing the same. A number of embodiments include forming a vertical stack having memory cells connected in series between a source select gate and a drain select gate, wherein forming the vertical stack includes forming a continuous channel for the source select gate, the memory cells, and the drain select gate, and removing a portion of the continuous channel for the drain select gate such that the continuous channel is thinner for the drain select gate than for the memory cells and the source select gate.
US09613969B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor structure, including a substrate, a plurality of fin structures, a plurality of gate structures, a dielectric layer and a plurality of contact plugs. The substrate has a memory region. The fin structures are disposed on the substrate in the memory region, each of which stretches along a first direction. The gate structures are disposed on the fin structures, each of which stretches along a second direction. The dielectric layer is disposed on the gate structures and the fin structures. The contact plugs are disposed in the dielectric layer and electrically connected to a source/drain region in the fin structure. From a top view, the contact plug has a trapezoid shape or a pentagon shape. The present invention further provides a method for forming the same.
US09613968B2
A memory cell based upon thyristors for an SRAM integrated circuit is described together with a process for fabricating it. The memory cell can be implemented in different combinations of MOS and bipolar select transistors, or without select transistors, with thyristors in a semiconductor substrate with shallow trench isolation. Standard CMOS process technology can be used to manufacture the SRAM. Special circuitry provides lowered power consumption during standby.
US09613961B2
According to one embodiment, a field-effect transistor includes a source region of a first conductivity type, a drain region of the first conductivity type and a channel region of the first conductivity type between the source region and the drain region, the source region, the drain region and the channel region being disposed in a polycrystalline semiconductor layer; a first layer including an amorphous semiconductor layer disposed on the channel region; a gate insulating layer disposed on the first layer; and a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer.
US09613959B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of forming a field effect transistor (FET) over a substrate, and associated integrated circuit device that improve etching back profile and prevent metal gate defect. In some embodiments, a recess is formed through an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer along a sidewall spacer and filled with a high-κ dielectric layer and a metal gate. An etch back is performed to lower the high-κ dielectric layer and the metal gate, where an “antenna” shaped residue of the high-κ dielectric material and the metal gate material is left at the boundary region of the high-κ layer and the metal gate, along the sidewall spacer. Then a second etch is performed to the sidewall spacer, removing a top edge portion of the sidewall spacer. Then one more step of etch can be performed to the high-κ layer and the metal gate to planarize and remove the residue.
US09613949B1
A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and a diode including fin structures are provided in the present invention. In the BJT and the diode of the present invention, first doped layers are formed in a first fin and below first epitaxial structures in the first fin, and the first doped layers are connected with one another for improving related electrical performance of the BJT and the diode including fin structures.
US09613945B1
A diffusion diode including a p+ diffusion region, a p-type diffusion region, and an n+ diffusion region is formed in the front surface of a semiconductor substrate. A polysilicon diode including a p+ layer and an n+ layer is formed on top of a local insulating film formed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and faces the diffusion diode in the depth direction. The diffusion diode and the polysilicon diode are reverse-connected by electrically connecting the n+ diffusion region to the n+ layer, thereby forming a lateral protection device. The p+ layer and p+ diffusion region are respectively electrically connected to a high voltage first terminal and a low voltage second terminal of the lateral protection device. The polysilicon diode blocks a forward current generated in the diffusion diode when the electric potential of the first terminal becomes lower than the electric potential of the second terminal.
US09613944B2
A semiconductor device includes: a main switching element, a current-sensing switching element and a surge protection element, which are formed on a single semiconductor substrate, wherein the surge protection element is a bidirectional diode connected between a first main electrode of the main switching element and a first main electrode of the current-sensing switching element. Also, a switching circuit includes the semiconductor device and a detection resistor connected to the first main electrode of the current-sensing switching element; and a driving device that drives the semiconductor device based on a voltage drop occurring in the detection resistor when the semiconductor device is turned on.
US09613943B2
An apparatus includes first and second data pads arranged adjacently to each other in a first direction without an intervention of a pad therebetween, first and second output transistors coupled correspondingly to the first and second data pads and arranged adjacently to each other in the first direction and at least one contact plug through which a voltage is supplied to each of the first and second output transistors. The at least one contact plug is arranged between the first and second output transistors.
US09613942B2
A package-on-package (PoP) structure includes a first die, a second die, and a memory device electrically coupled to the first die and the second die by an interposer between the first die and the second die. The interposer includes copper-filled vias formed within a mold.
US09613939B2
Opto-electronic modules, which can be fabricated in a wafer-scale process, include light emitting and/or light sensing devices mounted on or in a substrate. The modules, which can include various features to help reduce the occurrence of optical cross-talk and help prevent interference from stray light, can be used in a wide range of applications, including medical and health-related applications. For example, performing a measurement on a human body can include bringing a portion of the human body into direct contact with an exterior surface of the opto-electronic module and using a differential optical absorption spectroscopy technique to obtain an indication of a physical condition of the human body.
US09613934B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations of interconnect structures having a polymer core in integrated circuit (IC) package assemblies. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first die having a plurality of transistor devices disposed on an active side of the first die and a plurality of interconnect structures electrically coupled with the first die, wherein individual interconnect structures of the plurality of interconnect structures have a polymer core, and an electrically conductive material disposed on the polymer core, the electrically conductive material being configured to route electrical signals between the transistor devices of the first die and a second die. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09613930B2
A device includes a first semiconductor chip including a first face, wherein a first contact pad is arranged over the first face. The device further includes a second semiconductor chip including a first face, wherein a first contact pad is arranged over the first face, wherein the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are arranged such that the first face of the first semiconductor chip faces in a first direction and the first face of the second semiconductor chip faces in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The first semiconductor chip is located laterally outside of an outline of the second semiconductor chip.
US09613929B2
The invention relates to a power semiconductor chip (10) having at least one upper-sided potential surface and contacting thick wires (50) or strips, comprising a connecting layer (I) on the potential surfaces, and at least one metal molded body (24, 25) on the connecting layer(s), the lower flat side thereof facing the potential surface being provided with a coating to be applied to the connecting layer (I) according to a connection method, and the material composition thereof and the thickness of the related thick wires (50) or strips arranged on the upper side of the molded body used according to the method for contacting are selected corresponding to the magnitude.
US09613927B2
A method includes the steps of: preparing a lead frame including a plurality of die pads, and preparing a plurality of semiconductor chips; disposing each of the semiconductor chips on a respective one of the die pads; forming a sealing resin to cover the die pads and the semiconductor chips; and attaching a heat dissipation plate to the die pads by pressing the heat dissipation plate against the die pads via a resin sheet which is an adhesive layer after the sealing resin is formed.
US09613912B2
A method of making a semiconductor device can include providing a wafer comprising a plurality of semiconductor die, wherein each semiconductor die comprises an active surface and a backside opposite the active surface. A photosensitive layer can be formed over the wafer and on a backside of each of the plurality of semiconductor die within the wafer with a coating machine. An identifying mark can be formed within the photosensitive layer for each of the plurality of semiconductor die with a digital exposure machine and a developer, wherein a thickness of the identifying mark is less than or equal to 50 percent of a thickness of the photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer can be cured. The wafer can be singulated into a plurality of semiconductor devices.
US09613909B2
Metal filling processes for semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating semiconductor devices. One method includes, for instance: obtaining a wafer with at least one contact opening; depositing a metal alloy into at least a portion of the at least one contact opening; separating the metal alloy into a first metal layer and a second metal layer; depositing a barrier stack over the wafer; forming at least one trench opening; forming at least one via opening; and depositing at least one metal material into the trench openings and via openings. An intermediate semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US09613906B2
Integrated circuits and methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. In one example, a method for fabricating an integrated circuit includes contacting a liner that is disposed adjacent to a porous interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer of dielectric material with a selectively reactive gas at reaction conditions. A portion of the liner is reacted with the selectively reactive gas to form a converted expanded portion that is disposed between a remaining portion of the liner and the porous ILD layer.
US09613904B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a dam layer, a photoresist layer, and a conductive layer. The first substrate has a conductive pad. The second substrate has a through via, a sidewall surface surrounding the through via, a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The through via penetrates through the first and second surfaces. The conductive pad is aligned with the through via. The dam layer is located between the first substrate and the second surface. The dam layer protrudes toward the through via. The photoresist layer is located on the first surface, the sidewall surface, the dam layer protruding toward the through via, and between the conductive pad and the dam layer protruding toward the through via. The conductive layer is located on the photoresist layer and the conductive pad.
US09613901B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory includes a plurality of planes vertically stacked over a substrate. Each plane includes one or more cell mats. Each cell mat includes lower lines, upper lines crossing the lower lines, and variable resistance elements positioned in intersection regions of the lower lines and the upper lines, respectively. Lower contacts are coupled to the lower lines, respectively, and, in a plan view, overlap with a boundary region between half of the upper lines and the other half number of the upper lines. Upper contacts are coupled to the upper lines, respectively, and overlap with a boundary region between a half number of the lower lines and the other half number of the lower lines. One cell mat of an upper plane is vertically stacked over a lower plane to overlap with two adjacent cell mats of the lower plane.
US09613900B2
An interconnect structure includes a first dielectric material having an undercut region located at an upper surface thereof. A first conductive structure is located above a first area of the undercut region. The first conductive structure comprises a first conductive metal portion having a diffusion barrier portion located on one sidewall surface of the first conductive metal portion and having a metal liner located on another sidewall surface and a bottom surface of the first conductive metal portion. A second conductive structure is located above a second area of the undercut region. The second conductive structure comprises a second conductive material portion having a diffusion barrier portion located on one sidewall surface of the second conductive material portion and having a metal liner located on another sidewall surface and a bottom surface of the second conductive metal portion. A gap is located between the first and second conductive structures.
US09613891B2
Electronic packages are formed from a generally planar leadframe having a plurality of leads coupled to a GaN-based semiconductor device, and are encased in an encapsulant. The plurality of leads are interdigitated and are at different voltage potentials.
US09613886B2
An optical coupling module includes a silicon photonic substrate, and an optical waveguide module. The silicon photonic substrate has a first surface and a first grating on the first surface for diffracting the light which passes through the grating. The optical waveguide module is disposed on the silicon photonic substrate, wherein the optical waveguide module includes an optical waveguide having an end disposed in corresponding to the first grating of the silicon photonic substrate. Otherwise, the optical waveguide module has a reflective surface coupled to the end of the optical waveguide and adapted to reflect the light emerging from or incident into the grating to form an optical path between the silicon photonic substrate and the optical waveguide for transmitting the light.
US09613863B2
A method of making a substrate-through metal via having a high aspect ratio, in a semiconductor substrate, and a metal pattern on the substrate surface, includes providing a semiconductor substrate (wafer) and depositing poly-silicon on the substrate. The poly-silicon on the substrate surface is patterned by etching away unwanted portions. Then, Ni is selectively deposited on the poly-silicon by an electroless process. A via hole is made through the substrate, wherein the walls in the hole is subjected to the same processing as above. Cu is deposited on the Ni by a plating process. Line widths and spacings <10 μm are provided on both sides of the wafer.
US09613861B2
Damascene wires with top via structures and methods of manufacture are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a damascene wiring structure with an integrally formed top via structure in self-alignment with the damascene wiring structure which is underneath the integrally formed top via structure.
US09613860B2
According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor includes forming a semiconductor layer on a gate electrode with an insulating layer 12 being interposed, forming interconnect formation layers on the semiconductor layer, forming a plurality of interconnects and electrodes by patterning the interconnect formation layers through etching, patterning the semiconductor layer in an island shape through etching after forming the electrodes, exposing a channel region of the semiconductor layer by etching a part of the electrodes on the semiconductor layer, and forming a protective layer so as to overlap the interconnects, the electrodes and the semiconductor layer having the island shape.
US09613859B2
Methods for direct deposition of a metal silicide nanowire for back-end interconnection structures for semiconductor applications are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes positioning a substrate in a processing region of a process chamber, the substrate having a first surface comprising a non-dielectric material; and a dielectric layer formed on the first surface. An opening is formed in the dielectric layer, the opening exposing at least a portion of the first surface, the opening having sidewalls. A metal silicide seed is deposited in the opening using a PVD process, wherein the PVD process is performed with either no bias or a bias which creates deposition on the sidewall which is less than 1% of the deposition on the first surface. A metal silicide layer is then selectively deposited on the metal silicide seed using a metal-silicon organic precursor, creating the metal silicide nanowire.
US09613858B2
A method and composition for metallizing a via feature in a semiconductor integrated circuit device substrate, using a leveler compound which is a dipyridyl compound.
US09613855B1
A method that includes, among other things, forming first and second contact openings in a layer of insulating material that respectively expose a portion of first and second source/drain (S/D) regions of first and second transistors that are of the opposite type, forming first, second and third layers of material within each of the first and second contact openings, and forming an implant masking layer that masks the first contact opening while leaving the second contact opening exposed for further processing. The method also includes forming a contact ion implant region that is positioned at least partially in at least one of the first, second or third layers of material, removing the implant masking layer and forming a conductive material in both the first and second contact openings so as to define first and second MIS contact structures positioned in the first and second contact openings.
US09613844B2
A 3D semiconductor device, including: a first layer including first transistors; a first interconnection layer interconnecting the first transistors and overlying the first layer; and a second layer including second transistors, where the second layer thickness is less than 2 microns and greater than 5 nm, where the second layer is overlying the first interconnection layer, and where the second layer includes dice lines formed by an etch step.
US09613843B2
A power overlay (POL) structure includes a power device having at least one upper contact pad disposed on an upper surface of the power device, and a POL interconnect layer having a dielectric layer coupled to the upper surface of the power device and a metallization layer having metal interconnects extending through vias formed through the dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the at least one upper contact pad of the power device. The POL structure also includes at least one copper wirebond directly coupled to the metallization layer.
US09613841B2
An area array integrated circuit (IC) package for an IC device. The IC package includes a first substrate with conductive traces electrically coupled to the IC device. An interconnect assembly having a first surface is mechanically coupled to the first substrate. The interconnect assembly includes a plurality of contact members electrically coupled to the conductive traces on the first substrate. A second substrate is mechanically coupled to a second surface of the interconnect assembly so that the first substrate, the interconnect assembly, and the second substrate substantially surround the IC device. The second substrate includes conductive traces that are electrically coupled to the contact members in the interconnect assembly.
US09613819B2
Process chambers and methods of preparing and operating a process chamber are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of preparing a process chamber for processing a substrate includes: forming a first barrier layer over an element disposed within a cavity of the process chamber, the element comprising an outgassing material; and forming, within the process chamber, a second barrier layer over the first barrier layer.
US09613818B2
Provided herein are methods of depositing bulk tungsten by sequential CVD pulses, such as by alternately pulsing tungsten hexafluoride and hydrogen gas in cycles of temporally separated pulses. Some methods include depositing a tungsten nucleation layer at low pressure followed by deposition of bulk tungsten by sequential CVD to form low stress tungsten films with low fluorine content. Methods described herein may also be performed in combination with non-sequential CVD deposition and fluorine-free tungsten deposition techniques.
US09613807B2
Methods for directed self-assembly (DSA) using chemoepitaxy in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes forming an A or B-block attracting layer over a base semiconductor layer, forming a trench in the A or B-block attracting layer to expose a portion of the base semiconductor layer, and forming a neutral brush or mat or SAMs layer coating within the trench and over the base semiconductor layer. The method further includes forming a block copolymer layer over the neutral layer coating and over the A or B-block attracting layer and annealing the block copolymer layer to form a plurality of vertically-oriented, cylindrical structures within the block copolymer layer.
US09613804B2
One embodiment describes a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. Here, impurities are implanted into a semiconductor body via a first side of the semiconductor body. Thereafter, a drift zone layer on the first side of the semiconductor body is formed. The following is an ablation of the semiconductor body from a second side of the semiconductor body and up to pn junction defined by impurities.
US09613801B2
A method of patterning a layered substrate is provided that includes forming a layer of a block copolymer on a substrate, annealing the layer of the block copolymer to affect microphase segregation such that self-assembled domains are formed, and annealing the layer of the block copolymer a second time to refine or modify the microphase segregation, where one of the annealing steps uses an absorption based heating method.
US09613797B2
A cleaning method that peels off an overlapped substrate and cleans a bonding surface of a peeled substrate to be processed, the overlapped substrate including the substrate to be processed and a support substrate bonded together with a protectant, a peeling agent and an adhesive stacked in order therebetween from the substrate to be processed, the cleaning method comprising: removing the protectant by supplying a solvent of the protectant from a solvent supply part to the bonding surface of the substrate to be processed; and removing the peeling agent by absorbing the peeling agent, which has been peeled from the bonding surface of the substrate to be processed, using a peeling agent absorption part.
US09613793B2
A lamp for automotive vehicle front lighting is described. The lamp 10 comprises a base 12 for mechanical and electrical connection to an automotive headlight 50 and a burner 14 fixed to the base 12. The burner 14 comprises an enclosed transparent vessel 22. A first and a second filament 34, 36 are arranged within the vessel 22. A baffle 40 is arranged proximate to the first filament 34 to shield the second filament 36 from the first filament 34. The baffle 40 is of concave shape and includes a bottom surface 41 and side surfaces 45 terminating in side edges 48. The baffle 40 further includes a front surface 43 arranged between the first and second filaments 34, 36 to shield the second filament 36 from light emitted from the first filament 34. The side edges 48 each comprise a central portion 54 extending, in side view, straight and in parallel to the longitudinal axis X. The straight central portions 54 have an axial length of at least 3.5 mm. An edge height HE is defined as a distance between the bottom surface 41 and the plane defined between the central portions 54 of the side edges 48. The edge height is more than 2.8 mm.
US09613788B2
RF ion guides are configured as an array of elongate electrodes arranged symmetrically about a central axis, to which RF voltages are applied. The RF electrodes include at least a portion of their length that is semi-transparent to electric fields. Auxiliary electrodes are then provided proximal to the RF electrodes distal to the ion guide axis, such that application of DC voltages to the auxiliary electrodes causes an auxiliary electric field to form between the auxiliary electrodes and the ion guide RF electrodes. A portion of this auxiliary electric field penetrates through the semi-transparent portions of the RF electrodes, such that the potentials within the ion guide are modified. The auxiliary electrode structures and voltages can be configured so that a potential gradient develops along the ion guide axis due to this field penetration, which provides an axial motive force for collision damped ions.
US09613782B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a beamlet position in a charged particle multi-beamlet exposure apparatus. The apparatus is provided with a sensor comprising a conversion element for converting charged particle energy into light and a light sensitive detector. The conversion element is provided with a sensor surface area provided with a 2D-pattern of beamlet blocking and non-blocking regions. The method comprises taking a plurality of measurements and determining the position of the beamlet with respect to the 2D-pattern on the basis of a 2D-image created by means of the measurements. Each measurement comprises exposing a feature onto a portion of the 2D-pattern with a beamlet, wherein the feature position differs for each measurement, receiving light transmitted through the non-blocking regions, converting the received light into a light intensity value, and assigning the light intensity value to the position at which the measurement was taken.
US09613770B2
Miniaturized devices such as MEMS switches (10) have encapsulating enclosures (100). The enclosure (100) and the remainder of the switch (10) are fabricated on a concurrent basis by depositing layers of an electrically-conductive material, such as copper, on a substrate (26).
US09613764B1
An electrical contactor assembly is provided including an electrical contactor positioned within a contactor housing, an electrical bus bar, and a post constructed from an electrically and thermally conductive material connected to the bus bar. At least one lead is coupled to the electrical contact and to the post. The at least one lead has a first portion oriented about a first plane and a second portion extending from the first portion and being oriented about a second plane. The second plane is arranged at an angle to the first plane such that one or more surface of the at least one lead are configured to transmit heat to the contactor housing.
US09613755B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer ceramic sintering body and one or two or more internal electrode units formed to be placed inside the multilayer ceramic sintering body. Each internal electrode unit includes first internal electrodes formed in the multilayer ceramic sintering body in such a way to be spaced apart from each other, one or more of both ends of one side of each of the first internal electrodes being formed to be exposed to the top or bottom surface of the multilayer ceramic sintering body, and second internal electrodes placed between the first internal electrodes, respectively, and formed in the multilayer ceramic sintering body in such a way to be spaced apart from each other, one or more of both ends of the other side of each of the second internal electrodes being formed to be exposed to the top or bottom surface of the sintering body.
US09613750B2
In a segment coil manufacturing method for manufacturing a segmented coil by bending a flat rectangular conductor using a forming die so that the segmented coil has a circular arc section, a crank section, and a protrusion-shaped section, the forming die includes an outer peripheral surface forming upper die, an inner peripheral surface forming upper die, an inner peripheral surface forming lower die, and an outer peripheral surface forming lower die, and the method includes forming the circular arc section, the crank section, and the protrusion-shaped section while holding at least two surfaces of the outer peripheral surfaces of the flat rectangular conductor by the outer peripheral surface forming upper die, the inner peripheral surface forming upper die, the inner peripheral surface forming lower die, and the outer peripheral surface forming lower die.
US09613748B2
A method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes providing a sintered R-T-B based magnet body, where T is mostly Fe; providing an RH diffusion source that includes 0.2 mass % to 18 mass % of a light rare-earth element RL; 40 mass % to 70 mass % of Fe; and a heavy rare-earth element RH as the balance; and performing an RH diffusion process by loading the sintered R-T-B based magnet body, a stirring aid member, and the RH diffusion source into a chamber, and by heating the sintered R-T-B based magnet body, the stirring aid member, and the RH diffusion source to a temperature of 700° C. to 1000° C. while rotating or rocking the chamber. The Fe/RH ratio is within a range from two to seven and is defined by a mass fraction of Fe when a mass fraction of the heavy rare-earth element RH in the RH diffusion sources is three.
US09613747B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for receiving power wirelessly. In one aspect, a receiver comprises an antenna that receives power wirelessly. The receiver further comprises a power circuit that operates according to a first frequency. The receiver further comprises a communication circuit that operates according to a second frequency. The receiver further comprises a circuit coupled between the antenna and the power circuit and the antenna and the communication circuit. The circuit comprises a first resonant network and a second resonant network. The circuit comprises a first path between the antenna and the power circuit via the first resonant network and a second path between the antenna and the communication circuit via the second resonant network. The first path has a higher impedance than the second path at the second frequency and has a lower impedance than the second path at the first frequency.
US09613739B2
Methods and apparatus for automatically coupling stackable modular devices are described. The modular devices may be coupled using electromagnetic forces generated by precisely-timed pulses of electric current through electromagnetic materials that cause a first modular device to screw itself into a second modular device. The modular devices may exchange data through electrical or optical connections after coupling. A method includes detecting that a second modular device is proximately and coaxially located to a first modular device, activating a plurality of electromagnetic elements in an annular electromagnetic array according to a timed sequence, each electromagnetic element being activated at a different time than the other electromagnetic elements in the plurality of electromagnetic elements, detecting that the second modular device is communicatively coupled with the first modular device, and deactivating the plurality of electromagnetic elements after detecting that the second modular device is communicatively coupled with the first modular device.
US09613730B2
A cable branch structure (1) branches, from a main line (30A) to branch lines (30B, 30C), a shielded cable (30) with electric wires (10) covered with a braided wire (20). The braided wire (20) includes: a main line side braided wire (20A) constituting a part corresponding to the main line (30A); and branch line side braided wires (20B, 20C), respectively, constituting parts corresponding to the respective branch lines (30B, 30C). The braided wire (20) includes at least one of a first mounting portion (100; 110) provided at an end portion of the main line side braided wire (20A) for mounting end portions of the branch line side braided wires (20B, 20C) and second mounting portions (100; 120, 130) provided at each of the end portions of the branch line side braided wires (20B, 20C) for mounting the end portion of the main line side braided wire (20A).
US09613728B2
An x-ray diffraction apparatus is provided having an x-ray diffraction head, a frame for supporting the x-ray diffraction head, and a pair of drive mechanisms of the frame configured to generate pivotal movement of the x-ray diffraction head about first and second orthogonal axes. The frame is configured such that operation of one of the drive mechanisms to rotate the x-ray diffraction head about the first axis generates rotation of both of the drive mechanisms about the first axis.
US09613699B1
A memory system including a content addressable memory having an array of content addressable memory elements including a plurality of rows of content addressable memory elements and a plurality of columns of content addressable memory elements is provided. Each of the content addressable memory elements further includes a first superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and a second superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID), where an input bit to each of the content addressable memory elements is compared with: (1) a first state of the first SQUID and (2) a second state of the second SQUID to generate an output signal. The memory system further includes a Josephson magnetic random access memory (JMRAM), coupled to the content addressable memory.
US09613698B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for word-line path isolation in a phase change memory (PCM) device. In an embodiment, a method includes increasing a current through a memory cell of a phase change memory (PCM) device, wherein the memory cell is coupled with a capacitor and subsequent to said increasing the current, generating a transient current through the memory cell by discharge of the capacitor to reset the memory cell. In another embodiment, a method includes increasing a current through a memory cell of a phase change memory (PCM) device and controlling the current to be greater than a threshold current and lower than a hold current of the memory cell to set the memory cell. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09613696B1
An integrated circuit includes an array of phase-change memory (PCM) cells, and bitlines coupled to the array of PCM cells. The integrated circuit also includes a first decoder circuit having a respective plurality of transistors having a first conductivity type being coupled together and to a given bitline from among the plurality thereof and configured to inject a program current pulse into a selected PCM cell. In addition, the integrated circuit includes a second decoder circuit having a plurality of transistors having a second conductivity type being coupled together and to the given bitline and configured to discharge the given bitline at an end of the program current pulse.
US09613682B2
A static memory circuit includes a pull-up transistor, a pull-down transistor, a pass-gate transistor associated with the pull-up and pull-down transistors, and first and second word lines electrically insulated from each other. The pass-gate transistor includes a number of Fins and a gate electrode having a number of first and second gates, each one of the gates is disposed on one of the Fins, the first gates are connected to the first word line, and the second gates are connected to the second word line. During a read operation, one of the first and second word lines is asserted low, so that the beta ratio is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value. During a write operation, one of the first and second word lines is asserted high; so that a gamma ratio is greater than or equal to a second predetermined value.
US09613670B2
Systems and methods of memory and memory operation are disclosed, such as providing a circuit including a local address driver voltage source for memory decoding. In one exemplary implementation, an illustrative circuit may comprise a first buffer and a capacitor. The first buffer may comprise a power input and a ground input. The capacitor may comprise a first terminal connected to the power input of the first buffer and a second terminal connected to the ground input of the first buffer. When the first buffer draws a current from the power input, at least a portion of the current may be supplied by the capacitor.
US09613659B2
System, apparatuses, and methods can provide customized exercise sessions and customized videos corresponding to the exercise session. Audio clips can be dynamically selected to make custom audio content for an exercise session. The audio clips and metadata can be obtained, where the audio clips correspond to categories. The exercise session can include one or more components. A destination timeline for a component can include one or more first segments that require audio, and one or more second segments that can optionally have audio. Audio clips can be selected for the various segments, where a segment can be designated for a particular category of audio clips. Identification information for the selected audio clips can be saved and used to generate the custom audio content.
US09613656B2
The disclosure is directed to protecting data of a scalable storage system. A scalable storage system includes a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes having directly-attached storage (DAS), such as one or more hard-disk drives and/or solid-state disk drives. The nodes are coupled via an inter-node communication network, and a substantial entirety of the DAS is globally accessible by each of the nodes. The DAS is protected utilizing intra-node protection to keep data stored in the DAS reliable and globally accessible in presence of a failure within one of the nodes. The DAS is further protected utilizing inter-node protection to keep data stored in the DAS reliable and globally accessible if at least one of the nodes fails.
US09613649B1
The controller selects one command of the plurality of commands included in the command list. The controller selects one magazine that stores therein one recording medium designated by the one selected command, based on the magazine information, the controller moves the one selected magazine between the storing position of the one selected magazine and the plurality of recorder and player apparatuses using the carrier mechanism. The controller extracts all commands designating recording media stored in the one selected magazine, from the command list, based on the magazine information. The controller moves all the recording media designated by the extracted commands between the one selected magazine and the plurality of recorder and player apparatuses using the carrier mechanism.
US09613645B2
To locate an access head element of a head assembly for a tape storage device, a storage tape having a data track that contains servo information is provided. The data track further contains data. The servo information that is in the data track is used to determine a position of the access head element.
US09613637B2
A driving support device for a vehicle uses a right speaker and a left speaker for providing audio information useful for driving to the right ear and left ear of a driver. Among the audio information useful for driving, speech guidance with the use of a voice is provided exclusively from the right speaker to the right ear of the driver.
US09613631B2
Disclosed is a noise suppression system including a unit for calculating a noise mean spectrum from an input signal, a unit for deriving the provisional estimate speech from the input signal and the noise mean spectrum, a reference speech pattern, and a unit for correcting the provisional estimate speech using the reference pattern.
US09613628B2
An audio system encodes and decodes audio captured by a microphone array system in the presence of wind noise. The encoder encodes the audio signal in a way that includes beamformed audio signal and a “hidden” representation of a non-beamformed audio signal. The hidden signal is produced by modulating the low frequency signal to a high frequency above the audible range. A decoder can then either output the beamformed audio signal or can use the hidden signal to generate a reduced wind noise audio signal that includes the non-beamformed audio in the low frequency range.
US09613624B1
In a dynamic automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing system, ASR processing may be configured to estimate a latency of returning speech results to a user based on work being done by an ASR processor. The ASR processing system may measure work done by an ASR processor by measuring one or more time independent metrics and comparing the metrics to threshold values. If the metrics exceed the thresholds, the ASR system may take steps to reduce latency associated with processing the utterance, including adjusting a speech recognition parameter.
US09613621B2
A speech recognition method and an electronic apparatus are provided. The speech recognition method includes the following steps. A plurality of phonetic transcriptions of a speech signal is obtained according to an acoustic model. A phonetic spelling and intonation information matched to the phonetic transcriptions are obtained according to a phonetic transcription sequence and a syllable acoustic lexicon of the invention. According to the phonetic spellings and the intonation information, a plurality of phonetic spelling sequences and a plurality of phonetic spelling sequence probabilities are obtained from a language model. The phonetic spelling sequence corresponding to a largest one among the phonetic spelling sequence probabilities is selected as a recognition result of the speech signal.
US09613612B2
A noise reducing sound reproduction system and method is disclosed, in which an input signal is supplied to a loudspeaker by which it is acoustically radiated. The signal radiated by the loudspeaker is received by a microphone that is acoustically coupled to the loudspeaker via a secondary path and that provides a microphone output signal. The microphone output signal may be subtracted from a useful-signal to generate a filter input signal. The filter input signal may be filtered in an active noise reduction filter to generate an error signal. The useful-signal may be subtracted from the error signal to generate the loudspeaker input signal, and the useful-signal may be filtered by one or more low-pass filters prior to subtraction from the microphone output signal.
US09613608B2
A keyboard unit includes: a key; a plurality of members which include the key, and each of which has an engaged section for forming an engaged state, the engaged state changed by turning of the key, at least a portion of the engaged section formed of a conductor; a detector which is configured to detect information on the engaged state of the plurality of members by detecting a conduction state between the at least portions of the engaged sections which are in contact with each other; and a determiner which is configured to determine a musical sound parameter based on a detection result of the detector.
US09613602B2
A cable and pulley operated membrane tuning system suitable for drums and other musical instruments, as well as other applications requiring tunable membranes. The cable is threaded through pulleys or guides attached the mounting assembly of the membrane, and tightened by means of a tensioning mechanism. The system tensions membrane by varying the tension on the cable. The system may be employed in single-membrane systems or in multiple membrane systems.
US09613597B2
An image compositing apparatus of the present invention includes first overlay image processing circuitry that stores the position and size of an area in which a first overlay image is displayed and, according thereto, changes the position and size of the first overlay image, second overlay image processing circuitry that processes a second overlay image similarly to the first overlay image processing circuitry, a circuit for detecting the absence of base image that decides the presence or absence of a base image, and a chromakey decision circuitry that decides a chromakey color portion of the base image. In a case where the circuit for detecting the absence of base image decides the absence of a base image, the image compositing apparatus outputs the first and second overlay images processed by the first overlay image processing circuitry and the second overlay image processing circuitry, respectively.
US09613585B2
Provided is a display device capable of switching a refresh rate while suppressing deterioration in display quality and degradation in liquid crystal. In the case of switching the refresh rate from 60 Hz to 7.5 Hz, a transition period for gradually changing the refresh rate from 60 Hz to 7.5 Hz is provided between a 60-Hz period and a 7.5-Hz period. This transition period is configured by sequentially arraying a 30-Hz period, a 20-Hz period, a 15-Hz period, a 12-Hz period and a 10-Hz period from a start point of the transition period. Hence the refresh rate gradually changes from 60 Hz to 7.5 Hz sequentially through 30 Hz, 20 Hz, 15 Hz, 12 Hz and 10 Hz. The number of positive-polarity frames and the number of negative-polarity frames are respectively 20 in the whole of the transition period, and are equal to each other.
US09613583B2
There is provided a shift register unit and driving method for the shift register unit, a shift register and a display device. The shift register unit comprises a first capacitor (C1), an input buffering module (31), a pulling-up module (32), a reset control module (33), a pulling-down module (34) and a pulling-down enhancement module (35); the pulling-down module (34) is configured to reduce the level at the signal output terminal (OUTPUT) and discharge the first capacitor (C1) during a first noise-removal phase; the pulling-down enhancement module (35) is configured to control, in cooperation with the pulling-down module (34), to continuously reduce the level at the signal output terminal (OUTPUT) and continuously discharge the first capacitor (C1) during a second noise-removal phase. Noise in the output signals of the shift register can be reduced and reliability of the shift register can be improved.
US09613579B2
A liquid crystal display including a first substrate, a first sub-pixel electrode on the first substrate and configured to receive a first voltage, a second sub-pixel electrode on the first substrate and configured to receive a second voltage, an insulating layer between the first sub-pixel electrode and the second sub-pixel electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a common electrode on the second substrate, wherein the first sub-pixel electrode includes a first sub-region below the insulating layer and a second sub-region above the insulating layer, wherein the second sub-region of the first sub-pixel electrode includes a plurality of first branch electrodes, wherein the second sub-pixel electrode is above the insulating layer, and wherein a difference between the first voltage and a common voltage is greater than a difference between the second voltage and the common voltage.
US09613578B2
The shift register unit according to the present disclosure may include a latch module, and at least two levels of output control modules connected with the latch module. Input ends of the latch module may be connected with a start signal and a clock signal respectively, an output end of the latch module may be connected with input ends of the at least two levels of output control modules, and the latch module may be configured to latch the start signal according to the clock signal inputted. Input ends of the output control modules may be connected with clock signals, the output control modules may be configured to output gate line driving signals according to the clock signals. All the clock signals may be inputted sequentially to the latch module and each level of output control modules in accordance with a timing sequence.
US09613575B2
A method for driving a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes: A1: one image frame is extracted from a video; A2: the one image frame is divided into one left-eye image and one right-eye image according to different image arrangements, comparing a color data of the left-eye image with a color data of the right-eye image, and calculating a similarity degree between the left-eye image and the right-eye image of the different image arrangements according to the comparison; and A3: the image arrangement having a maximum similarity degree between the left-eye image and the right-eye image is chosen as a film resource format of a three-dimensional (3D) image of the video to drive the LCD device, and the image arrangement having the maximum similarity degree between the left-eye image and the right-eye image is the image arrangement of the one image frame.
US09613573B2
A light modulating Backplane with configurable multi-electrode pixels is disclosed. The configurable multi-electrode pixel includes a first set of dot electrodes in a first field and a second set of dot electrodes in a second field. Generally, dot electrode is included in both the first set of dot electrodes and the second set of dot electrodes. For example, a pixel control circuit coupled to a dedicated dot electrode. A first dot electrode is coupled to the pixel control circuit by a first dot electrode connection circuit and a second dot electrode is coupled to the pixel control circuit by a second dot electrode connection circuit. During the first field the first dot electrode connection circuit is active while the second dot electrode connection circuit is inactive. During the second field, the first dot electrode connection circuit is inactive while the second dot electrode connection circuit is active.
US09613571B2
A display device includes: an image display unit in an image display region, the image display unit including a plurality of main pixels each including sub-pixels; a light source portion that irradiates the image display region; a signal correction unit that calculates saturation and value of the main pixels based on first color information to be displayed on a predetermined pixel, the first color information being obtained based on an input video signal, and generates second color information by correcting the first color information based on the calculated saturation and value; a signal generation unit that calculates the saturation and the value of the main pixels based on the second color information, and generates a signal for determining light source luminance of the light source based on the calculated saturation and value; and a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source based on the signal.
US09613568B2
There has been a problem that power consumption is increased if a potential of a signal line changes every time a video signal is applied to a driving transistor from the signal line, since the parasitic capacitance of the signal line stores and releases electric charges. In a configuration of a display portion provided with a gate signal line for selecting an input of a video signal to a pixel and a source signal line for inputting a video signal to the pixel, a switch is connected in series with the source signal line, the switch being controlled to be in on state when the pixel is not selected by the gate signal line, and in off state when the pixel is selected by the gate signal line. Accordingly, the parasitic capacitance of the source signal line which stores and releases electric charges affects only pixels between an output side of a source driver up to and including the pixel selected to be written with a video signal. Consequently, power consumed by the charging and discharging of the source signal line can be reduced, and thus low power consumption can be achieved.
US09613553B2
A method and device for detecting uniformity of a dark state image of a display is disclosed. After an acquired dark state image of a display panel is divided into a plurality of areas according to a preset rule, RGB values of each area are determined and converted into XYZ values. The L* and C* values in the CIE-LCH standard are calculated and statistical analysis is performed to the L* and C* values of the areas in the dark state image to determine statistical parameters of the display image. A dark state uniformity coefficient of the dark state image is determined based on the determined statistical parameters, and the uniformity of the dark state image of the display panel is determined through the dark state uniformity coefficient.
US09613550B2
A 3-dimensional image display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a light source unit including a first color light source for supplying a first color light and a second color light source for supplying a second color light to the display panel; and a data driver sequentially applying a first left-eye data voltage, a second left-eye data voltage, a first gray data voltage, a first right-eye data voltage, and a second right-eye data voltage to a pixel, wherein the light source unit supplies the first color light when the first left-eye data voltage and the second right-eye data voltage are applied, the second color light when the second left-eye data voltage and the first right-eye data voltage are applied, and the light source supplies the second color light at a first intensity when the first gray data voltage is applied.
US09613545B2
A spaying simulation kit that allows students to practice a small animal surgical spay is provided. The spaying simulation kit includes an outer casing which may be suspended in a box. The outer casing includes a length, a width, a front end, a rear end, a top portion and a bottom portion. An internal housing is formed within the outer casing. An opening, such as a rectangular opening, may be cut through the outer casing and may thereby lead into the internal housing. The present invention may include at least one cord suspended within and running along a length of the internal housing. The cord includes a plurality of indicators that are indications of different portions of a female reproductive system.
US09613537B2
A system and method for safe and effective implementation of approach procedures for guiding multiple aircraft of different weights approaching a single runway for landing, whereby lighter incoming aircraft will fly higher than heavier aircraft to avoid the wakes from the heavier aircraft, for the purpose of increasing the landing rate and, in turn, the number of aircraft that can land.
US09613533B2
Provided is a parking space detector designed so as not to erroneously detect an inter-vehicle distance as a parking space, the inter-vehicle distance being the distance between oncoming vehicles continuously passing by. The invention is provided with a parking space presence determination part for determining whether or not a parking space for a vehicle is present. The parking space presence determination part is designed so as to determine whether or not oncoming vehicles are stationary on the basis of the vehicle speed and the relative speed of the oncoming vehicles, therefore preventing the space (inter-vehicle distance) between two other oncoming vehicles being erroneously detected as a parking space, the oncoming vehicles being vehicles traveling toward the vehicle and continuously passing by.
US09613524B1
Embodiments of a central security monitoring device for reducing incidences of false alarms in a security system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is described, comprising receiving an alarm signal from an occupancy sensor via a receiver, receiving a second alarm signal from a barrier alarm device after receiving the alarm signal, determining an elapsed time from when the alarm signal from the occupancy sensor was received to when the second alarm signal from the barrier alarm device was received, performing one or more actions when the elapsed time is greater than the predetermined time, and refraining from performing the one or more actions when the elapsed time is less than the predetermined time.
US09613522B2
A security system includes a central control and a number of security controllers, each of which includes a removable and replaceable security control module. Each module is interchangeable with other modules. Each controller includes a housing within which the module is contained. Cables from security-controlled components extend into the interior of the housing and are removably connected to the module. Each module includes a first connector for connection in a communication system and a second connector for receiving inputs from and providing outputs to a security component controlled by the controller. Each module further includes a third connector for receiving inputs from or providing outputs to an auxiliary device other than the security component. The auxiliary device provides an input to the controller or receives an output from a controller independent of the security component. Each controller also includes an accelerometer for providing a tamper evident feature.
US09613520B2
A real time medical communication system for sending Notifications of medical Alerts includes a data translation layer for receiving real time medical data from one or more sources via a network and an Alerts engine. The Alerts engine may include a message processing module including an entity extraction module configured to extract entities from the real time medical data; and a fragment generation module configured to define fragments comprising events of interest for defining one or more medical Alerts. The Alerts engine may further include an Alert generation module that may include fragment query and evaluation modules for analyzing received real time medical data for defined fragments and generating one or more medical Alerts therefrom. A Notification module may also be provided for sending Notifications of Alerts to users.
US09613508B2
Provided is a security monitoring method including outputting a multi-tone sound wave configured with a linear sum of sine waves having a plurality of frequency components inside a security monitoring space, receiving the multi-tone sound wave and calculating a sound field, calculating and storing sound field information according to frequency through the sound field, comparing reference sound field information according to frequency with the currently measured sound field information and determining whether a sound field variation occurs, and analyzing whether the sound field variation occurs collected for a certain predetermined period and distinguishing at least two events among intrusion, motion and temperature variation situations on the basis of correlation between the reference sound field spectrum and consecutive sound field spectra.
US09613507B2
An alarm system includes a detector positioned to detect when an object experiences an unauthorized removal and which produces an alarm signal when the object experiences an unauthorized removal. The alarm system includes a cell phone with global positioning system (GPS) in communication with the detector which transmits wirelessly an alarm alert signal with coordinates of the cell phones location when the cell phone receives the alarm signal. The alarm system includes a power supply control portion in communication with the cell phone which controls power to the cell phone. A method for protecting an object.
US09613503B2
Systems and techniques are provided for occupancy based volume adjustment. A signal including detected locations for several persons may be received. An occupancy model may be generated based on the detected locations. A volume adjustment for a speaker may be generated based on the occupancy model and a target sound level range for each of the detected locations. The volume of the speaker may be adjusted based on the volume adjustment. A signal including a detected location of one other person may be received. A location of other speakers may be received. The occupancy model may be generated based on the detected location of the one other person. The speaker may be determined to be closer to the one other person than any of the other speakers. The volume adjustment for the speaker may be generated based in part on the location of the one other person.
US09613502B2
In an example embodiment, there is described herein an apparatus comprising a cassette operable to store documents, the cassette having an external surface, an electrophoretic display coupled with the external surface, and a wireless interface coupled with the cassette and operably coupled with the electrophoretic display. In particular embodiments, the electrophoretic display is operable to receive data representative of configuration from a wireless device in data communication with the wireless interface.
US09613499B2
A gaming system comprises a history display and a controller. The history display tracks a plurality of past outcomes of a wagering game. The controller awards a bonus if a current outcome of the wagering game has a predetermined association with at least one of the displayed plurality of past outcomes.
US09613489B2
A system is disclosed herein for displaying winning and non-winning game results in a traditional gaming environment. The system uses an overlay game to present an entertaining display to a player upon the occurrence of a win or trigger event. An overlay game has limited capabilities and additionally is engineered to be usable on a variety of gaming machines. To be usable on a variety of gaming machines, the overlay game is intentionally kept simple; in one case, it comprises a visual display that is shown to a player upon the occurrence of a trigger event. In another embodiment, it requires a simple button press to start the overlay game. The overlay games are downloaded on an as-needed basis, run on the gaming machine, and then discarded.
US09613482B1
A system is provided for a metallic coin that may be scanned and implemented for stored value account transactions using traditional point-of-sale devices. The coin has two sides, a first surface portion of the second side having a less reflective matte finish relative to the first side and a second surface portion of the second side. A substantially transparent coat layer is upon the first surface portion of the second side, with an ink layer comprising machine readable indicia further thereupon. The machine readable indicia include a unique identifier with respect to the metallic coin. A hosted server is functionally linked to the traditional point-of-sale device via a communications network and configured upon receiving the identifier as scanned from the point-of-sale device to extract stored value information corresponding to an account associated with the identifier, and transmit said information to the point-of-sale device.
US09613473B2
A computer-implemented method includes displaying a plurality of power consuming and producing vehicle components. The method also includes determining what components are currently consuming power and what components are currently delivering power, and to what magnitude the power is flowing between components. The method additionally includes displaying one or more arrows showing a powerflow from at least one power producing component to at least one power consuming or producing component. The method further includes displaying an indicia indicating the magnitude of the powerflow associated with the one or more arrows. Also, the method includes, for at least one power consuming component, displaying a gauge relating to a level of power being consumed by the at least one power consuming component.
US09613463B2
Augmented reality extrapolation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a frame of an augmented-reality display is rendered based at least in part on an optical basis that describes a current orientation or position of at least a part of a computing device. While the frame is rendered, an extrapolation based on a previous basis and a sensor basis generates an updated optical basis that describes a likely orientation or position of the part of the computing device, and the extrapolation is effective to account for a lag time duration between rendering the frame and displaying the frame of the augmented-reality display. The rendered frame of the augmented-reality display is updated before the rendered frame is displayed based at least in part on the updated optical basis that describes the likely orientation or position of the part of the computing device.
US09613457B2
Provided are a multi-primitive fitting method including an acquiring point cloud data by collecting data of each of input points, a obtaining a segment for the points using the point cloud data, and a performing primitive fitting using data of points included in the segment and the point cloud data, and a multi-primitive fitting device that performs the method.
US09613453B2
System and method for producing an intermediate image in three passes is provided. An initial image and a final image are identified, each image comprising an associated depthmap and corresponding to a respective camera pose from a respective angular heading. An intermediate image corresponding to an intermediate camera pose with an intermediate angular heading is rendered. A first intermediate image is rendered at a first opacity based on the final image and the associated final depthmap, a second intermediate image is rendered at a second opacity based on the initial image and the associated initial depthmap, and a third intermediate image is rendered at a third opacity based on the final image and the associated final depthmap. The rendered first, second, and third intermediate images, each of which correspond to the intermediate camera pose with the intermediate angular heading, are overlaid to produce a combined image for display.
US09613450B2
Dynamic texture mapping is used to create a photorealistic three dimensional animation of an individual with facial features synchronized with desired speech. Audiovisual data of an individual reading a known script is obtained and stored in an audio library and an image library. The audiovisual data is processed to extract feature vectors used to train a statistical model. An input audio feature vector corresponding to desired speech with which the animation will be synchronized is provided. The statistical model is used to generate a trajectory of visual feature vectors that corresponds to the input audio feature vector. These visual feature vectors are used to identify a matching image sequence from the image library. The resulting sequence of images, concatenated from the image library, provides a photorealistic image sequence with facial features, such as lip movements, synchronized with the desired speech. This image sequence is applied to the three-dimensional model.
US09613449B2
A computer implemented method of simulating a stack of objects represented as data within memory of a computer system is disclosed. The method comprises modeling the stack within a computer simulation as a set of associated primitives with associated constraints thereto in the memory, wherein the stack comprises a plurality of layers and wherein each layer comprises at least one primitive. The method further comprises estimating a height for each of the primitives in the stack and determining a respective scaling factor for each of the primitives in parallel, wherein each scaling factor is operable to adjust a mass value of each of the primitives. Also, the method comprises scaling a mass value of each of the primitives in accordance with a respective scaling factor in parallel. Finally, the method comprises solving over a plurality of constraints iteratively using a scaled mass value for each of the primitives.
US09613446B2
Techniques for generating a visual representation of a graph are described herein. The techniques may include determining a metamodel indicating relationships between objects, and determining rules for obscuring data about the objects of the metamodel. A visual representation of a graph is generated, which visual representation illustrates at least some of the data about the objects and their relationships without illustrating the obscured data.
US09613439B1
A method of reconstructing an image of an object, the method including: determining, by a plurality of sensors, a waveform based on the object, wherein the plurality of sensors view the object from a plurality of directions; determining, by a pre-processing module, a plurality of measurements of the object using the waveform, wherein the plurality of measurements are arranged in a vector form; determining, by an option module, a sampling matrix, a dictionary, and a noise factor, wherein the sampling matrix represents a geometric arrangement of the plurality of sensors, and the dictionary is pre-selected by the option module; estimating, by an estimation module, a coefficient vector using the measurements, the sampling matrix, and the noise factor; and reconstructing, by a reconstruction module, the image, using the coefficient vector and the dictionary.
US09613436B1
An apparatus includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to perform a transformation on a detected signal that has penetrated an object of interest to form a sinogram. The sinogram is a sine-based representation of the detected signal. A feature of interest is identified in the sinogram. A tomogram corresponding to the detected signal is reconstructed. The instructions to reconstruct utilize the feature of interest to determine at least one attribute of the tomogram.
US09613430B2
A camera system includes a lens having a first shake correction unit for correcting shaking on the basis of the amount of shaking which is detected by a first shake amount detector and from which a first reference value corresponding to an output value of the first shake amount detector kept in a stationary state is subtracted, and a body having a second shake correction unit for correcting shaking on the basis of the amount of shaking which is detected by a second shake amount detector and from which a second reference value corresponding to an output value of the second shake correction unit in a stationary state is subtracted. The camera system corrects a first reference value or a second reference value.
US09613420B2
A method for locating a camera and 3D reconstruction of its static environment, comprising an object of interest, the 3D model of which is known, includes: calculating an initial pose of the camera in the environment and an initial reconstruction; calculating the pose of the camera for each new image by pairing 3D primitives of the environment with 2D primitives of said image and reconstructing 3D primitives of the environment by triangulation; and simultaneously optimizing the poses of the camera and 3D primitives by minimizing a reprojection error over a plurality of images. The 3D model is a geometric description of the object of interest, the reprojection error has only two types of terms, a first type associated with primitives constrained by the 3D model and a second type associated with primitives of the environment other than the object, the optimization associating the primitives with the environment or 3D model.
US09613419B2
To enable accurate stitching of images in generating a panoramic image by performing position adjustment of an image group with few characters, an image processing device includes: a calculation unit that calculates degrees of correlation between a plurality of images; a second calculation unit that calculates character amounts of a plurality of images; and an order determination unit that determines an order of performing position adjustment of the plurality of images for generating a panoramic image generated by stitching the plurality of images based on calculation results of the calculation unit and the second calculation unit.
US09613398B2
Image description and image recognizable method, it contain (a) It obtain an image which possess plural pixels. (b) It determines a starting position in the image. (c) In the image, From the starting point along the trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes a pixel sampling, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (d) the angle increases with the increase of the variance, it forming a the angle of the latter spiral aggregation. From the starting point along a trajectory of the former spiral aggregation makes the pixel sample, and the pixel on the trajectory rank to the former spiral aggregation. (e) It decides how many frequencies the angle variation increase, and repeatedly performs the step (d). After obtaining a plurality of the latter spiral aggregation, the pixel corresponds to the value. (f) It ranks the former spiral aggregation and the latter spiral aggregation. Then, spiral aggregation map will be formed and recorded the every value of the pixel.
US09613396B2
Embodiments include a method comprising: receiving a source image comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein individual pixels of the plurality of pixels of the source image comprise a corresponding pixel value that is associated with a corresponding color of a plurality of colors, and wherein a first pixel of the plurality of pixels of the source image comprises a first pixel value that is associated with a first color of the plurality of colors; and for the first pixel of the plurality of pixels of the source image, estimating (i) a second pixel value that is associated with a second color of the plurality of colors and (iii) a third pixel value that is associated with a third color of the plurality of colors.
US09613395B2
Techniques for operation chart rescaling are described. In at least some embodiments, an operations chart is provided that tracks various parameters for an operation. The operations chart can include visual indicia of operation parameters, such as an operation value indicator that indicates a current operation value. A progress indicator can also be included that provides a visual indication of operation progress. In response to a change in an operation value for the operations chart (e.g., a change in data rate), the operations chart can be rescaled to visually reflect the change in operation value. In at least some implementations, techniques are employed to smooth visual movement of chart elements during a rescaling operation.
US09613381B2
A method includes storing payroll information for an employee of an employer. The payroll information may include the employee's name, address, electronic contact information, etc. A payroll service computer may receive an indication from an employer that the computer is to make a payroll disbursement to the employee. The computer may present disbursement options to the employee. The employee may select one of the disbursement options. The computer may initiate the payroll disbursement in accordance with the option selected by the employee.
US09613380B2
A method for sharing templates for use with a financial management application (FMA) includes receiving, from each of multiple financial professionals, a company profile including a chart of accounts for a business operating within a commercial industry and at a geographic location, generating profile templates including, for each profile, a template including the commercial industry, the geographic location, and a redacted chart of accounts of the profile, receiving, from each of the financial professionals, a request to publicly share the template corresponding to the profile, receiving, from a small business representative, a profile creation request specifying a first commercial industry and a first geographic location, identifying a first template, and providing, in response to the profile creation request, the first template to the representative, where the representative uses the first template to create a first profile for the business.
US09613377B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing a secure authentication scheme for authenticating users and accounts on behalf of a service provider server computer offering services to a user. Upon determining, by the secure authentication scheme, that the user and/or account identifier associated with the user is authenticate, the service provider server computer may be provided with assurance that the user is authenticate and thereafter provide a service requested by the user.
US09613375B2
In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated as including generating an item page that includes widget code and details related to an item for sale. Some example embodiments may include making the widget code available for retrieval from the item page.
US09613374B2
A system and method for the generation and presentation of candidate domain names are presented. The method includes receiving, by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network, a request to access or purchase access to a software application, the request being received from a user. Keywords associated with at least one of the user, a website of the user, and a business of the user are generated and a candidate domain name relevant to the keywords is generated. A user interface is displayed including the candidate domain name. The user interface enables the user to register the candidate domain name. A plurality of candidate domain names may be generated and organized into carousels or stacks according to a common theme. The candidate domain names may be displayed on a user interface and arranged thereon according to a relevance score of the domain name bundles.
US09613372B2
A system for displaying product information to a customer is described herein. The system includes a processor that is programmed to receive search data in response to a product search request received from the customer and retrieve product records associated with the search data from a database. Each product record is associated with a corresponding product and includes a product description and a plurality of item attributes having corresponding attribute values. The processor selects a set of the item attributes and generates a product summary for each of the products as a function of the selected set of item attributes. Each product summary includes corresponding attribute values associated with the selected set of item attributes. The processor generates and displays product information associated with each of the products being included in the search data. The associated product information includes a corresponding product summary and a corresponding product description.
US09613371B2
A method of extending an existing product taxonomy for an inventory of products. The existing product taxonomy can include pages having a hierarchical tree structure. The method can include determining a first set of keywords. The first set of keywords can be a prediction of keywords searched above a predetermined threshold during a predetermined time period of one or more external search engines. The method also can include generating dynamic product groups based on the first set of keywords. The method further can include generating a relation graph of the dynamic product groups. The relation graph can include relation links between the dynamic product groups. The method also can include linking the dynamic product groups to pages in the existing product taxonomy to generate an extended product taxonomy. The extended product taxonomy can include the existing product taxonomy, the dynamic product groups, and the relation links of the relation graph between the dynamic product groups. The method further can include presenting to a user information about the dynamic product groups. Other embodiments are provided.
US09613369B2
A printed calendar, method and system for preparing the printed calendar, and system for redeeming virtual goods are provided herein. The printed calendar includes at least one form sheet having printed thereon one or more occurrences of time. The one or more occurrences of time being coupled with at least one viewing panel capable of hiding and revealing an image. The printed calendar further includes at least one back sheet having printed thereon at least one graphical representation associated with the one or more occurrences of time. The at least one graphical representation being aligned with the form sheet, such that, the graphical representation is visible through the at least one viewing panel coupled to the one or more occurrences of time. The at least one graphical representation representing a virtual good accessible to the selected recipient at one of the one or more occurrences of time.
US09613356B2
A method for secure passcode entry is disclosed. The method, in one embodiment, includes: receiving a request for authenticating a user; in response to the request, generating a passcode entry interface including buttons corresponding to character options for composing a passcode entry, wherein the passcode entry interface is used to receive the passcode entry to authenticate a user of the payment card; identifying, on a touchscreen of the electronic device, a traffic region that experienced touch events prior to receiving the request; and displaying the passcode entry interface on the touchscreen such that at least a portion of the passcode entry interface is positioned in the traffic region.
US09613353B1
A method of entering a passcode is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: calculating locations of tactile inputs on the input component to interact with the passcode entry interface based at least partially on the recorded motion readings; and determining the passcode based at least in part on the tactile inputs by mapping the tactile inputs to a geometric layout of interactive elements of the passcode entry interface.
US09613331B2
Estimations of carbon dioxide (“CO2”) emission of an entity upon the condition of incomplete or missing data uses one or more algorithms implemented in a machine having a processor and a memory and data concerning the entity. The data is applied to an algorithm implemented as code executable in the processor. The algorithm produces a result that comprises an estimate of the CO2 emission of the entity. The CO2 emission estimate can be output to a user, and the underlying formula and data can inspected and optionally modified by users with suitable permissions. The CO2 emission estimate can be applied as a factor in a formula to compute a rating for the entity which can be output from the machine. Error estimates associated with the data used by the algorithm can be generated to provide improved estimates.
US09613323B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for determining and/or enhancing an organization's agility across one or more computing domains. Among other things, embodiments of the present invention parse and mine organizational documents for relevant data, calculate and weight business agility scores, optimize domain elements to ensure optimal outcomes for customers, and/or provide organization agility information for transfer to consultants or the like. It is understood that these functions may be used independently or in conjunction with each other depending on the scope of improvement desired for a particular organization.
US09613321B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for establishing a dynamic meta-knowledge network. More particularly, it relates to a computer implemented system and method for charting, mapping, linking, annotating, evaluating, following, broadcasting and publishing scientific, technical, medical and scholarly information, both current and historical. In an embodiment, the present system and method may be embodied in an internet application composed of a database containing scientific publication records, scientific meta-knowledge data, and user profiles. Scientific meta-knowledge stored in the database includes knowledge contexts as well as descriptive and quantitative annotations. Author names and entities within each knowledge context category and annotation category are linked to the appropriate publications. A publication webpage is generated for each publication record, and this is configured to aggregate and present stored data and links that are relevant (and specific) to each publication.
US09613320B2
A method and apparatus for identifying information for a product. User input selecting a proxy object in a product design on a computer system is received. The proxy object refers to a number of product standards used in the product design and is associated with a component in the product design. A role of a user is identified. A request for standards information for the component is sent to an interpreter module. The role of the user is included in the request. The standards information is received in a format based on the role of the operator such that the standards information is displayed in the computer system.
US09613317B2
Mechanisms are provided for generating an answer to an input question. An input question is received and a set of candidate answers is generated along with, for each candidate answer in the set of candidate answers, a corresponding selection of one or more selected evidence portions from a corpus of information providing evidence in support of the candidate answer being a correct answer for the input question. The candidate answers are ranked based on an application of a justifying passage model (JPM) to the selected evidence portions for each of the candidate answers in the set of candidate answers. The JPM identifies whether a candidate answer is justified by a selected evidence passage corresponding to the candidate answer. A candidate answer is output as the correct answer for the input question based on the ranking of the candidate answers.
US09613306B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium (collectively, the “system”) are provided. The system may include a processor configured to perform operations and/or steps comprising storing, by a processor, a session key on a mobile device, wherein the session key is encrypted. The system receiving a transaction request, decrypting the session key, and broadcasting a signal configured for being received by a magnetic stripe reader. Track 1 data and/or track 2 data may be encoded in the signal. The track 1 data and/or the track 2 data may also comprise a dynamically generated value that is generated based on the session key.
US09613305B2
The invention is a printed material on which a two-dimensional code that can be read by a terminal and from which information for specifying contents reproduced by terminal can be acquired is displayed. Two-dimensional code displays a frame portion from which information about position and attitude of terminal can be acquired by terminal and a code portion configured by rotational state display dots 151, 152, 153, and 154 and 20 dots specifying contents to be reproduced by terminal. The 20 dots of the code portion and rotational state display dots are arranged on upper and lower dot portions sandwiching a dot nondisplay portion displaying a character, pictorial symbol, and the like. Rotational state display dots 151, 152, 153, and 154 show rotational position state of the terminal with respect to the two-dimensional code, and displays pattern information.
US09613303B2
Systems and methods for secured printing are provided. The method includes receiving a nominally print-ready document with the nominally print-ready document including one or more references to one or more security elements. The method also includes replacing the one or more references with one or more identifiers, to generate an intermediate document, and associating the one or more security elements with the one or more identifiers. The method further includes transmitting instructions to a printing device, with the instructions being configured to cause the printing device to associate the one or more identifiers with the one or more security elements. The operations further include transmitting the intermediate document to the printing device.
US09613290B2
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for image comparison using color histograms are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to compare images include adjusting a color histogram associated with an input image based on a first reference color histogram associated with a first reference image to determine a first adjusted color histogram associated with the input image. Such example methods also include comparing the first adjusted color histogram and the first reference color histogram to determine whether the first reference image matches the input image. Such example methods further include displaying a version of the first reference image adjacent to a display of the input image in response to determining that the first reference image matches the input image.
US09613280B2
The present invention provides automotive forward-looking system and method. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an automotive forward-looking system including: a forward-looking sensor that has a field of view in a predetermined range of angle and monitors a forward area of a vehicle; a controller that calculates a turning angle of the forward-looking sensor by estimating the curvature of a curved road; and a sensor turning unit that turns the forward-looking sensor by being controlled to operate by the controller, in which the controller estimates the curvature of a curved road on the basis of a guardrail installed at a side of the curved road.
US09613276B2
A video action detection system uses feature a data extractor to extract feature data from video data at detected spatiotemporal interest points. A feature data quantizer assigns the extracted feature values to bins of a feature vector. Bin values are computed from a sum of contributions of spatiotemporal points of interest that have been assigned to the bin, with a bin dependent adjustment of a size of the sum and/or the contributions. The video action detection system computes a sum of match scores between the feature vector and reference vectors for the predetermined type of action. The bin dependent adjustment of the size of the sum and/or the contributions is adapted in a training step, based on partial match scores for individual bins obtained using an initial action detector.
US09613274B2
A system and computer implemented method for identifying an object in a route is disclosed. The method may include capturing a first set of images during a first traversal of a first route. The method may also include capturing a second set of images during a second traversal of the first route. The method may also include identifying, by comparing the first set of images with the second set of images, an object in the second set of images meeting an obstruction criteria. The method may also include providing a notification of the object which was identified as meeting the obstruction criteria.
US09613262B2
The technology disclosed can provide capabilities such as using vibrational sensors and/or other types of sensors coupled to a motion-capture system to monitor contact with a surface that a user can touch. A virtual device can be projected onto at least a portion of the surface. Location information of a user contact with the surface is determined based at least in part upon vibrations produced by the contact. Control information is communicated to a system based in part on a combination of the location on the surface portion of the virtual device and the detected location information of the user contact. The virtual device experience can be augmented in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or visual projectors.
US09613258B2
This disclosure concerns image quality assessment. In particular, there is described a computer implemented method, software, and computer for assessing the quality of an image. For example but not limited to, quality of the image of a face indicates the suitability of the image for use in face recognition. The invention comprises determining (112) a similarity of features of two or more sub-images of the image (608) to a model (412) of the object which is based on multiple training images (612) of multiple different objects of that type. The model (412) is comprised of sub-models (406) and each sub-model (406) corresponds to a sub-image of the image (608). Determining similarity is based on the similarity of features of each sub-image to features modelled by the corresponding sub-model. It is an advantage that no input parameters are required for quality assessment since the quality of the image can be determined from only the similarity between the image and the same, therefore single generic, model.
US09613255B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for signature detection. One example of a method includes: acquiring an article defect density map comprising a plurality of sections corresponding to a first resolution level which is indicative of defect numbers for the sections, and determining a distribution representative of the defect numbers or function thereof; determining a threshold in accordance with said distribution, and identifying sections, out of said plurality of sections in the article defect density map, with defect numbers or function thereof above the threshold; and clustering at least part of adjoining identified sections, into one or more signatures, thus detecting said one or more signatures.
US09613254B1
The present disclosure relates to characterization of biological samples. By way of example, a biological sample may be contacted with a plurality of probes specific for targets in the sample, such as probes for immune markers and segmenting probes. Acquired image data of the sample may be used to segment the images into epithelial and stromal regions to characterize individual cells in the sample based on the binding of the probes. Further, the biological sample may be characterized by a heterogeneity of the characterized cells.
US09613246B1
An ultrasonic biometric scanner includes an ultrasonic multiple scan element array with multiple scan elements. The array includes piezoelectric material such as lead zirconate titanate or polyvinylidene difluoride with a first electrode on a first surface and a second electrode on a second, opposite surface. At least one of the first electrode or the second electrode include multiple electrodes wherein the number of the multiple electrodes corresponds to a number of the multiple scan elements. A substrate is electrically coupled to the second electrode and/or the first electrode. A cover may be positioned over the first electrode. The cover has an acoustic impedance matching ultrasonic signals emitted by the piezoelectric material.
US09613245B1
There is described an electronic device comprising a biometric authentication sensor and a control circuit, and a method thereof. The biometric authentication sensor detects an object in proximity. The control circuit activates an authentication operation in determining that sensor coverage exceeds a predetermined threshold. The control circuit provides user feedback associated to the sensor coverage in determining that the sensor coverage does not exceed the threshold.
US09613237B2
An integrated passive radio frequency identification transponder chip includes a backscatter modulator for communication with a backscattering principle, a tag oscillator generating a backscattering modulation frequency, and a reference load, preferably a reference resonator. Either the reference load or at least one pair of an internal or external resonator and an external sensor element can be selectively connected to load the tag oscillator. Each external sensing element is arranged to sense a predetermined variable. The tag oscillator is capable of generating any one of nominal backscattering modulation frequencies defined for a respective RFID system, when the reference load is connected to load the tag oscillator. The tag oscillator is arranged to generate a predetermined one of nominal backscattering modulation frequencies, when the at least one pair of the internal or external resonator and the external sensor element is connected to load the tag oscillator.
US09613235B2
A method, system and apparatus for encoding an RFID inlay incorporated in an object, the object having indicia disposed thereon. The system can include an object transporting mechanism, a scanner for scanning the indicia, at least one RFID antenna for encoding the RFID inlay, and a processor in communication with and adapted to control the operation of the object transporting mechanism, the scanner, and the at least one RFID antenna.
US09613231B2
Motion sensing devices for computer security are provided herein. In one embodiment, a security device includes a sensor for detecting movement of a computing device to which the security device is coupled, a transmitter, a processor, a memory, and instructions that are executed to receive from the sensor messages indicative of the movement of the computing device, determine if the computing device has been moved using the sensor messages, and output a warning message using the transmitter, if the computing device has been moved.
US09613222B2
The present subject matter relates to assigning access rights in enterprise digital rights management (eDRM) systems. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an enterprise digital rights management (eDRM) device, user data corresponding to a plurality of users. Further, the method includes creating a user group based on the user data. The user group, thus created, is sent for storage in a repository associated with an eDRM server, enabling the user group to be accessible by a plurality of eDRM devices.
US09613204B2
Systems and methods for integrative legacy context management are disclosed herein. An example computer hardware system may include at least one processing unit coupled to a memory, and the memory may be encoded with computer executable instructions that when executed cause the at least one processing unit to receive a set of credentials associated with a user from a user device, cross-reference the set of credentials with a first set of credentials of an agent associated with the user to determine whether the set of credentials is valid; and if the set of credentials is valid, provide a second set of credentials of the agent to the user device in response to a request for the second set of credentials from the user device.
US09613195B2
Techniques to facilitate protecting control programs used in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, control system content provided by a primary entity is received along with a primary security authority provided by the primary entity, wherein the primary security authority defines primary usage rights for the control system content granted to a secondary entity. A secondary security authority provided by the secondary entity is received, wherein the secondary security authority defines secondary usage rights for the control system content that further restrict the primary usage rights. A request is received from a user associated with the secondary entity to perform an action associated with the control system content, and the request is processed with the secondary security authority to determine if the user is authorized to perform the action associated with the control system content based on the secondary usage rights.
US09613191B1
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented and can include for instance: crowdsourcing data from a plurality of users via a computer network, the data including feedback data regarding digital rights click through documents, wherein each of the users is a party to at least one of the digital rights click through documents; storing the data obtained by the crowdsourcing into a digital rights history repository; examining a digital rights click through document of a certain user, wherein the digital rights click through document controls access to a digital asset, wherein the examining includes using at least a portion of the feedback data of the digital rights history repository; and augmenting content of the digital rights click through document based on a result of the examining.
US09613190B2
An example method for managing digital rights management (DRM) protected content sharing in a networked secure collaborative computer data exchange environment includes establishing, by a secure exchange facility and managed by an intermediate organizational entity, a procedure that allows a user from a first entity to share access to computer data content with a user from a second entity based on indicated access rights. The method includes transforming the computer data content into DRM protected content, utilizing a DRM engine provided by a separate entity. The method includes granting access to the content to the second user, providing permissioned control to entities utilizing a number of data storage nodes, and managing secure data exchange of the content and metadata, without the secure exchange facility having access to the content. The method includes operations to support content services including data transformation, filtering, analytics, and searching tools for the content.
US09613188B2
Systems for and methods of utilizing a neuroimaging database are presented. The systems and methods include techniques for analyzing the pathophysiological basis of a chronic brain disease and/or the effectiveness of a treatment for a chronic brain disease, obtaining data for research of a chronic brain disease, searching for chronic brain disease symptoms identified in a clinical patient, searching a database by comparing the brain scan images of patients with suspected indications of chronic brain disease with other patients in the database to identify sets of patients with similar indications in their brain scan images, displaying brain scan information regarding a person, and using image pattern matching to analyze the pathophysiological basis of a chronic brain disease and/or the effectiveness of a proposed or previously administered treatment for a chronic brain disease.
US09613187B2
Likelihood ratio between a likelihood of belonging to one classification of a key item and a likelihood of belonging to other classification of the key item when a case belongs to each classification of a clinical-information item other than the key item is calculated, based on registration case information for calculating a likelihood ratio, for each classification of a key item. A weighting coefficient corresponding to each classification of the clinical-information item other than the key item for each classification of the key item is determined based on a target classification of a target clinical-information item and the calculated likelihood ratio. A degree of similarity is calculated for each registration case included in registration case information for calculating a degree of similarity by using weighting information corresponding to each classification of the key item and each classification of the clinical-information item other than the key item.
US09613186B2
Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient which may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of an anatomical structure of a patient; create a model representing at least a portion of the anatomical structure; create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic within the anatomical structure; determine a first blood flow rate at at least one point of interest in the model; modify the model; determine a second blood flow rate at a point in the modified model corresponding to the at least one point of interest in the model; and determine a fractional flow reserve value as a ratio of the second blood flow rate to the first blood flow rate.
US09613182B2
A system, method, and computer program that may used to more quickly, accurately, and efficiently identify, catalog, and track human assay samples and create documentation with respect to the human assay samples. The computer program and method include the steps of: storing donor information in a donor information database accessible by a computer; storing client information in a client information database accessible by the computer; retrieving client information necessary to determine a type of test to be performed on a specimen; storing collection facility information in a collection facility database accessible by the computer; administering a human analyte test using the computer program to guide a collector of the specimen and identify problematic exceptions; receiving the test result electronically and storing the result in a test result database accessible by the computer; and permitting the client, Medical Review Officer, and other authorized persons to electronically access the test result via a communications network.
US09613167B2
The present invention provides solutions to the potential undesirable effects the insertion and removal of information elements and documents may have on arrays and axes of information elements using a collation function to determine the position of information elements thereon. The invention can be effectuated as a method, a device and an apparatus carrying out the method described herein.
US09613166B2
A method for generating search suggestions of related entities based on co-occurrence and/or fuzzy score matching is disclosed. The method may be employed in a search system that may include a client/server type architecture. The search system may include a user interface for a search engine in communication with one or more server devices over a network connection. The server device may include an entity extraction module, a fuzzy-score matching module, and an entity co-occurrence knowledge base database. In one embodiment, the search system may process a partial search query from a user and present search suggestions to complete the partial query. In another embodiment, the complete search query may be used as a new search query. The search system may process the new search query, run an entity extraction, find related entities from the entity co-occurrence knowledge base, and present said related entities in a drop down list.
US09613165B2
A system that provides secure autocomplete searching receives an autocomplete query from a user, the autocomplete query including a prefix of a search phrase, and retrieves security information of the user. The system searches one or more prefix indexes to find a set of matching objects, where the matching objects each include associated object security information. The system excludes matching objects that the user is not authorized to access from the set of matching objects based on the object security information and the user security information. The system then returns the set of matching objects to the user.
US09613162B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a means for validating electronic forms using one or more semantic databases. The invention includes processing an electronic form into individual elements and generating entities for the individual elements. The closest matching ontology is found for each entity and the pairings are grouped into a general formal ontology tree. The entities in the general formal ontology tree are traversed using generated rules. This analysis yields validation results that are combined with the original form to create an annotated form.
US09613148B2
A method and system for determining a property of a user in a social network platform are provided according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes: determining a property of a seed user in the social network platform; determining a property of a social network platform function interacting with a user according to a property of the user in the social network platform; and determining a property of a user interacting with a social network platform function according to a property of the social network platform function. By the embodiments of the present disclosure, the property of the user in the social network platform can be determined accurately.
US09613140B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for updating an audio dictionary is provided. The method may include receiving at least one audio file within a plurality of audio files associated with a term. The method may also include receiving at least one user evaluation associated with the at least one audio file, the at least one user evaluation being based on a correlation between nationality characteristics associated with the received at least one audio file and the at least one user evaluation. The method may further include assigning a ranking to the at least one audio file within the plurality of audio files based on the received at least one user evaluation associated with the at least one audio file, wherein the assigned ranking is from a lowest ranking to a highest ranking. The method may also include adding the assigned highest ranking audio file into the audio dictionary.
US09613128B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a cache-sensitive index that uses fixed-size partial keys. The index may include a node comprising a child group pointer, a number of partial keys and a similar number of full-key pointers. The node may also include a record count. The nodes are organized into groups. The groups may contain a number of nodes one greater than the number of partial keys in a node and the nodes in a group may be stored contiguously in memory. The child group pointer and the number of partial keys may fit within a cache line. A method is disclosed for traversing the index, for bulk-loading the index, and for live deletion of records from the index.
US09613126B2
A database system uses indexes to improve performance. The system can use one or more of the following: differentiated subfields for index clustering; set function calculations to reduce the amount of I/O; and/or using an inferred index in a circular table.
US09613121B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for data duplication detection in an in memory data grid (IMDG). A method for data duplication detection in an IMDG includes computing a hash value for each binary data value in a key value pair of a partition in an IMDG. The method also includes generating a map including an entry for each unique computed hash value and one or more keys corresponding to binary data values of respective key value pairs from which the hash value had been uniquely computed. Thereafter, only those hash values in the map with multiple keys associated therewith are identified and binary data corresponding to the multiple keys of the identified hash values are reported as potential duplicate data in the IMDG.
US09613119B1
A computer implemented method implemented with a processor for assigning a unique identifier for a data item initially deployed at a node of a networked environment includes determining a unique node identifier for the node of the networked environment, atomically modifying a local counter value at the node of the networked environment, and appending the unique node identifier to the atomically modified local counter value at the node of the networked environment to form a unique ID for the data item.
US09613107B2
Systems and methods provide an online directory service over a network. After receiving a request to view an online directory listing from a network-enabled user terminal, an online directory server may present to the user terminal a directory listing associated with an identifier of audiovisual content. In response to a selection by a user of the listing, the user terminal may provide the identifier associated with the selected directory listing to the directory server. Based on the identifier, the directory server may access the audiovisual content and provide it to the user terminal and may present it to the user in conjunction with the other information of the directory listing.
US09613103B1
A first data store controlled by an item providing system is searched for an electronic version of a publication. A second data store is searched for a physical version of the publication. Publication search results are received from the first data store and the second data store, the publication search results indicating whether the electronic version of the publication is available from an electronic location, whether the physical version of the publication is available at a physical location, and the physical location at which the physical version is available.
US09613090B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for query generation from a previous result set. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for query generation from a previous result set is provided. The method includes identifying commonalities in a selection of records of a result set produced by a previously issued query against a database in a database management system executing in memory by at least one processor of a host server. The method further includes deriving a query from the identified commonalities that when executed against the database management system would produce the selection of records as the result set. Finally, the method includes storing the derived query for subsequent use in querying the database.
US09613075B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, computer program product, and computer system for masking indexes. The method may include masking the index if the index contention exceeds a defined threshold. The method may also include configuring the mask type for the index to insert the index without masking. In response to determining that the mask type for the index is configured to insert the index without masking, the index is masked according to a set of rules.
US09613064B1
The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques that facilitate the recovery of a virtual machine using a distributed filesystem. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in one or more cloud storage systems; the cloud controllers ensure data consistency for the stored data, and each cloud controller caches portions of the distributed filesystem in a local storage pool. During operation, a host server executes program instructions for an application in a virtual machine (VM); data associated with this application and/or this virtual machine is stored in the distributed filesystem. Upon detecting a subsequent failure, the system can recover and resume the execution of the virtual machine and application using the previous application and virtual machine data that was stored in the distributed filesystem.
US09613063B2
When the user selects one or more thumbnail images G and one uploading destination from an image list screen GW, an image selection tray PT showing the thumbnail images G and an uploading screen AW corresponding to a web browser are displayed. When the user selects the thumbnail images G from the image selection tray PT, the image paths GP corresponding to the selected thumbnail images G are acquired. In this manner, the image files can be uploaded only by requiring the user to paste the acquired image paths in image path input sections GR on the uploading screen AW. Accordingly, the user can upload image files to an optional uploading destination by simple operation.
US09613047B2
A client device can be configured to perform a local index search and a server index search to automatically identify and upload content items on the client device that have not been uploaded to an online content management system. A local index search can include creating a unique local identifier of a content item and searching a local upload index that includes the unique local identifier of each content item that has been uploaded. A server index search can include creating a unique server identifier of the content item and searching a server upload index that includes the unique server identifier of each content item stored on the online content management system. Content items that are determined to have not been uploaded to the online content management system based on the results of the two searches, can be uploaded to the content management system by the client device.
US09613045B2
Methods and systems for n-way cloning and synchronization of a user desktop image are provided. Example embodiments provide a Cloning and Synchronization System (“CSS”) which binds a server stored CVD object representing the user's desktop image to one or more endpoint devices. Each endpoint device receives a clone of the CVD object that comprises one or more layers of the server CVD depending upon the suitability of the endpoint device hardware and operating system to the server stored desktop. The cloned CVDs in the endpoint devices are then kept synchronized by synchronization operations. In one embodiment, the CSS allows only one endpoint device to push up changes to the server CVD. User files are synchronized with the all endpoints using a live sync process. System and managed applications may be intelligently merged into an inactive device rather than overwriting data modified on the inactive device.
US09613031B2
Systems and methods for providing a media profile that is based on receiving data from various content distributors and creating a media profile. The media profile is web-based and accessible via an API. Data can be provided to the media profile host server via the API, and an end-user's media preferences can be stored in the media profile. The media profile is accessed by content distributors such that a customized media experience may be offered to the end-user without the need for the content distributor to gather his own separate data. The media profile can also store billing information for the end-user and act as a single reputable platform to conduct financial transactions.
US09613026B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to computerized systems and methods for automatically translating text between natural languages. Text for translation may be broken into segments, which may themselves be templates including placeholders. If an exact match for a segment is found in a translation database, the segment may be matched with its translation from the database. Otherwise, alternate source language text, corresponding to the segment, for which an exact translation is available, may be identified and presented to the user for selection. Text selected by the user may replace the original segment and be matched with its translation.Translation of a segment may be influenced by other translated segments. Additionally, translations may be modified as the user interactively enters and edits text.
US09613020B1
A natural language user interface for computer-aided design systems (CAD) comprises a natural language command module including a parser, language database and a CAD model analyzer, and a natural language server module including a second, increased capability parser, a second, preferably larger language database and a CAD context database. The CAD model analyzer analyzes and retrieves associated CAD model information related to a parsed voice command and the CAD context database provides specific CAD related contextual information to facilitate parsing and interpreting CAD specific commands. The natural language server program module may also include an artificial intelligence based query generator and communicate through a network or cloud with resource providers such as third party market places or suppliers to generate queries for retrieval of third party supplied information necessary to respond to or execute CAD specific voice commands.
US09613015B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing feedback and guidance to touch screen device users to improve text entry user experience and performance by generating input history data including character probabilities, word probabilities, and touch models. According to one embodiment, a method comprises receiving first input data, automatically learning user tendencies based on the first input data to generate input history data, receiving second input data, and generating auto-corrections or suggestion candidates for one or more words of the second input data based on the input history data. The user can then select one of the suggestion candidates to replace a selected word with the selected suggestion candidate.
US09613012B2
An information handling system is disclosed for generating tags of a file including a document or a webpage posting. The generating tags of a file include converting a webpage posting to a PDF document. The method further includes extracting tags provided by users. The method includes scanning the extracted data from a glossary PDF document to identify keywords of the glossary PDF document in accordance with a sentence length. The method further includes extracting data from the PDF document and scanning the extracted data to identify keywords of the PDF document in accordance with a sentence length. The method further includes reapplying selected keywords to the tags of the file.
US09613000B2
Techniques to refine solutions to linear optimization problems using symmetries are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques to refine solutions to linear optimization problems using symmetries to permute an existing solution into other feasible solutions that may improve upon the objective function. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a configuration component, an optimization component, a symmetries component, and an improvement component. The configuration component may be operative to receive an optimization problem described by an objective and constraints on a plurality of variables. The optimization interface component may be operative to receive an initial feasible solution to the optimization problem, the initial feasible solution comprising an assignment of values to the plurality of variables satisfying all the constraints, the initial feasible solution producing an initial objective value when applied to the objective. The symmetries interface component may be operative to receive one or more symmetries of the plurality of variables for the constraints, the one or more symmetries defining permutations of the plurality of variables guaranteed to produce only additional feasible solutions given the constraints when applied to an existing feasible solution. The improvement component may be operative to use the symmetries to produce permutations of the assignment of values to the plurality of variables, determine which of the permutations results in an improved objective value when applied to the objective, the improved objective value improving on the initial objective value produced by the initial feasible solution, and select the permutation that results in the improved objective value as an improved feasible solution to the optimization problem, the improved feasible solution improving on the initial feasible solution according to the objective. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09612998B2
A method for detecting fault conditions in a motor drive at power up is disclosed. During the power up sequence, input power is applied to the motor drive and the DC bus begins to charge to its normal operating level. Once the DC bus has reached a suitable level and prior to commanding motion of the attached motor, the shunt resistor is connected across the DC bus for a short duration. The amplitude of voltage and current present on the DC bus are measured while the shunt resistor is connected across the DC bus. The measurements are then used to detect fault conditions in the motor drive. The presence of the fault conditions are relayed to an operator. Thus, the motor drive may detect certain fault conditions prior to commanding motion from the drive.
US09612985B1
A system includes a first plurality of processors, a second plurality of processors dissimilar from the first plurality of processors, a first arbitration device coupled to the first plurality of processors, and a second arbitration device coupled to the second plurality of processors. The first arbitration device and the second arbitration device is configured to receive event data, store the received event data, and to output the received event data at substantially a same time. At least one processor of the first plurality of processors and at least one processor of the second plurality of processors are configured to access the event data.
US09612982B2
Methods and electronic devices for adjusting an operating frequency of a memory are disclosed. The method includes: transmitting to the memory a first command that instructs the memory to hold the data information in the memory; transmitting to the memory controller a second command that adjusts the first frequency of the memory controller to a second frequency; and transmitting to the memory a third command that instructs the memory to exchange the data information according to the second frequency of the memory controller. According to the disclosure, it is possible to dynamically adjust the frequency of the memory during operation, avoiding the need of the user to turn off and then turn on the electronic device to adjust the frequency of the memory.
US09612978B2
Raw or unencrypted data is encrypted using a standard encryption algorithm and stored in a Flash memory array. The raw or unencrypted data may be pre-processed before it is encrypted. Pre-processing may include data scrambling, pre-encryption data mixing, or both. Data scrambling may involve an invertible transformation. The scrambled data may then be used to seed a sequence generator. Each output from the sequence generator may be processed using a bit-by-bit Exclusive Or (XOR) operation to impart random or pseudorandom statistical properties. Pre-encryption data mixing may combine the scrambled (or unscrambled) data with information that is unique to each chunk of data, as well as with a user-supplied secret key. This helps ensure that identical raw data chunks are not stored as identical encrypted data chunks in the Flash memory array.
US09612971B2
Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for implementing a cache memory access requests for data smaller than a cache line and eliminating overfetching from a main memory by writing supplemental data to the unfilled portions of the cache line. A cache memory controller may receive a cache memory access request with a supplemental write command for data smaller than a cache line. The cache memory controller may write supplemental to the portions of the cache line not filled by the data in response to a write cache memory access request or a cache miss during a read cache memory access request. In the event of a cache miss, the cache memory controller may retrieve the data from the main memory, excluding any overfetch data, and write the data and the supplemental data to the cache line. Eliminating overfetching reduces bandwidth and power required to retrieved data from main memory.
US09612967B1
Systems and methods for cache load balancing by reclaimable block migration are described. In some embodiments, a computer system may include a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the computer system to: maintain a first list of reclaimable blocks that reside in a first caching device and a first advertised age for the oldest reclaimable block of the first list; maintain a second list of reclaimable blocks that reside in a second caching device and a second advertised age for the oldest reclaimable block of the second list; determine that the second advertised age is older than the first advertised age; and cause the oldest reclaimable block on the first list to be migrated from the first caching device to the second caching device.
US09612957B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are herein disclosed for reducing read disturb and data retention errors in FLASH memory devices designed for long lifespans, such as greater than 10 or 15 years. Read disturb errors can be reduced by maintaining a read counter stored in a volatile memory and a FASTMAP memory block of the FLASH memory. When the read counter meets a threshold, then the associated memory block can be scheduled for scrubbing. Data retentions errors can be reduced by maintaining a last-erase timestamp in metadata of each memory block of a FLASH memory. When the last-erase timestamp associated with a given memory block meets a threshold, then the memory block can be scheduled for scrubbing.
US09612956B2
A data storage device includes one or more storage media that include multiple physical storage locations. The device also includes at least one cache memory having a logical space that includes a plurality of separately managed logical block address (LBA) ranges. Additionally, a controller is included in the device. The controller is configured to receive data extents addressed by a first LBA and a logical block count. The controller is also configured to identify at least one separately managed LBA range of the plurality of separately managed LBA ranges in the at least one cache memory based on LBAs associated with at least some of the received data extents. The controller stores the at least some of the received data extents in substantially monotonically increasing LBA order in at least one physical storage location, of the at least one cache memory, assigned to the identified at least one LBA range.
US09612934B2
A network processor includes a cache and a several groups of processors for accessing the cache. A memory interconnect provides for connecting the processors to the cache via a plurality of memory buses. A number of trace buffers are also connected to the bus and operate to store information regarding commands and data transmitted across the bus. The trace buffers share a common address space, thereby enabling access to the trace buffers as a single entity.
US09612932B2
A method performed by a monitoring tool in a computer system, the method including: displaying a user interface including information regarding a first resource; running a correlation algorithm to determine whether other resources in the computer system show correlation for one or more performance metrics; selecting one or more other resources as suggestions based on results of the correlation algorithm; displaying selected resources in a list with the base resource and render a graph of performance metrics over time with performance data of the base resource and the suggested resources overlaid; and overlaying further performance data on the graph for a resource searched for, and selected by, the human user.
US09612928B2
When an update instruction for updating task data stored in a memory is transmitted through a transaction process performed by an application server, an active node apparatus generates, based on the update instruction, an update log indicating update contents of the task data stored in the memory, and then distributes, in a multicast manner, the generated update log to other standby node apparatuses each with a memory. With this, mirroring among the plurality of memories is controlled.
US09612926B2
A host swap hypervisor provides a high availability hypervisor for virtual machines on a physical host computer during a failure of a primary hypervisor on the physical host computer. The host swap hypervisor resides on the physical host computer that runs the primary hypervisor, and monitors failure indicators of the primary hypervisor. When the failure indicators exceed a threshold, the host swap hypervisor is then autonomically swapped to become the primary hypervisor on the physical host computer. The original primary hypervisor may then be re-initialized as the new host swap hypervisor.
US09612921B2
A method and system for managing operational states of database tables within a multiple-database system. If a particular user session issues a query against a target table that causes a data inconsistency, the target table transitions into an errant state and the session will become interrupted. This errant state is then propagated onto any other table associated with the user session. A session-level recovery process can thereafter be executed to repair and restore database tables associated with the interrupted user sessions without the need to take an entire database system offline.
US09612912B2
A method, apparatus, and system for centralized tape management are provided for databases. A centralized availability machine or disk and tape backup server maintains working backup data for a plurality of database management systems (DBMSs) based on receiving, from each of the plurality of DBMSs, differential incremental updates. The updates may be at the database block level, with an index maintained to identify different versions of the blocks for snapshot recovery. The availability machine then determines a utilization schedule for distributing the working backup data to a plurality of tapes using a plurality of tape drives, and stores the working backup data as archived backup data on the plurality of tapes according to the utilization schedule. By placing each DBMS within a protection policy that indicates criteria to meet business goals with respect to tape backups, the utilization schedule can automatically schedule tape backup jobs with optimized hardware resource assignments.
US09612905B2
A block of data is partitioned into a plurality of sub-blocks each including a logical array having rows and columns of data symbols, encoded using a row linear block code and a column linear block code. Each product codeword includes a logical array of code symbols having rows which include respective row codewords and columns which include respective column codewords. The product codewords are encoded by encoding groups of L symbols, using a rate-L/(L+M) linear block code to produce a plurality of (L+M)-symbol codewords which are logically arranged in nQ encoded blocks (where n is an integer greater than zero). Each of the nQ encoded blocks includes an array having rows and columns of code symbols in which each column includes a codeword of the column code.
US09612898B2
An apparatus includes: a log element extraction unit that extracts a log element from log information a combined unit that attaches, to each of the log elements, related system constituent element information and combine the log elements; a pattern extraction unit that extracts a pattern from the combined log information; a conversion unit, when an analysis target pattern includes system constituent element information of conversion target not included in a comparison target pattern, that performs conversion between the system constituent element information of the conversion target and the system constituent element information similar to the conversion target in the comparison target pattern or the analysis target pattern; a comparison unit that detects a difference the analysis target pattern and the comparison target pattern; and a presenting unit that presents, as a portion of a cause of a fault, the system constituent element information indicated by the difference.
US09612889B2
The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for integrating applications. In general, aspects of the invention can be used to reduce complexities associated with integrating applications and conserve computer system resources. Designed message processing functionality as well as updates and changes can be maintained through a centralized application message processing framework and then used by a plurality of applications. The centralized application message processing framework significantly reduces, and potentially eliminates, the need to incorporate message processing functionality individually into each of the plurality of applications. This in turn reduces the burden and complexity of maintaining message processing functionality for the plurality of applications.
US09612888B2
A method of operating an operating system for providing inter-application communications between a publisher application and a subscriber application. The method includes receiving a publication request from the publisher application at an operating system, receiving a subscriber application from the subscriber application at the operating system, performing an operating system based event brokering procedure based on the publication request and the subscription request, and publishing an event based on the procedure.
US09612883B2
A large-scale data processing system and method for processing data in a distributed and parallel processing environment is disclosed. The system comprises a set of interconnected computing systems, each having one or more processors and memory. The set of interconnected computing systems include: a set of application-independent map modules for reading portions of input files containing data, and for producing intermediate data values by applying at least one user-specified, application-specific map operation to the data; a set of intermediate data structures distributed among a plurality of the interconnected computing systems for storing the intermediate data values; and a set of application-independent reduce modules, distinct from the plurality of application-independent map modules, for producing final output data by applying at least one user-specified, application-specific reduce operation to the intermediate data values.
US09612879B2
Processors, systems, and methods are arranged to schedule tasks on heterogeneous processor cores. For example, a scheduler is arranged to perform a heuristics based function for allocating operating system tasks to the processor cores. The system includes a hint generator providing a system constraints-aware function that biases the scheduler to select a processor core depending on the change in one or more performance constraint parameters.
US09612868B2
Systems and methods for instruction entity allocation and scheduling on multi-processors is provided. In at least one embodiment, a method for generating an execution schedule for a plurality of instruction entities for execution on a plurality of processing units comprises arranging the plurality of instruction entities into a sorted order and allocating instruction entities in the plurality of instruction entities to individual processing units in the plurality of processing units. The method further comprises scheduling instances of the instruction entities in scheduled time windows in the execution schedule, wherein the instances of the instruction entities are scheduled in scheduled time windows according to the sorted order of the plurality of instruction entities and organizing the execution schedule into execution groups.
US09612861B2
A method for provisioning a virtualized resource includes directing, by a provisioning machine, a server-executed hypervisor to provision a virtual machine. The provisioning machine directs generation of an organizational unit within a first organizational unit within a multi-tenant directory service separated from a second organizational unit in the multi-tenant directory service by a firewall. The provisioning machine associates the virtual machine with the first organizational unit. The provisioning machine establishes at least one firewall rule on the virtual machine restricting communications to the virtual machine to communications from explicitly authorized machines, which including at least one other machine within the organizational unit. The provisioning machine receives a request to provision a virtualized resource for at least one user. The provisioning machine updates data associated with the organizational unit to include an identification of the at least one user. The provisioning machine directs the virtual machine to host the virtualized resource.
US09612859B2
In a computer-implemented method for comparing states of a virtual machine, a plurality of selectable states including a current state of a virtual machine and at least one snapshot of the virtual machine are presented for selection, wherein the at least one snapshot includes a state of the virtual machine at a previous state. Responsive to a selection of at least two states of the plurality of selectable states, a comparison tool for comparing information between the at least two states of the virtual machine is presented.
US09612857B2
Administering VMs in a distributed computing environment that includes hosts that execute a VMM, with each VMM supporting execution of one or more VMs, includes: assigning the VMMs to a logical tree topology with one as a root; and executing, by the VMMs of the tree topology, a reduce operation, including: sending, by the root VMM to each of other VMMs of the tree topology, a request for an instance of a particular VM; pausing, by each of the other VMMs, the requested instance of the particular VM; providing, by each of the other VMMs to the root VMM in response to the root VMM's request, the requested instance of the particular VM; and identifying, by the root VMM, differences among the requested instances of the particular VM including, performing a bitwise XOR operation amongst the instances of the particular VM.
US09612844B2
A method and apparatus are provided for executing instructions of a multi-threaded processor having multiple hardware threads (32, 34) with differing hardware resources comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of streams of instructions (38, 44) and determining which hardware threads are able to receive instructions for execution (40, 46), determining whether a thread determined to be available for executing an instructions has the hardware resources available required by that instructions (36) and executing the instruction in dependence on the result of the determination (50).
US09612842B2
According to one embodiment, a processor includes an instruction decoder to decode a first instruction to gather data elements from memory, the first instruction having a first operand specifying a first storage location and a second operand specifying a first memory address storing a plurality of data elements. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder, in response to the first instruction, to read contiguous a first and a second of the data elements from a memory location based on the first memory address indicated by the second operand, and to store the first data element in a first entry of the first storage location and a second data element in a second entry of a second storage location corresponding to the first entry of the first storage location.
US09612837B2
An information processing apparatus includes a rewriting unit and an execution unit. The rewriting unit rewrites a first instruction described at a trace point in a function defined in a program to a second instruction which gives instructions to execute a trace code, and stores the first instruction in a storage unit. The execution unit executes the trace code on the basis of the second instruction at the time of execution at the trace point in the function. If a third instruction which calls the function is included in the trace code, the execution unit replaces, at the time of executing the third instruction, the second instruction at the trace point in the function with the first instruction stored in the storage unit, and performs the function.
US09612827B2
A method to detect and diagnose where an error occurs in a source code that is associated with a software program or a website is provided. The method may include receiving a log report associated with the software program or the website, whereby by the log report is sent based on a hidden tag associated with the software program or the website. The method may also include analyzing the received log report. The method may further include detecting at least one error based on the analysis of the received log report. The method may include reverting back to a previous line in the source code associated with the software program or the website, whereby the reverting is based on the detection of the at least one error.
US09612824B2
A firmware variable update method for BIOS of a computer system is provided. The firmware variable update method includes writing an update capsule file and a firmware update command into a memory according to a first system management interrupt signal and performing a shutdown process, triggering a second system management interrupt signal and accordingly writing a variable update command into the memory, switching the computer system into a sleep state before the shutdown process is completed and activating a timer, performing a first reboot process when the timer expires, utilizing the update capsule file to update an original capsule file of the BIOS according to the firmware update command during the first reboot process, and performing a second reboot process and utilizing an update variable file to update an original variable file of the BIOS according to the variable update command during the second reboot process.
US09612822B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing device firmware. In one aspect, a system includes a file server; a subtending device coupled to the file server, and a telecommunications node coupled to the subtending device. The subtending device can include one or more line cards that connect one or more telecommunications nodes to a network. The telecommunications node receives, from the subtending device, a group name and replaces a wildcard in a firmware filename to derive a first network path of firmware files. The telecommunications node installs the firmware files and subsequently receives an updated group name. The telecommunications node replaces the wildcard with the updated group name to derive an updated path, and obtains different firmware files from the updated path. The firmware installed on the telecommunications node is managed based on the first firmware and the different firmware.
US09612815B1
A system, apparatus, method, and computer program product that automate the deployment of reference implementation architectures for pre-integrated multi-product or sub-product capability cloud IT service delivery solutions. The apparatus comprises a sizing tool and a deployment automation tool. The sizing tool determines the attributes of the resources that are required to provide the service delivery solution, and determines the quantity those resources that are required to provide a particular service level based on those attributes. And the deployment automation tool generates software bundles or virtual appliances that operate together to provide the service delivery solution when they are installed on the resources. The service delivery solution comprises a base console that is configured to invoke processes on a plurality of interchangeable containers, wherein each of the plurality containers provides different functionality for delivering different services or service offerings.
US09612810B2
Methods and systems for optimizing an application include optimizing, with a processor on a first device, an application for a second device in accordance with an application execution profile received from the second device to generate a binary for the application that is optimized for use indicated by the application execution profile. The optimized binary is transmitted to the second device.
US09612809B2
Multiphased profile guided optimization optimizes executable code based on data collected during multiple training runs of a training executable. In multiphased profile guided optimization, multiple sets of profiling data are collected where each set of profiling data is associated with a program phase and a particular training run. Program phases include but are not limited to different program features, startup, steady state and shutdown. The program features can run concurrently. Priority of the phases can be specified.
US09612808B1
Conventionally compiled byte code, such as that produced by compiling Java source code, contains calls to string buffer creation methods. The compiled byte code is processed by a machined that performs an optimizer tool. The optimizer tool refactors the compiled byte code to produce a modified byte code that is functionally equivalent to the compiled byte code with respect to string creation, but which creates fewer string buffer and character array objects to accomplish that string creation. The optimizer tool replaces a call to build a new string buffer object with a call to an existing string buffer object and code setting length of the existing string buffer object to zero and appending new string characters this existing string buffer object.
US09612807B2
When a program function is called, if the instructions for that function are not in active memory, a page fault occurs. Resolving a page fault includes a costly process of loading a page of object code instructions, into active memory, including the instructions for the called function. Technology is disclosed to reduce page faults by placing interrelated functions near each other within executable code based on a log of previous function calls. A log of function calls may be from observing the execution of applications over time. Computing devices can compute where to place functions within executable code by: obtaining the function call log; building a call graph based on the function call log; defining multiple node clusters within the call graph; and generating an ordered list of functions by sorting the node clusters. The ordered list of functions can then be provided during linking to determine function placements.
US09612806B2
In an embodiment, a model is sliced into a plurality of slices. A slice in the plurality of slices is selected. A portion of code, that corresponds to the selected slice, is identified from code generated from the model. The identified code is verified to be equivalent to the selected slice. Equivalence may include equivalent functionality, equivalent data types, equivalent performance, and or other forms of equivalence between the selected slice and the identified generated code.
US09612799B2
A first record group and a second record group having a tree structure are merge-sorted. The first record group and the second record group are acquired, and depth information indicative of the hierarchical depth of the tree structure is attached as metadata to key information on each node of each record included in the acquired first record group and second record group. The depth information is compared in preference to the key information to perform merge sort sequentially.
US09612794B2
Software implementations are provided for performing IQ imbalance correction and/or RF equalization. An input signal, x, is processed in software by executing a vector convolution instruction to apply the input signal, x, to a first complex FIR filter that performs one or more of RF equalization and IQ imbalance correction; and executing a vector convolution instruction to apply a conjugate x* of the input signal, x, to a second complex FIR filter that performs the one or more of RF equalization and IQ imbalance correction, wherein the second complex FIR filter is in parallel with the first complex FIR filter. The first and second complex FIR filters have complex coefficients and the input signal comprises a complex signal.
US09612792B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for dynamic configuration of audio production are described. Audio production nodes (“APNs”) may produce audio. The APNs and may be configured to be compliant with a Precision Time Protocol (“PTP”). The APNs may be configured to perform dynamic configuration of audio production. An APN may receive configuration-related information transmitted from one or more other APNs, such as in association with operation of the PTP. An APN, in response to receipt of this configuration-related data, may modify configuration settings used for its audio production such as modification of timing, tone, power, intensity, equalization settings, or other configuration settings. The APN may be configured to produce its own configuration-related data for use by other APNs to modify the other APNs' configuration settings. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09612787B2
To preferably present setting values serving as choices of a setting item on a print setting screen, an information processing apparatus comprises: a first setting unit configured to accept setting of a setting value to a predetermined print setting item via a first user interface screen configured to select one setting value from a first set including a plurality of setting values; a second setting unit configured to accept setting of a setting value to the predetermined print setting item via a second user interface screen configured to select one setting value from a second set serving as a subset of the first set; and an addition unit configured to, if the setting value set by the first setting unit is not included in the second set, add the setting value set by the first setting unit to the second set.
US09612783B2
Information on a peripheral device in short distance wireless communication is obtained, it is determined whether the information contains an address of the peripheral device, and peripheral devices on a network is searched for if it is determined that the information does not contain the address of the peripheral device.
US09612770B2
A method for memory management, the method may include receiving an updated portion of a data unit, the data unit is associated with a logical data entity; wherein the updated portion is smaller than a granularity of a mapping data structure used for retrieval of the data unit; and creating, by the storage system an extended data unit that comprises (i) an original content of the data unit, (ii) the updated portion and, (iii) updated portion metadata; wherein the updated portion metadata comprises (a) updated portion retrieval information for retrieving the updated portion, and (b) updated portion snapshot information indicative of at least one snapshot associated with the updated portion.
US09612766B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for estimating migration progress. In one implementation, a target file system is initialized to which to migrate existing data from a source file system. An initial amount of data to be migrated to the target file system is estimated based on an examination of in-use space at a root of the source file system. Any mount points for nested file systems in the source file system are identified. An amount of data for each of the nested file systems is estimated based on an examination of in-use space at the mount point for the nested file system. An estimated total amount of data to be migrated from the source file system to the target file system is determined based on the initial amount of data to be migrated and the amount of data for each of the nested file systems.
US09612736B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for performing an operation, such as enlargement, reduction and rotation of a screen of a terminal having a touch screen, with one hand using successive touches on the screen. A method of controlling the touch screen may include determining whether two points spaced at a predetermined distance threshold or longer on the touch screen are input as a previous tap and a current tap within a predetermined time threshold, analyzing the previous tap and the current tap to switch to a successive tap operation mode, and performing an operation according to a predetermined successive tap command in the successive tap operation mode.
US09612732B2
Techniques and apparatuses for content transfers to non-running targets in a multi-application environment are described herein. In one or more implementations, input is detected to relocate a content item exposed within a graphical user interface for the multi-application environment. The relocation may be performed to associate the content item with a target element that is configured to initiate one or more designated actions with respect to the content item by invoking a corresponding application currently in a non-running state. The target element may be configured as an application window, an icon, an application launch element, or other visual representation of the corresponding application. In response to the detected input, the content item is associated with the target element and the corresponding application is launched to cause a switch from the non-running state to an active state in which the one or more designated actions are performed.
US09612731B2
Information processing device includes display unit that displays operation object; tactile contact detection unit that detects a plurality of push-down points; and control unit that performs first operation assessment for detecting whether or not outer peripheral distance of first area formed by connecting adjacent push-down points among a plurality of push-down points detected by tactile contact detection unit decreases over time to predetermined value or less, and that performs second operation assessment for detecting whether or not the outer peripheral distance of second area formed by connecting adjacent push-down points among a plurality of push-down points detected by tactile contact detection unit increases over time to predetermined value or more. Control unit puts operation object in selected state when there is overlapping part between operation object and first area after first operation assessment, and performs first operation corresponding to place where second operation assessment has been performed on operation object.
US09612730B2
A presenter device transmits, to an attendee device participating in an online desktop sharing session, image data of a plurality of windows. The plurality of windows comprises a foreground window obscuring at least a portion of at least one background window. The presenter device captures image data of at least one background window including the obscured portion of the background window without altering the display of the presenter device. A request is received from the attendee device for image data of at least one background window to display the background window over the foreground window on a display of the attendee device. In response to receiving the request, the presenter device transmits the captured image data of the background window, including any obscured portion, to the attendee device.
US09612729B2
An image processing apparatus and a controlling method of the same are provided. The method includes displaying a first screen corresponding to a first application; displaying a second screen corresponding to a second application above the first screen such that the second screen overlaps at least a portion of the first screen; and displaying at least a portion of the second screen that overlaps the portion of the first screen, while controlling the first application.
US09612728B2
Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. Overlaid, information-bearing windows whose contents remain unchanged for a predetermined period of time become translucent. The translucency can be graduated so that, over time, if the window's contents remain unchanged, the window becomes more translucent. In addition to visual translucency, windows also have a manipulative translucent quality. Upon reaching a certain level of visual translucency, user input in the region of the window is interpreted as an operation on the underlying objects rather than the contents of the overlaying window.
US09612727B2
A task changing apparatus changes a task program executed by a robot. The task changing apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores a task program including a plurality of hierarchical levels arranged in a tree-like structure representing a plurality of pieces of task information executed by the robot and lower-order task information associated with the task information; a display control unit that causes the task information to be displayed on a display screen of a display unit so as to allow setting of the task information, the task information being associated with each other for each hierarchical level of the task program stored in the storage unit; and a change unit that changes the task program for the robot based on a series of pieces of task information set on the display screen of the display unit.
US09612712B2
A screen cleaning system for a motor vehicle includes a screen cleaning device and a dedicated receiver for holding the screen cleaning device. That receiver is integrated into the interior trim of the motor vehicle.
US09612702B2
An electromagnetic-type touch substrate is disclosed. The electromagnetic-type touch substrate includes a substrate having a display region and a non-display region, and a first conductive layer formed on a first side of the substrate, where the first conductive layer includes a plurality of first electromagnetic induction coils forming loops extending in a first direction. The electromagnetic-type touch substrate also includes a second conductive layer formed on a second side of the substrate, where the second conductive layer includes a plurality of second electromagnetic induction coils forming loops extending in a second direction. In addition, the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction.
US09612687B2
Interactive sensing in retro-reflective imaging systems may be enabled through auto-alignment of an infrared (IR) illumination region with a floating image region by transmitting IR light, added on or within a display, through the same optical path as the visible floating image light. The IR illumination at the display may be either a flood of light or structured light. In some implementations, stereo vision based imaging techniques may be employed in conjunction with an auto-aligned IR floating image to provide illumination for a stereo imaging system and to provide position sensing for interaction.
US09612685B2
An electronic device includes a memory in which input instructions, force level assessment instructions, and output instructions are stored, and further includes a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured through execution of the input instructions to obtain measurement data for a user interaction with a force-sensitive touch sensor, the measurement data being indicative of position information for the user interaction, amplitude information for the user interaction, and size information for the user interaction. The processor is further configured through execution of the force level assessment instructions to apply force level calibration data to the amplitude information and the size information in a force level assessment of the user interaction, the force level calibration data varying with user interaction size. The processor is further configured through execution of the output instructions to provide an output in accordance with the force level assessment.
US09612680B2
Sensor data from a sensor system of a mobile device may be used for determining a level of pressure exerted by a user on the mobile device. The sensor system may include one or more types of sensors, such as a microphone and one or more inertial sensors. The inertial sensors may include one or more gyroscopes and/or accelerometers. Based on the inertial sensor data, it may be determined whether and/or how the mobile device is being held. A process for determining a level of pressure exerted by a user on the mobile device may be adapted based, at least in part, on whether and/or how the mobile device is being held. The pressure-determining process may be adapted according to various other criteria, such as a position of a touch target in a display, ambient noise levels, etc.
US09612674B2
An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch-sensitive track pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a tracking control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the movable track pad so as to generate one or more other control signals (e.g., button signals). The control signals can be used to perform actions in an electronic device operatively coupled to the input device.
US09612673B2
The present disclosure provides for a touch screen electronic device to display two or more running applications simultaneously in a side-by-side layout in a split screen mode of the device. Two or more applications that are running on an operating system of the device can be easily displayed simultaneously in the split screen mode while maintaining one of the displayed applications as active so that the user can provide user inputs to the active application.
US09612671B1
A removable stylus tip for use with an active stylus. The tip is capable of exchanging electrical communications with the touchscreen of a computing device. The tip includes a conductive core to transmit signals between the stylus body and a cone-shaped end of the stylus core. The cone-shaped end is covered with a coating to protect the tip and the touchscreen device. The coating is a composite material configured to allow electrical signals to pass through the material as well as to provide mechanical protection to components of the tip and touchscreen.
US09612670B2
A system and method for implementing an efficient and easy to user interface for a touch screen device. A cursor may be placed by a user using simple inputs. The device operates places the cursor coarsely and refines the cursor placement upon further input from the user. Text may be selected using a gripper associated with the cursor. The user interface allows text selection without occluding the text being selected with the user's finger or the gripper. For selecting text in a multi-line block of text, a dynamic safety zone is implemented to simplify text selection for the user.
US09612664B2
Some embodiments include an input device comprising a processor and a key frame having a plurality of keys disposed therein and a motion sensor controlled by the processor and disposed below the key frame. The plurality of keys includes a controller key and one or more input keys, where the motion sensor generates a signal corresponding to a movement of an object along the surface of the one or more input keys when the controller key is activated, where the signal can be used to control a cursor on a display. Each of the input keys generates an input function when activated and can include one or more of an alphanumeric input, arrow key input, or function key input. In some cases, the controller key can be one or more of a shift key, control key, windows key, command key, alt key, dedicated controller key, or user-assigned key.
US09612662B2
Systems and methods for shifting haptic feedback function between passive and active modes are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes receiving a first signal from a sensor, the first signal associated with a mode of interaction with a graphical user interface; receiving a second signal associated with an interaction with the graphical user interface; determining a haptic feedback effect based at least in part on the mode of interaction with the graphical user interface and the interaction with the graphical user interface; and generating a haptic signal configured to output the haptic feedback effect.
US09612659B2
A user interface system of one embodiment includes a layer defining a surface; a substrate supporting the layer and at least partially defining a cavity; a displacement coupled to the cavity that expands the cavity, thereby deforming a particular region of the surface; and a touch sensor coupled to the substrate and adapted to sense a user touch proximate the particular region of the surface. The layer and the substrate are connected at an attachment point, and the location of the attachment point relative to the layer, substrate, and cavity at least partially defines the shape of the deformed particular region of the surface.
US09612658B2
The present disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for the creation of an acoustic field for providing tactile sensations. More particularly, but not exclusively, this disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for the creation of an acoustic field providing tactile sensations for use with an interactive device.The disclosure provides a method of generating a tactile sensation. The method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of acoustic transducers arranged to generate a predetermined distribution of pressure patterns, wherein the pressure patterns comprise a first region providing a first tactile sensation and a second region providing a second, different, tactile sensation.
US09612656B2
Methods and systems to facilitate eye tracking control on mobile devices are provided. An image of a portion of a user is received at an eye tracking device, where the image includes reflections caused by light emitted on the user from one or more light sources located within the eye tracking device. One or more eye features associated with an eye of the user is detected using the reflections. Point of regard information is determined using the one or more eye features, where the point of regard information indicates a location on a display of a computing device coupled to the eye tracking device at which the user was looking when the image of the portion of the user was taken. The point of regard information is sent to an application capable of performing a subsequent operation using the point of regard information.
US09612652B2
Methods and apparatus relating to controlling power consumption by a power management link are described. In one embodiment, the physical interface of a power management (PM) link is shut down when a processor is in a sleep state (e.g., to conserve power), while maintaining the availability of the processor for communication to a (e.g., embedded) controller over the PM link. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09612648B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing memory channel interleaving with selective power or performance optimization. One such method involves configuring a memory address map for two or more memory devices accessed via two or more respective memory channels with an interleaved region and a linear region. The interleaved region comprises an interleaved address space for relatively higher performance use cases. The linear region comprises a linear address space for relatively lower power use cases. Memory requests are received from one or more clients. The memory requests comprise a preference for power savings or performance. Received memory requests are assigned to the linear region or the interleaved region according to the preference for power savings or performance.
US09612641B2
An approach is provided that responds to a connection request to connect to an external network entity using a connection from a managed connection pool. The connection pool is managed by selecting connections from the connection pool that includes one or more currently unused connections with the external network entity. One of the selected connections is validated by comparing an idle time associated with each of the selected connections to a maximum idle time value corresponding to the external network entity. The maximum idle time value being previously identified at the information handling system. The validated connection is then used to connect to the external network entity to satisfy the connection request.
US09612636B2
A method for operating an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes receiving a token, activating a power switch for powering up a core in response to the receiving the token, and outputting the token based on a state of powering up the core. The outputting of the received token is delayed until the state of powering up the core is reached. In one aspect, an electronic apparatus includes a power switch configured to power up to a core is provided. A power-switch control circuit is configured to receive a token, activate the power switch for powering up the core in response to receiving the token, output the received token based on a state of powering up the core. The outputting of the received token is delayed until the state of powering up the core is reached. A plurality of the power-switch control circuits is configured as a ring.
US09612628B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide a computing device expansion system. According to one implementation, a docking receptacle is coupled to a touch-enabled monitor computing device and is also configured to receive and connect to a portable electronic device. Furthermore, when the portable electronic device is attached to the docking receptacle, a display area of the portable electronic device is cloned on the monitor computing device such that touch input on either the portable electronic device or monitor computing device is replicated on the monitor computing device or portable electronic device.
US09612606B2
A bandgap reference circuit including two sets of bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). A first set of two or more BJTs configured to electrically connect in a parallel arrangement. The first set of BJTs is configured to produce a first proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) signal. A second set of two or more BJTs configured to electrically connect in a parallel arrangement. The second set of BJTs is configured to produce a second PTAT signal. A circuitry configured to electrically connect to the first set of BJTs and the second set of BJTs. The circuitry is configured to combine the first PTAT signal and the second PTAT signal to produce a reference voltage.
US09612597B2
In an autonomously navigating utility vehicle adapted to run a working area defined by a laid boundary wire autonomously having a pair of magnetic sensors installed on either sides of the vehicle at positions laterally symmetrical with respect to a vehicle straight forward center line to produce outputs indicating intensity of magnetic field of the wire, an angular velocity sensor adapted to produce an output indicating angular velocity around a vertical axis of the vehicle, the vehicle is controlled to move to a prescribed position at which an angle of the center line relative to the laid wire becomes a reference angle based on the outputs of the magnetic sensors, and to turn by 180 degrees, and calibrates the output of the angular velocity sensor by outputs of the angular velocity sensor obtained at the turning.
US09612594B2
There is provided a method for determining a machining means in a hybrid ultraprecision machining device for manufacturing a micro-machined product from a workpiece, the machining device comprising: an electromagnetic-wave-machining means for roughly machining the workpiece; a precision-machining means for precisely machining the roughly machined workpiece; and a shape-measurement means for measuring a shape of the workpiece upon use of the electromagnetic-wave machining means and the precision-machining means, wherein a choice is made between the electromagnetic-wave-machining means and the precision-machining means in the determination of the machining means, on the basis of: information on a stereoscopic model of the micro-machined product; information on a removal volume to be removed from a volume of the workpiece in the manufacturing of the micro-machined product; and data on a removal process time of the electromagnetic-wave-machining means and data on a removal process time of the precision-machining means.
US09612591B2
Described herein are methods and systems, including computer program products, for optimizing and controlling a building's energy consumption and comfort. A computing device receives measurements from a plurality of sensors, at least some of which are located inside the building, where the measurements include temperature readings and comfort characteristics. The computing device generates a set of thermal response coefficients based on energy characteristics of the building, the measurements from the sensors, and weather data associated with the building's location. The computing device predicts an energy response of the building based on the set of thermal response coefficients and forecasted weather. The computing device selects minimal energy requirements of the building based on an energy consumption cost associated with the building and determines energy control points based on the energy response and the minimal energy requirements. The computing device transmits the energy control points to comfort devices in the building.
US09612590B2
A system and method includes a multiplexed motor controller for controlling multiple motors with a weight and volume penalty comparable to that of a single controller system and method by receiving a plurality of inputs indicating a status, prioritizing a plurality of sub-systems based on the status, multiplexing a plurality of operation commands in accordance with the prioritization, and generating a plurality of waveforms in accordance with the operation commands.
US09612581B1
A method and apparatus for conversion of a time interval to a digital word, the time interval being mapped to a difference of a length of a reference time and a length of a signal time. Reference time is generated from an instant when the beginning of the time interval is detected, and the signal time is generated from an instant when the end of the time interval is detected by the use the control module. The generation of the reference time and the signal time is terminated at the same instant. In the apparatus, bottom plates of capacitors of the set of capacitors are connected to a ground of the circuit, and top plates of these capacitors are connected, respectively, to moving contacts of change-over switches First, second, and third stationary contacts are connected to the signal rail, the ground of the circuit, and to the reference rail.
US09612579B2
Provided is an electronic clock which is capable of finely controlling a driving force of a normal driving pulse and suppresses variation in current consumption without an increase in circuit size. The electronic clock is configured so that while a chopped driving pulse is output and in an interval in which coil terminals have heretofore been short-circuited, a pulse is output (hereinafter referred to as adjustment pulse) for control from a terminal that is different from a terminal of a motor driver from which the normal driving pulse has been output. The output pattern of the adjustment pulse is changed with reference to a driving rank selecting circuit to increase or decrease a motor driving current and hence change the driving force.
US09612577B2
A timekeeping device including a first dial including a plurality of first dial display regions, each of the plurality of first dial display regions disposed at an angle of 90-degrees with respect to each adjacent first dial display region and a center of the first dial, a second dial disposed adjacent the first dial and configured to rotate in two directions about a central axis of rotation of the second dial, and a set of two adjacent third dials disposed adjacent the second dial, each dial of the set of two adjacent third dials configured to rotate about a respective central axis of rotation, the set of two adjacent third dials each comprising indicia representing at least one value configured to represent a date of a month.
US09612574B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, an output section, a sheet transport unit, an air blowing device, and an air exhaust device. The image forming section forms a toner image. The sheet transport unit transports in a region above the image forming section a sheet onto which the toner image has been fixed. A first channel causes air to pass from a downstream side to an upstream side in a sheet transport direction, the air blowing device applies an airflow by using the first channel, a second channel causes the air to pass from the downstream side to the upstream side in the sheet transport direction, and the air exhaust device exhausts the air by using the second channel.
US09612573B2
A method is disclosed. The method provides an assembly that comprises a first drum-cylinder having an inner periphery surface and a gear assembly, wherein a portion of the gear assembly is in contact with the inner periphery surface; and decouples the gear assembly from the first drum-cylinder by crushing at least a portion of the first drum-cylinder.
US09612558B1
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, an area coverage calculation section, and an image data rotating section. The image forming device forms a toner image in accordance with image data without setting margins at edges of a first recording medium. The area coverage calculation section calculates an area coverage of the image data for a certain region at each of the edges of the first recording medium. The image data rotating section rotates the image data by a certain angle, when the calculated area coverage at one of the edges is a certain value or more, so that the one of the edges is not on a leading edge side of the first recording medium in a transport direction.
US09612557B2
An image forming apparatus includes an all contact full color mode and an all contact monochrome mode. During an image forming job in which image forming is successively performed on a plurality of recording materials, in case that an image is formed using only the first image forming unit with the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit being in contact with the intermediate transfer member after an image has been formed using both of the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit, the controller determines whether the all contact full color mode or the all contact monochrome mode is performed based on an image forming speed to be performed or other criteria.
US09612556B2
A fixing device includes a heater to generate heat and a fixing rotator to rotate while contacting the heater. A pressure rotator presses against the heater via the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed. The heater includes an insulative substrate and a resistive heat generation layer mounted on the substrate. The resistive heat generation layer is disposed upstream from a center of the fixing nip in a recording medium conveyance direction.
US09612555B2
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator and an opposed rotator pressed against the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip therebetween. A primary heater is disposed opposite the fixing rotator in a circumferential span of the fixing rotator other than the fixing nip in a circumferential direction of the fixing rotator to heat the fixing rotator. A heat shield is interposed between the primary heater and the fixing rotator and disposed outboard from at least a decreased size recording medium conveyance span of the fixing rotator spanning in an axial direction of the fixing rotator where a recording medium having a decreased size in the axial direction of the fixing rotator is conveyed. The heat shield shields the fixing rotator from the primary heater. A secondary heater is mounted on the heat shield to heat the fixing rotator.
US09612552B2
A cartridge detachably attachable to an image forming apparatus which includes a main body, a driving unit and a detecting unit, includes: a housing that is configured to accommodate a developer therein, and includes a first side wall and a second side wall opposed to the first side wall in a longitudinal direction; a passive unit that is configured to receive a driving force from the driving unit, is mounted on the first side wall, and is rotatable around a first axis line parallel to the longitudinal direction; and a detected body mounted on the first side wall and including a detected part which is detected by the detecting unit. The detected body advances outwards in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first side wall and retracts inwards in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first side wall by the driving force received by the passive unit.
US09612551B2
Aspects described herein relate to a cap for a toner cartridge. In one example, the cap may be configured to close a toner supply opening of the toner cartridge. According to one or more aspects, the cap may include a sealing or covering portion configured to cover the toner supply opening and a shaft portion for rotatably supporting a to-be-detected rotary member. The to-be-detected rotary member 56 is rotatably supported around and fitted onto the shaft portion. Therefore, even if a toner supply opening of a cartridge is provided in a sidewall of the housing on a side where the to-be-detected rotary member is provided, e.g., a left sidewall, the toner supply opening and the to-be-detected rotary member can be provided in such a manner as to overlap each other.
US09612543B2
Toner for developing electrostatic images including core particles that contain a colorant, a binder resin, and a wax, and exhibiting low-temperature fixability, high-temperature anti-offset property, image durability, flowability, high-temperature preservability, and low particle emission rate.
US09612541B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for qualifying a photolithographic reticle. A reticle inspection tool is used to acquire at least two images at different imaging configurations from each pattern area of the reticle. A reticle pattern is reconstructed based on each at least two images from each pattern area of the reticle. For each reconstructed reticle pattern, a lithographic process with two or more different process conditions is modeled on such reconstructed reticle pattern to generate two or more corresponding modeled test wafer patterns. Each two or more modelled test wafer patterns is analyzed to identify hot spot patterns of the reticle patterns that are susceptible to the different process conditions altering wafer patterns formed with such hot spot patterns.
US09612539B2
Positional information of a stage within a movement plane is measured, using three encoders which include at least one each of an X encoder and a Y encoder. Based on position measurement values of the stage, the encoder used in position measurement is switched from an encoder (Enc1, Enc2 and Enc3) to an encoder (Enc4, Enc2 and Enc3). On the switching, a coordinate linkage method or a phase linkage method is applied to set an initial value of an encoder (Enc4) which is to be newly used. Accordingly, position measurement values of the stage before and after the switching are stored even though the encoder used in position measurement of the stage is sequentially switched, and the stage can be driven accurately two-dimensionally.
US09612535B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a pattern forming method comprising, in this order: (1) forming a film by using an electron beam- or extreme ultraviolet-sensitive resin composition containing, in a specific amount, a resin (Aa) having a specific atom or substituent; (2) exposing the film by using an electron beam or extreme ultraviolet ray; and (3) forming a negative pattern by performing development using a developer including an organic solvent after the exposure.
US09612532B2
Provided is a photosensitive coloring composition of the present invention including a polymerization initiator (a) with an absorption coefficient at 365 nm in methanol of 1.0×103 mL/gcm or more, a polymerization initiator (b) with an absorption coefficient at 365 nm in methanol of 1.0×102 mL/gcm or less and an absorption coefficient at 254 nm in methanol of 1.0×103 mL/gcm or more, a compound (c) which has an unsaturated double bond, an alkali-soluble resin (d), and a coloring material (e), in which, in the total solid content of the photosensitive coloring composition, the content of the polymerization initiator (a) is 1.5 mass % to 10 mass % and the content of the polymerization initiator (b) is 1.5 mass % to 7.5 mass %.
US09612529B2
A pellicle is proposed in which the frame is formed with an external horizontal slit for the purpose of receiving a pressing means, which can urge the pellicle to be adhered to a photomask, in which the slit forms a vertically protruding part of a thickness of 5-30% of the width of a pellicle frame main body and a horizontally protruding part of a thickness of 0.3-1 mm; also the method of adhering the pellicle to the photomask is proposed.
US09612525B2
Titania-doped quartz glass is manufactured by mixing a silicon-providing reactant gas and a titanium-providing reactant gas, preheating the reactant gas mixture at 200-400° C., and subjecting the mixture to oxidation or flame hydrolysis. A substrate of the glass is free of concave defects having a volume of at least 30,000 nm3 in an effective region of the EUV light-reflecting surface and is suited for use in the EUV lithography.
US09612521B2
An integrated extreme ultraviolet blank production system includes: a vacuum chamber for placing a substrate in a vacuum; a deposition system for depositing a multi-layer stack without removing the substrate from the vacuum; and a treatment system for treating a layer on the multi-layer stack to be deposited as an amorphous metallic layer. A physical vapor deposition chamber for manufacturing an extreme ultraviolet mask blank includes: a target, comprising molybdenum alloyed with boron. An extreme ultraviolet lithography system includes: an extreme ultraviolet light source; a mirror for directing light from the extreme ultraviolet light source; a reticle stage for placing an extreme ultraviolet mask blank with a multi-layer stack having an amorphous metallic layer; and a wafer stage for placing a wafer. An extreme ultraviolet blank includes: a substrate; a multi-layer stack having an amorphous metallic layer; and capping layers over the multi-layer stack.
US09612519B2
Method and system for organising image recordings of takes recorded by an image recorder and sound recordings of the takes recorded by a sound recorder are provided. Each of the image recordings comprises a visual information code (VIC). Each of the sound recordings comprises an audible information code (AIC). The method comprises the steps of: searching through the digital image recordings for the visual information codes (VIC) and decoding it to acquire identification code (IC), searching through the digital sound recordings for the audible information codes (AIC) and decoding it to acquire identification code (IC), and organising sets of image recordings and sound recordings based on their identification codes (IC).
US09612509B2
Provided is a vibrating body mounting structure capable of reducing vibrations generated from a plurality of vibrating bodies. Vibrating body mounting structure (48) includes base member (40), a plurality of retaining members (39, 45), and connecting damper (49). The retaining members include first portions (39a, 45a) secured to the base member, and second portions (39b, 45b) adjacent to the first portions and retaining vibrating bodies (24, 25). The connecting damper connects second portion (39b) of one retaining member (39) of the plurality of retaining members to second portion (45b) of the other retaining member (45) of the plurality of retaining members.
US09612506B1
This invention provides a camera support comprising an arm; a camera mount connected to the arm; a mount configured for attachment to a first supportive base (‘first base mount’), wherein the arm is pivotally connected to the first base mount; a mount configured for attachment to a second supportive base (‘second base mount’); and an arm coupler configured for releasably connecting the arm from the second base mount. Optionally, the first and second base mounts comprise straps, e.g. for mounting to a user's limb such as a forearm. Exemplary embodiments allow the arm to swing smoothly in a downward motion directly into the palm of the user's hand.
US09612495B2
An array substrate and a display device are provided. A common electrode line with the same extending direction as a gate line is disposed at one end near a thin film transistor, and forms a storage capacitor with a drain electrode of the thin film transistor. As compared with the case in the prior art that a common electrode line and a thin film transistor in an array substrate are disposed at both ends of a pixel, respectively, and it is necessary to separately provide a storage capacitance electrode useful for forming a storage capacitor with the common electrode line, the pixel region occupied by the thin film transistor and the common electrode line can be effectively decreased. Thus, the aperture ratio is increased, and the display brightness of an IPS liquid crystal display device is enhanced.
US09612492B2
A display may have a thin-film transistor layer and color filter layer. The display may have an active area and an inactive border area. Light blocking structures in the inactive area may prevent stray backlight from a backlight light guide plate from leaking out of the display. The thin-film transistor layer may have a clear substrate, a patterned black masking layer on the clear substrate, a clear planarization layer on the black masking layer, and a layer of thin-film transistor circuitry on the clear planarization layer. The black masking layer may be formed from black photoimageable polyimide. The clear planarization layer may be formed from spin-on glass. The light blocking structures may include a first layer formed from a portion of the black masking layer and a second layer such as a layer of black tape on the underside of the color filter layer.
US09612483B2
A display panel, a display device and a manufacturing method of the display panel are disclosed. The display panel includes: an array substrate and a counter substrate disposed in opposition to each other, and a sealant adhered between the array substrate and the counter substrate; in a peripheral region of the array substrate positioned in opposition to the sealant, there are provided a plurality of thin film transistors, a surface of each of the thin film transistors is covered with a block-like insulating film, and there is depressed region between adjacent block-like insulating films; at the location of the counter substrate corresponding to the depressed region, there is provided a protruding structure. By adopting the scheme, adhesive areas between the sealant and the array substrate and the counter substrate each are greatly increased. Therefore, the adhesion force of the sealant is effectively raised, and the product quality of the display device is promoted.
US09612482B2
The present invention provides a substrate fitting process and a substrate assembly to be fitted, wherein the substrate assembly to be fitted of the present invention, a periphery mold frame is disposed on a surface of a substrate, a cell mold frame is disposed inside said periphery mold frame, the height of said cell mold frame is larger than the height of said periphery mold frame. A substrate fitting process of the present invention comprises: providing a cell mold frame on a surface of a first substrate, providing a cell mold frame inside the periphery mold frame for sealing liquid crystal, the height of said cell mold frame is larger than the height of the periphery mold frame; extracting the air between the first substrate and the second substrate; making the first substrate fit with the second substrate preliminarily; filling the air between the first substrate and the second substrate; making the first substrate further fit with the second substrate. With the technical solution of the present invention, the puncture caused by the impact of the in-cell liquid crystal onto the cell mold frame is prevented, and the time and the costs of the process is decreased, meanwhile the probability of the circuit metal wire and the component switch on the liquid crystal panel suffering corrode of the thinning acid is decreased.
US09612481B2
A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. In the present disclosure, an alignment film layer is formed on the display substrate and a shield by placing the shield on the display substrate and using the shield as a barrier, wherein, an enclosed region is enclosed by the shield, a inner edge of the shield is located between the display region and a sealant region of the display substrate, and an outer edge of a non-display region of the display substrate is located within a region where the shield is located. Then the shield is peeled off and an aligning process is performed to form an alignment layer.
US09612475B2
The front light module includes a light guide plate, a light source, a first light transmissive substrate, a second light transmissive substrate, and a printing ink layer. The light guide plate has a first light emitting surface, a second light emitting surface, and a light incident surface. The light source faces the light incident surface. The first light transmissive substrate is located on the first light emitting surface. The second light transmissive substrate is located on the surface of the first light transmissive substrate facing away from the light guide plate, and the thickness of the second light transmissive substrate is smaller than that of the first light transmissive substrate. The printing ink layer is located on the surface of the second light transmissive substrate facing the first light transmissive substrate, and on an edge of the second light transmissive substrate.
US09612472B2
Embodiments of the invention disclose a color filter substrate comprising: an underlying substrate; a semi-transparent and semi-reflecting layer formed on the underlying substrate; and a black matrix and a color filter layer formed on the semi-transparent and semi-reflecting layer. The black matrix and the color filter layer are formed on a side of the semi-transparent and semi-reflecting layer opposite from the underlying substrate. Other embodiments of the invention further disclose a method for manufacturing the color filter substrate, and a display device comprising the color filter substrate.
US09612468B1
A display apparatus including a display device, a first prism and a second prism is provided. A part of a light beam from a display area of the display device that is covered by a first light entering surface of the first prism penetrates the first light entering surface and is sequentially refracted by a reflective refractive surface of the first prism to above the display area. Another part of the light beam from the display area that is covered by the first light entering surface penetrates the first light entering surface, is reflected by the reflective refractive surface, penetrates a first light exiting surface of the first prism, a gap, a second light entering surface of the second prism and a second light exiting surface of the second prism sequentially, and is transmitted to above a frame area of the display device.
US09612466B2
A display apparatus includes a frame that holds a display module. The display module includes a protective member located on a display surface side of a display panel. The frame has a plane surface opposed to a periphery of the protective member and a side surface opposed to a side surface of the display module. The plane surface of the frame is fixed to the periphery of the protective member through a joining member. The display apparatus has a fixing structure to fix the side surface of the frame to the side surface of the display module.
US09612465B2
The present invention provides a source driving circuit and an LCD device. The source driving circuit includes output channels, and each output channel includes a first switch element, a second switch element, a first output end, and a second output end. The first switch element and the second switch element are respectively connected to the first output end and the second output end. When the first switch element is turned on, the output channel outputs a display signal, and when the second switch element is turned on, the output channel provides recycled charges which are generated when the display signal is changed from a positive voltage to a negative voltage. The source driving circuit can recycle charges to make the most of charges generated when the display signals change from positive voltages to negative voltages and reduce power consumption of the LCD device.
US09612463B2
A display device with a liquid crystal display and a method for protecting the liquid crystal display are provided. The display device includes a liquid crystal display for displaying an image, a sensor system for detecting the illuminance of an incident optical radiation and for determining the current position of the Sun relative to the liquid crystal display, an adjustable shading device for protecting the liquid crystal display from the incident optical radiation, and a control unit. The control unit checks if the illuminance detected by the sensor system exceeds a predefined threshold value and if the current position of the Sun is in a predefined angle range, and controls the shading device according to a result of the check such that the shading device interrupts a beam path of a part of the optical radiation incident on the liquid crystal display.
US09612456B1
An ophthalmic lens having an electronic system as described herein for providing an alarm to the wearer of the ophthalmic lens. In at least one embodiment, the system includes a lens, a timing circuit, a communications system, an alert mechanism and a system controller. In at least one embodiment, the lens provides an escalation of alarms to the wearer and/or responds to the wearer's input regarding the alarm.
US09612444B2
A display apparatus includes a main panel which displays video, a sub panel which projects and provides the video displayed on the main panel by including a first lens array and a second lens array facing the first lens array so as to share a focus with the first lens array, a hinge which connects the sub panel and the main panel in a manner in which the sub panel is displaceable from the main panel according to user manipulation, a sensor which senses angles formed by the main panel and the sub panel, and a controller which controls so that the video is adjusted based on the sensed angles and displayed on the main panel.
US09612443B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes a display part having pixels and a color filter; and a barrier part in which unit areas arranged above the display part, arranged in rows in a first direction, and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The barrier part includes a barrier substrate that has barrier electrodes arranged for each unit area and extending in the second direction, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and spacers arranged between the barrier substrate and the counter substrate. Each of the spacers is arranged between one barrier electrode out of the barrier electrodes and the other barrier electrode adjacent to the one barrier electrode, and overlaps with a filter of a color different from a color of a filter of the color filter that overlaps with a spacer adjacent to the spacer in the second direction.
US09612437B1
An optical lens module includes a lens assembly and a plastic barrel. The lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements and is disposed in the plastic barrel. The plastic barrel includes an object-end portion, an image-end portion, an outer tube portion, an inner tube portion and at least one reflection reduction area. The image-end portion includes an image-end opening. The inner tube portion includes a plurality of parallel inner surfaces and a plurality of inclined inner surfaces, wherein the parallel inner surfaces are parallel to the central axis, and each of the inclined inner surfaces has an angle with the central axis. The reflection reduction area is disposed on one of the inclined inner surfaces closest to the image-end opening, wherein the reflection reduction area and the plastic barrel are integrally formed by an injection molding method.
US09612435B2
An optical scanning device includes an optical fiber, a holding member cantilevering the optical fiber, a first driving device placed on the distal end of the optical fiber and making the optical fiber vibrate in a first direction, and a second driving device placed between the holding member for the optical fiber and the first driving device and making the optical fiber vibrate in a second direction which crosses the first direction.
US09612431B2
An electrowetting display includes first and second substrates facing each other, an electrowetting layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a hydrophobic barrier layer. The electrowetting layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and includes a first fluid and a second fluid, and the first fluid has an electrical conductivity or a polarity. The first electrode is disposed on the first substrate, and the second electrode forms an electric field in cooperation with the first electrode to control a position of the first fluid. The hydrophobic barrier layer is disposed between the first substrate and the electrowetting layer to cover the first electrode and includes a first surface making contact with the first electrode and a second surface having a hydrophobicity stronger than a hydrophobicity of the first surface and making contact with the electrowetting layer.
US09612426B2
An imaging lens consists of a front group having positive refractive power as a whole and a rear group in this order from an object side. The front group consists of three positive lenses, a negative lens with its concave surface facing an image side, a positive lens with its convex surface facing the object side, a negative lens with its concave surface facing the image side, a stop, a negative lens with its concave surface facing the object side and plural positive lenses in this order from the object side. The rear group has positive refractive power and consists of a positive lens and a negative lens in this order from the object side.
US09612414B2
This disclosure generally relates to devices and methods involving optoelectronic subassemblies. In some aspects, the disclosed devices and methods may relate to a multi-channel optoelectronic subassembly including a multi-channel header subassembly with a plurality of optoelectronic transducers on a substrate, a housing defining a housing cavity and including an optically transmissive portion, a ferrule assembly retaining optical fibers and an alignment sleeve with a sleeve cavity sized and shaped to receive the ferrule assembly. At least one of the optoelectronic transducers may be configured to transmit and/or receive optical signals corresponding to one channel.
US09612412B2
A beam combining device comprising at least one beam splitter and phase adjustment circuitry. The at least one beam splitter comprises a semi-reflective surface, first and second inputs, and first and second outputs operatively connected to receive first and second light beams. The semi-reflective surface has first and second sides positioned such that light entering from one input is partially reflected through one output and partially transmitted through another output. The phase adjustment circuitry adjusts the relative phases of the first and second light beams so that light transmitted through the semi reflective surface from one input may be adjusted to have a phase which can cancels or constructively adds to light reflected from another input. Light having a combined power of the light beams, or a fraction thereof, may be selectively emitted through a selective output depending upon the adjustment of phases. Also, a method of operation is claimed.
US09612403B2
A waveguide apparatus includes a planar waveguide and at least one optical diffraction element (DOE) that provides a plurality of optical paths between an exterior and interior of the planar waveguide. A phase profile of the DOE may combine a linear diffraction grating with a circular lens, to shape a wave front and produce beams with desired focus. Waveguide apparati may be assembled to create multiple focal planes. The DOE may have a low diffraction efficiency, and planar waveguides may be transparent when viewed normally, allowing passage of light from an ambient environment (e.g., real world) useful in AR systems. Light may be returned for temporally sequentially passes through the planar waveguide. The DOE(s) may be fixed or may have dynamically adjustable characteristics. An optical coupler system may couple images to the waveguide apparatus from a projector, for instance a biaxially scanning cantilevered optical fiber tip.
US09612399B2
Optical fiber combiner includes a plurality of input optical fibers having a core and a cladding surrounding the core, a bridge fiber having a portion that transmits a light beam entered from each of the input optical fibers, and a glass member fusion-spliced to an end face of the cladding and to a first end face of the bridge fiber. The end portions of the claddings of the plurality of input optical fibers are bundled on at least a first end face side, with the adjacent side surfaces of the claddings being in contact with each other. The glass member has an outer diameter greater than the diameter of the core and smaller than the outer diameter of the cladding. The adjacent glass members are in a non-fusion-spliced state.
US09612398B2
Ultra-broadband photonic integrated circuit platform and ultra-broadband photonic integrated circuit
An ultra-broadband photonic integrated circuit platform that combines at least two types of waveguides that each transmit in different, but overlapping, spectral bands on a single chip. By combining the multiple waveguides, the bandwidth of the platform can be extended beyond the bandwidth of either waveguide alone. In an exemplary embodiment, an ultra-broadband photonic integrated circuit includes a nitride-on-insulator (NOI) waveguide configured to transmit optical beams in a first spectral band and a silicon-on-nitride-on-insulator (SONOI) waveguide configured to transmit optical beams in a second band, where the same material serves as the core material in the NOI waveguide and as the cladding material in the SONOI waveguide. In some embodiments, light-emitting devices are bonded to an upper surface of the waveguides. In some embodiments, the circuit includes beam-combining elements so that a single beam combining all of the input wavelengths is output from the circuit.
US09612389B2
A display device includes a casing, a display panel, a backlight module and a light guide component. The display panel is disposed in the casing. The backlight module is disposed in the casing and includes a light guide plate and a light source. The light guide plate has a light emitting surface and at least one side surface. The light source is adapted to provide a light beam to the light guide plate. A part of the light beam is illuminated toward the display panel from the light emitting surface. The light guide component is disposed in the casing and has a light incident end and a light emitting end. Another part of the light beam is illuminated toward the light incident end from the side surface, and is illuminated out of the casing from the light emitting end after being transmitted in the light guide component.
US09612385B2
A method includes having test plate and light source, the test plate having matrix of first pattern-dots and equally divided into blocks. Intersecting surfaces between the first pattern-dots and the first bottom surface have the same radius rx. Detecting a luminous flux ΦX of each block and a total luminous flux Φt of the test plate when light source is activated; calculating an average luminous flux Φave; calculating the radius rx1 of the first pattern-dots in each block assuming that an actual luminous flux of each block is equal to the average luminous flux according to the formula rx1=rx×sqrt (Φave/ΦX). Providing a substrate having the same structure as the base and the substrate being divided into blocks according to the same principle as the test plate. Forming second pattern-dots having the same arrangements as the first pattern-dots and having radius of rx1 in each block.
US09612383B2
A light guide plate includes a main body and trapezoid-like structures. The main body includes a light-incident surface, a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. The trapezoid-like structures are disposed on at least one of the first main surface and the second main surface. The trapezoid-like structures extend along a direction from one side of the main body near the light-incident surface to the other side of the main body away from the light-incident surface. Each of the trapezoid-like structures has a width gradually increasing from one end of the trapezoid-like structure near the light-incident surface to the other end of the trapezoid-like structure away from the light-incident surface. Each of the trapezoid-like structures comprises a flat surface and two side surfaces, and the side surfaces are respectively connected to two sides of the flat surface.
US09612382B2
The present invention provides a light guide plate and a backlight module using the light guide plate. The light guide plate has an upper surface forming upper micro-structures and a lower surface forming lower micro-structures. The upper and lower micro-structures are set parallel to propagation direction of the light that emits from a backlight source traveling within the light guide plate. The upper and lower micro-structures each include a plurality of periodically and successively juxtaposed strip-like units. Each of the strip-like units forms a prism. The strip-like units of the upper and lower micro-structures are juxtaposed in the same direction. With the combination and arrangement of the upper micro-structures and lower micro-structures, collimation of light is improved after the light from an LED light source enters the light guide plate so as to improve convergence of the light inside a section.
US09612377B2
A polarizer includes a polarizer component having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. The bottom surface is configured to couple to a color filter layer for a liquid crystal display. The polarizer also includes a transparent conducting layer disposed over the top surface. The transparent conducting layer being configured to electrically shield the LCD from a touch panel. The polarizer further includes a coating layer disposed over the transparent conducting layer.
US09612375B2
This invention relates to an optical element for the purpose of identification and/or prevention of forgery or copying, including at least one layer with anisotropic optical properties, wherein the anisotropic optical properties are patterned, characterized in that the pattern represents biometric information. In addition, this invention relates to a method for the preparation of an optical element for the purpose of identification and/or prevention of forgery or copying.
US09612362B2
Provided herein are an optical zoom lens capable of actively zooming in and/or out and an apparatus using the same. The optical zoom lens may include an electro-active polymer layer configured to be deformable in response to an electric signal; a lens structure formed over the electro-active polymer layer; a first electrode formed on an upper surface of the electro-active polymer layer; a second electrode formed on a lower surface of the electro-active polymer layer; and a control circuit unit configured to apply a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. The optical zoom lens, having a structure of a combination of the polymer lens structure and the electro-active polymer actuator, is able to embody active variation in position of the polymer lens structure body and control therefor using deformation of the electro-active polymer layer by an electric signal.
US09612358B2
A safety laser scanner for securing the surroundings of at least one object has a first safety laser scanner with which a first defined reference target is associated and a second safety laser scanner with which a second defined reference target is associated. Each safety laser scanner includes: a light transmitter; a light deflection unit for a periodic deflection of the light into a scanning plane; a receiver for providing received signals in dependence on light remitted at articles present in the field of vision of the scanner; and an evaluation unit for evaluating the received signals with respect to the angle and the distance of the article and for providing a safety signal. Furthermore, the scanning planes of both scanners are aligned in a coplanar manner and the first scanner forms the second reference target and the second scanner forms the first reference target.
US09612355B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods of sensing and/or mapping a subterranean reservoir. In various embodiments, arrangements of electromagnetic sensors are disposed relative to a subterranean reservoir such that a signal received by electromagnetic sensors of one arrangement, in response to activation of an electromagnetic transmitter, can be analyzed to map the subterranean reservoir. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09612351B2
A system and method for attenuating noise in seismic data representative of a subsurface region of interest including receiving the seismic data; transforming the seismic data into a domain wherein the seismic data have a sparse or compressible representation to create transformed seismic data; dividing the domain into windows wherein the windows represent known spatio-temporal locations in the seismic data; determining statistics of the transformed seismic data in each window; determining a filter for each window based on the statistics of the transformed data; applying the filter for each window to the transformed seismic data in each window to create filtered seismic data; and performing an inverse transform of the filtered seismic data to create noise-attenuated seismic data.
US09612347B2
Marine vibrators and methods of use are disclosed. A marine vibrator may comprise a containment housing, where the containment housing comprises a marine vibrator internal volume, wherein the marine vibrator internal volume comprises a first gas at a first gas pressure. The marine vibrator may further comprise a sound radiating surface. The marine vibrator may additionally comprise a compliance chamber in contact with the first gas, wherein the compliance chamber comprises a chamber housing and a moveable structure, wherein at least the chamber housing and the moveable structure form a compliance chamber internal volume which holds a second gas at a second gas pressure, wherein the moveable structure is configured to move in response to a change in the first gas pressure, and wherein the compliance chamber is configured to condense the second gas in response to compression of the marine vibrator internal volume by the moveable structure.
US09612343B1
Disclosed herein is a method and mobile station that improves upon a mobile station's ability to determine its location. By a mobile station considering its extent of turning and/or its travel speed, the mobile station may set an operational mode such that the mobile station uses an appropriate location determining mechanism. In the event that the mobile station is turning at a fast rate and/or traveling at a slow speed, a reasonable conclusion is that the mobile station is in a congested environment, and therefore a first operational mode may be set. In the event that the mobile station is turning at a slow rate and/or traveling at fast speed, a reasonable conclusion is that the mobile station is in an open environment, and therefore a second operational mode may be set.
US09612339B2
A GNSS receiver configured to detect a presence of at least one GNSS satellite signal in a received signal is provided. The GNSS receiver includes a buffer loaded with sample sets corresponding to the received signal and a Doppler derotation block configured to perform a Doppler derotation corresponding to at least one Doppler frequency on a sample set received from the buffer. The GNSS receiver further includes an accumulator block configured to perform a coherent accumulation of a plurality of sample sets upon or subsequent to the Doppler derotation corresponding to a Doppler frequency, and, a first memory configured to store the results of the coherent accumulation. A register array is configured to be loaded with the results stored in the first memory and a correlator engine is configured to generate correlation results by correlating the results in the register array with a plurality of code phases of GNSS satellites.
US09612338B2
A method of acquiring a satellite signal in a GNSS receiver includes multiplying a received signal with a hypothesized doppler frequency signal to generate a frequency shifted signal. A PN code sequence signal is multiplied with the frequency shifted signal to generate a PN wiped signal. A windowing function signal is multiplied with the PN wiped signal to generate a windowed signal. The windowed signal is integrated coherently for a first predefined time to generate a coherent accumulated data.
US09612334B2
A method for correcting for time delay variations between a plurality of signal paths from a signal source to at least one transmit antenna of a satellite may include measuring a time delay for each of the plurality of signal paths. The method may also include correcting a signal for the time delay variation based on the time delay for the signal path that is currently being used by the satellite, the corrected signal being usable for at least one of navigation, determining a geographic location and determining time.
US09612333B2
A system for sharing data between aircraft including a GPS unit for establishing a first aircraft's location and altitude from a network of global satellites and an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) unit broadcasting a first aircraft's identification as well as it's location and altitude. The system also includes a mechanism for measuring the wind speed and turbulence at the location of the first aircraft and for broadcasting that information to other aircraft in the area. A second aircraft as well as other aircraft also include an ADS-B receiver for receiving such information.
US09612325B2
Systems and methods for performing distance and velocity measurements, such as by using carrier signals, are disclosed. A measurement method may include transmitting a first signal from an originator device to a transponder device and determining a carrier phase of the first signal at the transponder device. The measurement method may also include transmitting a second signal from the transponder device to the originator device and determining a carrier phase of the second signal at the originator device. The measurement method may include estimating a relative distance between the originator device and the transponder device using the carrier phase of the first carrier signal, the carrier phase of the second carrier signal. The method may also include estimating the relative distance using a frequency difference. The method may include using an adjusted relative distance to determine a total distance between the originator device and the transponder device.
US09612324B2
A transmission sequence generated by a first sector radar is a sequence obtained by multiplying a predetermined code sequence by a first orthogonalized code, and a transmission sequence generated by a second sector radar is a sequence obtained by multiplying a predetermined code sequence by a second orthogonalized code. A value obtained by multiplication of the ith element of the first orthogonalized code and the ith element of the second orthogonalized code is equal to the ith element of a fundamental sequence VV_2n having a length of 2n (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1). The fundamental sequence VV_2n includes a sub fundamental sequence VV_2(n−1) having a length of n and satisfies VV_2n={VV_2(n−1), −VV_2(n−1)} or {−VV_2(n−1), VV_2(n−1)}.
US09612323B2
On a radar apparatus, a direction derivation part derives a peak angle related to an angle of a target based on reception signals received by a plurality of reception antennas. Then, a detection information derivation part derives, based on the peak angle, target data that are internal data about the target, and stores the derived target data into a memory. A reliability determination part determines a reliability of an object peak angle upon which the target data about the target was derived, the reliability of the object peak angle being determined based on a different peak angle derived concurrently with the object peak angle by the direction derivation part. Then, a data erasure part deletes, based on the reliability of the object peak angle determined by the reliability determination part, the target data relevant to the object peak angle from the memory to exclude the target data from further processing.
US09612319B2
The invention provides a laser surveying device, which comprises a light emitting unit for emitting a pulsed distance measuring light, a photodetection unit for receiving a reflected pulsed distance measuring light and a control arithmetic unit for controlling the light emitting unit and for calculating a distance to an object to be measured based on a photodetection signal from the photodetection unit, wherein the light emitting unit has a pump laser source for emitting a pump laser beam, a spot diameter changing means for changing a spot diameter of the pump laser beam, and an optical cavity for emitting the pump laser beam entering via the spot diameter changing means as the pulsed distance measuring light.
US09612317B2
An example method for a beamforming network for feeding short wall slotted waveguide arrays. The beamforming network may include six beamforming network outputs, where each beamforming network output is coupled to one of a set of waveguide inputs. Further, the beamforming network may include a cascaded set of dividers configured to split electromagnetic energy from a beamforming network input to the six phase-adjustment sections. The cascade may include a first level of the cascade configured to split the electromagnetic energy from the beamforming network input into two first-level beamforming waveguides, a second level configured to split the electromagnetic energy from each of two first-level beamforming waveguides into two respective second-level beamforming waveguides, and a third level of the cascade configured to split the electromagnetic energy from one of two respective second-level beamforming waveguides into two respective third-level beamforming waveguides.
US09612314B2
The present invention discloses a system for guiding the position and the method thereof, which belongs to the technical field of position navigation, wherein it comprises a position capturing device and a treatment device. The position capturing device is connected to the treatment device, which comprises a positioning component, an angular speed detection component and a direction detection component. The treatment device is connected to the display screen of the mobile terminal. The method comprises capturing the current position and the preconfigured target position of the mobile terminal by the said system; and the treatment device acquires the route between the current position and the target position by processing the preconfigured map data. The advantageous effects of the above technical scheme are that as follows: adopting the system for guiding the position and the method thereof makes the navigation more accurately and satisfies the demand of the user.
US09612313B2
A system obtains information on positions stored for a communication node and criteria that are met by the node. The system selects a-priori information on a coverage area size that is stored for nodes meeting the criteria. Different a-priori information is stored for nodes meeting different criteria. The system estimates a value of at least one parameter representing a coverage area of the node based on the information on the positions and the selected a-priori information. The value of the at least one parameter is stored. For generating the a-priori information, the system may extract from a memory information indicating a size of a coverage area for each of a plurality of communication nodes, compute a statistical value based on information indicating a size of a coverage area that is extracted for a plurality of nodes meeting the same criteria, and provide the computed statistical value as a-priori information.
US09612308B2
Instrumentation and methodologies are provided that enable the direct measurement of free radicals generated in patients as a result of radiation therapy through the use of proton beams and other forms of ionizing radiation. As a result, in accordance with at least one disclosed embodiment, the instrumentation and methodologies may be used in conjunction with radiation therapy to detect, monitor and/or control generation of free radicals in cancerous tissue during such radiation therapy.
US09612306B2
A method for producing a biomarker indicative of a repetitive head injury in a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. Two-dimensional spectroscopic data is acquired from a subject using an MRI system. From the two-dimensional spectroscopic data, a two-dimensional spectrum is produced. The two-dimensional spectrum contains spectral information indicated by a first spectral dimension and a second spectral dimension. Such a two-dimensional spectrum may include diagonal peaks and off-diagonal, or cross-peaks. In such an instance, each cross peak may indicate, for example, scalar coupling between the two protons it connects on the diagonal. However, depending on the type of method used, different types of coupling may also be present. Using the two-dimensional spectrum, a biomarker indicative of repetitive head injury in the subject is identified, and may be used to produce a report indicating a status or regression of a neurological dysfunction.
US09612299B2
Ferromagnetic Group III-V semiconductor/non-magnetic Group III-V semiconductor heterojunctions, with a magnetodiode device, to detect heterojunction magnetoresistance responsive to an applied magnetic field.
US09612296B2
This disclosure provides methods and apparatus for wireless power field testing. A method for generating testing the interoperability of a wireless power transmitter with one or more wireless power receivers is provided. The method includes generating a magnetic field via a transmit antenna. The method further includes measuring a first uniformity of the magnetic field at all the locations within the magnetic field on a charging surface of the wireless power transmitter. The method also includes determining that the measure first uniformity of the magnetic field is within a range of values at all locations on the charging surface of the wireless power transmitter. In some implementations, the method further includes applying a load to the magnetic field, measuring a second uniformity of the magnetic field while the load is applied, and determining if the first uniformity of the magnetic field is substantially similar to the second uniformity.
US09612293B1
A novel method for real-time small-signal stability analysis for power electronic-based components in a power system. The method may be used to monitor a power system in real-time by perturbing the source side of an electronic-based component of the power system of about 0.5 to 1 percent of a nominal current of the power system at the source side, and perturbing the load side of the power electronic-based component by varying the voltage at the load side. Time-domain results of the simultaneous perturbations may be transferred to frequency-domain results and the stability of the power system may be monitored by obtaining a Nyquist contour and employing Generalized Nyquist Criterion.
US09612282B2
The disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses to devices to select the device TAP for access. Further, the disclosure provides a novel method and apparatus for inputting addresses for selecting device TAPs and for inputting commands for commanding circuitry within the device. The inputting of addresses or the inputting of addresses and commands is initiated by a control bit input on TDI that is recognized during the Run Test/Idle, Pause-DR or Pause-IR TAP states.
US09612267B2
An AC arc fault detection module includes a current detecting section having at least one output and being structured to determine whether at least one signal based on a current measured from an AC phase line exceeds at least one corresponding predetermined threshold level and cause the at least one output to indicate that the threshold has been exceeded. The module also includes a processing device structured to: (i) receive the at least one output, (ii) determine whether an arc fault in the AC electrical system has occurred based on at least the at least one output, (iii) determine an estimation of background noise based on at least one signal indicative of a current on the AC phase line, and (iv) adjust the at least one corresponding predetermined threshold level based on the estimation of background noise.
US09612266B2
A capacity measuring circuit includes a measuring voltage source configured to feed a sinusoidal voltage signal to a first terminal of a capacity to be measured so as to cause a temporal change in a charge stored on the capacity to be measured. The capacity measuring circuit additionally includes a delta-sigma modulator. The delta-sigma modulator is configured to receive a charge from a second terminal of the capacity to be measured and to provide a digital output signal which is dependent on a quantity of the charge received from the capacity to be measured. The capacity measuring circuit may be employed in a sensor system.
US09612264B2
The invention relates to an unmanned aerial device for performing a resistance, current and/or voltage measurement at an object, in particular a lightning protection measurement at a wind turbine, comprising a contact element with an electrically conductive contact area, which can be brought into contact with a surface of the object, in particular with a lightning protection receptor of a rotor blade, of a nacelle or of a tower of a wind turbine, and comprising an electrically conductive measurement cable, which, with a first end, is connected in an electrically conductive manner to the contact area, and, with a second end, can be connected to a resistance, current and/or voltage measuring device and/or a grounding contact of the object.
US09612258B2
The disclosed technology relates generally to probe configurations, and more particularly to probe configurations and methods of making probe configurations that have a diamond body and a diamond layer covering at least an apex region of the diamond body. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a probe configuration includes forming a probe tip. Forming the probe tip includes providing a substrate and forming a recessed mold into the substrate on a first side of the substrate, wherein the recessed mold is shaped to form a probe body having an apex region. Forming the probe tip additionally includes forming a first diamond layer on the substrate on the first side, wherein forming the first diamond layer includes at least partially filling the recessed mold with the first diamond layer such that a probe body having an apex region is formed in the recessed mold. Forming the probe tip additionally includes patterning to remove at least partially the first diamond layer which surrounds the probe body, removing a substrate material surrounding at least the apex region of the probe body, and forming a second diamond layer covering at least the apex region of the probe body. The method additionally includes attaching the probe tip to a first end of a cantilever and attaching the second end of the cantilever to a holder.
US09612250B2
The present invention relates to method for the direct detection and/or quantification of at least one compound with a molecular weight of at least 200, wherein the compound to be detected and/or quantified is a chemically complex molecule, wherein said chemically complex molecule is substituted with at least two groups —R, wherein each R group means independently —OH, —OP(O)(OH)2 or —P(O)(OH)2, with the proviso that at least two R are independently selected from —P(O)(OH)2 and —OP(O)(OH)2, wherein the compound or compounds to be detected and/or quantified are within a biological matrix, wherein said biological matrix is a biological fluid, a biological tissue, stomach contents, intestine contents, stool sample or a culture cells, wherein the method comprises performing a chromatography and identifying the retention time and/or the intensity of the signal by means of a mass or radioactivity detector.
US09612247B2
Provided are methods for measuring the inherent stability of intrachain disulphide-containing domains (e.g., antibody variable domains) and for optimizing the positioning of intrachain disulphide-containing domains within a protein (e.g., a multispecific binding protein, e.g., a DVD-Ig). Also provided are methods of making multispecific binding proteins (e.g., DVD-Ig molecules) comprising two or more antibody variable domains in which the antibody variable domains are optimally positioned within the multispecific binding proteins to enhance stability of the multispecific binding protein. Multispecific binding proteins optimized using the methods disclosed herein are also provided.
US09612246B2
Disclosed herein are methods for large-scale, high-throughput identification of protein-protein interactions and the topologies thereof under physiologically relevant conditions. In one aspect, the disclosure provides methods for identifying one or a plurality of interacting peptides within a biological system comprising obtaining a population of proteins cross-linked with a cleavable protein interaction reporter (PIR) cross-linker, cleaving the PIR crosslinker to produce released peptides and cleaved reporter ions, and analyzing the population of released peptides to identify interacting peptides. Also disclosed are methods for identifying candidate drug compounds, as well as methods of data processing and visualization of protein-protein interactions.
US09612244B2
Provided are methods for labeling transfer RNA comprising replacing the uracil component of a dihydrouridine of said transfer RNA with a fluorophore. The disclosed methods may comprise fluorescent labeling of natural tRNAs (i.e., tRNAs that have been synthesized in a cell, for example, in a bacterium, a yeast cell, or a vertebrate cell) at dihydrouridine (D) positions, or fluorescent labeling of synthetic tRNAs. In another aspect, the present invention provides methods for assessing protein synthesis in a translation system comprise providing a tRNA having a fluorophore substitution for the uracil component of a dihydrouridine in a D loop of the tRNA; introducing the labeled tRNA into the translation system; irradiating the translation system with electromagnetic radiation, thereby generating a fluorescence signal from the fluorophore; detecting the fluorescence signal; and, correlating the fluorescence signal to one or more characteristics of the protein synthesis in the translation system. The disclosed methods are useful in single molecule as well as in ensemble settings.
US09612241B2
The present disclosure provides an optical readout imaging system may include first electrode, a thin film disposed on the first electrode, a biomolecule transfer layer disposed on the thin film, and a second electrode disposed on the biomolecule transfer layer. The present disclosure also provides a biochemical detection method using the optical readout imaging system.
US09612228B2
An apparatus for detecting a presence of at least one analyte in a gas sample. The apparatus comprises a pump for drawing a gas sample from an ambient air, a passage having first and second ends, a chamber connected to the first end and containing a concentrating element for collecting at least one analyte from the gas sample, a chromatographic separator connected to a second end of the passage, and a gas source for streaming a carrier gas via the chamber to transfer the at least one analyte toward at least one chemical detector, via the chromatographic separator, in a first direction. The pump draws the gas sample via the chamber in a second direction and the first and second directions are substantially opposing to one another.
US09612223B2
A method for manufacturing a sensor intermediate product includes: disposing a tubular holder and a tubular compact in a tubular metallic shell, and inserting a metallic pin into a first insertion hole of the holder and a second insertion hole of the compact; compressing the compact so as to form a filling member intermediate having a shape which brings the filling member intermediate into pressure contact with the inner wall surface of the metallic shell and allows removal of the metallic pin from the second insertion hole; pulling out the metallic pin from the first insertion hole and the second insertion hole; inserting a sensor element into the first insertion hole and the second insertion hole; and compressing the filling member intermediate to thereby form a filling member which fixes the sensor element inside of the metallic shell.
US09612219B2
Disclosed are several examples of a system and method for detecting if an article is being tampered with. Included is a covering made of a substrate that is coated with a layer of an electrically conductive material that forms an electrically conductive surface having an electrical resistance. The covering is configured to at least partially encapsulate the article such that the article cannot be tampered with, without modifying the electrical resistance of the electrically conductive surface of the covering. A sensing device is affixed to the electrically conductive surface of the covering and the sensing device monitors the condition of the covering by producing a signal that is indicative of the electrical resistance of the electrically conductive surface of the covering. A measured electrical resistance that differs from a nominal electrical resistance is indicative of a covering that is being tampered with and an alert is communicated to an observer.
US09612203B2
A detection device includes a xylem fiber substrate configured with a sampling portion and a reaction portion. The reaction portion includes at least one enzyme reagent. The sampling portion absorbs a test sample. The test sample moves on the xylem fiber substrate to the reaction portion and reacts with the enzyme reagent. A manufacturing method for the detection device is also disclosed. The detection device is advantageous for easy operation, safety and rapid analysis.
US09612176B2
An apparatus for use in testing protective masks for leaks. The apparatus includes a test head assembly for supporting at least a portion of a protective mask to be tested for leaks. The test head assembly may be freestanding, mounted directly on a mask tester or integral with the mask tester. The test head assembly includes a body and a cover. The body includes a head section simulating at least a portion of a human head. The cover is mounted on the body to cover at least a portion of the head section. The test head assembly is preferably configured such that a portion of the cover can be inflated while the remaining portion of the cover remains in a relaxed state and in contact with the corresponding portion of the body.
US09612173B2
In a pressure and pressure difference transmitter that seals a sealing liquid for transmitting the pressure inside a pressure leading passage, the pressure and pressure difference transmitter forming a space between a diaphragm and a main body side wall surface, including the pressure leading passage connected to the main body side wall surface, and transmitting the pressure received by the diaphragm to a sensor through the sealing liquid sealed in the space and the pressure leading passage, a hydrogen occluding material for occluding hydrogen atoms of the sealing liquid is disposed at least in the sealing liquid, the main body side wall surface, or a part of a portion from the main body side wall surface to the sensor, with the hydrogen occluding material being formed with an uneven shape on the surface or being attached with a granular hydrogen occluding material.
US09612171B2
A torque-measuring shaft includes a measuring shaft disposed on a shaft axis of the torque-measuring shaft, loadable in torsion and having at least one rotationally symmetric surface region disposed coaxially with the shaft axis as well as a measuring device disposed on the measuring shaft for measuring a torsion of the measuring shaft, wherein the torque-measuring shaft has a material weakening disposed in radial direction inside the measuring shaft, eccentrically relative to the shaft axis.
US09612153B2
In this electric field vector detection method, an electro-optic crystal, where a (111) surface of an optical isotropic medium is cut out, is used as a terahertz wave detection element. The method includes: causing polarization of probe light of ultrashort pulsed light to be circular polarization; allowing the probe light having circular polarization to enter the terahertz wave detection element and probing the terahertz wave; modulating the probe light, having probed the terahertz wave, by a rotating analyzer and detecting the modulated probe light by a photodetector; performing lock-in detection of a detection signal from the photodetector by a lock-in detector using a frequency based on a rotational frequency of the rotating analyzer as a reference signal; and detecting an electric field vector of the terahertz wave based on a detection signal from the lock-in detector.
US09612146B2
A sensor housing includes an inlet flow port, an outlet flow port, a flow sensing region, and a flow channel extending between the inlet flow port, the flow sensing region and the outlet flow port. The flow channel defines a flow path between the inlet flow port and the flow sensing region that is contorted in three-dimensions. The three-dimensional contorted flow path between the inlet flow port and a flow sensing region may include a particle collection region that is configured to decelerate a fluid and collect particles that are released from the fluid. The deceleration of the fluid flow and/or one or more changes in the direction of fluid flow along the contorted three-dimensional flow path may cause dust and/or other particulate matter to be released from the fluid prior to reaching a sensor in the sensing region.
US09612142B2
A system for presenting multiple parallel slices comprises a display for displaying ultrasound data comprising 3D Doppler data over time. A user interface defines a proximal plane and a distal plane within the ultrasound data that are parallel to one another. The proximal and distal planes define a region of interest (ROI). A signal processor automatically extracts at least two slices based on the ultrasound data within the ROI. The at least two slices are parallel with respect to each other and are displayed on the display.
US09612122B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for obtaining location information from a location source. A geographic reference point is determined based on accuracy of the location information. The geographic reference point is incorporated into a location result.
US09612112B2
An optical system comprising: a light source; a photodetector; a first light-receiving system for causing the photodetector to receive first reflected light with a first angle of reflection from a surface; and a second light-receiving system for causing the photodetector to receive second reflected light with a second angle of reflection, different from the first angle of reflection, from the surface is provided. Here, an incident area on the surface, in which light generating the first reflected light is incident, is spaced apart from an exiting area on the surface, which light, to be incident on the photodetector from the surface via the second light-receiving system, exits.
US09612111B2
In some embodiments, the method for boresighting a system under test (SUT) involves radiating, by the SUT, an illuminating signal(s) to a target, where the illuminating signal(s) is radiated onto an external screen of the target. The method further involves detecting, by an external detector(s), the illuminating signal(s) radiated onto the external screen to produce an external detector measurement. Also, the method involves aligning the SUT by using the external detector measurement. In addition, the method involves radiating, by the SUT, the illuminating signal(s) to the target, where the illuminating signal(s) is radiated through an opening located on a side of the target and onto an internal screen of the target. Additionally, the method involves detecting, by an internal detector(s) of the target, the illuminating signal(s) radiated onto the internal screen to produce an internal detector measurement. Further, the method involves aligning the SUT by using the internal detector measurement.
US09612110B2
An observation device includes: a holding board that holds an observation container accommodating a cornea for transplantation to be observed; a specular reflection optical system including an illumination optical system and an imaging optical system, which include a light source and an imaging unit, for observing the cornea for transplantation; and an auxiliary light source that illuminates the cornea for transplantation from the back and has an auxiliary illumination optical axis inclined with respect to an observation base axis that divides in half an intersecting angle of the illumination optical axis of the illumination optical system and an imaging optical axis of the imaging optical system, wherein the auxiliary light source is installed in a freely pivoting manner about a predetermined rotation axis so that a relative inclination angle with respect to the observation base axis of the auxiliary illumination optical axis can be continuously changed.
US09612099B2
A compliant thumb wheel assembly coupled to a caliper jaw that moves along a caliper scale member along a measuring axis direction in a caliper comprises a thumb wheel, a compliant element, and a thumb wheel mounting portion rigidly coupled to the caliper jaw. The compliant element is configured to locate the thumb wheel in an operational arrangement for driving the caliper jaw while at the same time transmitting forces between the thumb wheel and the thumb wheel mounting portion by elastic deformation. When a force is applied to the thumb wheel along the measuring axis direction, the compliant element flexes such that the thumb wheel displaces along the measuring axis direction relative to the thumb wheel mounting portion and the caliper jaw, and generates a measuring force that depends on that relative displacement and which is applied to the caliper jaw along the measuring axis direction.
US09612098B2
The present invention relates to the field of measurement technology, and provides a ruler which can solve the problem that the existing ruler has few kinds of scales and monotonous display content. The ruler of the present invention comprises a strip-like body for performing measurement, the strip-like body is a display screen, and the ruler further comprises a circuit unit, which is connected to the display screen and is used for driving the display screen to display. The ruler provided by the present invention can display rich measurement information when measuring an object.
US09612096B2
A lighted nock assembly is disclosed for use with an archery projectile. A cap fits within the tail end of the projectile shaft. The cap comprises a shoulder to bear against the projectile shaft, a recess terminating in a floor portion, and a face to bear against the shoulder of a nock. An LED/battery assembly fits within the recess of the cap abutting the floor portion. A nock fits over the LED/battery assembly and into the recess of the cap. Ready-to-fire, the LED/battery assembly comprises an activation gap between the LED lamp and the body of the battery assembly. A gap, greater than or equal to the activation gap, is left between the shoulder of the nock and the face of the cap. When fired, the bow string drives an internal surface of the nock into the front end of the LED/battery assembly and illuminates the LED lamp.
US09612093B2
This invention is a unique arrangement of shaped charge devices in an array to produce a patterned or arranged explosive pattern in a target area. The Axilinear design, in a plural array configuration, solves the limitations of a smooth walled circular linear liner by having opposing corrugations or flutes that have sufficient curvature to converge the liner material so as to obtain ductile Munroe jetting, longer jets, and higher velocities. The individual shaped explosive devices have a liner that produces a single combination jet consisting of a forward rod portion and rearward flattened spade shaped portion, this jet has a velocity gradient form tip to tail. This Axilinear device will produce a combination jet, consisting of a rod forward portion, followed by and connected to a planar symmetric wide spade shaped rear portion.
US09612089B2
A multiband imaging system comprising: an optical module configured for acquiring simultaneously images from a common field-of-view (FOV) scene in a short wavelength spectral band and in a long wavelength spectral band, the optical module comprising a polarizer configured for applying polarization filtering to electromagnetic radiation of the long wavelength spectral band; and a processing module configured to analyze data indicative of received irradiance distribution between the short and long wavelength spectral bands.
US09612078B2
An elastic rubber band launching toy gun that uses a new method to launches six elastic bands in rapid succession using a simple assembly of only six individual parts, and featuring an moving exterior slide in order to mimic the action on a real hand gun. The embodiments of this invention do not rely on any mechanism to return the trigger element to a firing position other than the elastic projectiles fired from the device.
US09612076B2
A bowstring including first and second ultra high molecular weight polyolefin fibers is described herein. The first and second ultra high molecular weight polyolefin fibers have different compositions such that the first ultra high molecular weight polyolefin fibers have a greater elasticity than the second ultra high molecular weight polyolefin fibers.
US09612073B2
The invention described herein improves the trigger feel and reset perception using three primary alterations.First, the addition of a spring that presses against the trigger bar, further increasing the reset action.Second, the addition of a pin or screw to a specific location on the trigger bar, increasing the deformation of the trigger bar when pushed to the side by the slide. The result is the trigger bar holds a greater force, increasing the tactility of the reset.Third, the use of a specific sear shape, altering the camming action of the sear, and thus how the sear interacts with the trigger bar and firing pin.Each of these inventions alone results in an improved trigger feel and action. Together the result is a gun with greatly improved trigger characteristics.
US09612067B2
An automatic handgun has an additional trigger mechanism and a sight. In one version, a draw bar in the butt is hinged to a rotatable fork and to the additional trigger, located on the left of the butt in an L-shaped groove. Upon rotating the fork the spring extends onto the left of the butt, and when the butt is closed onto a catch, the end of the fork grips the main trigger. Rotatable posts lie on the sight. Alternatively, a rotatable lever sits on the lower front of the breech. The lever has a post on which the additional trigger which fixes the horizontal and vertical positions is hinged, and is connected to the main trigger by a draw bar through the inside left of the breech. Shooting accuracy increases and the overall dimensions are reduced.
US09612065B2
The present invention provides a heat conductive sheet that can maintain high heat conductivity and flexibility across a long period of time even in high temperature environments. The heat conductive sheet includes a (meth)acrylate polymer, a trimellitate ester plasticizer, a first antioxidant with a hindered phenol backbone, and a second antioxidant with a thioether backbone.
US09612062B2
A cooling system for cooling a superconducting device by a low-temperature fluid is provided. A flow generator for producing a flow in the low-temperature fluid is provided in the cooling system. The low-temperature fluid flowing through the superconducting device is heated. The flow generator is used to produce a flow in the heated low-temperature fluid. The low-temperature fluid is cooled and supplied to the superconducting device.
US09612061B2
The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for storing thermal energy. The subject thermal energy storage apparatus can function as a heat absorber in a cooling system. A cooling system can incorporate a cooling cycle that utilizes thermal energy storage and has two coolant loops. The primary cooling loop acquires the waste heat from a heat source, such as an electronic device, by heat transfer to the primary coolant via, for example, a sensible heat process (where sensible heat is heat absorbed or transmitted by a substance during a change in temperature which is not accompanied by a change of state) or by evaporating the primary coolant through a latent heat phase change process. The waste heat absorbed by the primary coolant is transferred to the host material of the heat absorber. The subject invention uses a high thermal conductivity host material to house a lower thermal conductivity phase change material, in order to achieve a thermal energy absorber that has a high effective thermal conductivity. In a specific embodiment, the high thermal conductivity host material has voids within the structure that can be filled by the phase change material. The increased surface area of phase change material in thermal contact with the host material per volume of phase change material allows the thermal energy to be stored or released quickly, because of the enhanced effective thermal conductivity.
US09612056B2
An apparatus, a system and a method are disclosed. An exemplary apparatus includes a first portion configured to hold an overlying wafer. The first portion includes a central region and an edge region circumscribing the central region. The first portion further including an upper surface and a lower surface. The apparatus further includes a second portion extending beyond an outer radius of the wafer. The second portion including an upper surface and a lower surface. The lower surface of the first portion in the central region has a first reflective characteristic. The lower surface of the first portion in the edge region and the second portion have a second reflective characteristic.
US09612051B2
The present invention provides a system for effectively purging heat regenerating desiccant compressed air dryers from a moisture load, by a ‘tuned’ regenerating means with the use of a variable restriction on the blower purge air flows, a blower back-pressure set point, a heater discharge temperature set point, and a bottom area bed temperature of a vessel containing desiccant, a means to balance purge temperature to a stable, noncycling state preventing an under and overheating heating of desiccant, vessel and associated piping. A valve control means to terminate heating, cooling and dry purge operations selectively operated to allow purge flows to quickly cause water vapor captivated by the desiccant (in a drying cycle) to be released and purged out of the vessel (in a regeneration cycle), resulting in a regenerated tower vessel prepared for a compressed air drying cycle.
US09612047B2
An internal heat exchanger and a first flow control valve are connected in series between a condenser and a refrigerant inlet of an ejector. A gas refrigerant outlet of a gas-liquid separator is connected to a suction port of a compressor. A first bypass circuit connects a refrigerant outlet of the condenser to an intermediate pressure portion of the compressor via a second flow control valve and the internal heat exchanger. A second bypass circuit connects a refrigerant outlet of the internal heat exchanger to the liquid refrigerant outlet of the gas-liquid separator via a third flow control valve. While the second flow control valve is opened such that the refrigerant flows through the first bypass circuit, the fourth flow control valve is switched to be opened or closed, and the third flow control valve is switched to be closed or opened.
US09612046B2
A sub-cooled condenser for an air conditioning system, having a condenser portion, a sub-cooler portion located below that of the condenser portion, an adjacent receiver tank having a first fluid port in hydraulic connection with the condenser portion and a second fluid port in hydraulic connection with the sub-cooler portion, and a refrigerant diverter assembly disposed in the receiver tank. The refrigerant diverter assembly is configured to divert a refrigerant from the first fluid port to a location beneath the surface level of a refrigerant retained within the receiver tank without impacting the surface level. The refrigerant diverter assembly includes a refrigerant port in hydraulic connection with the first fluid port, axial and annular refrigerant passageways, and a refrigerant conduit having an inlet end in hydraulic communication with the annular passageway and a second fluid port beneath the surface level (S) of the liquid phase refrigerant.
US09612039B2
An assembly for positioning photovoltaic panels on a structure includes a main frame connectable to the structure, and a subassembly connectable to the main frame to support a photovoltaic panel, in which the subassembly is rotatable with respect to the main frame to place the subassembly in a deployed position. The assembly may further include a stop-arm connectable to the main frame to support the subassembly when in the deployed position.
US09612033B2
Pliable-wall air ducts with internal expanding structures are disclosed. An example air duct system includes a shaft to be disposed within an air duct, to extend in a longitudinal direction, and to be in longitudinal compression. The air duct system also includes a plurality of ribs to be coupled to the shaft and to engage an inner surface of the air duct and a spring to be disposed within the air duct, the spring to be coupled to the shaft. The spring under stress being a contributing factor in both the shaft being in longitudinal compression and the air duct being in longitudinal tension.
US09612032B2
A user-friendly programmable thermostat is described that includes a circular body having a large central display surrounded by a ring that can be rotated an pressed inward by a user so as to receive user input in a simple elegant fashion. Different colors can be displayed to the user to indicate currently active HVAC functions, and different shades of colors can be displayed to a user to indicate an estimated amount of time and/or energy for reaching a target temperature. The thermostat is wall mountable and is made up of a head unit removeably mounted to a backplate. A locking mechanism can be provided so as to increase security against unauthorized removal of the head unit. The backplate can be adapted to be mounted on a wall so as to be level, for example by including a bubble level on the backplate. One or more vents are preferably located on the sides of the body, such as in a gap beneath the translatably mounted ring, and/or in a gap between the head unit and the backplate. The target temperature for the device can be altered in response to sensing rotation of the rotating ring, and the programmed schedule can be displayed to and altered by the user in response to sensing rotation of the ring and the translational movement of the ring. Historical information such as temperature and cost information can be displayed to a user in response to sensing rotating of the rotating ring. One or more device settings can be displayed to and edited by a user in response to sensing rotating of the rotating member and the translational movement. According to some embodiments, text characters can be entered by the user.
US09612029B2
According to embodiments of the invention, systems, methods and devices are directed to generating air flow in directions that are sensitive to surrounding objects. In one embodiment, a cooling system is provided. The system includes an air generator locating in an area of room temperature. The system also includes a position device in the air generator, a movable air vent, and a tracking sensor. Generally, the mobile cooling system is configured to detect a temperature of a human being and whether the human being moves from one location to another. Upon detection, a set of wheels is used to move the cooling device so that the vent of the cooling device is directed away from the object.
US09612005B2
A railway signal replacement lamp module apparatus, including a lamp housing sized to fit within a railway signal housing and a receptacle to contain a solid state light source within the lamp housing. Some embodiments include, in combination with other aspects, at least one spring-loaded connector integral to and positioned within or on the lamp housing to interface with an electrical conductor feature of a railway signal; and a thermally conductive material disposed on an exterior surface of the lamp housing to provide a thermal conduit from an exterior of the lamp housing to an interior of the railway signal housing.
US09612004B2
Display module mounting configurations and methods are disclosed. A frame for a video display module can comprise a first face configured for coupling with a light-emitting element circuit board and a second face configured for mounting to a support chassis and one or more first securing structures coupled to the second face, the one or more first securing structures being configured to mount or secure the frame to the support chassis. The frame can also include one or more security latches each comprising a latch body movable between a latched position and an unlatched position, each latch body configured to engage a first feature of the support chassis to prevent removal of the video display module when in the latched position.
US09612002B2
LED based lamps are disclosed. In an embodiment, an LED based lamp includes a concave optical diffuser, a concave neodymium-doped glass bulb, a reflector, a printed circuit board that includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) configured to emit light, and a heat sink body. The concave optical diffuser has a first interior volume, and the concave neodymium-doped glass bulb is positioned within the first interior volume. The neodymium-doped glass bulb defines a second interior volume, and both the reflector and the printed circuit board are positioned within the second interior volume. The reflector includes a sloped annular wall with an inner reflective surface and an outer reflective surface, and a bottom portion of the reflector is connected to the printed circuit board. The heat sink is thermally connected to the printed circuit board and to the reflector.
US09611999B2
A multi-reflector lighting apparatus including a reflector having a reflecting layer deposited on a base layer. The multi-reflector lighting apparatus further includes a first oxide layer deposited on the reflecting layer. The multi-reflector lighting apparatus further includes a second oxide layer deposited on the first oxide layer. The multi-reflector lighting apparatus further includes an alternating plurality of a relatively low refractive index oxide layer material and a relatively high refractive index oxide layer material deposited on the second oxide layer.
US09611994B2
The invention relates to a vehicle headlight (1) comprising at least one laser light source (2), at least one luminous element (3) that may be stimulated to emit visible light which can be irradiated by means of the laser light source (2), and at least one imaging optical element, for example a reflector (4) and/or a lens, wherein the laser light source (2) is disposed in front of the luminous element (3) as viewed in the main beam direction (100) of the vehicle headlight (1) such that the light from the laser light source (2) radiates in the opposite direction to the main beam direction (100) of the vehicle headlight (1).
US09611993B2
A warning light includes a lens or cover is tinted with a grey or “smoke” tint that is not spectrally selective or alternatively referred to as “neutral density” in that it reduces transmission of all colors of light equally. The objective of the neutral tinted “smoked” lens is to reduce the conspicuity of warning lights when not in use. Ambient light penetration into the warning light is reduced by the proportion of tint and then light reflecting off the optical surfaces within the warning light are reduced again when passing through the tinted lens on the way out of the assembly. The resulting warning light appears dull and is less conspicuous than the same warning light or lightbar with a clear lens. The tinted lens or cover may include optical elements configured to re-direct light, and the entire lens or cover is molded from the same tinted plastic material.
US09611987B2
A white light source employing a III-nitride based laser diode pumping one or more phosphors. The III-nitride laser diode emits light in a first wavelength range that is down-converted to light in a second wavelength range by the phosphors, wherein the light in the first wavelength range is combined with the light in the second wavelength range to create highly directional white light. The light in the first wavelength range comprises ultraviolet, violet, blue and/or green light, while the light in the second wavelength range comprises green, yellow and/or red light.
US09611984B2
An LED tube lamp having an end cap and a lamp tube is disclosed. The end cap includes an electrically insulating tubular part, sleeved with an end of the lamp tube, and a magnetic metal object disposed between an inner circumferential surface of the electrically insulating tubular part and the end of lamp tube. The electrically insulating tubular part having an inner circumferential surface with a plurality of protruding portions formed thereon and extending inwardly in a radial direction of the electrically insulating tubular part. Each of the protruding portions is disposed between an outer circumferential surface of the magnetic metal member and the inner circumferential surface of the electrically insulating tubular part, thereby forming a space therebetween, in which a hot melt adhesive is filled so that the end cap and the end of the lamp tube are adhesively bonded.
US09611979B2
A tablet support mount has a main body portion, which when installed is inclined. The upper surface of the inclined main body is adapted for contacting and supporting the tablet. A lower lip is positioned at an angle at the lower end of the main body so as to form an upwardly open V shape. This lip keeps the tablet from sliding off the mount. An upper attachment edge is positioned at an angle at the upper end of the main body. This upper attachment edge is releasably and directly secured to a lower portion of the frame of a cabinet. The main body, lower lip and at least a portion of the attachment edge form a unitary, one piece rigid structure.
US09611975B2
A track mounting system including a mount with a mounting plate with a back surface and a front surface, the back surface is opposite the front surface and at least one mounting stud coupled to the back surface of the mounting plate, each mounting stud includes a stem portion that extends outwardly from the back surface and an enlarged head portion disposed at a distal end of stem portion. The mount also includes a release mechanism coupled to the front surface to release the mount from a track. The track mounting system also includes an adaptor coupled to the front surface of the mounting plate wherein the adaptor releasably couples with an equipment interface of a piece of equipment.
US09611974B2
A medium support unit includes a support unit having a support surface that can support a medium and an adjustment unit that can form a first state in which a recessed portion that is recessed with respect to the support surface or a protruding portion that protrudes with respect to the support surface is formed and a second state in which the recessed portion or the protruding portion is not formed with respect to the support surface. At least one of color and texture is different between the support surface and the adjustment unit.
US09611959B2
A coupling device for releasably connecting fluid-carrying duct ends of ducts is provided. The duct ends, respectively, each carry a jacket having at least two annular ribs housing a first annular sealing element. The first annular sealing element is engaged by the inner shell. The coupling device includes an outer shell that has radially inward extending ribs or rib portions, which are either arranged in an axial distance with respect to a further annular rib of the jackets or engage an axial recess provided on the jackets defined between the further annular rib and a fourth annular rib.
US09611948B1
A valve assembly is provided which, in one aspect, includes a check valve in series with a butterfly valve without the need for a spacer or spool piper separating the check valve and butterfly valve. In one example, check valve may include a poppet comprising a plurality of guide legs extending into the downstream portion of the check valve. Butterfly valve may include at least a portion of a rotating disk is disposed within a downstream portion of the check valve. The plurality of guide legs may include distal ends that are configured or contoured to avoid interference with the rotating disk of the butterfly valve.
US09611946B1
An example valve includes a sleeve having a plurality of openings. A spool is rotatable within the sleeve and includes a respective plurality of openings corresponding to the plurality of openings of the sleeve. A rotary actuator coupled to the spool is configured for rotating the spool within the sleeve to one of at least eight rotary positions. The rotary actuator can rotate the spool to a given rotary position in a clockwise or a counter-clockwise direction to cause at least a partial alignment between a subset of the respective plurality of openings of the spool and a subset of the plurality of openings of the sleeve.
US09611945B2
A fluid delivery device including a waterway assembly, a valve cartridge, and a waterway adapter to fluidly couple the waterway assembly to the valve cartridge and to provide a fluid passageway to a spout outlet.
US09611942B2
The invention relates to a valve, in particular a sample injection valve, for a device (1) for synthesizing, analyzing, and/or separating, comprising at least three liquid connections (3′, 4′, 5′, 6′, 7′, 7″), a housing (8) as a valve part, and a valve body (9) as another valve part for selectively connecting the liquid connections (3′, 4′, 5′, 6′, 7′, 7″) by means of at least one flow channel (10, 11, 12) bounded at least partially by sealing surfaces (10′, 11′, 12′) between the housing (8) and the valve body (9), wherein the housing (8) and/or the valve body (9) are supported in such a way as to be movable relative to each other. In order to create a one-way valve, at least one valve part (8 or 9) adjacent to the sealing surface (10′, 11′, 12′) and made of a plastic material can be plastically deformed according to a relative position (9′), in particular of the valve body (9), in order to be able to withstand the elevated pressure loads in the flow channel (10, 11, 12) in a liquid-tight manner in the relative position (9′), in particular of the valve body (9).
US09611941B1
A piston includes a main body extending between a first end and a second end along a center axis of the piston. The main body further includes a chamber formed within the main body, the chamber having an opening disposed at the first end of the main body. The piston also includes a cap, the cap being coaxial with the main body. A portion of the cap extends into the opening of the chamber of the main body. At least one of the main body and the cap includes a radially extending lip, and the other of the main body and the cap includes a groove. A retaining ring is both disposed partially in the groove and in contact with the radially extending lip so as to connect the cap to the main body.
US09611936B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes a piston clamping system including a piston rod comprising a piston rod shoulder and a piston rod nut coupled to the piston rod, wherein the piston rod nut and the piston rod shoulder are configured to axially capture first and second body portions of a piston therebetween.
US09611935B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes a composite piston. The composite piston comprises a piston body made of a composite material, wherein the composite material comprises a reinforcing material distributed in a matrix material.
US09611932B2
When initial drive control for an actuator driving a shift switch mechanism is completed, a P-ECU determines whether an IG signal is received. In the case where the P-ECU has not received the IG signal at the time when the initial drive control is completed, the P-ECU temporarily keeps the actuator in a state where the initial drive control is completed. In the case where the P-ECU receives the IG signal in the period from completion of the initial drive control to the time when a predetermined time T2 has elapsed since completion of the initial drive control, the P-ECU executes P wall press control when the P-ECU receives the IG signal.
US09611931B2
Method for detecting a fault condition in a vehicular hydraulic circuit during a drive cycle using an electric pump includes monitoring an actual pump torque and monitoring a desired pump torque. A current confidence factor is determined based on the actual pump torque and the desired pump torque. An average confidence factor is iteratively calculated based on the current confidence factor and previously determined confidence factors. The average confidence factor is compared to a fault condition threshold. An absence of the fault condition in the hydraulic circuit is detected when the average confidence factor is at least the fault condition threshold, and a presence of the fault condition in the hydraulic circuit is detected when the average confidence factor is less than the fault condition threshold.
US09611918B2
An automatic transmission includes nine rotatable shafts and four planetary gear sets, each with a first, second and third element. For the shifting of multiple forward gears and one reverse gear, seven shift elements are provided. The second element of the fourth planetary gear set forms the first shaft designed as a drive shaft, the second element of the third planetary gear set forms the second shaft designed as an output shaft, the first element of the fourth planetary gear set forms the third shaft, one element of the planetary gear set forms the fourth shaft, the third element of the third planetary gear set forms the sixth shaft, the second element of the second planetary gear set forms the eighth shaft. The third element of the second planetary gear set and the first element of the third planetary gear set are connected to each other as the fifth shaft. The first element of the second planetary gear set and the third element of the fourth planetary gear set are connected to each other as the seventh shaft. The third shaft can be fixed through the first shift element. The fourth shaft is constantly and directly connected to the second shift element. The first shaft is connectable to the fifth shaft through the third shift element. The ninth shaft is not directly connected to any of the planetary gear sets, is connectable to the sixth shaft through the fourth shift element, is connectable to the seventh shaft through the fifth shift element, is connectable to the eighth shaft through the sixth shift element and is connectable to the first shaft through the seventh shift element.
US09611910B2
A brake temperature detection device: acquires a kinetic-energy based temperature rise, which is an increase in an amount of brake heat that occurs when kinetic energy generated in a running vehicle is converted into thermal energy by braking; acquires a braking-energy based temperature rise, which is an increase in an amount of brake heat that is calculated from an amount of work done when a brake's friction material is pressed against a friction target material; determines state of slope of a road surface on which the vehicle is running; and detects a brake temperature in accordance with an increase in an amount of brake heat generated in braking. The brake temperature detection device selects, based on the state of slope, either the kinetic-energy based temperature rise or the braking-energy based temperature rise as the increase in the amount of brake heat generated in braking and achieves brake temperature detection.
US09611906B2
A hydraulic system for a vehicle clutch assembly can include a pump and a purge valve for regulating hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch. The hydraulic pressure at the pump can be set to a value higher than the operating pressure for the clutch. The purge valve can be configured to purge hydraulic pressure from the hydraulic system so that an optimum, controllable, and/or pre-determined operating pressure can be supplied to the clutch. The system can be configured to provide accurate control of the clutch(es), continuous cooling capacity to the hydraulic system components, lateral torque control when two separate hydraulic circuits are used, weight and cost reduction of the vehicle clutch, as well as other vehicle functions and characteristics.
US09611894B2
A clip-fastened raceway for a variable compression ratio engine includes: at least one curved segment whose outer surface cooperates with a raceway housed in the transmission member or in the control member of the variable compression ratio engine and whose inner surface is maintained in contact with a curved outer surface housed in the toothed wheel of the engine; at least one clip, housed in at least one of the ends of the curved segment and fastened to one or the other of the ends of the curved outer surface housed in the toothed wheel and hooking onto a hook or protrusion which the wheel includes in the vicinity of the end of its curved outer surface, the hook or protrusion being complementary to that of the clip so as to be able to cooperate with the latter.
US09611893B2
Provided is a bearing with a magnetic fluid seal reliably maintaining sealing of a rolling element section in the bearing and having a structure ensuring high productivity. In a bearing with a magnetic fluid seal according to the present invention, a plurality of rolling elements 7 are disposed between an inner ring and an outer ring, and a ring-shaped magnet is arranged at an opening side of the inner and outer rings so as to retain magnetic fluid, so that the plurality of rolling elements are sealed. The magnet is magnetized so that magnetic poles are oriented in an axial direction. A ring-shaped pole plate is arranged to be in contact with an outer side surface of the magnet in the axial direction. Outer-ring-side magnetic fluid is retained between the outer ring and the magnet, and inner-ring-side magnetic fluid is retained between the inner ring and the pole plate.
US09611892B2
In a bearing according to an embodiment, a pair of magnets is arranged such that sides of the magnets opposed to each other with rolling members interposed therebetween have different magnetic polarities from each other. A magnetic fluid sealed bearing according to another embodiment includes a non-magnetic spacer disposed between a magnet of one of magnetic fluid seals and a magnet of the other of the magnetic fluid seals so as to form a magnetic circuit that penetrates outer and inner rings and goes around the rolling members.
US09611889B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing bearing shells of plain bearings, in which the bearing shells are blasted with corundum particles on the bearing metal side, in order in this way to produce residual compressive stresses in the blasted side of the bearing shell. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a bearing shell produced using such a method.
US09611876B2
A fastener includes a clamp arm which is connected with a base. The clamp arm cooperates with the base to form an entrance into which an article extends. A first locking tab extends from the base into a first opening in the article. A second locking tab extends from the clamp arm into a second opening in the article. When a withdrawal force is applied to the fastener, an arcuate portion of an inner side surface of the clamp arm moves from a position spaced from an outer side surface of the article to a position in which the arcuate portion of the inner side surface of the clamp arm is disposed in abutting engagement with the outer side surface of the article.
US09611874B2
A sway brace attachment for firmly connecting to a beam and other flanged structures, and a method for manufacturing the sway brace attachment. The sway brace attachment includes a main body and an insert that is captured within the main body by a pair of set screws which also engage the flange. Preferably, a third set screw is supported by the main body and engages the opposite side of the flange from the pair of set screws. The main body can be generally rectangular in shape, with a top wall, a pair of side walls extending from the top wall and a pair of bottom walls, which extend inwardly from respective side walls in an overlapping relationship. The sway brace attachment can be used for bracing pipes and other loads, suspended below ceilings and floors, against sway and seismic disturbances.
US09611872B2
A hydraulic cylinder is provided. The hydraulic cylinder includes a casing with a longitudinal axis defined therethrough, a first fluid inlet defined in the casing, a second fluid inlet defined in the casing, a first fluid outlet defined in the casing, a second fluid outlet defined in the casing, a shaft extending along the longitudinal axis, a first switching valve mounted to the shaft, a second switching valve mounted to the shaft, and a piston mounted to the shaft between the first switching valve and the second switching valve, wherein the hydraulic cylinder is configured such that when a fluid is supplied to the first and second fluid inlets, the shaft, the first and second switching valves, and the piston oscillate back and forth along the longitudinal axis.
US09611868B2
Disclosed herein is an isothermal liquid piston natural gas compression and expansion system for storing and retrieving energy in large quantities that employs an existing infrastructure embodied in the natural gas pipeline and storage system, including the natural gas as a medium for the storage and retrieval of pressure energy for large scale sustainable energy storage.
US09611866B2
A urea solution pump unit includes: a urea solution tank having a mounting hole opened downward; a mounting flange mounted so as to close the mounting hole; a motor pump disposed in a horizontal direction on the mounting flange in the urea solution tank, and configured to suck a urea solution at one side using a pump, and discharge the urea solution to the other side through a space formed between a rotor and a stator of a motor; and a filter installed at an inlet side of the motor pump at an outside of the motor pump.
US09611865B2
A bypass turbojet including a fan wheel carrying blades and surrounded by an annular casing, the casing including an air suction mechanism sucking air from an annular clearance formed between the casing and radially outer ends of the blades of the fan wheel. The air suction mechanism includes an inlet including at least one inlet slot formed in an inside wall of the casing and connected to a suction channel extending downstream. The inlet slot of the suction mechanism is situated axially in register solely with upstream portions of chords of the blades of the fan wheel at their radially outer ends.
US09611859B2
A gas turbine engine includes a very high speed fan drive turbine such that a quantity defined by the exit area of the low pressure turbine multiplied by the square of the low pressure turbine rotational speed compared to the same parameters for the high pressure turbine is at a ratio between about 0.5 and about 1.5. The high pressure turbine is mounted by bearings positioned at an outer periphery of a shaft driven by the high pressure turbine.
US09611858B2
In a water pump, a reinforcement rib is integrally installed on either an outer surface or an inner surface of a flange wall of a pulley and radially extended toward an outer direction from a center side at which one end section of a drive shaft is coupled.
US09611850B2
A method and a device for fixing and synchronizing rotary pistons in a rotary piston pump involves introducing the rotary pistons into the pump space of the rotary piston pump. A shaft stub of each rotary piston is then pushed through a pump rear wall onto a driveshaft provided for the respective rotary piston. The rotary pistons are aligned and synchronized in the pump space via a template, the template being fixed detachably to a pump housing. The shaft stubs of the respective rotary piston are connected, after the synchronization, in each case via a clamping device in a friction-locked manner to the respective driveshaft, outside the pump space.
US09611848B2
A variable displacement vane pump includes a rotor, vanes, a cam ring, pump chambers, a suction port, a discharge port, back pressure chambers, a plate that has a sliding contact surface and a penetrating hole, a suction-side back pressure port being configured to guide the working fluid in the suction port to the back pressure chambers in a suction section, a discharge-side back pressure port being configured to guide the working fluid that is discharged from the discharge port to the back pressure chambers in a discharge section, an additional groove provided on the sliding contact surface so as to extend from between the discharge-side back pressure port and the penetrating hole to between the suction-side back pressure port and the penetrating hole, and a connection groove that communicates the additional groove with the suction-side back pressure port.
US09611842B2
A compressor including an oil separator connected to a supply of compressed air, the oil separator including a chamber having a wall defining a cavity within the chamber, and a vent within the wall, wherein the vent is in communication with the supply of compressed air at a first end, and in communication with the cavity via a second aperture, and extends substantially parallel to an externally-facing surface of the wall.
US09611840B2
A pump assembly comprises a cam and a piston. The cam rotates in a plane about an eccentric axis, and has a circumferential side wall. The piston engages the circumferential side wall of the cam, and runs along a piston axis which lies in the plane of the cam. The piston axis is parallel to but not coincident with a reference line perpendicular to and intersecting the eccentric axis.
US09611821B2
A sensor assembly is configured to be securely connected to a portion of an engine, for example, of a vehicle. The sensor assembly may include a main body, a connector shroud extending from the main body, a port extending from the main body, a deflectable locking member extending from the main body, and a radial tab extending from the main body. The connector shroud is configured to receive an electrical connector that electrically connects the sensor assembly to an engine control unit. The port is configured to be inserted into an opening formed in the portion of the engine. The deflectable locking member and the radial tab cooperate to securely connect the sensor assembly to the portion of the engine, such as through rotation of the sensor assembly in relation to the engine.
US09611813B2
Systems and methods for smoke testing an evaporative emissions control system of a vehicle using exhaust gas are disclosed. In one example, a method for an engine comprises: during a first condition, routing exhaust gas to a sealed fuel system; and pressurizing the fuel system with the exhaust gas such that exhaust gas will escape from a leak in the fuel system. In this way, the location and the size of an evap system leak may be determined without the need for, and without using, expensive off-board testing equipment.
US09611806B2
A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a piston body forming a crown portion and a skirt portion. The skirt portion includes a bore that receives a pin for connecting the piston to a connecting rod, and the crown portion forms a bowl surrounded by a flat crown surface having an annular shape and disposed along a plane. The bowl and the flat crown surface meet along a circular edge surrounding a rim of the bowl. The piston further includes an annular protrusion disposed within the bowl adjacent the rim. The annular protrusion has a generally convex shape in cross section created by an upper, inwardly extending surface and a lower, inwardly extending surface that meet along a convex apex. The piston further includes an airfoil surface formed in the flat crown surface. The airfoil surface has a convex shape and extends annularly around the rim of the bowl.
US09611786B2
An engine system for starting a gas turbine engine includes a starter coupled to the gas turbine engine and configured to provide torque to the gas turbine engine; and a controller coupled to the starter and configured to evaluate an engine system parameter and to select from a plurality of start modes for starting the gas turbine engine based on the engine system parameter.
US09611767B2
In an internal combustion engine comprising two or more engine valves that receive valve actuation motions from a valve actuation motion source via a valve train, which valve train comprises a hydraulic lash adjuster, an apparatus for valve actuation comprises a valve bridge and a lost motion assembly disposed therein. The lost motion assembly comprises a first piston disposed in a first piston bore formed in the valve bridge. The first piston is configured to operatively connect with a component of the valve train. A biasing element is configured to bias the first piston out of the first piston bore with a first force that is greater than a second force applied to the first piston by the hydraulic lash adjuster. A travel limiter is configured to limit travel of the first piston out of the first piston bore to be no greater than a maximum lost motion distance.
US09611763B2
A control valve for a hydraulic device, in particular a central valve of a camshaft adjuster for a reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine, having a holding component (1) in which a valve housing (3), a control sleeve (2) and a control piston (4) are arranged, wherein the control piston (4) is mounted so as to be loaded on one side by a spring and, on the other side, is mounted with limited axial displaceability in the control sleeve (2) by means of a locking ring (6), wherein the locking ring (6) can be fastened in the axial direction in an inner holder (14) on the holding component (1) and can be connected by a fixing device to a component of the control valve, and wherein the fixing device has fastening elements attached to the locking ring (6) and has matching recesses (10) in the valve housing (3) and/or in the control sleeve (2).
US09611761B2
A charging circuit for converting electrical energy into thermal energy is provided, having a compression stage, connected via a shaft to an electric motor, a heat exchanger and an expansion stage, which is connected via a shaft to a generator, wherein the compression stage is connected to the expansion stage via a hot-gas line, and the heat exchanger is connected on the primary side into the hot-gas line, wherein the expansion stage is connected via a return line to the compression stage, so that a closed circuit for a working gas is formed. A recuperator is also provided which, on the primary side, is connected into the hot-gas line between the heat exchanger and the expansion stage and, on the secondary side, is connected into the return line, so that heat from the working gas in the hot-gas line can be transferred to the working gas in the return line.
US09611756B2
A system includes a gas turbine engine that includes a combustor section having one or more combustors configured to generate combustion products, a turbine section having one or more turbine stages between an upstream end and a downstream end, an exhaust section disposed downstream from the downstream end of the turbine section, and a fluid supply system coupled to the exhaust section. The one or more turbine stages are driven by the combustion products. The exhaust section has an exhaust passage configured to receive the combustion products as an exhaust gas. The fluid supply system is configured to route a cooling gas to the exhaust section. The cooling gas has a temperature lower than the exhaust gas. The cooling gas includes an extracted exhaust gas, a gas separated from the extracted exhaust gas, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, or a combination thereof.
US09611753B2
An apparatus for inspecting a turbine blade tip shroud includes a frame comprising a top surface and a bottom surface that is alignable with the turbine blade tip shroud, and, at least one z-notch inspection slot that passes through the frame from the top surface to the bottom surface and is positioned to align with at least one z-notch of the turbine blade tip shroud when the frame is aligned on the turbine blade tip shroud. The apparatus further includes a removable z-notch inspection insert comprising a cross-sectional profile substantially matching the at least one z-notch inspection slot and comprising a z-notch guide face that faces the z-notch of the turbine blade tip shroud when the removable z-notch inspection insert is passed through the z-notch inspection slot
US09611745B1
A sequential flow cooling insert for a turbine stator vane of a small gas turbine engine, where the impingement cooling insert is formed as a single piece from a metal additive manufacturing process such as 3D metal printing, and where the insert includes a plurality of rows of radial extending impingement cooling air holes alternating with rows of radial extending return air holes on a pressure side wall, and where the insert includes a plurality of rows of chordwise extending second impingement cooling air holes on a suction side wall. The insert includes alternating rows of radial extending cooling air supply channels and return air channels that form a series of impingement cooling on the pressure side followed by the suction side of the insert.
US09611741B2
A multi-component braze filler alloy comprising 60-70% by weight CM247 superalloy and BRB braze alloy is diffusion brazed to a CM247 alloy base substrate, such as a gas turbine blade or vane. The substrate/braze interface may be subsequently weld-repaired without de-melting and migrating the braze alloy from the interface. The weld zone and surrounding area are solidification crack resistant. After the alloy composition is brazed to the base substrate the component may be returned to service. Thereafter the component remains repairable by welding or re-brazing, if needed to correct future in-service defects.
US09611735B2
An imaging-based measurement apparatus includes a light source, and at least one optical element for positioning in a flow conduit, the at least one optical element being part of a light path for light emitted by the light source, where light along the light path passes through a portion of fluid flowing in the flow conduit. An image sensor detects the light and measures content of the portion of the fluid.
US09611729B2
Systems and methods for positioning horizontal wells within a limited-pre-defined boundary. The systems and methods include an automated process for creating jointed target pairs or horizontal laterals to be utilized for planning horizontal wells in order to position the horizontal laterals within limited pre-defined boundary(ies).
US09611727B2
An apparatus and method is provided for fracturing a well in a hydrocarbon bearing formation. The apparatus can include a valve subassembly that is assembled with sections of casing pipe to form a well casing for the well. The valve subassembly includes a sliding piston that is pinned in place to seal off ports that provide communication between the interior of the well casing and a production zone of the formation. A dart can be inserted into the well casing and propelled by pressurized fracturing fluid until the dart reaches the valve subassembly to plug off the well casing below the valve subassembly. The force of the fracturing fluid against the dart forces the piston downwards to shear off the pins and open the ports. The fracturing fluid can then exit the ports to fracture the production zone of the formation.
