US09636288B2
Agents for oxidatively dyeing keratinous fibers include, in a cosmetic carrier, as an oxidation dye precursor of the developer type, at least one compound of formula (I) as set forth herein, in which R1, R2 can stand independently of each other, for a hydrogen atom, different substituted alkyl groups, and/or different substituted acrylic groups, and Y stands for a hydroxyl group, an amino group, or a C1-C6 alkylamino group, with the proviso that at least one of the moieties from the group R1 and R2 does not stand for a hydrogen atom, and/or the physiologically compatible salt thereof.
US09636276B2
An adaptor top for a medicament cartridge, the medicament cartridge including a cylinder having a main body portion, a neck portion at a first end having a radially outwardly directed flange portion, a narrowing shoulder portion connecting the body portion and the neck portion, a cap beaded across the first end thereby to retain a fluid impermeable membrane, and the adaptor top comprising a first cylindrical body portion having a radially inwardly directed flange at one end, in use to be seated over and against the cap and a second cylindrical skirt portion being adapted, in use, to be seated against the shoulder portion of the cartridge, the second skirt portion including a plurality of fingers, the free ends of the fingers in use being adapted to be seated beneath the outwardly directed flange of the medicament cartridge.
US09636272B2
A therapeutic appliance includes a water pack, at least one massaging finger, a recirculating water system and a thermoelectric device. The massaging finger has a vibrator disposed on the water pack to exciting liquid in the water pack for massaging a body portion to be massaged. The recirculating water system has a container and a conduit connecting the container and the water pack such that the liquid is permitted to circulate between the container and the water pack. In addition, the thermoelectric device is disposed in the container of the recirculating water system for heating or cooling the liquid.
US09636268B1
An articulating surgical armrest further includes two (2) elongated plates and a pivot hinge. A distal end of a first plate is pivotally attached to a distal end of a second plate. The plates are attached to form one (1) elongated structure in the same plane. A user rests their arm on the rest and articulates the first plate to provide range of motion for the user's arm while maintaining a muscular relaxed state in that arm.
US09636266B2
An apparatus for transferring a supine patient to a prone position on a patient support structure, and for rotating such a prone patient between prone and supine positions without removing the patient from the patient support structure.
US09636263B2
A method for assembling pre-fastened refastenable absorbent articles includes advancing discrete chassis in a machine direction such that the lateral axis is parallel with the machine direction. The chassis defines a first waist region and a longitudinally opposed second waist region separated by a central region. A first web advances in the machine direction and is combined with a discrete fastener component having a refastenable element. The discrete chassis are combined with the first web in the first waist region of the chassis. The second waist region of the discrete chassis is combined with a second web advancing in the machine direction. The chassis are folded and the first and second webs are joined together. The discrete fastener component is permanently connected with the second web. The absorbent article is cut along the discrete fastener component to create discrete, pre-fastened refastenable absorbent articles.
US09636259B2
Water resistant acoustic ports and electronic hearing protection devices incorporating such ports are described. More specifically, water proof acoustic ports that provide water protection for an internal sealed chamber by providing acoustically transparent inlets that are capable of withstanding external water pressure at given depth due to their volume relation to that of the internal chamber, as well as hearing protection devices incorporating such ports, are described.
US09636254B2
Methods, system and apparatus for relieving pressure in an organ such as, but not limited to, the eye are disclosed. The method includes implanting a bioabsorbable channel into the selected area of the organ using a delivery apparatus.
US09636242B2
A system for deploying a prosthesis over a Carina between an ipsilateral lumen and a contralateral lumen includes a guidewire, a guidewire capture catheter, a self-expanding tubular prosthesis, and a delivery catheter. The guidewire is first placed in the ipsilateral lumen. The guidewire capture catheter is then advanced from the contralateral lumen to a position at or above the ipsilateral lumen. The guidewire is typically advanced through an occlusion, which may be a total occlusion, and captured by a capture element on the guidewire capture catheter. The guidewire capture catheter pulls the guidewire out through the contralateral side, and the guidewire is used to advance a delivery catheter from the ipsilateral side. The delivery catheter delivers a first segment of the tubular prosthesis in the ipsilateral lumen and a second segment of the prosthesis in the contralateral lumen.
US09636240B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an adapted liner for placement on a stump (1), particularly an amputation stump, comprising the following steps: selecting a prefabricated liner (3) as a function of the size of the stump; applying a filling compound (2) onto regions of the stump (1) that deviate from the inside contour of the prefabricated liner; and connecting the filling compound (2) to the prefabricated liner (3).
US09636234B2
A hybrid spinal implant device, and method of making the same are disclosed. The spinal implant device comprises two facing endplates, each having at least one anchoring wall or pin element, and a plastic spacer anchored to and located between the two endplates. The endplates may be manufactured from titanium. The plastic spacer may be manufactured from a radiolucent, and bio-compatible polymer-based material including polyetheretherketone (“PEEK”), polyetherketone, polyetherketoneketone, and/or fiber reinforced plastic. The endplates made of titanium allow for enhanced bone growth, while the plastic/PEEK spacer element allows for improved load absorption and distribution. The spinal implant device, using titanium endplates and a PEEK spacer, provides excellent radiolucency thereby eliminating the need for X-ray markers either intra- or post-operation. The manufacturing method for the hybrid spinal implant device uses injection molding to insert or back injection mold the spacer between the two endplates.
US09636226B2
A hand and/or wrist implant, including a web structure having a space truss with two or more planar truss units having a plurality of struts joined at nodes. The web structure is configured for the repair of traumatic bone fractures.
US09636218B2
Devices and methods of treating sleep disordered breathing are provided herein. The devices are designed capable of preventing collapse of an oral airway tissue during sleep while maintaining normal velopharyngeal functions.
US09636214B2
A method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens with one base focus and at least one additional focus, capable of reducing aberrations of the eye for at least one of the foci after its implantation, comprising the steps of: (i) characterizing at least one corneal surface as a mathematical model; (ii) calculating the resulting aberrations of said corneal surface(s) by employing said mathematical model; (iii) modelling the multifocal ophthalmic lens such that a wavefront arriving from an optical system comprising said lens and said at least one corneal surface obtains reduced aberrations for at least one of the foci. There is also disclosed a method of selecting a multifocal intraocular lens, a method of designing a multifocal ophthalmic lens based on corneal data from a group of patients, and a multifocal ophthalmic lens.
US09636213B2
An intraocular lens includes a deformable optic, a rigid optic, and a support structure. The deformable optic is disposed about an optical axis and comprises a solid material and a deformable surface. The rigid optic is disposed about the optical axis and comprises a solid material and a rigid surface. The support structure is operably coupled to at least one of the optics for pressing the deformable surface and the rigid surface together in response to or in the absences of an ocular force, whereby at least a portion of the deformable surface changes shape such that the optical power of the at least a portion of the deformable surface and/or the intraocular lens changes by at least 2 Diopter.
US09636206B2
Systems and methods can remove material of interest, including blood clots, from a body region, including but not limited to the circulatory system for the treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), cerebrovascular embolism, and other vascular occlusions.
US09636201B2
In one embodiment, a medical device includes a first elongate portion and a second elongate portion. The first elongate portion defines a loop and has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is configured to be removably coupled to an implant. The second elongate portion has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion of the second elongate portion is coupled to the first elongate portion. The second end portion of the second elongate portion is configured to be removably coupled to an insertion tool.
US09636200B2
An implant including a vaginal portion having a length, width, first and second ends with a central region positioned therebetween, and a sacral portion having a length, width, first end and second end. The first end of the sacral portion is coupled to the central region of the vaginal portion so that the width of the first end extends substantially perpendicularly to the length of the vaginal portion. The implant is made of the same substantially flat, planar mesh having an anisotropic knitted or woven structure that has a greater stiffness in a first direction than a second direction. The mesh is aligned such that the first direction is aligned in a longitudinal direction of the sacral portion and the mesh of the vaginal portion is aligned such that the stiffness in a longitudinal direction of the vaginal portion is less than that of the sacral portion.
US09636195B2
An oral hygiene system for cleaning teeth and gums includes a mouthpiece having at least one arcuate channel adapted to receive and surround the teeth. The mouthpiece includes at least two modalities chosen from a mechanical modality, an iontophoretic modality, and a disinfection modality. The mechanical modality brushes the teeth and gums and dislodges food debris, the iontophoretic modality breaks up plaque and tartar buildup, and the disinfection modality removes the food debris, plaque and tartar buildup. A control system coordinates the transmission of modalities, tracks and records utilization, recording completed and failed treatment cycles, and transmits them to a monitoring system. The monitoring system, which links to electronic medical administrating record (eMAR) technology and patient tracking technology (e.g., RFID sensors, electronic tags), facilitates compliance with recommended oral hygiene regimens and review of compliance by medical staff, assisted living staff, and/or caregivers.
US09636194B2
A dental device with dual saliva extractors and dual retractors for the tongue and upper lip and method are connectable to a suction and disposal unit. The device includes a pair of extractors each of which includes a suction tip and a tubular member for connecting the tip to the sources of suction. A first of the tubular members is put into a patient's mouth with a first curved portion inserted in a lower portion of the patient's mouth over the tongue and behind the front teeth and a second curved portion separate from said first portion branched off from where the first portion crosses the lower teeth and is inserted between the upper lip and upper molars under the region of the Stenson's duct.
US09636190B2
Bone pen, bone pin, bone pen set, bone pin set and bone pen kit including the same and initial drill
A bone pen includes a pen which is coupled to a user's handpiece and comprises a drill section provided at an end portion thereof to drill to an alveolar bone; a cup which has an accommodating space to hold therein bone particles harvested during the drilling operation, has an outer diameter corresponding to a mesiodistal diameter of a patient's tooth targeted for treatment, and coupled to the pen so that the accommodating space can surround the drill section; and a spring which is supported at one side of the pen and elastically supports the cup with regard to the pen, wherein the drill section of the pen is positioned at a central axis line of the cup, maintained as being positioned at a mesiodistal diameter center of the tooth targeted for treatment, and guided for drilling.
US09636186B2
A multi-user medical robotic system for collaboration or training in minimally invasive surgical procedures includes first and second master input devices, a first slave robotic mechanism, and at least one processor configured to generate a first slave command for the first slave robotic mechanism by switchably using one or both of a first command indicative of manipulation of the first master input device by a first user and a second command indicative of manipulation of the second master input device by a second user. To facilitate the collaboration or training, both first and second users communicate with each other through an audio system and see the minimally invasive surgery site on first and second displays respectively viewable by the first and second users.
US09636183B2
A system and a method are disclosed that allow for generation of a model or reconstruction of a model of a subject based upon acquired image data. The image data can be acquired in a substantially mobile system that can be moved relative to a subject to allow for image acquisition from a plurality of orientations relative to the subject. The plurality of orientations can include a first and final orientation and a predetermined path along which an image data collector or detector can move to acquire an appropriate image data set to allow for the model of construction.
US09636178B2
An articulating shaft system includes an elongated shaft and first and second articulating components. The elongated shaft extends along a main axis and has a distal end surface that is not perpendicular to the main axis. The first articulating component is co-axial with the main axis and is positioned adjacent to the distal end surface of the elongated shaft and has a proximal end surface and a distal end surface that are not perpendicular to the main axis. The second articulating component is co-axial with the main axis and is positioned adjacent to the distal end surface of the first articulating component and has a proximal end surface that is not perpendicular to the main axis. Rotating the first articulating component around the main axis positions the first and second articulating components at an angle relative to the main axis.
US09636174B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for treating hypertension, e.g., via a pulsed electric field, via a stimulation electric field, via localized drug delivery, via high frequency ultrasound, via thermal techniques, etc. Such neuromodulation may effectuate irreversible electroporation or electrofusion, necrosis and/or inducement of apoptosis, alteration of gene expression, action potential attenuation or blockade, changes in cytokine up-regulation and other conditions in target neural fibers. In some embodiments, neuromodulation is applied to neural fibers that contribute to renal function. In some embodiments, such neuromodulation is performed in a bilateral fashion. Bilateral renal neuromodulation may provide enhanced therapeutic effect in some patients as compared to renal neuromodulation performed unilaterally, i.e., as compared to renal neuromodulation performed on neural tissue innervating a single kidney.
US09636172B2
A system and method for occluding a pulmonary vein. The device includes a treatment device comprising an inner balloon, an outer balloon, and a space therebetween. Delivery of fluid to the inner balloon inflates the treatment element to a first diameter. If a greater treatment element diameter is required to completely occlude a pulmonary vein, fluid is delivered to the space between the first and second balloons, which expands the second balloon and causes the treatment element to have a second diameter that is greater than the first diameter. The fluid delivered to the inner balloon and fluid delivered to the space between the balloons may be from different sources and may be delivered and exhausted independently. Once the treatment element is caused to have a diameter sufficient to completely occlude the pulmonary vein, the treatment element is activated to cool or heat ostial tissue.
US09636164B2
According to some embodiments, a medical instrument comprises an elongate body having a proximal end and a distal end and a pair of electrodes or electrode portions (for example, a split-tip electrode assembly). Systems and methods are described herein that perform contact sensing and/or ablation confirmation based on electrical measurements obtained while energy of different frequencies are applied to the pair of electrodes or electrode portions. The contact sensing systems and methods may calibrate network parameter measurements to compensate for a hardware unit in a network parameter measurement circuit or to account for differences in cables, instrumentation or hardware used.
US09636160B2
An implant including a screw body composed of pure magnesium or a magnesium alloy and having a male thread, and the implant further including an anodized membrane covering an outer surface of the screw body. The male thread has a clearance flank and a pressure flank. The clearance flank faces forward in a traveling direction and the pressure flank faces rearward in the traveling direction during a screwing process of the screw body. The biodegradation period of the anodized membrane on the clearance flank is shorter than the biodegradation period of the anodized membrane on the pressure flank.
US09636154B2
An anchor-in-anchor fixation system is provided for securing underlying structure, such as bone. The fixation system includes a first bone anchor having a shaft for fixation to underlying bone, and a head that defines an internal bore. A second bone anchor extends through the bore and into underlying bone. A fixation assembly is also provided that includes one or more fixation systems coupled to an auxiliary attachment member configured for long bone fixation, spinal fixation, or fixation of other bones as desired.
US09636141B2
Disposable scalpel blade assembly and supporting reusable handle. The blade assembly includes a blade, blade holder and blade shield. The blade holder has a flexible arm at the rear-end, which has a protrusion-block at the arm end. The blade shield inner wall has clearance opening for the protrusion-block. When the handle is inserted, the protrusion-block extends into the clearance opening with sideward movement, so the blade and blade holder are connected. After the handle is pulled-out, the protrusion-block misaligns with the clearance opening and cannot make sideward movement so the handle cannot connect again. The blade holder first sliding channel is provided with a first front locking channel at its front-end and a deadlock channel is set in front of the first front locking channel. When the handle is pulled-out after use, the first protrusion of the blade shield shall fall into the deadlock channel to enter the deadlocking state.
US09636138B2
A tissue-removing catheter includes a cutter. The catheter also includes a longitudinal force-transmitting member extending along a catheter body and being longitudinally movable relative to the catheter body. A distal end portion of the longitudinal force-transmitting member is operatively connected to a distal longitudinal portion of a cutter housing such that distal movement of the longitudinal force-transmitting member relative to the catheter body and the cutter imparts pivoting of the distal longitudinal portion to its open position to expose the cutter.
US09636132B2
A cutting device for use with a powered surgical tool includes an outer blade and an inner blade. The outer blade includes a tubular body, an end cap, and a cutting window defined by a beveled edge on the tubular body and the end cap. The inner blade includes a cutting tip. The inner blade co-axially disposed within the outer blade such that the cutting tip is rotatably exposed at the cutting window. The cutting tip has castellations extending toward the end cap of the outer blade and opposing teeth extending radially toward one another across an opening of the cutting tip.
US09636130B2
A surgical instrument includes a cutting member with an implement for cutting tissue, and a drive coupled to the cutting member to simultaneously rotate and translate the cutting member in response to a force applied to the drive. A method of cutting tissue includes positioning an outer member such that tissue is located within the outer member, engaging the tissue with an inner member, and simultaneously rotating and translating the inner member to cut the tissue. A tangential cutting force is applied to the tissue with the inner member to mechanically cut the tissue. The inner member is mechanically driven to undergo simultaneous rotation and translation.
US09636123B2
A calculus removing device includes an elongated member and a retrieval part fixed to the elongated member. A discharge force is produced in a lumen in the elongated member to discharge fluid in the lumen into the renal pelvis, and a suction force is produced in the lumen to draw fluid into the lumen from the renal pelvis. An outlet communicates with the lumen, and fluid in the lumen is discharged into the renal pelvis through the outlet in the presence of the discharge force. An inlet communicates with the lumen, and fluid in the renal pelvis is drawn into the lumen through the inlet in the presence of the suction force. The retrieval part includes an interior that communicates with the lumen and the renal pelvis, and the interior is configured to receive the calculus in the renal pelvis in the presence of the suction force.
US09636117B2
The present technology is directed generally to devices, systems, and methods for enclosing anatomical openings. In several embodiments, an aneurysm device is endovascularly deliverable to a site proximate to an arterial aneurysm. The aneurysm device includes a closure structure having a distal-facing aspect configured to at least partially occlude the aneurysm and a proximal-facing aspect configured to arch over lumina of an artery. The device further includes a supplemental stabilizer connected to the closure structure and configured to reside in the artery and press outward against a luminal wall thereof. In some embodiments, the device can also include a barrier spanning at least a portion of the distal-facing aspect of the closure structure and configured to further occlude a neck of the aneurysm. In further embodiments, the closure structure can be configured to restrict and/or divert flow to or from the aneurysm.
US09636113B2
A surgical fastener applying apparatus comprising a cartridge section having a cartridge containing a plurality of fasteners, an anvil section having an anvil for receiving the fasteners when advanced from the cartridge, the cartridge and anvil sections clamping tissue therebetween. The first and second cam members are movable within the cartridge section to fire the fasteners. A cam member supporting member fixed within the cartridge section has an upper surface on which the cam members are slidable. The upper surface of the cam member supporting member has a first upper surface portion on a first plane and a second lower surface portion in a different substantially parallel second plane such that the first and second cam members slide in offset planes on the upper surface to fire the fasteners.
US09636106B2
Devices and methods for locking and/or cutting tethers during a tissue modification procedure are described. In some variations, a tether may be used to tighten tissue by bringing two pieces or sections of the tissue together. The tether, which may be under tension, may be locked to maintain the tension, and excess tether may be severed, using one or more of the devices and/or methods. The devices and/or methods may be used, for example, in minimally invasive procedures.
US09636097B2
A surgical retractor includes a retractor body and a retractor arm. The retractor arm includes a first portion configured to operatively connect to the retractor body, and a control assembly configured to control movement of a retractor blade. The control assembly includes a base member having a first opening and a second opening, and movable between a first position and second position. The retractor arm further includes a regulating member to control rotation of the base member and move through the first opening of the base member, a connecting member cooperatively connected to the regulating member, and a barrel member in operative slidable engagement with the second opening formed in the base member. Rotation of the regulating member in a selected direction moves a stem of the regulating member through the first opening thereby forcing the barrel member to slide along the second opening and the base member to pivot relative to the retractor arm between a first position and second position, thereby rotating a connected retractor blade.
US09636095B2
An occluder for closing an opening in a circuit system can be transferred from a compact manifestation which extends along a longitudinal axis into an expanded manifestation. The occluder has a first expansion unit and a second expansion unit which bear on in each case one side of the opening in the expanded manifestation. Furthermore, the occluder has a first coupling part and a second coupling part which can be brought into engagement with one another, with the result that they fix the occluder in its expanded manifestation. The first coupling part has a region which extends between the first and second expansion units in the expanded manifestation. According to the invention, this region is configured such that it can expand along the longitudinal axis. It is preferably configured such that it can expand counter to a restoring force, that is to say resiliently or elastically. This occluder therefore permits automatic setting of the spacing between two expansion and/or closure units according to the structural conditions at the location of the opening to be closed.
US09636079B2
An x-ray computed tomography system (14) includes a gantry (15), a plurality of elements (18), and one or more processors (28). The gantry (15) moves to different orientations and generates x-ray data which includes image projection data at a plurality of the orientations. The plurality of elements (18) connect to the gantry and cause x-ray attenuation of the generated projection data. The one or more processors (28) are programmed to receive (60) the generated x-ray data and decompose (62) the received image projection data into indications of relative positions of the plurality of elements at different orientations of the gantry.
US09636075B2
Simulation-based estimation of elasticity parameters and use of same for non-invasive cancer detection and cancer staging are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for simulation-based estimation of elasticity parameters includes constructing a 3D model of an object comprising biological tissue, the model having a first shape and an elasticity value. A simulation iteration is then performed, which includes simulating the application of an external force to the model, causing the model to have a second shape, measuring the difference between the second shape and a target shape, and determining whether the measured difference between the second shape and the target shape is within a threshold of error. If the measured difference is not within the threshold of error, the process performs additional iterations using adjusted elasticity or force values until the measured difference is within the threshold of error, at which time the final elasticity and force values are reported. In one embodiment, the elasticity value is mapped to a diagnostic parameter, such as an indication of the possibility, presence, or stage of cancer.
US09636074B2
A method for calculating a motion vector field (MVF) in a reconstructed CT scan image, comprises: determining a region of interest (ROI) based on a vessel centreline in a first reconstructed CT scan image, wherein a motion vector field (MVF) for the ROI is to be calculated; determining at least two time control points for calculating the MVF; calculating a motion level factor of the ROI; calculating motion amounts of the MVF corresponding to each of the time control points; determining the direction of the MVF of the ROI; and calculating the MVF of the ROI according to the motion level factor, the motion amounts of the MVF corresponding to each of the time control points and the direction of the MVF.
US09636071B2
Provided is an intraoral sensor including an image sensor configured to bendable and to generate an electrical signal by detecting an X-ray; and a case configured to receive the image sensor and to limits a bending level of the image sensor.
US09636070B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for monitoring and displaying medical parameters for a patient. In one embodiment, a display screen can include information related to a physiological parameter being measured from a patient. The information can include a current value based on values of the physiological parameter gathered from the patient over a period of time. The display screen can indicate whether or not the current value is within a predetermined normal range for the physiological parameter and whether or not the current value is within a predetermined goal range for the physiological parameter. The goal range can be nested within the normal range. If the current value moves outside the normal range, an alarm can be triggered. A goal alarm can be triggered if the current value is within the normal range but falls outside the goal range.
US09636068B2
An apparatus for insertion of a medical device in the skin of a subject is provided.
US09636065B2
A leakage detecting implant can detect leakage of body fluid from an incision, resection, or other internal surgical site in a subject. The leakage detecting implant can include: one or more biodegradable colorant members having a tissue-contacting inner surface and an opposite outer surface; a resilient member having an inner surface coupled to the outer surface of the one or more colorant members; and a cover member having a body with an internal chamber and an opening on a tissue-contacting side, the internal chamber containing the resilient member and at least a portion of the one or more biodegradable colorant members with the tissue-contacting inner surface exposed through the opening, the cover member having an inner surface of the internal chamber coupled to an outer surface of the resilient member, the tissue-contacting side having one or more affixation surfaces adapted to be affixed to tissue of a subject.
US09636064B2
A system and a method for monitoring subject's eyes are disclosed. In one embodiment, spectral profiles of a frame substantially around a subject's eye are received from an image capturing device. Further, a state of the subject's eye in the frame is detected using the spectral profiles received from the image capturing device.
US09636062B2
Bodily fluid sample collection systems, devices, and method are provided. The device may comprise a first portion comprising at least a sample collection channel configured to draw the fluid sample into the sample collection channel via a first type of motive force. The sample collection device may include a second portion comprising a sample container for receiving the bodily fluid sample collected in the sample collection channel, the sample container operably engagable to be in fluid communication with the collection channel, whereupon when fluid communication is established, the container provides a second motive force different from the first motive force to move a majority of the bodily fluid sample from the channel into the container.
US09636057B2
A sensor for measuring physiological characteristics includes a circuit assembly, at least one material layer, and an adhesive layer that extends beyond an outer edge of the circuit assembly. The at least one material layer forms an adhesive edge around the perimeter of the sensor.
US09636052B2
A glucose sensor comprising an optical energy source having an emitter with an emission pattern; a first polarizer intersecting the emission pattern; a second polarizer spaced a distance from the first polarizer and intersecting the emission pattern, the second polarizer rotated relative to the first polarizer by a first rotational amount Θ; a first optical detector intersecting the emission pattern; a second optical detector positioned proximal to the second polarizer, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being positioned between the optical energy source and the second optical detector, the second optical detector intersecting the emission pattern; a compensating circuit coupled to the second optical detector; and a subtractor circuit coupled to the compensating circuit and the first optical detector.
US09636045B2
Disclosed herein are devices, methods and systems for monitoring and detection of pressure on a part of a body of a user. In an embodiment, a device includes a substrate having a contact surface for contacting a user, one or more sacs associated with the contact surface of the substrate, and one or more sensors in communication with the one or more sacs, the one or more sensors adapted to measure changes in pressure in the one or more sacs. The sacs contain a fluidic material configured to transmit pressure. The fluidic material is further configured to be shock-absorbing and pressure-relieving such that the fluidic material is displaceable by an action of the user contacting the contact surface causing the pressure in the fluidic material to be redistributed.
US09636044B2
A method for extending an effective working range of an analyzer for measuring an analyte in a breath sample. The method includes initiating a reaction in the analyzer that produces an optically discernable reaction product having an optical property that is indicative of a concentration of the analyte in the breath sample, taking a first reading of the optical property at a first time, and comparing the first reading to a reference. If the comparison yields a first state, the method includes determining the concentration using the first reading. If it yields a second state different from the first state, the method includes taking a second reading of the optical property at a second time, and determining the concentration of the analyte using the second reading. Other methods are provided as well.
US09636043B2
A system for sampling exhaled breath and for supply of a gas, the system comprising: a gas delivery cannula comprising at least one nasal prong for insertion into a nostril, the nasal prong comprising a distal end; an exhaled breath sampling cannula for insertion into the nostril, the exhaled breath sampling cannula comprising a distal end; and a connector for coupling the gas delivery cannula to the exhaled breath sampling cannula, such that the distal end of the exhaled breath sampling cannula is disposed deeper in the nostril than the distal end of the nasal prong, to reduce dilution of sampled exhaled breath by delivered gas. The connected is configured to facilitate adjustability of an insertion depth of the exhaled breath sampling cannula into said nostril.
US09636039B2
In a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging method and apparatus, multiple diagnostic scans are obtained of an examination subject during an imaging session. An initial reference scan of the subject is obtained at the beginning of the session and, as the session proceeds, an automatic determination is made before each diagnostic scan is obtained as to whether the immediately preceding reference scan is still valid, primarily be checking whether an amount of patient movement has occurred that renders the immediately preceding reference scan invalid. Either a new reference scan is obtained before the next diagnostic scan, or, if still valid, the immediately preceding reference scan is used for the next diagnostic scan.
US09636034B2
A system for modulating a response signal includes functionalized particles configured to interact with target analytes, a detector configured to detect an analyte response signal transmitted from the body, a modulation source configured to modulate the analyte response signal, and a processor configured to non-invasively detect the one or more target analytes by differentiating the analyte response signal from a background signal, at least in part, based on the modulation. The analyte response signal is related to the interaction of the target analytes with the functionalized particles. In some examples, the system may also include magnetic particles and a magnetic field source sufficient to distribute the magnetic particles into a spatial arrangement in the body. The analyte response signal may be differentiated from the background signal, at least in part, based on modulation of the signals due, at least in part, to the spatial arrangement of the magnetic particles.
US09636030B2
There is provided a portable electronic apparatus including an apparatus main body that includes electronic components built therein, a fixation belt that is used to attach the apparatus main body to a living body surface, a connector that is provided at an end of the fixation belt in a belt longitudinal direction, and has an engagement protrusion that is detachably stored in an engagement recess formed at the apparatus main body, and a biasing body that is provided in the engagement recess, and biases the engagement protrusion stored in the engagement recess so as to maintain an engagement state between the engagement recess and the engagement protrusion.
US09636028B2
A three-dimensional neural probe electrode array system is described. Planar probes are microfabricated and electrically connected to flexible micro-machined ribbon cables using a rivet bonding technique. The distal end of each cable is connected to a probe with the proximal end of the cable being customized for connection to a printed circuit board. Final assembly consists of combining multiple such assemblies into a single structure. Each of the two-dimensional neural probe arrays is positioned into a micro-machined platform that provides mechanical support and alignment for each array. Lastly, a micro-machined cap is placed on top of each neural electrode probe and cable assembly to protect them from damage during shipping and subsequent use. The cap provides a relatively planar surface for attachment of a computer controlled inserter for precise insertion into the tissue.
US09636021B2
Flavonoid compounds that are selective for a protein, a portion or a living cell, or a portion of an organism may be used as biological imaging agents. The flavonoid compounds are useful for methods of imaging organisms such as zebrafish embryos and zebra fish. Flavonoid compounds may also be used to detect protein. Advantageously, flavonoids that selectively bind protein, a portion of a living cell, or a portion of an organism may exhibit a florescence “turn-on” mechanism, where the flavonoids that are selectively bound exhibit a florescence response when excited.
US09636020B2
Analysis of live beings is facilitated. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a light-directing arrangement such as an endoscope is mounted to a live being. Optics in the light-directing arrangement are implemented to pass source light (e.g., laser excitation light) into the live being, and to pass light from the live being for detection thereof. The light from the live being may include, for example, photons emitted in response to the laser excitation light (i.e., fluoresced). The detected light is then used to detect a characteristic of the live being.
US09636017B2
A modular sensor system is disclosed. The system can include one or more sensors, a mounting unit, and a control unit. The mounting unit can enable the control unit and/or one or more sensors to be securely, but detachably, mounted to a patient's body. The control unit can include electronics and other components configured to interface with, monitor, and record data from the one or more sensors. The control unit can further include a wired bus, transceiver, antenna, or other suitable components to enable wireless communication between the system and a central control or monitor. Some or all of the components included in the control unit can be removable from the system to enable some or all of the electronics of the system to be removed.
US09636014B2
Provided is an ophthalmologic apparatus capable of executing accurate automatic alignment even for an eye having an intraocular lens (IOL) implanted therein. The ophthalmologic apparatus includes: an optical system including a light beam projecting unit for projecting a light beam to an eye to be inspected, and a light receiving unit for receiving a reflection light beam from the eye to be inspected; a detecting unit for detecting a plurality of bright spot images from the reflection light beam received by the light receiving unit; and a calculating unit for calculating an alignment status between the eye to be inspected and the optical system based on the detected plurality of bright spot images. The ophthalmologic apparatus is further provided with a selection unit for selecting bright spot images to be used for the calculation by the calculating unit, from among the plurality of bright spot images.
US09636012B2
Ophthalmic lens assemblies and methods of assembly and use may include a lens assembly including a lens element and a protective cover. The lens element includes a contact lens surface and a faceted optical body including a distal portion and a faceted portion including one or more mirror facets to form a TIR activity pathway. The protective cover includes a contact aperture shaped to receive the contact lens surface, a grip portion, and a facet housing portion including an interior surface. The contact aperture of the protective cover is stretch-fit about a periphery of the contact lens surface to maintain a proximal-side fluid seal. The grip portion of the protective cover is stretch-fit about the distal portion of the lens element to maintain a distal-side fluid seal. One or more TIR-inducing air gaps are defined by the facet housing portion between the interior surface and the mirror facets.
US09636011B2
Systems and methods are presented for acquisition and processing of spectrally dispersed illumination optical coherence tomographic data. Light from a source is distributed spectrally on the sample, and each acquisition simultaneously provides partial spectral interference information from multiple locations in the sample. Thus for a given spatial point, a single observation will be of a partial spectrum A-scan. When multiple partial spectrum A-scan observations are made at the same point by shifting the spectrum of light on to the tissue, the point can be observed by the entire broadband spectrum of the light source, thereby making it possible to create a full axial resolution A-scan.
US09636010B2
An anoscope kit includes an anoscope having a plurality of spaced apart fingers having free ends and a dilator removably positionable within the anoscope to aid insertion of the anoscope. The dilator has a proximal region, an intermediate region and a distal region. The distal region includes an enlarged distal head. A ramped surface extends from the enlarged distal head toward the intermediate region. The intermediate region has an outer surface to contact the fingers of the dilator.
US09636007B2
A method of aiding the diagnosis of otitis media in a patient includes obtaining image data in a processor apparatus of a computing device, the image data being associated with at least one electronic image of a tympanic membrane of the patient, calculating a plurality of image features, each image feature being calculated based on at least a portion of the image data, classifying the at least one electronic image as a particular type of otitis media using the plurality of image features, and outputting an indication of the particular type of otitis media. Also, a system for implementing such a method that includes an output device and a computing device.
US09636002B2
An endoscope includes: an operation portion grasped by an operator; an insertion portion pivotable relative to the operation portion; a switch portion provided on the operation portion and switchable by a grasping hand of the operator; a pulling/relaxing member pulled and relaxed by back and forth movement in the operation portion based on switch operation of the switch portion; and a braking unit that includes a deformation portion deformed by the pulling and the relaxing of the pulling/relaxing member and that restrains or allows rotation of the insertion portion.
US09636000B2
A single port entry surgical instrument has an elongated structure with lumens through which surgical tools and an image capturing device may be inserted and controllably extended out of its distal end for performing a medical procedure, a tubular-shaped balloon disposed around the elongated structure, and an expandable retractor disposed around the balloon so that when the balloon is inflated, the retractor expands and locks in an expanded configuration to retract extraneous tissue. The port entry may be secured using the expandable retractor or sealed using another inflatable balloon disposed around the proximal end of the elongated structure and centered in the port entry.
US09635995B2
Support structures for dishwashers are disclosed. An example dishwasher for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation includes a tub defining a treating chamber with an opening, a frame coupled to and structurally supporting at least a portion of the tub, a dish rack mount coupled to the frame, and a dish rack coupled to the dish rack mount, wherein the weight of the dish rack is substantially borne by the frame.
US09635988B2
A toilet seat cover with a full-directional night lamp includes an upper lid, a seat and two supports. A cylindrical night lamp is locked on the upper lid or locked between two seat shaft sleeves at two sides of the seat. The night lamp comprises at least one electric body and at least one light-pervious tube. The electric body has at least one end thereof defined as a light source end. The light source end of the electric body is axially sleeved on and fixed to the light-pervious tube. The whole night lamp can be detachably mounted on the upper lid or locked between the two seat shaft sleeves at two sides of the seat, thereby attaining a full 360 degree emission of light and allowing the lighting emission to be free of the operation state of the toilet seat cover.
US09635987B2
A hinge assembly for a toilet seat, the hinge assembly comprising a hinge post for pivotally supporting the toilet seat on a toilet bowl, a bolt connectable to the hinge post for securing the hinge post to the toilet bowl, the bolt being configured to extend through an opening in the toilet bowl, and a nut threadable onto the bolt to secure the hinge post to the toilet bowl, the nut having a first segment threadable onto the bolt, a second segment and a shear segment connecting the first and second segments, the shear segment having a lower torque resistance than the first and second segments such that the shear segment breaks when torque applied to the second segment reaches a predetermined amount.
US09635980B2
A fajita meal serving apparatus comprises a thermally-insulative serving platter defining an upper recessed area configured for securely receiving and supporting a serving plate, a two-way drawer disposed in a cavity under the upper recessed area of the serving platter, where the two-way drawer defines a circular recess configured for holding tortillas. The apparatus further includes first and second diametrically opposed handles formed in the serving platter.
US09635977B2
Described herein is a cooking device for foodstuffs that are wrapped in bacon, dough or other food items. The device includes a tray that holds a number of silicone holders that hold bacon-wrapped food items while they cook in an oven or toaster oven, microwave or grill (where made of metal). The cooking holders or assemblies hold bacon wrapped food items upright and in place during the cooking process. The entire cooking holder is made of silicone so the food item slides easily off the cooking apparatus when cooking is complete. The cooking tray is designed to allow grease to flow away from the food into a reservoir located around the edges of the tray.
US09635971B2
The invention concerns a container (1) for storing and dispensing a flowable product comprising a tank (2) and a dispensing closure for dispensing the product from the tank comprising disc member (3, 4) with apertures (31, 41) therein, one of the disc (4) being rotatable and susceptible to cooperate with a rotatable shaft. The invention also concerns a machine susceptible to be fed with a flowable product stored in such a container, said machine comprising disc members (8, 9) with apertures (81, 91) therein, one of the disc (9) being rotatable and cooperating with a rotatable shaft (11).
US09635970B2
A tool (1) for separating flesh from a core and a rind of a fruit, in particular a pineapple, comprising: a corer (10) that, op opposite ends, is provided with a driving member (40) and a cutting edge (12); a flesh cutter (20) extending radially on the corer and having at least one cutting edge (22), wherein the shape of the flesh cutter is such that upon rotation it executes a helical movement with a predetermined pitch; a rind cutter (30), provided at an outer end of the flesh cutter and extending parallel to the corer, said rind cutter including a cutting edge (32). The tool further comprises a section cutter (60), including an annular hub (62) configured to be slidingly received on the corer, an annular rim (66), and one or more spokes (64) radiating from the hub and interconnecting the hub and the rim.
US09635963B2
Embodiments relate generally to washable pillows, particularly washable foam pillows, and methods for assembling such pillows. The washable pillow may comprise one or more cushion element and a fabric cover attached to and possibly enclosing the one or more cushion element. The pillow may also comprise a shell formed by the one or more cushion element, wherein the shell may comprise a cavity therein, and the cavity may contain a filler material.
US09635958B2
The present application provides a shelf assembly for a display case. The shelf assembly may include a shelf, a pair of shelf brackets with a shelf bracket pocket, and a support rail with a pair of tabs. The support rail extends between the pair of shelf brackets and the tabs of the support rail fit with the shelf bracket pockets of the pair of shelf brackets.
US09635954B2
A device is disclosed that provides parasite, dust mite and allergen protection for an encasement used for a mattress or foundation. The device can be part of the original encasement or added as an after-market item to a conventional encasement to prevent the egress of parasites, dust mites and allergens from the gap between the zipper slide and the zipper stop and prevent movement of the zipper slide when the zipper is completely zipped up. The device includes a at least one compressible material that is used. The compressible material is compressed to seal the gap and prevent movement of the zipper slide. In one embodiment of the invention, the device allows the mattress or foundation within the encasement to breathe while blocking parasites, dust mites and allergens from escaping from within the encasement.
US09635953B2
A method and system may include transmitting a signal to a pump of an air mattress to set the pressure of the air mattress to an initial pressure; receiving, at a central controller, a user preference condition for an automatic adjustment of the pressure in the air mattress; receiving, at the central controller, an indication that the air mattress is empty; and based on determining that the user preference condition has been met and receiving the indication: detecting a change in the pressure of the air mattress beyond a threshold value; and based on the detection, adjusting the pressure of the air mattress to the initial pressure.
US09635937B2
A rack mounting kit is configured to allow mounting of a telecommunications equipment chassis into a rack by a single person. The rack mounting kit includes two complimentary brackets that form a shelf-like feature. The complimentary brackets also include a mating latch for interfacing with a chassis to secure the chassis in place. Additionally, a cross brace is provided that is removably installed onto the two complimentary brackets to provide additionally rigidity to a rack while a chassis is being installed. The cross brace can be removed once installation of the chassis is complete.
US09635929B1
A foldable table has a base, a lifting device, an adjusting assembly, and a supporting board. The adjusting assembly is pivotally connected with the lifting device and has an adjusting board, an adjusting rack, an adjusting slider, and a connection arm. The adjusting board is pivotally connected with the lifting device. The adjusting rack is mounted on the adjusting board and has an engaging side provided with multiple teeth. The adjusting slider is moveably mounted on the adjusting board and has an engaging block and two resilient elements. The engaging block is pivotally mounted on the adjusting slider and has an engaging post selectively engaging with one of the teeth on the adjusting rack. The supporting board is pivotally connected with the adjusting board and is pivotally connected with the top end of the connection arm.
US09635927B2
The present invention recognizes that there exists a long felt need for brush heads and brushes having material application and buffing properties. A first aspect of the present invention is a brush head. A second aspect of the present invention is a brush including a brush head of the present invention. A third aspect of the present invention is a method of making a brush head of the present invention. A fourth aspect of the present invention is a method of making a brush of the present invention. A fifth aspect of the present invention is a method of using a brush head of the present invention. A sixth aspect of the present invention is a method of using a brush of the present invention.
US09635926B2
A storage case includes a case body that stores a storage item, a pull-out member that, upon being pulled out from the case body, moves the storage item stored in the case body toward an outside of the case body, and a fold portion that is provided at the pull-out member. The pull-out member is folded at the fold portion and separated from an extraction section of the storage item so as to expose the extraction section in a state in which the extraction section of the storage item is positioned outside the case body.
US09635923B2
A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head to hold at least one drawing tool which performs drawing by applying photocurable fluid material to a drawing target surface of a drawing target object, a light source unit which emits irradiation light including specific light in a specific wavelength region to cure the photocurable fluid material, and a light-blocking member which is disposed between the light source unit and the drawing tool held in the drawing head and blocks the specific light from arriving at the drawing tool when the light source unit emits the irradiation light.
US09635922B2
A humidification assembly includes a housing that has a first end, a second end and a peripheral wall extending therebetween. The first end and the second end are open. The housing is substantially hollow. The peripheral wall is curvilinear such that the housing has a cylindrical shape. The first end may insertably receive a hair dryer. A gasket is coupled to an inside surface of the peripheral wall. The gasket may frictionally engage the hair dryer air outlet to retain the housing on the hair dryer. A reservoir is provided to contain a fluid. The peripheral wall has a fill aperture extending into the reservoir. The fill aperture directs the fluid into the reservoir. A closure removably closes the fill aperture. A valve is movably coupled between the housing and the venturi. The valve selectively releases the fluid into the venturi to humidify the air urged by the hair dryer.
US09635921B2
The present utility model relates to a box body structure of a draw-bar box and the draw-bar box. The draw-bar box comprises a box body and a telescopic draw bar. First extrusion-molded blocks are provided at four corners of an upper end of the box body, and second extrusion-molded blocks are provided at four corners of a lower end of the box body, the first and second extrusion-molded blocks respectively being in threaded connection with the box body. The first extrusion-molded block comprises a first outer corner protector located on the outside of the box body, and a first inner corner protector located on the inside of the box body and mating with the first outer corner protector, the first outer corner protector being in threaded connection with the first inner corner protector. The second extrusion-molded block comprises a second outer corner protector located on the outside of the box body, and a second inner corner protector located on the inside of the box body and mating with the second outer corner protector, the second outer corner protector being in threaded connection with the second inner corner protector. Rollers are provided on at least two of the second extrusion-molded blocks at the lower end of the box body. The present utility model has a simple structure, reasonable design and convenient use, and also has the advantages of low production costs, stronger firmness, and hardly deformed corners.
US09635916B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a hybrid modular furniture and container unit includes a base shell, a base core layer, and a set of base inner panels. The base shell has a shell bottom, a first shell wall, a second shell wall, a third shell wall, a fourth shell wall, and upper flaps associated with each of the respective walls. The base core layer has a core bottom, a first core wall, a second core wall, a third core wall, and a fourth core wall. The core layer is disposed within the base shell. The base inner panels include a first inner panel wall, a second inner panel wall, a third inner panel wall, and a fourth inner panel wall. The inner panel walls disposed within the shell and each upper flap is folded over a respective core wall and inner panel wall.
US09635915B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a reconfigurable bag which can form a variety of bags, handbags and purses. With all of the demands of busy lives, women today need to have a variety of bags and purses. Women need a clutch for evening use, a large purse for taking to work, a smaller purse for daytime outings, and a briefcase or computer bag. A reconfigurable bag as disclosed herein would help to eliminate these issues by providing a bag that can be converted to a variety of bags and purses.
US09635913B1
An umbrella comprises a cover and two rod hinges. A canopy is engaged with a rectangular frame for forming a rectangular cover. A left rainproof folding fan and a right rainproof folding fan, each has a pivot at a bottom linked with the bearings of the rectangular frame, respectively. Two sets of Velcro is linked with the rectangular cover, the left rainproof folding fan and the right rainproof folding fan for forming the cover. The two rod hinges is linked with the rectangular frame and attached onto two straps of a backpack through two fasteners, the each rod hinge having a bracket and a rod with a stopper and an outlet connected with the each pin respectively, wherein the cover and the two rod hinges form an umbrella with adjustable coverage which has the rectangular frame fixed with the stoppers when the cover is extended and the two rod hinges are extended and erected.
US09635908B2
The present invention relates to the automated cutting of pliable items. More particularly, the present invention relates to the automatic cutting and/or trimming of pliable items, such as a shoe upper that lacks uniformity. An image of the pliable item is captured having image features and a pattern is retrieved having pattern features, such as a proposed cut path. An image feature is compared to distance tolerances associated with pattern features to adjust the proposed cut path such that it satisfies the distance tolerances while providing a consistently sized and shaped trimmed item.
US09635907B2
A shoe platen to securely hold a shoe so that graphics, including custom graphics, can be printed on the shoe automatically. The platen comprises a shoe plate 102 configured to receive shoes such as high-top shoes or low top shoes. Adjusters 104, 106 can also be used to accommodate shoes of various styles and sizes.
US09635901B1
A shoe may comprise an upper and a sole structure that includes a plurality of support elements located in a plantar region. Each of the support elements may be non-destructively removable from and replaceable into the sole structure. The shoe may comprise a plurality of sensors configured to measure force exerted in a footbed region of the article of footwear, as well as a processor communicatively coupled to the sensors. The processor may be configured to receive input indicative of forces measured by the sensors and to transmit data based on that input. Methods utilizing the article may include removing a support element and replacing the removed support element with a replacement support element.
US09635900B1
Described herein is an improved shoe glove for reversible interchangeable placement upon a footwear item. Most preferably the shoe glove mechanically attaches to a pre-selected modified footwear item in a reversible and interchangeable manner. The shoe glove preferably completely covers the upper portion and sole of the footwear item. The shoe glove most preferably includes a (i) flexible shoe glove cover (ii) composite shoe glove sole and (iii) linear continuous stitched thread within a continuous stitching channel of the composite shoe glove sole. Most preferably the shoe glove attaching devices for attachment to a modified footwear item are hook and loop fastener material segments that reversibly attach a footwear item to the shoe glove. The improved shoe glove is sufficiently flexible that a single shoe glove can interchangeably and reversibly fit a range of footwear item sizes.
US09635895B1
A method for mapping wearer mobility includes identifying common usage patterns and usage positions by the garment wearer, attaching markers used in motion capture photography to the bare skin of a test subject, and recording position and movement data of the test subject with a computer system while the test subject repeats the common usage patterns and usage positions. The position and movement data are processed to create an opportunity map which identifies stretch and compression areas of the test subject. Markers are attached to a garment worn by a test subject, and position and movement data are recorded while the test subject repeats the common usage patterns and usage positions. The data are analyzed to create a problem map which identifies stretch and compression areas of the garment. A mobility map is created based on the opportunity map and problem map that creates a garment design that reduces compression and stretch areas.
US09635891B2
A system and method for identifying areas of a processing plant in which a glove is damaged. The system includes utilizing color-coded sets of gloves in different areas or processing steps within the plant. All the gloves used in a particular plant are provided with a unique identifier. If a piece of a glove is located in the product within the plant, the color of that piece indicates the area or process of the plant in which the glove was used. If a piece of a damaged glove is located in the product at a remote destination, the unique identifier in that piece is matched with a registry to determine the plant in which the glove was used. The color of the piece then helps the plant to identify where the damaged glove was used. The system and method are particularly helpful in the food processing industry, especially meat processing.
US09635882B2
A cigarette paper is shown which has the following properties over at least a part of its surface: no artificial perforation, the air permeability is at least 15 CU, preferably at least 20 CU, and especially preferably at least 25 CU, and for the exponent k, measured with a measuring head with a rectangular opening of 2 mm by 15 mm, in accordance with ISO 2965:2009, which is defined by k = log Q 1 Q 2 log p 1 p 2 with Q1: air-flow through the paper at a pressure difference p1=1.00 kPa and Q2: air-flow through the paper at a pressure difference p2=0.25 kPa, the following holds k≦0.98, preferably k≦0.95, especially preferably k≦0.93, and k≧0.80, preferably k≧0.85.
US09635880B2
A reduced-size apparatus for applying food coating that includes a belt assembly for conveying food products, having an input end and an output end, and a recycle assembly, capable of receiving excess coating from the output end of the belt assembly and conveying it to the input end, wherein the recycle assembly includes at least one of a base coating distribution passage and a top coating distribution passage for providing coating for application to a food product situated on the belt assembly.
US09635873B2
A product conveying and coating system includes at least first and second, sequentially arranged conveyor belts, with at least the second conveyor belt being a solid belt. Interposed in a gap between the first and second belts is a dispenser head of a coating manifold. The dispenser head spans a gap between upper surface portions of the first and second conveyor belts, with an elongated side wall outlet portion of the dispenser head being exposed, in a downstream direction of the conveyor unit, to the upper surface of the second conveyor belt. The system provides for dispensing of coating material directly onto the second, solid conveyor belt and enrobing at least bottom and partial side portions of food products upon the solid belt. Provisions are made for scraping from the solid belt, removing from the food products and recycling excess coating material.
US09635870B2
Process: providing concentrated milk composition including milk protein; providing plant fat composition including plant fat; combining first amount of concentrated milk composition together with second amount of plant fat composition, forming concentrated milk-plant fat composition having initial pH and having concentration by weight of water being within range of between about 49% and about 57%; combining concentrated milk-plant fat composition together with amount of edible acid, and directly setting concentrated milk-plant fat composition by adjusting initial pH to reduced pH being within range of between about 4.9 and about 4.5; thereby forming uniform non-separating direct-set milk-plant fat product substantially retaining the milk protein. Process also includes providing concentrated milk composition and plant fat composition respectively at first and second temperatures being at least about 20° F. above melting points of respective compositions. Composition: uniform non-separating direct-set milk-plant fat product.
US09635865B1
A device acts to take mixed dough or semi viscous material and feed this material uniformly and progressively to portioning machines that may not have capacity to hold a full batch from the mixer or require to be fed at a required rate so as to maintain a reasonably uniform or stable height or reserve amount of dough in there infeed hopper of dough portioning machine. The device providing two or more selectable output feeds in operation, providing for easy cleaning through detachable components, and compensating in the output feed variable for variations in the volume of dough in the tote.
US09635863B2
A system and method for producing a comestible baked product in complex shapes using cast molding. Embodiments generally include a first part and a second part, the first part being made up of at least two or more component pieces, then, the first part is detachably coupled to the second part creating an outer surface and an inner surface which create a contiguous internal hollow space that extends from the first piece to the second piece in the form of a three dimensional shape, and a means for supporting the unitary mold in a special and beneficial baking orientation. Other embodiments may include a single piece that is attachable to the rim of a cup of a multi-cup baking cup pan or a to a single, stand-alone cup pan. The interior of the mold can receive a baking cup liner.
US09635858B2
A pesticidal composition including at least one substance derived from Azadirachta indica plant, at least one metal salt of a fatty acid and at least one excipient. The present disclosure also relates to a kit including the pesticidal composition. The present disclosure further relates to use of pesticidal composition/kit in controlling a wide variety of pests.
US09635854B2
Methods for controlling weeds in a crop, comprising applying to the weeds a herbicidally effective amount of a composition comprising a p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) inhibitor are presented.
US09635851B2
Agrochemical aqueous compositions containing at least one organic, solid agrochemically active ingredient which is insoluble in water and, as dispersing and wetting agent, a water soluble polymer based on one or more ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids, from 5% to 55% of the carboxylic groups of said water soluble polymer being esterified with a polyalkoxylated polystyrylphenol.
US09635848B2
Spray systems and control systems for use with spray systems are provided. A spray system generally includes a tank configured to hold a product, a conduit in fluid communication with the tank, a pump in fluid communication with the conduit, a flow controller, a plurality of electrically actuated nozzle assemblies in fluid communication with the conduit, and a pressure controller. The flow controller is configured to regulate a flow rate of product through the conduit based on a travel speed of the system. The plurality of nozzle assemblies is configured to dispense the product such that an upstream nozzle pressure is established within the conduit. The pressure controller is configured to control at least one operating parameter of at least one of the nozzle assemblies based at least in part on speed information indicative of the travel speed of the system to maintain a substantially constant upstream nozzle pressure.
US09635847B1
A fishing line tying tool designed to hold an eyelet bearing apparatus in its plier jaws and constrain two sections of fishing line, such that when the sections of line are brought together above the tool, can be quickly wound by rotation of a centralized post located at the bottom of the tool. There are a pair of opposing winder posts formed on the handle of the pliers that have two different sets of hooks for the retention of the fishing line thereon.
US09635840B2
Method for supporting the preservation of the insect population, having the following steps of: determining the lethal effect of a product unit on an insect population, determining a difference in the insect population on the basis of the effect of a particular quantity of product units, determining the actual insect population in a predetermined area, determining a desired insect population in the predetermined area, which desired insect population is derived from the actual insect population in the predetermined area and the difference in the insect population, and creating a basis of life for the desired insect population in the predetermined area by adapting the biological nature of the predetermined area.
US09635836B2
Pet treats and methods of manufacturing pet treats comprising unprocessed meats are disclosed. The unprocessed meats are not extruded, ground, emulsified, liquefied, partially liquefied, or made into a powder. The unprocessed meats may be combined with natural and/or un-natural binding agents and may also be combined with natural and/or un-natural preservatives. The combination may be formed into shapes in which the pieces, bits, and/or parts of the unprocessed meat may, or may not, be visible within the production product, yet contained within.
US09635832B2
A tray lock mechanism for a pet enclosure is disclosed. The tray lock mechanism includes a sliding component that has a camming surface that interacts with a leading-edge of the tray to generate an upward force to move the sliding component out of the way so that the tray can be inserted into an opening and into the pet enclosure. Additionally, in a further embodiment, the tray lock mechanism contemplates a door extension that extends downward and blocks the opening when the door is in the closed position and unblocks the opening, when the door is in an opened position.
US09635827B1
A St. Augustine grass variety designated TBLL is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, to the plants of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, to the plant parts of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, and to methods for producing progeny of St. Augustine grass variety TBLL. The invention also relates to methods for producing a St. Augustine grass plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic St. Augustine grass plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to St. Augustine grass varieties or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from St. Augustine grass variety TBLL. The invention also relates to methods for producing other St. Augustine grass varieties, lines, or plant parts derived from St. Augustine grass variety TBLL, and to the St. Augustine grass plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid St. Augustine grass seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar TBLL with another St. Augustine grass variety.
US09635824B1
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated FA4346, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line FA4346 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line FA4346, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line FA4346, and plants produced according to these methods.
US09635821B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV048362. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV048362, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV048362 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV048362 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV048362.
US09635817B2
New plants were created from a new and efficient method of intergeneric hybridization between a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a female parent and a plant from the genus Argyranthemum as a male parent. The plants were created by rescuing an embryo from the cross-pollination of a plant from the group I. versicolor and Glebionis sp. as a female parent with an Argyranthemum male parent. The invention also describes a method for infecting hybrid plants with a virus and a viroid to modify plant phenotype. In addition to providing the intergeneric hybrid plants and parts thereof, the invention provides methods for making such plants and methods for creating other intergeneric hybrid plants and self plants from normally self-incompatible plants.
US09635815B2
A system for automating the growing of crops, such as grapevines. Combinations of data from sensors local to a vineyard, and from optional remote stations and sensors, is combined with a control system to accurately control the dispensing of water and chemicals such as insecticides, disease prevention fungicides and fertilizers. The materials are dispensed through a multiple channel conduit which allows conflicting, or incompatible, types of materials to be transported through a common assembly. Sensors are attached to the conduit so that the placement of sensors can occur simultaneously with the laying of the conduit. This approach also ensures correct placement and spacing of the sensors with respect to each plant, or plant area, to be monitored and treated.
US09635811B2
An adjustable gathering chain assembly includes a drive unit, a driven unit spaced from and movable with respect to the drive unit and an endless gathering chain extending between the drive unit and the driven unit. An adjustment unit including an idler member in engagement with the gathering chain is operable to move the idler member with respect to the drive unit in order to move the driven unit between first and second positions relative to the drive unit whereby the header may effectively harvest both standing crop and downed or lodged crop depending on harvesting conditions.
US09635808B2
A head for an edge trimmer, comprising a casing (1), destined for comprising at least a cutting wire reel and to be set in rotation about an axis of rotation (X), said casing comprising at least one outlet opening (11), which is so structured as to enable passage of a portion of the cutting wire. The head comprises two bushes (12) which laterally delimit the outlet opening (11) and are rotatable about a respective axis of rotation (Y).
US09635805B2
A fertilizer tube system for efficiently dispensing and placing fertilizer within a furrow to minimize germination injury. The fertilizer tube system generally includes a fertilizer tube having an input opening at an upper end of the fertilizer tube and an output opening at a lower end of the fertilizer tube, a tab attached to the fertilizer tube between the input opening and the output opening and a guard scraper attached to a lower portion of the fertilizer tube. The guard scraper includes a mounting portion having a receiver channel adapted to be removably attachable to a mounting member of a planter shank of a planter implement, wherein the mounting member is comprised of an inverted T-shaped structure.
US09635801B2
A hand-planter for singulation planting of cereal, grain, seed and other crops includes a tapered soil engagement component for striking and penetrating a soil surface. With each planter strike to the soil surface, the planter is actuated to meter a granular material product by reciprocating a drum to rotate, thereby exposing a cavity to a material hopper. As the actuation force is released, the reciprocating drum rotates in an opposite direction to its original location and drops the material that has been metered.
US09635800B1
The apparatus is a tender that removes horse manure from pastures and paddocks by collecting stools of manure, grinding the manure and returning it back to the pasture as fertilizer. The tender can also process collected manure, moving it and distributing it to locations needing biomass. The tender is a specialized sled, which can be towed by small vehicle, such as a golf cart. When towed through a pasture, the tender scrapes up the horse manure, grinds it into small granules without hurting the grass, and then spreads it over a wide elongate area, utilizing a unique knife and a partitioned mesh in a structural frame. The tender has a removable bed liner for that retains some or all materials, such as collected manure, for transporting the materials, where it can be dumped or be distributed as a granular biomass.
US09642282B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, a scalable and modular rack-level power infrastructure is described. The power infrastructure may include a power distribution unit (PDU), which receives alternating current (AC) power from an external power source. The PDU may be coupled to a busbar and output DC power to the busbar. The busbar may be coupled to a server within a rack-server system and provide DC power to the server. Additionally, the infrastructure may include a battery back-up unit (BBU) element coupled to the busbar. The BBU element may charge from and discharge to the busbar.
US09642281B1
A buckle set for a sliding rail of an industrial rackmount chassis includes a base, a pressing member, a hook slider and a hook rod. The buckle set is provided for installing the sliding rail into the industrial rackmount chassis. The installed hook rod is fixed automatically to prevent it from falling off. A slope pushing design between the pressing member and the hook slider drives the hook rod to shift and retract in order to remove the sliding rail quickly. A safety buckle design is added to the pressing member, such that after the hook rod is fixed to the industrial rackmount chassis, the pressing member is locked automatically to prevent the sliding rail from falling off due to human wrong operations. When it is necessary to remove the sliding rail, the safety buckle and the pressing member are pressed simultaneously to release the locked status quickly.
US09642279B2
A rail mounting structure includes a rail member, an auxiliary member, and a resilient member. The rail member includes first and second mounting slots. The auxiliary member is movably mounted to the rail member and includes first and second portions. The resilient member provides a resilient force acting on the auxiliary member such that the auxiliary member is kept at a predetermined position relative to the rail member where the first and second portions of the auxiliary member are adjacent to the first and second mounting slots respectively.
US09642269B2
A replaceable panel structure and a panel replaceable moisture sensor, socket, and switch having the replaceable panel structure. The replaceable panel structure includes a base, and a panel body mounted on the base by using several snap structures. The snap structure comprising a slide slot and an engagement portion disposed on the base or the panel body, and a slide fastener disposed on the panel body or the base, the slide fastener is suitable to be inserted in the slide slot and slide back and forth in the slide slot to be engaged with or separated from the engagement portion, and the slide fasteners of the snap structures have consistent sliding directions in the slide slot. The replaceable panel structure replaces the panel and the base in a sliding manner, and has advantages of a simple structure, convenient removal, and stable engagement.
US09642265B2
A hermetically sealed module which comprises a central core housing including a perimeter side wall and a central core with opposed primary and secondary support surfaces. At least one coupling passageway is formed within the central core adjacent the perimeter side wall. The side wall has an sealed internal/external electrical connector which facilitates communication with the module. A multilayer substrate, with at least one flexible coupling tab, is supported by the primary support surface and at least one surface mounted component is supported by the secondary support surface. The flexible coupling tab passes through the at least one coupling passageway to facilitate coupling of a plurality of components of the multilayer substrate with a plurality of components of the at least one surface mounted component via a SMT connector. Primary and secondary lids are secured to opposed sides of the perimeter side wall and forming the hermetically sealed module.
US09642249B2
A disclosure provides a resin composition, a prepreg, and a substrate employing the same. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the resin composition includes a polyphenylene ether compound, and a bismaleimide. The prepreg includes a cured product of the resin composition. The substrate includes a product fabricated by the resin composition or the prepreg.
US09642248B2
Embodiments of the present description relate to the field of fabricating microelectronic structures. The microelectronic structures may include a glass routing structure formed separately from a trace routing structure, wherein the glass routing structure is incorporated with the trace routing substrate, either in a laminated or embedded configuration. Also disclosed are embodiments of a microelectronic package including at least one microelectronic device disposed proximate to the glass routing structure of the microelectronic substrate and coupled with the microelectronic substrate by a plurality of interconnects. Further, disclosed are embodiments of a microelectronic structure including at least one microelectronic device embedded within a microelectronic encapsulant having a glass routing structure attached to the microelectronic encapsulant and a trace routing structure formed on the glass routing structure.
US09642234B2
Described is an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light generator apparatus. The EUV light generator apparatus includes a droplet nozzle, a central electromagnet including a central coil wound around the droplet nozzle, and a droplet generator including side electromagnets around the central electromagnet.
US09642227B2
A device may include a power source, two or more lamps for providing light, and a controller. The controller may be configured to periodically select a first combination of one or more of the lamps, provide power from the power source to the first combination of the lamps, select a second combination of one or more of the lamps, and switch the power from the first combination of the lamps to the second combination of the one or more of the lamps after a period of time has elapsed.
US09642211B2
A detection circuit is configured to detect the presence of an operating dimmer arranged to dim a lamp. The detection circuit includes a first circuit for measuring at a first frequency an impedance at a coupling arranged to carry a possibly dimmed feeding signal for the lamp. The first frequency is higher than the mains frequency of the mains which supplies the possibly dimmed feeding signal for the lamp. The first circuit provides a first output signal indicating the measured impedance at the first frequency. The detection circuit also includes a second circuit for analyzing the first output signal and providing a second output signal indicating whether the operating dimmer is present. The second output signal indicates that the operating dimmer is present if the measured impedance changes by at least a defined minimum deviation within a defined time interval.
US09642204B2
Systems and methods for driving solid state light sources are provided. A first drive circuit is configured to generate a drive current to cause a first solid state light source load and a second solid state light source load to illuminate. A feedback and control circuit is configured to receive feedback from the first solid state light source load and to control the drive current through the first solid state light source load based on the feedback. A second drive circuit is configured to control the drive current through the second solid state light source load. A master controller is configured to provide a first input to the feedback and control circuit to control the drive current through the first solid state light source load and a second input to the second drive circuit to control the drive current through the second solid state light source load.
US09642197B2
Disclosed is a circuit for compensating a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) base current that mirrors the BJT base current to induce a mirror current that is coupled to an emitter of the BJT to decrease an emitter current by a size of the mirror current. Also disclosed is a light-emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus including an LED array, a BJT series-coupled to the LED array, a measuring unit coupled to an emitter of the BJT to measure a current flowing into the LED array, a differential amplifier configured to differentially amplify a reference voltage and the measured current to supply a base current to a base of the BJT, and a BJT base current compensation circuit as disclosed to accurately control an LED current.
US09642196B2
A light-emitting device package including: a package substrate; first to fifth conductive patterns disposed on a top surface of the package substrate; a first rectifying circuit disposed on the first and second conductive patterns; a first light-emitting device disposed on the fifth conductive pattern and electrically connected to the first rectifying circuit; a second rectifying circuit disposed on the third and fourth conductive patterns; and a second light-emitting device disposed on the fifth conductive pattern and electrically connected to the second rectifying circuit.
US09642195B2
A microwave heating system configured for heating a plurality of articles is provided. One or more of the microwave launchers can be offset slightly, such that the microwave energy introduced into the heating chamber is discharged at a launch tilt angle of at least 2°. Additionally, each launcher can include a microwave-transparent window disposed between the microwave chamber and the one or more launch openings and at least 50 percent of the chamber-side surface of the window can be oriented at an angle of at least 2° from the horizontal.
US09642191B2
In a portable container system for heating a beverage generally, the system includes a container for containing a beverage to be heated. The container generally has a bottom and a side wall together defining an internal reservoir containing the beverage to be heated. A base of the system is operable to heat the container at the bottom thereof. The base is constructed of multiple layers generally including at least a top barrier layer, an electrically non-conductive bottom barrier layer and a thin film heating element intermediate the top barrier layer and the bottom barrier layer.
US09642189B2
An electric heater for an automobile vehicle, having at least one heating element and at least one circuit board, with the circuit board being connected to a control unit and/or to a power supply and having at least one contact area through which an electrical connection between a heating element and a control unit and/or a power supply can be realized, the heating element possessing at least one PTC-heating element, with the heating element being connected to the circuit board with at least one connecting element, whereby the first connecting element features at least one protruding element and the contact area offering at least one through hole, with the at least one protruding element being insertable into the at least one through hole of the contact area.
US09642185B2
In a handheld communication device capable of a plurality of wireless communication modes, a method of communication begins by receiving, at the handheld communication device, a notification of an available one of the wireless communication modes. Then, in a data communication window of the communication device, a user-indication of an active one of the available wireless communication modes is provided in accordance with the received communication mode indication. The data communication window is configured to facilitate data communication via the plurality of wireless communication modes, and facilitates the data communication via the active wireless communication mode.
US09642183B2
An information handling system communicates through plural wireless interfaces with plural external wireless devices by automatically selecting associated external wireless devices based upon the proximity of the information handling system to the devices. Positioning of wireless devices is stored in memory to allow a wireless transceiver of the information handling system to power down until within range of a wireless device of interest. For example, an information handling system interfaced with a WLAN through a wireless access point retrieves a wireless device map with wireless devices of one or more work zones located in the WLAN area, each work zone having a set of one or more wireless peripherals in connectivity stations.
US09642175B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for multiple users cooperative communication. The method provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: acquiring, by a core network node, information about MUCC capability identifiers of at least two UEs, where the MUCC capability identifiers are used to identify MUCC capabilities of the UEs; and sending, by the core network node, the information about the MUCC capability identifier of the at least two UEs to a radio access network node, to enable the radio access network node to select, according to the capability identifiers of the UEs, a UE having a supporting capability of the MUCC capability and a UE having a benefited capability of the MUCC capability, so that the UE having a supporting capability supports, in MUCC communication, a bearer of the UE having a benefited capability.
US09642170B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting a signal by a first node in a wireless communication system, including the steps of a first node setting a connection for a reserved transmission and transmitting a signal to a first reception node in the time interval reserved as the connection setting, wherein, in the time interval, a signal transmission is allowed by a second node which is not included in the neighbor nodes of the first reception node.
US09642167B1
A wireless network can include one or more nodes distributed throughout a physical environment. The locations of client devices within the wireless network can be determined based on observing measurements of wireless signals exchanged between the nodes and the client devices. In some example embodiments, the capability of determining location information of client devices more accurately can be utilized for enhancing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) functions. In an example embodiment, a phone call can be intelligently routed to where the user is located within the wireless network. In another example embodiment, more accurate location information can be provided to emergency response personnel in the event of an emergency. In another example embodiment, the volume of a VoIP-enabled client device can be adjusted depending on the proximity of other users.
US09642147B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose methods and apparatus to transmit information about number of active UEs in a cell (e.g., pico cell) that need protection to an interfering cell (e.g., a macro cell). The information may be transmitted in a resource status update message. The active users may be defined as users whose downlink performance and/or quality of service are limited by the available number of protected resources.
US09642143B2
In a wireless communication base station device, a modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Dch data after coding to generate a Dch data symbol. A modulation unit carries out modulation processing for Lch data after coding to generate an Lch data symbol. An allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol and Lch data symbol to each sub-carrier composing an OFDM symbol and outputs the allocated sub-carrier to a multiplex unit. In this case, the allocation unit allocates the Dch data symbol to a plurality of resource blocks where one Dch is arranged at an interval equal to integral multiples of the number of resource blocks composing a resource block group.
US09642133B2
A communication apparatus is provided that can improve synchronization precision between multiple communication apparatuses. For this reason, the communication apparatus that communicates with a different communication apparatus over a network includes a slot control unit that generates multiple slots for communicating a synchronization message, and allocates each slot to the communication apparatus and the different communication apparatus; and a communication unit that communicates the synchronization message between the communication apparatus and the different apparatus, using the each slot that is allocated.
US09642123B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data transmission method, a base station and a user equipment. One transmission method includes: sending, by a base station, first data and random access information to a user equipment UE simultaneously; and acquiring, by the base station, receiving state information of the first data fed back by the UE through the random access information. Another transmission method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, UE, first data and random access information sent by a base station simultaneously; and feeding back, by the UE, receiving state information of the first data to the base station through the random access information. In the technical solutions of the present invention, a base station transmits data to a UE during a random access process, thereby reducing signaling interaction and time delay and improving the data transmission efficiency.
US09642119B2
The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for allocating resources for wireless communication. In the method orthogonal resources are allocated for signalling within a coordination area including at least two radio service areas based on a first resource pattern. Orthogonal data communication resources are allocated within a radio service area of the coordination area based on a second resource pattern. A communication device can receive signalling indicating the allocation of the orthogonal resources for signalling within the coordination area and the allocation of orthogonal data communication resources within the radio service area, and transmit signalling and data accordingly.
US09642104B2
Provided are a base station, a terminal, a band allocation method, and a downlink data communication method in which a mapping method for synchronization signals and report signals is implemented with high resource usage efficiency when a first system in which an independent single communication is allocated to a unit band co-exists with a second system in which a plurality of unit bands can be allocated to a single communication. In a base station, an OFDM signal generation unit maps primary synchronization channel (P-SCH), secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH), primary broadcast channel (P-BCH), and dynamic broadcast channel (D-BCH), which can be decoded by both an LTE terminal and an LTE+ terminal, to some of a plurality of unit bands. The OFDM signal generation unit also maps D-BCH+, which can be decoded only by an LTE+ terminal, to all of the plurality of unit bands to produce a multiplexed transmission signal.
US09642098B2
A wireless device receives message(s) configuring cell groups and transmissions of sounding reference signals (SRSs). Uplink transmission timing in a first cell group is derived employing a cell in the first cell group and uplink transmission timing in a second cell group is derived employing a second cell in the second cell group. A first signal is transmitted on a cell of the first cell group. A first subset of the SRSs are dropped and a second subset of the SRSs are transmitted.
US09642094B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to optimizing radio frequency (RF) coverage in remote unit coverage areas in a wireless distribution system (WDS). A control circuit is configured to selectively determine at least one selected remote unit group comprising two or more remote units selected from a plurality of remote units in the WDS. A first remote unit in the selected remote unit group is configured to transmit an RF signal. The control circuit is configured to determine a first prediction deviation and a second prediction deviation, respectively. The control circuit determines correction factor(s) for selected correction point(s) based on the first prediction deviation and the second prediction deviation. The control circuit optimizes RF coverage in coverage area(s) based on the determined correction factor(s), thus improving RF performance and capacity of the WDS.
US09642082B2
The present invention relates to a method of a base station transmitting a coverage compensation request signal to determine switching to an idle state. The method comprising: transmitting, by the first base station, an idle switching request message for requesting switching to the idle state to a second base station in a compensation group to which the first base station belongs; transmitting a Coverage Compensation Request Message to a compensation base station pre-linked to the first base station in the compensation group; receiving a Coverage Compensation Response Message and an idle state switching response message from the compensation base station and the second base station, respectively; determining whether the first base station and the second base station in the compensation group are to switch to the idle state based on the received Coverage Compensation Request Message and the idle state switching response message.
US09642072B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a mobile electronic device according to the present invention is provided with an acceleration sensor, a communication unitmodule, and a control unitmodule. The acceleration sensor detects acceleration. The communication unitmodule performs communication. The control unitmodule controls the communication unitmodule to search for a base station, in some cases.
US09642070B2
Disclosed are a method for avoiding interference in a wireless local area network system and an apparatus for performing the same. The method for avoiding interference by an access point in a wireless local area network system, includes receiving channel scan results from a station associated with the access point; setting connection with an adjacent access point based on the channel scan results; determining an access point to be associated with the station through negotiation with the adjacent access point; and transmitting a reassociation request message to request reassociation with the adjacent access point to the station when the negotiation with the adjacent access point succeeds.
US09642061B2
A mobile communication device for access probe handoff is provided. In the mobile communication device, a wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a first cellular station and a second cellular station, and a controller module configures the mobile communication device to operate in a selective retransmission mode, and detects that a signal quality of the first cellular station is less than a predetermined threshold during an access sub-attempt to the first cellular station via the wireless module. Also, the controller module hands off the mobile communication device from the first cellular station to the second cellular station in response to detecting that the signal quality of the first cellular station is less than a predetermined threshold, and clears a physical layer buffer and restarts a selective acknowledgement (SACK) operation for the selective retransmission mode after the handoff of the mobile communication device.
US09642057B2
A technique is disclosed, according to which a mobile node, having a plurality of interfaces and performing communication according to flow information when an operator is performing communication based on the flow information as defined by a policy, can select an interface suitable for the flow and can perform communication. According to this technique, a mobile node (MN 10) having a plurality of interfaces has a list to indicate domain limited flows to be transmitted only within a specific network (a trusted network), and a list to indicate the trusted networks. When a certain interface performs handover, and in case there is a domain limited flow that uses the interface, it is decided whether the network of handover destination is a trusted network or not, and in case the network of the handover destination is not a trusted network, it is decided whether it is possible or not to transmit and receive the domain limited flow via another interface that is connected to the trusted network.
US09642055B2
Examples are disclosed for switching between wireless networks. In some examples a method for switching between wireless network may comprise creating a virtual wireless adapter, maintaining a first wireless connection with a first wireless network, initiating a second wireless connection with a second wireless network using the virtual wireless adapter, disconnecting the first wireless connection with the first wireless network, and establishing the second wireless connection with the second wireless network. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09642052B2
An apparatus calculates a first radio wave strength value, based on a first radio wave between a wireless communication device and a first base station device wirelessly coupled to the wireless communication device, calculates a second radio wave strength value, based on a second radio wave between the wireless communication device and a second base station device, changes at least one of the first radio wave strength value and the second radio wave strength value, when a first wireless communication method used by the first base station device is different from a second wireless communication method used by the second base station device, and, after changing at least one of the first radio wave strength value and the second radio wave strength value, transmits, to the first base station device, a measurement report including the first and second radio wave strength values.
US09642034B2
Systems and methods to support intra-quality of service (QoS) class identifier (QCI) QoS-aware scheduling are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to communicatively couple to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB). The eNB may schedule packets within a QCI according to information provided to the eNB by the UE. Packets in a QCI may be classified into one or more flows using the information. The flows may be prioritized based on which are most important to the UE. The UE may provide QoS parameters for each flow. The eNB may be schedule the packets based on which flow each packet is in and the QoS parameters for that flow. The associated QoS parameters may be prioritized, and more important QoS parameters may be met to the detriment of less important QoS parameters.
US09642032B2
A provisioning system may receive requests, such as from third party service providers, to provision dedicated bearers for traffic associated with the service providers. For example, a service provider may request a particular quality of service (“QoS”) level for traffic sent between the service provider and one or more user devices. This QoS level may be higher than a “normal” QoS level that is ordinarily provided. The provisioning system may establish a bearer, such as a dedicated non-guaranteed bitrate (“non-GBR”) bearer between a packet data network (“PDN”) gateway (“PGW”) and the user device, and may transmit traffic, associated with the service provider, via the dedicated non-GBR bearer. A QoS agent, installed at the user device, may ensure that traffic, associated with the service provider, is sent from the user device via the dedicated non-GBR bearer (e.g., as opposed to another bearer with a lower QoS level).
US09642021B2
A user equipment (UE) performs measurements on a serving cell and at least one neighbor cell in a heterogeneous wireless communications network that includes one or more higher power radio network nodes operating near one or more lower power radio network nodes. The UE acquires enhanced neighbor cell information (eNCI) including at least subframe information and determines an allowed set of one or more subframes during which the UE may make downlink and/or uplink measurements for at least one cell in the heterogeneous network. A network node in the heterogeneous network generates the eNCI, from which the UE may determine the allowed set of radio transmission subframes, and provides the eNCI for the UE to coordinate the UE measurements on the at least one cell during one or more of the allowed subframes.
US09642019B2
Systems and methods enable a plurality of modems in a microwave network receive a plurality of frames from a previous one of the plurality of modems and detect an error frame within the plurality of frames. The plurality of modems can be further configured to send a retransmission request to the previous modem upon detection of the error frame and transmit a dummy frame in place of the error frame to a next one of the plurality of modems.
US09642018B2
According to one embodiment, a communication arrangement is provided which has a first antenna for transmitting signals into the coverage area of a first mobile radio cell, a second antenna for transmitting signals into the coverage area of a second mobile radio cell and a signal radiating device which is arranged for radiating signals, which are sent out by the first antenna, into an area which is associated with the coverage area of the first mobile radio cell and which overlaps the coverage area of the second mobile radio cell.
US09642017B2
Several transceivers can be combined together to form a relay which can be used to form an ad-hoc network. A computation unit within the ad-hoc network determines the best placement of a new relay to improve the link integrity of the network. Furthermore, a database of power outlets, their locations and whether they contain a relay or not can be utilized to determine a method to improve the links within the ad-hoc network by placing additional relays into unused power outlets. A control unit can be used to configure the transceivers of each relay to enhance data transfer within a given information flow path of the ad-hoc network. The stream of bits can be exchanged with a second stream of bits. The housing unit can also contain the power plugs molded into the unit to allow the unit to be easily inserted into an AC power wall outlet.
US09642003B2
Described herein are systems, devices, techniques and products for managing the dynamic assignment of media access control (MAC) addresses to wireless network devices, such as by identifying a dynamically assigned MAC address before, after, or during a wireless association process and communicating the dynamically assigned MAC address to a wireless network device. Also disclosed are systems, devices, techniques and products for preventing a denial of service attack on a wireless access point's association table, such as by requiring devices that associate with a wireless access point to respond to a query from the wireless access point shortly after association.
US09641999B2
In a MIPv6 network, a mobile home agent (MHA) in a foreign network (FN) acts as an intermediate node between a mobile node (MN) and a correspondent node (CN) and allocates itself a secondary care-of address (SCoA) different from the care-of address (CoA) of the mobile node (MN), with a one-to-one relationship between the secondary care-of address (SCoA) and the home address (HAddr) of the mobile node.
US09641997B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides a system and method for extracting information pertaining to a portable wireless communications device (103) which is connectable to a cellular communication network comprising the steps of: disposing the portable wireless communications device within an enclosure (101) substantially impenetrable by electromagnetic radiation; generating a cell of a cellular communication network within the enclosure; transmitting a signal to the device, the transmitted signal being suitable for initiating registration of the device with the generated cell; receiving a signal from the device comprising information pertaining to the device, the received signal being suitable for registering the device with the generated cell; and extracting information pertaining to the device from the received signal. Embodiments also provide the additional step of generating a message dependent upon the extracted information and transmitting the same, via the generated cell, to the user's device.
US09641993B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to store a first access class barring parameter and a second access class barring parameter pertaining to emergency calls via a cell on which a wireless device is camped; receive an indication that an emergency call is to be established; select one or more values of the second barring parameter in response to a determination that a value of the first barring parameter indicates that the emergency call cannot be established via the cell; select a first candidate cell based on the one or more values of the second barring parameter; and determine whether the emergency call can be established via the first candidate cell based on the one or more values of the second barring parameter and system information pertaining to the first candidate cell.
US09641992B2
Methods and devices for distributing and receiving content are provided. In one example aspect, a method comprises: receiving a command on a first electronic device to output content at an output device associated with a second electronic device; and in response to receiving the command to output content at the output device associated with the second electronic device: providing content access information from the first electronic device to the second electronic device, and adjusting a security state on the second electronic device.
US09641978B2
Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include configuring a mobile device to receive first location information from a plurality of other devices, and use the received first location information to determine an approximate location of the mobile device to a first level of accuracy. The mobile device may then group itself with one or more wireless transceivers in proximity to the mobile device, and send the approximate location to the wireless transceivers in the communication group. In response, the mobile device may receive second location information from the one or more wireless transceivers in the communication group in response to sending the determined approximate location, and use the received second location information to determine a more precise location of the mobile device to a second level of accuracy.
US09641977B2
Embodiments infer position information using captured content items. A computing device such as a mobile computing or a cloud service analyzes one or more content items to generate information describing the content items. For content items that include photographs, for example, the photographs are processed to identify faces, objects, places, text, etc. The generated information is compared to reference content items (e.g., image comparison), user data (e.g., calendar data, contact information, etc.), and/or public data (e.g., address information, event information, etc.) to identify at least one match. Location information associated with the matched reference content items, user data, and/or public data is obtained. A position is determined for the content items based on the location information obtained from the matched reference content item, user data, and/or public data. In some embodiments, the obtained location information is used to refine a position determined using a beacon-based positioning service.
US09641973B2
The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to determining a real-time position of a mobile device. According to an aspect of the described systems and techniques, a data processing apparatus includes: one or more integrated circuit (IC) devices including a location processor configured to acquire and track measurements of location for a mobile wireless communication device; and a host processor programmed with a host software manager configured to obtain various positioning input signals from different device positioning technologies and assemble a selected set of the various positioning input signals into a unified format; wherein the data processing apparatus includes a hybrid fusion engine configured to receive data from the host software manager in the unified format and calculate a position of the mobile wireless communication device using the received data in accordance with input type information for the received data.
US09641969B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for facilitating proximity detection and location tracking using a mobile wireless bridge are provided. The system includes a beacon badge, a beacon tag, and a real-time location services (“RTLS”) server communicatively coupled to the beacon badge, such as via a wireless network or the like. The beacon tag broadcasts a beacon message receivable by the beacon badge. The beacon badge determines whether it is proximate to the beacon badge based on the signal strength of the received beacon message. The beacon badge further communicates identifying information contained with the received beacon message to the RTLS server. The RTLS server uses the identifying information to determine the proximate location of the beacon badge.
US09641964B2
A system for managing data related to at least one leaf node device, the system including a location processing engine located on a server that is remote from the at least one leaf node device; at least one point of interest (POI) device for collecting data relating to at least one leaf node device and transmitting the collected data with a timestamp using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE); at least one reader node device for receiving the collected data from the point of interest (POI) device using BLE and transmitting the collected data to the location processing engine; and a database of the known locations of POI devices, wherein the known locations are used as a basis for determining the location of the at least one leaf node device that communicated with the POI device.
US09641959B2
A programmable controller for operating a system is provided as well as a method and devices of configuring such controller. The controller includes firmware storing instructions for controlling operations of the system, the firmware including a passive memory component and a processing unit programmed for operating the system at least in part based on the instructions of the firmware. The firmware is responsive to a signal carrying firmware update information received from an external device for drawing energy from the signal to activate the passive memory component and causing a firmware update process to be performed. Advantageously, the proposed controller can be configured in the absence of electrical power being supplied by an external source and in, some embodiments, using the signal carrying the firmware update information as the sole source of electrical energy in order to perform at least part of the firmware update process.
US09641958B2
A network server may be configured to generate, modify, augment, communicate, and/or manage the triggers and signaling communications so that they may be processed and communicated in a more intelligent, efficient, and/or cost effective manner than that which is available via conventional solutions. The network server may receive a trigger communication message that includes trigger parameters and information suitable for causing a destination device to automatically initiate an operation, determining a criterion for sending the trigger communication message to the destination device based on the trigger parameters included in the trigger communication message, monitoring a condition to determine whether the criterion has been satisfied, and send the trigger communication message to the destination device when it is determined that the criterion has been satisfied.
US09641953B2
A sound spatialization, with the application of at least one transfer function with room effect to at least one sound signal. This application amounts to multiplying, in the spectral range, spectral components of the sound signal by the spectral components of a filter corresponding to the transfer function, each spectral component of the filter having a temporal evolution in a time-frequency representation. In particular, the spectral components of the filter are especially ignored, for the above-mentioned multiplications of components, beyond a threshold frequency and after at least a given instant in said time-frequency representation.
US09641951B2
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a system and method for binaural rendering of complex acoustic scenes. The system includes a computing device configured to process a sound recording of the acoustic scene to produce a binaurally rendered scene for the listener. The system also includes a position sensor configured to collect motion and position data for a head of the user and also configured to transmit said motion and position data to the computing device. A sound delivery device is configured to receive the binaurally rendered acoustic scene from the computing device and to transmit the acoustic scene to the ears of the listener. In the system, the computing device is further configured to utilize the motion and position data from the inertial motion sensor to process the sound recording of the acoustic scene with respect to the motion and position of the user's head.
US09641945B2
A hearing aid system includes a Bluetooth enabled sound output device and Bluetooth enabled sound output device. The sound output device has a first processor coupled to a first memory, to a first Bluetooth module, to a sound processing module including an amplifier and a speaker, and to a first power supply. The sound input device has an optional aux jack, and a second processer coupled to a second memory, to a second Bluetooth module selectively Bluetooth linkable with the first Bluetooth module, to a sound input module, and to a second power supply. The sound input device may adjust audio volume level of audio signals to a default level before transmission to the sound output device. A second sound input device may transmit audio signals based to the sound input device, from which the audio signals are transmitted to the sound output device.
US09641937B2
Noise is reduced when three-value output is performed. In a digital amplifier 1, a three-value driver 18a associated with a positive electrode and a three-value driver 18b output three-value signals which are inverted to each other, and execute an output of three values on the basis of a differential output of the positive electrode and a negative electrode.
US09641934B2
An In-Car Communication (ICC) system supports the communication paths within a car by receiving the speech signals of a speaking passenger and playing it back for one or more listening passengers. Signal processing tasks are split into a microphone related part and into a loudspeaker related part. A sound processing system suitable for use in a vehicle having multiple acoustic zones includes a plurality of microphone In-Car Communication (Mic-ICC) instances coupled and a plurality of loudspeaker In-Car Communication (Ls-ICC) instances. The system further includes a dynamic audio routing matrix with a controller and coupled to the Mic-ICC instances, a mixer coupled to the plurality of Mic-ICC instances and a distributor coupled to the Ls-ICC instances.
US09641929B2
An audio signal processing method and apparatus and a differential beamforming method and apparatus to resolve a problem that an existing audio signal processing system cannot process audio signals in multiple application scenarios at the same time. The method includes determining a super-directional differential beamforming weighting coefficient, acquiring an audio input signal and determining a current application scenario and an audio output signal, acquiring, a weighting coefficient corresponding to the current application scenario, performing super-directional differential beamforming processing on the audio input signal using the acquired weighting coefficient in order to obtain a super-directional differential beamforming signal in the current application scenario, and performing processing on the formed signal to obtain a final audio signal required by the current application scenario. By using this method, a requirement that different application scenarios require different audio signal processing manners can be met.
US09641927B2
A wireless earphone designed to direct creeping waves around a wearer's head in a preferred direction.
US09641918B2
An audio unit, connected or connectable to a safety-critical apparatus, or integrated or integrable in the apparatus, is proposed. The audio unit may comprise a driver unit, a detection unit, and an alert unit. The driver unit may generate an analog audio signal in response to a request from the apparatus, to drive an acoustic output unit and thereby generate an acoustic signal for a user of the apparatus. The detection unit may detect the audio signal. The alert unit may generate an alert signal in response to the request if the detection unit has not detected the audio signal. It can thus be checked whether the acoustic signal is generated. A method for generating a safety critical acoustic signal is also described.
US09641899B2
A computing device may establish a connection with a user device and retrieve address book information corresponding to the user device. The address book information may include contact information corresponding to one or more individuals. The computing device may identify social network users corresponding to the address book information. Each social network user may include a subscriber to a particular network service. The computing device may create a social network based on the social network users identified.
US09641897B2
A number of novel configurations for MPEG-4 playback, browsing and user interaction are disclosed. MPEG-4 playback systems are not simple extensions of MPEG-2 playback systems, but, due to object based nature of MPEG-4, present new opportunities and challenges in synchronized management of independent coded objects as well as scene composition and presentation. Therefore, these configurations allow significantly new and enhanced multimedia services and systems. In addition, MPEG-4 aims for an advanced functionality, called Adaptive Audio Visual Session (AAVS) or MPEG-J. Adaptive Audio Visual Session (AAVS) (i.e., MPEG-AAVS, MPEG-Java or MPEG-J) requires, in addition to the definition of configurations, a definition of an application programming interface (API) and its organization into Java packages. Also disclosed are concepts leading to definition of such a framework.
US09641887B2
In a storage system, client devices and storage devices are connected to a network. An application for controlling the recording function of the storage device is installed on the client device. The client device, which accesses the storage device, is provided with a user interface with which a user operates the storage device. The storage device has a network attached storage (NAS) function and a recording function, and the storage device has no interface of its own with which to operate. A plurality of the storage devices are connectable to the network. When the client device registers the plurality of storage devices connected to the network, the client device accesses the plurality of storage devices registered and provides the user with a single user interface.
US09641880B1
Embodiments are provided for automatically identifying reduced availability of multi-channel media distributors for authentication or authorization. For example, an entitlement service communicates with a multi-channel media distributor to authenticate viewers requesting content from programmers or to confirm that authenticated viewers are authorized to receive content from the programmers. The entitlement service receives requests for various programmers to provide media content to user devices, and transmits the requests to the multi-channel media distributor. The entitlement service determines a reduced availability of the multi-channel media distributor based on, for example, an unusually low success rate for authenticating users or authorizing the users' access to content access based on the transmitted requests. Due to this reduced availability of the multi-channel media distributor, the entitlement service provides the requesting user devices with temporary access to the media content from the programmers during a period in which the reduced availability occurs.
US09641878B2
A process for authentication of a set-top box connected via a local area network to an internet access device includes: performing, by a platform client boot manager, authentication of the set-top box on the basis of an account, wherein performing the authentication further comprises: storing of unique information with the account from which the identity of the set-top box can be derived; and checking the set-top box during the operation based on the identity as to whether multiple set-top boxes are using the same account, and, if so, preventing functioning of the set-top box.
US09641876B2
Systems and methods for combining variable bit rate data streams are provided. A plurality of data streams may be identified by a service provider system that includes one or more computers. Each data stream may be a variable bit rate data stream. Based upon an analysis of the respective variable bit rates, the service provider system may determine a subset of the plurality of data streams to be combined. The subset of data streams may then be combined and output by the service provider system for transmission to one or more consumer devices.
US09641872B2
A network TV includes a network interface, a user interface, and a controller. The network interface establishes a connection with at least one content provider server through a network. The user interface receives an input signal selecting an icon for display. The controller controls output of the selected icon for display along with an image corresponding to the selected icon. The selected icon corresponds to the content provider and is displayed with one or more other icons that correspond to additional content providers, and the image is based on information received through the network interface from the content provider. Further, a method is disclosed for displaying a real-time broadcast screen and icons for receiving contents at the same time, and easily switching between the real-time broadcast screen and a content providing screen in response to user input.
US09641863B2
An apparatus and method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) to restore intensity shift of processed video data are disclosed. In an encoder side, the processed video data corresponding to reconstructed video data, deblocked-reconstructed video data, or adaptive loop filtered and deblocked-reconstructed video data are partitioned into regions smaller than a picture. The region partition information is signaled in a video bitstream located in a position before intensity offset values syntax. At the decoder side, the processed video data is partitioned into regions according to the partition information parsed from the bitstream at a position before intensity offset values syntax. Region-based SAO is applied to each region based on the intensity offset for the category of the region-based SAO type selected.
US09641853B2
There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program product for prediction mode selection for coding a block of a depth map. An ordered list of coding modes is obtained, wherein the ordered list of coding modes comprises a plurality of coding modes. And whether a depth modeling mode and/or a region boundary chain mode is to be added into the ordered list of coding modes in accordance with a decision condition is determined.
US09641850B2
With a video compression device configured to compress one pixel per cycle, a predictive pixel generation unit generates predictive pixel values of a plurality of predictive modes defined assuming local decode pixels read from predetermined positions of a line memory as upper reference pixels and an input original image pixel positioned on the left side of a pixel to be compressed as a left reference pixel for the pixel to be compressed. A predictive mode determination unit calculates a predictive error in a unit based on differential values between the pixel value to be compressed and the predictive pixel value, and selects a minimum predictive mode. A DPCM unit generates a minimum differential value between the minimum predictive pixel value and the pixel to be compressed assuming local decode pixels as upper reference pixels and a local decode pixel value one cycle before as a left reference pixel.
US09641849B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for improving compression efficiency in directional intra-prediction. A video encoding apparatus, which does not need to record intra mode information, includes a mode selector that selects one from among a plurality of intra modes on the basis of a directionality of at least one neighboring block that has already been reconstructed before a current block is reconstructed, an intra predictor that obtains a prediction block of the current block from the at least one neighboring block according to the directionality of the selected mode, and obtains a residual block by subtracting the prediction block from the current block, and a unit for encoding the obtained residual block.
US09641847B2
A method and a device for classifying samples of an image, each sample having a respective sample value the method comprising repartition of each of the samples into a plurality of index classes, wherein the index class allocated to each sample is determined in dependence upon the sample value of the said sample with respect to the sample values of first neighboring samples of said sample according to a given direction and further in respect to the sample values of the first neighboring samples with respect to the sample values of samples neighboring the first neighboring samples according to the said given direction. Processing each sample according to the respective allocated index class.
US09641846B2
In an example, an apparatus for decoding video data includes a video decoder that is configured to determine a number of transform coefficients associated with a block of video data, and to determine whether the number of transform coefficients exceeds a predetermined threshold. The video decoder is also configured to identify a scan order when the number of transform coefficients exceeds the predetermined threshold, wherein the scan order indicates an order in which the transform coefficients have been serialized from a two-dimensional array to a one-dimensional array, and to apply the scan order to inverse scan the number of transform coefficients associated with a block of video data.
US09641845B2
A method and a device for encoding/decoding images are disclosed. The method for encoding images comprises the steps of: deriving a scan type of a residual signal for a current block according to whether or not the current block is a transform skip block; and applying the scan type to the residual signal for the current block, wherein the transform skip block is a block to which transform for the current block is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether or not transform for the current block is to be applied.
US09641843B1
Frames including in a video bitstream may be partitioned using source difference variance based partitioning before encoding. Variances between blocks of a current video frame and blocks of a previous video frame are used to partition the current video frame into varying block sizes depending upon the magnitude of the variances. Blocks with low variance may be combined with other low variance blocks to form larger blocks, while blocks with high variance may be further partitioned into smaller blocks to improve coding efficiency. In cases where partitioning is unlikely to provide improved efficiency, the variation calculations may be skipped in favor of using fixed partitioning for a frame. The partitioned frames are decoded.
US09641837B2
A method and apparatus for deriving a scaled MV (motion vector) for a current block based on a candidate MV associated with a candidate block are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention increase effective scaling factor of motion vector scaling. In one embodiment, a distance ratio of a first picture distance between a current picture and a target reference picture pointed to by a current motion vector of the current block to a second picture distance between a candidate picture corresponding to the candidate block and a candidate reference picture pointed to by the candidate MV is computed. The scaled MV is then generated based on the candidate MV according to the distance ratio, where the scaled MV has an effective scaling ratio between −m and n, and wherein m and n are positive integers greater than 4. The values of m and n can be 8, 16 or 32.
US09641834B2
A device for processing video data includes a memory, a receiver configured to real-time transport protocol (RTP) packets, and one or more processors configured to receive a first aggregation packet according to a real-time transfer protocol (RTP), wherein the first aggregation packet comprises a payload header and one or more aggregation units; parse a first aggregation unit that is the first aggregation unit of the first aggregation packet to determine a value for a first parameter, wherein the first parameter specifies a decoding order number for a NAL unit included in the first aggregation packet; parse a second aggregation unit to determine a value for a second parameter, wherein the second aggregation unit follows the first aggregation unit in the first aggregation packet; and, based on the first parameter and the second parameter, determine a decoding order for a NAL unit included in the second aggregation unit.
US09641833B2
Various arrangements for monitoring and utilizing solar conjunction events are presented. An occurrence of a solar conjunction event caused by the sun being substantially aligned with the satellite antenna through which a television receiver receives signals from one or more satellites may be monitored. A prediction of a future solar conjunction event based on the monitored occurrence of the solar conjunction event may then be calculated. A second occurrence of the solar conjunction event may be monitored. It may be determined that the second occurrence of the solar conjunction event does not match the calculated prediction of the future solar conjunction event within a threshold range. One or more features of the television receiver may be disabled in response to determining that the second occurrence of the solar conjunction event does not match the calculated prediction of the future solar conjunction event within the threshold range.
US09641825B2
A camera for determining distances to a scene, the camera comprising: a light source comprising a VCSEL controllable to illuminate the scene with a train of pulses of light having a characteristic spectrum; a photosurface; optics for imaging light reflected from the light pulses by the scene on the photosurface; and a shutter operable to gate the photosurface selectively on and off for light in the spectrum.
US09641824B2
Active Space separates the Left Frame from the Right Frame in a frame packing format. A source device is expected to transmit a constant pixel value. A sink device is expected to ignore all data received during the Active space regardless of the value. Embodiments of the present invention involve the Source device to embed intelligent information in the Active Space in lieu of the recommended fixed pixel value. Then the Sink device may read the embedded information from the Active Space, and infer the transition between the left frame and the right frame which is useful, for example, to synchronize eyewear.
US09641822B2
Provided is point-based efficient three-dimensional (3D) information representation from a color image that is obtained from a general Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)/Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) camera, and a depth image that is obtained from a depth camera. A 3D image processing method includes storing a depth image associated with an object as first data of a 3D data format, and storing a color image associated with the object as color image data of a 2D image format, independent of the first data.
US09641816B2
Provided is an image pickup apparatus comprising: a light control mirror element (ace CME) having a function of splitting an incident light flux (LF) into a first LF from reflection and a second LF from transmission and a function of switching between a semi-transmissive/semi-reflective state (s-t/s-rS) and a totally reflective state (TRS); a LF splitting unit causes first and second LFs to be emitted from first and second exit surfaces (ES), respectively; an electrochromic element (EE) switches between a state of transmitting light having a first wavelength range (WR) out of first LF (first state) and a state of transmitting light having a second WR out of first LF (second state); and a control device conducts switching control between a first mode in which LCME is in s-t/s-rS and EE is in first state and a second mode in which LCME is in TRS and EE is in second state.
US09641814B2
A system for enhancing the provision of location information based on previously stored visual data. Apparatuses may utilize sensors to sense at least visual information at a location. The sensed visual information may include attributes that may be defined as one or more visual elements in the recorded visual information. The one or more visual elements may then be stored in a mapping database in association with the location.
US09641802B2
A video session manager and method for enabling, optimizing and managing inter-domain video calling, telepresence and videoconferencing sessions, in exclusive video sessions, or within multi-modal communications sessions. The video session manager and method is operative for receiving and analyzing a communications session request from one or more endpoints (users); determining the viability of a communication session based on one or more attributes of the session; connecting the one or more requesting endpoints to start the session; continuously or periodically monitoring the session for problems with or changes in the session; and altering the parameters of the session in accordance with one or more predetermined policies, if a problem or change is detected, in order to maintain the viability of the session.
US09641798B2
A communication method for transferring communication data between a plurality of participants is provided. The participants include at least one active participant that generates the communication data and at least one passive participant that does not generate the communication data. The communication method includes receiving, by a primary server, the communication data generated by the active participant and transmitting, by the primary server, the communication data received from the active participant to at least one secondary server that does not receive any communication data from any of the active participant and the at least one passive participant. The secondary server receives the communication data transmitted from the primary server and transmits the received communication data to the passive participant.
US09641796B2
Embodiments include a telepresence system operative to carry out a teleconference, a lighting arrangement for a telepresence system operative to carry out a teleconference, and a planar panel having a reflective front surface that includes indentations having variable depth operative such that that when the reflective surface is illuminated by a light source, light is directed towards one or more participants in a telepresence system that is operative to carry out a teleconference.
US09641792B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for recording data on a recording medium. The invention relates to the implementation of the timeshift function in a part of said recording medium called the timeshift buffer memory having a size defined in terms of recording capacity. For the timeshift buffer memory, a first threshold defines a capacity limit, a second threshold defines a recording time limit. The device records the data in the timeshift buffer memory as long as the second threshold is not reached and when the second threshold is reached before the first threshold, the processor truncates the start of the timeshift buffer memory when the data being read are not located at the start of the buffer memory or moves to reading the data of the timeshift buffer memory when the data being read are located at the start of the timeshift buffer memory.
US09641787B2
A playback apparatus to play back content data including sound data includes an instruction operating portion to detect an instruction operation that instructs execution of prescribed processing, a hold operating portion to detect a hold setting operation that sets a state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion, a state control portion to set the state of not accepting the instruction operation to the instruction operating portion if the hold setting operation is detected by the hold operating portion, and a video processing portion to perform processing for displaying a video. If the video processing portion performs processing for displaying the video when the hold setting operation is detected, the state control portion controls the video processing portion to suspend at least a part of processing for displaying the video.
US09641784B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce capacitance of a charge accumulation part (floating diffusion) of each pixel unit. In an imaging device, in addition to a plurality of first switching transistors for coupling a plurality of coupling wires extending in the column direction, a second switching transistor is provided between each of the coupling wires and a floating diffusion in each pixel unit. Preferably, the gate of the first switching transistor and the gate of the second switching transistor are electrically coupled to each other.
US09641781B2
A pulse detecting imaging circuit includes a pixel array including multiple pixels arranged in at least one row and at least one column. The pixel array includes multiple row voltages and column voltages. Each of the row voltages is connected to each pixel in the corresponding row and each of the column voltages is connected to each pixel in the corresponding column. Each of said pixels includes an imaging circuit and a pulse detection circuit. An output of each pulse detection circuit is connected to a corresponding row voltage and a corresponding column voltage such that each pixel is configured to connect the corresponding row voltage and the corresponding column voltage to a ground or a known driven voltage in response to a pulse detection at the pixel.
US09641778B2
An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels has an active region including a first region and a second region with an electrode therebetween in plan view. A portion that is a portion of the active region and that is located under the electrode forms at least a portion of a capacitor. The first region includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type that forms at least a portion of a floating diffusion, and the second region includes a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. An insulating film is disposed on the second semiconductor region.
US09641776B2
Electronic devices may include image sensors having configurable image sensor pixel interconnections. Image sensors may include image sensor pixels coupled to analog circuitry via configurable interconnect circuitry. The analog circuitry may include many analog circuit blocks. The analog circuit blocks may control and read out signals from associated image sensor pixels. The configurable interconnect circuitry may be controlled to reroute the connections between the analog circuit blocks and specific groups of image sensor pixels. Digital circuitry may be coupled to the analog circuitry via configurable interconnect circuitry. The digital circuitry may include digital circuit blocks. There may be significantly more image pixels controlled by a small number of analog circuit blocks, which are in turn controlled by a smaller number of digital circuit blocks. The image sensor pixel array, the configurable interconnect circuitry, the analog circuitry, and the digital circuitry may be vertically stacked.
US09641772B2
A calibration system for a passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) camera. The calibration system includes a thermal calibrator having a first thermally conducting body, a second thermally conducting body, a first black body target mounted to a front surface of the first conducting body, a second black body target mounted to a front surface of the second conducting body, and a thermo-electric (TE) cooling device having a hot side and a cold side. The hot side of the TE cooling device is thermally attached to the first conducting body and the cold side of the TE cooling device is thermally attached to the second conducting body.
US09641762B2
To notify that focusing operations are completed in an imaging device with a plurality of camera modules, in a form that is easy for a user to check. The imaging device of the present disclosure includes a display unit, a first imaging unit configured to generate a first image data by capturing a subject image, a second imaging unit configured to generate a second image data by capturing a subject image, and a controller configured to cause the display unit to display a superimposed image obtained by superimposing an image represented by the generated second image data on an image represented by the generated first image data, and to display a sign that a focusing operation on the subject image being captured by the second imaging unit is completed, in a position other than on the image represented by the second image data in the superimposed image.
US09641754B2
A monitoring camera for generating a 3-dimensional (3D) image and a method of generating a 3D image using the same are provided. The monitoring camera includes: an imaging unit that is configured to laterally rotate and photograph an object to generate at least two images; and a controller that captures overlapping portions of images generated by the imaging unit, and generates a 3-dimensional (3D) image based on the overlapping portions.
US09641752B2
Described herein are techniques for acquiring an image of a user's credential document through a user device. A method includes capturing information from a user interface regarding a particular type of credential document to be imaged, receiving a video stream of the user's credential document from a camera of the user device, displaying the video stream on a display of the user device, and determining whether a set of criteria for capturing the image of the user's credential document are satisfied. If the criteria are not satisfied, the method presents a first indication on the user device that the user's credential document is not ready to be imaged. If the criteria are satisfied, the method presents a second indication on the user device that the user's credential document is ready to be imaged and captures an image of the user's credential document.
US09641750B2
The disclosure concerns a control device for controlling an information device arrangement. Control device includes camera means (CAM) and display means (VF) to allow operating of a destined location of the information surface. Destined location is adapted for determination from the control information being in the image information (IMAGE) formed by the camera means (CAM). The control device is arranged at least to determine from the control information of the image information (IMAGE) data (x1, y1, hei, wid, gx, gy) in order to determine a continuous stream of locations pointed by the control device. System, method and program products are also targets of the present invention.
US09641749B2
An onscreen function execution method for a mobile terminal having a touchscreen is provided. The method allows for executing functions of an activated application by a tap on a specific area of the touchscreen. An onscreen function execution method of the present invention includes mapping active regions of the touchscreen to functions of at least one application, displaying an application screen in response to an application activation command and executing, if a tap is detected on one of the active regions, a function mapped to the application activation command. The active regions may include a function execution display region and the applications may comprise a camera application, a music player application, an idle mode screen application and the like. The method allows a user to execute functions of an activated application by tap on the touchscreen.
US09641737B2
A method for performing time-delay photographing, includes: displaying a photographing interface including a shutter operation control, wherein the shutter operation control further includes a shutter button and a time-setting region outside the shutter button; determining a delay time for photographing according to the time-setting region; and photographing according to the delay time.
US09641735B2
An imaging lens includes first to sixth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
US09641733B1
In some embodiments, a camera includes a first image sensor attached to a first ceramic substrate, a second image sensor attached to a second ceramic substrate, and a lens system including a set of lens elements serving both the first image sensor and the second image sensor, and a color-splitting component along an optical path between the lens system and the image sensors. The color-splitting component separates the light into a first set of wavelengths directed to the first image sensor and a second set of wavelengths directed to the second image sensor.
US09641725B2
The invention provides a method for impeding making a useful copy with an optical recording device of video content displayed on a screen, wherein the method comprises displaying the video content on the screen, illuminating with ambience light of an ambience light source the screen, the ambience light comprises light having a wavelength in the visible part of the spectrum, wherein the ambience light is controlled as function of the video content, and wherein the ambience light is intensity modulated with an intensity modulation having an intensity modulation frequency selected from the range of 40 Hz to 00 Hz.
US09641721B2
An image processing system includes a first flip-flop bank and a second flip-flop bank, and a control system configured to control JPEG processing of image data. The control system is further configured to, during a first period, use one of the first or second flip-flop banks as a write bank and the other of the first or second flip-flop banks as a read bank and, during a second period, alternate the use of the first and second flip-flop banks as the write bank and the read bank. Further, the control system is configured to, after alternating the use, initialize the read bank to zero.
US09641714B2
A light guide including a light scattering portion that reflects light guided inside the light guide, and a light emitting surface portion emitting light reflected by the light scattering portion to outside the light guide. A light emitting surface portion includes first and second light emitting surface portions, the first light emitting surface portion has a longer circumferential length than that of the second light emitting surface portion in the transversal cross section, and circumference curvature of the first light emitting surface portion in the transversal cross section increases away from the second light emitting surface portion. A normal line to the light scattering portion, passing through the center of the light scattering portion in the transversal cross section, intersects with the first light emitting surface portion, at a point at a near side to the second light emitting surface portion in the transversal cross section.
US09641697B2
A subscription information processing method, a policy and charging control method, an online charging method, a visited network, a V-PCRF and a V-OCS, wherein, the subscription information processing method comprises: a visited network receiving visited network subscription information and account information of a roaming user, the visited network subscription information and the account information and home network subscription information and account information of the roaming user using the same user identification information; the visited network storing the visited network subscription information and the account information of the roaming user.
US09641691B1
A system and method for managing an IP telephony network that uses a configuration map for organizing sites in a tree-like hierarchy. The system is capable of managing the addition, removal and movement of IP telephony elements within an IP telephony network and locating services and IP telephony elements within the IP telephony network in an efficient manner.
US09641685B2
Omni-channel routing broker technology is usable to improve the experience for customers and for workers using service channels, especially for very large enterprise service operation centers that have large pools of agents, helping businesses determine the relative priority for handling a variety of service channels, and to efficiently route issues accordingly. Omni-channel routing broker includes intelligent routing of service requests in a large, distributed service center operation, efficiently prioritizing the routing of work across organizations to agents based on availability, capacity and priority—in a multi-tenant environment. The disclosed methods are usable for managing digital data for many tenants to software instances, including groups of users who share common access with a specific set of privileges to a software instance of at least one application. The disclosed technology makes possible the delivery of an improved performance from routing 3-4 requests per second to routing 100 requests per second.
US09641684B1
A system and method for asynchronous conversation routing and tracing that allows a client and agent to connect and reconnect to one another over a discontinuous engagement. The system and method facilitate this by allowing multiple methods of communication between the client and agent, including live communications and out-of-band communications. All communications between a client and agent are tied to a client case accessible by the agent, and the client case can include context and environmental data to further assist the agent or to route a customer service call to an appropriate agent. At any time, the client or agent can send out-of-band messages to one another to advance the customer service process, or the client or agent can seek to re-establish live communication with each other. This provides the client with a consistent point of contact not easily supportable with phone based call centers where support is single-threaded.
US09641682B2
An approach is provided for selecting a telecommunications channel. In the approach, recipient attributes that correspond to an intended recipient are identified and current environment settings are retrieved. Predefined channel expression rules are then executed, with the channel expression rules utilizing the recipient attributes and the current environment settings as inputs to the rules. The execution of the channel expression rules results in the identification of a best telecommunications channel. A message is then transmitted to the intended recipient over the identified best telecommunications channel.
US09641681B2
Predictive models may be trained to estimate values of conversation quality metrics for ongoing conversations. A predictive model may be trained to predict the outcome of an ongoing conversation based on the values of conversation quality metrics for the conversation. The trained predictive model may be used to predict the outcome of an ongoing conversation, and/or to provide recommendations to a participant in the conversation regarding adjustments to the participant's communications that are predicted to improve the outcome of the conversation.
US09641678B2
A voice interactive session includes detection of an input signaling an interrupt to the session. When the interrupt is detected, instructional and or informational output is interrupted and detection of voice input begins. The voice input is not detected until the output is interrupted. Upon detection of a voice input (or other sound-based input), a determination may be made if the input was valid. If the input was valid, the input is processed, otherwise, instructional and/or informational output may be relayed again and/or the voice input may be redetected.
US09641677B2
A system and method for communicating presence information that can include at a first server of a communication platform, receiving an authorization token of a first client application; verifying at least one permission associated with the authorization token; registering a presence status of the first client application upon verifying the at least one permission of the authorization token; at a second server of the communication platform, accepting an incoming communication request; retrieving communication instructions according to the incoming communication request; identifying an instruction to communicate with a communication destination of the first client application; accessing the presence status resource of the first client application; establishing communication with the first client application according to the accessed presence status resource.
US09641674B1
Disclosed are systems and methods of identifying website activities of a webpage visitor as being those of a caller placing a telephone call to a published tracking telephone number presented as a substitute for a contact telephone number. The published tracking telephone number is presented as the substitute so that when a webpage visitor observes the published tracking telephone number and acts as the caller, the telephone call is non-disruptively forwarded to the contact telephone number for purpose of identifying the website activities as being those of the caller.
US09641664B2
A system, apparatus, and method for utilizing sensor data are described. Various sensors may be used to gather sensor data. The sensor data may be associated with an environment. The environment may be many things such as a vehicle, user, or home, etc. The sensor data may be sent raw, or preprocessed to a server or mobile device via communication links. The server, or mobile device, may help utilize the data. For example, operations may be performed in response to identifying an activity. For example, alerting emergency services based upon identifying a home is on fire. Specific operations performed may be based upon information levels. For example, an information level may alert a home owner and display captured sensor data, while another level may alert the neighbors with a generic text message.
US09641661B2
Various embodiments are directed to a mobile computing device having a communication management module. The communication management module receives connection information from a destination device, the connection information representing at least one communication mode accepted by the destination device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09641649B2
Disclosed is an apparatus comprising a network element (NE) configured to receive an Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) data packet in Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) format, translate the data packet into an Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) data packet in Internet Protocol version six (IPv6) format, and forward the translated data packet. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising a NE configured to receive an MLD data packet in IPv6 format, and translate the data packet into an IGMP data packet in IPv4 format. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving a plurality of data packets, wherein the plurality of data packets comprise IGMP data packets and MLD data packets, translating at least one of the IGMP data packets into a MLD data packet, and translating at least one of the MLD data packets into an IGMP data packet.
US09641638B2
Methods and systems for populating a cache memory that services a media composition system. Caching priorities are based on a state of the media composition system, such as media currently within a media composition timeline, a composition playback location, media playback history, and temporal location within clips that are included in the composition. Caching may also be informed by descriptive metadata and media search results within a media composition client or a within a media asset management system accessed by the client. Additional caching priorities may be based on a project workflow phase or a client project schedule. Media may be partially written to or read from cache in order to meet media request deadlines. Caches may be local to a media composition system or remote, and may be fixed or portable.
US09641635B2
A system and method for dynamic selection of reliability by data publishing protocol while publishing data, comprising a constrained gateway device (102) being adapted to publish data by using a data publisher and adapted to send and receive acknowledgment messages, one or more subscriber devices (104) communicatively coupled with the constrained gateway device (102) and subscribed to the server (106) and adapted to send and receive acknowledgment messages, and a server (106) communicatively coupled with the constrained gateway device (102) and the one or more subscriber devices (104) and adapted to exchange the acknowledgement messages between the data publisher on the constrained gateway device (102) and the one or more subscriber devices (104) wherein the data publisher running on the constrained gateway device (102) has multiple reliability levels for publishing data and is adapted to dynamically select the reliability level based on available bandwidth and energy.
US09641633B2
State change means changes a state of an information processing apparatus between an unused state and a used state. First communication means automatically performs communication with another portable information processing apparatus. Second communication means automatically performs communication via an access point. Communication control means performs control such that the communication by the first communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the unused state and the communication by the second communication means is preferentially performed when the information processing apparatus is in the used state.
US09641630B2
A location-reporting request is sent by a processor to at least one remote server. The location-reporting request requests processing of data away from a geo-location-aware client device and instructs any available server to respond with a reported geographic location. An asserted geographic location is received from a remote server available to process the data. A determination is made as to whether the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies location-based data processing restrictions that regulate remote processing of the data away from the geo-location-aware client device. In response to determining that the asserted geographic location of the available remote server satisfies the location-based data processing restrictions, the asserted geographic location is verified using a geo-location assertion server. In response to a successful verification of the asserted geographic location of the available remote server, the data is sent to the available remote server to process.
US09641622B2
A connection-indicative signal can be received at a master electronic device from an electronic accessory. The connection-indicative signal can include a connection attribute indicative of a presence or characteristic of a connection between the electronic accessory and at least one other electronic accessory of the master electronic device. A location of the master electronic device can be determined at the master electronic device. The location can be stored at the master electronic device in association with the connection attribute. The master electronic device can detect a locate-accessory input that corresponds to a request to locate the at least one other electronic accessory; or that a locate-accessory condition is satisfied based on another connection attribute included in another connection-indicative signal received from the electronic accessory. The stored location can be retrieved in response to the detecting. A presentation that includes location information that corresponds to the stored location can be presented.
US09641618B2
Techniques are disclosed for integration, provisioning and management of entities and processes in a computing system such as, by way of example only, business entities and business processes. In particular, techniques are disclosed for ontology based resource provisioning and management for services. For example, such an ontology based approach can be utilized in conjunction with a business support system which may be employed in conjunction with a cloud computing environment.
US09641617B2
The present invention provides a method and system for verifying integrity of cloud data using unconnected trusted device. The method involves requesting encrypted data though a terminal from a metadata offsite location on a cloud storage then entering encrypted data into an unconnected trusted device thereafter obtaining sentinel data from one or more predefined sentinel locations in encrypted data then requesting original data from the cloud storage through the terminal from the unconnected trusted device thereafter comparing sentinel data and original data for integrity and finally displaying the results.
US09641614B2
Embodiments provide a method and system for enabling access to a storage device. Specifically, a node may request admittance to a cluster that has read and write access to a storage device. The node seeking access to the storage device must be first be approved by other nodes in the cluster. As part of the request, the node seeking access to the storage device sends a registration key to a storage device. Upon expiration of a registration timer, the node seeking access to the storage device receives a registration table from the storage device and determines whether its registration key is stored in the registration table. If the registration key is stored in the registration table the node has been accepted in the cluster and as a result, has been granted read and write access to the storage device.
US09641599B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a native desktop using cloud-synchronized data are presented. In some embodiments, a desktop management service provided by at least one computing device may selectively store data from a remote desktop. Subsequently, the desktop management service may synchronize the stored data with a cloud-based data storage platform. Thereafter, the desktop management service may cause a native desktop to be presented on a client device using the synchronized data. In some arrangements, the extracted, analyzed, and/or selectively stored data may include one or more application shortcuts, one or more documents, one or more registry keys, one or more personalization settings, or one or more layout settings. Additionally or alternatively, the remote desktop may be associated with a first operating system, and the native desktop may be associated with a second operating system different from the first operating system.
US09641593B2
An information handling system includes a processor that executes instructions for a content sharing system having mixed operating system capabilities. The processor detects pre-paired wireless connectivity remotely connected computing devices, and auto-initiates navigation accessibility within authorized remotely connected computing devices via the content sharing system. The information handling system also includes a display for a content sharing system desktop that includes device environment-representative windows that represent file structures corresponding to a plurality of remotely connected computing devices.
US09641589B2
A method for extending a functionality of a computing device programmed to obtain physiological measurements from a patient includes: registering, at the computing device, a plug-in module, the plug-in module providing additional functionality for the computing device; using the plug-in module to communicate with a medical device; commanding the medical device to obtain physiological information from a patient; receiving data associated with the physiological information from the medical device; and transferring the data to a central repository.
US09641581B2
Controlling streaming of data from a streaming server to a user equipment via a radio access network
A method of controlling streaming of data, such as video, from a streaming server to a User Equipment (UE) via a Radio Access Network (RAN) is provided. The method includes receiving streaming data from the streaming server, re-shaping the received streaming data into bursts, and transmitting the bursts to the UE. The bursts are transmitted at a higher bitrate than the bitrate of the received streaming data. By re-shaping the streaming data into bursts, streaming can be effected in a more radio-friendly way, since the UE may switch to a less resource consuming radio state in-between reception of data bursts delivered at high bitrates. Further, a corresponding computer program and computer program product, and a proxy unit for controlling streaming of data from a streaming server to a UE via a RAN, are provided.
US09641576B2
A cloud-based video/audio conferencing system and method performs locale based aggregation of a full duplex media stream to organize multiple connections to a conference call that originate from the same physical location or a shared locale. The cloud-based video/audio conferencing system performs synchronization of the microphone and speaker audio signals of the same-locale connections. In this manner, a conference call may be held with multiple user devices making connections from the same physical location. User experience is enhanced by allowing each user in the same location to use his/her own individual devices to connect to the same conference call.
US09641570B2
An approach for electronic information collaboration allows the use of a mobile device to cause electronic information to be displayed on one or more projector display devices via a virtual projector. The use of a virtual projector allows electronic information to be displayed on multiple projector display devices and/or client devices. The approach may also include the use of collaboration clients and a collaboration server to provide additional functionality with respect to the electronic information including, for example, the ability for changes made to electronic information at one location to be propagated to another location. The approach also allows a mobile device to be used to establish a videoconferencing session between two or more videoconferencing sites. The approach may include generation and use of a locations map that displays icons that correspond to videoconferencing sites and that may be selected to establish a connection between videoconferencing sites.
US09641567B2
A communication system extends IETF Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) signaling used by IMS architecture. As a basic use case, initially a first (UE1) (controller) is in a media session (e.g., audio, video and message session) with a remote UE. To transfer provider of one media component to a controllee UE, the controller UE1 sends a REFER message with a relevant body to trigger the media session operations to a Service Centralization and Continuity Application Server (SCC AS). The SCC AS is able to interpret the contents of the REFER message to perform the media session manipulation on one or multiple UEs (originating UE itself or other UEs). The innovation provides for a REFER message that convey what needs to be done in a separate SIP header carrying target dialog and media line number(s), in a SDP body that REFER carries, or XML body that will be in REFER.
US09641565B2
Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a wireless server downloads media content to a mobile wireless client based on one or more criteria for the mobile wireless client, where the one or more criteria are identified in the wireless server.
US09641562B2
When a voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) telephone call is being conducted by a mobile telephony device, measurements of at least one condition that exists for the mobile telephone device during the VOIP telephone call are taken during the duration of the telephone call. The measurements could be taken periodically as the VOIP telephone call progresses. The measured condition is one that could affect the perceived quality of the VOIP telephone call. The measurements of the at least one condition are recorded against the telephone call for later use and analysis. The recorded information may be analyzed to determine how to modify a setting of the mobile telephony device to improve the quality of VOIP telephone calls conducted with the mobile telephony device.
US09641558B2
Disclosed is a communication system for effecting communication events between a plurality of endpoints connected via a communication network. The communication system comprises a plurality of processing units other than said endpoints, each having access to computer storage holding executable code modules for managing a communication event. The code modules are configured to implement a media modality controller configured to manage media modality of an established communication event and a call controller configured to establish the communication event. An instance of the call controller is assigned to progress the establishment of the communication event responsive to an instruction received via the network and is configured to initiate an instruction to at least one of: the media modality controller; and at least one of the endpoints.
US09641549B2
Message(s) are received from each one of multiple proxy servers, which are anycasted to the same IP address, that indicate source IP addresses of packets that are received that are directed to that same IP address. These proxy servers receive the packets as result of domain(s) resolving to that same IP address, and a particular one of the proxy servers receives the packets as a result of an anycast protocol implementation selecting that proxy server. Based on these message(s) from each of the proxy servers, a determination of the likelihood of a packet having a particular source IP address being legitimately received at each of the proxy servers is determined. A message is transmitted to each of the proxy servers that indicates which source IP addresses of packets are not likely to be legitimately received at that proxy server.
US09641545B2
Anomalies are detected in a network by detecting communication between a plurality of entities and a set of users in the network, determining an overlap between subsets of the set of users that the entities comprising the plurality of entities communicated with, respectively, and determining whether the communication between the plurality of entities and the set of users is anomalous based on the overlap.
US09641539B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for a passive based security escalation to shut off of applications on a mobile device based on rules. As such, the system may identify, via extraction of data, time periods correlating to events that the user may be offline or inactive with respect to his/her mobile device. Once the time periods are identified, rules are created for the level of security escalation required based on the event. Subsequently, a trigger is identified at a time leading up to the event, where the system integrates with the mobile device and requires additional authentication to access one or more applications. Once the offline event starts, the system initiates a shutdown of the functions of one or more applications on the user's mobile device. The system then reinstates the application functionality after the offline event has ended.
US09641528B2
Certain implementations of the disclosed technology may include systems and methods for multi-stage identity authentication. A method is provided that includes receiving a set of identity information associated with a subject and querying one or more public or private databases with at least a portion of the set of identity information. The method includes receiving independent information responsive to the querying. The method includes determining zero or more first indicators of fraud risk and producing one or more identity proofing queries derived from the independent information. Based at least in part on a comparison of the one or more proofing queries and a query response, the method includes determining zero or more second indicators of fraud risk and evaluating a fraud score. Responsive to evaluating the fraud score, the method includes initiating one or more of authentication enrollment and multi-factor authentication of the subject.
US09641524B2
A method of displaying content to a user within a managed space comprised of one or more touch-free interactive kiosks includes collecting user data about the user. In addition, the plurality of touch-free interactive kiosks are configured to uniquely identify users located at the kiosk. Based on the identified user, and collected user data associated with the user, content is selected to be displayed to the user.
US09641519B2
A tokenization system tokenizes sensitive data to prevent unauthorized entities from accessing the sensitive data. The tokenization system accesses sensitive data, and retrieves an initialization vector (IV) from an IV table using a first portion of the sensitive data. A second portion of the sensitive data is modified using the accessed initialization vector. A token table is selected from a set of token tables using a third portion of the sensitive data. The modified second portion of data is used to query the selected token table, and a token associated with the value of the modified second portion of data is accessed. The second portion of the sensitive data is replaced with the accessed token to form tokenized data.
US09641518B2
A method for password setting and authentication is provided. The method includes receiving a password setting request and acquiring a reference character string and reference input duration information. The reference input duration information may be associated with a character at a position of the reference character string. The method may further include storing the reference character string and the reference input duration information, receiving a password authentication request, and acquiring an authentication character string input by a user and authentication input duration information. The authentication input duration information may be associated with a character at the position of the authentication character string. The method may further include determining whether password authentication is successful based on the authentication character string, the authentication input duration information, the reference character string, and the reference input duration information.
US09641513B2
The present disclosure includes an exemplary method for controlling access to a third-party server by a mobile terminal. The method comprises: acquiring, at the mobile terminal from a first-party server, login authorization information using which a user of the mobile terminal has logged in the first-party server through a client-side application corresponding to the first-party server, wherein the login authorization information includes a logged-in account; transmitting, to the third-party server, a login request, wherein the login request includes the login authorization information that is to be verified; and receiving authorization for the user to log in the third-party server using the logged-in account included in the verified login authorization information.
US09641503B2
A global endpoint may be associated with an organization name and a plurality of directories located in different geographic regions. The global endpoint may be a computing system that hosts a page used by users to access an application or service. A user may be able to access the application or service using already existing credentials. For example, the user may access the application or service using credentials stored and maintained by an entity with which the user is affiliated. Users having credentials stored in different geographic regions may be able to access the application or service via the same global endpoint.
US09641500B2
A method for providing multimedia data including receiving multimedia data, from a second user; determining user information relating to the second user; defining a first authenticity value based on the user information; determining multimedia data characteristics relating to the multimedia data; defining a second authenticity value based on the multimedia data characteristics; defining a multimedia data authenticity value using the first and the second authenticity value; and maintaining, by the operator, the received multimedia data associated with the multimedia data authenticity value, wherein the multimedia being available for a third user.
US09641489B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for use in fraud detection. In one embodiment, the techniques comprise a method. The method comprises receiving an encrypted current location associated with a user. The method also comprises obtaining an encrypted historical location associated with the user and an encrypted location sensitivity metric that relates to a distance within which locations are considered to be the same. The method further comprises performing an authentication operation based on the encrypted current location, the encrypted historical location and the encrypted location sensitivity metric.
US09641482B2
Network architecture supports hosting and content distribution on a global scale. The architecture allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.
US09641481B2
The disclosure proposes a smart conversation method and an electronic device using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, an electronic device may receive via a receiver a first communication in a first communication type and determining a recipient status. The electronic device may determine a second communication type as an optimal communication type based on the recipient status. The electronic device may convert the first communication into a second communication that is suitable for the second communication type. The electronic device may transmit via a transmitter the second communication in the second communication type.
US09641475B2
A preview generating section 104 generates preview forming data within a predetermined data size by extracting at least a part of header information and at least a part of a mail body from an electronic mail obtained by a mail obtaining section 102. A cache section 142 caches the preview forming data. A display section 108 displays a preview list on a display device 68 using the preview forming data cached by the cache section 142. When a preview included in the preview list is selected, a command transmitting section 106 requests a server to transmit the electronic mail identified by the selected preview.
US09641465B1
A switching device includes a plurality of ports and a switching core, which is coupled to transfer data packets between ingress and egress ports. Switching logic maintains a descriptor queue containing respective descriptors corresponding to the data packets that have been received and queued by the ports, and responsively to the respective descriptors, instructs the switching core to transfer the queued data packets between the ports. Port logic, which is associated with each port, is configured, upon receipt of a data packet from the network at the port, to signal the switching logic to place a descriptor corresponding to the data packet in the descriptor queue and, upon identifying the data packet as meeting a predefined criterion, to convey a request to the switching logic, bypassing the descriptor queue, to instruct the switching core to transfer the data packet immediately to an egress port.
US09641463B2
A receive buffer of the type that receives information at regular time slots and is required to indicate any status changes to a micro control unit (MCU), the receive buffer including: a slot status field for storing slot status information at each timeslot for the receive buffer; a receive interrupt flag for sending a signal to the MCU for indicating a change of the slot status field on receipt of the information at each timeslot; characterized in that the receive buffer also includes: an empty slot recognition bit for determining if an empty slot is received and generating an indicator thereof, wherein the indicator is passed to the MCU instead of the useless empty slot status field.
US09641460B2
Particular embodiments provide systems and methods to reduce the average power consumption per subscriber. Particular embodiments select windows of time when network components are under-utilized by subscribers of the network. During periods of under-utilization of a network component, subscribers may be consolidated onto a smaller number of network components by increasing the service group size. The consolidation increases the service group size, which has the effect of lowering bandwidth per subscriber. However, the bandwidth use per subscriber may be lower during this time. The use of the smaller number of network components allows the energy for these components to be used more efficiently. When the subscriber network demands increase, the distribution system places the network components into an active power state and redistributes the subscribers to the newly-activated components. This decreases the service group size, such as back to the original size.
US09641457B2
A network device receives a packet that includes a plurality of sets of fields. Sets of fields of the packet are parsed and the field sets are evaluated as soon as they are available to determine whether a processing decision can be made on the packet. Additional field sets may be parsed from the packet and obtained in parallel with determining whether a processing decision can be made, but once it is determined that a processing decision can be made, the evaluating of field sets is terminated such that any further field sets of the packet are ignored for purposes of making a processing decision for the packet.
US09641453B2
Some embodiments are directed to a method, corresponding system, and corresponding apparatus for handling Quality of Service (QoS) for one or more network file shares associated with one or more Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers. Some embodiments may determine an actual value for a QoS parameter for network file shares, through a benchmark test procedure. Some embodiments may assign a QoS policy to the network file shares. Some embodiments may associate the QoS policy with the QoS parameter. Some embodiments may control the QoS policy at the NAS servers. Some embodiments may determine a current speed capability of one or more network interface controllers (NICs) associated with the NAS servers. Some embodiments may also compare the current speed capability of the NICs to the given actual value for the given QoS parameter resulting from the benchmark test procedure.
US09641450B1
With the advent of virtualization technologies, networks and routing for those networks can now be simulated using commodity hardware. For example, virtualization technologies can be adapted to allow a single physical computing machine to be shared among multiple virtual networks by providing one or more virtual machines simulated in software by the single physical computing machine, with each virtual machine acting as a distinct logical computing system. In addition, as routing can be accomplished through software, additional network setup flexibility can be provided to the virtual network in comparison with hardware-based routing. In some implementations, virtual network setup can be abstracted through the use of resource placement templates, allowing users to create virtual networks compliant with a customer's networking policies without necessarily having knowledge of what those policies are.
US09641444B2
Systems and methods for extracting user identifiers over encrypted communication traffic are provided herein. An example method includes monitoring multiple flows of communication traffic. A sequence of messages is then sent to a user in accordance with a first temporal pattern. A flow whose activity has a second temporal pattern that matches the first pattern is then identified among the monitored flows. The identified flow is then associated with the user.
US09641441B2
A source network device of a cloud computing network receives a packet destined for a destination virtual machine provided in a destination cloud computing device. The packet is received from a source virtual machine provided in a source cloud computing device. The source network device associates, to the packet, a source shaping resource of the source network device, where the source shaping resource includes a bandwidth that matches or exceeds a bandwidth associated with the source virtual machine. The source network device adds, to the packet, a header that identifies an address of the source virtual machine, an identifier associated with the source shaping resource, and the bandwidth associated with the source virtual machine. The source network device provides, via the source shaping resource, the packet and the header to the cloud computing network for transmission to the destination virtual machine.
US09641439B2
This system includes: plural first information processing apparatuses on which a virtual machine that belongs to either of plural subnets; plural second information processing apparatuses on which a virtual router used for communication between subnets; a controller that controls communication paths within a subnet, deployment of the virtual machine and deployment of the virtual router; and plural switches that connects the plural first information processing apparatuses, the plural second information processing apparatuses and the controller. The controller selects any one of the virtual machine, the virtual router and a communication path within any one of the plural subnets based on a predetermined evaluation value concerning a communication amount for each first information processing apparatus and a predetermined evaluation value concerning a communication amount for each switch, and changes deployment destination of the selected virtual machine or the selected virtual router or the selected communication path.
US09641434B1
Private network address obfuscation and verification methods and apparatus that may obfuscate private network source addresses embedded in packet header addresses when sending packets from private networks onto or over external, public networks, and that verify incoming packets to the private networks using the obfuscated private network addresses embedded in the incoming packet header destination addresses. Obfuscating the private network addresses embedded in outgoing packets and verifying incoming packets according to the obfuscated content embedded in the destination addresses may help keep the private network addresses of endpoints on the private network hidden in the packet header content on public networks and difficult to detect by entities on the public networks, which may, for example, make malicious activities such as denial of service (DoS) attacks on the private network impractical.
US09641423B2
A facility allows for automatic delegation of incoming real-time communications based on a delegation scheme. The delegation scheme may be rules-based and may be applied to a single real-time communication channel or multiple communication channels, including both real-time and non-real-time communication channels. The delegate information may include rules that indicate under what circumstances a communication should be rerouted, which delegate the communication should be rerouted to, and whether other associated actions should be taken in connection with the rerouting (or lack thereof). In some cases, the context of the incoming communication may play a role in how or whether a communication is rerouted to a delegate.
US09641413B2
Provided are methods and computer program products for collecting storage resource performance data using file system hooks. Methods may include determining a location for a function dispatch table, and modifying the function dispatch table to redirect a request for an operation. In response to a received request for the operation, an intent to perform the operation is recorded to estimate an operational queue length, and data associated with the operation is recorded in a hash table. In response to recording data associated with the operation, a function corresponding to the operation to perform the operation is invoked. Elapsed time and storage size is recorded.
US09641410B2
A method and apparatus to provide hop-by-hop tracking for a communication network is described. In one embodiment, each router verifies that a next downstream router supports tracking and in response, adds a tracking indicator and a timestamp to the data packet. An end router provides a compilation of all the timestamps back to the originating router.
US09641398B1
Identifying network devices having specified traits using a multi-level hierarchical data structure. Bloom filters representing traits of network devices are received and their bit vectors are decomposed into successive bytes. For each byte except the last one, memory for storing a pointer to memory on the next level is allocated on the level corresponding to the byte. The pointer storage is labeled by the value of the next byte. A pointer to the allocated memory is stored in the pointer storage on the previous level that was labeled by the value of the current byte. For the last byte, memory for storing references to network devices is allocated on the last level. A pointer to the allocated memory is stored in the pointer storage on the second-to-last level that was labeled by the value of the last byte. A reference to the network device is stored in the allocated memory.
US09641395B2
A method of processing device discovery for a first communication device in a network system is disclosed. The method comprises generating a discovery management frame including an identity and a medium access control (MAC) address of the first communication device, broadcasting the discovery management frame, and when a response corresponding to the discovery management frame is received from the second communication device, adding an entry with the identity and the MAC address of the second communication device in a device table stored in the first communication device.
US09641394B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for automatically configuring an inventory of hardware to interact seamlessly with a cloud-computing fabric of a data center are provided. Initially, hardware devices within the hardware inventory are located by sending and receiving communications to network devices via serial-based connections and network-based connections, respectively. Information collected during hardware-device location is cross-referenced against a template file for purposes of validation. This information is also employed to generate an infrastructure state of the hardware inventory. The infrastructure state is shared with a controller of the fabric to integrate the hardware inventory therein. Upon integration, services and security measures are provisioned on the hardware inventory, which is designated as a fabric-computing cluster of the data center in order to extend reachability of the fabric, while distributed services are deployed and enabled on available portions of the hardware inventory, which are managed by the fabric controller.
US09641393B2
A system and method are provided for forming crowds of users and providing access to corresponding crowd data. In one embodiment, a central system, which includes one or more servers, operates to obtain current locations for users of mobile devices. The system forms a crowd including a number of users based on the current locations of the number of users using a spatial crowd formation process based on an optimal inclusion distance that is a function of density of users of the plurality of users within a bounding region. The central system then generates crowd data for the crowd and provides access to the crowd data for the crowd. In one embodiment, the crowd data for the crowd includes an aggregate profile for the crowd. In another embodiment, the crowd data includes data characterizing the crowd. The central system provides access to the crowd data by serving crowd data requests.
US09641384B1
Technology is described for monitoring computing instance launch times. A launch plan for launching a computing instance in a computing service environment may be identified. A predicted launch time for launching the computing instance on a selected physical host in the computing service environment may be determined using a launch time prediction model. An actual launch time for launching the computing instance in the computing service environment may be identified. The predicted launch time that is determined using the launch time prediction model may be compared with the actual launch time for launching the computing instance in the computing service environment. The actual launch time may be determined as not being within a defined threshold of the predicted launch time. An alert may be generated to indicate that the actual launch time is not within the defined threshold of the predicted launch time.
US09641381B2
A brokering device that manages multimedia information includes an interface device having access to a network and a multimedia service provider. The interface device enables selection of multimedia information from the network, and provides the selected multimedia information to a plurality of locations without requiring the user to specify a protocol associated with the multimedia information.
US09641373B2
An apparatus comprises: a receiver port configured to receive an input signal comprising in-phase and quadrature (IQ) data and control words (CWs); a peak-to-average power (PAPR) reducer coupled to the receiver port and configured to: receive the IQ data, process the IQ data, separate the IQ data into a clipped signal and a peak signal, and determine peak information associated with the peak signal; and a transmitter port coupled to the PAPR reducer and configured to separately transmit the clipped signal and the peak information. A method comprises: receiving an input signal comprising first data and second data; processing the first data; separating the first data into a clipped signal and a peak signal; determining peak information associated with the peak signal; and transmitting the clipped signal and the peak information.
US09641371B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamic single-frequency-network-(SFN)-multicast symbol synchronization. In an embodiment, a wireless-communication device (WCD) receives an SFN-multicast transmission at least in part by receiving a respective SFN-multicast-transmission signal from each site in a plurality of sites in a given SFN-multicast area, where each such received SFN-multicast-transmission signal has a respective SFN-multicast cyclic prefix. The WCD calculates a multisource multipath delay spread (“MMDS”) that is characteristic of the received plurality of SFN-multicast-transmission signals, and determines whether that calculated MMDS exceeds a threshold MMDS. If so, the WCD selects a multicast timing point that is after the SFN-multicast cyclic prefix of a first-received one of the received SFN-multicast-transmission signals. If not, the WCD selects a multicast timing point that is within the SFN-multicast cyclic prefix of the first-received SFN-multicast-transmission signal. The WCD uses the selected multicast timing point to demodulate the received SFN-multicast transmission.
US09641368B2
The present disclosure relates to a front-end system for a radio device. In one example, a front-end system comprises a converter, the converter comprising a mixer configured for down-converting a radio frequency signal into a baseband signal by using a local oscillator signal generated by a signal generator, and characterized in that, the converter further comprises a quantizer arranged for quantizing the baseband signal into a digital signal. Further, the signal generator may be configured for generating, based on the digital signal, the local oscillator signal such that it is synchronized with the radio frequency signal.
US09641366B2
A wireless communication circuit includes a vibration piece, and a semiconductor device that is connected to the vibration piece in order to integrate the vibration piece and a wireless communication IC into one package and thus to produce a wireless communication device by which a high-precision oscillation frequency is obtained. The semiconductor device includes an oscillation circuit of the vibration piece, and a wireless communication circuit that has an amplifier which amplifies a wireless signal that is generated by an oscillation signal from the oscillation circuit. The vibration piece and the semiconductor device are accommodated in one package. An excitation electrode of the vibration piece is arranged in the package in such a manner that the excitation electrode is not superimposed on the amplifier when the semiconductor device is viewed from above.
US09641365B2
A measuring device serves for the detection of a simultaneous presence of at least a first signal and a second signal in a measurement signal. The measuring device contains a receiving unit for receiving the measurement signal as a digital measurement signal and a processing unit. This processing unit includes a transformation unit for transforming the digital measurement signal into a measurement signal in the frequency domain. The processing unit further contains a subtraction unit for subtracting the first sideband of the measurement signal in the frequency domain from a second sideband of the measurement signal in the frequency domain. In this context, the subtraction unit generates a residual signal.
US09641362B2
A receiver for an N-wire digital interface, where N is any integer exceeding two, has N input terminals, a common node and N detection stages. Each of the N detection stages has a resistive element coupled between the common node and a respective one of the N input terminals, and a comparator having a first input coupled to the respective one of the N input terminals and a second input coupled to the common node.
US09641359B1
A system including first and second filters and an adaptation engine. The first filter includes first taps that receive first coefficients and filters a digital signal to generate a first filtered signal. One of the first coefficients is constrained, such that the one of the first coefficients are not updated and phase and gain errors are introduced. The second filter includes second taps that receive second coefficients and filters the first filtered signal to generate a second filtered signal. The second coefficients include first and second coefficients. The adaptation engine, based on the one of the first coefficients, updates: the first coefficient to set a phase of the second filter; and the second coefficient to set a gain of the second filter. The phase of the second filter corresponds to a change in the phase error. The gain of the second filter corresponds to a change in the gain error.
US09641352B2
An ED within EVI network establishes an EVI tunnel for bearing Ethernet packets and an EVI extension tunnel for bearing IP packets, where both the EVI tunnel and the EVI extension tunnel are connected to a peer ED. The ED sends an Ethernet packet for layer 2 forwarding in an EVI forwarding instance through the EVI tunnel; and sendsan IP packet for layer 3 forwarding in the EVI forwarding instance through the EVI extension tunnel.
US09641335B2
A method relates to distributing user credentials in a distributed physical access control system, and more generally to distributing user credentials in a distributed system. A method may include storing a user credential database (DB), a first transformed credential DB and a second transformed credential DB for authenticating users to access a first and a second service provided by the device. The method may include generating the first transformed credential DB and the second transformed credential DB based on the user credential DB and comparing a credential received from a user to the first or the second transformed credential DB to determine whether to grant access to the first or the second service. The method may include distributing the user credential DB to a plurality of other devices connected in a network for the other devices to generate transformed credential DBs for authenticating users to access services.
US09641330B2
A cryptographic system includes a memory device and a processor. The memory device has at least two sections, including a first section and a second section. The processor is configured to determine a mode of operation, receive a signal, and selectively zeroize at least one section of the memory device based at least in part on the received signal and the determined mode of operation.
US09641324B2
A method for authenticating request messages is disclosed. An authentication service device performs centralized allocation and management for authentication random numbers; when a User Equipment (UE) uses a protected service, the key negotiation process needs to be performed only once, whereupon the authentication is performed with multiple Application Servers (ASs) in turn according to the policy of using an authentication random number. Further, the corresponding authentication service device, AS, and UE are disclosed.
US09641312B1
A symbol clock recovery circuit for recovering a symbol clock in an M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) signal. The recovery circuit includes a largest magnitude comparison circuit that selects a largest magnitude signal value from a group of M signal values aligned with a hypothesis symbol boundary location and the average of that largest magnitude value is compared with a threshold, or with results from other boundary location hypotheses, or with both, to determine the true position of the symbol boundary.
US09641306B2
A method for transmitting ACK/NACK information in response to a downlink transmission in a relay node (RN) of a wireless communication system; and the RN therefore are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving downlink transmissions in downlink subframes; and transmitting the ACK/NACK information for the downlink transmissions in one uplink subframe associated with the downlink subframes. The downlink subframes and the uplink subframe are configured for a time division duplex (TDD). Physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources are configured by a higher layer, and each of the PUCCH resources corresponds to each of the downlink subframes. Each of the downlink subframes associated with the one uplink subframe is sequentially mapped to each of the PUCCH resources starting from a downlink subframe among the downlink subframes that is closest in time to the one uplink subframe.
US09641304B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may transmit feedback information on an uplink control channel. The WTRU may also transmit in response to a trigger condition and instead of a transmission of scheduling information, in a transmission time interval (TTI) on the uplink control channel, a predetermined sequence. In the TTI, an uplink data channel may not transmitted by the WTRU.
US09641299B2
The present application discloses a method for enabling a terminal to report channel status information in a base station cooperative wireless communication system. Particularly, the method for enabling a terminal to report channel status information in a base station cooperative wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a serving base station, first resource setting information for a channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) and second resource setting information for measuring interference: receiving a triggering signal for reporting the channel status information from the serving base station; calculating the channel status information on the serving base station and/or one or more cooperative base stations by using the first resource setting information and the second resource setting information; and reporting the channel status information to the serving base station, wherein the first resource setting information and the second resource setting information include information on an antenna port capable of referring to a large scale property of a wireless channel.
US09641295B2
In a mobile communication system in which a plurality of base stations included in a CoMP cooperating set allocate a communication resource to a user terminal to perform communication, each of the plurality of base stations comprises a receiver that receives information on resource allocation to the user terminal in another base station included in the CoMP cooperating set, from the other base station; and a reporting unit that reports information on another specific base station included in the CoMP cooperating set to a CoMP management apparatus managing the CoMP cooperating set when the receiver does not normally receive the notification from the other specific base station.
US09641293B2
A method of transmitting, by a transmitter, information in a wireless communication system, the method includes generating first and second symbols; generating first and second transmit vectors on the basis of an Alamouti code from the first and second symbols; and transmitting the first transmit vector through a first antenna and transmitting the second transmit vector through a second antenna. The first transmit vector consists of a first transmit symbol and a second transmit symbol. The second transmit vector consists of a third transmit symbol and a fourth transmit symbol. The first, second, third, and fourth transmit symbols are transmitted based on first and second resource indexes. The first symbol is a first modulation symbol for first information, and the second symbol is a second modulation symbol for second information.
US09641290B2
A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive one TB per TTI. The transmitter may generate a plurality of TBs and assign each TB to a H-ARQ process. The transmitter may send control information for each TB, which may include H-ARQ information associated TBs with the TBs. The transmitter may send the TBs using the associated H-ARQ processes simultaneously per TTI. After receiving the TBs, the receiver may send feedback for each of the H-ARQ processes and associated TBs indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of each of the TBs to the transmitter. The feedback for multiple TBs may be combined for the simultaneously transmitted H-ARQ processes, (i.e., TBs).
US09641288B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, a bit deinterleaver to bit deinterleave data in the parsed signal frame and a decoder to decode the bit deinterleaved data.
US09641285B2
A method includes decoding, by a receiver device, a spread spectrum coded stream of information including a multiple codeword blocks. The decoding includes determining a number of invalid codewords in a particular block of codewords. Based on a first particular number of invalid codewords in the particular block of codewords, the particular block of codewords is demapped, and parity codewords of the particular block of codewords are discarded. Based on a second particular number of invalid codewords in the particular block of codewords, a subset of syndrome components is computed using one or more coding enumerations with an update procedure for the subset of syndrome components, if all of the subset components are zero an erroneous bit is found, otherwise coding enumerations continue, the particular block of codewords is demapped, and parity codewords of the particular block of codewords are discarded.
US09641283B2
An adaptive modulation coding method includes obtaining an estimated signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and a packet error rate (PER) of a communication link of a user terminal; setting a first adjustment amount of the SINR of the communication link according to the PER of the communication link; calculating an effective SINR of the communication link according to the estimated SINR of the communication link and the first adjustment amount of the SINR of the communication link; and determining a modulation coding scheme of the communication link according to the effective SINR of the communication link.
US09641282B2
A radio communication device may include: a transmitter configured to transmit data at a data rate which is based on a pre-determined maximum data rate which is pre-determined by another radio communication device; a determination circuit configured to determine a quality indicator which is indicative of a quality of the transmission of the data; and a data rate changing circuit configured to change the data rate to a changed data rate based on the determined quality indicator. The transmitter may further transmit at the changed data rate.
US09641281B2
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for assigning electromagnetic-spectrum (ES) jamming assets are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the method includes dividing an electronic warfare (EW) support area into a grid. The method may further include determining a vulnerability area (VA) of the entity based on planned route information of the entity within the EW support area. The VA may include portions of the grid. The method may further include assigning a first jamming asset to the VA based on a coverage capability of the first jamming asset. The coverage capability may include a number of contiguous portions of the grid.
US09641256B2
An optical communications method and an optical communications apparatus are provided. The method is executed on a communications node that includes an input optical modulator array and an output optical modulator array. The input optical modulator array includes N input optical modulators. The method includes determining at least two local input areas from the input optical modulator array, so that each input optical modulator in each local input area is used to receive a foreign signal light. The method also includes determining at least two local output areas from the output optical modulator array. Each output optical modulator in each local output area is used to send the foreign signal light, and each input optical modulator in a local input area is capable of transmitting the signal light to each output optical modulator in a corresponding local output area.
US09641240B2
In one or more embodiments, a first device such as a mobile phone can establish a wireless connection with second device, and the second device can act as a bridge between the first device and a peripheral device, such as a printer, so that the first device need not establish a secure pairing or other type of direct connection with the peripheral device. The second device provides a profile of the peripheral to the first device. The first device can then use the profile to access the peripheral device via the second device, with the second device passing data between the first device and the peripheral identified by the profile. This bridging feature simplifies the process of using the peripheral devices, since no secure pairing or other configuration procedure is needed to enable the first device to access the peripheral.
US09641234B2
In wireless communications, an access point may send a trigger frame to multiple stations. The trigger frame's payload may include a first content and a second content, where the first content is associated with a legacy signal field of an uplink frame, and the second content is associated with a non-legacy signal field of the uplink frame. In response to the trigger frame, one or more stations may generate the uplink frame(s) based on the trigger frame and transmit the uplink frame(s) to the access point. The uplink frame(s) may include a legacy signal field and a non-legacy signal field. The legacy field may include a length of the uplink frame(s) that is based on the first content. The non-legacy signal field may include a remaining transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration that is generated based on the second content. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09641209B2
An applicator for aligning a screen protector on a portable electronic device (D) with a screen, four edges and a rear face opposite to the screen. The applicator comprises a body with an engagement member (2, 11) and an alignment feature (3, 5, 12, 13). The engagement member (2, 11) is arranged for edgewise engagement with no more than three of the four edges of the device (D) to align the applicator with the device by movement in a direction generally parallel to the plane of the screen such that the alignment feature (3, 5, 12, 13) covers a portion of the face of the device comprising the screen which is not covered by the screen protector allowing an edge of the screen protector to be located with respect to the alignment feature.
US09641196B2
The present invention relates to communication field, disclosing a data block interleaving and deinterleaving method and apparatus for communication equipments. In the present invention, a recursive method for calculating interleaver or deinterleaver addresses for existing power line communication standards is proposed. The complex modulo operation is simplified to a series of Add-Compare-Subtract operations. Therefore, the hardware implementation complexity is significantly reduced.
US09641188B1
A power router apparatus includes: a power divider that divides predetermined power into a plurality of divided powers including first divided power and second divided power; a first code modulator that code-modulates the first divided power with a first modulation code to generate first code-modulated power, which is alternating-current power; and a second code modulator that code-modulates the second divided power with a second modulation code to generate second code-modulated power, which is alternating-current power.
US09641173B2
An input apparatus has a touch sensor 11 for an input, a load detection unit 12 to detect a pressure load on a touch face 11a of the sensor 11, a tactile sensation providing unit 13 to vibrate the touch face 11a, and a control unit 15 to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit 13, when the detected pressure load satisfies a standard to provide a tactile sensation, to provide a click sensation to an object (means) pressing the touch face 11a. The control unit 15 drives the tactile sensation providing unit 13, when the detected pressure load satisfies the standard after the click sensation is provided in pressing, to provide a release sensation corresponding to the click sensation to the object. Thereby, a realistic click sensation similar to that in operating a push-button switch is provided when an operator operates the touch sensor.
US09641169B2
A circuit for conveying information from a sender component to a receiver component is provided. The sender component is a high side component and the receiver component is a low side component or the sender component is a low side component and the receiver component is a high side component. The low side component is arranged to drive a first electronic switch of a half bridge and the high side component is arranged to drive a second electronic switch of the half bridge. The circuit includes a first voltage-decoupling device and a second voltage-decoupling device that are arranged such that a voltage conveyed from the sender component to the receiver component is modulated by the sender component and conveyed across the first voltage-decoupling device and the second voltage-decoupling device depending on the information.
US09641164B2
A quadrature LC tank based digitally controlled ring oscillator (DCO). The oscillator structure incorporates a plurality of stages, each stage including a buffer and a series LC tank. Four stages are coupled together to create a 360 degree phase shift around a loop. The oscillation frequency of the oscillator is the same as the resonant frequency of each LC tank, therefore it avoids quality factor degradation of LC tanks found in the prior art. In one example embodiment, class-D amplifiers are used to drive each of the LC tanks. Capacitor banks before at the input and output of the buffers provide coarse and fine tuning of the frequency of oscillation. The high efficiency exhibited by these amplifiers results in very good phase noise performance of this oscillator. The oscillator utilizes a startup circuit to launch oscillation upon power on.
US09641159B1
A flip-flop circuit including a first logic circuit, a first master latch, a second master latch, and a slave latch is provided. The first logic circuit operates a logic operation on a selecting signal and a clock signal to generate a first control signal. The first master latch receives a data signal according to the first control signal and latches the data signal according to the selecting signal and the clock signal. The second master latch receives a scan data signal according to the selecting signal and the clock signal, wherein an output terminal of the second master latch is directly connected to an output terminal of the first master latch. The slave latch latches a signal on the output terminals of the first and second master latches for generating an output signal.
US09641149B2
Provided are a matching segment circuit, to which a radio frequency (RF) is applied, and an RF integrated device using the matching segment circuit. The matching segment circuit to which an RF is applied may include an input end connected to a first RF device, a parallel segment having a first capacitor and a first inductor connected in parallel, a second inductor connected to the parallel segment in series, and an output end connected to a second RF device. The first capacitor, the first inductor, and the second inductor may be configured so that an impedance of the first RF device and an impedance of the second RF device may match.
US09641144B2
A power combining arrangement includes an input divider waveguide and an output combiner waveguide, and a first and second amplifier. The power combining arrangement is configured to amplify RF energy having a characteristic wavelength λ. The first amplifier has a first input electrically coupled with a first output port of the divider waveguide. The second amplifier has a second input electrically coupled with a second output port of the divider waveguide. The first and second output ports are separated by a first distance corresponding to a phase delay Ø1, the first distance being selected substantially independently of the characteristic wavelength. The first amplifier has a first output electrically coupled with a first input port of the combiner waveguide and the second amplifier has a second output electrically coupled with a second input port of the combiner waveguide. The first and second input ports are separated by the first distance.
US09641136B2
A travelling wave amplifier (TWA) with a widened frequency bandwidth is disclosed. The TWA include input transmission lines, amplifier units connected in parallel between the input terminal and the out terminal of the TWA. Each of the amplifier units configures an emitter follower in the front end thereof and an amplifying section. A feature of the TWA is that compensation units that compensates the high frequency performance of the TWA are implemented in the input transmission lines and/or integrated with the amplifier units.
US09641128B2
An apparatus includes an input amplifier stage and a switch that has a first terminal at a virtual ground input of the input amplifier stage.
US09641115B2
An air moving system including an electric motor, a load coupled to the electric motor, and a motor drive controller coupled to the electric motor is provided. A DC voltage generated from an AC input voltage provided to the electric motor tends towards zero at about twice a frequency of the AC input voltage. The motor drive controller includes an adjustment control module configured to receive a measurement of an instantaneous motor current value for the electric motor, determine a flux component value based on the instantaneous motor current value, and determine, based at least in part on the flux component value and a flux component demand value, an adjusted flux component demand value that causes the motor drive controller to adjust an operation such that an average flux component value based on the flux component value is substantially similar to the flux component demand value.
US09641114B2
A generator system includes an AC generator having one or more phases; a transformer having the same number of phases as the AC generator; for each phase of the AC generator, only a capacitive element receiving the current from a respective output winding of the AC generator for conveying in series to a primary winding of a respective phase of the transformer, each capacitive element having a first terminal electrically connected to the respective output winding and a second terminal electrically connected to the respective primary winding; a prime mover in driving engagement with the AC generator; and a load connected to a secondary winding of the transformer. A method to reduce the mechanical input to an AC generator comprises reducing the counter torque of the AC generator by conveying, in series only, the current from the AC generator to a transformer via, for each phase of the AC generator, a respective series-connected capacitive element having a first terminal electrically connected to an output winding of the AC generator and a second terminal electrically connected to a primary winding of a respective phase of the transformer.
US09641112B2
A power source includes a generator configured to receive mechanical energy and convert the mechanical energy to an electrical output. The generator includes a rotor and a stator. The stator has a first coil and a second coil. The first coil and the second coil are selectively arranged in a first configuration to provide the electrical output at a first voltage level and in a second configuration to provide the electrical output at a second voltage level. The power source also includes a detection circuit including a sensing relay. The detection circuit is configured to generate an output based on whether the first coil and the second coil are arranged in the first configuration or in the second configuration.
US09641105B2
A mobile communication terminal comprises an acoustic-electro conversion unit configured to convert sound into electric energy, which includes a conversion device for converting vibration into electric energy; and an energy storage unit electrically connected to the conversion device and configured to store electric energy generated by the conversion device. The mobile communication terminal can solve the problem that the mobile communication terminal has large power consumption and short continuous service time, and can make full use of energy, has a long continuous service time and is convenient to use.
US09641092B2
Provided is a power converter 3 that directly converts polyphase AC power to AC power. A converter circuit has a plurality of first switching elements 311, 313 and 315 that are connected to each phase R, S or T of the polyphase AC power to enable switching for turning on current-carrying bidirectionally, and a plurality of second switching elements 312, 314 and 316 that are connected to each phase to enable switching for turning on current-carrying bidirectionally. The converter circuit comprises input lines R, S and T connected to each input terminal, and output lines P and N connected to each output terminal. Parts of wiring 347 and 348 of protection circuits 32 are located between output lines P and N. The wiring distance between each protection circuit 32 and the corresponding switching element can be shortened.
US09641084B2
In one embodiment, a method of controlling a switching power supply, can include: (i) generating a driving current signal that follows a waveform of a sense voltage signal, where the sense voltage signal is related to a current through a collector of a transistor that is configured as a power switch of the switching power supply, where the collector is coupled to an inductive element of the switching power supply; (ii) providing the driving current signal to a base of the transistor, where the transistor is in a saturated conduction state when a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal is active; and (iii) releasing charge accumulated on the base when the PWM signal is inactive to turn off the transistor.
US09641083B2
The disclosure relates to a control device, a control method of a power converter and a switching power supply using the control device. The control device of the power converter includes: a first control unit, which is coupled to the power converter to detect an output voltage of the power converter and is configured to generate a first control signal based on the output voltage; a variable resistor unit, which is connected to an output terminal of the first control unit to receive the first control signal and is configured to generate a resistance value based on the first control signal; and a second control unit, which is connected to the variable resistor unit and is configured to output a second control signal in order to control operations of a switch unit of the power converter.
US09641076B2
A switching regulator switches a current from input direct current (DC) power to generate target DC power. The switching regulator includes: a direct current (DC)-DC converter and a ripple injection circuit. The DC-DC converter is configured to: generate an output voltage at an output terminal based on an input voltage applied to an input terminal, and according to a switching cycle that selectively forms a voltage-down current path or a voltage-up current path based on a comparison between a reference voltage and a voltage sensed at a feedback node; and apply a feedback current from the output terminal to the feedback node. The ripple injection circuit is configured to: generate a pulse current synchronized with the switching cycle; and apply the pulse current to the feedback node.
US09641075B2
Embodiments of current feedback circuits for Direct Current (DC)-DC converters and methods for operating current feedback circuits for DC-DC converters are described. In one embodiment, a current feedback circuit for a DC-DC converter includes a current replication circuit configured to provide current feedback to the DC-DC converter based on an on-time of the DC-DC converter and an alternating current (AC)-coupling circuit configured to add the current feedback to a regulation circuit of the current feedback circuit and to remove a DC voltage from the current replication circuit. The regulation circuit includes a filter circuit configured to compensate for an offset of an output voltage of the DC-DC converter caused by the current feedback. Other embodiments are also described.
US09641063B2
A power factor controller (PFC) for an electrical load such as LED lighting includes a power factor correcting converter for generating a sinusoidal input current. The PFC further includes a programmable controller for estimating a phase shifted multiplier. A current regulator generates a desired PFC current in response to an input voltage, an output load and the phase shifted and subsequently blanked multiplier. The electrical load operates in response to the sinusoidal input current based at least partially on the desired PFC current.
US09641056B2
A conductive wire piece supply method includes the steps of: obtaining a conductive wire piece set using a first slot which receives conductive wire pieces, having been sent, with the conductive wire pieces vertically superposed on each other; carrying the conductive wire piece set from the first slot portion to the second slot portion; and rotating the second slot portion.
US09641055B2
In a method for manufacturing a laminated iron core from a thin sheet, the method includes coining the thin sheet from above to form a thinned bridge portion on an outer peripheral portion of an iron core piece, blanking the iron core piece downwardly from the thin sheet using a set of an outer-shape blanking punch and a die after forming the bridge portion, wherein the outer-shape blanking punch includes a projection portion fitted into the bridge portion when blanking, and laminating the iron core piece on another iron core piece to manufacture the laminated iron core.
US09641052B2
A primary molded body having an angled connector that is integrally connected to an insulating annular body provided in a stator of a motor section, and that has a plurality of terminals extending along an axial direction of the motor section; a through-hole that is formed in the primary molded body and runs through the angled connector from an interior of the insulating annular body; a secondary molded body that is molded so as to cover the primary molded body; a secondary molded connector that is formed in the secondary molded body and covers the angled connector; and a connector opening that is formed in the secondary molded connector and communicates with the through-hole, wherein an outlet of the through-hole communicates with the connector opening.
US09641045B2
The present invention is a new 21st Century Electric Generation. It is an electromagnetic actuated generator mechanism that use magnetic field like a wrecking yard uses extremely powerful electromagnet device to move heavy piece of metal from one place to another. The electromagnetic actuated generator is supported by a platform with a track and wheel system, whereby the mechanism is control by the magnetic field of a wound coil of magnet wire, wherein current is supply by a DC variable power supply or a plurality of battery packs. The mechanism is connected to a plurality of levers with mechanical advantage connection to a ratchet system transforming reciprocating mechanical power to rotation mechanical power connected to a gear transmission system connected to an electrical generator for transforming the mechanical power to electrical energy.
US09641044B2
An integrated actuator drive unit (ADU) assembly for an electric motor actuator is disclosed. The integrated ADU assembly may comprise at least one of an integrally formed ring gear, an integrally formed thrust bearing and integrally formed load cell. The integrated ADU assembly may comprise a portion of an electromechanical actuator. The electromechanical actuator may be utilized for aircraft braking systems.
US09641038B2
An electrical machine is provided. The electrical machine includes a stator having at least one winding, and a mechanical assembly acting on the winding for providing a radial force at the winding for controlling a stiffness of the winding.
US09641033B2
A motor rotor assembly that includes multiple motor rotor sections and a rotor bar that extends through the motor rotor sections, such that the rotor bar and the motor rotor sections are configured such that the rotor sections are step-skewed, or continuously skewed, from each other. The assembly may be used in an IPM or Synchronous Reluctance motor; and, the motor rotor sections may be of solid core or laminations. Various assembly components, IPM and Synchronous Reluctance motors, and methods of construction/assembly are also disclosed. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.
US09641021B2
A power generation system, apparatus and method to buffer power fluctuations are provided. At least one inverter (14) may be coupled to a photovoltaic power generator (10). The inverter may be subject to at least one operational constraint. A power-buffering circuitry (16) may be connected between the photovoltaic power generator and the inverter to buffer power generation fluctuations which can occur in power generated by the photovoltaic power generator, and satisfy the operational constraint of the inverter notwithstanding an occurrence of the power generation fluctuations. A controller (14) may be coupled to the power-buffering circuitry and may be responsive to the parameter of the photovoltaic power generator to perform at least one control action regarding the power fluctuations. Control actions may be performed by the controller independently of a control strategy of the inverter.
US09641011B2
A battery control device capable of carrying out current limitation in consideration of constraints on other components than a battery main body is provided. A battery control device according to the invention has an average current table describing an average current allowed for each of plural time window widths, and limits a battery current in accordance with the description.
US09641005B2
An electric power supply system is provided. The electric power supply system includes charge and discharge devices capable of performing a system interconnection to charge and discharge a power system. At least one of the charge and discharge devices is capable of performing a simulated system operation of supplying electric power of constant power and constant frequency to the power system when an abnormality occurs in a commercial power supply. According to a check result on a state of charge of an electricity storage, electric power supplied from a distributed power supply, and consumption power in a load, the electric power supply system can simultaneously charge or discharge electricity storages of the charge and discharge devices, and preferentially charges the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the simulated system operation, and preferentially discharges the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the system interconnection.
US09640998B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing AC power over a computer network (e.g., Ethernet) are disclosed.
US09640992B1
An apparatus and method for initializing electrical devices based on a voltage level. The voltage level may be modified to a particular setting based on the availability of power supply components, such as AC to DC rectifiers. Depending upon the availability of the power supply components, a control system may alter output voltage to a particular level. The components receiving power may be coupled to voltage dividers, where the voltage dividers are configured to modify an input voltage to cause or prevent the input voltage from rising above an initialization level for the particular component. The output voltage may be set by the control system such that a number of components that experience a voltage rise above an initialization threshold correspond to the number of available power supply components.
US09640980B2
A power interrupting device has: an output terminal connected to a load; interruption circuits connected in parallel between a power source and the output terminal; and a control device controlling each interruption circuit. Each interruption circuit has: a switch element connected between the power source and an intermediate node, and ON/OFF controlled by an interruption signal output from the control device; and a rectifier connected such that a forward direction thereof is from the intermediate node to the output terminal. The control device sets the interruption circuits as a diagnosis target circuit in turn. The control device sets the interruption signal output to each interruption circuit such that the switch element of the diagnosis target circuit is OFF. Moreover, the control device determines, based on a voltage of the intermediate node of the diagnosis target circuit, whether an abnormality occurs in the diagnosis target circuit.
US09640979B2
A superconducting element (1) has a metallic substrate (2), an insulating layer (3), a superconductor layer (5) and a metallic protective layer (6), wherein the insulating layer (3) is arranged between the substrate (2) and the superconductor layer (5). In cross-section of the superconducting element (1), the insulating layer (3) extends at both ends past the area (BSL) of the substrate (2) covered by the superconductor layer (5) to galvanically separate the superconductor layer (5) and the metallic protective layer (6) from the substrate (2). The thickness D of the insulating layer (3) is selected in such a fashion that the superconducting element (1) has a transverse breakdown voltage between the metallic substrate (2) and both the superconductor layer (5) as well as the metallic protective layer (6) of at least 25 V. The superconducting element has a reduced risk of being damaged in case of a quench.
US09640973B2
A hybrid high-voltage DC breaker, consists of a plurality of completely identical breaker modules connected in series. Each of the breaker modules comprises a main current circuit, a transfer current circuit, an over-voltage limiting circuit and a control system, wherein a high-speed mechanical switch, the transfer current circuit and the over-voltage limiting circuit are connected in parallel. The transfer current circuit consists of circuits 1-4, wherein the circuit 1 and the circuit 4 are connected in series at first and then connected with the main current circuit in parallel; a pre-charged capacitor is connected with the circuit 4 in parallel after being connected with the circuit 3 in series; and, one end of the circuit 2 is connected with the left end of the main current circuit while the other end thereof is connected with a connection point of the pre-charged capacitor and the circuit 3.
US09640968B2
An arc fault detection circuit for an arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI). The arc fault detection circuit includes an arc detecting circuit for detecting an arc fault in one or more power supply lines and outputting a detected signal, an arc filtering circuit electrically coupled to an output terminal of the arc detecting circuit for removing signal parts unrelated to the arc fault from the detected signal and outputting a filtered half-cycle signal, and an arc processing circuit electrically coupled to an output terminal of the arc filtering circuit for generating, based on the filtered half-cycle signal received, a processed half-cycle signal characterizing the arc fault. The arc fault detection circuit also includes simulated arc testing circuit that has a user-touchable test switch, and an arc oscillator to generate a simulated arc fault signal for testing the arc fault detection circuit or its respective components.
US09640960B2
A customizable bus system includes a system module containing one or more accessory modules and is easily mounted along a surface in a workspace, such as the underside of a cabinet. The accessory modules provide conveniently located utility services and applications such as power, lighting or media connections, and may be interchanged within the bus system to provide particular services and applications where they are needed most. Additionally, the bus system may include a control center for controlling the operation of one or more of the accessory modules, such as manually or automatically. The bus system may also include multiple housings that are functionally linked, such as by a connector module having couplings for mechanically linking with housings and providing electrical or other connectivity between the housings.
US09640949B1
Gallium and nitrogen containing optical devices operable as laser diodes are disclosed. The devices include a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member, which may be semipolar or non-polar. The devices include a chip formed from the gallium and nitrogen substrate member. The chip has a width and a length. The devices have a cavity oriented substantially parallel to the length of the chip, a dimension of less than 120 microns characterizing the width of the chip, and a pair of etched facets configured on the cavity of the chip. The pair of etched facets includes a first facet configured at a first end of the cavity and a second facet configured at a second end of the cavity.
US09640944B2
A method of manufacturing an optical semiconductor element includes: a first step in which a columnar structure of a semiconductor layer formed on a semi-insulating substrate is formed; a second step in which the substrate is exposed in a periphery of the columnar structure; a third step in which a region including exposed surfaces of the first contact layer and the substrate is pretreated; a fourth step in which a first electrode is formed on the exposed surface of the first contact layer; a fifth step in which an interlayer insulating film is formed in a region including a side surface of the columnar structure and the exposed surfaces; a sixth step in which a first electrode wiring is formed on the interlayer insulating film; and a seventh step in which a second electrode wiring is formed on the interlayer insulating film.
US09640933B2
A method of manufacturing a wire with terminal includes: a) crimping a core wire crimping portion of a terminal onto an exposed core wire extending from an insulating sheathing member at an end portion of a wire; b) crimping a sheath crimping portion of the terminal onto the insulating sheathing member; and c) designating at least one of a first trough-shaped combination portion, which links a terminal connection portion of the terminal and the core wire crimping portion, and a second trough-shaped combination portion, which links the core wire crimping portion and the sheath crimping portion, as a target combination portion and deforming the upright tabs of the target combination portion into an arc shape bulging outward.
US09640932B2
A tool for installation and removal of a connector of a gas-insulated switchgear termination includes a housing defining an operation chamber therein, a mounting assembly selectively disposed in the operation chamber of the housing and adapted for securely installing a sleeve member of a gas-insulated switchgear termination on a conical connector member of the gas-insulated switchgear termination or removing the sleeve member securely sleeved on the conical connector member from the conical connector member, an actuator assembly adapted for actuating motion of the mounting assembly, and a friction reducing assembly adapted for reducing friction and resistance occurring during the motion of the mounting assembly.
US09640928B2
A slip ring arrangement comprises a brush with a first contact material on the surface, which rests on a slideway with a second contact material on the surface. The slideway further comprises a layer with a third contact material beneath the second contact material. In this case, the abrasion of the brush is lower than that of the second contact material in the case of a sliding contact between the brush and the second contact material. In the case of a sliding contact between the brush and third contact material, the abrasion of the brush is higher than that of third contact material. As a result, the second contact material of the slideway is degraded first, which corresponds to the normal service life of a slideway. Subsequently, the brush is worn off relative to the third contact material, by means of which a further considerable extension in the service life is achieved.
US09640926B2
An interface device that includes a plastic part including at least one through-opening in a longitudinal direction, the plastic part being adapted to be fixed in an airtight manner into an opening in the wall. At least one metal shaft is arranged and fixed in the through-opening. The metal shaft has a connection element at each longitudinal end. The metal shaft is configured to provide electric connectivity from one side of the wall to the other in a fixed position of the interface device. At least one fixing element is adapted to fix the plastic part to the wall.
US09640925B2
An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, first and second groups of terminals, an adapting circuit board, and extension terminals. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell and includes a base portion, upper and lower tongue portions, and a partition plate. Upper and lower plug openings are respectively formed between the partition plate and the upper portion of the metallic shell and between the partition plate and the lower portion of the metallic shell. The terminals are held in the insulated housing. The adapting circuit board is disposed at the rear of the insulated housing and includes an upper-row contact set connected to the first group of terminals and a lower-row contact set. One ends of the extension terminals are connected to the lower-row contact set, and the other ends of the extension terminals are extended to the bottom of the insulated housing.
US09640922B2
Out of resilient contact pieces (21) provided on a shorting terminal (20), contact portions (24) to come into contact with specific terminal fittings (10) to be shorted by the shorting terminal (20) are provided on a front side of the shorting terminal (20) in a connecting direction to a mating connector (M). A shorting terminal accommodating chamber (46) provided in a housing (40) is open forward in the connecting direction to the mating connector (M). The shorting terminal (20) can be accommodated into the shorting terminal accommodating chamber (46) from front in the connecting direction. Front press-fit portions (34) to be press-fitted to wall portions (48A) of the housing (40) forming the shorting terminal accommodating chamber (46) are provided at positions of the shorting terminal (20) juxtaposed with the contact portions (24) in a width direction.
US09640920B2
A protective cover structure includes a protective cover that is fitted to an assembly work opening disposed in a wall of a case in which electric components are accommodated, thereby closing the opening, and a fitting detecting connector that detects that the protective cover is fitted to the assembly work opening. The fitting detecting connector includes a receptacle connector which is fixed to an interior of the case and an insertion/extraction connector which is disposed on the protective cover in a mutually insertable/extractable manner while being opposed to the receptacle connector. The receptacle connector includes a tubular housing and fitting detecting conductors in the tubular housing. The insertion/extraction connector holds a pair of detecting electrodes which are electrically conductible with the fitting detecting conductors, and is molded integrally with the protective cover.
US09640904B2
Sensored cable (1) for distribution of electrical power in a power network, the sensored cable comprising an inner conductor and an insulating layer (10) arranged concentrically around at least an axial section of the inner conductor. The sensored cable further comprises a capacitive voltage sensor (100) for sensing a voltage of the inner conductor, characterized by the sensor including a printed circuit board element (60), which is placed over an electrically isolated piece (140) of conductive or semiconductive material, arranged on the insulating layer of the cable. The electrically isolated piece (140) of conductive or semiconductive material is operable to form an electrode of a sensing capacitor of the capacitive voltage sensor. The cable may comprise a (semi-) conductive layer (20). The electrically isolated piece (40) of conductive or semiconductive material may comprise a portion of the (semi-) conductive layer.
US09640899B2
A receptacle assembly is disclosed having a plurality of contact pins, a contact aligning block, a block receiving body, a housing, and a retaining plate. The contact aligning block is formed to retain the contact pins, and into which a portion of the contact pins is inserted. The block receiving body is overmolded to cover the contact aligning block. The block receiving body is positioned in the housing. The retaining plate is positioned against the block receiving body, applying a force against the block receiving body, and compressively holding and retaining the block receiving body in the housing.
US09640895B1
An electrical connector includes a housing having terminal towers extending forward of a base toward a mating end each. The terminal towers are spaced apart by gaps and the gaps define a central cavity between the terminal towers. A TPA device is received in the central cavity and is front loaded into the central cavity through the mating end in a loading direction toward the base. The TPA device includes a plurality of latches received in corresponding terminal towers having latching fingers positionable in terminal channels in blocking positions to block removal of terminals. The TPA device includes a locking block received in the central cavity to lock the TPA device in the central cavity. The locking block is positioned relative to the latches to hold the latches in the blocking positions.
US09640890B2
There are provided: a female terminal having a cylindrical base portion and a plurality of elastic contact pieces protruding from a plurality of locations of the base portion in a circumferential direction and being elastically deformable; and a male terminal having a tab portion whose outer peripheral surface is formed as a circumferential surface, a radius of curvature of an inner surface of each of the elastic contact pieces is formed larger than a radius of the tab portion, and when the tab portion is inserted into an insertion space surrounded by the plurality of elastic contact pieces, each of the elastic contact pieces is elastically deformed to an outer side, and the tab portion and each of the elastic contact pieces come into contact with each other.
US09640871B2
Disclosed is an antenna device for a portable terminal, including a circuit board having a conductive layer attached on a surface, a first slit formed by partially removing the conductive layer in a position adjacent to one side of the circuit board, the first slit extending in parallel with a lateral periphery of the circuit board, a radiation portion comprising part of the conductive layer positioned on the lateral periphery of the circuit board in one side of the first slit, and a feed line placed on the first slit and adapted to feed the radiation portion from the other side of the first slit. The radiation portion further comprises a second slit extending from the first slit to the lateral periphery of the circuit board across part of the conductive layer forming the radiation portion, and a frequency adjustment element placed on the second slit.
US09640868B2
A wideband antenna includes a first radiator formed as a part of a metal frame for resonating a first signal component of a radio-frequency signal, a second radiator disposed within an area enclosed by the metal frame for resonating a second signal component of the radio-frequency signal, and a feed terminal electrically connected between the second radiator and a ground for feeding the radio-frequency signal, wherein there is a distance between the first and second radiators such that a coupling effect is induced between the first and second radiators, which allows the first signal component being fed from the second radiator into the first radiator via the coupling effect.
US09640865B2
A device and method are provided for forming a beam of a transmit antenna array in the direction of a positioning receiver. Since the beam of the transmit antenna array is formed remotely by the positioning receiver, the received gain of the incoming positioning signal is maximized while signals from other directions are attenuated, thereby mitigating any unwanted effects of multipath. Depending on the number of elements in the transmit antenna array and their physical distribution, the width of the beam can be made finer such that the positioning receiver only requires a simple omni-directional antenna to achieve an accurate positioning solution.
US09640860B2
An antenna device includes a center substrate including a dielectric substrate and a center conductor on the dielectric substrate, and two ground plates sandwiching via an air layer the center substrate therebetween to form a feeder line. A hole is formed in the dielectric substrate on at least one side of the center conductor along a longitudinal direction of the center conductor.
US09640847B2
In an example embodiment, a waveguide device comprises: a first common waveguide; a polarizer section, the polarizer section including a conductive septum dividing the first common waveguide into a first divided waveguide portion and a second waveguide divided portion; a second waveguide coupled to the first divided waveguide portion of the polarizer section; a third waveguide coupled to the second divided waveguide portion of the polarizer section; and a dielectric insert. The dielectric insert includes a first dielectric portion partially filling the polarizer section. The conductive septum and the dielectric portion convert a signal between a polarized state in the first common waveguide and a first polarization component in the second waveguide and a second polarization component in the third waveguide.
US09640838B2
An organic electrolyte solution and a lithium battery using the same are disclosed. The organic electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solution, a thiophene-based compound and a nitrile-based compound.
US09640834B2
Provided is a lithium battery including a first pouch film, a first anode part on the first pouch film, a second cathode part on the first anode part, a polymer insulating film on the second cathode part, the polymer insulating film including a disk which is configured to penetrate the polymer insulating film, a second anode part on the polymer insulating film, a first cathode part on the second anode part, and a second pouch film on the first cathode part. Herein, the second cathode part is electrically connected to the second anode part through the disk.
US09640832B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has a battery element including a positive electrode member, a negative electrode member, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The negative electrode member contains graphitizable carbon. With respect to 100 parts by weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution, fluoroethylenecarbonate is added at 0.5 parts by weight or more and 1.0 parts by weight or less, and lithium difluorobis(oxalato)phosphate is added at 0.5 parts by weight or more and 1.0 parts by weight or less, or fluoroethylenecarbonate and lithium difluorobis(oxalato)phosphate are added at 0.5 parts by weight or more and 2.0 parts by weight or less in total.
US09640828B2
There is provided a fuel cell stack assembly being thermally and mechanically compliant. The fuel cell stack comprises fuel feed pipe and fuel outlet pipe, a plurality of bundles of fuel cell tube sub-assemblies, the bundles being separated by an expansion gap to prevent thermal and mechanical stresses propagating from one bundle to an adjacent bundle.
US09640822B2
One embodiment of the present invention is a unique fuel cell system. Another embodiment is a unique desulfurization system. Yet another embodiment is a method of operating a fuel cell system. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for fuel cell systems and desulfurization systems. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith.
US09640812B2
The fuel cell system of the present invention comprises: an electric motor, a fuel cell stack, a fuel supply unit, and a controller that controls a power-plant including the fuel cell stack and the fuel supply unit. The controller comprises further: a stack output-response request computing unit to compute a stack output-response request requested for the fuel cell stack; a stack voltage setup unit during idle-stop to set up a lower limit of stack setup-voltage during idle-stop that is set up as a stack voltage during execution of idle-stop so as to be higher as the stack output-response request is larger, and so as to be lower as the request is smaller; and an operation unit of recovering a stack voltage during idle-stop to execute a recovery operation when an actual stack voltage becomes, during execution of idle-stop, lower than the lower limit of stack setup-voltage during idle-stop.
US09640805B2
A process including coating a fuel cell component with an aqueous solution including a polyelectrolyte polymer.
US09640804B2
A fuel cell (3) includes interconnectors (hereinafter, IC) (12, 13), a cell body (20) disposed between the ICs and including an air electrode (14) and a fuel electrode (15) on both surfaces of an electrolyte (2), and current collecting members (18, 19) disposed between at least one of the electrodes (14, 15) and the ICs. The current collecting members (19) include connector contact portions (19a) in contact with the IC (13), cell body contact portions (19b) in contact with the cell body (20), and connecting portions (19c) that are bent approximately 180 degrees and connect both the contact portions. The connector contact portions include asperities (19e) on outside surfaces of the connector contact portions on the side where the connector contact portions are in contact with the IC 13, and a spacer (58) is disposed between the connector contact portions and the cell body contact portions.
US09640798B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to one aspect of the present invention contains a dispersant in a positive electrode mixture layer. The content of a positive electrode active material in the positive electrode mixture layer is 97% by mass or more, and the content ratio of a conductive agent to a binder in the positive electrode mixture layer is 1.00-1.67. The binder is composed of a polyvinylidene fluoride which has a carboxyl group or a carboxyl group derivative as a terminal functional group.
US09640785B2
The present invention relates to an embedded frame for pouch-type secondary batteries and a secondary battery having the embedded frame. The embedded frame is provided in a pouch casing for a secondary battery so as to maintain the external shape of the pouch casing and additionally protect an electrode assembly from an external shock. The embedded frame has a rectangular shape and makes close contact with an inner surface of the pouch casing. The electrode assembly is housed in the embedded frame. A plurality of pores is formed in the embedded frame.
US09640776B2
The present inventions relates to an organic light emitting device capable of decreasing a leakage current, and more particularly, to an organic light emitting device manufacturing method and an organic light emitting device using the same, which can decrease a leakage current, by flattening a lower electrode in order to decrease a leakage current of the lower electrode deposited through a shadow mask.
US09640773B2
An aromatic amine derivative is represented by the following formula (1). In the formula (1), R1 to R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom and a substituent. In the formula (1); R1 is represented by the following formula (2); any one of R2 to R5 and R7 to R10 is represented by the following formula (2); and L1 to L3 each independently represent a single bond, a divalent residue of an aryl group, or the like. In the formula (2); Ar1 is a monovalent substituent having a partial structure represented by the following formula (3); X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and A and B represent a six-membered ring. In the formula (2), Ar2 is an aryl group, a monovalent substituent having a partial structure represented by the formula (3), and the like.
US09640769B2
A composition for an organic electroluminescent device is a composition for forming an organic light emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device by wet coating process. The composition contains a phosphorescent material, a charge transport material, and a solvent, in which the phosphorescent material and the charge transport material are each an unpolymerized organic compound, and the first oxidation potential of the phosphorescent material ED+, the first reduction potential of the phosphorescent material ED−, the first oxidation potential of the charge transporting material ET+, and the first reduction potential of the charge transporting material ET− satisfy the following condition: ET−+0.1≦ED−
US09640767B1
Provided are an electronic device including a novel structured interface material capable of improving interface properties of the electronic device, and the novel interface material, and more specifically, an electronic device including the interface material of the present disclosure to allow easy extraction and injection of electrons, thereby exhibiting excellent interface properties, and a phosphine oxide functionalized triazine derivative having a structure in which an electron acceptor phosphine oxide group is substituted in 1,3,5-triazine-based skeleton, which is the interface material.
US09640765B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of forming carbon nanotube based semiconductor devices. The method includes creating a guiding structure in a substrate for forming a device; dispersing a plurality of carbon nanotubes inside the guiding structure, the plurality of carbon nanotubes having an orientation determined by the guiding structure; fixating the plurality of carbon nanotubes to the guiding structure; and forming one or more contacts to the device. Structure of the formed carbon nanotube device is also provided.
US09640764B2
A carbon nanotube-based ternary comparator including a first decoder, a second decoder, and a comparison circuit. The comparison circuit includes: a first comparison unit for producing a greater-than-or-equal-to signal, and a second comparison unit for producing a less-than-or-equal-to signal. A first two-bit ternary signal is input into the signal input terminal of the first decoder. A first three-bit binary signal and a phase inverted signal of the first three-bit binary signal are output from a signal output terminal of the first decoder. A second two-bit ternary signal is input into the signal input terminal of the second decoder. A second three-bit binary signal and a phase inverted signal of the second three-bit binary signal are output from the signal output terminal of the second decoder.
US09640755B2
A magnetic memory device includes a reference magnetic pattern having a magnetization direction fixed in one direction, a free magnetic pattern having a changeable magnetization direction, and a tunnel barrier pattern disposed between the free and reference magnetic patterns. The free magnetic pattern has a first surface being in contact with the tunnel barrier pattern and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The magnetic memory device further includes a sub-oxide pattern disposed on the second surface of the free magnetic pattern, and a metal boride pattern disposed between the sub-oxide pattern and the second surface of the free magnetic pattern. The magnetization directions of the free and reference magnetic patterns are substantially perpendicular to the first surface of the free magnetic pattern.
US09640754B2
This invention provides a production process in which in a process for producing a magnetoresistive effect element, noble metal atoms in a re-deposited film adhered to a side wall after element isolation are efficiently removed to prevent short-circuiting due to the re-deposited film.The noble metal atoms are selectively removed from the re-deposited film by applying an ion beam, formed using a plasma of a Kr gas or a Xe gas, to the re-deposited film formed on the side wall of the magnetoresistive effect element after the element isolation.
US09640751B2
A device for performing a precision movement comprising a plate composed of piezoelectric material and comprising electrodes which are provided at mutually opposite and preferably parallel planes, are connectable to a controlled voltage source having electrical voltage and in this case bring about a change in the form and/or mass of the plate is characterized in that at least one of the electrodes is designed in an elastic fashion to form a base module.
US09640750B2
In an acoustic wave device, an unnecessary high-order transverse mode wave is suppressed. The acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, at least one pair of interdigital transducer (IDT) electrodes formed on the piezoelectric substrate, and a dielectric film which covers at least a part of the piezoelectric substrate and the IDT electrodes. The IDT electrodes each have a plurality of electrode fingers interleaved with each other. An acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave in the area in which the electrode fingers are interleaved with each other is greater than an acoustic velocity of an acoustic wave in an edge area including end portions of the electrode fingers.
US09640749B2
A piezoelectric/electrostrictive element having a piezoelectric body, a through-hole electrode, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode. The piezoelectric body includes a through-hole in communication with a first main surface and a second main surface. The through-hole electrode is formed on an inner side surface of the through-hole. The first electrode is formed on the first main surface of the piezoelectric body, and connected to the through-hole electrode. The second electrode is formed on the second main surface of the piezoelectric body, and is connected to the through-hole electrode. The third electrode is formed on the second main surface of the piezoelectric body and isolated from the second electrode. A calculated average roughness in the inner side surface is larger than 0.11 microns and smaller than 16 microns. A maximum height roughness in the inner side surface is larger than 0.2 microns and smaller than 20 microns.
US09640743B2
A method for manufacturing a package, includes preparing a lead frame that, in a region where the package is to be formed, has a first electrode and a second electrode that is different from the first electrode; clamping the first electrode and the second electrode between an upper molding die and a lower molding die; injecting a first resin into the molding dies between which the first electrode and the second electrode have been clamped, through an injection opening formed adjacent to the first electrode and on the outside of the region where the package is to be formed; curing or solidifying the injected first resin; and cutting out an injection mark of the injection opening for the first resin from next to the first electrode after the first resin has been cured or solidified.
US09640736B2
Disclosed is a silicon nano crystal light emitting diode, including: a photoelectric conversion layer formed of a silicon nitride layer including a silicon nano crystal; an electron injection layer formed on the photoelectric conversion layer; and a hole injection layer, which faces the electron injection layer with the photoelectric conversion layer interposed therebetween, has an energy band gap higher than that of the photoelectric conversion layer, and has a refractive index lower than that of a silicon thin film.
US09640727B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having electrodes, a support, at least one pair of conductive wires that are formed on a surface of the support with a space from each other, and on which the electrodes of the light emitting element are disposed, distance between the pair of conductive wires under an outer edge of the light emitting element being shorter than the distance between the pair of conductive wires at other portions under the light emitting element, and a phosphor layer that continuously covers the outer edge of the light emitting element and a surface of the conductive wires around a region where the light emitting element is disposed.
US09640725B2
A nitride light-emitting diode includes a substrate, an n-type nitride layer, a light-emitting layer, a p-type nitride layer, a p+ layer, an AlInN layer, an n+ layer, and an ITO transparent electrode. A tunneling structure with an AlInN intermediate layer is adopted as the contact layer, which generates polarization charges at the tunneling junction interface and maintains effective width of the depletion region, thereby increasing tunneling probability of holes and reducing contact resistances.
US09640722B2
A semiconducting structure configured to emit electromagnetic radiation. The structure includes a first zone and a second zone with first and second types of conductivities respectively opposite to each other, the first and second zones being connected to each other to form a semiconducting junction. The first zone includes at least a first and a second part, the first and the second parts being separated from each other by an intermediate layer, as a spreading layer, extending approximately parallel to a junction plane along a major part of the junction. The spreading layer can cause spreading of carriers in the plane of the spreading layer.
US09640706B2
A multi-junction photovoltaic cell includes a substrate and a back contact layer formed on the substrate. A low bandgap Group IB-IIIB-VIB2 material solar absorber layer is formed on the back contact layer. A heterojunction partner layer is formed on the low bandgap solar absorber layer, to help form the bottom cell junction, and the heterojunction partner layer includes at least one layer of a high resistivity material having a resistivity of at least 100 ohms-centimeter. The high resistivity material has the formula (Zn and/or Mg)(S, Se, O, and/or OH). A conductive interconnect layer is formed above the heterojunction partner layer, and at least one additional single-junction photovoltaic cell is formed on the conductive interconnect layer, as a top cell. The top cell may have an amorphous Silicon or p-type Cadmium Selenide solar absorber layer. Cadmium Selenide may be converted from n-type to p-type with a chloride doping process.
US09640703B2
In an avalanche photodiode provided with a substrate including a first electrode and a first semiconductor layer, formed of a first conductivity type, which is connected to the first electrode, the configuration is in such a way that, at least an avalanche multiplication layer, a light absorption layer, and a second semiconductor layer having a bandgap that is larger than that of the light absorption layer are layered on the substrate; a second conductivity type conductive region is formed in the second semiconductor layer; and the second conductivity type conductive region is arranged so as to be connected to a second electrode. With the foregoing configuration, an avalanche photodiode having a small dark current and a high long-term reliability can be provided with a simple process.Additionally, the configuration is in such a way that, by removing at least the light absorption layer among the layers which are layered on the peripheral portion, of the substrate, on which the second conductivity type conductive region and the second semiconductor layer around the second conductivity type conductive region are surrounded by that layers, a side face of the light absorption layer is formed. With the configuration, the dark current can be further reduced.
US09640701B2
A method of manufacturing a photodiode including a useful layer made of a semi-conductor alloy. The useful layer has a band gap value which decreases from its upper face to its lower face. A step of producing a first doped region forming a PN junction with a second doped region of the useful layer, said production of a first doped region including a first doping step, so as to produce a base portion; and a second doping step, so as to produce at least one protuberance protruding from the base portion and in the direction of the lower face.
US09640697B2
There is disclosed a system comprising a solar electricity system, comprising a solar collection surface adapted to convert light into DC electricity; a mounting bracket connected to a corner of the solar collection surface, the mounting bracket comprising a hole therethrough adapted to receive a fastener to mount the system to a building structure.
US09640692B2
A flexible photovoltaic module for converting light into electricity includes a plurality of photovoltaic cells, a wiring harness, and a connection subsystem. The plurality of photovoltaic cells are electrically interconnected to form a positive node for supplying current to a load and a negative node for receiving current from the load. The wiring harness includes a plurality of flexible electrical conductors, each electrical conductor being electrically isolated within the wiring harness. The connection subsystem is operable to selectively connect the positive node to one of the electrical conductors of the wiring harness. A plurality of flexible photovoltaic modules may be connected to form a photovoltaic array.
US09640687B2
A method for producing a P-N junction in a thin film photovoltaic cell comprising a deposition step in which are carried out successively: a layer of precursors of a photovoltaic material of type P or N, a barrier layer and a layer of precursors of a semiconducting material of type N or P, this deposition step being followed by an annealing step carried out with a supply of S and/or Se, this annealing step leading to the formation of an absorbing layer of the type P or N and of a buffer layer of type N or P and of a P-N junction at the interface between said layers.
US09640684B2
An encapsulated integrated photodetector waveguide structures with alignment tolerance and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a waveguide structure bounded by one or more shallow trench isolation (STI) structure(s). The method further includes forming a photodetector fully landed on the waveguide structure.
US09640677B2
Disclosed is a solar cell that comprises a photoelectric conversion body, a first electrode including a first finger portion that is placed on one main surface of the photoelectric conversion body and extends in first direction, a second electrode including a second finger portion which is placed on the one main surface of the photoelectric conversion body to be adjacent to the first finger portion in second direction intersecting the first direction and extends in the first direction, a first insulating layer covering at least part of a tip end portion of the first finger portion, which tip end portion is located on first side in the first direction, and a second insulating layer covering at least part of a tip end portion of the second finger portion, which tip end portion is located on a second side in the first direction.
US09640671B2
Deep gate-all-around semiconductor devices having germanium or group III-V active layers are described. For example, a non-planar semiconductor device includes a hetero-structure disposed above a substrate. The hetero-structure includes a hetero-junction between an upper layer and a lower layer of differing composition. An active layer is disposed above the hetero-structure and has a composition different from the upper and lower layers of the hetero-structure. A gate electrode stack is disposed on and completely surrounds a channel region of the active layer, and is disposed in a trench in the upper layer and at least partially in the lower layer of the hetero-structure. Source and drain regions are disposed in the active layer and in the upper layer, but not in the lower layer, on either side of the gate electrode stack.
US09640664B2
The present invention relates to a method for polarizing at least a first finfet transistor and a second finfet transistor, wherein the first finfet transistor has a fin width bigger than the fin width of the second finfet transistor, and both the first finfet transistor and the second finfet transistor have a back gate, and the method comprising applying the same first voltage on the back gate of the first finfet transistor and on the back gate of the second finfet transistor so as to reduce the spread between the off-current value of the first finfet transistor and the off-current value of the second finfet transistor.
US09640653B2
A semiconductor device, comprising a first semiconductor portion having a first end, a second end, and a slit portion, wherein the width of the slit portion is less than the width of at least one of the first end and the second end; a second portion that is a different material than the first semiconductor portion, a third portion that is a different material than the first semiconductor portion, wherein the second and third portions are on opposite sides of the slit portion, and at least three terminals selected from a group consisting of a first terminal connected to the first end, a second terminal connected to the second end, a third terminal connected to the second portion, and a fourth terminal connected to the third portion.
US09640652B2
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, a well region of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor layer wherein the first and second conductivity types are different, and a terminal region of the first conductivity type in the well region. An epitaxial semiconductor layer may be on the surface of the semiconductor layer including the well region and the terminal region with the epitaxial semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type across the well and terminal regions. A gate electrode may be on the epitaxial semiconductor layer so that the epitaxial semiconductor layer is between the gate electrode and portions of the well region surrounding the terminal region at the surface of the semiconductor layer.
US09640638B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate and gate structure over the substrate. A source region is formed in the substrate adjacent to the gate structure. A drain region in the substrate adjacent to the gate structure opposite the source region. An interconnect structure is formed over the substrate by forming a conductive plane electrically connected to the source region, and forming a conductive layer within openings of the conductive plane and electrically connected to the drain region. The interconnect structure can be formed as stacked conductive layers laid out in alternating strips. The conductive plane extends under a gate terminal of the semiconductor device. An insulating layer is formed over the substrate and a field plate is formed in the insulating layer. The field plate is electrically connected the source terminal. A stress relief layer is formed over a surface of the substrate opposite the gate structure.
US09640626B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell region and a peripheral region, a buried gate formed over the substrate of the cell region, a peripheral gate formed over the substrate of the peripheral region and comprising a conductive layer, an inter-layer dielectric layer that covers the substrate, and a peripheral bit line formed inside the inter-layer dielectric layer and contacting the conductive layer.
US09640625B2
Provided are approaches for forming gate and source/drain (S/D) contacts. Specifically, a gate contact opening is formed over at least one of a set of gate structures, a set of S/D contact openings is formed over fins of the semiconductor device, and a metal material is deposited over the semiconductor device to form a gate contact within the gate contact opening and a set of S/D contacts within the set of S/D contact openings. In one approach, nitride remains between the gate contact and at least one of the S/D contacts. In another approach, the device includes merged gate and S/D contacts. This approach provides selective etching to partition areas where oxide will be further removed selectively to nitride to create cavities to metallize and create contact to the S/D, while isolation areas between contact areas are enclosed in nitride and do not get removed during the oxide etch.
US09640614B2
An integrated device includes a semiconductor body including an STI insulating structure that laterally delimits first active areas and at least one second active area in a low-voltage region and in a power region of the semiconductor body, respectively. Low-voltage CMOS components are housed in the first active areas. A power component, formed in the second active area, includes a source region, a body region, a drain-contact region, and at least one LOCOS insulation region. The insulating region is arranged between the body region and the drain-contact region and has a prominent portion that emerges from a surface of the semiconductor body, and an embedded portion inside it. The prominent portion of the LOCOS insulation region has a volume greater than that of the embedded portion.
US09640613B2
Improvements are achieved in the performance and reliability of a semiconductor device. In a trench in an n-type semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode for a trench-gate field effect transistor is formed via a gate insulating film. A p-type semiconductor region for channel formation is formed so as to be adjacent to the trench. Over the p-type semiconductor region, a source n+-type semiconductor region is formed so as to be adjacent to the trench. In the semiconductor substrate, a first p-type column is formed under the p-type semiconductor region. Under the first p-type column, a second p-type column is formed. The first p-type column is internally included in the second p-type column in plan view. The two-dimensional size of the second p-type column is larger than the two-dimensional size of the first p-type column.
US09640611B2
Complementary high-voltage bipolar transistors in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) integrated circuits is disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, a collector region is formed in an epitaxial silicon layer disposed over a buried insulator layer. A base region and an emitter are disposed over the collector region. An n-type region is formed under the buried insulator layer (BOX) by implanting donor impurity through the active region of substrate and BOX into a p-substrate. Later in the process flow this n-type region is connected from the top by doped poly-silicon plug and is biased at Vcc. In this case it will deplete lateral portion of PNP collector region and hence, will increase its BV.
US09640601B2
A display apparatus including a pixel including a first thin-film transistor (TFT) and a second TFT connected to the first TFT, the display apparatus includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and including an active region of the first TFT and an active region of the second TFT, a first gate layer disposed on the semiconductor layer and including a gate of the first TFT and a gate of the second TFT, a second gate layer disposed on the first gate layer and including a connection node connecting the gate of the first TFT to the active region of the second TFT, and a line layer disposed on the second gate layer and configured to supply a driving voltage to the pixel.
US09640569B2
A doping method for an array substrate and a manufacturing equipment. The doping method comprises: using a halftone mask to form a photoresist pattern layer on a gate insulation layer of a substrate; wherein, a polysilicon pattern layer is disposed on the substrate; the gate insulation layer covers the polysilicon pattern layer; the photoresist pattern layer corresponding to a heavily doping region forms a hollow portion; the photoresist pattern layer corresponding to a lightly doping region forms a first photoresist portion; the photoresist pattern layer corresponding to an undoped region forms a second photoresist portion; the first photoresist portion is thinner than the second photoresist portion; and performing one doping process to the polysilicon pattern layer such that the heavily doping region and the lightly doping region of the polysilicon pattern layer are formed simultaneously in order to reduce the manufacturing process of an LTPS array substrate.
US09640566B2
A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate, gate lines, each including a gate pad, a gate insulating layer, data lines, each including a data pad connected to a source and drain electrode, a first passivation layer disposed on the data lines and the drain electrode, a first electric field generating electrode, a second passivation layer disposed on the first electric field generating electrode, and a second electric field generating electrode. The gate insulating layer and the first and second passivation layers include a first contact hole exposing a part of the gate pad, the first and second passivation layers include a second contact hole exposing a part of the data pad, and at least one of the first and second contact holes have a positive taper structure having a wider area at an upper side than at a lower side.
US09640563B2
Disclosed is a TFT substrate, including a substrate and a gate electrode thereon. A gate insulation layer over the substrate covers the gate electrode. An active layer is disposed over the gate insulation layer. An etch stop layer is disposed over the active layer and the gate insulation layer. A first opening penetrates the etch stop layer to expose a first part of the active layer. A source electrode over the etch stop layer is electrically connected to the first part of the active layer through the first opening. A first inorganic insulation layer is disposed over the source electrode and the etch stop layer. A second opening penetrates the first inorganic insulation layer and the etch stop layer to expose a second part of the active layer.
US09640561B2
An electronic device may have a flexible display with portions that are bent along a bend axis. The display may have display circuitry such as an array of display pixels in an active area. Contact pads may be formed in an inactive area of the display. Signal lines may couple the display pixels to the contact pads. The signal lines may overlap the bend axis in the inactive area of the display. During fabrication, an etch stop may be formed on the display that overlaps the bend axis. The etch stop may prevent over etching of dielectric such as a buffer layer on a polymer flexible display substrate. A layer of polymer that serves as a neutral stress plane adjustment layer may be formed over the signal lines in the inactive area of the display. Upon bending, the neutral stress plane adjustment layer helps prevent stress in the signal lines.
US09640555B2
A change in electrical characteristics can be inhibited and reliability can be improved in a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor. The semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film includes a first insulating film, the oxide semiconductor film over the first insulating film, a second insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, and a third insulating film over the second insulating film. The second insulating film includes oxygen and silicon, the third insulating film includes nitrogen and silicon, and indium is included in a vicinity of an interface between the second insulating film and the third insulating film.
US09640553B2
A thin-film transistor (TFT), a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device are disclosed. The method for manufacturing the a TFT comprises the step of forming a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active area, a source electrode and a drain electrode on a base substrate. The active area (4) is made of a ZnON material. When the gate insulating layer is formed, a material for forming the gate insulating layer is subjected to control treatment, so that a sub-threshold amplitude of the TFT is less than or equal to 0.5 mV/dec. The manufacturing method reduces the sub-threshold amplitude of the TFT and improves the semiconductor characteristic of the TFT.
US09640552B2
Semiconductor fins are formed on a top surface of a substrate. A dielectric material is deposited on the top surfaces of the semiconductor fins and the substrate by an anisotropic deposition. A dielectric material layer on the top surface of the substrate is patterned so that the remaining portion of the dielectric material layer laterally surrounds each bottom portion of at least one semiconductor fin, while not contacting at least one second semiconductor fin. Dielectric material portions on the top surfaces of the semiconductor fins may be optionally removed. Each first semiconductor fin has a lesser channel height than the at least one second semiconductor fin. The first and second semiconductor fins can be employed to provide fin field effect transistors having different channel heights.
US09640549B2
A vertical memory device includes a substrate, a channel, gate lines and a connecting portion. A plurality of the channels extend in a first direction which is vertical to a top surface of a substrate. A plurality of the gate lines are stacked in the first direction to be spaced apart from each other and extend in a second, lengthwise direction, each gate line intersecting a set of channels and surrounding outer sidewalls of each channel of the set of channels. The gate lines forms a stepped structure which includes a plurality of vertical levels. A connecting portion connects a group of gate lines of the plurality of gate lines located at the same vertical level, the connecting portion diverging from the second direction in which the gate lines of the group of gate lines extend.
US09640544B2
An integrated circuit such as a NAND flash memory includes a dielectric layer overlying transistors (e.g. NAND flash memory cells) that are formed along a surface of a substrate and a hydrogen absorption structure overlying the dielectric layer, the hydrogen absorption structure extending over the transistors, the hydrogen absorption structure being electrically isolated from the transistors.
US09640542B2
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure having first conductive layers stacked stepwise and first insulating layers interposed between the first conductive layers, wherein undercuts are formed under the first conductive layers and each of the first conductive layers includes a first region covered by the first conductive layer and a second region extending from the first region, contact pads coupled to the second regions of the respective first conductive layers, and a liner layer formed on the contact pads and filling the undercuts.
US09640540B1
An integrated circuit includes first and second SRAM cells. The first SRAM cell includes first and second pull-up devices, first and second pull-down devices configured with the first and second pull-up devices to form first and second cross-coupled inverters, first and second pass-gate devices configured with the first and second cross-coupled inverters for writing data, a read pull-down device coupled to the first inverter, and a read pass-gate device coupled to the read pull-down device. The second SRAM cell includes third and fourth pull-up devices, and third and fourth pull-down devices configured with the third and fourth pull-up devices to form third and fourth cross-coupled inverters. Work function layers of gates of the first pull-up device, first pull-down device, and third pull-up device have a first work function, a second work function, and a third work function respectively. The first, second, and third work functions are different from each other.
US09640537B2
A single fin or a pair of co-integrated n- and p- type single crystal electronic device fins are epitaxially grown from a substrate surface at a bottom of one or a pair of trenches formed between shallow trench isolation (STI) regions. The fin or fins are patterned and the STI regions are etched to form a height of the fin or fins extending above etched top surfaces of the STI regions. The fin heights may be at least 1.5 times their width. The exposed sidewall surfaces and a top surface of each fin is epitaxially clad with one or more conformal epitaxial materials to form device layers on the fin. Prior to growing the fins, a blanket buffer epitaxial material may be grown from the substrate surface; and the fins grown in STI trenches formed above the blanket layer. Such formation of fins reduces defects from material interface lattice mismatches.
US09640532B2
A device includes a first stacked capacitor comprising a first MOS capacitance and a first MOM capacitance, the first MOS capacitance coupled to a first node, the first node configured to receive a first bias voltage, and a second stacked capacitor comprising a second MOS capacitance and a second MOM capacitance, the second MOS capacitance coupled to the first node.
US09640531B1
A 3D semiconductor device, including: a first layer including first transistors; a second layer overlaying the first layer, the second layer including second transistors, where the second layer includes at least one thru layer via with a diameter less than 200 nm, where the second layer includes an oscillator, and where the oscillator has a frequency stability of less than 100 ppm error/° C.
US09640528B2
A bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) device is disclosed. The BiCMOS device includes a CMOS device in a CMOS region, a first CMOS well in the CMOS region, an NPN bipolar device in a bipolar region, a second CMOS well in the bipolar region, the second CMOS well being a collector sinker and being electrically connected to a sub-collector of the NPN bipolar device, where the first CMOS well in the CMOS region and the second CMOS well in the bipolar region form a p-n junction to provide electrical isolation between the CMOS device and the NPN bipolar device. The BiCMOS device further includes a PNP bipolar device having a sub-collector, the sub-collector of the PNP bipolar device being electrically connected to a third CMOS well.
US09640526B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate electrodes, and a plurality of stripe contacts, each formed alternately with each of the gate electrodes along a length direction of the gate electrodes. A conductive transistor with a reference potential applied to one of the stripe contacts forming one of a source and a drain is formed. One of the gate electrodes adjacent to one of the stripe contacts forming the other of the source and the drain is used as a first dummy gate electrode. The semiconductor device further includes a metal extending over the first dummy gate electrode to electrically connect together the stripe contacts formed on opposing sides of the first dummy gate electrode, and a pad connected to one of the stripe contacts formed on opposing sides of the first dummy gate electrode, which is provided across the first dummy gate electrode from the conductive transistor.
US09640520B2
The invention provides a photocoupler package. The photocoupler package includes a light-emitting diode (LED) mounted on a first lead frame, electrically connected to the first lead frame. A photodetector is mounted on a second lead frame, electrically connected to the second lead frame. A first insulating material is disposed on the first lead frame, surrounding the LED. A second insulating material is disposed on the second lead frame, surrounding the photodetector. A third insulating material encapsulates the first insulating material and the LED. A third insulating material also encapsulates the second insulating material and the photodetector. This photocoupler possesses high photocoupling efficiency, small volume, and superior high-isolation capability.
US09640501B2
A multi-layer pillar and method of fabricating the same is provided. The multi-layer pillar is used as an interconnect between a chip and substrate. The pillar has at least one low strength, high ductility deformation region configured to absorb force imposed during chip assembly and thermal excursions.
US09640498B1
An embodiment method includes providing a carrier having a recess and attaching a die to the carrier, wherein the die is at least partially disposed in the recess. The method further includes forming a molding compound over the carrier and around at least a portion of the die, forming fan-out redistribution layers over the molding compound and electrically connected to the die, and removing the carrier.
US09640496B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, and a redistribution layer (RDL) over the semiconductor substrate and configured to receive a bump. The semiconductor device further includes a polymeric material over the RDL, and the polymeric material includes an opening to expose a portion of the RDL. In the semiconductor device, a barrier is covering a joint between the polymeric material and the RDL.
US09640488B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a chip package which includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a first recess extending from the first surface towards the second surface; a second recess extending from a bottom of the first recess towards the second surface, wherein a sidewall and the bottom of the first recess and a second sidewall and a second bottom of the second recess together form an exterior side surface of the semiconductor substrate; a wire layer disposed over the first surface and extending into the first recess and/or the second recess; an insulating layer positioned between the wire layer and the semiconductor substrate; and a metal light shielding layer disposed over the first surface and having at least one hole, wherein a shape of the at least one hole is a quadrangle.
US09640486B2
The invention relates to a method for marking wafers, in particular wafers for solar cell production: The method comprises the steps of manufacturing a position line (21a, 21b, 21c) on a peripheral surface of a silicon ingot or column, the ingot or column extending in an axial direction and having a longitudinal axis in the axial direction, wherein the position line extends in the axial direction along substantially the whole ingot or column and is inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis. By this position line it is possible to determine the position of a wafer cut from the ingot or column within the ingot or column, respectively. Further, an individual identification pattern (20a, 20b, 20c) of lines on the peripheral surface of the silicon ingot or column is manufactured, the individual identification pattern of lines extending in axial direction over substantially the whole ingot or column and providing an individual coding which allows to identify the silicon ingot or column.
US09640485B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for layered interconnect structures for bridge interconnection in integrated circuit assemblies. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a substrate and a bridge embedded in the substrate. The bridge may be configured to route electrical signals between two dies. An interconnect structure, electrically coupled with the bridge, may include a via structure including a first conductive material, a barrier layer including a second conductive material disposed on the via structure, and a solderable material including a third conductive material disposed on the barrier layer. The first conductive material, the second conductive material, and the third conductive material may have different chemical composition. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09640477B1
A method of producing a semiconductor package includes planarizing a surface extending from at least part of connection regions to a pair of terminals by disposing a semiconductor element and a capacitor element such that the semiconductor element and the capacitor element do not overlap each other in plan view of the semiconductor element, and by filling a portion between the semiconductor element and the capacitor element with an insulator layer; directly connecting part of the connection regions and one of the pair of terminals to a first metal layer by forming the first metal layer on top of the connection regions, on top of the pair of terminals, and on top of the insulator layer; forming a dielectric layer on top of the first metal layer; and forming a capacitor layer by forming a second metal layer on top of the dielectric layer.
US09640475B1
A chip packaging structure includes a chip, a passive component, and at least two metal lines. In the chip, first bonding pads, second bonding pads and connecting pads are disposed above an integrated circuit, and the second bonding pads and the connecting pads are separated from the integrated circuit. The second bonding pads are electrically connected to the corresponding connecting pads, respectively. The passive component is disposed on the chip, and includes two electrodes that are respectively electrically connected to and adhered to one of the corresponding connecting pad. The metal lines are disposed on the chip, and have one end thereof respectively connected to the second bonding pads, and the other end respectively connected to the first bonding pads.
US09640468B2
A surface-mount electronic device includes a body of semiconductor material, and a lead frame that includes a plurality of contact terminals. The plurality of contact terminals is electrically connected to the semiconductor body. The contact terminals are formed of sintered material.
US09640464B2
A method for manufacturing a surface-mount electronic device includes making a first partial cut from a bottom of an assembly that includes a first semiconductor body that is disposed on a first die pad, a second semiconductor body that is disposed on a second die pad, and a plurality of terminal regions that is disposed between the first and second die pads. The first partial cut forms a recess by removing a portion of each of the terminal regions. The recess is defined by a transverse wall, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall. The first and second sidewalls and the transverse wall are coated with an anti-oxidation layer. A second partial cut is made from the top, where the second partial cut removes the transverse wall, separates the first and second semiconductor bodies, and has a width that is greater than a width of the first partial cut.
US09640463B2
Consistent with an example embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a device die having bond pads providing connection to device die circuitry. The semiconductor device includes a built-up substrate lead frame having, a sub-structure of I/O terminals and a die attach area, the I/O terminals and die attach area enveloped in a molding compound, the die attach area having exposed areas to facilitate device die attachment thereon and the terminal I/O terminals providing connection to the device die bond pads; connection traces electrically couple the I/O terminals with one another, said connection traces having facilitated electroplating of exposed vertical surfaces of the I/O terminals during assembly, said connection traces being severed after assembly. An envelope of molding compound encapsulates the device die onto the built-up substrate lead frame.
US09640462B2
Disclosed herein is a device that includes a first wiring provided as a first-level wiring layer and elongated in a first direction; and a first wiring pad provided as the first-level wiring layer, the first wiring pad being rectangular and including a first side edge that is elongated in the first direction and a second side edge that is elongated in a second direction crossing to the first direction, the first side edge being greater in length than the second side edge, the first wiring pad being greater in length in the second direction than the first wiring.
US09640461B1
A power module includes a substrate DMB (Direct Metal Bonded). A novel bridging DMB is surface mounted to the substrate DMB along with power semiconductor device dice. The top metal layer of the bridging DMB has one or more islands to which bonding wires can connect. In one example, an electrical path extends from a module terminal, through a first bonding wire and to a first location on a strip-shaped island, through the island to a second location, and from the second location and through a second bonding wire. The strip-shaped island of the bridging DMB serves as a section of the overall electrical path. Another bonding wire of a separate electrical path passes transversely over the strip-shaped island without any wire crossing any other wire. Use of the bridging DMB promotes bonding wire mechanical strength as well as heat sinking from bonding wires down to the substrate DMB.
US09640448B2
A film forming apparatus, which forms a thin film formed of a metal oxide on a substrate by alternately supplying a raw material gas formed of an organic material containing a metal and an oxidation gas for oxidizing the organic material to the substrate a plurality of times, within a reaction vessel under a vacuum atmosphere, is provided. A control part outputs a control signal for comparing a moisture concentration detected by a moisture detection part with a set value after initiation of a step of supplying the oxidation gas and before starting a step of supplying the raw material gas, and when the moisture concentration exceeds a set value, for increasing a substitution operation of an atmosphere substitution step.
US09640440B2
An insulating film and another insulating film are formed over a semiconductor substrate in that order to cover first, second, and third gate electrodes. The another insulating film is etched back to form sidewall spacers over side surfaces of the insulating film. Then, the sidewall spacers over the side surfaces of the insulating films corresponding to the sidewalls of the first and second gate electrodes are removed to leave the sidewall spacers over the side surfaces of the insulating film corresponding to the sidewalls of the third gate electrode. Then, the sidewall spacers and the insulating films are etched back, so that the sidewall spacers are formed of the insulating film over the sidewalls of the first, second, and third gate electrodes.
US09640438B2
Integrated circuits and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. A method for producing an integrated circuit includes forming a first active dummy gate, a second active dummy gate, and an inactive gate overlying a substrate. The first active dummy gate is replaced with a first metal gate, where replacing the first active dummy gate includes planarizing the first metal gate, the second active dummy gate, and the inactive gate. The second active dummy gate is replaced with a second replacement metal after the first active dummy gate was replaced, where the inactive gate remains overlying the substrate.
US09640433B2
A method of activating a metal structure on an intermediate semiconductor device structure toward metal plating. The method comprises providing an intermediate semiconductor device structure comprising at least one first metal structure and at least one second metal structure on a semiconductor substrate. The at least one first metal structure comprises at least one aluminum structure, at least one copper structure, or at least one structure comprising a mixture of aluminum and copper and the at least one second metal structure comprises at least one tungsten structure. One of the at least one first metal structure and the at least one second metal structure is activated toward metal plating without activating the other of the at least one first metal structure and the at least one second metal structure. An intermediate semiconductor device structure is also disclosed.
US09640429B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a metal layer containing Al; forming an insulating film on the metal layer; forming an opening pattern to the insulating film, the metal layer being exposed in the opening pattern; and forming a wiring layer in the opening pattern, a first portion being disposed between an edge of the wiring layer and an edge of the opening pattern, a width of the first portion being 1 μm or less, and the metal layer being exposed in the first portion.
US09640428B2
A self-aligned repairing process for a barrier layer is provided. A repair layer is formed by chemical vapor deposition using an organometallic compound as a precursor gas. The precursor gas adsorbed on a dielectric layer exposed by defects in a barrier layer is transformed to an insulating metal oxide layer, and the precursor gas adsorbed on the barrier layer is transformed to a metal layer.
US09640422B2
A trench comprising a portion of a substrate is formed. A nucleation layer is deposited on the portion of the substrate within the trench. A III-N material layer is deposited on the nucleation layer. The III-N material layer is laterally grown over the trench. A device layer is deposited on the laterally grown III-N material layer. A low defect density region is obtained on the laterally grown material and is used for electronic device fabrication of III-N materials on Si substrates.
US09640420B2
A method of processing a wafer includes coating the front side of the wafer with a water-soluble liquid resin to form a thin film; fixing the wafer to a protective plate for protecting the front side of the wafer, with a bond material interposed between the protective plate and the thin film; holding by a chuck table the protective plate with the wafer fixed thereto and grinding the back side of the wafer to make the wafer have a predetermined thickness; releasing step of releasing the bond material together with the protective plate to which the wafer has been fixed; and supplying water to the bond material remaining on the front side of the wafer to remove the thin film together with the bond material.
US09640418B2
An industrial-scale apparatus, system, and method for handling precisely aligned and centered semiconductor wafer pairs for wafer-to-wafer aligning and bonding applications includes an end effector having a frame member and a floating carrier connected to the frame member with a gap formed therebetween, wherein the floating carrier has a semi-circular interior perimeter. The centered semiconductor wafer pairs are positionable within a processing system using the end effector under robotic control. The centered semiconductor wafer pairs are bonded together without the presence of the end effector in the bonding device.
US09640416B2
A single- and dual-chamber module-attachable wafer-handling chamber includes: a wafer-handling main chamber equipped with a wafer-handling robot therein, and adaptors for connecting process modules to the wafer-handling main chamber. The adaptors are detachably attached to the sides of the wafer-handling main chamber, respectively, and the process modules are detachably attached to the adaptors, respectively, so that the process modules can be attached to the wafer-handling main chamber, regardless of whether the process modules are of a single-chamber type or dual-chamber type.
US09640409B1
A method for processing a semiconductor substrate includes a) providing a substrate stack including a first layer, a plurality of cores arranged in a spaced relationship on the first layer and one or more underlying layers arranged below the first layer; b) depositing a conformal layer on the first layer and the plurality of cores; c) partially etching the conformal layer to create spacers arranged adjacent to sidewalls of the plurality of cores, wherein the partial etching of the conformal layer causes upper portions of the spacers to have an asymmetric profile; d) selectively etching the plurality of cores relative to the spacers and the first layer; e) depositing polymer film on sidewalls of the spacers; and f) etching the upper portions of the spacers to remove the asymmetric profile and to planarize the upper portions of the spacers.
US09640394B2
Method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes: providing a crystalline silicon substrate; defining an opening in a dielectric layer on the crystalline silicon substrate, the opening having sidewalls and a bottom wherein the bottom corresponds to a surface of the crystalline silicon substrate; providing a confinement structure above the dielectric layer, thereby forming a confinement region between the confinement structure and the dielectric layer; and growing a crystalline compound semiconductor material in the confinement region thereby at least partially filling the confinement region. The present invention also provides an improved compound semiconductor structure and a device for fabricating such semiconductor structure.
US09640387B2
A technique includes loading a substrate into a process chamber, supporting the substrate by a mounting table having a heater therein in the process chamber, forming a film on the substrate by supplying a processing gas into the process chamber in a state where the mounting table having the substrate supported thereon is disposed in a first position and the heater is turned on, unloading the substrate on which the film is formed, and supplying a reactive gas into the process chamber in a state where the mounting table is disposed in a second position and the heater is turned on. The second position is closer to a ceiling portion in the process chamber than the first position.
US09640385B2
The present disclosure provides methods for removing gate electrode residuals from a gate structure after a gate electrode patterning process. In one example, a method for forming high aspect ratio features in a gate electrode layer in a gate structure includes performing an surface treatment process on gate electrode residuals remaining on a gate structure disposed on a substrate, selectively forming a treated residual in the gate structure on the substrate with some untreated regions nearby in the gate structure, and performing a remote plasma residual removal process to remove the treated residual from the substrate.
US09640379B2
A mass spectrometer vacuum interface can include a skimmer apparatus having a skimmer aperture and an internal surface. A method of operating the mass spectrometer vacuum interface can include establishing an outwardly directed flow along the internal surface of the skimmer apparatus.
US09640367B2
The present invention provides an inductively coupled, magnetically enhanced ion beam source, suitable to be used in conjunction with probe-forming optics to produce an ion beam without kinetic energy oscillations induced by the source.
US09640362B2
Provided is an X-ray tube including an anode, a target on the anode, a cathode disposed separate from the target and the anode and comprising an emitter providing an electron beam to the target, and a side wall disposed between the cathode and the anode, and surrounding the target and the emitter. The side wall reflects a light generated by collision of the electron beam with the target to the cathode, and electrically insulates the cathode from the anode.
US09640358B2
A radiation window foil is provided for an X-ray radiation window. It includes a continuous window layer with a first side and a second side. A first mesh or grid layer is stacked on or bonded to the first side of the continuous window layer. A second mesh or grid layer is stacked on or bonded to the second side of the continuous window layer.
US09640351B2
In a temperature-dependent switch having a switching mechanism that has a movable contact part which cooperates with a stationary counter contact and is moved by a spring part to which the movable contact part is electrically conductively connected, the switching mechanism produces an electrically conductive connection between the stationary counter contact and a second counter contact in a temperature-dependent manner. The switch is provided with an arc-shielding plate, which has no mechanical function, is arranged on an upper surface of the spring part and covers sections thereof.
US09640349B2
The gas circuit breaker is made up of a fixed contact, a movable contact, a sealed tank having the fixed contact and the movable contact therein, an operating mechanism for driving the movable contact, and a mechanism unit for housing a link mechanism for connecting the operating mechanism with the movable contact. The operating mechanism is made up of an opening spring and a closing spring, cases for covering respective peripheries of those elastic bodies, a control mechanism for holding and freeing the driving force of the elastic body, and a link mechanism for conveying the driving force of the elastic body to the movable contact. The opening spring is laterally disposed in the axial direction between the link mechanism and the control mechanism. An integral flange is provided on an opening spring case and a closing spring case.
US09640342B2
A system has an electronics housing and a grounding contact assembly for electromechanical switchgear that can be mounted on a mounting rail, wherein the grounding contact assembly can be mounted in the electronics housing. The base region of the electronics housing faces a mounting rail, is provided with an externally accessible mounting duct for a grounding contact that can be mounted in the duct, and contacts the mounting rail in a spring-leaded manner. The contact part has a blade contact at one end and at the other end a terminal receiving part which is angled perpendicularly to the first free end of the blade contact and is designed as a detent pin. The grounding contact assembly can be pushed into the mounting duct irrespective of the position of the electronics housing on the mounting rail.
US09640323B2
A multilayer body includes an inner layer portion having a dimension in a stacking direction greater than a dimension of the inner layer portion in a width direction, a second outer layer portion including an outer portion including a second principle surface and an inner portion disposed adjacent to both of the outer portion and the inner layer portion, a dimension of the outer portion in the stacking direction being greater than a dimension of the inner portion, and a composition ratio of Si relative to Ti in the outer portion is greater than that in the inner portion.
US09640315B2
A transformer includes a magnetic core, a first winding assembly, and a second winding assembly. The magnetic core includes a plurality of legs, including a first winding leg. The first winding assembly includes a first conductive conduit helically wound around the first winding leg a first number of turns. The first winding assembly has a first magnetic length. The second winding assembly includes a second conductive conduit wound around one of the plurality of legs a second number of turns. The second winding assembly is inductively coupled to the first winding assembly, and has a second magnetic length substantially equal to said first magnetic length.
US09640310B2
A cryogenic coil assembly including a coil substrate with a flat surface, and a number of radial channels cut into a region of the flat surface. The cryogenic coil assembly also includes a spiral coil covering the radial channels, and a chemical bonding agent for bonding the spiral coil to the coil substrate. The chemical bonding agent is present within the radial channels.
US09640307B2
A transformer in which the high-voltage and low-voltage coils are easily laminated when they are alternately laminated in their axial directions, improving power efficiency. The transformer includes: a high-voltage coil including a wire wound around a cylindrical winding drum of a bobbin which is provided with flanges on both ends of the winding drum; a low-voltage coil formed of a flat plate member having an open ring shape, the low-voltage and high-voltage coils being alternately laminated in their axial directions; and a cover member which has a ring plate shape and is coaxially laminated on an outside of a laminate in an axial direction. The low-voltage coil is between the high-voltage coil and the cover member, and a wall portion protruding in the axial direction from the bobbin of the high-voltage coil and a wall portion protruding in the axial direction of the cover member are alternately disposed.
US09640299B2
A crosslinked resin compound includes a resin compound including 0.1 to 20 parts by mass of one material selected from the group consisting of monomer having an epoxy group, acid anhydride and silane coupling agent with respect to 100 parts by mass of ethylene-based copolymer, and the resin compound is crosslinked.
US09640295B2
The present disclosure relates to an aluminum electrode, a method of forming an aluminum electrode and an electronic device therewith. An aluminum electrode according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises: a bottom layer consisting of molybdenum; a top layer consisting of molybdenum; and an aluminum layer located between the bottom layer and the top layer, wherein the bottom layer, the top layer and the aluminum layer are formed at a temperature below 120° C. An aluminum electrode according to one embodiment of the present disclosure eliminates the mouse bite phenomenon. An aluminum electrode according to another aspect of the present disclosure comprises: a bottom layer consisting of a metal or metal-alloy nitride; a top layer consisting of molybdenum; and an aluminum layer located between the bottom layer and the top layer, wherein the bottom layer, the top layer and the aluminum layer are formed at a temperature below 120° C. An aluminum electrode according to another embodiment of the present disclosure eliminates both of the mouse bite phenomenon and the undercut phenomenon, and can further arrive at a desired profile angle by controlling the content of nitrogen.
US09640293B2
The invention relates to a grating arrangement and a method for spectral filtering of an X-ray beam (B), the grating arrangement comprising: a dispersive element (10) comprising a prism configured to diffract the X-ray beam (B) into a first beam component (BC1) comprising a first direction (D1) and a second beam component comprising (BC2) a second direction (D2), tilted with respect to the first direction; a first grating (20) configured to generate a first diffraction pattern (DP1) of the first beam component (BC1) and a second diffraction pattern (DP2) of the second beam component (BC2), the second diffraction pattern (DP2) shifted with respect to the first diffraction patter (DP1); and a second grating (30) comprising at least one opening (31) which is aligned along a line (d) from a maximum (MA) to a minimum (MI) of intensity of the first diffraction pattern (DP1) or of the second diffraction pattern (DP2).
US09640287B2
A screen made of radiation shielding material for protecting an operator from ionizing radiation, includes: (i) a lower part equipped with a front wall made of radiation shielding material, having an upper border; (ii) an upper part equipped with a front wall made of a radiation shielding material, at least one part of which is transparent, which front wall includes a lower border; and (iii) at least one passage for the arms of the operator. The front walls of the upper part and of the lower part are separable from each other, the upper part being borne by supporting elements allowing the screen to be reversibly maneuvered either into an active radiation shielding position in which the upper and lower borders are juxtaposed, or into a retracted position in which the upper and lower borders are separated from each other, in order to free a space above the lower part.
US09640286B2
An apparatus for cooling a spent fuel pool having a heat exchanger includes a cooling water pool positioned above the spent fuel pool; a floating device configured to be elevated according to a water level of a cooling water in the spent fuel pool; and an emergency cooling water supply pipe configured to form a path through which the cooling water of the cooling water pool is moved to the spent fuel pool and configured to include a floating valve that opens or closes a flow passage of the cooling water in connection with the elevation of the floating device.
US09640285B2
Provided are a probe and an apparatus for measuring a thickness of an oxide layer of a fuel rod, capable of testing claddings of inner and outer fuel rods of a nuclear fuel assembly without disassembling the nuclear fuel assembly. The probe includes a fuel rod transfer region on which an eddy current sensor capable of continuously testing claddings of outer fuel rods of a fixed nuclear fuel assembly is mounted. Further, the apparatus includes a frame in which a cylinder driven in upward and downward directions is mounted, a first probe connected to one side of the cylinder in order to test claddings of outer fuel rods of a nuclear fuel assembly, and a second probe connected to the other side of the cylinder in order to test claddings of inner fuel rods of the nuclear fuel assembly.
US09640284B2
A controller for producing a nuclear reactor shutdown system trip signal in response to at least one detector signal. The controller includes a signal conditioning module receiving the at least one detector signal and outputting a measured flux signal. A rate module generates a rate signal from the measured flux signal. A comparator circuit compares the rate signal to a trip setpoint and generates a first trip signal.
US09640277B2
A system avoids false sampling due to reflections from previous commands or other noise on a data strobe line. The system uses a normalizer circuit or leaker circuit, and the data strobe line is not optimally terminated or is unterminated. The data strobe line is to receive a burst of data sample pulses or edges and sample a data line based on the edges. The receiving device includes logic that generates a count triggered from an initial edge on the data strobe line, and identifies, based on the count, an initial valid edge of the burst. Any false strobes due to noise or reflections that are received prior to the actual burst can be rejected.
US09640276B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communication. There is provided a shift register unit and a gate driving circuit for decreasing noise interferences, enhancing stability of the shift register unit, and at the same reducing the size of the shift register unit. The shift register unit comprises: an input module configured to provide a first voltage signal to an output terminal in response to an input signal; a reset module configured to provide a second voltage signal to a first node as an output terminal of the input module in the input module in response to a reset signal; an output module configured to provide a first clock signal to the output terminal in response to a voltage at a first node; a pull-down control module configured to provide a second clock signal to a second node in response to the second clock signal and provide a power supply negative voltage to the second node in response to the voltage at the first node or the voltage at the output terminal; and a pull-down module configured to provide the power supply negative voltage to the first node and the output terminal in response to the voltage at the second node.
US09640267B2
When a control circuit has received a first erase command, the control circuit controls performing a first pre-write process to allow a first storage device and a second storage device to have threshold voltages, respectively, both increased, and the control circuit thereafter controls performing an erase process to allow the first storage device and the second storage device to have their respective threshold voltages both decreased to be smaller than a prescribed erase verify level. When the control circuit has received a second erase command, the control circuit controls performing a second pre-write process to allow one of the first storage device and the second storage device to have its threshold voltage increased, and control circuit subsequently controls performing the erase process.
US09640263B2
A high speed voltage mode sensing is provided for a digital multibit non-volatile memory integrated system. An embodiment has a local source follower stage followed by a high speed common source stage. Another embodiment has a local source follower stage followed by a high speed source follower stage. Another embodiment has a common source stage followed by a source follower. An auto zeroing scheme is used. A capacitor sensing scheme is used. Multilevel parallel operation is described.
US09640251B2
A circuit includes: a first word line; a second word line; and a memory cell. The memory cell includes: a first pass gate, between a transistor and a first data line (RBL), having a gate coupled to the first word line; the transistor having a drain coupled to the first pass gate, a source coupled to a reference node, and a gate coupled to a data node of the memory cell; and a second pass gate, between the data node and a second data line, having a gate coupled to the second word line. The first word line is configured to turn on the first pass gate. The second word line is configured to turn on the second pass gate after an elapse of a first delay.
US09640245B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cell blocks each including a plurality of word lines and suitable for being selectively activated based on an active command and a row address, wherein word lines are selected from the respective activated memory cell blocks based on the active command and the row address, and a column decoding block sequentially accessing the activated memory cell blocks to input/output data thereof by decoding a column address based on the row address.
US09640239B2
Sense circuits, memory devices, and related methods are disclosed. A sense circuit includes sample and hold circuitry configured to sample and hold a second response voltage potential, a first response voltage potential, and a third response voltage potential responsive to an evaluation signal applied to a resistance variable memory cell. The sense circuit includes an amplifier operably coupled to the sample and hold circuitry. The amplifier is configured to amplify a difference between a sum of the first response voltage potential and the third response voltage potential, and twice the second response voltage potential. A memory device includes an evaluation signal generating circuit configured to provide the evaluation signal, an array of resistance variable memory cells, and the sense circuit. A method includes applying the evaluation signal to the resistance variable memory cell, sampling and holding the response voltage potentials, and discharging the sample and hold circuitry to the amplifier.
US09640235B2
A stack memory device may include a core chip and a base chip. The core chip may include a data receiver, a strobe signal generation unit, and a test register. The data receiver may be configured for receiving data outputted from the core chip through a first normal port. The strobe signal generation unit may be configured to generate a data strobe signal based on one of a normal strobe signal and a test strobe signal depending on an operation mode. The test register may store data outputted from the data receiver in response to the data strobe signal.
US09640221B2
An information output device includes an output unit, a recognition unit and a control unit. The output unit outputs a content. The recognition unit recognizes a user. The control unit (i) determines whether the content currently being output by the output unit is suitable for the recognized user, thereby producing a determination result and (ii) changes, on the basis of the determination result, the current output content to a content having the same substance as the current output content but a different playback time from the current output content.
US09640219B1
Systems and techniques for modifying a subsection of uploaded media are presented. An instruction component receives a media file and a media enhancement instruction that includes enhancement data and media interval data for a first segment of the media file. A processing component modifies the first segment of the media file associated with the media interval data based on the enhancement data to generate an edited first segment of the media file. A finalization component generates an edited version of the media file that includes the edited first segment of the media file and at least a second segment of the media file that is not modified based on the enhancement data.
US09640218B2
Physiological cues, such as elevated heart or respiratory rates can be masked from video of a person before the video is sent to another party. The masking of human-perceptible and non-human-perceptible physiological cues removes information from the video that another party could use to determine the person's emotional state. For example, variations in a person's skin color that are typically imperceptible to the human eye and from which a person's heart rate can be detected, can be removed or altered so that another party viewing the video cannot determine the person's actual heart rate in an attempt to determine the person's emotional state, even if they are performing computer analysis on the video. The presence of some physiological cues can be determined by detecting that a physiological measure is above a specified physiological measure threshold. Modified video can have the characteristic that physiological cues are substantially absent in the modified video or that physiological measures extracted from the modified video have a value below an associated physiological measure threshold.
US09640217B1
Systems and methods relating generally to determining flaws on a storage medium.
US09640216B2
A reproduction system has a content reproduction section 220 that reproduces a content having a cycle; a special reproduction operation section 230 that performs special reproduction on the content by which the content is reproduced at a reproduction position different from a normal reproduction return position at a time of normal reproduction reproduced normally; a special reproduction process section 235 that makes the content reproduction section 220 perform the special reproduction based on an operation of the special reproduction operation section 230; and a return process section 250 that matches the normal reproduction return position of the content with a position corresponding to cycle timing with which the normal reproduction continues without the special reproduction when the normal reproduction returns after the special reproduction is cancelled in case that the special reproduction is performed.
US09640215B2
A holographic light-emitting module includes a light source module and a light shape control module. The light source module is configured to provide a signal light beam and a reference light beam, in which polarizations of the signal light beam and the reference light beam are orthogonal. The light shape control module is configured to receive the signal light beam and the reference light beam propagated from the light source module, in which the signal light beam and the reference light beam are modulated and emitted by the light shape control module The reference light beam is surrounded by the signal light beam and located at a center of the signal light beam, and the signal light beam and the reference light beam are partially overlapped.
US09640214B2
Digital optical tape archival storage systems and methods are disclosed. A digital optical tape recorder may simultaneously write data and two or more guide tracks onto a digital optical tape recording medium. A digital optical taper reader may include a camera comprising an array of detectors to capture a two-dimensional image of the digital optical tape recording medium, and an image processor to extract the data from the two-dimensional image. The camera may capture the two-dimensional image of the digital optical tape recording medium without aligning individual data bits recorded on the digital optical tape recording medium to individual detectors within the camera.
US09640212B2
A control mechanism may control the height and/or position of a read/write head configured to interact with a rotating information storage surface. A computation unit may compute a detected topography from gap measurements using a dynamic filter including a model of read/write head dynamics. A sensor may detect gap measurements of a side read/write track while the read/write head is interacting with a current read/write track. A memory may store the detected topography. The control mechanism may adjust the height of the read/write head based on the detected and/or stored topography. The control mechanism may be a reactionless control mechanism configured to apply a counterforce to offset movements of the read/write head and/or a slider.
US09640209B1
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for simulating a defect signal in a time based servo system includes determining a start position for a spike, determining an end position for the spike, determining a servo channel, determining an amplitude of the spike, initiating an acquire lock process, creating the spike in the determined servo channel from the determined start position to the determined end position, and storing servo data including at least a portion thereof generated during the spike. The spike has the determined amplitude. In another embodiment, a computer program product for generating defect signals in a storage system includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se. The program instructions are executable by a controller to perform the foregoing method.
US09640207B2
In order to prevent leaking of lubricant, the bearing device includes a rolling bearing having an outer ring and an inner ring, a shaft fixed to the inner ring, and a sleeve fixed to the outer ring. A flange part is formed on at least one end part of the shaft. The flange part includes a disk part extending from the shaft toward an outside in a radial direction and a cylindrical part extending from the disk part along an axial direction. The cylindrical part is disposed at an outside of the outer ring, and a labyrinth gap which bends at two places is formed by gaps.
US09640205B1
A magnetic recording-reproducing head includes, on a support member, a first head section having a function of executing a recording process and having a function of executing a reproducing process, and one or more second head sections each having a function of executing an erasing process and having no function of executing a reproducing process.
US09640201B2
Implementations disclosed herein provide a method comprising comparing high-latency data sectors of a storage band, the high-latency data sectors having latency above a predetermined threshold, with target sectors for storing new data to determine one or more of the high-latency data sectors that may be skipped during retrieval of at-rest data from the storage band.
US09640194B1
Described are noise suppression techniques applicable to various systems including automatic speech processing systems in digital audio pre-processing. The noise suppression techniques utilize a machine-learning framework trained on cues pertaining to reference clean and noisy speech signals, and a corresponding synthetic noisy speech signal combining the clean and noisy speech signals. The machine-learning technique is further used to process audio signals in real time by extracting and analyzing cues pertaining to noisy speech to dynamically generate an appropriate gain mask, which may eliminate the noise components from the input audio signal. The audio signal pre-processed in such a manner may be applied to an automatic speech processing engine for corresponding interpretation or processing. The machine-learning technique may enable extraction of cues associated with clean automatic speech processing features, which may be used by the automatic speech processing engine for various automatic speech processing.
US09640186B2
Deep scattering spectral features are extracted from an acoustic input signal to generate a deep scattering spectral feature representation of the acoustic input signal. The deep scattering spectral feature representation is input to a speech recognition engine. The acoustic input signal is decoded based on at least a portion of the deep scattering spectral feature representation input to a speech recognition engine.
US09640185B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing modulation of certain speech sounds, such as trill sounds, are provided for radios which utilize digital vocoders. A digitized speech stream is sampled and the sampling is adjusted to determine, detect and enhance trill nulls in the digitized voice stream by one or more of: frame shifting the digitized speech input stream prior to vocoding, time expanding a digitized speech steam prior to vocoding, time compressing a digitized speech output stream after vocoding, and/or modulation enhancement and filtering of the a digitized speech output stream after vocoding.
US09640184B2
The application relates to HFR (High Frequency Reconstruction/Regeneration) of audio signals. In particular, the application relates to a method and system for performing HFR of audio signals having large variations in energy level across the low frequency range which is used to reconstruct the high frequencies of the audio signal. A system configured to generate a plurality of high frequency subband signals covering a high frequency interval from a plurality of low frequency subband signals is described. The system comprises means for receiving the plurality of low frequency subband signals; means for receiving a set of target energies, each target energy covering a different target interval within the high frequency interval and being indicative of the desired energy of one or more high frequency subband signals lying within the target interval; means for generating the plurality of high frequency subband signals from the plurality of low frequency subband signals and from a plurality of spectral gain coefficients associated with the plurality of low frequency subband signals, respectively; and means for adjusting the energy of the plurality of high frequency subband signals using the set of target energies.
