US09669157B2
Disclosed is a skin securable therapeutic fluid dispensing device that includes a reservoir adapted to retain therapeutic fluid, a pump driving mechanism, and at least one housing configured to accommodate the reservoir and the pump driving mechanism, with at least a portion of the at least one housing defining at least a portion of the reservoir. The device also includes a shield coupled to the at least one housing, the shield configured to protect, at least in part, the reservoir from application of external forces thereon.
US09669155B2
A carrier for carrying medication to be delivered intravenously to a patient includes a carrying frame, a support base, and a container holder for holding a container of medication attached to the carrying frame. The support base and carrying frame are sized, shaped, and mutually positioned such that the carrying frame extends from the support base so as to be supported above the floor from the support base. The carrying frame has at least one location configured for attaching the medication delivery device and at least one ledge, positioned adjacent to the at least one location for resting the medication delivery device, the ledge is positioned between the container holder and the support base, while attaching the medication delivery device to the carrying frame.
US09669153B2
A process of making a tack-free gel is disclosed comprising the steps of providing a mold defining a mold cavity, the mold cavity comprising a plastic material; pouring or injecting a molten gel having a high molding temperature into the mold cavity; and forming the tack-free gel as a thin layer of plastic of the mold cavity is melted over the gel. The forming step further comprises cooling the gel from the molten state to a solidified state. The melting temperature of the plastic material is lower than the molding temperature of the gel; and the higher the temperature differential, the greater the melting of the plastic material and the thicker the layer of the plastic material on the surface of the gel. The mold may be formed of low-density polyethylene (LDPE).
US09669152B2
Provided is a blood component separation device that can shorten the overall time to collect high-concentration platelet liquid for blood component donation, thereby reducing time to keep a donor for blood drawing. The blood component separation device includes a temporary storage bag (also used as a buffy coat bag) which is also used as a whole blood bag for storing whole blood drawn from the donor. A control means performs whole blood drawing from the donor in parallel with performing at least either of a circulation flow step and an acceleration step, thereby storing the collected whole blood in the temporary storage bag.
US09669149B2
Splitable-tip catheters are disclosed with bioresorbable adhesive to provide spatial separation of distal tip elements during use. The invention can be particularly useful in hemodialysis applications where it is desirable to separate blood extraction and return lumens. The adhesive facilitates insertion of the distal end of the catheter as an assembly, e.g., into a blood vessel using a single guidewire, while the bioresorbable nature of the adhesive allows the tip elements to separate in vivo.
US09669148B2
A method for treatment of COPD, hypertension, and left ventricular hypertrophy, and chronic hypoxia including creation of an artificial arterio-venous fistula and installation of a flow mediating device proximate the fistula. The flow mediating device is operated to limit flow as medically indicated to provide the optimum amount of bypass flow.
US09669144B2
A catheter (20), which can be part of an intravascular blood pump, possesses a kink sensor which extends over the total length of the catheter and comprises an optical fiber (28A). The optical fiber is attached to an evaluation device (100) which evaluates a preset light quantity transmitted through the optical fiber as to whether a part of the light quantity is coupled out of the optical fiber along the length of the optical fiber. This is interpreted as a kink event and displayed. The optical fiber preferably utilized for the kink sensor is the optical fiber of an optical pressure sensor.
US09669142B2
An intravascular rotary blood pump possesses a catheter (10), a pumping device (50) fixed distally to the catheter (10) and at least one pressure sensor (30; 60) firmly connected to the pumping device (50) and having a pressure-sensitive area (32) which is exposed to the surroundings and aligned orthogonally to the general longitudinal axis of the blood pump.
US09669141B2
The present invention provides tissue-engineered pumps and valves, methods of fabricating such pumps and valves, and methods of use of such pumps and valves.
US09669139B2
A moisture trap for removing liquid from fluid from a tissue site treated with reduced pressure are described. The moisture trap may include a barrier adapted to be fluidly coupled to and define an indirect fluid path between a fluid reservoir and a reduced-pressure source. The barrier may have a hydrophilic surface. The moisture trap also may include a sump adapted to receive condensation from the barrier.
US09669132B1
A method of joining and/or sealing tissues in a surgical procedure or medical treatment, comprising the steps of: (1) applying a matrix protein, a photoactivatable metal-ligand complex and an electron acceptor to a tissue portion; (2) irradiating said tissue portion to photoactivate the photoactivatable metal-ligand complex; thereby initiating a cross-linking reaction of the matrix protein to seal said tissue portion or join said tissue portion to an adjacent tissue portion.
US09669130B2
An absorbent article, such as a catamenial device, having a liquid pervious topsheet, a backsheet joined to the topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet is disclosed. The absorbent article has a lotion composition applied to at least a portion of the outer surface of the topsheet, the lotion composition including a rheology structurant selected from the group consisting of microcrystalline wax, alkyl dimethicone, ethylene glycol dibehenate, ethylene glycol distearate, glycerol tribehenate, glycerol tristearate, and ethylene bisoleamide.
US09669124B2
Devices, systems and methods for treating multiple medical devices having passageways with ozone gas
The present disclosure is generally related to devices, methods and systems for cleaning, disinfecting and/or sterilizing a medical device, medical hoses and tubes and accessories thereof with ozone gas, in particular the disclosure relates to devices, methods and systems with multiple receptacles for providing closed-loop fluid pathways to distribute ozone gas to inner passageways and the outer compartments of medical devices. The devices in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure have two or more receptacles for distributing ozone gas, a gas-tight compartment, an ozone operating system, and one or more connector units configured to fluidly migrate ozone in closed-loop treatment systems.
US09669123B2
Improved, portable apparatus for ozone deodorizing and sanitizing of clothing items such as shoes is provided having a housing sized to receive an item to be treated, together with an ozone generator and a ventilation assembly operable to deliver ozone-laden air currents into the housing. In preferred forms, the ozone generator is located within a compartment separate from the housing, and a fan assembly is used to draw ambient air currents adjacent the generator for ozone supplementation, followed by delivery of the ozone-laden air currents into the housing.
US09669119B2
A sterilizer for sterilizing medical instruments, the sterilizer having a pressurizable chamber having an opening communicating therewith. A door is provided for closing and sealing the opening to the chamber. A sterilant inlet and a sterilant outlet communicate with the chamber. A container holds medical instruments to be sterilized.The container is comprised of a tray and a lid dimensioned to rest on the tray. The tray and lid define an interior area for holding medical instruments. The tray has connection means for connecting the sterilant inlet to the interior area of the tray when the tray is inserted in the chamber, and the lid is movable from the tray when pressurized sterilant is introduced into the cavity.
US09669115B2
The invention provides co-crystals and salts of contrast agents as well as methods to use and prepare the co-crystals and salts.
US09669113B1
Cavity and sentinel lymph node marking devices, marker delivery devices, and methods are disclosed. More particularly, upon insertion into a body, the cavity marking device and method enable one to determine the center, orientation, and periphery of the cavity by radiographic, mammography, echogenic, or other noninvasive imaging techniques. A composition and method are disclosed for locating the sentinel lymph node in a mammalian body to determine if cancerous cells have spread thereto. The composition is preferably a fluid composition consisting of a carrier fluid and some type of contrast agent; alternatively, the contrast agent may itself be a fluid and therefore not need a separate carrier fluid. This composition is capable of (1) deposition in or around a lesion and migration to and accumulation in the associated sentinel node, and (2) remote detection via any number of noninvasive techniques. Also disclosed is a method for remotely detecting the location of a sentinel node by (1) depositing a remotely detectable fluid in or around a lesion for migration to and accumulation in the associated sentinel node and (2) remotely detecting the location of that node with a minimum of trauma and toxicity to the patient. The composition and method may serve to mark a biopsy cavity, as well as mark the sentinel lymph node. The marking methods also may combine any of the features as described with the marking device and delivery device.
US09669112B2
The present invention provides non-human animal models of neuronal injury and/or cognitive dysfunction and methods of making and using such animal models. The animal models of the invention are particularly suited to assessing neurodegeneration in selected regions of interest in the CNS, and thus especially useful for testing the therapeutic efficacy of agents targeting neurodegeneration associated with aging, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmunity and trauma (e.g., ischemia).
US09669098B2
The disclosure relates to metal organic frameworks or isoreticular metal organic frameworks, methods of production thereof, and methods of use thereof.
US09669096B2
Stable pharmaceutical compositions useful for administering methylnaltrexone are described, as are methods for making the same. Kits, including these pharmaceutical compositions, also are provided.
US09669095B2
The present invention relates to novel cyclosporine analogs having antiviral activity against HCV and useful in the treatment of HCV infections. More particularly, the invention relates to novel cyclosporine analog compounds, compositions containing such compounds and methods for using the same, as well as processes for making such compounds.
US09669086B2
Multivalent combination vaccines are provided which include an immunological agent effective for reducing the incidence of or lessening the severity of M. hyo infection, preferably M. hyo bacterin, or an immunogenic composition comprising M. hyo bacterin, and at least one immunogenic active component of another disease-causing organism in swine, preferably PCV2 wherein the preferred PCV2 antigen for such a multivalent vaccine is PCV2 ORF 2 protein.
US09669085B2
The invention provides novel methods and compositions for the vaccination of porcine animals against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV). Described herein are immunological and/or vaccine compositions comprising a DNA vector encoding a PRRSV protein, particularly a truncated ORF7 protein, which are administered to porcines using needle-free delivery. The plasmid can include more than one nucleic acid molecule such that the plasmid can express more than one antigen. Also disclosed are methods for using and kits employing such compositions.
US09669082B2
The present invention provides a method of making a proteinase-engineered cancer vaccine for treating a cancer patient, especially for cancer patient at advanced/metastatic stage. The cancer vaccine comprises dead cancer cells with unbroken plasma membrane wherein the extracellular proteins and extracellular portion of membrane proteins are cleaved by proteinase digestion. The cancer vaccine may be derived from cancer cell lines or patients' cancer cells. The present invention provides a method of treating a cancer patient by administrating an effective amount of the cancer vaccine to the patient. In a clinical trial with 35 cancer patients, the cancer vaccine therapy brings cancer-free lives (no detectable tumor, micro tumor or cancer cells after treatments of customized cancer vaccines) back to 40% of these patients. The present invention further provides a method of obtaining cancer-specific immune components from blood of individuals treated with the cancer vaccine.
US09669079B2
The present invention relates to a immunogen comprising at least two fragments of Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), wherein at least two fragments comprise at least 8 consecutive amino acid residues of amino acid residues 150 to 170 and/or 205 to 225 of PCSK9 (SEQ ID NO:9).
US09669073B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition for promoting immune activity including a protein selected from the group consisting of dimeric proinsulin, C-peptide partially deleted mutant of dimeric proinsulin, and C-peptide partially deleted mutant of monomeric proinsulin as an effective component and a composition for immunosuppression including C-peptide site of proinsulin as an effective component, and the dimeric proinsulin, the C-peptide partially deleted mutant of dimeric proinsulin, and the C-peptide partially deleted mutant of monomeric proinsulin can be applied as immune enhancers to diabetic patients.
US09669068B2
Kits and methods for treating cancer comprising administration of a gliadin peptide to a patient are disclosed herein. A kit according to the invention comprises a pharmaceutical composition comprising a gliadin peptide and instructions for administering the peptide to a patient. The kit may further comprise a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one chemotherapeutic agent such as a receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor and instructions for co-administering the compounds. A method of treating cancer according to the invention comprises administering a gliadin peptide to a patient and may further comprise co-administering at least one chemotherapeutic agent such as a receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor. Co-administration of a gliadin peptide and receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor to a patient with cancer is effective to decrease or prevent resistance of the cancer to the receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
US09669062B2
A treatment regimen for psoriasis includes administering to a patient diagnosed with psoriasis periodic doses of a combination including Sheng Di Huang, Da Huang and Jin Yin Hua, or a combination of the above with Mu Dan Pi, Di Gu Pi, Xian He Cao and Chun Gen Pi.
US09669061B2
The invention belongs in the field of medicine and can be used in the treatment of chronic and asymptomatic trichomonas infections of the urogenital tract.The invention is consisted in development of new therapeutic substance of plant origin with minimal side effects for treatment of various forms of trichomonad infection.The new therapeutic substance, of plant origin, is an olive coloured paste. It is composed of a conifer green needle complex (CGNC) and has a coniferous smell and antiprotozoal activity against Trichomonas vaginalis (when tested in an in vitro model).At a concentration of 100 mg/ml CGNC has trichomonadocitic and trichomonadostatic properties. At 300 mg/ml it suppresses the growth of T. vaginalis and at 500 mg/ml it kills this organism.
US09669058B2
The present invention relates to the transient modification of cells. In particular embodiments, the cells are immune systems, such as PBMC, PBL, T (CD3+ and/or CD8+) and Natural Killer (NK) cells. The modified cells provide a population of cells that express a genetically engineered chimeric receptor which can be administered to a patient therapeutically. The present invention further relates to methods that deliver mRNA coding for the chimeric receptor to unstimulated resting PBMC, PBL, T (CD3+ and/or CD8+) and NK cells and which delivers the mRNA efficiently to the transfected cells and promotes significant target cell killing.
US09669056B2
A micronutrient supplement which is made by reacting together copper metal and either hydrochloric acid and/or cupric chloride under oxidizing conditions.
US09669047B2
Provided is a method for easily producing a polyphenol composition in a solid state having an excellent solubility in water. The method for producing the polyphenol composition comprises the following steps (1) and (2): (1) heating a mixture of a hardly water-soluble polyphenol (A) and a water-soluble polyphenol (B) to a temperature equal to or higher than the lowest melting point or glass transition temperature of the hardly water-soluble polyphenol (A) or the water-soluble polyphenol (B), thereby obtaining a heat-treated solution, and (2) cooling and solidifying the thus-obtained heat-treated solution.
US09669041B2
The present invention relates to bath compositions that may release nitric oxide when combined with an aqueous solution, thereby producing a nitric oxide releasing soak and/or bath. The present invention also relates to methods of using nitric oxide releasing bath compositions.
US09669040B2
Oral dosage forms of osteoclast inhibitors, such as nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions such as complex regional pain syndrome.
US09669034B2
The present invention relates to 4-aryl-N-phenyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-amines containing a sulfoximine group of general formula (I) or (Ia) as described and defined herein, and methods for their preparation, their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of disorders, in particular of hyper-proliferative disorders and/or virally induced infectious diseases and/or of cardiovascular diseases. The invention further relates to intermediate compounds useful in the preparation of said compounds of general formula (I) or (Ia).
US09669023B2
A solid oral controlled-release dosage form of hydrocodone is disclosed, the dosage form comprising an analgesically effective amount of hydrocodone or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and controlled release material.
US09669013B2
This invention relates to compounds (Formula (1)) that are agonists of the muscarinic M1 receptor and which are useful in the treatment of muscarinic M1 receptor mediated diseases. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and the therapeutic uses of the compounds. Compounds provided are of formula where R1-R5, X1, X2 and p are as defined herein.
US09669011B2
The invention provides methods for treating various conditions using derivatives of cyclopamine having the following formula:
US09669007B2
The invention relates to a process for producing an aqueous gel comprising hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, and a stabilizing agent selected from the metabisulfites. According to the invention, such a process comprises the steps of a) preparing a mixture comprising crosslinked or non-crosslinked hyaluronic acid and/or a salt thereof with a molar mass of between 1000 Da and 10 MDa, from 0.1 to 20.0% by weight of vitamin C in its acid form, or its equivalent in ascorbate derived from a vitamin C salt, from 0.01 to 1.00% by weight of a stabilizing agent selected from the metabisulfites, and an aqueous solution added so that the hyaluronic acid content is between 0.01 and 100 mg/ml, so as to form a hydrogel, and b) degassing the mixture before the hydrogel being formed is completely swollen.
US09669005B2
Naringenin is used for preparing products for preventing and/or treating abdominal aortic aneurysms. The products include drugs and/or health care products. The products were tested in two clinically associated abdominal aortic aneurysm disease models: using angiotensin II (1000 ng/kg/min) through subcutaneous submerging pump to induce ApoE knockout mice; and using calcium phosphate (0.5 M) to daub the abdominal aortas of locally induced C57 mice with abdominal aortic aneurysms. Experiments demonstrate that orally administered naringenin can significantly inhibit the onset and development of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in the CaPO4 daubed and AngII submerging pump induced mice. Thus, naringenin can be used in the treatment of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms.
US09669004B2
Provided are compositions for treatment of cancers, including breast cancer, comprising at least one novel daidzein analog, as well as methods of using the same for preventing or treating cancer or tumor growth.
US09669002B2
The invention relates to the use of one or more cannabinolds in the manufacture of medicaments for use in the treatment of diseases and conditions benefiting from neutral antagonism of the CB, cannabinoid receptor. Preferably the cannabinoid is tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV). Preferably the diseases and conditions to be treated are taken from the group: obesity, schizophrenia, epilepsy, cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer's, bone disorders, bulimia, obesity associated with type II diabetes (non-insulin dependant diabetes) and in the treatment of drug, alcohol and nicotine abuse or dependency.
US09669000B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising specific compounds which may be obtained from Leontopodium alpinum Cass. (Edelweiss). A preferred compound is leoligin (=(2S,3R,4R)-4-(3,4-dimethoxybenzyl)-2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)tetrahydrofuran-3-yl]methyl(2Z)-2-methylbut-2-enoat]). Corresponding means and methods in respect of medical uses of the compounds are described. The present invention also provides a medical device comprising, containing or having been contacted with the compound. The compounds provided herein may particularly be used in the treatment of hyperplastic diseases, in particular intimal hyperplasia, e.g. stenosis, restenosis, atherosclerosis and the like. Also envisaged herein is the use of these compounds in the treatment of proliferative diseases, such as leukemia, prostate cancer and lung cancer.
US09668999B2
Disclosed is a therapeutic management method of hypercholesterolemia in mammals. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of reducing high levels of circulating cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia) in the blood stream of mammals, said method involving step of administering therapeutically effective amounts of Calebin A to said mammals to bring about the effects of (i) reducing the amount of total blood cholesterol levels; (ii) reducing the concentrations of low density lipoproteins (LDL) and very low density lipoproteins (VLDL); (iii) increasing the concentrations of high density lipoproteins (HDL) and (iv) reducing concentrations of serum triglycerides.
US09668995B2
The invention relates to the use of compounds that enhance 5-hydroxytryptamine 1a receptor activity, or activation (e.g. a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine 1a receptor agonists) for preventing or reducing motor fluctuations associated with dopamine replacement therapy.
US09668994B2
Provided are compositions comprising beta-alanylhistidine peptides and/or beta-alanines, and methods for administering these peptides and amino acids. In one aspect, the compositions and methods cause an increase in the blood plasma concentrations of beta-alanine and/or creatine.
US09668993B2
A method of administering non-steroidal-anti-inflammatory drugs, in particular propionic acid derivatives such as ibuprofen, or acetaminophen is provided. This method provides improved therapeutic effect, in particular pain relief, over extended time periods.
US09668990B1
The present disclosure provides a novel pharmaceutical composition for treating a malignant pleural effusion (MPE), including a benzenesulfonamide derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. The present disclosure further provides a method for treating MPE by using the pharmaceutical composition.
US09668986B2
It is the object of the present invention a composition containing an N-acyl-ethanolamine in a solubilized form, particularly a solution for ophthalmic, intra-articular or intravesical use.Particularly, the present invention relates to a water-soluble composition comprising one or more N-acylethanolamines (NAE) in the form of an inclusion complex in methyl-beta-cyclodextrin (MβCD).
US09668977B2
The invention relates to a coating composition suitable for the coating of pharmaceutical or nutraceutical dosage form, comprising a core comprising one or more pharmaceutical or nutraceutical active ingredients, wherein the coating composition is comprising at least 20% by weight of an enteric core/shell polymer composition derived from an emulsion polymerization process, wherein the core of the core/shell polymer composition is formed by a water-insoluble, cross-linked polymer or copolymer and the shell of the core/shell polymer composition is formed by an anionic polymer or copolymer.
US09668966B2
The invention provides cosmetic compositions comprising microalgal biomass, whole microalgal cells, and/or microalgal oil in combination with one or more other cosmetic ingredients, and methods of making such compositions. In preferred embodiments, the microalgal components of the cosmetic compositions are derived from microalgal cultures grown heterotrophically and which comprise at least 10% oil by dry weight.
US09668945B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for mineralizing a dental surface or subsurface including providing a composition including stabilized ACP and a source of fluoride ions.
US09668939B2
An adaptor for coupling with a vial having a collar closed by a septum, the septum having an outer surface directed towards the outside of the vial, the adaptor comprising: a gripping member for securing the adaptor to the vial, the gripping member being capable of being laterally mounted on the collar of the vial and a pierceable elastomeric piece having at least a part intended to be in contact with the outer surface of the septum when the adaptor is secured on the vial. Also, an assembly including such an adaptor and a vial.
US09668923B2
Apparatus for attaching discrete segments together to form a continuous web include a first segment transfer device adapted to receive a first continuous web at a first pick-up location and to release a first discrete segment cut from the first web at an application location. The first segment transfer device has a first speed profile. A second segment transfer device is adapted to receive a second continuous web at a second pick-up location and to release a second discrete segment cut from the second web at the application location such that the second discrete segment is attached to the first discrete segment. The second segment transfer device has a second speed profile that is different than the first speed profile.
US09668913B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a disposable body warmer that exhibits sufficient physical properties (strength) of the inner bag during use, and that is excellent in biodegradability after use. The disposable body warmer is prepared by allowing an exothermic composition comprising potassium chloride and/or sodium chloride to be contained in an inner bag comprising an oxidative degradation agent.
US09668912B2
The invention relates to an inserter for an intrauterine system, comprising a handle (3) having a longitudinal opening (8) at its first end, said opening (8) having a longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the inserter, a first end (8a) and a second end (8b), a movable slider (5) arranged in said longitudinal opening (8) and having a first end (5a) and a second end (5b), a plunger (2) attached to the handle (3), an insertion tube (6) arranged around the plunger (2) having a first end and a second end, with its second end attached to the slider (5), wherein the inserter further comprises locking means for reversibly locking the intrauterine system in relation to the plunger (2) via a removal string of the intrauterine system, said locking means being controllable by the slider (5) and/or the insertion tube (6).
US09668910B2
A drainable ostomy pouch includes a collection portion and a drain chute portion extending from the collection portion and having a discharge opening for permitting emptying of contents from the pouch. The drain chute is foldable between an open condition in which the drain chute portion is extended from the collection portion, and a closed condition in which the drain chute portion is folded towards the collection portion. At least one flap retains the folded drain chute portion.
US09668909B1
A gastrojejunostomy tube is used when a patient's stomach must be bypassed, with nutrients and/or medication being delivered directly to the jejunum. In this situation, the stomach commonly fills with stomach acid and digestive enzymes, which may cause vomiting, acid reflux or other esophageal problems. The gastrojejunostomy drainage bag is provided to allow the contents of the stomach to be drained through the gastrojejunostomy tube, rather than building up within the patient's stomach. The gastrojejunostomy drainage bag includes a receptacle having a lower portion and an upper stem portion, the upper stem portion terminating in a port adapted for connection to the gastrojejunostomy tube. Preferably, a lower port is formed through the lower portion, allowing the contents of the gastrojejunostomy drainage bag to be selectively emptied. A method of releasing gas or trapped air from the stomach is also disclosed.
US09668902B1
A contouring arm and shoulder support is provided that is secured to a supporting and stabilizing belt. The support system comprises a belt support and an arm support that are operatively interconnected and yet easily disassociated. The arm support provides dynamic support that allows the patient to move their injured arm if needed.
US09668901B2
Intragastric fluid transfer devices and related methods for operation thereof are disclosed. The intragastric fluid transfer devices and related methods are intended to assist a patient in maintaining a healthy body weight by stimulating the inner stomach walls and/or the inner duodenum walls. Features of the intragastric fluid transfer device include insertion of the devices transorally and without invasive surgery, without associated patient risks of invasive surgery, and without substantial patient discomfort. The life span of these intragastric fluid transfer devices may be material-dependent upon long-term survivability within an acidic stomach, but is intended to last one year or longer.
US09668895B2
A stent formed by slitting a tube to create a matrix of struts, the slitted tube being radially expandable to a stenting disposition in which the struts exhibit a zig-zag pattern in successive loops around the circumference of the stent, the zig-zag pattern exhibiting a cusp between any two adjacent struts, with selected tied cusps of any one loop being connected by a bridge to a facing cusp of the adjacent loop and with intervening free cusps, characterized by lengthwise staggering of circumferentially adjacent said slits within said loops, wherein any two struts that are contiguous with a said tied cusp are of different lengths and any strut that extends from one free cusp to another free cusp has the same length as any other such strut such that, in the said stenting disposition, the free cusps of adjacent loops are circumferentially displaced from each other.
US09668877B2
A separate nub component between the plate and an intervertebral fusion cage, wherein the nub is attached to the plate. The nub lessens the undesired pivotal movement of the plate. It is believed that when the nub fits snugly between the endplates of the adjacent vertebral bodies, it acts as a stop against the undesired pivotal movement of the plate.
US09668867B2
Devices and methods for use in a hip replacement surgical procedure. One aspect includes methods and devices for reaming selective regions of the femoral canal. This may include reaming distal and proximal sections of the femoral canal prior to reaming a middle region of the canal. Another aspect includes a dummy implant and methods of use. The dummy implant is inserted into the femoral canal and may be used for one or more of retraction of the femur, gauging a space with the acetabulum, and further revising the femoral cut. The aspects may be used together in a single surgical procedure or separately in different surgical procedures.
US09668861B2
A vascular device for treating vein valve insufficiency including an elongated member, a first retention portion movable from a first elongated insertion position to an expanded position and a second retention portion movable from a first elongated insertion position to an expanded position. An intermediate looped portion is positioned between the first portion and the second portion. The valve is supported by the intermediate looped portion and is movable between an open position to allow blood flow therethrough and a closed position to inhibit blood flow therethrough. The intermediate looped portion is adjustable to loops of different diameters dependent on an inner diameter of the vessel wall.
US09668858B2
A prosthetic heart valve includes a collapsible and expandable stent extending from an inflow end to an outflow end and a plurality of prosthetic valve leaflets coupled to the stent. The prosthetic heart valve may also include a sealing ring coupled to the inflow end of the stent, the sealing ring comprising a tube extending circumferentially around the inflow end of the stent. The tube may be formed from a wire coiled into a repeating shape, such as a rectangle or a diamond, so that the tube is collapsible. A covering may at least partially surround the tube. The sealing ring may include a first filler positioned within the tube and/or a second filler positioned between the tube and the covering.
US09668842B2
An apparatus (100, 100′) is configured such that passage of a fluid (30) through an open port (136, 2604) of a distal probe tip (112, 112′) enables detection of a substance (116) that may be present on a surface (31, 33), e.g., a surface of a tooth, based on measurement of a signal correlating to a substance at least partially obstructing the passage of fluid (30) through the open port (136, 2604). The apparatus (100, 100′) includes a proximal pump portion (124) and at least one distal probe portion (110) configured to be immersed in another fluid (11), e.g., water in toothpaste foam. A corresponding system (3000) includes one or two such apparatuses (3100, 3200). A method of detecting the presence of a substance on a surface includes probing an interaction zone (17) for at least partial obstruction of flow of the fluid (30) through the distal probe tip (112, 112′). The distal probe tip (112, 112′) may have a structural configuration for preventing blocking of the open port (136, 2604). The distal probe tip (112, 112′) may also have a non-uniform wear profile. The at least one distal probe portion (110) may include two or multiple components to improve performance and reliability.
US09668836B2
The invention concerns a device (1) for editing a virtual 3-D model (2) of teeth (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) positioned in a dental arch (9, 11) by means of a virtual tool (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 50). The tool (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 50) can be used on a first tooth (2.1, 2.3) of the 3-D model (2), whereby the corresponding application is carried out on a second mirrored tooth (2.2, 2.4), contralateral to the first tooth with respect to a plane of symmetry (12), that is, on the tooth on the other side of the plane of symmetry (12), which is positioned as a mirror image of the first tooth (2.1, 2.3) with respect to the plane of symmetry (12).
US09668835B2
Disclosed herein are a tissue management impression material and a method of application into the sulcus of a patient, whereby the tissue management impression material is a part of the final dental impression made when manufacturing a dental device, such as a crown.
US09668833B2
The present invention relates to an abutment (10, 100), comprising: a ceramic part (12, 112); and a metal adapter (14, 114) removably attachable to the ceramic part, wherein the metal adapter has a conical connection interface (16) for attachment to a dental implant (18). The present invention also relates to a method of attaching an abutment (10) to a dental implant (18).
US09668824B2
A core for obturating a root canal includes a body that has a pre-formed contour that closely matches a contour of the root canal. When the core is inserted in the root canal with or without sealer, there are essentially no voids in the root canal. A method of making a customized root canal obturation core includes generating a three-dimensional image of a root canal. The method also includes manufacturing the customized root canal obturation core based on the three-dimensional image of the root canal. The customized root canal obturation core has a preformed contour that closely matches a contour of the root canal such that when the core is inserted in the root canal with or without sealer there are essentially no voids in the root canal.
US09668819B2
A system for image-guided surgery may include a visual imaging system, a medical tool comprising a shaft and a tip, wherein the shaft of the tool includes an optically detectable feature that allows a position of the tip to be determined, and a display configured to display a real-time representation of the medical tool including the position of the tip regardless of whether the tip is obstructed or visible.
US09668817B2
One aspect of the present disclosure involves a method. The method includes retrieving, from a diagnostic medical device, identification information that identifies a feature of the diagnostic medical device. A proprietary signal is generated in response to the identification information. The proprietary signal is sent to a medical measurement system to facilitate an unlocking of one or more programs to be executed on the medical measurement system. Another aspect of the present disclosure involves a method. The method includes detecting, through an electronic interface device, a coupling of a remote diagnostic medical device. Thereafter, a proprietary signal is received from the electronic interface device. An identity feature of the remote diagnostic medical device is ascertained based on the proprietary signal. One or more programs are unlocked for execution if the identity feature of the remote diagnostic medical device matches a predetermined identity feature.
US09668815B2
A surgical robot including a slave device provided with a surgical instrument includes a body having at least one link that includes a plurality of solenoid segments, and an end effector mounted to one end of the body.
US09668812B2
A microwave ablation system includes an antenna assembly configured to deliver microwave energy from an energy source to tissue and a coolant source operably coupled to the energy source and configured to selectively provide fluid to the antenna assembly via a fluid path. The system also includes a controller operably coupled to the energy source and a piezoelectric transducer operably coupled to the fluid path to detect a force of fluid flow through the fluid path. The piezoelectric transducer is configured to generate a signal based on the detected force of fluid through the fluid path. The controller is configured to control the energy source output based on the generated signal.
US09668808B2
A surgical instrument includes a shaft having a proximal end and a bifurcated distal end defining a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion. An end effector assembly is disposed at the distal end of the shaft and includes first and second jaw members. One (or both) of the jaw members is moveable relative to the other between an open position and a closed position for grasping tissue therebetween. Each of the jaw members defines an opposed jaw surface and is independently coupled to one of the first and second shaft portions. The first and second shaft portions are configured to flex relative to one another during movement of the jaw members to the closed position to grasp tissue therebetween such that the opposed jaw surfaces of the jaw members are disposed in substantially parallel orientation relative to one another when grasping tissue therebetween.
US09668805B2
An electrosurgical system comprising: a handpiece including: a first and second power connector; and one or more moveable members having a first and second position; and an activation circuit having a first and second switch state, wherein the activation circuit in the first switch state does not allow either a first or second electrosurgical therapy signal to exit the handpiece; wherein in the second switch state, and the one or more moveable members in the first position, the activation circuit allows the first electrosurgical therapy signal to exit the handpiece so that a first therapy current extends between the first and second power connectors, and wherein in the second switch state, and the one or more moveable members in the second position, the second electrosurgical therapy signal exits the handpiece so that a second therapy current extends between the first power connector and the second power connector.
US09668804B2
In an automated methodology for carrying out in vivo cell patch clamping, a cell patch clamping device is automatically moved into position and targeted to a neuron. Neuron contact is determined by analyzing the temporal series of measured resistance levels at the cell patch clamping device as it is moved. The difference between successive resistance levels is computed and compared to a threshold, which must be exceeded for a minimum number of computations before neuron contact is assumed. Pneumatic control methods are used to achieve gigaseal formation and cell break-in, leading to whole-cell patch clamp formation. An automated robotic system capable of performing this methodology automatically performs patch clamping in vivo, automatically detecting cells by analyzing the temporal sequence of electrode impedance changes. By continuously monitoring the patching process and rapidly executing actions triggered by specific measurements, the robot can rapidly find neurons in the living brain and establish recordings.
US09668798B2
A screw for fixation of, for example, a fracture having a hollow shaft, a first outer thread and radial openings at its distal end, and a second outer thread and an inner engagement portion at its proximal end. The second outer thread is adapted to engage with a tissue protection sleeve. The inner engagement portion is adapted to fit to a driving end of a driving tool. By way of this, forces in axial or radial direction may be applied to the screw by the sleeve, and forces in rotational direction may be applied by the driving tool. Therefore, the screw can be installed accurately at the intended site in an object.
US09668797B2
A bidirectional torque limiting driver with a handle, internal wall, movable head and a tool mounted thereon, with flexible torque limiting flex ramp(s) formed on said internal wall, whereby said ramps move under sufficient force to impart a predetermined torque to a tip is disclosed.
US09668794B2
The present disclosure relates to bone plates that are configured for use with bones having periprosthetic fractures. For example, in the event that a proximal femur is fractured in an area that is adjacent to a prosthetic component, such as a femoral stem used in a hip replacement, the periprosthetic bone plates of the present invention may be used. In one exemplary embodiment, the periprosthetic bone plates include a periprosthetic zone having a plurality of central apertures and a plurality of outer apertures that are offset from the central apertures. The periprosthetic zone may further include a plurality of indentations, each indentation extending longitudinally between adjacent outer apertures to narrow a width of the bone plate.
US09668792B2
An assembly for surgically treating a chest-wall deformity may include an implantable stabilizer member, an implantable pectus bar and an implantable stopping member. The implantable stabilizer member may include first and second base parts and a channel defined by the first and second base parts. The stabilizer member may include first and second retaining bars extending between the first and second base parts and traversing the channel. The first and second base parts may be adapted to be secured to tissue of the chest wall. The implantable pectus bar may be receivable within the channel of the stabilizer member. The implantable stopping member may be adapted to be engaged with the pectus bar between the first and second retaining bars after the pectus bar is inserted into the channel to restrict movement of the pectus bar relative to the tissue.
US09668789B2
A surgical instrument for reducing a rod into a saddle of a fixation member includes a distal end for engaging the saddle and a proximal end. A reducing device is disposed between the distal end and the proximal end. The reducing device is operative to reduce the rod into the saddle. The reducing device defines a throughbore. The throughbore provides access there through by a first drive member to secure a plug to the saddle.
US09668753B2
A surgical instrument is provided for cutting bone and other tissue. The surgical instrument is powered by a pressurized fluid and includes a rotatable shaft connected to a dissection tool. The instrument includes a housing member comprising a one-piece base. A rotor housing chamber is defined by the base, and the rotatable shaft is located in the rotor housing chamber. A first hearing housing is defined by the base, located adjacent the rotor housing chamber, and houses a first bearing that engages the rotatable shaft. A second bearing housing is defined by the base, located on an opposite side of the rotor housing chamber from the first bearing housing, and houses a second bearing that engages the rotatable shaft. A passage is defined by the base and operable to direct a pressurized fluid through the base to the rotor housing chamber in order to rotate the rotatable shaft.
US09668752B2
Methods for controlling and/or regulating of a compressed-gas-operable medical or dental drive device and a control and/or regulating device for performing such methods are described. In one method according to a first embodiment, a rotor of the drive device is operated at an essentially constant rotational speed (n1) by adjusting the gas pressure and/or the flow rate of the compressed gas through a valve and the rotational speed is reduced on reaching a pressure value (p2) of the compressed gas which is lower than the maximum gas pressure (pmax) of the compressed gas. In the case of a method according to a second embodiment, the gas pressure of the compressed gas and the rotational speed of the rotor are altered on reaching a rotational speed limit value (n2, n3) of the rotor by adjusting the valve.
US09668749B2
An axial height adjustable, revision cutting in the shape of a final distal femur implant component. The revision guide includes a rod adapted for intimate contact within an intramedullary canal of a femur, and includes a threaded passageway. The revision cutting guide is adapted for removable attachment to a distal portion of the femur. A vernier-bolt is rotatably positioned through the shaped body of the revision cutting guide so as to be adjustably received within the threaded passageway thereby providing for movement of the shaped body of the revision cutting guide relative to the distal portion of the femur.
US09668747B2
An orthopedic device for cutting or resurfacing an outer bone surface of a bone of a patient includes first and second guides. Each guide has a patient-specific surface preoperatively configured as a negative surface of a portion of the outer bone surface of the bone and a plurality of elongated slots. The elongated slots of the second guide are offset relative to the elongated slots of the first guide and configured for guiding a tool to resurface the outer bone surface.
US09668746B2
Adjustable allograft templates and methods of use are disclosed where a template for resecting a tissue region may generally comprise a template frame having a surface for contacting the tissue region and which defines an open area of tissue to be resected. A frame assembly along the template frame may be translatable relative to the template to adjust a size of the open area of tissue to be resected. One or more inner guidance slots may be defined along the frame such that the inner guidance slots are spaced relative to one another to define the tissue within the open area to be resected from a patient. Additionally, one or more outer guidance slots may also be defined along the frame and aligned adjacent to the inner guidance slots. The outer guidance slots may be spaced relative to one another to define the tissue to be resected from a donor.
US09668734B2
A stapling device is described which includes a tool assembly having an anvil assembly and a cartridge assembly movably supported in relation to the anvil assembly. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge body defining a tissue contact surface and a plurality of retention slots which open onto the tissue contact surface. The cartridge body defines a plurality of recesses wherein each of the recesses is associated with one of the plurality of retention slots. A staple magazine is positioned within each of the recesses, and includes a plurality of staples. At least one biasing member is supported adjacent each of the recesses and is positioned to urge the staple magazine towards a respective one of the retention slots. A plurality of pushers is movably supported within the cartridge body between a lower position and a raised position. Each of the plurality of pushers is positioned to engage and eject at least one of the staples of the staple magazine from the retention slots. The at least one biasing member is positioned to obstruct movement of the pusher from the lower position to the raised position after the plurality of staples of the staple magazine have been ejected from a respective one of the retention slots.
US09668733B2
A surgical device includes a handle assembly, an elongated body, and a tool assembly. The handle assembly includes an actuation assembly operatively associated with an actuation shaft to advance the actuation shaft and configured to prevent advancement of the actuation shaft when the actuation shaft is in a fully retracted position and a moveable handle is in a non-compressed position and/or to prevent advancement of the actuation shaft when a grasping pawl is extended within a grasping slot of the actuation shaft. The actuation shaft including a vertical pawl locking surface near a distal end configured to engage a locking notch of a vertical pawl. The actuation assembly including a grasping pawl having a radial detent configured to engage a proximal surface of a grasping slot of the actuation shaft when the grasping pawl is positioned within the grasping slot.
US09668732B2
A handle assembly for a surgical stapler can comprise a rotatable actuation shaft. The actuation shaft can have a first rotational orientation in which it can actuate a jaw assembly in a repeatable open and close mode, a second rotational orientation in which it can actuate a jaw assembly in a staple firing mode, and a third rotational orientation in which it can actuate a jaw assembly in a reversing mode. The handle assembly can include a rotational mechanism arranged to discretely position the rotatable actuation shaft in one of the rotational orientations. The rotational mechanism can be arranged for single handed operation such as by including a slidable switch or selector to rotate the actuation shaft.
US09668727B2
A trocar wound closure system includes a suture passing needle and a guide for directing the needle through the wound site. A distal portion of the needle includes a capture rod with a slot. An obturator tube with a cutout section can be axially actuated to align the cutout section with the slot, and then moved out of alignment so as to capture the suture. The guide includes at least two tracks for directing the needle through the tissue track. A snare loop is located adjacent to the exit of each track, and configured to be actuated from a radially extended configuration to a retracted configuration so as to capture the suture section inserted through each loop. Radially expandable arms at distal section are movable between an expanded configuration and a slender configuration.
US09668723B2
A laparoscopic surgical system configured for cooperation with a trocar is described. In one configuration, the system is configured to expand to accommodate trocars of varying dimensions. In another configuration, which is not necessarily exclusive of the first configuration, the system may function to provide an anchoring and closure system for use in laparoscopic surgery.
US09668716B2
A method of ultrasound imaging includes acquiring plural groups of ultrasound data sets in an imaged volume that at least partially encompasses an object. The groups of ultrasound data sets include ultrasound image data obtained by transmitting one or more ultrasound pulses from one or more transducer elements into different zones of the imaged volume. The method also includes arranging the ultrasound data sets into one or more temporal groups based on when the ultrasound data sets are acquired. The ultrasound data sets in each temporal group are acquired during a common time period. The method further includes constructing a three-dimensional image of the object based on the ultrasound data sets in at least one of the temporal groups.
US09668715B2
Provided are an acoustic probe and a method of manufacturing the acoustic probe including a chip module substrate, a piezoelectric unit for cross-converting ultrasound and an electric signal while the piezoelectric unit is vibrating, and a connection unit for supporting the piezoelectric unit and electrically connecting the piezoelectric unit and the chip module substrate.
US09668711B2
Systems and methods for breast x-ray tomosynthesis that enhance spatial resolution in the direction in which the breast is flattened for examination. In addition to x-ray data acquisition of 2D projection tomosynthesis images ETp1 over a shorter source trajectory similar to known breast tomosynthesis, supplemental 2D images ETp2 are taken over a longer source trajectory and the two sets of projection images are processed into breast slice images ETr that exhibit enhanced spatial resolution, including in the thickness direction of the breast. Additional features include breast CT of an upright patient's flattened breast, multi-mode tomosynthesis, and shielding the patient from moving equipment.
US09668707B2
A mobile radiation imaging apparatus includes: an irradiation unit that emits radiation; a moving unit that moves with the irradiation unit; an imaging unit that takes an image of an object irradiated with radiation and is able to transmit the image via the wireless communication or the wired communication; an obtaining unit that obtains information indicating in which area the moving unit is located among a wired communication area, a wirelessly communicable area, and a switching area for switching between the wireless communication and the wired communication; and a control unit that switches the communication with the imaging unit depending on the obtained information.
US09668703B2
A patient monitor for displaying a physiological signal can include a visual element having a middle portion indicative of a transition in the physiological signal between physiological states. The visual element can also include first and second extremity portions, the first extremity portion extending from the middle portion in a first direction and the second extremity portion extending from the middle portion in a second direction. The visual element can also include an actionable value indicator to specify a value about the middle portion and the first and second extremity portions. The patient monitor can also include a processor configured to cause the value indicator to actuate in both the first and second directions according to changes in the physiological signal.
US09668700B2
Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient with coronary artery disease. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart and create a model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create, for a given level of physical activity, a physics-based model of blood flow through the patient's heart simulated during a selected level of physical activity; determine and normalize one or more values of at least one blood flow characteristic within the patient's heart during the simulated level of physical activity; and compare the one or more normalized values of the at least one blood flow characteristic to a threshold to determine whether the level of physical activity exceeds an acceptable level of risk.
US09668698B2
The present invention relates to a monitoring device (10) comprising a light source (14) for emitting light into a body part (12) of a living being; a light sensor (18) for receiving light (16) including an ambient light component (30) and a measurement light component (32) resulting from interactions of said emitted light with said body part (12) and for generating an output signal (34), wherein a transfer function describes the relation between the output signal (34) and the received light; an ambient light cancellation unit (20) for separating the output signal (34) into a first signal portion (36) corresponding to the ambient light component (30) and a second signal portion (38) corresponding to the measurement light component (32); and an ambient light modulation removal unit (22) for compensating a variation of the ambient light component (30) by demodulating the second signal portion (38) based on the transfer function (f) and the first signal portion (36) to generate a measurement signal (40).
US09668692B2
The identification of obstructed breathing, including an apnea condition and a hypopnea condition, is disclosed. A signal representative of a flow rate of therapeutic gas being delivered to the patient is received. A peak flow value and a minimum flow value over a predetermined time window encompassing a plurality of respiration cycles is derived. A polynomial difference equation from the peak flow values and the minimum flow values is generated, and a respiration index from a minimum of the polynomial difference equation is derived. The apnea and/or hypopnea condition is indicated based upon a comparison of the respiration index to a predefined obstruction threshold over a predefined obstruction time period.
US09668691B2
The invention relates to a method of measuring the elasticity and firmness of skin. The invention also relates to methods of measuring improvements in a person's skin health by measuring firmness and elasticity before, during and after a cosmetic treatment. The invention further relates to methods of measuring the improvement in a person's skin firmness and elasticity that a cosmetic agent may cause when applied on the skin.
US09668686B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided that enable the sensing of an analyte level within, e.g., the dermal layer of the skin of a subject. These systems, devices, and methods can utilize modalities that increase perfusion in an area local to a dermal sensor.
US09668673B2
A system for automatically predicting acute airway events in patients, comprising: a device for measuring the respiratory impedance of a human subject during a plurality of respiratory cycles of said human subject; said respiratory impedance comprising a real part and an imaginary part; said device measuring said respiratory impedance two times per day to provide a plurality of measurements; means for calculating the relative variation of said plurality of measurements; means for evaluating the probability of respiratory pathology presence in the subject under examination when the value of the imaginary part of said impedance is greater than 35%; means for predicting a relapse in the patent under examination within an established future time window, once the presence of the pathology has been ascertained, if the variation coefficient of the real part of said impedance is greater than 0.4.
US09668670B2
An endorectal coil (1) includes a tube (40), a spreader (44), and one or more electrically conductive elements (64). The tube (40) is configured for insertion into the rectum (42). The spreader (44) is configured to be positioned at a distal end of the tube (40) and mechanically spread to compress surrounding tissue after the tube (40) is inserted. The one or more electrically conductive elements (64) are tuned to receive magnetic resonance data disposed on at least one of the tube (40), the spreader (44), and adjacent the tube and spreader.
US09668666B2
In a system and method for reconstructing cardiac activation information, an analysis cardiac signal and a reference cardiac signal are accessed and processed to determine a first point of change in the analysis cardiac signal at which a derivative of the analysis cardiac signal diverges with respect to a derivative of the reference cardiac signal. The signals are processed to determine a second point of change in the analysis cardiac signal at which a different derivative of the analysis cardiac signal with respect to a different derivative of the reference cardiac signal. An activation onset time is assigned in the analysis cardiac signal at a point based on a mathematical association of the first point of change and the second point of change to define cardiac activation indicating a beat in the analysis cardiac signal.
US09668665B2
Methods and devices for accelerating the identification of arrhythmias in implantable medical devices. Following identification of a potential arrhythmia onset condition, such as by identifying a plurality of closely coupled detected events, a retrospective pattern recognition analysis is performed to seek out a possible onset comprising a Torsades de Pointes. Although the methods and devices are designed to target Torsades de Pointes, wider application to other arrhythmia onset conditions is contemplated as well.
US09668655B2
A temperature probe for monitoring temperatures of a surface of a tissue or organ within the body of a subject includes a section with a substantially two-dimensional arrangement and a plurality of temperature sensors positioned across an area defined by the substantially two-dimensional arrangement. Such an apparatus may be used in conjunction with procedures in which thermal techniques are used to diagnose a disease state or treat diseased tissue. Specifically, a temperature probe may be used to monitor temperatures across an area of a surface of a tissue or organ located close to the treated tissue to prevent subjection of the monitored tissue or organ to potentially damaging temperatures.
US09668648B2
The invention relates to a pair of spectacles (1) comprising a frame (2), said frame (2) having at least one lens-receiving opening (3) for a lens, and having a right nose section (5) of the frame and a left nose section (6) of the frame, wherein a right eye-capturing camera (7) is arranged in the right nose section (5) of the frame, and a left eye-capturing camera (8) is arranged in the left nose section (6) of the frame.
US09668646B2
An eye-mountable device can include a transparent material and a substrate at least partially embedded in the transparent material. The transparent material can have a concave surface and a convex surface, with the concave surface configured to removably mount the eye-mountable device on a corneal surface overlaying a pupil. A light source can be disposed on the substrate and configured to emit light through the concave surface and towards the corneal surface such that the emitted light is viewable through the pupil. The light source can be controlled by circuitry disposed on the substrate. The circuitry can be configured to modulate the light emitted by the light source to provide modulated light.
US09668644B2
A floatation-volume adequacy determining system including a receiving unit; an image processing unit; an adequacy determining unit; and a display unit. The receiving unit receives an actual image that is taken by a capsule medical apparatus that is floating in a liquid in the direction toward the liquid level. The image processing unit generates a determination reference image that represents an adequate range of a floatation volume of the capsule medical apparatus adjusted to the actual image that is taken by the capsule medical apparatus. An adequacy determining unit compares the determination reference image and the actual image with each other and determines whether the floatation volume of the capsule medical apparatus is adequate. The display unit displays a result of determining whether the floatation volume of the capsule medical apparatus is adequate.
US09668642B2
The present invention provides a decoupling and coupling type medical instrument which includes a bending deformation portion and a manipulation unit. The medical instrument is excellent in operability while preventing removal, cutting and the like of a wire of the bending deformation portion. A medical instrument which satisfies 0
US09668639B2
A bronchoscope adapter is configured for one hand operation by providing a slide lock that is captured within a housing and a retaining nut that can be operated with a single finger or thumb. Rotation of the retaining nut is eased by isolating rotational force from a compression block with a spacer ring.
US09668637B2
A nozzle assembly for spraying wash water at an inside a washing tub and a dishwasher having the same, the nozzle assembly including a nozzle configured to rotate on a rotating axis thereof, an inside rotor having a shape of a cylinder and configured to rotate according to a rotation of the nozzle while coupled to the rotating axis, and an outside rotor case having a larger radius than a radius of the inside rotor to accommodate the inside rotor therein, and having an opening hole through which the rotating axis passes, and the rotating axis of the nozzle revolves around a circumference of the opening hole.
US09668636B2
A dishwasher with multiple physically separate treating chambers includes an air supply system selectively supplying drying air to the treating chambers, and a drying air exhaust system selectively removing drying air from the treating chambers. A method for operating a dishwasher selectively supplies heated drying air to and exhausts drying air from at least one treating chamber.
US09668627B2
A robot cleaner drives various brushes using a single motor. The robot cleaner includes a main body having a suction port, a main brush rotatably disposed in the suction port, an auxiliary brush rotatably disposed adjacent to the main brush and at least one side brush rotatably installed to move dust to the suction port, wherein the main brush, the auxiliary brush, and the at least one side brush are driven by a single motor in an interlocking fashion.
US09668618B1
A pouch for liquid bathing products suitable for dispensing liquid bathing products and directing the products upward, where the pouch is made of flexible and non-resilient or low-resilience materials, has bilateral symmetry, a shoulder, a base, a two sides, with a gripping portion, and a nozzle approximately centered on the shoulder to dispense the liquid bathing product; the base is sufficiently flat to rest on a flat surface and allow the pouch to stand up-right, and the nozzle is perpendicular to the base.
US09668601B1
The glove dispensing device enables the placement of a glove on a glove retainer. The placement of the glove on the glove retainer at least partially seals the glove with the glove retainer. The user activates a vacuum that draws the glove into a housing of the glove dispensing device. The vacuum inverts the glove thus opening the glove to allow placement of the user's hand within the glove. The user may then remove his hand with the glove from the glove retainer. To assist with removing the glove from the glove retainer, the glove dispensing device provides a release toggle stored within the glove retainer. The user adjusts the release toggle to break the seal of the glove with the glove retainer. Breaking the seal overcomes the pressure applied to the glove from the vacuum. Thus, the glove is applied to the user's hand and ready for use.
US09668599B1
A drinking container has a spinner mechanism that includes a spinner housing for providing a spinner chamber. A spinner disk fits securely within the spinner chamber when rotatably mounted therein. The spinner mechanism includes a fluid input through the chamber perimeter surface, and a fluid outlet for allowing the liquid out of the spinner chamber once it has contacted the spinner disk. A jet nozzle directs a liquid from the fluid input across top and bottom surfaces of the spinner disk. The spinner disk does not include paddles, but relies primarily on viscous and adhesive forces to transfer energy from the flowing liquid to the surface of the spinner disk.
US09668591B2
A display has at least one pair of revolving door panels hinged to a box frame by means of hinging means actuated by actuation means intended to permit the synchronous movement of the door panels of the pair of door panels.
US09668588B2
A mattress retention assembly is disclosed that includes a mattress retainer system for retaining a mattress in place that is supported by an adjustable platform assembly and more particularly to a mattress retainer system that includes mattress retainer bars. The mattress retainer system is attached to the adjustable platform assembly. In order to secure the mattress relative to the adjustable platform assembly, one or more mattress retainer bars for the head and foot of the bed along with the corners of the bed are provided. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the mattress retainer bars are movable or removable to allow the mattress retainer bars to be positioned flush or below the top surface of the adjustable platform assembly to enable easy and convenient rotation, maneuverability, or otherwise sliding of the mattress relative to the platform. After the mattress is rotated, maneuvered, or slid, the mattress retainer is re-positioned to restrain movement of the mattress with respect to the adjustable platform assembly.
US09668584B2
Mediation sitting cushions and mats allow the user to meditate in comfort for great lengths of time, avoiding stress and pain often caused by traditional meditation cushions and mats. The layered mediation sitting cushions and mats combine a slow recovery visco-elastic foam (“VEF”), having load deformation properties and densities, with one or more base layers of a batting support. The sitting cushions and mats enable a person seated in traditional meditative positions to achieve a comfortable posture, regardless of the meditator's size or weight. The sitting cushions and mats also allow people to meditate in traditional cross-legged or kneeling postures comfortably, without irritation or pain. The mediation sitting cushions and mats also maintain of the pelvis in a neutral or slightly anterior position, resulting in proper alignment of the pelvis and spine, which minimizes the muscular and ligamentous strain caused by sitting in stillness for long periods of time.
US09668574B2
A fixture adapted for attachment to a movable surface, for retaining or storing elongated objects, includes a set of two fixture members. Each fixture member has (a) at least a leg portion for attaching to the movable surface; and (b) a body portion adapted to include one or more openings extending therethrough. At least one opening is adapted for receiving one end of an elongated object. The surface is movable from a first position that is within reach of a user to a second position that is out of reach of, but is accessible by, the user such that the fixture allows for utilization of limited space.
US09668573B2
A modular rack for storing wine bottles comprising a plurality of base frames, said base frames being rectangular and provided in a center thereof with a circular hole and in a periphery thereof with a plurality of slots, a plurality of support rods provided in a periphery thereof with a plurality of slots; and said plurality of slots capable of coupling with any other of said plurality of slots when mated perpendicularly thus forming a friction-lock.
US09668569B2
Described is an industrial brush (1) comprising a brush body (2) obtained by the solidification of a metal in which the metal wires are locked in a rigid fashion for a first portion (3) thereby having a rigid body.The second portion of metal wires (4) is, on the other hand, free to perform brushing when the brush body (2) is rotated about a relative axis (5).The brush body (2) incorporates the metal wires with a structural coupling (with zero tolerance) which keeps unaltered the relative characteristics over time, with heat variations and at high speeds of rotation.It is also possible to construct the elements of traditional brushes with the same metal and a process is described for constructing new geometrical shapes for producing brushes with synthetic and natural wires with the traditional systems.Also described is a process for making a brush (1) comprising the steps of feeding in a mold (8) a metal in the molten state (melting temperature less than 2000° C.), in such a way that the first portion of the metal wires (3) is immersed in the metal which, when solidifying, forms a brush body with a rigid structure with a high mechanical strength such as to render perfectly stable the operation of the brush at high speeds and at high temperatures.During solidification of the molten metal there is also a heat treatment on the metal wires which improves their mechanical characteristics.Flanges, outer cups and inner cups with innovative embodiments can also be made with the same molding process, improving the characteristics of the traditional brushes.
US09668565B2
An applicator for a cosmetic product, in particular mascara, comprises a twisted core and fibres which extend from the core and are retained by the core, the core extending in a main longitudinal direction, referred to as the main axis (X), the core being rectilinear along the main axis (X), and the fibres forming an envelope (E) with their free ends. The envelope (E) has four faces (F1-F4), the faces (F1-F4) each having a plane of symmetry comprising the main axis (X), each of the four faces (F1-F4) being generated by a straight line, referred to as a generating line, orthogonal to the main axis (X) and orthogonal to the plane of symmetry of the face (F1-F4), at least two consecutive faces (F1, F2) of the four faces (F1-F4) having a curved profile along the main axis (X).
US09668562B2
The present invention relates to an airless cosmetic container capable of discharging cosmetic product content in various patterns, and more particularly, an airless cosmetic container for enabling a user to select a cosmetic product content inside two storage containers provided inside a cosmetic container body and discharge content from only one container, or for allowing dispersed discharge through discharge holes from a mixing member when two types of cosmetic product contents are discharged simultaneously, thereby allowing the user to apply makeup with a single push. The discharge holes formed through the mixing member may be formed into various patterns to allow the cosmetic product content, to be discharged into various patterns, thereby providing aesthetic impression to consumers.
US09668556B2
Implementations of the present disclosure disclose an adjustable display housing assembly. According to one implementation, the adjustable display housing assembly comprises a base housing and a display panel housing. Furthermore, a first hinge is attached to the base housing and a moveable arm extends from the first hinge at a first end to a second hinge at an end opposite the first end. In addition, a flexible mounting plate is included to attach the second hinge to the display housing. When the display housing is placed in a closed position, a pivot point associated with the second hinge is retracted by the flexible mounting plate. And when the display housing is placed in a first viewing position, the pivot point associated the second hinge extends away from the display housing.
US09668555B2
A water resistant device case includes a front and back assembly that mate to enclose an electronic device. The front assembly includes a rigid front frame, a touch screen cover bonded to the front frame, an inner bumper attached to the rigid front frame and an elastomeric main seal attached around a periphery of the rigid front frame. The back assembly includes a rigid back frame, an elastomeric over mold formed on an exterior of the black frame and an inner bumper attached to the rigid back frame. A snap tab attached to the rigid back frame mates with a snap hook on the front assembly to hold the front and back assemblies together when the device is enclosed within the case. A main water resistant seal is formed around a perimeter of the front and back assemblies by the elastomeric main seal on the front assembly being held against an inner surface of the rigid back frame. A secondary water resistant seal is formed around a perimeter of the front and back assemblies by an elastomeric secondary sealing member attached around a periphery of the rigid front frame that mates with an exterior surface of the back assembly to form a secondary water resistant seal. A closed cell foam is used to seal apertures associated with the device's audio inputs and outputs.
US09668554B2
An umbrella has a plurality of ribs attached to a runner by main struts. The umbrella has an anti-inversion mechanism formed of a plurality of anti-inversion struts. Each anti-inversion strut is pivotally coupled to one respective main strut and is pivotally connected to a floating joint member that is freely movable along a length of one respective rib. The anti-inversion mechanism also includes a stop that is fixedly attached to the rib and restricts the degree of travel of the floating joint member along the rib and is positioned to prevent the respective rib from inverting in response to an applied force.
US09668553B2
An umbrella has a plurality of ribs attached to a runner by main struts. The umbrella has an anti-inversion mechanism formed of a plurality of anti-inversion struts. Each anti-inversion strut is pivotally coupled to one respective main strut and is pivotally connected to a floating joint member that is freely movable along a length of one respective rib. The anti-inversion mechanism also includes a stop that is fixedly attached to the rib and restricts the degree of travel of the floating joint member along the rib and is positioned to prevent the respective rib from inverting in response to an applied force.
US09668548B2
A slider for a slide fastener is provided which is capable of quickly fastening and unfastening the slide fastener in a remote operation manner. A string having pull tabs on longitudinally opposite sides is fixed to a body of the slider for a slide fastener such that the string is not moved in the longitudinal direction.
US09668543B2
A lasting board for an article of footwear. The lasting board has a forefoot portion, a midfoot portion, and a heel portion and includes a first material and a second material that is different from the first material. The forefoot portion is monolithic and is constructed of the first material that is a non-woven fabric. The midfoot portion and the heel portion have an upper layer, a lower layer, and an intermediate layer between the upper layer and the lower layer. The intermediate layer is constructed of the second material, and the upper layer and the lower layer are constructed of the first material. A cushioning member made of a third material different from the first material and the second material is disposed within the heel portion of the lasting board.
US09668537B2
An orthotic device for insertion into footwear for correcting over pronation or supination of a foot is disclosed herein. The orthotic device may include an insole comprising an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface of the insole may receive and support at least a portion of the foot. The orthotic device also may include a removable angle insert attachable to the lower surface of the insole. The removable angle insert may increase an angle about a side of the insole to correct over pronation or supination of the foot.
US09668534B2
A shoe including a sole assembly; an upper including a first envelope that includes a lower portion designed to surround the foot of a user; and an upper portion designed to surround the ankle or the ankle and a portion of the lower leg of the user; and an information transmission band that includes a first portion affixed to the sole assembly and/or the lower portion of the first envelope by a connection device, such as stitches; and a second portion designed to wrap around the upper portion of the first envelope, extending the first portion and including a first fastening device that cooperates with a second fastening device affixed to the upper portion of the first envelope.
US09668531B2
Integrating dynamic materials into articles for adjustable physical characteristics (e.g., aesthetic, functional) can include various systems and methods. For example, in response to a human's body heat, a dynamic material may change shape to allow additional permeability in an article of clothing. Similarly, in response to the presence of moisture, an article of clothing may change shape to prevent the introduction of rain into an internal portion of the article. Additionally, it is contemplated that the shape changing material may change shape that affects a geometric structure of the article as a whole (e.g., protrusions, dimples, vents, etc.).
US09668528B1
A U-shaped novelty head crown is provided which includes a single head engaging member adapted to be worn on a wearer's head. The novelty head-crown is made of a light weight material that is flexible in nature so that the U-shaped head engaging member may be fitted on the wearer's head without necessity for straps, clasps, or hooks. The method of design and operation of the U-shaped crown is vital to its new result in that the top of the head is to protrude from the center opening of the U-shaped crown so that the product does not cover the top of the head but rather fits around the side of the head.
US09668514B2
A tobacco smoking mixture and/or a cigarette wrapper with high-temperature ammonia-release agents therein are provided, wherein the high-temperature ammonia-release agents are present in an amount effective to reduce the cytotoxicity of gas phase or particulate matter formed during smoking of the cigarette. The high-temperature ammonia-release agents are capable of reducing the cytotoxicity of gas phase or particulate matter by evolving ammonia at temperatures greater than about 200° C., wherein the ammonia can interact with the particulate matter. Additionally, the high-temperature ammonia-release agents can be formed by heating an aqueous mixture of an iron precursor compound, an ammonia source compound and an acid.
US09668512B2
A continuous food frying device includes a first heating unit, a conveyance unit, a uniformizing unit, and a second heating unit. The first heating unit stirs and heats a food charged therein from a charging port of a drum member. The conveyance unit conveys a food discharged from a discharging port of the drum member. The uniformizing unit makes the thickness of the food substantially uniform. The second heating unit blows hot air onto the food from injection ports.
US09668508B2
The present invention relates to a dietary supplement dosing device that can be connected to a source of water to enable dosing of dietary supplement to water at the time of dispensing. The dietary supplement dosing device is capable of dosing controlled amounts of the dietary supplement to water upon being dispensed for consumption by fitting it to a faucet and the dietary supplement dosed water is free of color, taste and odor and with beneficial amounts of dietary supplement. A dietary supplement dosing device comprises a flow distribution unit and a dietary supplement cartridge and the dietary supplement cartridge can be designed to deliver the dietary supplement from a source which is either in the solid or liquid form.
US09668503B2
A method of manufacturing an oral product includes creating a matrix from a plurality of capsules, a powdered component, a viscous component and a binder and molding the matrix into a shape. In a preferred embodiment, the capsules provide functional and flavorful ingredients. In an embodiment, the matrix is enclosed in a porous material that forms a pouch.
US09668502B2
The invention overcomes the deficiencies of the art by providing a soybean plant with non-transgenic mutations conferring decreased α-subunit of β-conglycinin content and increased α′-subunit content of β-conglycinin in seed. Moreover, the invention provides an agronomically elite soybean plant with non-transgenic mutations conferring a gyclinin null phenotype, increased β-conglycinin content, and increased α′-subunit content of β-conglycinin in the seed. The invention also provides derivatives, and plant parts of these plants and uses thereof. Methods for producing such plants are also provided.
US09668495B2
Disclosed is a green tea beverage packed in a container which has a strong fire odor (savory odor), yet gives a refreshing aftertaste and can be drunk delectably even in a cold state. Specifically disclosed is a green tea beverage packed in a container characterized in that the saccharide concentration thereof, which is the sum of the monosaccharide concentration and the disaccharide concentration, is 100 to 300 ppm and the ratio of the disaccharide concentration to the monosaccharide concentration (disaccharides/monosaccharides) is 10 to 28. It is preferred that the ratio of catechins with electron localization to said saccharide concentration (catechins with electron localization/saccharides) is 1.0 to 2.5.
US09668492B2
In a device for manufacturing co-extruded food products with a filling machine, including a pump for an inner mass coupled to a drive and a control unit at least for the drive, to which a coextrusion unit disposed at the outside is connected, and to which a pump being coupled to a drive at least for delivering the outer mass to the coextrusion unit is connected. The drive of the outer mass pump is integrated into the inner mass filling machine.
US09668489B2
The present invention relates to the production of wafers and more particularly to the use of a batter aerating system to obtain wafers with an effective density of at most 0.16 g/cm3, and with sufficient strength to be able to remove them from the wafer baking plates.
US09668487B2
A portioning device is provided for use in cutting or leveling a food product. The portioning device comprises a handle section that is configured to be manipulated by a user, a leg section and a blade. The handle section includes an arm configured to receive a leg, a sleeve configured to slide over a portion of the arm, and an arm connector pivotally coupled to the arm. The leg section is configured to support the portioning device on a surface. The leg section includes a blade holder configured to hold an end of a blade portion, and a leg lock configured to adjustably lock the leg in a position. The blade is configured to cut an object.
US09668481B2
The present invention relates to novel triazole derivatives, to processes for preparing these compounds, to compositions comprising these compounds, and to the use thereof as biologically active compounds, especially for control of harmful microorganisms in crop protection and in the protection of materials and as plant growth regulators.
US09668477B2
The invention relates to active compound combinations, in particular within a composition, which comprises (A) an amidine compound of formula (I) and a further fungicidally (B). Moreover, the invention relates to a method for curatively or preventively controlling the phytopathogenic fungi of plants, to the use of a combination according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated seed.
US09668473B2
A process for obtaining biopolymeric nanoparticles containing Azadirachta indica A. Juss (Neem) is described, which comprises, in Phase I, in (10), preparing an aqueous emulsion of Neem oil and extracts, in Phase II, in (20), preparing a biopolymer solution in organic solvent, followed by mixture of both Phases I and II, and, in Phase III, in (30), preparing an aqueous emulsion of a surfactant and adding it to the Phase I and II mixture, affording a nanoparticle suspension which is stabilized. Biopolymeric nanoparticles and powder microparticles obtained are also described.
US09668458B2
A dog harness comprising, an open ended prosternum loop and an open ended sternum loop that are angularly interconnected so as to form first and second harness apexes adapted to be positioned over the shoulders of a dog, first and second web loops attached to the respective first and second apexes, each having a slip buckle for adjusting the size of the loop, and a single side release buckle slidingly engaging the first and second web loops for interconnecting the loops over the dog's withers.
US09668451B2
A stevia cultivar, designated ‘814011’, is disclosed. The invention relates to the plant parts of stevia cultivar ‘814011’, to the plants of stevia ‘814011’ and to methods for producing a stevia plant produced by crossing the cultivar ‘814011’ with itself or another stevia variety, including methods using marker assisted breeding. The invention further relates to hybrid stevia seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar ‘814011’ with another stevia cultivar.
US09668446B1
A novel sorghum variety designated PHLQVZQ and seed, plants, plant parts and plant cells thereof are produced from a cross of inbred sorghum varieties. Methods for producing a sorghum plant by crossing hybrid sorghum variety PHLQVZQ with another sorghum plant and methods for producing a sorghum plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHLQVZQ through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the sorghum seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Sorghum variety PHLQVZQ, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of sorghum variety PHLQVZQ are provided.
US09668443B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH149936. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH149936, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH149936 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH149936.
US09668442B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH151282. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH151282, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH151282 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH151282.
US09668441B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XB23W14 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB23W14, cells from soybean variety XB23W14, plants of soybean XB23W14, and plant parts of soybean variety XB23W14. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB23W14 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB23W14, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB23W14, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB23W14. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB23W14 are further provided.
US09668427B2
The battery-powered blower includes a housing assembly including a first housing portion having a first inner surface, a second housing portion having a second inner surface, and connected to the first housing portion, and a third housing portion connected to the second portion. The third housing portion has a side outer surface configured to receive a battery. The battery is mountable to the side outer surface of the third housing portion. The second housing portion in connection with to the first housing portion forms an inner chamber therebetween. A fan is provided in the inner chamber to facilitate airflow through the housing assembly and out an outlet, and a motor is provided intermediate to the second housing portion and the third housing portion. The center of gravity with respect to the overall blower is provided proximate to a handle portion.
US09668401B2
A planting apparatus includes a chassis and a row unit carried by the chassis. The row unit includes a unit body carried by the chassis; a metering device carried by the unit body; at least one furrowing disc carried by the unit body; at least one pressing wheel carried by the unit body behind the furrowing disc in a direction of travel; a travel arm carried by and pivotally movable relative to the unit body that defines a travel path; at least one closing disc positioned behind the at least one furrowing disc and in front of the at least one pressing wheel in the direction of travel and pivotally movable along the travel path by the travel arm; and a stop placed in the travel path of the travel arm that is configured to limit a vertical travel of the at least one closing disc.
US09674994B2
A wiring harness (10) for connecting a first device and a second device includes a first shield connector (20) to be connected to the first device, a second shield connector (30) to be connected to the second device, wires (40) arranged between the first shield connector (20) and the second shield connector (30), and a shield (50) made of an electrically conductive metal cloth. After the wires (40) are arranged between the first shield connector (20) and the second shield connector (30), the sheet-like shield (50) is mounted to cover the wires (40), thereby shielding between the first and second devices.
US09674990B2
An apparatus for cooling power components includes a first clamping portion, the first clamping portion having a first arcuate engagement surface, and a first interface. A second clamping portion, the second clamping portion having a second arcuate engagement surface, and a second interface. A flexible heat transfer pad and a power component. The power component is coupled to the flexible heat transfer pad, such that the flexible heat transfer pad substantially surrounds the power component, the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion configured to be coupled, such that the first arcuate engagement surface and the second arcuate engagement surface form an opening contoured to receive the power component, and the first interface and the second interface are adjacent to each other.
US09674988B2
A center includes a main room having a number of rows of bays, which hold functional energy-intensive pieces of equipment having air intake passages located functionally beside their front surface and air discharge passages located beside their rear surface, and cooling elements associated with passages, with the arrangement of the bays and functional equipment being such that a pair of two rows, whose back-to-back surfaces are the rear surfaces, defines a hot passage where the air discharge passages, in which the air is hot, are accessible at a temperature T3 that is higher than the temperature T2 of the tempered air found in the portion of the main room that is outside the hot passage and from which the front surfaces and the air intake passages are accessible, and air-conditioning elements for providing filtered air, whose flow rate, temperature T2, and hygrometric degree are suitable for optimal operation of functional.
US09674976B2
A wireless process communication adapter for field devices is provided. The adapter includes a metal housing having a first end and a second end. A chamber is defined between the first and second ends. A radio-frequency transparent radome is coupled to the first end. The second end has a field device coupling configured to attach to a field device. At least one circuit board is disposed within the chamber. The circuit board supports at least wireless process communication circuitry. A plurality of wires is coupled to the at least one circuit board and extends through the field device coupling. A silicone potting fills substantially all volume within the chamber not occupied by the at least one circuit board and wireless process communication circuitry.
US09674975B2
A protective enclosure adapted to hold a touch screen device and allow operation of both the touch screen and actuators on a side of the device, the enclosure formed of a tray having a rim surrounding an interior device seating surface; a lid having a rim corresponding to the rim of the tray and surrounding a window aperture; a protective membrane having a transparent membrane forming an interior window portion positioned in the viewing aperture of the lid, and a resiliently pliable skirt about the interior window portion, the skirt projecting the interior window portion outwardly of the rim around the aperture of the lid; a continuous pliable seal adapted to be compressible between the corresponding rims of the lid and the tray; and a mechanism for clamping the rim of the lid and the rim of the tray with the pliable seal forming a continuous seal therebetween.
US09674972B2
A modular electronic system for receiving, processing or forwarding information. Devices comprise a housing including flat electromagnetically effective transfer elements in or on an insulating housing wall and at least one circuit board including flat electromagnetically effective transfer elements and electronic components.
US09674966B2
Process of depositing a metallic pattern on a medium, said process comprising: generating pulsed laser beams from a pulsed laser source, wherein the laser beams have a wavelength for which the medium is substantially transparent, focussing the laser beams onto a target layer comprising inorganic particles, dispersed in a laser light degradable/combustible organic matrix, said target layer producing ejecta in response to an interaction of said laser beams and said target layer, accumulating at least a portion of said ejecta on said medium within the desired pattern, providing the pattern by electroless metal plating. The invention further relates to a transparent medium comprising a metallic pattern wherein the adhesion between the metallic pattern and the medium is at least 5N/cm.
US09674960B2
A printed circuit board having two completed printed circuit board elements which consists of a plurality of interconnected plies or layers, wherein at least one printed circuit board element has a cutout or depression containing the component to be integrated on one of the printed circuit board elements or in the cutout of the at least one printed circuit board element, and the printed circuit board elements are connected with the component being accommodated in the cutout, as a result of which it is possible to obtain secure and reliable accommodation of the component in the printed circuit board. Furthermore, a printed circuit board of this type also contains an electronic component integrated therein.
US09674949B1
A stretchable wire assembly includes a metal wire coupled between two elastic substrates. The two elastic substrates are selectively coupled together, and the metal wire is attached to one or both elastic substrates at select locations. The form of the metal wire is such that when the elastic substrates are in a relaxed, or non-stretched, state the metal wire forms a tortuous path, such as a waveform, along the coupled elastic substrates. The tortuous path of the metal wire provides slack such that as the elastic substrates are stretched the slack is taken up. Once released, the elastic substrates move from the stretched position to the relaxed, non-stretched position, and slack is reintroduced into the metal wire in the form of the original tortuous path.
US09674945B2
Methods of forming a microelectronic packaging structure and associated structures formed thereby are described. Those methods may include attaching a microfluidic die to a package structure, wherein the microfluidic die comprises a plurality of asymmetric electrodes that may be coupled with signal pads disposed within the package structure.
US09674944B2
A printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A printed circuit board having conductive patterns formed in multilayers on an insulating material laminated on both surfaces of a glass core is provided. The printed circuit board includes a first insulating material disposed on a first surface and a second surface of the glass core. and a second insulating material disposed on the first insulating material. The first insulating material surrounds a first portion of a side surface of the glass core and the second insulating material surrounds a second portion of the side surface of the glass core, the second portion being a portion of the glass core not surrounded by the first insulating material.
US09674938B2
Provided is a flexible light emitting semiconductor device (26), such as an LED device, that includes a flexible dielectric layer (12) having first and second major surfaces and at least one via (10) extending through the dielectric layer from the first to the second major surface, with a conductive layer (19, 20, 18) on each of the first and second major surfaces and in the via. The conductive layer (18) in the via supports a light emitting semiconductor device (26) and is electrically isolated from the conductive layer (19) on the first major surface of the dielectric layer.
US09674936B2
Provided is a superconducting accelerating cavity 30 including: a cavity main body 10 formed of a superconducting material into a cylindrical shape; and a refrigerant tank 20 installed around the cavity main body 10 and storing a refrigerant which is supplied from the outside through a supply port 20a into a space formed between the refrigerant tank and the outer circumferential surface of the cavity main body 10, wherein the outer circumferential surface of the cavity main body 10 is coated with a metal coating layer 10a having a higher conductivity than the superconducting material.
US09674915B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for lighting control based on a combination of inputs. One or more properties of light output of a lighting fixture (120A, 120B, 120C) are controlled based on local input (based on local sensor readings) and group input (provided to the lighting fixture and additional lighting fixtures) and/or one or more sensors (125A, 125B) are auto-calibrated. For example, in some embodiments a lighting controller (130A) of a lighting fixture may receive both the local input and the group input and control a dimming level of a light source (150A) of the lighting fixture based on the local input and the group input. For example, the local input may be based on input from a local sensor that is indicative of a light level near the lighting fixture and the group input may be indicative of a desired group level of dimming.
US09674909B2
A detection resistor is arranged on a path of an LED string. A controller generates a gate pulse signal having a duty ratio adjusted such that the voltage drop at the detection resistor matches a predetermined reference voltage. Furthermore, the controller receives a dimming control signal which indicates the duty ratio of the burst dimming operation, and generates a corresponding burst dimming pulse. According to the gate pulse signal, the first driver drives an output circuit configured to generate a driving voltage. A second driver switches a path of a driving current between connection and disconnection according to the burst dimming pulse. A duty ratio detection unit controls the frequency of the gate pulse signal according to the duty ratio indicated by the dimming control signal.
US09674907B1
An LED driver is provided with input surge absorbing capacity. A surge protection circuit branch is coupled across output lines from a DC power source, in parallel with and between a filtering capacitor and a non-isolated buck-boost PFC circuit. A variable impedance device such as a spark gap is coupled to a first power line and having a breakdown voltage to operate as an open circuit during normal operating conditions with respect to a peak input voltage across the capacitor. Responsive to a surge condition with respect to excess energy across the capacitor, the spark gap operates as a closed circuit, and a second capacitor coupled between the spark gap and the second line absorbs the excess energy. Responsive to a return to normal operating conditions, the spark gap reverts to an open state and the accumulated surge energy is discharged from the second capacitor to circuit ground.
US09674898B2
A semiconductor substrate thermal treatment apparatus enables excellent heating control in suppressing influence of mutual induction between induction heating coils even when the induction heating coils are arranged in the vertical direction while providing horizontal magnetic flux to susceptors. The apparatus indirectly heats wafers mounted on horizontally-arranged susceptors including induction heating coils to form alternate-current magnetic flux in a direction parallel to a mount face of the susceptor. The wafer are arranged at an outer circumferential side of the susceptor. The induction heating coils are structured with at least one main heating coil and subordinate heating coils electromagnetically coupled with the main heating coil. Inverse coupling coils inversely-coupled to the subordinate heating coils are provided to the main heating coil, and zone control means separately controls a power ratio while synchronizing frequencies and current waveforms of current to the main heating coil and adjacent subordinate heating coils.
US09674889B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an apparatus and a system for data connection management. The method for data connection management includes: obtaining, by a user equipment UE, first instruction information, wherein the first instruction information is used for instructing to close or open a data connection; and transmitting, by the UE, the first instruction information to a packet data network gateway P-GW, for enabling the P-GW to stop or start data transmission of at least one bearer of the UE according to the first instruction information. By adopting the embodiments, a traffic of a terminal is effectively controlled, thus an additional cost of a user is reduced.
US09674886B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink signals to a plurality of transmission points in a wireless communication system, comprising: receiving information on at least one parameter set group through upper layer signaling, wherein each of the at least one parameter set group includes a plurality of parameter sets; detecting a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) comprising indication information for indicating specific parameter sets which belong to one of the parameter set groups from among the at least one parameter set group; and transmitting a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by using the specific parameter set, wherein each of the plurality of parameter sets includes information on a power control parameter and information on timing advance (TA) for transmitting the PUSCH signal.
US09674884B2
A method for activating a mobile hotspot operation includes detecting, at a mobile device, an event associated with activating a mobile hotspot operation on the mobile device. In response to the detection of the event, a mobile hotspot operation is activated on the mobile device. A connection request to access the mobile device as a mobile hotspot is received from an additional device. In response to the connection request, the access to the additional device is granted.
US09674881B2
Device discovery may be important in a variety of communication systems including, for example, wireless communication systems. Thus, certain embodiments may provide a device to device beacon design that may provide for efficient interference management and resource allocation. For example, a method may include preparing a proximity communication request including information about a device to device communication state of a discovered user equipment or resource usage of the discovered user equipment. The method may also include transmitting the proximity communication request to a base station.
US09674878B2
A packet data network gateway, P-GW, is located in a second network for supporting user plane data to terminal devices in a wireless communications system that additionally comprises a first network having a first packet data network gateway, P-GW operably couplable to the P-GW. The P-GW comprises a processor arranged to: check a destination address of received packets from the first P-GW to determine whether the received packets are destined for any of the terminal devices, and in response thereto: extract one or more properties of said received packets if they are destined for any of the terminal devices served with user plane data; or discard said received packets if they are not destined for the terminal device(s).
US09674863B2
At least one example embodiment discloses a method of scheduling communications in a network having a plurality of base stations covering cells, respectively. The method includes obtaining a first coordination matrix, by a first base station, based on channel state information from at least one user equipment (UE), the first coordination matrix indicating scheduling information and first weights associated with subband transmissions for the first base station, transmitting the first coordination matrix to at least another base station of the plurality of base stations, receiving, by the first base station, a second coordination matrix from the at least another base station, the second coordination matrix indicating second weights associated with subband transmissions for the second base station, and transmitting, by the first base station, in subbands where the associated first weights are greater than the associated second weights.
US09674855B2
Techniques are provided for carrier aggregation and H-ARQ timing in LTE or the like. For example, there is provided a method, operable by a mobile device, that may involve identifying a first component carrier and a second component carrier among a plurality of component carriers to be aggregated, wherein a first number of subframes of a subframe type in the first component carrier is less than a second number of subframes of the same subframe type in the second component carrier. The method may further involve receiving a configuration to monitor a control channel for the second component carrier on the first component carrier. The method further may further involve determining a reference uplink-downlink subframe configuration for the second component carrier based at least in part on the subframe type and the received configuration for the control channel.
US09674844B2
A Wireless Local Access Network (WLAN) user policy distribution device and method are described. One embodiment of such a device comprises: a first receiving module, configured to receive a WLAN user policy actively sent by an upstream policy decision distribution device; and a first forwarding module, configured to forward the WLAN user policy to a WLAN user policy execution device. Through the technical solution provided in one embodiment of such a device, the absence of a necessary policy control management mechanism in the existing WLAN is solved, thereby implementing the WLAN user policy control effectively.
US09674843B2
Method and apparatus for determining transmission power of preamble in wireless communication system
Provided are a method and an apparatus for determining transmission power of a preamble in a wireless communication system. A terminal estimates secondary cell (SCell) path loss with respect to a downlink (DL) component carrier (CC), which is in a linkage relationship with an uplink (UL) component carrier inside the SCell; decides the transmission power of a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble based on the SCell path loss that is estimated; and transmits the PRACH preamble to a base station through the UL CC inside the SCell, based on the transmission power that is decided, wherein the SCell and a primary cell (PCell) comprises a carrier aggregation (CA) system, the PCell is a cell from which the terminal performs radio resource control (RRC) connection with the base station, and wherein the Scell is at least one cell from residual cells in the carrier aggregation excluding the PCell.
US09674834B2
A user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink signal, including a resource assignment having a first indication of a first resource of a plurality of resources and a number of resources of the plurality of resources in a sequence. The downlink signal may include a second indication as to applying the resource assignment to a single time interval or plurality of time intervals, which the UE may determine. The UE may receive a second downlink signal in the first time interval in the first resource and in the number of consecutive resources in the sequence on a condition that the resource assignment is for a single time interval, and a second downlink signal in each of the plurality of time intervals in the first resource and in the number of consecutive resources in the sequence on a condition that the resource assignment is for the plurality of time intervals.
US09674828B2
A terminal apparatus, which performs communication with a first base station apparatus and a second base station apparatus which has a smaller maximum transmit power than that of the first base station apparatus, includes a control unit that extracts control information from signals received from the first base station apparatus and the second base station apparatus and sets communication parameters of an uplink data signal, in which a bit number of information which is extracted by the control unit as the control information from the signal from the second base station apparatus is smaller than a bit number of information which is extracted as the control information from the signal from the first base station apparatus.
US09674824B2
According to one embodiment, a method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), information in a wireless communication system includes: determining a first information sequence based on a first cyclically shifted base sequence and a first orthogonal sequence by using a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for a first antenna, wherein the first PUCCH resource is obtained based on a channel control element (CCE) index related to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a parameter configured by a higher layer; determining a second information sequence based on a second cyclically shifted base sequence and a second orthogonal sequence by using a second PUCCH resource for a second antenna, wherein the second PUCCH resource is obtained by adding an offset to the first PUCCH resource; transmitting the first information sequence via the first antenna; and transmitting the second information sequence via the second antenna.
US09674819B2
Systems and methods share context information on a neighbor aware network. In one aspect, a context providing device receives a plurality of responses to a discovery query from a context consuming device, and tailors services it offers to the context consuming device based on the responses. In another aspect, a context providing device indicates in its response to a discovery query which services or local context information it can provide to the context consuming device, and also a cost associated with providing the service or the local context information. In some aspects, the cost is in units of monetary currency. In other aspects, the cost is in units of user interface display made available to an entity associated with the context providing device in exchange for the services or local context information offered to the context consuming device.
US09674816B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a device, mobility management node and/or a serving gateway, and corresponding methods there, for providing application, service or priority based paging. According to some of the example embodiments, the decision whether or not to issue or accept a paging request may be made based on a priority, application or service (or type of service) associated with the paging request.
US09674814B2
Techniques for positioning with Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) messages are disclosed. An example of a wireless transceiver system for providing a FTM response message is configure to receive a FTM request from an initiating station, the FTM request may include a minimum delta FTM value, a number of bursts exponents value, and a As Soon As Possible (ASAP) value. The transceiver may send a first FTM response message indicating the FTM session is terminated if the wireless transceiver is incapable of meeting the minimum delta FTM value and the number of bursts exponents value, and send a second FTM response message including a status value based on the ASAP value in the FTM request if the wireless transceiver is capable of meeting the minimum delta FTM value and the number of bursts exponents value.
US09674810B2
Disclosed is an apparatus, method and computer program which frequency shifts a received signal by a first frequency value and low-pass filters the frequency shifted received signal at a first cutoff frequency to filter out a plurality of adjacent carrier frequencies. Parallel baseband processing is then performed on two or more adjacent carrier frequencies among the plurality of adjacent carrier frequencies based upon an adjacent carrier power criterion. In certain examples, the parallel baseband processing is adapted for detecting a frequency correction burst in two or more adjacent Global System for Mobile Communications carrier frequencies or an Enhanced Data Rates for Global System for Mobile Communications Evolution carrier frequencies.
US09674805B2
The present invention involves defining the operation of a terminal for determining which time alignment timer is to be applied to a certain condition when specific time alignment timers operate for each carrier-wave group in the event a wireless communication system uses a carrier aggregation technique. According to the present invention, a terminal may perform communication without malfunctions using a time alignment timer suitable for a certain condition A method for a terminal to operate a time alignment timer according to the present invention comprises the steps of: operating a first time alignment timer for a first timing advance group (TAG) including a first cell; operating a second time alignment timer upon receipt of a timing advance command for a second TAG that does not include the first cell; and, if the first time alignment timer has expired, deeming the second time alignment timer to also be expired.
US09674796B2
A physical random access channel enhanced transmission method, a network device, and a terminal are disclosed, where implementation of the terminal is used as an example, and the terminal includes: a processor, configured to determine level information of physical random access channel (PRACH) enhanced transmission; and to determine a first characteristic parameter that is of PRACH enhanced transmission and that is related to the determined level information of PRACH enhanced transmission, where the first characteristic parameter includes transmit power and a preamble format; and a transmitter, configured to perform PRACH enhanced sending according to the first characteristic parameter determined by the processor.
US09674791B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by UE in a fixed downlink subframe whose subframe number is i−KUL, at least one TPC command sent by a base station, where the at least one TPC command is carried on a PDCCH whose format is a DCI format 3/3A, and the at least one TPC command includes a TPC command of an uplink signal that is sent in an uplink subframe whose subframe number is i; determining, by the UE according to the TPC command of the uplink signal that is sent in the uplink subframe whose subframe number is i, a problem that in a scenario in which a dynamic TDD uplink-downlink subframe configuration is applied, a base station fails to receive an uplink signal.
US09674789B1
Uplink power control is an essential part of wireless communication systems. The transmit power control operation in the uplink of a wireless communication system is a combination of the algorithms used at the base station and the reception and processing of the power control commands at the client terminal. An important aspect for the effectiveness of transmit power control is the timeliness of the changes made to the uplink transmit power at the client terminal. Sometimes the transmit power control loop may take longer time to respond to real time dynamics and may lead to inferior performance. A method and apparatus are disclosed that enable the power control adjustments at the client terminal such that the uplink transmit power is within the specified limits of the wireless communication network and yet enhance the performance of the client terminal and the wireless communications network.
US09674785B2
To provide a terminal management apparatus capable of improving convenience in a state that power consumption is suppressed. A communication section 501 receives reporting information notifying the presence of a notification utilizing a first communication function directed to a terminal 510. When the communication section 501 has received the reporting information, a control section 502 transmits a message indicating the presence of the notification, to the terminal 510 by using a second communication function different from the first communication function.
US09674784B2
Disclosed is a method for a station (STA) for accessing a channel in a wireless communication system. The method for a STA for accessing a channel in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a beacon frame comprising a traffic indicator map (TIM); and transmitting a power save (PS)-Poll frame if buffered traffic is indicated by TIM to the STA, wherein the PS-Poll frame is transmitted during a PS-Poll dedicated restricted access window (RAW) by and/or during an additional RAW, the PS-Poll dedicated RAW being allocated to transmit the PS-Poll frame, and the additional RAW being additionally allocated subsequent to the PS-Poll-dedicated RAW.
US09674776B2
A communications system includes a plurality of different types of small coverage area base stations, e.g., femto cell base stations, WiFi access points and Bluetooth access points within a macro cell. Different user equipment (UE) devices, e.g., different smartphones, include different capabilities. In order for UE devices and small coverage area base stations with compatible capabilities to efficiently discover one another, the various small coverage area base stations and various UE devices utilize the macro cell communications band and macro cell communication protocol to coordinate device discovery and exchange discovery information and control information which allows a UE device to access a compatible small coverage area base station and subsequently communicate user data, e.g., traffic data, with the UE device.
US09674775B2
A method for performing a cell search in a multi-subscription device is provided. The method includes estimating, by a first subscriber identity module (SIM) of multiple SIMs of the multi-subscription device, search time information required for identifying one cell and margin time information for cell search, where the first SIM is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT); obtaining a discontinuous reception (DRX) period of a second SIM associated with a second RAT in the multi-subscription device; determining a number of cells to be searched during the DRX period based on the estimated information; performing a measurement for one or more cells to be searched based on the number of the cells; ranking the one or more cells based on the measurement; and initiating a cell search on one or more cells having a highest signal strength during the DRX period.
US09674767B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for forming a tiered Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) server topology is presented. A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) having a plurality of Mobile Virtual Local Area Network (MVLAN) servers is broken into a plurality of zones, each zone including at least one MVLAN server. An Identifier (ID) is assigned to each zone. A MVLAN server in each zone is designated as a MVLAN gateway server, wherein MVLAN servers within a zone communicate with each other within the zone, wherein the MVLAN servers within a zone communicate directly with the MVLAN gateway sever within the zone, wherein MVLAN gateway servers communicate directly with each other, and wherein a MVLAN server within a first zone communicates with a MVLAN server in a second zone by way of the MVLAN gateway sever of the first zone and the MVLAN gateway server of the second zone.
US09674766B2
A combination of repeaters and relays is used to improve the data throughput for user equipment (“UE”) near the cell edge in a LTE network. Amplify-and-forward repeaters and decode-and-forward relays enhance the down-link and up-link, respectively. Relay assistance on the up-link occurs when the evolved Node B (“eNB”) requests a retransmission (HARQ) from the UE at which point the UE and relay transmit simultaneously in a cooperative fashion. The quality of the up-link signal received by the eNB is improved due to a favorable channel through the relay. An analysis shows that relay assistance improves the throughput for a cell-edge user when the average delay per data transport block is allowed to increase.
US09674764B2
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving an indication of a radio access technology (RAT) change for a user equipment (UE); determining availability of a preferred RAT type for a policy related rule associated with the UE, wherein the policy related rule includes, at least in part, the preferred RAT type for one or more service data flows for the UE; and configuring the one or more service data flows for the UE based, at least in part, on a change in availability of the preferred RAT type following the RAT change. In at least one case, the method can include routing downlink packets to the UE using the one or more service data flows for the preferred RAT type if the preferred RAT type is available.
US09674763B2
A system and method to allow call traffic localization within a mobile switching center server pool (MSS pool) or between MSS pools, provides a trunk group identifier mapped to an originating media gateway. An originating mobile switching center server (MSC server) initiates a call session with a terminating MSC server by sending a session initiation protocol (SIP) message that includes a trunk group identifier mapped to an originating media gateway identity. The terminating MSC server examines the mapping received in the SIP message, and uses the trunk group identifier to select a terminating media gateway for call routing to realize call traffic localization.
US09674751B2
In one embodiment, a portable, networked, computing device comprises a processor, a plurality of radios, and a memory. The device may be operable to pair, by at least one of the radios, with a device associated with a user. The device may then monitor, by one of the radios, a signal for a connection established with a first network. When the device determines that the signal for the first network has dropped below a threshold level of quality, it may enable access point mode for at least one of the paired devices by turning on a radio to establish a connection with a second network and thereby providing connectivity to the second network for the at least one of the paired devices. If multiple networks are available, the device may select an optimal network based on an assessment of one or more factors.
US09674745B2
A target communications device receiving from a source communications device a notification that a user communications device is to be handed over from that source communications device, provides the source communications device with multiple component carrier information for use by the user communications device. The multiple component carrier information includes information indicating to the user communications device which of the multiple component carriers is to be used for initial access. The multiple component carrier information may be component carrier indexes. Communication devices may exchange component carrier indexes during a setup or updating procedure such as an X2 setup or updating procedure.
US09674741B2
A network-side device and a macro base station to micro base station switching method relate to a universal mobile telecommunications system. The method includes: multiplexing part of scrambling codes in reserved scrambling codes to micro base station cells, and configuring them to a user equipment; a network side creating a SNF−SFN relation list between various base station cells according to existing determined neighbor cell relations and cell synchronization information in a measurement report by the user equipment; when the user equipment reports a switching measurement report of a target cell, the network side determining a target cell in actual switching and performing the switching according to the scrambling code information in the switching measurement report, TM and OFF information in the cell synchronization information and the SFN−SFN relation list. The embodiment of the present invention further discloses a network-side device.
US09674739B2
In a wireless communications network, the presence of a wireless local area network in a cell segment is determined. An identifier of the wireless local area network in the cell segment is sent to at least one mobile station in the cell segment to enable the at least one mobile station to hand off to the wireless local area network. Optionally, information identifying geographic boundaries of cell segments and the wireless local area network can be sent to the at least one mobile station.
US09674724B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a measurement report in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for transmitting a measurement report at a UE in the wireless communication system includes measuring received strengths and reception frequencies of first and second signals, and transmitting a measurement report including a frequency offset between the first and second signals, if the received strength of the second signal is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold. The frequency offset is used to support cooperative transmission of transmission points transmitting the first and second signals.
US09674719B2
There is provided a method for performing measurements. The method may be performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprise: receiving measurement configuration information including a measurement timing configuration for a discovery signal; and performing measurements for a first cell and measurements for a second cell. The measurement timing configuration for the discovery signal may be applied to the measurements for the second cell, but not to the measurements for the first cell.
US09674716B2
There is provided a wireless communication device including a control-message creation/transmission-instruction unit which sends notification information via a wireless communication network and also sends response information in the case of receiving notification information sent from another device, a reception/interpretation processing unit which receives, from another device which has received the notification information of the wireless communication device, response information of such other device and also receives the notification information sent from such other device, and an operation mode determination unit which determines, based on operation mode determination information included in the notification information of such other device or the response information of such other device, that the wireless communication device is caused to operate as one of a master device and a slave device.
US09674713B2
The invention relates to a method in a reporting communications node (12, 14) for detecting usage of a resource within a radio access network. The reporting communication node (12, 14) is comprised within a radio communications network (1), in which radio communications network (1) a user equipment (12) is served. The reporting communications node monitors a performance measurement per user equipment of the user equipment (12), which performance measurement indicates usage of resources within a radio access network. The reporting communication node detects when the performance measurement per user equipment of the user equipment (12) goes beyond a threshold value over a preset period of time. In addition, the reporting communication node reports to a different communication node (14, 15) or within the communication node (12, 14), the performance measurement per user equipment when the performance measurement per user equipment goes beyond the threshold value.
US09674709B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for activating a capacity station by using wave beams. In some feasible embodiments of the present invention, by setting a set of wave beams to be transmitted for a capacity station in a dormant state, and by transmitting the wave beams in the set of wave beams to be transmitted, load information is collected. According to the covering relation of the capacity station in a dormant state and the set of wave beams to be transmitted and the load information, the capacity station needing to be activated is determined and activated.
US09674707B2
A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device. For example, if a user wearing the wearable device unlocks the host device (e.g., by entering a credential), the devices can create a verified session, which can persist across lock and unlock events at the host device. For the duration of the verified session, a host device can request session confirmation from the wearable device at any time to confirm that the verified session is still in progress. While the session is in progress, the host can make features available such as bypassing re-entry of a credential during unlock operations.
US09674701B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and a User Equipment (UE) for controlling access to location information about the UE are provided. The UE includes a controller configured, upon sensing access to the location information about the UE by an application operating in an operating system (OS) of the UE, to match a rule defining access authorization of the application to the location information, and to determine whether to allow or deny access of the application to the location information based on the access authorization, and a display configured to display a screen under control of the controller.
US09674693B2
This disclosure relates to supporting handling of state information for a stateful network function of a communication network. The network function of the communication network is provided by a network function environment including a set of network function instances configured to provide the network function, a scheduler configured to receive messages of subscribers of the communication network and to distribute the messages to the network function instances for processing by the network functions instances in accordance with the network function, and a state information storage device configured to store state information of the subscribers. The network function instances are configured to temporarily store state information of the subscribers locally at the network function instances while subscribers are associated with the network function instances and to transfer state information of the subscribers to the state information storage device when the subscribers are no longer associated with the network function instances.
US09674690B2
The present invention relates to a method for the control and enforcement of a policy rule in eUICC. The present invention relates to a method for the control and enforcement of a policy rule and to an eUICC, the method providing a function of controlling (defining, setting, updating, etc.) the policy rule for profiles on the eUICC according to the requirement of a business operator or a service provider, and providing a function of enforcing such as activating, deactivating, loading or deleting the profiles based on the thus-controlled policy rule.
US09674683B2
A vehicle communication system includes one or more processors configured to output a computer generated speech signal for at least a portion of vehicle parameter data based on at least one condition detection signal. The one or more processors are further configured to output the speech signal to a call center over a voice channel via a wireless communication. The one or more processors are further configured to receive a geographic location of a vehicle so that the speech signal is in a selected language based on a language associated with the geographic location of the vehicle.
US09674671B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a mobile device. The apparatus receives signals from one or more satellites. The apparatus determines an indoor/outdoor classification attribute of the apparatus among a plurality of indoor/outdoor classification attributes based on a number of satellites from which the apparatus receives the signals. The apparatus receives a message. The apparatus determines whether to forward the message based on the indoor/outdoor classification attribute and a type of the message.
US09674668B2
A method, an electronic apparatus, and a computer readable medium for determining a relative position of an apparatus, adapted for a first electronic apparatus to determine a relative position of a second electronic apparatus, are provided. In the method, a distance between the first and the second electronic apparatus is computed according to a wireless signal transmitted between the first and the second electronic apparatus. After one unit time and two unit time, distances between the first and the second electronic apparatus are computed according to the wireless signal and a displacement that the second electronic apparatus moves within each unit time is computed, respectively. Finally, a relative position of the second electronic apparatus relative to the first electronic apparatus is computed according to the distances and the displacements by using a current position of the first electronic apparatus as a reference point.
US09674667B2
A method and apparatus for handling location data in a mobile communications network. A network node obtains an average geographical location of a mobile device over a predetermined time period and uses the average geographical location in an area of interest in an Origin Destination matrix. The advantage of using an average geographical location over a period of time is that much less data needs to be stored compared to storing all geographical data, but the data can be reused to define new Origin Destination matrices.
US09674653B2
Techniques to manage client location detection are described. In one embodiment an apparatus may comprise a location-based services support component and a client management component. The location-based services support component may be operative to determine that a network service is scheduled for a location update from a mobile device, determine a location accuracy based on the network service, and update the network service with a received location of the mobile device. The client management component may be operative to transmit a location request to the mobile device, the location request specifying the location accuracy determined based on the network service and receive a response to the location request from the mobile device, the response comprising the location of the mobile device conforming to the specified location accuracy. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09674648B1
One embodiment provides a system for suggesting placement of beacons within a venue. The system performs operations including receiving a floor plan for a venue, receiving user-specified input identifying a defined area within the floor plan to target, and determining an arrangement of beacons for providing beacon coverage for the defined area. A total number of beacons to include within the defined area is determined. For each beacon, a corresponding location within the defined area to position the beacon at is also determined. The arrangement of beacons is determined based on historical location data for the venue, user-specified preferences for the venue, signal strength of the beacons, and available power levels for the beacons.
US09674641B2
A base station device uses a first card as an M2M card, second cards as general cards, and a third card as a spare card from among call process cards included in a signal processing unit. A call control unit allocates, to the M2M card, a call that is received from an M2M terminal and in which the service type determined by a service type determination unit is an M2M service. Furthermore, the call control unit allocates, to a general card, a call that is received from a general terminal and in which the service type determined by service type determination unit is a general service.
US09674635B2
Applications are provided to communication devices provide flexible operation between default modes of operation and an expanded mode of operation in which both communication devices share capabilities. A purchase order is created for a plurality of communication devices. A determination is made as to whether a collaboration feature is enabled at each device. The collaboration feature being enabled at each device results in additional revenue to the ordering process. If collaboration is enabled at both devices at 306, 312, and then collaboration operation are enabled 316 which allows for predetermined operating features to be registered and additional revenue applied. The communication devices 102, 104 are then automatically linked (via information sharing link 120 using linkage application 140) to share capabilities of the registered features at 320. The resulting order comprises a plurality of communication devices that provided an expanded mode of operation when operating together.
US09674619B2
A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone and a forming method therefore. The MEMS microphone comprises: a first substrate, the first substrate is provided with a first bonding face, the first substrate comprises an MEMS microphone component and a first conductive bonding structure arranged on the first bonding face, a second substrate, the second substrate is provided with a second bonding face, the second bonding substrate comprises a circuit and a second conductive bonding structure arranged on the second bonding face; the first substrate and the second substrate are oppositely fitted together via the first conductive bonding structure and the second conductive bonding structure. Embodiments of the present invention have a simple packaging technique and a compact size; the MEMS microphone packaging structure formed has a great performance on signal-to-noise ratio, and a great anti-interference capability.
US09674616B1
A dynamic acoustic impedance matching device for an acoustic signal transmitted or received in a medium by a transducer includes a particle flow in an acoustic signal path of the transducer. The particle flow has an acoustic impedance between an acoustic impedance of the transducer and an acoustic impedance of the medium.
US09674613B2
The present disclosure discloses a speaker box. The speaker box includes a housing which has a receiving space and a side wall having a sound hole, and a sound generator received in the receiving space and including a diaphragm including a dome and a periphery connected to the dome. The periphery includes a near-end which is near the sounding hole and a far-end which is farther the sounding hole. A width of the near-end of the periphery perpendicular to a vibration direction of the diaphragm is smaller than a width of the far-end of the periphery perpendicular to the vibration direction.
US09674611B2
An information processor includes a generator that is adapted to generate original sound data indicating an original sound as a basis for a processed sound to be heard by a user and a parameter indicating a content of processing on the original sound data, an original sound data output section that is adapted to output the original sound data generated by the generator from any channel of a plurality of channels, and a control signal output section that is adapted to output a control signal including the parameter and a correspondence relationship between the parameter and the channel for the original sound data to be processed by means of the parameter.
US09674608B2
Disclosed are a vehicle, an apparatus for generating a driving sound of the vehicle, and an apparatus and method for controlling a driving sound of the vehicle. The present invention intends to provide a driving sound of a vehicle having a characteristic desired by a driver. The vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a voice signal input unit configured to receive a voice signal; a filter generation unit configured to extract a characteristic of the voice signal and generate a driving sound filter considering the characteristic of the voice signal; and a driving sound control unit configured to generate a default driving sound based on a driving state of the vehicle and generate a new driving sound obtained by applying the driving sound filter to the default driving sound.
US09674607B2
A small-signal power acquisition unit defines a threshold for each of a plurality of input signals based on a long-term average of a minimum power of the corresponding input signal, each of the input signals being obtained by a microphone, sets a power value of each input signal that is smaller than the corresponding defined threshold to be a small-signal power of the input signal. A correction amount setting unit obtains each correction amount for correcting the input signals based on the small-signal power of the corresponding input signal. A correction unit corrects each of the input signals based on each of the correction amounts for correcting the input signals.
US09674606B2
There is provided a signal processing device including a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract, from a frequency-domain signal obtained by frequency conversion on a voice signal, a feature amount of the frequency-domain signal, and a determination unit configured to determine, based on the extracted feature amount, presence or absence of noise in the voice signal within a predetermined section. The feature amount is composed of a plurality of elements. The plurality of elements contain an element defined based on a correlation value between a feature amount waveform which is a waveform according to the frequency-domain signal in the voice signal within the predetermined section and a feature amount waveform within another section sequential in time to the predetermined section.
US09674604B2
The invention relates to a microphone (10). A first (14a) and a second (14b) diaphragm are provided in a housing (12). A first chamber (24a) is delimited by a first side of the first diaphragm (14a) and an inner surface of the housing (12). A first opening (18a) extends from the first chamber (24a) to surroundings of the microphone (10). A second chamber (24b) is delimited by a first side of the second diaphragm (14b) and an inner surface of the housing (12). A second opening (18b) extends from the second chamber (24b) to the surroundings. A common chamber (22) is delimited by a second side of the first diaphragm (14a), a second side of the second diaphragm (14b) and an inner surface of the housing (12). A third opening (20) extends from the common chamber (22) to the surroundings.
US09674601B2
A personal audio equipment provided with an air vent unit and a noise cancellation function, comprising: a sound reproduction unit in a form modified to have an air vent unit that may partly open an ear canal; a speaker cover unit; the air vent unit; a noise cancellation unit; and a sound wave sensor. Due to having the air vent unit penetrating the center of the audio equipment, the personal audio equipment provided with an air vent unit and a noise cancellation function is capable of discharging moisture, easily sensing outside sounds when not in use, effectively blocking the outside sounds by automatically operating the noise cancellation function during a phone conversation, and sensing sound waves, such as alert or horn sounds that require a user's attention, to thereby block the noise cancellation function when necessary.
US09674600B2
The utility model relates to an earphone with air release valve, comprising a shell, the shell is provided with an earphone rear cavity for accommodating a sounding unit, the sounding unit is placed in the earphone rear cavity and fixedly connected with the shell, the side of the shell facing the human ear is connected with an ear pad, the earphone is provided with an air release hole on the earphone shell between the earphone rear cavity and the earphone sound chamber cavity, and the air release hole is provided with an air release valve which automatically opens due to the increase of pressure. Therefore, when the people wear the earphone or transmit the earphone, the instantaneous pressure wave produced in the sound chamber cavity can be discharged from the air release valve. As for the earphone of the utility model, the vibrating diaphragm is less affected by the airflow interference such that the earphone is characterized by higher sound purity and better hearing experience compared with those earphones only having the air release hole rather than the valve.
US09674585B2
Described herein is a system and method of ad targeting that automatically matches advertisements to media based on the demographic signatures of each. The method and system include calculating a match score between historical buyer demographics and media demographics. Media which is similar to the demographic of the product buyers is targeted for advertising.
US09674580B2
Provided herein are systems and methods directed to the recording, uploading, processing, viewing, and submitting of video and audio content via a digital asset in an HTML framework. The systems and methods disclose solutions to the problem of incorporating user video commenting systems regardless of framework, type of user device, or browser type. A digital asset can include such video commenting systems within expandable advertisements. Furthermore, such submitted videos can be moderated automatically via an interactive moderation interface.
US09674576B2
A method and a system to provide a supplemental experience based on concurrently viewed content is provided. The system comprises an identification module to identify, at a user device, concurrently viewed content assigned a content identifier via communication with one or more components of a home theatre. The system further comprises a curation module to identify one or more listings describing items for sale based on keywords mapped to the content identifier and provide a user interface including the listings to the user device.
US09674566B2
The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory or storage device) for optimization of authorization codes (or identifications, IDs) for delivery of multimedia content such as video channels using unique grouping of sources (to be delivered to users) into content packages assigned new authorization codes. Then each original content package may be represented by a combination of uniquely grouped packages assigned with a plurality of corresponding new codes.
US09674564B2
Methods of delivering IP video content to CPE devices over a network are provided. Customer content-of-interest information is collected from the CPE devices. When a request for an item of content from a requesting one of the CPE devices is received, a determination is made as to whether the requested item of content is of interest to at least a pre-determined minimum number of other CPE devices on the network via analysis of the collected content-of-interest information. The item of content may be multicast over the network if the item of content is of interest to at least the pre-determined minimum number of CPE devices. Alternatively, content indicated as being of interest by at least the pre-determined number of CPE devices may be scheduled for multicast at a low utilization time of the network or at a low priority level. A system for preforming the above methods is disclosed.
US09674560B1
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc. At receiver stations, signals in received transmissions and from local inputs (225, 218, 22) cause control processors (200) and computers (205) to automate connection and operation of converters (201), tuners (215), decryptors (224), recorder/players (217), computers (205), furnaces (206), etc. Processors (71, 200) meter and monitor availability and usage of programming.
US09674559B2
Provided are methods and systems for processing information. In one example method a first frame of a first group of frames of an information transmission can be processed. The first frame can be encoded without reference to other frames of the information transmission. Additionally, a second frame can be processed in the first group of frames. The second frame can be processed with reference to a frame from a second group of frames of the information transmission.
US09674554B2
An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a capture device for obtaining an input image block; and an image signal processing hardware coupled to the capture device, the image signal processing hardware including: a coding module including: a scaling correction module for generating a scaled wavelet block based on the input image block, a grey block detection module for determining the input image block to be a grey image block, a compression ratio module for determining the compression ratio of the input image block, a mode setting module for setting a PCM mode identifier based on the compression ratio, the coding module for generating a compressed image block by scanning and coding the input image block using PCM mode; and a decoding module for generating an output image block by decoding the compressed image block for display on a display device.
US09674551B2
A method performed by an apparatus for intra-predicting a current block in the unit of subblocks, comprises: determining an intra prediction mode of the current block among a plurality of intra prediction modes; identifying the subblocks split from the current block; and sequentially reconstructing the identified subblocks using an intra prediction mode identical to the determined intra prediction mode of the current block, wherein a subblock to be reconstructed is predicted using at least one pre-reconstructed neighboring subblock in the current block.
US09674550B2
A controller controls a camera that produces a sequence of images and that has output coupled to a video encoder. The camera has an operating condition including a field of view and lighting, and one or more imaging parameters. The video encoder encodes images from the camera into codewords. The controller receives one or more encoding properties from the video encoder, and causes adjusting one or more of the imaging parameters based on at least one of the received encoding properties, such that the camera produces additional images of the sequence of images for the video encoder using the adjusted one or more imaging parameters.
US09674548B2
A solution is provided to estimate motion vectors of a video. A multistage motion vector prediction engine is configured to estimate multiple best block-matching motion vectors for each block in each video frame of the video. For each stage of the motion vector estimation for a block of a video frame, the prediction engine selects a test vector form a predictor set of test vectors, computes a rate-distortion optimization (RDO) based metric for the selected test vector, and selects a subset of test vectors as individual best matched motion vectors based on the RDO based metric. The selected individual best matched motion vectors are compared and a total best matched motion vector is selected based on the comparison. The prediction engine selects iteratively applies one or more global matching criteria to the selected best matched motion vector to select a best matched motion vector for the block of pixels.
US09674543B2
A method for selecting a motion vector includes selecting a candidate block included in a second image that corresponds to a processing block of a first image, computing a first probability for the processing block and the candidate block, selecting a random block for the candidate block, computing a second probability for the processing block and the random block, saving a greater of the first probability and the second probability as a first comparison result, computing a third probability for the processing block, a first neighboring block of the processing block, a matching block in the second image that is matched to the first neighboring block, and a second neighboring block of the matching block, and saving a greater of the first comparison result and the third probability as a second comparison result.
US09674540B2
To decode encoded video using a computer with a central processing unit and a graphics processing unit as a coprocessor, parameters applied to blocks of intermediate image data are transferred from the central processing unit to the graphics processing unit. When the operation being performed applies to a small portion of the blocks of intermediate image data, then the central processing unit can transfer to the graphics processing unit the parameters for only those blocks to which the operation applies. In particular, the central processing unit can transfer a set of parameters for a limited number of blocks of intermediate image data, with an indication of the block to which each set of parameters applies, which both can improve speed of operation and can reduce power consumption.
US09674537B2
A system is provided that is usable in a processing system for decoding a sequence including a plurality of pictures, wherein the group of pictures includes an anchor picture serving as a reference for coding all of the plurality of pictures and at least one reference picture serving as a reference for coding at least some of the other of the group of pictures, the plurality of pictures defined in a plurality of hierarchical layers according to coding order. The coding includes coding an lth subset of the plurality of pictures of the first hierarchical layer according to an lth hierarchical layer picture complexity, and after coding the lth set of the plurality of pictures of the lth hierarchical layer, coding a [mutually exclusive] lth+1 subset of the plurality of pictures of a lth+1 hierarchical layer according to a second hierarchical layer picture complexity measure.
US09674534B2
Video encoding and decoding accompanying inter prediction and motion compensation in a multi-view video prediction structure. A multi-view video prediction restoring method includes receiving a base view image stream and additional view image streams for two or more additional views; restoring base view images including base view anchor pictures that are I-picture type images by performing motion compensation referring to the base view images by using the base view image stream; and restoring images of a first additional view by performing at least one of disparity compensation referring to the restored base view images and motion compensation referring to images except for an anchor picture having a preceding reproduction order among the images of the first additional view by using an image stream of the first additional view among the additional view image streams.
US09674533B2
A video encoder generates an encoded video bitstream comprising a plurality of layers. At least one access unit of the encoded video bitstream includes one or more Instantaneous Decoding Refresh (IDR) pictures and one or more non-IDR pictures. The IDR pictures include only slices that are decoded using intra prediction only. The video encoder outputs the encoded video bitstream. A video decoder decodes the encoded video bitstream.
US09674531B2
A video coding or decoding method using inter-image prediction to encode input video data in which each chrominance component has 1/Mth of the horizontal resolution of the luminance component and 1/Nth of the vertical resolution of the luminance component, where M and N are integers equal to 1 or more, comprises: storing one or more images preceding a current image; interpolating a higher resolution version of prediction units of the stored images so that the luminance component of an interpolated prediction unit has a horizontal resolution P times that of the corresponding portion of the stored image and a vertical resolution Q times that of the corresponding portion of the stored image, where P and Q are integers greater than 1; detecting inter-image motion between a current image and the one or more interpolated stored images so as to generate motion vectors between a prediction unit of the current image and areas of the one or more preceding images; and generating a motion compensated prediction of the prediction unit of the current image with respect to an area of an interpolated stored image pointed to by a respective motion vector; in which the interpolating step comprises: applying a xR horizontal and xS vertical interpolation filter to the chrominance components of a stored image to generate an interpolated chrominance prediction unit, where R is equal to (U×M×P) and S is equal to (V×N×Q), U and V being integers equal to 1 or more; and subsampling the interpolated chrominance prediction unit, such that its horizontal resolution is divided by a factor of U and its vertical resolution is divided by a factor of V, thereby resulting in a block of MP×NQ samples.
US09674521B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for predicting a chrominance signal from a luminance signal by using a correlation between the luminance and chrominance signals. A method of predicting a chrominance component image generates a down-sampled luminance signal matching a chrominance signal by independently applying various down-sampling methods according to a location of a luminance signal, and predicts a chrominance signal from the down-sampled luminance signal, while considering a size of a luminance prediction unit and a size of a chrominance prediction unit corresponding to each other according to a color format.
US09674519B2
In an example, a video coder may determine a first layer component of a first layer of video data, wherein the first layer of video data is associated with a layer identifier. The video coder may generate at least one filtered layer component by filtering the first layer component, and assign the layer identifier of the first layer and a filtered layer component index to the at least one filtered layer component, where the filtered layer component index is different than a layer component index of the first layer component. The video coder may also add the at least one filtered layer component to a reference picture set for performing inter-layer prediction of a layer other than the first layer of video data.
US09674518B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are provided for managing remote display performance. One method includes an operation for determining pixel data for a group of macroblocks, each macroblock having a group of pixels. The macroblocks are for embedding in respective video frames of a video stream. The pixel data for each pixel in each macroblock is calculated with a formula based on the frame number of the respective video frame and on the location of the pixel within the macroblock. Farther, the method includes operations for embedding the macroblocks in the respective video frames, and for transmitting the video frames with the embedded macroblocks to a remote client. A performance metric for the transmitted video stream is calculated based on the macroblocks received at the remote client by comparing the received macroblocks to the expected macroblocks based on the formula.
US09674515B2
Video quality management (VQM) may be provided. First, transmitter metrics corresponding to a video stream may be determined by a transmitting endpoint. The determined transmitter metrics may then be transmitted from the transmitting end point and received by a receiver. The receiver may then determine receiver metrics for a video stream received at the receiver. A quality score may then be determined by the receiver. The quality score may be based on the received transmitter metrics and the determined receiver metrics.
US09674513B2
A method of driving a display panel includes outputting a data voltage of three-dimensional (“3D”) image data included in a left-eye data frame and a right-eye data frame to the display panel along a scanning direction of a first direction during a first period, blocking the data voltage from being provided to the display panel during a second period and outputting a black data voltage to the display panel during a third period that is less than the first period.
US09674512B2
A method, an apparatus and a cell for displaying three-dimensional object are provided. The method is adapted to a display having a plurality of cells. In the method, a three-dimensional image data is retrieved. Depth information and color information of each of pixels in the three-dimensional image data are analyzed. Deformation voltages are correspondingly generated according to the depth information and respectively outputted to the cells, so that the cells are deformed to form a three-dimensional object. Discoloration voltages are correspondingly generated according to the color information and respectively outputted to the cells, so that colors of the cells are changed.
US09674511B2
The invention can provide a stereoscopic image display device, which achieves advantages of both a “glasses” device and a “naked-eye” device, while having a small size. When a right-eye image is displayed, a light blocking region forms on the left side of the center line, and when a left-eye image is displayed, a light blocking region forms on the right side of the center line. When the viewer is located in the regions, the right eye views the right-eye image, and the left eye views the left-eye image. Thus, even when the viewer faces stereoscopic display device with naked eyes, the viewer can view the stereoscopic image as long as the eyes of the viewer are located in the light blocking regions. The right and left images are mixed in the region other than the light blocking regions. However, multiple viewers can view the stereoscopic image when wearing the glasses.
US09674490B2
A vision system of a vehicle includes a forward viewing imager, a rearward viewing imager and sideward viewing imagers. The forward viewing imager is disposed at a forward portion of the vehicle and has a forward field of view. The rearward viewing imager is disposed at a rearward portion of the vehicle and has a rearward field of view rearward of the vehicle. The sideward viewing imagers are disposed at respective sides of the vehicle and have respective sideward fields of view sideward of the vehicle. At least one of the forward viewing imager, the rearward viewing imager and the sideward viewing imagers is dynamically adjustable via a respective stepper motor. The fields of view of the imagers may be adjustable via the respective stepper motors responsive to actuation of a user input and/or a speed input indicative of the traveling speed of the vehicle.
US09674475B2
In one aspect, an example method for outputting an alert indicating a functional state of a back-up video-broadcast system involves a computing device receiving first closed-captioning data that corresponds to a first video-stream; the computing device receiving second closed-captioning data that corresponds to a second video-stream; the computing device making a determination that the received first closed-captioning data and the received second closed-captioning data lack a threshold extent of similarity; and responsive to the determination that the received first closed-captioning data and the received second closed-captioning data lack the threshold extent of similarity, the computing device outputting an alert.
US09674471B1
Aspects and embodiments are directed to a digital unit cell comprising an integrator circuit, a dynamic comparator configured to compare an integration voltage of the integrator circuit with a reference voltage, provide a first pulse signal each time the integration voltage is less than the reference voltage, and provide a second pulse signal each time the integration voltage exceeds the reference voltage, a multiplexer configured to receive a count direction control signal, and a counter element configured to increment a count value each time the first pulse signal or the second pulse signal is received, wherein the multiplexer is configured to couple a first output of the dynamic comparator to the counter element when the count direction control signal is in a first state, and to couple a second output of the dynamic comparator to the counter element when the count direction control signal is in a second state.
US09674462B2
A method for displaying images is provided, including displaying, by an electronic device, a first image obtained from an image sensor; displaying, by the electronic device, a plurality of second images together with the first image, wherein each second image is generated based on the first image and a respective image filter; and responsive to a selection of at least one second image, generating a third image based on the first image and the selected second image's respective image filter and displaying the third image in place of the first image.
US09674453B1
At a video conference endpoint including a microphone array and a camera, different camera framings are established to frame different views of a talker based on different sets of pan, tilt, and focal length settings of the camera. Different video frames of the different views are captured using the different camera framings, respectively. A sound source direction of the talker relative to the microphone array in a fixed three-dimensional (3D) global coordinate system is determined for the different views based on sound from the talker detected by the microphone array. The sound source direction relative to the microphone array is converted to different sound source positions in planar coordinates relative to the different video frames based on the different sets of pan, tilt, and focal length settings, respectively. The different video frames, the sound, and the different sound source positions in planar coordinates are transmitted.
US09674440B2
Systems and methods for digital video stabilization via constraint-based rotation smoothing are provided. Digital video data including a set of image frames having associated time stamps and a set of camera orientation data having associated time stamps may be provided. A smoothed set of camera orientation data may be generated by minimizing a rate of rotation between successive image frames while minimizing an amount of empty regions in a resulting set of smoothed image frames reoriented based on the smoothed set of camera orientation data.
US09674437B2
The present invention provides an imaging apparatus configured to perform interval shooting for taking shots sequentially at a set shooting interval. The imaging apparatus includes a shooting parameter setting unit and the shooting parameter setting limiting unit. The shooting parameter setting unit sets time-related shooting parameters including a shooting interval of the interval shooting. Further, the shooting parameter setting unit determines the shooting situation or shooting setting. The shooting parameter setting limiting unit limits a settable range of a time-related shooting parameter to be set by the shooting parameter setting unit to a different range according to the shooting situation or the shooting setting determined by the shooting parameter setting unit.
US09674435B1
Three different systems are disclosed for producing data bases that are used to drive virtual reality display apparatus. The systems employ 3-D stereo camera pairs, airborne microphones, conduction microphones, physical and chemical sensors, CPU's and supporting electronics. The data bases can be used by virtual reality audiences in real time as the data bases are created or they can be stored and used at a later time. The systems are dedicated to eliminating artifacts that would otherwise tend to interfere with the enjoyment of the virtual reality experience for virtual reality viewing audiences. The systems cover multidimensional video content, multidimensional audio content, multidimensional physical content and multidimensional chemical content. The systems are intended to be set up inside a venue for capturing VR content.
US09674423B2
Surveying apparatus such as, for example, a video theodolite or video tachymeter, is disclosed. In some embodiments, the surveying apparatus may include a base, a support pivotable about a first axis relative to the base, a targeting unit pivotable about a second axis relative to the support and comprising a telescope optical unit comprising at least one objective and a motorized-adjustable focusing optical unit and also an eyepiece and/or a camera chip for recording an image through the objective, goniometers for measuring pivoting positions of the support and the targeting unit, an electro-optical distance measuring device, an evaluation and control unit, which provides a calibrated autofocusing functionality for automatically setting the focusing optical unit in a manner dependent on a target distance measured by the distance measuring device and contains for this stored calibration coefficients with regard to focusing optical unit positions to be set in a target-distance-dependent manner.
US09674415B2
A time of flight camera system is described. The time of flight camera system includes an illuminator. The illuminator has a movable optical component to scan light within the time-of-flight camera's field of view to illuminate a first region within the field of view that is larger than a second region within the time-of-flight camera's field of view that is illuminated at any instant by the light. The illuminator also includes an image sensor to determine depth profile information within the first region using time-of-flight measurement techniques.
US09674412B2
A circuit-carrying assembly for use in an imaging system, the assembly comprising a first circuit carrier; a second circuit carrier spaced apart from the first circuit carrier; at least one attachment member to attach the circuit-carrying assembly to a rigid support member; and a compliant part between the first circuit carrier and the second circuit carrier, the compliant part allowing the second circuit carrier to move towards and away from the first circuit carrier.
US09674408B2
An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, and a controller configured to drive a focus unit so that a first position is focused, to acquire first information on a first refocusable range that is available in an image that is captured while the first position is being focused by the focus unit, to acquire second information on a second refocusable range that contains the first position, to acquire information on a second position on which the focus unit is to be focused so as to provide the second refocusable range using the first information and the second information, and make the image sensor capture an image while the second position is being focused by the focus unit.
US09674407B2
A guidance system (10) is provided for interactive image capture for use with a device (12) having a camera (14) with a camera lens(s) 16. The system (10) includes a housing (20) configured to be mounted on the device (12), and a light source (22) mounted in the housing (20). The housing (20) and the light source (22) are configured to project a lighted boundary (24) onto a surface (26) in response to a control signal, with the boundary (24) defining a region of image capture (27) by the camera (14). The light source (22) is configured to selectively project the boundary (24) in a first color and to selectively project the boundary (24) in a second color, with the first and second colors providing feedback information to a user regarding the statue of image capture by the camera.
US09674403B2
A color look-up-table (LUT) is created for use by an imaging system which uses a resource to display an image and/or provides an attribute of the image. A method of creating the LUT, comprises selecting a threshold value of resource usage and/or metric of the attribute. A predetermined color look-up-table representing a mapping from color values of a first color gamut to color values displayable by the imaging system is accessed. The predetermined color look-up-table has nodes defining colors to be displayed for the said color values. Resource usage and/or attribute values associated with the said nodes are compared with the threshold value thereby determining the set of nodes of the predetermined gamut having a resource usage and/or attribute values less than the threshold value. A new look-up-table is created which maps the said predetermined color gamut look-up-table to the said set of nodes.
US09674400B2
Methods and systems herein provide for color conversion of image data to another color space. Such color conversion includes converting image data to a color space by identifying color regions in the image data. One color conversion system herein includes a color region identifier operable to select color values in the image data, determine numerical centers of the selected color values, and generate color regions, or color value “clusters”, based on the selected color values and the numerical centers. The color conversion system also includes an optimization module operable to refine the numerical center of each color region, determine a boundary for each color region based on the refined center, and remove a portion of the color cluster centers to optimize a number of the color regions for color conversion processing.
US09674399B2
A method including the steps of selecting an n-ink model for a color device, for transferring a set of colorant values in colorant space to a set of color values in color space; selecting a printer characteristic of the n-ink model, wherein the printer characteristic indicates the regularity of the n-ink model; evaluating, for the n-ink model, a set of one or more values and/or ranges for the printer characteristic, thus determining the regularity of the n-ink model; and modifying the n-ink model such that the modified n-ink model is regular, if, based on the evaluation, the n-ink model was not regular.
US09674391B1
A system and method render see-saw scalable gloss effect image patterns on a recording medium by using to two colors to provide one region with a relatively smooth surface, while a second region has a relatively rougher surface. A third region is added composed of a color different than the first two, wherein the third region has a relatively smooth surface where it intersects with the first region and a relatively rougher surface where it intersects with the second region. As the rendered recording medium is tilted at different angles, the image patterns thereon toggle to create a see-saw effect.
US09674387B2
An image forming device includes an image forming section, a sheet discharging section that discharges a sheet formed an image to outside of the device, a conveying path that conveys a sheet, a reading section that reads the image formed on the sheet on the conveying path leading from the image forming section to the sheet discharging section and outputs image data, and a control section that controls formation of the image to sequentially form images on sheets at a predetermined cycle, and the control section receives the image data, can execute a plurality of types of image analysis processes on the image data and can select and execute one or more types of image analysis processes which can be executed among the plurality of types of image analysis processes for a predetermined number of the sheets.
US09674385B2
There is provided a further saving in power consumption which is achieved by establishing an optimal transition from an ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode. A mode switching management part (11c) as a mode switching part, while a communication of a managing part (11a) as a communication part to a mobile terminal (20) is being established, maintains an ordinary operation mode and when the communication of the management part (11a) to the mobile terminal (20) terminates, switches from the ordinary operation mode to a power consumption saving mode before an elapse of a specified power consumption saving time period.
US09674382B2
Platens for imaging devices are disclosed. An example platen for an imaging device includes a body to be removably coupled to an upper surface of the imaging device. The body includes a first portion and a second portion opposite the first portion. An object whose image is to be captured is to be placed on the first portion.
US09674379B2
A relay apparatus to be connected through a network to a server apparatus configured to store image data and a communication apparatus configured to acquire the image data from the server and output an image based on the acquired image data, the relay apparatus includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive a request for acquiring location information from the communication apparatus; an acquiring unit configured to acquire the location information for acquiring the image data from the server apparatus upon receipt of the request; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the acquired location information to the communication apparatus.
US09674376B2
In a maintenance system, an image formation apparatus forms a diagnosis image on a medium for diagnosing the quality of an image, reads the diagnosis image to create diagnosis image data, and transmits the diagnosis image data to a maintenance apparatus. The maintenance apparatus generates an identification code for identifying the diagnosis image data, and transmits the identification code to the image formation apparatus. The image formation apparatus receives the identification code and notifies a user of the identification code.
US09674373B2
Systems and methods that generate a partial Charging Data Record (CDR) when charging transfers from a primary charging function to a secondary charging function due to a failure. In one embodiment, the system receives an interim accounting request for a session from a secondary charging function after charging was transferred from the primary charging function. The system then opens a new partial CDR for the session based on the interim accounting request. The system receives a prior partial CDR for the session from the primary charging function, parses the prior partial CDR to identify a CDR timestamp, and records a start time in the new partial CDR based on the CDR timestamp. The system parses the interim accounting request to identify an accounting timestamp for the session, records an end time in the new partial CDR based on the accounting timestamp, and closes the new partial CDR.
US09674366B2
A telephone call processing apparatus for a telephone system includes an exchange for receiving incoming telephone calls and switching said calls to selected respective agent workstations. The apparatus includes a routing function for connecting an incoming call from a caller to an agent workstation, and initiating a call from said apparatus to an external application platform, said call including data to enable a transaction call to be set up between said caller and said external application platform. A holding function maintains a call leg connection with said agent workstation whilst said call from said apparatus to said external application platform is initiated. A connection function connects a call from said external application platform to said agent workstation and establishing or maintaining a connection between said caller and said agent workstation for use whilst said transaction call is connected.
US09674363B1
Associating callers of a contact center with their social media identity may provide mutual benefits to the caller and contact center. For example, a business operating a contact center can receive information about their current and potential customers and customers can receive additional information, incentives, or other perks by allowing access to their social media profile. When a caller initially calls a contact center, they are prompted, and possibly incentivized, to provide a social media identity. The social media identity may or may not have an affinity with an organization on the social media website. If not, the caller is provided with the opportunity to establish the affinity. If the caller does establish the affinity, the call may be identified as having a positive sentiment or negative sentiment if the caller does not do so. The call, or future calls, with the caller may then be processed accordingly.
US09674361B2
Systems and methods are shown for organizing workbin tasks objects by priority, according to recent system conditions excluding objects that cannot presently be processed based on a workflow strategy or status data, and presenting remaining objects to an agent based on order of priority or workflow strategy.
US09674358B1
A real-time speech analytics system (“RSTA system”) detects speech during a call involving a contact center agent and a remote party. Upon detecting the speech, an event message is generated by the RTSA system and transmitted to a checkpoint and alert reporting module, which is configured to generate and update a checkpoint widget displayed to the agent. The checkpoint widget provides visual information regarding the status of the checkpoints encountered during the call. Checkpoint widgets may be stored for each call handled by an agent, and subsequently may be requested for display to a supervisor for reviewing of the agent's performance. Upon providing appropriate filter information, the selected widgets associated with the agent are displayed. By selecting a particular checkpoint indicator on a widget, audio from the call associated with that checkpoint is retrieved and streamed to the supervisor, thus allowing auditory review of that portion of the call.
US09674347B1
The mobile phone comprising a voice communication implementer, a stereo audio data output implementer, and a mobile phone updating implementer which updates a mobile phone battery controller, a mobile phone camera unit controller, a mobile phone microphone controller, a mobile phone speaker controller, or a mobile phone vibrator controller.
US09674343B2
A request to instantiate a first service is received. The first service is subject to policy constraints including a location. It is determined that a first set of resources at the location is required for instantiation of the first service. The first set of resources is reallocated to the first service from a second service. The first service is instantiated at the location utilizing the first set of resources reallocated.
US09674334B2
Alarm messages are transmitted to subscriber terminals of a radio communication system by signalling the alarm presence through a control channel to the subscriber terminals by at least one base station of the radiocommunication system using at least one system information item. Upon reception of the system information item by the subscriber terminals, the subscriber terminals transmit at least one respective recorded alarm signal.
US09674328B2
A recipient computing device can receive a speech utterance to be processed by speech recognition and segment the speech utterance into two or more speech utterance segments, each of which can be to one of a plurality of available speech recognizers. A first one of the plurality of available speech recognizers can be implemented on a separate computing device accessible via a data network. A first segment can be processed by the first recognizer and the results of the processing returned to the recipient computing device, and a second segment can be processed by a second recognizer implemented at the recipient computing device.
US09674320B2
Systems and methods for enabling radio-frequency communication of a modular mobile electronic device
A system for enabling RF communication of a modular mobile electronic device includes a set of antennas that enable RF communication of modules removably coupled to the modular mobile electronic device and an antenna control system, including an antenna routing system, wherein the antenna routing system controls electrical coupling between the set of antennas and the modular mobile electronic device, wherein the antenna tuning system is integrated into a chassis of the modular mobile electronic device.
US09674319B2
A detection method, used in a network system, for detecting an online state of a server, includes a host generating a discover packet according to a media access control address of a network interface card of the server and transmitting the discover packet to the network system; and the host capturing the server internet protocol address in at least one offer packet when receiving the at least one offer packet corresponding to the discover packet, and storing the server internet protocol address in a detection result file.
US09674311B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate compressing headers for relay nodes. In particular, a robust header compression (RoHC) profile can be defined for general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) headers. Upon receiving a packet with one or more GTP headers, an access point or relay node can determine whether the one or more GTP headers are compressible and can apply the RoHC profile to compress the one or more GTP headers. In addition, the packet can include a baseheader encapsulated by the one or more GTP headers, which can also be compressed according to a RoHC profile specific to the baseheader. Moreover, RoHC compressed headers can be decompressed according to the GTP RoHC profile.
US09674305B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus that receives, over a network from a computing device being used by a user, a request to configure a first software module host with respect to a software module, the first software module host associated with the user. The apparatus transmits over the network to the computing device instructions to configure, for display by the computing device, the first software module host in accordance with the request. The apparatus computer transmits over the network to the computing device instructions to apply the same configuration with respect to the software module to a second software module host, the second software module host also associated with the user.
US09674292B2
In some examples, a service bus may include one or more computing devices configured to translate requests from one or more client applications to one or more proxy services. According to at least one example, a system may create a resource object based at least in part on a template. The template may be associated with configuration information that may identify at least one parameter associated with a third-party application. In some examples, the third-party application may be a web service or a client application. Additionally, the system may generate a message flow based at least in part on the resource object. The system may also process a request, from the third-party application, based at least in part on the message flow. Further, the system may provide a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the template, the GUI configured to enable input of the configuration information.
US09674288B2
A controller (node) divides all nodes connected to a network into several network groups, and gives the division network groups network identification numbers for identifying them. A token frame contains a network identification number. This network identification number enables data to be shared among all the nodes connected to the network while a token for each network group is circulated only in the network group.
US09674285B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises using a first hub device: establishing one or more secure connections with one or more spoke devices logically arranged as spokes with respect to a data processing system; generating and sending via a high-speed link a hub probe to a second hub device; in response to determining that the second hub device is nonresponsive, transmitting, to the one or more spoke devices a first communication indicating that the second hub device is nonresponsive; using a spoke device, receiving the first communication indicating that the second hub device is nonresponsive; determining whether the spoke device has established a secure connection with the second hub device; in response to determining that the spoke device has established the secure connection with the second hub device, selecting a third hub device, establishing a secure connection with the third hub device, and communicating with the third hub device.
US09674279B2
A network system for allocating service nodes to a user terminal to login a network may comprises a gateway node, a plurality of service nodes, a sampling terminal, a gateway node, and a login node. The system may receive service nodes information of the plurality of service nodes from the sampling terminal; obtain from the sampling terminal network quality sampling data associating with each of the plurality of service nodes; identify the gateway node corresponding to the sampling terminal; select a plurality of candidate service nodes from the plurality of service nodes based on the network quality sampling data; obtain network quality parameters between each of the plurality of candidate service node and the gateway node; select a target service node from the plurality of candidate service nodes based on the network quality sampling data and the candidate node network quality parameters; and allocate the target service node to the gateway node.
US09674276B2
A method and system of virtual multicasting content is disclosed. The method and system disclosed enable the receipt of virtual multicast content without requiring the expensive investment in the infrastructure necessary for a network to be multicast enabled. The virtual multicasting may be performed according to a method of virtual multicasting multicast content on non-multicast enabled networks, comprising the steps of determining if an attached network is multicast enabled, if the attached network is not totally multicast enabled, querying for virtual multicast requests for the multicast content from non-multicast enabled client computers, listening for virtual multicast requests, and determining, based on the virtual multicast requests, which client computers request the multicast content, from the unicast addresses, and the requested methods of delivery for the multicast content. The network includes client computers that have unicast addresses and the at least one virtual multicast request includes a unicast address identifying a client computer of the network and a requested method of delivery for the multicast content.
US09674274B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing a variation of digital content that is based on a client-specified context token. Localized digital assets, e.g., graphics resources, video resource, audio resources, and text string resources, are stored as a collection of records and are dynamically linked to a assemble a software system based on the client-specified context token to generate the variation of digital content. The client receives the assembled variation of the digital content including the localized digital assets specified by the client-provided context.
US09674268B2
A system and method for providing or maintaining data and application continuity in a computer system. According to an embodiment, the system comprises a communication interface for a client system, a network layer for receiving data from the client system, a hardware infrastructure for creating instances of the client system for replicating data, and an applications module for executing one or more applications on the replicated data. According to a further aspect, the system includes a portal interface configured for providing a remote user with control, audit and other functions associated with the user's system configuration.
US09674267B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses that hide latency during an interaction between an attacking client device platform and a defending client device platform in a multiplayer game played over a network. The attacking client device platform predicts a successful attack will be made and delivers a hit event to the defending client device platform. In order to provide additional time to wait for a hit reply from the defending client device platform the attacking client device platform initiates an altered animation mode that lengthens the run-time of the animation. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09674263B2
One method for managing remote display performance includes operations for embedding pixel data in a file of an application executing on a server, and detecting an open window of a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with the application. The pixel data is used to create a pixel strip in the window, while the GUI is being displayed on a remote display of a remote client. Update information for the GUI being displayed on the remote display is transmitted from the server to the remote client, the update information corresponding to the change in the presentation of the open window on the server. Further, a change in a presentation of the open window is detected, and a pixel strip received at the remote display is identified. A performance metric for the remote display is calculated based on the received pixel strip when compared to the expected values for the pixel strip.
US09674255B1
Media devices may stream a wide variety of content for presentation. Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for improving the presentation of the content. The media device may execute a pipeline architecture comprising a sequential execution of a plurality of threads. The threads may include a decryption thread, a decoding thread, and a rendering thread. The media device may include buffer queues between the threads, which enable continuous content presentation when one or more of the threads fail to communicate with another thread. The media device may pause the presentation of content by suspending the execution of the rendering thread. In one implementation, the media device replaces a stale frame that is displayed after performing a seek function with a black frame. In another example, to maintain content presentation, the media device drops video frames if an audio video lag event occurs.
US09674248B2
A system and method for modifying media stream based on a channel limitation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a channel analyzer, a modality of interest (MOI) identification module and an inter-modality resolution modification module. The channel analyzer determines a channel limitation. The MOI identification module receives a plurality of media streams and identifies at least one MOI. The inter-modality resolution modification module modifies a resolution of at least one of the media streams based on the channel limitation and content of the media streams. In another embodiment, the system includes a region of interest identification (ROI) module and an intra-modality resolution modification module instead of, or in addition to, the MOI identification module and inter-modality resolution modification module. The ROI identification module receives a media stream and identifies at least one ROI within the media stream.
US09674229B2
A method of operating a first communication device (3) for receiving a media data stream (64) from at least one second communication device (5) in a telecommunications system. The first communication device (3) exchanging with the at least one second communication device (5) Session Initiation Protocol, SIP, messages (60, 62, 63, 64, 67, 70) during a SIP dialogue. The SIP messages (67, 70) including a late media indicator (68, 71) that includes an indication that the media stream (64) continues (72) after the SIP dialogue has terminated, or an indication (75) of support of receiving media stream after the SIP dialogue has terminated. The SIP dialogue controls the media data stream (64, 72). The first communication device (3) receives the media data stream (64, 72) from the second communication device (5). The first communication device (3) continues to receive the media data stream (72) after the SIP dialogue has ended.
US09674228B2
A method of encapsulating data units of at least one encoded video frame into a data stream, said data units representing frame portions of the video frame, wherein said data stream is associated with an ordering information indicating the compliance of the order of the data units with a nominal data unit decoding order. Embodiments of the invention provide flexible transmission with robust and flexible decoders.
US09674200B2
An identity federation and security token translation module and method for operable engagement with a web application or an internet information service (IIS). A first server includes computer-executable instructions defining the identity federation and security token translation module for managing and facilitating a creation of a custom security principal object for a user requesting access to the web application. A data cache stores the custom security principal object in a non-transitory computer readable media. The identity federation and security token translation module may be changed without making changes to the web application or the IIS.
US09674192B2
A method for providing user access to a network switch appliance, includes: receiving from a user a request to access configuration item for the network switch appliance, the network switch appliance configured to pass packets received from a network to network monitoring instruments; and determining, using a processing unit, whether to allow the user to access the configuration item for the network switch appliance based on information regarding the user.
US09674189B1
A method includes receiving a first message that includes a first relational key element based on a first group element, and a second relational key element based on the first group element and raised to the power of a first plaintext value. The method also includes receiving a second message that includes a third relational key element based on a second group element, and a fourth relational key element based on the second group element and raised to the power of a second plaintext value. The method additionally includes comparing the first message to the second message without decryption of the first or second messages and, based on the comparison, determining that the first plaintext value and the second plaintext value are the same.
US09674181B2
The disclosure is related to a surveillance camera renting service. A service server may provide the surveillance camera renting service through receiving an image having an authentication pattern, captured by and transmitted from a surveillance camera and transmitting a video stream, produced by and transmitted from the surveillance camera, to user equipment authenticated based on the authentication pattern included in the received image.
US09674180B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, system and machine-readable media for dynamically providing identity management or other services. According to one embodiment, dynamically providing services can comprise receiving a request related to an unknown principal. A service to which the principal is known can be selected. Once a service to which the principal is known has been located, an identity management result can be obtained from the selected service. The method can further comprise determining based on the identity management result whether the principal is authorized to access a requested resource. In response to determining the principal is authorized, the requested resource can be accessed.
US09674177B1
A personal computing device, server or other type of processing device authenticates a user attempting to access a protected resource by verifying user knowledge of one or more extracted characteristics of stored information indicative of an internal operating state of that resource. The one or more extracted characteristics are characteristics that would likely be known to the user if that user had made one or more previous authenticated accesses to the protected resource. For example, the extracted characteristics may be indicative of a manner in which the user had utilized the protected resource during the one or more previous authenticated accesses to the protected resource. The processing device receives input from the user regarding the one or more extracted characteristics, and grants or denies access to the protected resource based at least in part on the input received from the user.
US09674174B2
An application management agent running on a wireless communications device restricts access to device functionality (e.g., applications and device features) unless the application management agent has determined that a particular configuration profile has been installed on the device (after which the application management agent permits access to device functionality, and an operating system of the device enforces policy settings specified in the configuration profile). The application management agent confirms the presence of the configuration profile by initiating an SSL handshake with a client certificate request for a client SSL certificate embedded in the configuration profile. Validation against the embedded client SSL certificate implicitly confirms the presence of the configuration profile and validates the content of the configuration profile.
US09674170B2
Secret information, such as seeds, codes, and keys, can be automatically renegotiated between at least one sender and at least one recipient. Various mechanisms, such as counters, events, or challenges, can be used to trigger automatic renegotiations through various requests or communications. These changes can cause the current secret information to diverge from older copies of the secret information that might have been obtained by unintended third parties. In some embodiments, a secret can be configured to “decay” over time, or have small changes periodically introduced that can be determined to be valid by an authorized party, but can reduce the effectiveness of prior versions of the secret information.
US09674158B2
Methods are provided for authenticating user authentication data, associated with a user ID, at an authentication system. The authentication system comprises an authentication server connected to a network, and a secure cryptoprocessor operatively coupled to the authentication server. A first token for the user ID is provided in data storage operatively coupled to the authentication server. The first token is produced by the secure cryptoprocessor by encoding the user authentication data associated with the user ID via an encoding process dependent on a secret key of the secure cryptoprocessor. The authentication server receives an authentication request for the user ID from a remote computer via the network. The authentication request comprises a ciphertext encrypting user authentication data under a public key of a first public-private key pair, the private key of which is secret to the secure cryptoprocessor. The authentication server supplies the ciphertext to the secure cryptoprocessor which decrypts the ciphertext using this private key to obtain plaintext user authentication data. The authentication server retrieves the first token for the user ID from the data storage. The authentication system checks for equality of the plaintext user authentication data and the user authentication data encoded in the first token via a cryptographic processing operation in which the authentication data is not exposed outside the secure cryptoprocessor. In response to such equality, the authentication server sends an authentication confirmation message to the remote computer via the network.
US09674156B2
A future proof method and system for securely transferring digital data from a data owner to a data assignee through a third party involving securely registering the data owner possessing the digital data with the third party and securely predefining to the third party a trigger event associated with a data assignee, registering the data assignee with the third party, receiving encrypted digital data and an encrypted trigger event associated with the data assignee transmitted from the data owner to the third party, and securely transferring and releasing the digital data to the at least one data assignee by the third party upon validation by the third party of the occurrence of the trigger event in such a manner that digital data can be used by data assignee on data assignee system.
US09674153B2
A secure data processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The secure data processing apparatus is operable to securely process user data provided by a user and includes a trusted domain having a trusted bus; a trusted domain controller coupling the trusted bus with an untrusted bus of an untrusted domain, the trusted domain controller being operable to ensure that encrypted incoming user data received over the untrusted bus is decrypted and provided over the trusted bus as the incoming user data and to ensure that outgoing user data is encrypted and provided over the untrusted bus as encrypted outgoing data. The trusted domain controller that only encrypted data is provided in the untrusted domain reducing the chance of the data being compromised. The trusted domain controller ensures that access to the unencrypted data within the trusted domain can be avoided. Confidentiality of the data can be assured without performance shortfalls.
US09674149B2
A system and method may handle the supervision of the connectivity of a virtual private network (VPN) of a mobile device that is configured to connect through a plurality of network interfaces. A server may configure the mobile device to send a request for data item. The server may track the response of the mobile device to the request. According to one embodiment, the VPN may not be connected through a preferred network interface, while such interface is available. In such case, the data item may be routed through the preferred network and therefore not received by the VPN server within a predetermined period of time. According to another embodiment, the server may identify an internal IP address of the data item. The server may be configured to determine the current network interface based on the internal IP address. The server may disconnect the VPN to permit the VPN to reconnect through the preferred network interface.
US09674144B1
IP reflection comprising double static NAT (network address translation) is disclosed. In some embodiments, a packet having a public IP address is received at a protecting network. The public IP address of the packet is translated to a corresponding protected IP address associated with a protected network, and the packet is forwarded to the protected network for servicing. The protected IP address of a response to the packet from the protected network is translated back to the public IP address at the protected network before sending.
US09674142B2
The disclosure is related to monitoring data traffic of user equipment through a monitoring node. A monitoring node may receive a data packet from user equipment registered for a monitoring service through a secure channel. The monitoring node may perform a monitoring operation on the received data packet and determine whether the received data packet is a malicious packet or a non-malicious packet. When the received data packet is a non-malicious packet, the monitoring node may transmit the data packet to a destination through a communication network.
US09674139B2
Presented herein are techniques to detect a misconfigured duplicate Internet Protocol (IP) address in a distributed data center network fabric. A network topology is provided that includes a plurality of network elements. A network element receives a configuration message comprising an IP address from a first host associated with the first network element. The IP address is detected to already be in use by a second host associated with a second network element. A request message is provided to the second network element, the request message configured to cause the second network element to attempt to contact the second host. A reply message is received from the second network element. If the reply message indicates that the second host exists at the second network element, an indication of a misconfiguration event is generated. Otherwise, the IP address is associated with the first host.
US09674135B2
In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content.
US09674132B1
System, methods, and user interface for managing emails and other message communications are disclosed as solutions for reducing confusion and avoiding mistakes in communications when replying to a message with multiple recipients. The mode of replying either to the sender only or to multiple recipients is first detected, and notifications and user interface objects are displayed to help the user to make sure the message is sent to the intended recipient, and to easily correct a mistake and switch the mode of reply for enhanced productivity. The notification can be displayed based on the user actions or based on the results of a text analysis of the content of the message.
US09674130B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit.
US09674129B1
A system comprises email message parsing circuitry, tracking code suspect analyzer circuitry, and message modification circuitry. The email message parsing circuitry is operable to, after reception of an email message via a SMTP connection and prior to the email message being made available in an inbox of a recipient of the email message, scan the email message to extract a tracking code suspect. The tracking code suspect analyzer circuitry is operable to analyze the tracking code suspect to determine, based on one or more characteristics of the tracking code suspect, whether the tracking code suspect is tracking code and, upon a determination that the tracking code suspect is tracking code, notify the message modification circuitry. The message modification circuitry is operable to replace the tracking code suspect in the email message with replacement content.
US09674120B2
The present disclosure is a method and apparatus for generating a suggested message. In one embodiment, a method for generating a suggested message includes monitoring, by an application server, a first device operated by a first user, detecting, by the application server, a triggering event relevant to the first user, and automatically generating the suggested message in response to the triggering event, where the suggested message is addressed to a second user.
US09674116B2
A method includes operating a packet flow module including a plurality of ports, each of the plurality of ports including at least a pair of bidirectional and logically independent communications channels. An apparatus includes a packet flow module including a plurality of ports, each of the plurality of ports including at least a pair of bidirectional and logically independent communications channels.
US09674105B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for applying a platform code level update to update a source partition in a computing system. Computational resources in the computing system are allocated to a destination partition. A code load is applied to the destination partition to implement an updated platform code level comprising an update to the platform code level on the source partition while the source partition is operational and processing computing requests. Submission of new transactions to the source partition is blocked in response to applying the code load to the destination partition. An operational environment and system state at the source partition are migrated to the destination partition in response to blocking submission of new transactions to the source partition. Transactions are directed to the destination partition intended for the source partition in response to migrating the operational environment and system state to the destination partition.
US09674099B2
An operating system implements classes of network streams. Applications assign their network streams to the classes. The operating system, in turn, regulates the streams according to which classes the streams are in. As conditions change, network resources may be made available or more fully utilized by regulating streams according to which classes they have been assigned to. Network resources may be made available, perhaps rapidly or preemptively, for streams in higher priority classes by restricting streams in lower priority classes.
US09674095B2
A communication node disposed on a packet transfer path through which packets flow between an end of a transmitting side and an end of a receiving side according to a specific protocol under which flow control and congestion control using a window size are performed, the communication node including a communication interface configured to perform processing for receiving a packet from a link on the transfer path and processing for transmitting a packet to the link, a storage device configured to store a queue in which a packet in accordance with the specific protocol received from the link or a packet in accordance with the specific protocol transmitted to the link is temporarily accumulated, and a controller configured to adjust a period of time for retaining the packet accumulated in the queue on the basis of the current bandwidth of the link on the receiving side.
US09674091B2
A method and system for detecting congestion in a network of nodes, abating the network congestion, and identifying the cause of the network congestion is provided. A congestion detection system may comprise a detection system, an abatement system, and a causation system. The detection system monitors the performance of network components such as the network interface controllers and tiles of routers to determine whether the network is congested such that a delay in delivering packets becomes unacceptable. Upon detecting that the network is congested, an abatement system abates the congestion by limiting the rate at which packets are injected into the network from the nodes. Upon detecting that the network is congested, a causation system may identify the job that is executing on a node that is the cause of the network congestion.
US09674081B1
Methods and apparatus for using dynamic programming to determine the most efficient mapping of a pipeline of virtual flow tables (VFTs) onto a pipeline of physical flow tables (PFTs) in the data plane of a software-defined networking (SDN) device are described. One example method of determining a configuration for an SDN device generally includes receiving a representation of a series of one or more VFTs, each of the VFTs having one or more properties; receiving a representation of a series of one or more PFTs for hardware of the SDN device, each of the PFTs having one or more capabilities; generating, using dynamic programming based on the properties of the VFTs and the capabilities of the PFTs, a mapping of the series of VFTs onto the series of PFTs; and outputting the generated mapping for implementation on the hardware of the SDN device.
US09674076B2
Embodiments relate to setting up direct mapped routers located across independently managed compute and storage networks for enabling multiple modes of communication over the cross-coupled links between the networks. An aspect includes identifying a characteristic of a local entity based on a unique location identifier assigned to the local entity and learning a characteristic of a remote entity based on a location identifier received over a cross-coupled link between the local entity and the remote entity. A port on a local entity router is then correlated with the received location identifier of the remote entity. A route is then built in the direct mapped router table at a location pointed to by the location identifier of the remote entity. An optimistic failover route is established from a storage entity to a compute entity when a cross-coupled link between the storage entity and the compute entity is broken.
US09674069B2
A messaging system comprises a plurality of connected components and including a schema defining fields for messages, at least one field defined as non-essential. A mechanism for operating the messaging system comprises the steps of collecting one or more performance metrics for one or more components of the messaging system, determining that at least one performance metric has crossed a predetermined threshold, informing one or more components of the messaging system that a surge in workload has occurred, and the informed components removing non-essential fields from transmitted messages and/or not processing non-essential fields from received messages.
US09674067B2
A method includes periodically sending a polling call to an enterprise system outside the firewall at a first polling rate during normal operating conditions, monitoring for a fault condition, periodically sending polling calls to the device outside the firewall at a second polling rate when a fault condition is detected, the second polling rate being higher than the first polling rate. The second polling rate is used as result of a fault condition. The method also includes sending a problem report with the polling calls when the fault condition is detected.
US09674058B2
A time series data processing device for processing time series data that is a sequence of data received from a system that is a processing target over time includes a time series data search processing unit that receives, for details of the time series data and occurrence time information, a time series data search condition including events of a plurality of the time series data and an interval condition that is a condition of time intervals of the events occurring, and changes the interval condition using an allowable time lag that is allowable time of a set time lag in a transmission source of the time series data to thereby reflect the set time lag in the time series data search condition; and a data monitoring unit that monitors the time series data received from the system that is the processing target, using the time series data search condition changed by the time series data search processing unit.
US09674053B2
A method of identifying targets for monitoring includes: obtaining a user-defined filter map, the user-defined filter map having one or more filter rules for matching against network traffic when the user-defined filter map is used by a network system to process the network traffic; and determining a set of one or more targets by a processing unit based at least in part on the user-defined filter map, wherein the processing unit comprises a target selection module configured to access a list of available targets from a database, and select the one or more targets from the list of available targets based at least in part on the user-defined filter map.
US09674051B2
An address generation section (111) receives an acquisition request including a file name of a target content and a device ID of a device (113) as a place where the target content is stored, from an application execution section (112) that executes a viewing application. Then, the address generation section (111) specifies the current file path and IP address of the target content in content information and device information each managed by a management section (107) on the basis of the received acquisition request, and generates an acquisition address for acquiring the target content from the device (113) on the basis of the specified file path and IP address.
US09674046B2
A controller node in a network implementing software defined networking (SDN) proactively detects network overload conditions in a target node and subsequently prevents the conditions from developing by launching a new virtual network node. The detection and prevention are based on the determination of a probability of failure of the target node as a weighted function of information from the target node and probabilities of failure of related nodes.
US09674030B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises of a control module implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device that is configured to receive, via a network and from a wireless access point or an access network node, a control packet defined based on a control protocol. The control packet is associated with at least one control function of the wireless access point or access network node. The control module is configured to determine a status of an access network node based on the control packet from the access network node. The control module is configured to send via the network, a response to the access network node based on the status of the access network node.
US09674027B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting/receiving contents through a network such as the Internet, and to a transmitter/receiver using same, the transmission method comprising the following steps: converting content stored in a file format into a delivery format; and converting the content transformed into the delivery format using an IP packet, wherein the file format includes an f-type (ftyp) box for storing information on a file type, an mdat box for storing audio or video data, and a moov box for storing information on data stored in the mdat box, and wherein composition information on at least one program that configures the content is included in either the mdat box or the moov box file format.
US09674019B2
Disclosed herein is a method of transmitting a broadcasting signal. The method comprises formatting input streams into at least one data transmission channel, encoding data corresponding to each of data transmission channel carrying service data or service component data, building at least one signal frame comprising the encoded data, modulating the at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and transmitting a broadcasting signal comprising the at least one modulated signal frame.
US09674016B2
An up-conversion mixer includes a mixer cell having at least one output node configured to generate an output. The up-conversion mixer further includes an input stage coupled to the mixer cell, the input stage configured to receive an input signal and to produce a local minimum in a third order harmonic of the output with respect to an input power. The up-conversion mixer further includes a power supply input configured to receive a power supply voltage and a ground, and a maximum number of transistor stages between the power supply input and the ground is two.
US09674009B2
An on-chip AC coupled receiver with offset calibration. The receiver includes AC coupling circuitry to couple a differential input signal into a coupled differential signal having a first signal and a second signal. The receiver includes a first comparator to generate a first error signal indicative of whether a first reference signal is greater or smaller than a signal derived from the coupled differential signal. The receiver includes a second comparator to generate a second error signal indicative of whether a second reference signal is greater or smaller than the signal derived from the coupled differential signal. The receiver further includes feedback circuitry to adjust a voltage offset between the first signal and the second signal of the coupled differential signal based on the first error signal and the second error signal.
US09674002B2
A method performed by a first device for estimating a radio channel between the first device and a second device in a telecommunications system is provided. The first device receives common pilot signals and demodulation signals over the radio channel in transmissions from the second device. Then, the first device estimates the radio channel based on the common pilot signals and the demodulation pilot signals and determines the radio channel based on the common pilot signals and the demodulation pilot signals. A first device for estimating a radio channel between the first device and a second device in a telecommunications system is also described.
US09673992B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a network as well as a local network comprising network components and to network components, in particular of a home network, where a functional command is generated, which is configured to execute an assigned function in a network station, wherein a user identification, which is derived from the collected user data, is assigned to the functional command, the assigned user identification is evaluated in the network station in response to executing the functional command and the functional command is executed when, in response to the evaluation of the corresponding user identification, it is established that the functional command is approved in connection with the assigned user identification.
US09673979B1
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for hierarchical, deterministic, one-time login tokens are provided herein. A method includes generating a plurality of items of key information comprising a first item of key information and a second item of key information that is derived from the first item of key information; attributing a distinct authorization level to the plurality of items of key information to create a modified version of the first item of key information and a modified version of the second item of key information; providing the modified version of the first item of key information to a first cryptographic device to be used in an authentication request associated with a second cryptographic device; and providing the modified version of the second item of key information to the second cryptographic device to be used in an authentication request with the first cryptographic device.
US09673975B1
Encrypting data using a private key, and encrypting the private key by generating a first encrypted version of the private key using a first master key, and generating a second encrypted version of the private key using a second master key. The first master key is split into shares including a user input key share derived from user authentication data, and the second master key is split into shares including a remote key share stored on a remote server. Data access when the device is offline is provided by reconstructing the first master key using the user input key share, in order to decrypt the first encrypted version of the private key. Data access when the device is online is provided by reconstructing the second master key using the remote key share, in order to decrypt the second encrypted version of the private key.
US09673971B2
An automatic calibration of a clock of a wireless portable part with respect to a clock of a fixed part in a field environment. The calibration performed in the field environment negates the need to calibrate the clock during manufacture and negates the need for an initial field recalibration because of temperature differences between manufacture and the field. In performing the calibration the frequency of the clock of the portable part is varied until the portable part is synchronous with the fixed part to with in a range of timing bits. The portable part is declared calibrated after remaining calibrated for a defined number of data frames.
US09673967B2
A method for estimating a time offset of a transmitted signal which comprises pilot symbols and data symbols, the method comprising: receiving the transmitted signal to produce a received signal; and processing an optimizing function of the received signal at a finite number of possible time offsets to produce an estimator of the time offset.
US09673959B2
A method that calibrates a device for echo cancellation and a device with calibration for echo cancellation are provided. Devices may be calibrated such that the echo residual error is less than a threshold determined by the calibration accuracy. Non-ideal factors such as mismatch may be eliminated during calibration.
US09673956B2
A spatial reuse prioritized channel access scheme is proposed to enhance the average throughput per station in a wireless network by optimizing spatial reuse. Spatial reuse capability (SRC) is defined as a monotonically decreasing function of co-channel interference signal strength from OBSSs. Higher spatial reuse capability can be transformed into higher data rate or less usage of airtime by using higher MCS or less interferences to OBSSs by reducing TX power. By allowing the stations that have larger spatial reuse capability to have higher probability to win channel access contention, the overall network throughput is enhanced.
US09673951B2
The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving channel quality indicator (CQI) information that relates to a channel aging effect in an environment where a time-varying channel characteristic is maximized, and a device supporting same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of reporting multi-channel quality indicator (CQI) information by a terminal in a wireless access system that supports an environment where a time-varying channel characteristic is maximized may include receiving a first reference signal, obtaining information on a first CQI by using the first reference signal, receiving a second reference signal, obtaining information on a second CQI by using the second reference signal, reporting the information on the first CQI, and reporting the information on the second CQI.
US09673949B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A filter bank-based channel state report and resource allocation method and an apparatus for use in a wireless communication system are provided. The channel state report method of a receiver in a filter bank-based wireless communication system includes receiving filter bank information on at least two filter banks from a transmitter, measuring a channel state of the each of at least two filter banks based on the filter bank information, and transmitting channel state information, which is generated based on the measurement result, to the transmitter.
US09673943B2
The present invention relates to a new Physical layer Protocol Data unit (PPDU) format and a transmission and reception method and apparatus using the new PPDU format in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for transmitting a PPDU frame to a reception apparatus by a transmission apparatus in a WLAN may be provided. The method may include generating a legacy preamble, generating a High Efficiency (HE)-preamble, and transmitting a PPDU frame including a first region and a second region to the reception apparatus, the first region including the legacy preamble and a first field and the second region including the HE-preamble. The first field may have a variable length, and the HE-preamble may include a High Efficiency-Short Training Field (HE-STF) following the first field.
US09673935B2
By inserting a symbol start tag at a start of a data segment corresponding to each symbol of a multimedia data stream, and by inserting frame start tags at starts of different frames in a start data segment, data signals belonging to different channels can be precisely and rapidly classified and decoded when the multimedia data stream is performed with demodulation.
US09673934B2
Communication apparatus includes a PHY interface, which is configured to receive over a communication link and to decode a sequence of symbols arranged in a series of data blocks. The PHY interface includes an error correction circuit, which when actuated, corrects errors in decoded data symbols using FEC symbols in the data blocks. The decoded data include data packets containing respective error detection codes. A memory buffers the data blocks received by the PHY interface. A data link layer interface receives the data packets from the PHY interface, checks the data packets using respective error detection codes, and upon detecting an error in a given data packet, signals the PHY interface to read from the memory at least one buffered data block that contains the given data packet while actuating the error correction circuit to correct the error using the FEC symbols in the at least one buffered data block.
US09673923B2
Described are systems and methods for communicating emergency alerts to a hearing-impaired user. Queries are performed to one or more emergency alert databases to develop emergency alert notifications. At least some of the emergency alert notifications are filtered responsive to user selected criteria to select one or more filtered emergency alerts. An attention desired indicator is transmitted to a hearing-impaired user device that subscribes to a hearing-impaired relay service supported by the server if the one or more filtered emergency alerts are present. The filtered emergency alerts are transmitted to the hearing-impaired user device in response to a emergency information query from that user device.
US09673919B2
Systems, methods, and devices for evaluating wireless signal quality between environmental sensing and control devices. A signal quality device includes a sensor module, one or more user control devices, one or more display devices, and a processing unit. The signal quality device is configured to generate a first signal following activation of at least one of the one or more user control devices, wirelessly transmit the first signal, receive a second signal in response to the first signal, and activate the one or more display devices to provide an indication of the signal quality of the first signal. A wireless environmental controller includes a processing unit and is configured to receive the first signal, determine the signal quality of the first signal, generate the second signal related to the signal quality of the first signal, and wirelessly transmit the second signal.
US09673914B2
A system and method sequentially measure the amplitude and phase of an output signal of a device under test in each of two or more frequency ranges which together span the output signal spectrum, using a local oscillator (LO) signal whose frequency changes for each measurement. The measured phase of the output signal is adjusted for at least one of the frequency ranges to account for a change of phase in the LO signal from measurement of one frequency range to another frequency range, including applying to the measured phase a phase offset determined by measuring the phase of a pilot tone using the LO signal before and after the frequency of the LO signal changes from measurement of one frequency range to another. The phase-adjusted measurements of the output signal in the two or more frequency ranges are stitched together to determine the amplitude and phase of the output signal across the output signal spectrum.
US09673903B2
The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving a visible light signal. The method includes the following steps: controlling use of a camera as a light signal receiver to capture a group of continuous images covering an emitter, where the emitter emits visible light signals; and obtaining, from the group of continuous images, a visible light signal that comes from the emitter. In the disclosure, because a camera is used to receive a visible light signal, a visible light communication function can be implemented in various devices or systems under a premise that no hardware is newly added or modified.
US09673899B2
There is provided a system and a method for determining an in-band noise parameter representative of the optical noise contribution (such as OSNR) on a polarization-multiplexed optical Signal-Under-Test (SUT) comprising two polarized phase-modulated data-carrying contributions and an optical noise contribution. For each of a multiplicity of distinct polarization-analyzer conditions, the SUT is analyzed to provide at least one polarization-analyzed component of the SUT and the polarization-analyzed component is detected with an electronic bandwidth at least ten times smaller than the symbol rate of the SUT to obtain a corresponding acquired electrical signal; for each acquired electrical signal, a value of a statistical parameter is determined from the ac component of the acquired electrical signal, thereby providing a set of statistical-parameter values corresponding to the multiplicity of distinct polarization-analyzer conditions; and, from the set of statistical-parameter values, the in-band noise parameter is mathematically determined.
US09673898B2
Validating a path in an optical layer of a communications network, for client traffic having an associated service level, involves setting an optical quality margin according to the service level associated with that client traffic. The optical quality margin indicates how close an estimated optical quality of the path can approach a level which produces a threshold error rate. This margin is used to check whether the estimated optical quality is within the optical quality margin set according to the client traffic service level. Making the optical quality margin dependent on client traffic service level, can enable increased optical reach. This can give more flexibility in path selection and enable better matching to service levels of client traffic.
US09673896B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for monitoring optical communications between a managed location and a remote location. In particular, an optical signal is transmitted over an optical fiber and passed-through a test device. A portion of the optical signal is filtered from the original optical signal and passed to a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit may instruct one or more switches in the test device to loop the optical signal back toward the managed location. Subsequently, testing and monitoring may be performed at the managed location. The device may provide a test output or may transmit the information to the managed location.
US09673888B2
A method and apparatus for establishing a communication link between a user terminal and a first satellite associated with a first satellite service are disclosed. The user terminal determines a position of the user terminal based, at least in part, on location information provided by a satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver associated with the user terminal, determines a reference azimuth of the user terminal based, at least in part, on a position of a second satellite associated with a second satellite service that is different than the first satellite service, obtains ephemeris data for the first satellite, and aligns a directional antenna of the user terminal with the first satellite based, at least in part, on the position of the user terminal, the reference azimuth of the user terminal, and the received ephemeris data.
US09673881B2
In a wireless communication system that performs non-linear pre-coding, degradation in transmission performance due to a feedback error is improved. The terminal device according to the present invention is a terminal device which receives radio signals that are space-multiplexed and on which non-linear pre-coding is performed, from a base station device including multiple antennas, the terminal device including: a channel state estimator 53 that estimates channel state information on a channel between the terminal device and the base station device; a terminal antenna module 51 that acquires a linear filter that is calculated in the base station device; and a channel equalization module 57 that performs channel equalization processing on the radio signals that are received at a first point in time, based on the channel state information at a second point in time that precedes the first point in time and on the linear filter.
US09673880B2
A pilot signal transmission method, a channel estimation method, and an apparatus are provided, and the method for a pilot signal transmission includes: transmitting a pilot signal 1 CPICH1 over a first antenna, and transmitting a pilot signal 2 CPICH2 over a second antenna; transmitting a pilot signal CPICHk1 over a k1th antenna; and when it is determined that a terminal of a first category in the MIMO system is scheduled, transmitting a pilot signal CPICHk2 over the k1th antenna. Interference caused by a pilot signal to a traditional terminal is better reduced, performance of the traditional terminal is ensured while the terminal of the first category properly works in the MIMO system, and power consumption for transmitting a pilot signal is effectively reduced.
US09673874B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a network device comprises a plurality of antenna elements, one or more hardware processors, and a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more hardware processors. The memory comprises selective beamforming grouping logic that, upon execution by the one or more processors, aggregates a plurality of beamforming-enabled client devices within a coverage area of the network device. Furthermore, the selective beamforming grouping logic further categorizes the plurality of beamforming-enabled client devices into a plurality of groups based on a data transfer rate level supported by each of the plurality of beamforming-enabled client devices, determines a subset of client devices within a first group of the plurality of groups associated with a lowest data transfer rate level, and applies transmit beamforming simultaneously or at least concurrently for each client device of the subset of client devices.
US09673868B2
A door frame has a first electromagnetic coil and a door lock has a second electromagnetic coil with a door bolt electromagnetically coupling together the first and second electromagnetic coils, thereby forming a transformer. Power is transferred from the door frame to door lock through the transformer. Communications from the door frame to the door lock may be provided by modulating electromagnetic energy to the first electromagnetic coil and demodulating the modulated electromagnetic energy received at the second electromagnetic coil. Communications from the door lock to the door frame may be provided by varying a load on the second electromagnetic coil and detecting the load change at the first electromagnetic coil.
US09673866B2
A communication system includes a first communication device that operates using a battery as a main power source and a second communication device that communicates with the first communication device. The second communication device includes a second high-speed data communication unit including a second data communication antenna and a second short-range communication unit including a second magnetic-field antenna for short-range communication. The first communication device includes a first short-range communication unit including a first magnetic-field antenna and a first high-speed data communication unit including a first data communication antenna. When an electromotive voltage of the battery lowers, switches are turned OFF and electric power from a power conversion circuit including a rectifying circuit and a DC-to-DC converter is supplied to a communication controller.
US09673865B2
A cyclocomputer includes: a body; a display provided on an upper surface of the body and displaying prescribed information; a storage provided in the body and storing therein data including at least a portion of the prescribed information; and an NFC tag provided in the body and allowing data communication with an NFC reader writer incorporated in a mobile wireless communication terminal. The cyclocomputer can transmit via the NFC tag to the mobile wireless communication terminal at least a portion of the data stored in the storage, and the cyclocomputer can receive from the mobile wireless communication terminal via the NFC tag at least a portion of other data stored in the mobile wireless communication terminal or input to the mobile wireless communication terminal via an operation unit of the mobile wireless communication terminal.
US09673856B1
Hidden channel hopping sequence based on swapping sequence offsets using allocated swapping schedule
In one embodiment, a method comprises: allocating, to each network device in a time slotted channel hopping network, a corresponding swapping schedule that maps the network device to different unique sequence offsets for different timeslots allocated to the corresponding network device, each unique sequence offset identifying a corresponding shifted position in a prescribed repeating channel hopping sequence relative to an epochal start of a linearly increasing timeslot value; and causing each network device to transmit according to its corresponding swapping schedule, enabling a channel hopping sequence of each network device to be undetectable relative to the prescribed repeating channel hopping sequence.
US09673855B2
An exemplary wireless communication network that includes a base that communicates with remote units located in a cell of the network. The base concatenates information symbols with a preamble corresponding to a destination remote unit. One or more remote units communicating with the base each concatenates information symbols with a preamble corresponding to that remote unit. An adaptive receiver system for a base unit rapidly adapts optimal despreading weights for reproducing information symbols transmitted from multiple remote units. A transmitter system for a base unit concatenates information symbols with a preamble associated with a remote unit in the cell. An adaptive receiver system for a remote unit in a communication network rapidly adapts optimal weights for reproducing a signal transmitted to it by a specific base unit in the network.
US09673853B2
Cascode power amplifier with voltage limiter. A power amplification system can include an input transistor having an input transistor gate configured to receive a radio-frequency (RF) signal, an input transistor source coupled to a ground voltage, and an input transistor drain. The power amplification can further include an output transistor having an output transistor drain configured to output an amplified version of the RF signal, an output transistor gate coupled to a bias voltage, and an output transistor source. The power amplification system can further include a high voltage limiter coupled between the output transistor drain and output transistor gate. The high voltage limiter can be configured to prevent a gate-drain voltage of the output transistor from exceeding a high voltage threshold.
US09673847B1
Apparatus and methods for transceiver calibration are provided. In certain configurations, a transceiver includes a transmit channel and an observation channel. The transmit channel includes a transmit mixer that up-converts a transmit signal by a first or transmit local oscillator frequency. The observation channel includes an observation mixer that down-converts an observed signal from the transmit channel by a second or observation local oscillator frequency that is offset from the first local oscillator frequency. By observing the transmit channel using a local oscillator frequency that is offset relative to the transmit channel's local oscillator frequency, the observation channel can observe transmit channel impairments substantially independently from observation channel impairments.
US09673838B2
A bit interleaving method applying a bit permutation process to a QC LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks of Q bits each, dividing the processed codeword into constellation words of M bits each, and applying an intra-cyclic-block permutation process to the cyclic blocks, where the codeword is divided into F×N/M folding sections of M/F cyclic blocks each and the constellation words are each associated with one of the folding sections, and the bit permutation process is applied such that the constellation words are each made up of F bits from each of M/F different cyclic blocks in the associated section, after the permutation process.
US09673833B1
Two sets of information (phase and cycle count) that are created asynchronously in a voltage controlled oscillator based analog-to-digital converter. A third set of information is created that is a delayed cycle count. The three sets of information are used to determine the proper alignment of the phase and the cycle count.
US09673829B1
Wideband polar receivers and method of operation are described. A phase-modulated input signal is received at a polar receiver that includes an injection-locked oscillator. The injection-locked oscillator includes a plurality of injection points. Based on the frequency of the input signal, a particular Nth harmonic is selected, and the input signal is injected at the set of injection points corresponding to the selected Nth harmonic. The injection-locked oscillator generates an oscillator output signal, and the phase of the input signal is determined from the phase of the oscillator output signal. In some embodiments, the oscillator output signal is frequency-multiplied by N, mixed with the input signal, and filtered for use in amplitude detection. The input signal is decoded based on the phase and amplitude information.
US09673828B1
Wideband polar receivers and method of operation are described. A phase-modulated input signal is received at a polar receiver that includes an injection-locked oscillator. The injection-locked oscillator includes a plurality of injection points. Based on the frequency of the input signal, a particular Nth harmonic is selected, and the input signal is injected at the set of injection points corresponding to the selected Nth harmonic. The injection-locked oscillator generates an oscillator output signal, and the phase of the input signal is determined from the phase of the oscillator output signal. In some embodiments, the oscillator output signal is frequency-multiplied by N, mixed with the input signal, and filtered for use in amplitude detection. The input signal is decoded based on the phase and amplitude information.
US09673821B1
Aspects of wide operating range level shifter designs are described. One embodiment includes a level shifter configured to receive an input signal in a first voltage domain and generate an output signal in a second voltage domain, a pulse generator configured to generate a pulse in response to sensing a rise transition on the input signal, and a droop circuit configured to decouple at least a portion of the level shifter from the second voltage domain in response to the pulse. According to one aspect of the embodiments, the pulse can be provided to the droop circuit to decouple at least a portion of the level shifter from the second voltage domain and reduce contention between transistors in the level shifter. Using the concepts described herein, the worst case rise time delay for level shifters can be significantly reduced.
US09673820B2
A scheme is described that provides for a low latency, glitch free chip interface that does not require a clock. This invention handles input transitions that are skewed and also input transitions that are momentary. A change in an input state initiates a pulse that propagates through the system and samples the new input state after a delay. If there is a difference between the sampled input state and the present input state, then a new pulse is initiated in order to avoid any illegal transitions at the output.
US09673814B2
A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device may output set signals. The second semiconductor device may generate a start signal in response to the set signals, generate an input control code and an output control code from the set signals in response to the start signal, generate a frequency determination signal including information on an operation frequency in response to the output control code, and control an internal operation in response to the frequency determination signal.
US09673811B2
A circuit for ensuring ultra-low power relay switching to control an AC load and extend a battery's lifetime. A control circuit may be designed to work where power is provided at very low duty cycles in that the on-time of applied voltage is quite short compared to its off-time. During the on-time, power such as that from a battery may be consumed to drive the circuit but overall such consumption of power is almost miniscule, for instance, a few microamperes or less from a three volt battery. An input FET may drive a pair of switching FETs that provide pulses to a transformer which provides a ramp of voltage that remains above zero volts to a pair of AC switch FETs. An output of the AC switch may go to operate relays of a wire saver for operating one or more thermostats.
US09673807B2
A gate voltage control apparatus is configured to perform first to third processes when turning off the gate type switching device. In the first process, the gate voltage is decreased to a value lower than a threshold value so as to increase a voltage between main terminals. In the second process, the gate voltage is controlled at a value higher than the threshold voltage after timing on which the voltage between the main terminals makes a peak value during the first process. In the third process, the gate voltage is decreased to a value equal to or lower than a threshold voltage while the voltage between the main terminals remains at a value lower than the peak value and higher than the on voltage during the second process.
US09673800B2
An analog switch circuit is disclosed. The analog switch circuit includes a MOSFET and a control switch. The MOSFET includes a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, and a body electrode. A gate bias is applied on the gate electrode to control whether the MOSFET is ON or OFF. The control switch includes a control terminal, a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. A control bias relating to the gate bias is applied to the control terminal so that the first terminal is connected to the second terminal when the MOSFET is ON, and the first terminal is connected to the third terminal when the MOSFET is OFF. The second terminal is connected to a first voltage source providing a first bias. The third terminal is connected to a second voltage source providing a second bias different from the first bias.
US09673791B2
A Schmitt trigger circuit according to an embodiment includes a voltage dividing circuit that divides an input voltage and outputs a divided voltage, and a basic Schmitt trigger circuit that includes a transistor as a current controlling element and controls current flowing through a light emitting diode (LED) included in an external photocoupler on the basis of the output voltage of the voltage dividing circuit proportional to the input voltage. The voltage dividing circuit has a positive temperature coefficient.
US09673790B2
A circuit includes a first differential ring-type oscillator, a second differential ring-type oscillator, and a coupling structure. The coupling structure capacitively couples the first and second differential ring-type oscillators. A method of synchronizing the first and second differential ring-type oscillators is also disclosed.
US09673783B2
A device includes a controller and an adaptive continuous-time filter that includes a control input and a first array of elements. The controller generates a digital word responsive to a time constant and compares a select bit of the digital word to a corresponding reference word to generate a control bit. The controller includes a duplicate array of elements, and applies the control bit to an adjustable element of the duplicate array of elements to modify the time constant. The controller provides the output word to the control input of the adaptive continuous-time filter to generate a filter response that accounts for effects of semiconductor process variation in the first array of elements.
US09673775B2
A circuit substrate includes a substrate body, an input signal line conductor with which the substrate body is provided and included in an input path, a first mounting portion provided on a main surface of the substrate body, included in a first output path and on which a high-pass filter including a lumped-parameter element is mounted, at least one first output signal line conductor with which the substrate body is provided and included in the first output path, and a second mounting portion provided on the main surface of the substrate body, included in a second output path and on which a low-pass filter including a lumped-parameter element is mounted. The first output signal line conductor provided farthest upstream in a signal propagation direction is connected to the input signal line conductor via a first lumped-parameter element mounted on the main surface of the substrate body.
US09673774B2
Apparatus and methods for high voltage variable capacitors are provided herein. In certain configurations, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a variable capacitor array and a bias voltage generation circuit that biases the variable capacitor array to control the array's capacitance. The variable capacitor array includes a plurality of variable capacitor cells electrically connected in parallel between a radio frequency (RF) input and an RF output of the IC. Additionally, each of the variable capacitor cells can include a cascade of two or more pairs of anti-series metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitors between the RF input and the RF output. The pairs of anti-series MOS capacitors include a first MOS capacitor and a second MOS capacitor electrically connected in anti-series. The bias voltage generation circuit generates bias voltages for biasing the MOS capacitors of the variable capacitor cells.
US09673771B2
A multilayer filter includes a plurality of mutually coupled resonant circuits provided within a multilayer body. Capacitor internal electrodes, inductor internal electrodes, and inductor via electrodes, ground via electrodes, and input-output via electrodes are arranged within the multilayer body. The ground via electrodes and the input-output via electrodes are provided on a dielectric layer on a mounting surface, or a second dielectric layer on a first dielectric layer provided on the mounting surface. The capacitor internal electrodes arranged towards the side of the mounting surface do not overlap the input-output electrodes when viewed in plan view. With this configuration, degradation in frequency characteristics of a resonant circuit is effectively prevented by controlling one of an inductive component and a capacitive component of the resonant circuit.
US09673769B2
A variable gain transconductance amplifier includes an amplifier transistor connected to an input node, a cascode transistor having a source connected to a drain of the amplifier transistor and having a drain connected to an output node, and a switching circuit connecting or disconnecting a node to which the amplifier transistor and the cascode transistor are connected to or from a fixed potential in a switchable manner. A variable gain circuit may include the variable gain transconductance amplifier.
US09673767B2
The present invention concerns a MEMS Microphone (1) comprising, a transducer element (2) for providing an electrical signal, a first part (3) for receiving the electrical signal from the transducer element (2) and for providing a processed signal, a second part (4) for receiving the processed signal from the first part (3) and for providing an output signal of the MEMS microphone (1), and a gain control unit (5) that is enabled to adjust a gain setting of the first part (3) and to adjust a gain setting of the second part (4). Further, another aspect of the present invention concerns a method of operating said MEMS microphone (1) comprising the step of adjusting a gain setting of the first part (3) and adjusting a gain setting of the second part (4).
US09673762B2
A variable ramp up/down gain in a pre-power stage block of an audio amplifier may be used to reduce audible pops and clicks output by the audio amplifier. A controller may adjust the variable ramp up/down gain during operation of the audio amplifier. The variable ramp up/down gain may be implemented as a pulse width modulation (PWM) modulator/generator with a ramp-up and ramp-down gain under control of the controller. The variable ramp up/down gain smooths transitions of the offset between a pre-power stage block and a feedback loop and thus can reduce audible pops and clicks by reducing the offset that is amplified in the power stage block of the audio amplifier.
US09673760B2
A power amplification device (1) according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a Doherty amplifier (10) that is adjusted to operate at a set frequency, a frequency comparator (11) that compares a supplied frequency being a frequency of an input signal RF_IN to the Doherty amplifier (10) with the set frequency, and a protection circuit (12) that sets an operating state of the Doherty amplifier (10) to inactive when the supplied frequency and the set frequency are different. It is thereby possible to protect the Doherty amplifier (10) when the input signal RF_IN with a frequency different from the set frequency is supplied.
US09673758B2
A differential amplification circuit may include a differential amplification unit including a first input transistor and a second input transistor, and suitable for differentially amplifying input signals inputted through the first and second input transistors; a first input control section suitable for turning off the first input transistor when the differential amplification circuit is disabled and transferring a first input signal to the first input transistor when the differential amplification circuit is enabled; and a second input control section suitable for turning off the second input transistor when the differential amplification circuit is disabled and transferring a second input signal to the second input transistor when the differential amplification circuit is enabled.
US09673748B2
A motor control circuit controls an operation of a motor based on an input voltage and a control parameter. A voltage-abnormality detection unit detects abnormality of the input voltage by comparing the input voltage with an allowable voltage range. A memory stores therein a plurality of allowable voltage range candidates made to correspond to a plurality of reference voltages and a plurality of control parameter candidates made to correspond to the plurality of reference voltages. A reference-voltage acquisition unit acquires reference voltage information specifying one of the plurality of reference voltages. A selector selects one of the plurality of allowable voltage range candidates from the plurality of allowable voltage range candidates, corresponding to the one reference voltage, as the allowable voltage range and one of the plurality of control parameter candidates from the plurality of control parameter candidates, corresponding to the one reference voltage, as the control parameter based on the reference voltage information.
US09673743B1
An power management unit receives AC power and, via an AC-DC-AC converter, provides an AC motor signal to a three-phase induction motor. Sensors in the power management unit provide data to a digital signal processor (“DSP”). The data includes a current of the AC motor signal. The DSP generates a PWM carrier signal to modulate a voltage amplitude of the AC motor signal, thereby improving the operating efficiency of the motor. The motor terminal voltage is reduced until limit conditions are reached, such as reaching a motor rated efficiency or when the motor current fluctuates.
US09673740B2
A system and method for determining a microstep rotor offset of a stepper motor is provided. The system includes a microcontroller configured to control voltage applied to a first coil and a second coil provided to operate the stepper motor; a back electro-magnetic force (BEMF) detection circuit configured to detect BEMF generated from the stepper motor. The stepper motor drives a pointer with a pointer stop, and the system is configured to: 1) home the stepper motor to the pointer stop, and 2) perform an iterative operation to determine a specific microstep associated with the microstep rotor offset.
US09673731B2
Provided are a parallel inverter system, and a shutdown control method and a shutdown control device for the parallel inverter system. A shutdown instruction is determined and responded according to a level of the shutdown instruction. The shutdown instruction is determined to be an emergency shutdown instruction under certain emergency shutdown conditions, and a driving signal for the power switch devices of the inverter apparatus is needed to be instantly locked out. The shutdown instruction is determined to be a normal shutdown instruction under non-emergency shutdown conditions, a switch-off signal is transmitted to alternating-current switches connected to the inverter apparatus to be shut down, states of the alternating-current switches connected to the inverter apparatus to be shut down are detected, the driving signal for the power switch devices of the inverter apparatus to be shut down is instantly locked out in a case that the alternating-current switches are switched off.
US09673719B2
A dual active bridge (DAB) converter operates in a power conversion operation by controlling multiple bridge configured switches to charge a magnetization inductance from an input supply during a charge phase of a power cycle and to discharge the magnetization inductance into an output of the DAB during a discharge phase of the power cycle. The DAB converter includes an input converter connected to the input supply, an inductance connected to the input converter, a transformer comprising a primary and a secondary winding, and an output converter connected to the transformer. The input and output converters each include a first pair of switches forming a first circuit path, and a second pair of switches forming a second circuit path parallel to the first circuit path. The first and second circuit paths are both completed by a third circuit path including the inductance and the primary winding of the transformer.
US09673718B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method in a voltage converter includes, in each of successive drive cycles, switching on for an on-period a first electronic switch connected in series with a primary winding of a transformer. Before first electronic switch is switched on, the transformer is pre-magnetized for a pre-magnetizing period, where there is a first delay time between an end of the pre-magnetizing period and a beginning of the on-period.
US09673715B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a switching element driving power supply circuit that converts a main circuit voltage into a driving voltage of power-converting switching elements. The circuit includes a plurality of insulating power supplies, and a plurality of switching element driving power supply units. The insulating power supplies have respective direct-current input circuit ends connected in series, respective input-side circuits and output-side circuits insulated from each other, and respective output circuit ends connected in parallel. The power supply units are connected in parallel with the output circuit ends, and supplying power to the gate driving circuits of the power conversion switching elements.
US09673712B2
The present disclosure describes full bridge power supply systems and control methods. In at least one embodiment, the full bridge power supply system may be driven utilizing a two-phase continuous conduction switching mode to control the inductor current. In another embodiment, the full bridge power supply system may be driven utilizing variably-configured three-phase continuous conduction modes to control the inductor current when an input voltage is within a window value to the output voltage. In another embodiment, the full bridge power supply may be driven using a four-phase discontinuous conduction switching mode to control the inductor current when a load current is below a current lower threshold.
US09673709B1
Methods, devices, techniques, systems, and integrated circuits are disclosed for variably controlling a switch on time for a driver, which may enhance iTHD. In one example, a device includes an input voltage sensor configured to detect an input voltage, and a variable switch on time generator, operatively connected to the input voltage sensor to receive a signal indicative of the input voltage. The variable switch on time generator is configured to determine a variable switch on time based at least in part on the detected input voltage, and output the determined variable switch on time for controlling switch on timing of a driver switch.
US09673708B2
A switched-capacitor DC-to-DC converter includes a logic cell and a capacitor cell vertically overlapping with the logic cell. The logic cell has a plurality of active elements disposed over a first substrate. The capacitor cell has a capacitor over a second substrate. A first interlayer insulation layer disposed over the first substrate is bonded to a second interlayer insulation layer disposed over the second substrate. A first through via connected to any one of interconnection patterns of the logic cell and a second through via connected to a lower electrode pattern of the capacitor cell are connected to each other through a first external circuit pattern. A third through via connected to an upper electrode pattern of the capacitor cell and a fourth through via connected to another one of the interconnection patterns of the logic cell are connected to each other through a second external circuit pattern.
US09673699B1
A voltage converter includes at least one charge pump voltage converter circuit. The voltage converter generates three voltages (e.g., 1.2 volts, 2.5 volts, and 1.8 volts) for an electronic system, which can be a smartphone or electronic tablet or other device. The charge pump voltage converter circuit provides an output voltage that is an average of its input voltages. Compared to a low dropout regulator, charge pump voltage converter circuit has high efficiency. This voltage converter will save power compared to converters using a low dropout regulator. An implementation of the voltage converter can includes at least two charge pump voltage converter circuits to generate to different output voltages.
US09673695B1
An ASD circuit includes an input, solid-state switch rectifier bridge, DC link, and DC link capacitor bank. A pre-charge circuit is coupled between the input and the DC link capacitor bank and includes pre-charge relays operable in an on state that allows the AC power input to power the rectifier bridge during a normal operating state and an off state that allows the AC power input to pre-charge the DC link capacitor bank through a pre-charge resistor of the pre-charge circuit during a pre-charge operating state. A protection relay of a protection circuit is coupled between the pre-charge relays and the DC link capacitor bank, the protection relay operable in an on state that prevents the pre-charge circuit from connecting to the DC link capacitor bank when a capacitor short circuit occurs and an off state that allows the pre-charge circuit to electrically connect to the DC link capacitor bank.
US09673685B2
An improved system for monitoring vibration of an electric machine is disclosed. According to one embodiment, sensors are positioned in a plane orthogonal to the motor shaft and each sensor detects vibration along at least one axis of the motor. The sensors are oriented such that the polarity of each sensor is reversed. The pairs of sensors may be used to isolate specific vibrations within the motor. According to another embodiment, a sensor may be mounted directly to the motor shaft. The sensor on the motor shaft directly detects vibrations along the motor shaft. Optionally, a second sensor may be mounted to a fixed location within the motor housing, and the combination of the sensor on the motor shaft and the sensor at a fixed location may be used to isolate specific vibrations within the motor. A motor controller may adjust operation of the motor to reduce the isolated vibration.
US09673682B2
A hybrid vertical energy storage system is invented wherein the components responsible for the conversion, storage and production of energy are used as the weighted component of a gravitationally aided energy storage device. The present invention allows gravity to operate mechanical devices which may help move a volume of fluid in order to compress a gas and store potential energy. The present invention utilizes the attributes of pumped hydro by using gravity assisted fluid transfer, and also combines Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) functionality by powering hydraulic pumps and motors to transfer fluid from one vessel to another vessel. This feature allows conventional, inexpensive, market proven components to make the capture, conversion, storage and production of energy more effective and affordable while eliminating the placement issues associated with such large scale pumped hydro and CAES systems while extending battery service life. Ideally, combining the positive attributes of some or all of the existing technologies into one energy storage system would provide a real and meaningful improvement, especially if the improvement reduced or eliminated economic, environmental and operational flaws associated with the individual technologies. This invention also provides a method of combining the output of individual, combined attribute energy storage systems to provide user definable and expandable electrical energy production. The vertical aspect of the invention allows operational attribute that separates and makes independent the capture and storage of energy being placed into the energy storage system and the hydro-pneumatic production of energy exiting the system.
US09673676B2
A single rotor type motor includes: a stator including a plurality of stator cores that are split and radially arranged, a bobbin made of an insulating material and wrapped on an outer surface of each of the stator cores, coils wound on an outer surface of the bobbin, an upper fixing plate disposed on the upper surfaces of the stator cores and on which the stator cores are radially arranged, and a lower fixing plate that is disposed on the lower surfaces of the stator cores and is coupled with the upper fixing plate; and a single rotor disposed with a certain gap from any one surface of an inner surface of the stator and an outer surface thereof. The plurality of wiring units for electrically connecting between the coils wound around each of the stator cores are formed integrally on the upper surface of the upper fixing plate.
US09673672B2
The aim is to propose an individual-segment rotor that is simple to construct and suitable for series production. Therefore, an individual-segment rotor having a plurality of laminated core segments (2) arranged in a star shape and a permanent magnet (1) between each pair of adjacent laminated core segments (2) is provided, whereby the laminated core segments and the permanent magnets are arranged in a hollow cylindrical assembly. The laminated core segments each have a plurality of individual sheets, which are rigidly connected to one another. The hollow cylindrical assembly has a groove on each of two outer edges, into which groove a ring (11) is inserted in order to fasten the assembly.
US09673667B2
A permanent magnet electrical machine includes a stator having conductive windings wound thereon and one or more permanent magnets embedded in the stator. A magnetic keeper element is positioned on the stator so as to form a magnetic flux path with the permanent magnets, with the magnetic keeper element closing the magnetic flux path of the permanent magnets by providing a low reluctance flux path to magnetic flux generated by the permanent magnets. A vacuum pressure impregnation (VPI) process is performed on the stator to increase a thermal conductivity of the windings, with the VPI process including a curing step that is performed at a selected temperature. The magnetic keeper element sets an operating point of the permanent magnets to an internal flux density level above a demagnetization threshold associated with the selected temperature at which the curing step is performed.
US09673664B2
A power transmission apparatus includes a power transmission unit and a power supply unit. A wireless power reception apparatus includes a power reception unit capable of wirelessly receiving electric power from the power transmission unit, and a control unit performing control for positional alignment between the power reception unit and the power transmission unit and for reception of electric power after the positional alignment. The magnitude of electric power received by the power reception unit from the power transmission unit is used for positional alignment between the power reception unit and the power transmission unit. The control unit sets a parameter of a power transmission and reception path so that a power receivable range that can be received by the power reception unit at any time while positional alignment is done is wider than that when electric power is received after the positional alignment.
US09673663B2
A constantly power-ON domain and a standby-time power OFF domain are included on the same chip, and the constantly power-ON domain includes: a shutoff control circuit shutting off a signal inputted and outputted between the constantly power-ON domain and the standby-time power OFF domain when the first power source is ON and the second power source is OFF; and a shutoff control circuit outputting a first control signal indicating that shutoff of an emergent shutoff control circuit unit is to be enabled or disabled, the standby-time power OFF domain includes the emergent shutoff control circuit unit shutting off, based on the first control signal from the shutoff control circuit, the signal inputted between the emergent shutoff control circuit unit and the constantly power-ON domain.
US09673661B2
A transfer switch selectively couples at least two power sources to a load. The load may be a home, business, or vehicle. A current transformer is coupled to the output of the transfer switch and generates a load measurement signal that is proportional to the current or power output from the transfer switch. A controller receives the load measurement signal and a switch setting describing the operation of the switch. The controller generates data for a status message for display based on the load measurement signal and the switch setting. The status message may describe the power consumption of the load or indicate when an error has occurred.
US09673655B2
This document discusses, among other things, a charge regulator configured to optimize charging of an energy storage device by measuring an internal voltage drop of the energy storage device using an open circuit voltage (OCV) across the terminals of the energy storage device during charging and a voltage across the terminals of the energy storage device during charging (CCV).
US09673652B2
A fast charging high energy storage capacitor system jump starter is described. The jump starter apparatus incorporates a method of using reserve energy from a depleted electrical system such as an automobile battery, combined with a fast charging high energy capacitor bank to enable the rapid and effective way to jump start a vehicle.
US09673637B2
An ultra-capacitor based energy source may replace rechargeable and conventional batteries. It may have the form factor of a conventional battery and may emulate the discharge characteristics of the replaced battery.
US09673632B1
A method for providing power to a computer data center includes distributing a fluid through a single common domain throughout the computer data center building; converting the fluid into electrical energy at a plurality of electric power generation units that are distributed through the computer data center and connected to receive fluid from the common domain; and providing electrical power from the plurality of power generation units to corresponding electrical loads distributed throughout the computer data center building.
US09673631B2
The aim of the invention is to use a separate device between the analog and digital communications lines to convert the digital load sharing information from the digital communication line to the analog communication line and vice versa. The device does not generate power itself for the load sharing and therefore does not disturb the load sharing of the generators on the both sides of the device. The device can be seen as a gate between the digital communication line and the analog communication line. The device simulates load situation of the generator/s connected to the digital communication line for load sharing with other generator/s connected to the analog communication line, and similarly it simulates load situation of the other generator/s connected to the analog communication line for load sharing with the generator/s connected to the digital communication line.
US09673628B2
A microgrid having a plurality of electrical phases A, B & C. The microgrid includes an energy storage connected to a first phase A and a second phase B. The microgrid also includes a first single-phase distributed generator (DG) connected to the first phase and configured for injecting power into the first phase. The microgrid also includes a second single-phase DG connected to the second phase and configured for injecting power into the second phase. The microgrid also includes a first single-phase load connected to the first phase. The microgrid also includes a second single-phase load connected to the second phase. The microgrid also includes a control system configured for controlling the microgrid such that power is redistributed from the second phase to the first phase via the energy storage.
US09673626B2
A Low Voltage, “LV”, network automation system is provided which enables utilities to remotely identify location of LV faults on their networks, isolate these faults and re-energizing the healthy LV circuit by remote control. The hardware for this system is designed to be retrofitted into existing LV switchgears and panels which enables the network changeover to be done cost effectively and with minimum interruption to the network. The system also enables utilities to monitor load flows on the LV networks and identify circuits which are overloaded and gives control room operator options for redistribution of network load where possible.
US09673624B2
A power supply device (10) includes a plurality of constant current output circuits (14) that can supply power to a load (12). The constant current output circuit (14) includes a pulse generation unit (20) that generates a pulse voltage, and a communication unit (34) that transmits and receives drive information, between the constant current output circuit (14) and the other constant current output circuit (14). When an abnormality occurs in the constant current output circuit (14) supplying power to the load (12) and the constant current output circuit (14) supplying power to the load (12) is switched to the other constant current output circuit (14), the other constant current output circuit (14) drives the pulse generation unit (20) by using the drive information that has been received through the communication unit (34) from the power supply means having supplied power to the load.
US09673623B2
Method, modules and a system formed by connecting the modules for controlling payloads are disclosed. An activation signal is propagated in the system from a module to the modules connected to it. Upon receiving an activation signal, the module (after a pre-set or random delay) activates a payload associated with it, and transmits the activation signal (after another pre-set or random delay) to one or more modules connected to it. The system is initiated by a master module including a user activated switch producing the activation signal. The activation signal can be propagated in the system in one direction from the master to the last module, or carried bi-directionally allowing two way propagation, using a module which revert the direction of the activation signal propagation direction. A module may be individually powered by an internal power source such as a battery, or connected to external power source such as AC power. The system may use remote powering wherein few or all of the modules are powered from the same power source connected to the system in a single point. The power may be carried over dedicated wires or concurrently with the conductors carrying the activation signal. The payload may be a visual or an audible signaling device, and can be integrated within a module or external to it. The payload may be powered by a module or using a dedicated power source, and can involve randomness associated with its activation such as the delay, payload control or payload activation.
US09673622B2
The linear controlling module of the present invention includes a controlling switch, a first resistor, a capacitor, and a second resistor. The controlling switch is electrically connected to a controlling signal outputting terminal of a power supplying device, the first resistor is electrically connected to the controlling switch, the capacitor is electrically connected to a electric power outputting terminal of the power supplying device and the first resistor, and the second resistor is electrically connected to the switch component of the power supplying device, the first resistor, and the capacitor. The switch component is electrically connected to an electric power outputting terminal.
US09673615B2
An isolator circuit (25) for a unit of a safety system (10) includes a power control line (14) connectable to a first loop of a safety system and a power connection (16) connectable to a second loop of the safety system. A switch (26) is connected to the power control line (14), and the switch has a closed configuration and an open configuration. A controller (28) controls the configuration of the switch (26). If a voltage across the circuit (10) from the power connection (16) to the power control line (14) falls below a predetermined level, the controller (28) opens the switch (26), thereby causing a disconnection to occur in the first loop.
US09673614B2
A device for monitoring a surge arrester, including: a grounding line; a measuring unit including one or more analog measuring circuits for measuring the electric current passing through the grounding line; an electronic processing unit for receiving measuring signals from the measuring circuits; a data storage medium for storing monitoring data produced by the processing unit; a base module, which accommodates the grounding line and the measuring unit; and an auxiliary module, which accommodates the processing unit and the data storage medium and is detachably mountable to the base module. When the auxiliary module is mounted to the base module, the components of the modules are connected to each other through a connector member provided on the base module and a corresponding connector member provided on the auxiliary module.
US09673609B2
A system for testing over-current fault detection includes a first switch to connect a voltage to a load and a capacitor; a first monitor circuit that monitors a current from the first switch to the load; a second monitor circuit that monitors a voltage across the capacitor; and a microcontroller configured to control a state of the first switch to connect voltage to the load and verifies over-current detection based upon current generated during charging of the capacitor. The microcontroller detects an over-current fault condition based upon input from the first monitor circuit and detects a short-circuit fault condition based upon input from the second monitor circuit during test of the first monitor circuit.
US09673604B2
A coaxial cable terminator assembly includes an electrically insulative substrate carried by a non-conductive cap in a receiving area thereof. The substrate carries outer and inner termination connections and an electrically resistive connector that electrically connects the outer termination connection to the inner termination connection. Outer and inner contacts are electrically connected to the outer and inner termination connections, respectively. The outer and inner contacts are for electrically contacting coaxial outer and inner conductors, respectively, of the end of a coaxial cable for terminating the end of the coaxial cable, and the cap is for frictionally and non-conductively engaging the coaxial cable, when the end of the coaxial cable is inserted into the receiving area.
US09673603B2
A divided conduit containing a thermoplastic conduit and at least one strip-shaped film having a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge which are embedded into the inner surface of the conduit forming at least two flexible, longitudinal channels for enveloping cables or other elongated structures.
US09673599B2
A box comprising a box bottom part and a lid part which is pivotably supported relative thereto by means of a hinge device between an open and a closed position is particularly suited for use in the Ex area. The hinge device comprises a lower hinge part assigned to the box bottom part and an upper hinge part assigned to the lid part, which are pivotably connected to each other. To provide a permanent connection between lid part and box bottom part in a simple way and at low costs, while simultaneously said parts are pivotable relative to each other in a safe way, one hinge part is slidably supported and the other hinge part is arranged to be at least partly screw-mountable in the respectively assigned box bottom part and lid part, respectively.
US09673590B2
A semiconductor stripe laser has a first semiconductor region having a first conductivity type and a second semiconductor region having a different, second conductivity type. An active zone for generating laser radiation is located between the semiconductor regions. A stripe waveguide is formed in the second semiconductor region and is arranged to guide waves in a one-dimensional manner and is arranged for a current density of at least 0.5 kA/cm2. A second electrical contact is located on the second semiconductor region and on an electrical contact structure for external electrical contacting. An electrical passivation layer is provided in certain places on the stripe waveguide. A thermal insulation apparatus is located between the second electrical contact and the active zone and/or on the stripe waveguide.
US09673585B2
Movable end portions of cables and are fixed to a movable lead block, and fixed end portions of the cables are fixed to a fixed lead block. The movable lead block is mounted so as to be inserted into a cylindrical portion of a rotary body in a direction along a rotation center line, and the fixed lead block is mounted so as to be inserted into a lead block attachment portion of a lower housing in the direction along the rotation center line. The movable end portions and the fixed end portions of the cables are positioned at the same heights as those of the cables in a wiring space.
US09673580B2
An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of terminals (2) received in the insulative housing, and a shell (3). The insulative housing includes a base portion (11) and a tongue plate (12) extending from the base portion forwardly. The tongue plate includes a mating face (13) and a supporting face (14) opposite to the mating face. The terminals (22) include a pair of signal terminals defined in the supporting face, a grounding terminal, and a power terminal. The pair of signal terminals are defined between the grounding terminal and the power terminal. Each of the signal terminals, the grounding terminal, and the power terminal has a thickness greater than 0.2 mm. The power terminal is made of nickel and copper.
US09673579B2
The present invention discloses a portable remote controller, which comprises a remote controller body and a cover covering the remote controller body; hooks are arranged on the back of the cover, and slots to fit the hooks are arranged at corresponding positions in an upper rim of the remoter body; press buttons are arranged in a front of the cover. The portable remote controller with added USB charging function can not only fulfill the regular remoter control functions for intelligent living, but its USB interface is also able to charge almost all intelligent devices in the market, including almost all intelligent phones and tablets; thus when people are using intelligent devices in daily life, they will no longer worry about low batteries; also the cover is easy to remove and install, convenient to users.
US09673572B2
The invention relates to a connection module for field devices in the explosion-protected area, having a housing with a plurality of controller-end terminals to connect to at least one input/output module and with field-end terminals to connect to the field devices. The connection module is characterized in that different resistors are present in the housing to provide intrinsically safe pairs of field-end terminals with different characteristic values, said resistors being hardwired in the housing to different field-end terminals and/or controller-end terminals.
US09673560B2
A laminated connector (1) includes a plurality of housings (2) in which terminal accommodating chambers (6) for accommodating terminal fittings (4) are arranged side by side in a predetermined direction and is structured such that the housings (2) are laminated. The laminated connector (1) includes at least a first housing (10) and a second housing (20) as the plurality of housings (2). A projection (first projections (14)) of the first housing (10) is inserted into a recess (second recesses (28)) of the second housing (20), arranged over a plurality of the terminal accommodating chambers (6) in the second housing (20) and capable of regulating movements of the respective terminal fittings (4) accommodated in the terminal accommodating chambers (6) at a position, where the projection is arranged, in a pull-out direction.
US09673554B2
The invention provides a rotary-wing aircraft rotor fitted with a connector device for connecting electrical power between a hub (1) and blades (2) of said rotor. For each of the blades (2), a wired connection (4) provides an electrical connection between the hub (1) and the blade (2). A guide path (13, 14, 15, 16, 17) holds the wired connection (4) in shape and guides it under tension to move over itself, accompanying the pivoting movement of the blade root (3).
US09673553B1
A locking mechanism for a terminal position assurance (TPA) device is placed in-line with the TPA itself. The locking mechanism includes a pre-locking head and a final locking head. The final locking head is shorter than and face in an opposite direction from the pre-locking head. The orientation and geometry of the locking mechanism ensures a secure engagement of the TPA with the electrical connector assembly. Further, according to at least one embodiment, at least two pre-lock mechanisms and only a single final-lock mechanism may be provided for the locking mechanism to ensure a secure engagement of the TPA with the connector assembly without a false-positive engagement.
US09673546B2
The connector device of one embodiment of the present invention includes an electrical connection device and a receptacle connector. The cable holding member includes a supporting part and a wall part. The supporting part includes a supporting face for supporting a flat cable in a folded state. The wall part is provided to the supporting part so as to be on a side of the flat cable in a width direction of the flat cable supported on the supporting part. A groove for receiving a first protrusion of the flat cable is provided to an internal face of the wall part.
US09673544B1
A short type metal female terminal includes a base on which weld legs are disposed to provide an electrical connection with a light board. The base has an entrance through which a male terminal can pass. Two main elastic plates are respectively disposed at a left side and a right side of the base. The main elastic plates bend downwards and inwards, then extend oppositely to a place below the entrance, and then bend upwards to pass through the entrance. Thus, contact points of the main elastic plates opposite to each other are formed and located above the entrance. The male terminal passes between said contact points to carry out the electrical connection. The above structure is simple, and the electrical connection is more reliable.
US09673543B2
An electrical distribution block transfer electrical power from a primary conductor to one or more tap conductors. The distribution block includes a base, a conductor block, first and second sidewalls, and a lid. The conductor block and the first and second sidewalls are connected to the base and the lid is connected to the first and second sidewalls. The conductor block includes one or more apertures for receiving more primary conductors and one or more apertures for receiving tap conductors.
US09673541B2
A spring clip is provided and includes a main body, a gripping section, a release member, and a conductive terminal receiving passageway. The main body includes a first arm and a second arm that is bent from the first arm, such that a free end of the first arm extends towards the second arm. The gripping section is provided between the free end of the first arm and an inner surface of the second arm. The release member extends from a free end of the second arm and away from the gripping section. The conductive terminal receiving passageway is disposed along a connection portion of the first arm and the second arm, and positioned opposite to the gripping section.
US09673533B2
A radial slot antenna comprising a radial waveguide, which includes an upper plate, having a centroid and an edge region and provided with a plurality of radiating apertures, formed as slots in the upper plate, which develop around the centroid. The radiating apertures are arranged to form first and second radiating regions, which are distinct and radially separated by a dwell region without radiating apertures and wherein, in the first and second radiating regions, radially adjacent radiating apertures are separated from one another by a radial distance, the dwell region having a radial width greater than the radial distances of the radiating apertures in the first and second radiating regions. The slot antenna further comprises a signal feeder for supplying am electromagnetic field to assume, in the first and second radiating regions, opposite phases, so that the electromagnetic field emitted by the slot antenna can be expressed via Bessel functions.
US09673530B2
A wireless mesh network comprising a plurality of mobile mesh devices coupled as nodes in a mesh network topology is provided herein. Generally speaking, each mobile mesh device may be a portable, self-contained unit, which does not require network or power wiring to communicate network traffic between the nodes. According to one embodiment, the mobile mesh device may include a plurality of dipole antennas, which are enclosed within the mobile mesh device and configured to forward network traffic. At least one of the dipole antennas may be a frequency adjustable end-fed dipole antenna comprising a channel selection pin, which can be adjusted up or down along the dipole axis to change a resonant frequency of the dipole antenna. A method for setting or adjusting a resonant frequency of a frequency adjustable end-fed dipole antenna is also provided herein.
US09673529B2
An antenna (10) is provided including a generally rectangular ground element (20) having a first end and a second end. The ground element (20) includes at least one hole (30, 30′) for mounting the antenna to a support structure. A generally rectangular radiating element (12) having a third end and a fourth end if parallel to the ground element (20) and separated from the ground element (20) by a space. A bend connects the first end of the ground element (20) to the third end of the radiating element (12). A coaxial cable includes a center conductor coupled to the radiating element (12) at a feed point and an outer conductor coupled to the ground element (20). The coaxial cable acts as a feed line that couples the antenna (10) to an external transmitter or receiver.
US09673503B1
A power combiner/divider includes a main conductor defining an axis; an input connector having a center conductor, adapted to be coupled to a signal source, electrically coupled to the main conductor and having an axis aligned with the main conductor axis, and having a second conductor electrically coupled to a ground conductor; a plurality of satellite conductors radially exterior of and spaced apart from the main conductor, the satellite conductors defining the general shape of a slotted hollow cylinder having a cylinder axis aligned with the main conductor axis; a plurality of output connectors having respective axes that are perpendicular to the main conductor axis, the output connectors being radially spaced apart relative to the main conductor, the output connectors having center conductors electrically coupled to respective satellite conductors and having respective second conductors electrically coupled to a second ground conductor; and a multiconductor transmission line, including the satellite conductors, defined between the input connector and the output connectors. Methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US09673492B2
A thermal management system for a battery pack having a conductive cooling plate and battery cells includes a compressor, flow control valves, temperature sensor(s), and a controller. The compressor circulates refrigerant through the plate to cool the cells. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of the battery pack. The controller is programmed to receive the temperature from the temperature sensors and selectively transmit switching control signals to the valves to command a change in direction or flow of the refrigerant through the cooling plate. This limits a temperature variance between the battery cells over time. A vehicle includes a transmission, an electric traction motor, a battery pack, and the thermal management system noted above. A method includes receiving the temperature, transmitting switching control signals to the valves, and controlling a flow of refrigerant through the plate via the valves in response to the switching control signals.
US09673486B2
The present disclosure provides a preparation method of a laminated cell comprising: providing a laminated pack: the laminated pack comprises n laminated groups, the each laminated group comprises m electrode plate assemblies, a spacer is provided between the adjacent laminated groups, the electrode plate assemblies of all the laminated groups of the laminated pack and the spacers between the adjacent laminated groups are orderly positioned in a Z-shaped separator in a laminating direction, an upper part and a lower part of the separator adjacent to the each spacer are separated by the each spacer; forming a laminated cell: the separator is broken at an end of the each spacer positioned in the separator to allow the each spacer and the each laminated group to separate from each other, so as to obtain the corresponding laminated cell formed by the electrode plate assembly of the each laminated group and the corresponding separator.
US09673485B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing an anode of a cable-type secondary battery having a solid electrolyte layer, including preparing an aqueous solution of an anode active material, making an anode by immersing a core as a current collector having a horizontal cross section of a predetermined shape and extending longitudinally in the aqueous solution, then applying an electric current to form a porous shell of the anode active material on the surface of the core, and forming a solid electrolyte layer on the surface of the anode by passing the anode through a solid electrolyte solution. The anode has a high contact area to increase the mobility of lithium ions, thereby improving battery performance. Also, the anode is capable of relieving stress and pressure in the battery, such as volume expansion during charging and discharging, thereby preventing battery deformation and ensuring battery stability.
US09673464B2
A method of operating a fuel cell system includes characterizing the fuel or fuels being provided into the fuel cell system, characterizing the oxidizing gas or gases being provided into the fuel cell system, and calculating at least one of the steam:carbon ratio, fuel utilization and oxidizing gas utilization based on the step of characterization.
US09673461B2
To prevent inflow of liquid water into a power generating portion even if the liquid water remains in a manifold, and to enable size reduction by making constant the contact or surface pressure. According to the present invention, in a fuel cell comprising a power generating section including an electrolyte membrane joined between an anode and a cathode, and a manifold to cause inflow and outflow of an hydrogen containing gas and an oxygen containing gas separately from each other to the anode and cathode; the manifold is formed with an inflow preventing portion to prevent inflow of a liquid water remaining in the manifold, into the power generating portion.
US09673459B2
A single monolithic ceramic substrate has rectangular dimensions with thermal expansion dominant along the length. An inactive ceramic portion substantially surrounds a fuel cell active portion of scalable power. The active portion comprises a plurality of three-layer active structures, each including an electrolyte disposed between a first polarity electrode and a second polarity electrode, the electrolyte layers being co-fired with the inactive ceramic portion, and a first or second gas passage respectively associated with each first and second polarity electrode. The plurality of active structures are stacked in the thickness dimension with alternating polarity such that first polarity electrodes of adjacent active structures face each other with the associated first gas passage shared therebetween and second polarity electrodes of adjacent active structures face each other with the associated second gas passage shared therebetween. The power is scalable according to the number of active structures stacked to define the plurality.
US09673456B2
A sacrificial support-based method, a mechanosynthesis-based method, and a combined sacrificial support/mechanosynthesis support based method that enables the production of supported or unsupported catalytic materials and/or the synthesis of catalytic materials from both soluble and insoluble transition metal and charge transfer salt materials.
US09673454B2
With a small amount of a conductive additive, an electrode for a storage battery including an active material layer which is highly filled with an active material is provided. The use of the electrode enables fabrication of a storage battery having high capacity per unit volume of the electrode. By using graphene as a conductive additive in an electrode for a storage battery including a positive electrode active material, a network for electron conduction through graphene is formed. Consequently, the electrode can include an active material layer in which particles of an active material are electrically connected to each other by graphene. Therefore, graphene is used as a conductive additive in an electrode for a sodium-ion secondary battery including an active material with low electric conductivity, for example, an active material with a band gap of 3.0 eV or more.
US09673444B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an electrode for a secondary battery including an electrode mixture including an electrode active material, binder and conductive material coated on a current collector. Provided are a method including surface-treating the current collector such that an aluminum oxide (Al2O3) layer of 40 nm or less is formed on the current collector so as to enhance adhesion between the electrode mixture and the current collector, and an electrode for a secondary battery manufactured using the same.
US09673443B2
The present disclosure relates to a lithium electrode, comprising a porous metallic current collector; and lithium metal inserted into pores present in the metallic current collector. The lithium electrode according to the present disclosure can increase contact surface between lithium metal and a current collector to improve the performances of a lithium secondary battery, and can exhibit uniform electron distribution therein to prevent the growth of lithium dendrites during the operation of a lithium secondary battery, thereby improving the safety of a lithium secondary battery.
US09673440B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery including a case, a lid, an electrode group, an intermediate lead, and a terminal lead. The electrode group has an end face opposed to the lid and includes current collector tabs extending from the end face. The intermediate lead contains an electrode group joint and a lead joint. The terminal lead is electrically connected to the lid and the lead joint of the intermediate lead. Each of the current collector tabs has a tip portion whose width in the direction perpendicular to the extending direction is narrow. The tip portion thereof is electrically connected to the electrode group joint.
US09673431B2
Battery comprising several cells disposed in several modules (112) linked together in series, characterized in that it comprises at least one brick (120) comprising a lower terminal and an upper terminal, between which are arranged two cells (111) and at least three switches (113), so as to be able to dispose the two cells (111) in series or in parallel between the two terminals and in that the battery comprises a control circuit (127) for the switches (113) of the said at least one brick.
US09673426B2
A mask plate for coating glass cement is provided. The mask plate includes a channel penetrating through a first surface and a second surface for allowing the glass cement to pass therethrough. The channel extends through the first surface and the second surface to form a predetermined pattern. A first opening of the channel at the first surface is of a width greater than a second opening of the channel at the second surface.
US09673424B2
A method of manufacturing a mask frame assembly, the method including: forming a first through hole in a vicinity of a first deposition region of a first mask; forming a second through hole in a vicinity of a second deposition region of a second mask; forming a third through hole in a first portion of a supporting stick; forming a fourth through hole in a second portion of the supporting stick; aligning the first through hole with the third through hole; aligning the second through hole with the fourth through hole; inserting a fixing member in the aligned first and third through holes; and inserting the fixing member in the aligned second and fourth through holes, wherein the support stick couples the first mask and the second mask together via the fixing member.
US09673418B2
Provided is a display device including a display panel configured to display an image, and a window panel located on the display panel, the window panel having a display area for transmitting an image displayed on the display panel, and a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein the window panel includes a window substrate, and a print layer on a lower surface of the window substrate in the non-display area, and including a silicon-based polymer or a fluorine-based polymer.
US09673414B2
An organic light-emitting diode and a method for preparing the same are disclosed. The organic light-emitting diode at least comprises a luminescent layer between an anode and a cathode, and the organic light-emitting diode further comprises at least two electron transport layers set between the luminescent layer and the cathode and an N-type doped layer set between every two adjacent electron transport layers. For the organic light-emitting diode of the invention, an electron transport material and an N-type dopant are sequentially evaporated in turn, and the electron injection and transportation capacity is improved by forming an N-type doping-like effect from interface dope effect and the diffusion of an N-type dopant, so that carrier concentration can be balanced, exciton utilization can be improved, and the photoelectric properties of the OLED device can be improved.
US09673406B2
Novel organic compounds comprising a boron-nitrogen heterocycle are provided. In particular, the compound contains an azaborine. The compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices to provide devices having improved photophysical and electronic properties.
US09673405B2
An organic electroluminescent device containing:a six-coordinate, ortho-metalated iridium complex represented by the formula (I): wherein V represents a trivalent linking group and is bound to L1 to L3 through covalent bonds;each of L1 to L3 is represented by the formula (II) andR1 represents a substituted aryl group having seven or more carbon atoms.
US09673399B2
High density films of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes having a high degree of nanotube alignment are provided. Also provided are methods of making the films and field effect transistors (FETs) that incorporate the films as conducting channel materials. The single-walled carbon nanotubes are deposited from a thin layer of organic solvent containing solubilized single-walled carbon nanotubes that is continuously supplied to the surface of an aqueous medium, inducing evaporative self-assembly upon contacting a solid substrate.
US09673394B2
The invention relates to novel formulations comprising an organic semiconductor (OSC) and a conductive additive, to their use as conducting inks for the preparation of organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, to methods for preparing OE devices using the novel formulations, and to OE devices and OPV cells prepared from such methods and formulations.
US09673393B2
Some embodiments include a memory array having a first series of access/sense lines which extend along a first direction, a second series of access/sense lines over the first series of access/sense lines and which extend along a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction, and memory cells vertically between the first and second series of access/sense lines. Each memory cell is uniquely addressed by a combination of an access/sense line from the first series and an access/sense line from the second series. The memory cells have programmable material. At least some of the programmable material within each memory cell is a polygonal structure having a sidewall that extends along a third direction which is different from the first and second directions. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays.
US09673391B2
A method includes forming a protection material over a conductive structure, an opening over the structure is partially filled with a first electrode material to form a first electrode; a resistance variable layer and a second electrode material are also formed in the opening. The second electrode material and the resistance variable layer are patterned to form a memory element. The method includes forming an interlayer dielectric over the memory element and the periphery region of the substrate and disposing contacts in the interlayer dielectric.
US09673388B2
A method for fabricating an STT-MRAM integrated circuit includes forming a fixed layer over a bottom electrode layer, forming a silicon oxide layer a hardmask layer over the fixed, and forming a trench within the silicon oxide and hardmask layers, thereby exposing an upper surface of the fixed layer and sidewalls of the silicon oxide and hardmask layer. The method further includes forming a conformal barrier layer along the sidewalls of the silicon oxide and hardmask layers and over the upper surface of the fixed layer, such that the conformal barrier layer comprises sidewall portions adjacent the sidewalls of the silicon oxide and hardmask layers and a central portion in between the sidewall portions and adjacent the upper surface of the fixed layer. The method further includes forming a free layer between the sidewall portions of the barrier layer and over the central portion of the barrier layer.
US09673385B1
A seed layer stack with a smooth top surface having a peak to peak roughness of about 0.5 nm over a range of 100 nm is formed by sputter depositing an X layer such as Mo on a Ni layer where the X layer has one or both of a larger bond energy and a greater atomic number than Ni. A (Ni/X)m laminate is formed and then an uppermost NiCr seed layer is deposited to enhance perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) in an overlying ferromagnetic layer. A <111> NiCr crystal structure promotes <111> texture in the ferromagnetic layer. X layers serve as a diffusion barrier to Ta migration from a bottom electrode and have good lattice matching with the adjoining Ni layer and uppermost NiCr layer. As a result of the smooth seed layer stack in a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), MTJ properties are improved and more reproducible.
US09673366B2
A light emitting device may be provided that includes a substrate, a light emitting structure, a first electrode on a part of the first semiconductor layer, an electrode layer on the second conductive semiconductor layer, an insulating layer on the electrode layer, a second electrode on the electrode layer, a support member on the insulating layer, a first connection electrode connected to the first electrode, and a second connection electrode connected to the second electrode. The insulating layer is disposed on a side surface of the light emitting structure and the part of the first semiconductor layer. The insulating layer includes a first layer and a second layer having a different material from the first layer. The first layer of the insulating layer has a refractive index different from the second layer of the insulating layer.
US09673365B2
An electronic device includes a printed circuit board having a cutout, wherein an optoelectronic component including a housing having an outer surface, the housing has a chip receptacle space at a top side, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip is arranged in the chip receptacle space, the housing has a first soldering contact surface and a second soldering contact surface, the first soldering contact surface and the second soldering contact surface face in the same spatial direction as the outer surface, and the first soldering contact surface and the second soldering contact surface are set back relative to the outer surface, is arranged in the cutout.
US09673362B2
An optical semiconductor element mounting package that has good adhesion between the resin molding and the lead electrodes and has excellent reliability is provided, as well as an optical semiconductor device using the package is also provided. The optical semiconductor element mounting package having a recessed part that serves as an optical semiconductor element mounting region, wherein the package is formed by integrating: a resin molding composed of a thermosetting light-reflecting resin composition, which forms at least the side faces of the recessed part; and at least a pair of positive and negative lead electrodes disposed opposite each other so as to form part of the bottom face of the recessed part, and there is no gap at a joint face between the resin molding and the lead electrodes.
US09673357B2
An embodiment relates to a light-emitting device package. In an embodiment, the light-emitting device package includes a package body configured to include a top surface, a plate guide unit disposed on the top surface, and a cavity formed in the top surface, a light-emitting device disposed within the cavity, a plate disposed on the top surface of the package body and guided by the plate guide unit, and an adhesive member disposed between the top surface of the package body and the plate. The adhesive member includes a base layer made of a flexible material, a first adhesive tape disposed between the base layer and the top surface of the package body and bonded to the base layer and the top surface of the package body, and a second adhesive tape disposed between the base layer and the plate and bonded to the base layer and the plate.
US09673356B2
The present invention discloses a packaging device and a packaging method and relates to a field of manufacturing technique of a display panel. The packaging device is used to package a display panel, the display panel comprising a first substrate and a second substrate that are arranged opposed to each other and are able to be packaged by a sealing material, the packaging device comprising a first adsorption part and a second adsorption part that are able to attract each other through a magnetic force, one of the first adsorption part and the second adsorption part configured to be detachably arranged on the outside of the first substrate, and the other of the first adsorption part and the second adsorption part configured to be detachably arranged on the outside of the second substrate.
US09673354B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device including a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer under the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer under the active layer, a first electrode electrically connected with the first conductive semiconductor layer, a mirror layer under the light emitting structure, a window semiconductor layer between the mirror layer and the light emitting structure, a reflective layer under the mirror layer, a conductive contact layer between the reflective layer and the window semiconductor layer and in contact with the second conductive semiconductor layer, and a conductive support substrate under the reflective layer. The window semiconductor layer includes a C-doped P-based semiconductor doped with a higher dopant concentration. The conductive contact layer includes material different from that of the mirror layer with a thickness thinner than that of the window semiconductor layer.
US09673352B2
A light emitting device is provided. The light emitting device includes a substrate, an N type semiconductor layer formed on the substrate, an active layer, an electron-blocking layer, and a P type semiconductor layer formed on the electron-blocking layer. An N side electrode is formed on a first portion of the N type semiconductor layer, and the active layer is formed on a second portion of the N type semiconductor layer. The electron-blocking layer is a super lattice multi-layer structure formed on the active layer, the P type semiconductor layer is formed on the electron-blocking layer, and a P side electrode is formed on a portion of the P type semiconductor layer.
US09673351B2
A method of manufacturing semiconductor chips includes: forming grooves on a front face side of a substrate; and forming grooves on a back face side of the substrate as defined herein, and in manufacturing conditions in which a variation range of a top section of the cutting member having a tapered tip end shape with no top face in the groove width direction changes from a range included in the groove on the front face side to a range away from the groove on the front face side as wear of the cutting member advances, the use of the cutting member is stopped before the variation range changes from the range included in the groove on the front face side to the range away from the groove on the front face side.
US09673350B2
A semi-conducting component including a semi-conducting layer of a first conductivity type including a plurality of semi-conducting zones of a second conductivity type opposite that of the semi-conducting layer, and an insulating layer. The component further includes a first bias mechanism configured to bias the semi-conducting layer and a second bias mechanism configured to bias a semi-conducting zone. The first bias mechanism includes a conducting layer in contact with the insulating layer and which includes passageways for each second bias mechanism with the spacing between the conducting layer and the second bias mechanism which is located facing the corresponding semi-conducting zone.
US09673345B2
The present invention provides a composition for a solar cell sealing film prepared by mixing an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer a metallocene catalyst (m-LLDPE) and another polymer as resin components, wherein the composition has the same processability as a composition containing m-LLDPE alone as a resin component and provides a solar cell sealing film having the same transparency as the composition containing m-LLDPE alone as resin component.A composition for a solar cell sealing film comprising m-LLDPE and low-density polyethylene (LDPE), wherein the weight average molecular weight of m-LLDPE (Mw(m-LLDPE)) is 200,000 or less, the weight average molecular weight of LDPE (Mw(LDPE)) is 250,000 or less, and the mass ratio of m-LLDPE to LDPE (m-LLDPE:LDPE) is in a range of 80:20 to 30:70, and a solar cell sealing film prepared using the same.
US09673343B2
A transducer to convert optical energy to electrical energy. The transducer or photo-transducer has a base layer which has a group of connecting elements formed therein at separations which are increasing with the distance away from an emitter layer formed atop the base layer. The connecting elements separate and electrically connect the base layer into base segments, the base segments having increasing thicknesses with the distance away from the emitter layer. The photo-transducer generates an output voltage that is greater than the input light photovoltage. The photo-transducer output voltage is proportional to the number of connecting elements formed in the base layer.
US09673340B1
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a first insulating layer, a first layer, a second layer, a second insulating layer, and a gate electrode. The first insulating layer separates the semiconductor substrate from the first layer. The second layer is between the first layer and the second insulating layer. The gate electrode is over the second insulating layer. There is a P-N junction between the first layer and the second layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a first doped region and a second doped region in the semiconductor substrate. The first layer, the first doped region, and the second doped region have a first type conductivity, which is opposite to a second type conductivity of the second layer.
US09673338B2
A non-volatile memory unit and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The non-volatile memory unit includes a substrate with a source region and a drain region. A first dielectric layer forms on the substrate. An erase gate, a floating gate and couple control gate are forms on the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer and coupled dielectric layer are formed among and above the erase gate, the floating gate and the selective gate, and formed on the couple control gate of the coupled dielectric layer.
US09673336B2
A transistor having an oxide semiconductor film in a channel formation region and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The transistor is formed by the steps of: forming a base insulating over a substrate; forming an oxide semiconductor film over the base insulating film; forming a conductive film over the oxide semiconductor film; processing the conductive film to form a source electrode and a drain electrode; processing the oxide semiconductor film; forming a gate insulating film over the source electrode, the drain electrode, and the oxide semiconductor film; and forming a gate electrode over the gate insulating film. The aforementioned manufacturing method allows the formation of a transistor in which a side surface of the oxide semiconductor film is not in direct contact with bottom surfaces of the source electrode and the drain electrode, which contributes to the extremely small leak current of the transistor.
US09673331B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a fin structure over a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack covering a portion of the fin structure. The gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer, a work function layer, and a conductive filling over the work function layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a dielectric layer covering the fin structure. The dielectric layer is in direct contact with the conductive filling.
US09673328B2
A semiconductor structure includes an isolation feature formed in the semiconductor substrate and a first fin-type active region. The first fin-type active region extends in a first direction. A dummy gate stack is disposed on an end region of the first fin-type active region. The dummy gate stack may overlie an isolation structure. In an embodiment, any recess such as formed for a source/drain region in the first fin-type active region will be displaced from the isolation region by the distance the dummy gate stack overlaps the first fin-type active region.
US09673327B2
An SOI wafer contains a compressively stressed buried insulator structure. In one example, the stressed buried insulator (BOX) may be formed on a host wafer by forming silicon oxide, silicon nitride and silicon oxide layers so that the silicon nitride layer is compressively stressed. Wafer bonding provides the surface silicon layer over the stressed insulator layer. Preferred implementations of the invention form MOS transistors by etching isolation trenches into a preferred SOI substrate having a stressed BOX structure to define transistor active areas on the surface of the SOI substrate. Most preferably the trenches are formed deep enough to penetrate through the stressed BOX structure and some distance into the underlying silicon portion of the substrate. The overlying silicon active regions will have tensile stress induced due to elastic edge relaxation.
US09673322B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a fin device structure in a buffer layer on a substrate. The fin device structure includes a lower portion extending over the silicon substrate and a fin structure protruding above the lower portion. The method also includes forming a sacrificial layer disposed over the fin device structure and forming a device semiconductor layer disposed over a surface of the sacrificial layer. A gate dielectric layer is then formed and is disposed over a surface of the device semiconductor layer. A gate electrode layer is formed and disposed over a surface of the gate dielectric layer. The method includes removing a portion of the sacrificial layer to form a cavity surrounding the fin structure and performing an oxidation process to form a thermal oxide layer in the cavity surrounding the side surface of the fin structure.
US09673311B1
An electronic device can include a HEMT including at least two channel layers. In an embodiment, a lower semiconductor layer overlies a lower channel layer, wherein the lower semiconductor layer has an aluminum content that is at least 10% of a total metal content of the lower semiconductor layer. An upper semiconductor layer overlies the upper channel layer, wherein the upper semiconductor layer has an aluminum content that is greater as compared to the lower semiconductor layer. In another embodiment, an electronic device can include stepped source and drain electrodes, so that lower contact resistance can be achieved. In a further embodiment, an absolute value of a difference between pinch-off or threshold voltages between different channel layers is greater than 1 V and allows current to be turned on or turned off for a channel layer without affecting another channel layer.
US09673308B2
According to the present invention, since the buffer layer is formed by multiple ion implantations of different acceleration energies and the non-diffusion region in which impurity do not diffuse is left between the buffer layer and the collector layer, the semiconductor device which can supply sufficient holes to the drift layer at the turn-off can be manufactured while the withstand voltage is ensured.
US09673305B2
A semiconductor device is manufactured using a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor is included in a channel region and variation in electric characteristics due to a short-channel effect is less likely to be caused. The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film having a pair of oxynitride semiconductor regions including nitrogen and an oxide semiconductor region sandwiched between the pair of oxynitride semiconductor regions, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode provided over the oxide semiconductor region with the gate insulating film positioned therebetween. Here, the pair of oxynitride semiconductor regions serves as a source region and a drain region of the transistor, and the oxide semiconductor region serves as the channel region of the transistor.
US09673302B2
Techniques are disclosed for converting a strain-inducing semiconductor buffer layer into an electrical insulator at one or more locations of the buffer layer, thereby allowing an above device layer to have a number of benefits, which in some embodiments include those that arise from being grown on a strain-inducing buffer and having a buried electrical insulator layer. For instance, having a buried electrical insulator layer (initially used as a strain-inducing buffer during fabrication of the above active device layer) between the Fin and substrate of a non-planar integrated transistor circuit may simultaneously enable a low-doped Fin with high mobility, desirable device electrostatics and elimination or otherwise reduction of substrate junction leakage. Also, the presence of such an electrical insulator under the source and drain regions may further significantly reduce junction leakage. In some embodiments, substantially the entire buffer layer is converted to an electrical insulator.
US09673299B2
The present invention relates to the field of manufacturing technologies of semiconductor power devices, and more particularly to a method for manufacturing a split-gate power device. In the method for manufacturing a split-gate power device according to the present invention, lateral etching is added to form lateral recesses of a control gate groove below a first insulating film in a process of forming the control gate groove by etching, and therefore, after a first conductive film is deposited, the first conductive film can be directly etched by using the first insulating film as a mask to form control gates. The technical process of the present invention is simplified, reliable and easy to control, and can greatly improve the yield of the split-gate power device. The present invention is particularly suitable for the manufacture of 25V-200V semiconductor power devices.
US09673276B2
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate including an active region defined by a trench, a device isolation layer provided in the trench to surround the active region, a gate electrode extending in a direction crossing the active region, and formed on the active region and the device isolation layer, and a gate insulating layer between the active region and the gate electrode. The active region may have a first conductivity type, and the device isolation layer may include a first silicon oxide layer on an inner surface of the first trench and a different layer, selected from one of first metal oxide layer and a negatively-charged layer, on the first silicon oxide layer.
US09673268B2
A three-dimensional inductor is formed in an integrated circuit die using conductive through-body-vias which pass through the body of the die and contact one or more metal interconnect layers on the front side of the die and terminate on the back side of the die. In another embodiment, the through-body-vias may pass through a dielectric material disposed in a plug in the body of the die. In yet another aspect, a transformer may be formed by coupling multiple inductors formed using through-body-vias. In still another aspect, a three-dimensional inductor may include conductors formed of stacks of on chip metallization layers and conductive through-layer-vias disposed in insulation layers between metallization layers. Other embodiments are described.
US09673267B2
An organic light emitting diode display device is disclosed which includes: scan, data and power lines crossing one another and arranged to define a pixel region; a switching thin film transistor disposed at an intersection of the scan and data lines; an organic light emitting diode disposed in the pixel region; a driving thin film transistor disposed between the power line and the organic light emitting diode; and a storage capacitor disposed adjacently to the organic light emitting diode and configured to charge a data signal which is applied from the data line. The storage capacitor includes a plurality of sub storage capacitors in which a plurality of storage electrodes are stacked alternately with one another.
US09673263B2
Provided is an organic EL display device capable of preventing or restraining color shift or color mixing in an image displayed in each of its pixels, this inconvenience being caused by the entry of light into the pixel from an organic EL element of a pixel adjacent to the pixel; and provided is a color filter forming substrate making it possible to produce such an organic EL display device. The color filter forming substrate is a substrate for an organic EL display device, in which: a pixel-dividing light-shielding region is arranged over one surface of a base material comprising a transparent substrate to make plural pixel regions into a region-divided form; and plural color-filter-forming coloring layers for multiple colors are arranged to the predetermined pixel regions in accordance with the respective colors, characterized in that a light-shielding layer is arranged in the pixel-dividing light-shielding region, and a surface of the light-shielding layer farthest from the one surface of the base material is positioned farther from the one surface of the base material than respective surfaces of the color-filter-forming coloring layers in the respective colors, these surfaces not being respective base material side surfaces of the coloring layers, are positioned.
US09673250B2
Photosensitive devices and associated methods are provided. In one aspect, for example, a photosensitive imager device can include a semiconductor layer having multiple doped regions forming a least one junction, a textured region coupled to the semiconductor layer and positioned to interact with electromagnetic radiation. The textured region can be formed from a series of shallow trench isolation features.
US09673239B1
A system and method for forming pixels in an image sensor is provided. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an image sensor including a first pixel region and a second pixel region in a substrate, the first pixel region being adjacent to the second pixel region. A first anti-reflection coating is over the first pixel region, the first anti-reflection coating reducing reflection for a first wavelength range of incident light. A second anti-reflection coating is over the second pixel region, the second anti-reflection coating reducing reflection for a second wavelength range of incident light that is different from the first wavelength range.
US09673236B2
A pixel array of an image sensor includes a substrate, a chromatic pixel including a first photodiode formed in the substrate and a color filter formed over the first photodiode, and an achromatic pixel including a second photodiode formed in the substrate, the second photodiode having a nano pillar pattern at a surface region of the substrate.
