US09766918B2
A hypervisor identifies a physical GPU device accessible by the hypervisor to be assigned to a virtual machine and retrieves a GPU device identifier from the physical GPU device. The hypervisor then determines a host bridge device identifier that corresponds to the retrieved GPU device identifier using a mapping table that maps a plurality of GPU device identifiers to a corresponding plurality of host bridge device identifiers.
US09766908B2
The present invention is a cloud computing appliance, having a chassis, at least one server, capable of connecting to a remote interface device, at least two network switches, at least one firewall, and a power supply circuit. The present invention also includes a method for initializing the cloud computing appliance, and a method for migrating software applications to the cloud computing appliance. The cloud computing appliance includes at least one private cloud and is in electronic communication with at least one public cloud. There is an electrical connection capable of being in electronic communication with the remote interface device that allows a system administrator to interact with the at least one private cloud and the at least one public cloud.
US09766897B2
A method is described that performing an image integral calculation by creating a second vector and creating a third vector. The second vector is created by executing a first instruction that adds alternating elements of a first vector to respective neighboring elements of the first vector and presents resulting summations into said second vector. The first instruction also passes through the respective neighboring elements to said second vector. The third vector is created by executing a second instruction that adds elements of one side of the second vector to an element of another side of the second vector and passes through the another side of the second vector.
US09766896B2
Embodiments include optimizing the grouping of instructions in a microprocessor. Aspects include receiving a first clump of instructions from a streaming buffer, pre-decoding each of instructions for select information and sending the instructions to an instruction queue. Aspects further include storing initial grouping information for the instructions in a local register, wherein the initial grouping information is based on the select information. Aspects further include updating the initial group information stored in the local register when additional pre-decode information becomes available and grouping the instructions that are ready to be dispatched into a dispatch group based on the grouping information stored in the local register. Aspects further include dispatching the dispatch group to an issue unit.
US09766887B2
A processor fetches a multi-register gather instruction that includes a destination operand that specifies a destination vector register, and a source operand that identifies content that indicates multiple vector registers, a first set of indexes of each of the vector registers that each identifies a source data element, and a second set of indexes of the destination vector register for each identified source element. The instruction is decoded and executed, causing, for each of the first set of indexes of each of the vector registers, the source data element that corresponds to that index of that vector register to be stored in a set of destination data elements that correspond to the second set of identified indexes of the destination vector register for that source data element.
US09766886B2
Instructions and logic provide vector linear interpolation functionality. In some embodiments, responsive to an instruction specifying: a first operand from a set of vector registers, a size of each of the vector elements, a portion of the vector elements upon which to compute linear interpolations, a second operand from a set of vector registers, and a third operand; an execution unit, reads a first, a second and a third value of the size of vector elements from corresponding data fields in the first, the second and the third operand respectively and computes an interpolated value as the first value multiplied by the second value minus the second value multiplied by the third value plus the third value.
US09766884B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for evaluating source code developers. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user, a request for a user interface presentation representing an overall performance metric versus a second metric attributed to each responsible entity of a plurality of responsible entities that contributed source code to a project. A user interface presentation is generated, wherein each responsible entity is represented by a graphical element at a position in a display area, the position of the element having one coordinate corresponding to the first measure of the overall contributions contributed by the responsible entity and another coordinate corresponding to the second measure of the second metric attributed to the responsible entity.
US09766883B2
The subject disclosure relates to enabling the evolution of a framework by providing public surface area factorings for both old and new public surface areas. The factoring can mitigate changes in the implementation of existing distributions of framework. The factoring can also mitigate breaking existing binaries. Further, the factoring can be provided while mitigating a degradation in the security guarantees of the linking model. The factorings can be applied for runtime and/or for a development toolkit. Thus, multiple, almost simultaneous, interoperable views of a framework implementation can be enabled at runtime and/or at design or build time. The views can represent different versions of the framework.
US09766876B2
A method of updating software components of a computer system includes downloading a plurality of update packages from at least one predetermined network source by a service processor of the computer system, which service processor can be operated independently of a main processor and an operating system of the computer system; compiling the downloaded update packages to form a data volume; establishing a data connection between an agent service executed under control of the operating system and the compiled data volume; and updating software components on the basis of the plurality of update packages in the compiled data volume by the agent service.
US09766865B2
A method for developing software in which the software comprises a plurality of programs. A change to a program is received. A data structure checking procedure may then be invoked. The changed program is parsed for a reference to a data structure. Other instances of the data structure are located in other programs within the software. The referenced data structure is compared to the located other instances of the data structure. A predefined action (such as notifying a programmer or correcting the inconsistencies) is performed in response to any detected differences between the referenced data structure and the located other instances of the data structure. These steps are repeated for all data structures within the changed program.
US09766848B2
A first printer 60 has a connection unit to which data is input and which outputs print data based on the input data; a first printer print unit 71 that prints; a detection unit 62B that detects if the input printing result contains an error when the printing result of the print data output from the connection unit is input; a reprint storage unit 65A that stores print data when the detection unit 62B detects an error; and a reprint control unit 62F that outputs print data stored in the reprint storage unit 65A from the connection unit when a predetermined specific condition is met.
US09766846B1
A readily reconfigurable self-contained self-service user input/output including an input/output assembly accessible by a user, the assembly being readily configurable to be used in more than one type of user configuration or application and at least one peripheral device removably secured in a desired position about the periphery of the assembly.
US09766844B2
A display processing apparatus includes a first display controller that displays a background image in a display unit; and a second display controller that displays a print image in the display unit. The second display controller changes a magnification of the print image so that the print image has a size obtained by changing a size of a recording medium on which the print image is to be printed on a scale of the background image displayed in the display unit, and superimposes and displays the print image on the background image.
US09766843B2
The invention relates to printing and other output of documents using data processors, and particularly to methods, apparatus, and computer programming useful for controlling output processes. In various aspects the invention provides systems, methods, and computer programming useful for minimizing the number of command inputs required from a user to complete printing or other output of multiple documents. In other aspects, the invention provides systems, methods, and computer programming useful for printing documents using content data received from users or other sources, together with previously-provided form data, according to predetermined formats.
US09766841B2
A transmission apparatus transmits an e-mail having a content attached thereto to a mail address destination of a printer. A server having a function of a mail server acquires a thumbnail image of a content acquired from the received e-mail and printing setting information and transmits the thumbnail image and the printing setting information to a terminal. A receiver confirms details of the content and printing setting details on the terminal, and then transmits a printing request notification from the terminal to the server. The server transmits printing data converted from the content and causes the printer to print the content. After the printing data is transmitted, the server performs a process of giving points according to the printing of the content to a user of the reception apparatus.
US09766827B1
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first power gate transistor coupled to an ungated power supply node and a gated power supply node, the first power gate transistor having a gate terminal controllable by a first logic; and a second power gate coupled to the ungated power supply node and the gated power supply node, the second power gate transistor having a gate terminal controllable by a second logic, wherein the first power gate transistor is larger than the second power gate transistor, and wherein the second logic is operable to: weakly turn on the second power gate, fully turn on the second power gate, turn off the second power gate, and connecting the second power gate as diode.
US09766826B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for mirroring dual writeable storage arrays are provided. Various embodiments provide configurations including two or more mirrored storage arrays that are each capable of being written to by different hosts. When commands to write data to corresponding mirrored data blocks within the respective storage arrays are received from different hosts at substantially the same time, write priority for writing data to the mirrored data blocks is given to one of the storage arrays based on a predetermined criterion or multiple predetermined criteria.
US09766819B2
Storage divisions of a non-volatile storage medium may have a writable state and an unwritable state. Storage divisions may be reclaimed by, inter alia, resetting the storage division from an unwritable state to a writable state. Writable storage divisions may be used to service incoming storage requests. If no writable storage divisions are available, requests may stall. One or more storage divisions may be held in a writable state to avoid stall conditions. This, however, may increase the erase dwell time of the storage divisions, which can result in increased wear and reduce the usable life of the storage device. Storage divisions may be prepared for use such that the storage divisions are transitioned to a writable state such that erase dwell time of the storage divisions is reduced, and the storage divisions are available as needed to service incoming requests.
US09766808B1
A set of data storage values is received. It is determined that a data storage value in the set will not fit in an available memory segment including variable data column widths based at least in part on data sizes specified in a plurality of segment layout maps. A memory segment is selected for which a column width of a column will be expanded. A column width of the selected memory segment is expanded. A segment layout map corresponding to the selected memory segment is updated. The set of data storage values is stored in the selected memory segment.
US09766802B2
A method disclosed herein includes displaying information associated with a first application in a display area of an electronic device, detecting a change in direction of a continuous gesture across at least a portion of the display area between a first direction and a second direction different than the first direction, the continuous gesture associated with a request to display information of a second application, the first application being different than the second application, in response to detecting the change in direction of the continuous gesture, reducing display of the first application to a first portion of the display area and presenting a preview of information associated with the second application in a second portion of the display area in which the first application was presented prior to detection of the continuous gesture, based on a first characteristic of the continuous gesture, discontinuing providing the first information and display the second application in the display area, and based on a second characteristic of the continuous gesture, discontinuing providing the second information and display the first application in the display area.
US09766791B2
Predicting what content items a user finds important and sending those items to a cache on the user's device at times when doing so will not drain resources and will not result in expensive data rates. Applying a ranking function that examines recency and other content metadata associated with the user's content items stored in a synchronized content management system. Determining how much of a ranked list of content items to cache and deciding when is a good time to send content items to the local cache.
US09766790B2
This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface.
US09766787B2
Visual landmarks are used to organize diagrams. Elements of a diagram can be arranged in accordance with configurable defined properties of visual landmarks to provide some degree of layout structure within the diagram. Users can customize visual landmarks to cause the visual landmarks to exhibit desired behavior.
US09766780B2
An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.
US09766773B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to provide responses to emergent group activities in an interactive environment, by monitoring actions of one or more avatars in the interactive environment, the one or more avatars being controlled by a respective user, detecting a first action matching a first action property in a first group activity template for a first group activity, of a plurality of group activity templates, determining that the first group activity is occurring in the interactive environment, and issuing to one or more components of the interactive environment, an indication to perform a respective predefined operation.
US09766769B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating interactions with a user interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of mutation events specifying changes to the structure of a user interface that occurred during the user session, and generating user interface states specifying different structures of the user interface throughout the given user session. Based at least in part on the user interface states, playback data that present visual changes of the user interface corresponding to the set of mutation events that occurred during the user session are generated. Session activity data describing user interactions that occurred during the user session are also generated. At least a portion of the playback data and the session activity data are output to a requesting device.
US09766768B2
A method of controlling a user interface having a display area comprising a plurality of game objects. The user interface also displays at least one other object, such as, for example, a displayed score. In a situation where the object at least partially overlay and at least partially obscures at least one of the game objects, then in response to a trigger condition a display characteristic of the object is modified to improve visibility of the at least one displayed game object. The trigger condition is, in one example, detecting user input associated with the at least one game object. The display characteristic of the object is, in one example, a transparency factor of the object. Therefore, it can be ensured that elements or information can be made visible to a user, as required.
US09766766B2
A system and method is provided for displaying a display element on a display in which a display element may be displayed responsive to a command, the display element being associated with another display element. Also, in another example, the association between the display elements is also displayed. In one example, the association between the display elements is depicted via an animation.
US09766759B2
A mutual capacitance touch sensing device and a sine wave measuring method is disclosed. A sine wave generator of a driver and sensor module of a touch sensing panel of the mutual capacitance touch sensing device uses a clock to generate multiple sine waves according to a lookup table being loaded therein, enabling a selective circuit to transmit the sine waves to driving lines of the touch sensing panel in a proper order so that each sine wave at each driving line is capacitive-coupled to a respective sensing line through a respective crossover point to produce a respective sensing signal, and then a measurement unit scans the generated sensing signal subject to the lookup table in the sine wave generator and then provides the measured signals to a processor for processing.
US09766745B2
Capacitive touch panels may include a plurality of positive voltage lines that are driven at a first phase. These positive voltage lines may be used to provide the drive capacitance signal sensed by one or more sense regions. The touch panels may also include a plurality of negative phase voltage lines that are driven at a phase that is different than the first phase. Both the positive and negative voltage lines may cross-under one or more sense regions. The negative phase voltage lines are able to counter act and reduce the static capacitance in the sense regions.
US09766744B2
It is provided a touch display panel, and a driving method and a driving circuit for the touch display panel. The touch display panel includes: a common electrode including multiple common electrode units disposed in rows and columns; multiple switch elements electrically connected to the common electrode units; multiple first signal lines, where each first signal line is electrically connected to at least two switch elements located in different columns, and multiple first signal lines are used to turn on or turn off the switch elements electrically connected to the first signal lines; and multiple second signal lines, where each second signal line is electrically connected to at least two switch elements located in different rows, and the multiple second signal lines are used to provide a driving signal to a common electrode unit electrically connected to a turned-on switch element.
US09766738B1
A technique for improving capacitive sensing accuracy. Concurrent activations of multiple capacitance sensors within an array of capacitance sensors are sensed. One of the concurrent activations of the multiple capacitance sensors is accepted as a user activation. Remaining ones of the concurrent activations of the multiple capacitance sensors are rejected based on their physical location within the array of capacitance sensors relative to the one of the concurrent activations of the multiple capacitance sensors accepted as the user activation.
US09766733B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a plurality of display units formed with a first substrate, a color matrix formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode formed on the color matrix, a second substrate spaced from the first substrate, a pixel electrode matrix formed on the second substrate, a liquid crystal material disposed between the common electrode and the pixel electrode matrix. The LCD includes a touch sensing member integrated onto the color matrix of the first substrate.
US09766723B2
Techniques are disclosed for performing stylus-based actions in electronic devices without the stylus having to touch the stylus detection surface. A stylus action may include manipulating one or more control features of the stylus, and each control feature action or combination of actions may be associated with distinct functions. The device may detect, for example, whether the stylus is pointing to specific content or one or more UI control features or icons on the device, for which a corresponding function can be performed. In other cases, functions can be performed without reference to specific content. The device may track stylus location over the detection surface and the non-touch stylus action may be location sensitive. The various functions assigned to non-touch stylus actions may be performed on an application specific level, or a global device level. An animation can be displayed as non-touch stylus actions are executed.
US09766709B2
The technology disclosed relates to using gestures to supplant or augment use of a standard input device coupled to a system. It also relates to controlling a display using gestures. It further relates to controlling a system using more than one input device. In particular, it relates to detecting a standard input device that causes on-screen actions on a display in response to control manipulations performed using the standard input device. Further, a library of analogous gestures is identified, which includes gestures that are analogous to the control manipulations and also cause the on-screen actions responsive to the control manipulations. Thus, when a gesture from the library of analogous gestures is detected, a signal is generated that mimics a standard signal from the standard input device and causes at least one on-screen action.
US09766707B2
A haptics rendering system comprises: a display device having a display screen and one or more haptic feedback mechanisms associated with at least one tactile output peripheral; and a graphics processing unit (GPU) communicatively coupled to the display device. The GPU: receives one or more portions of display image software code for a three dimensional display image; generates a three dimensional (3D) visual output of the display image for display on the display device; and concurrently generates one or more specific friction maps to provide haptic feedback of depth and/or texture associated with specific portions of the display image that comprise at least one portion having at least one of a different depth and a different texture than other portions of the display image. The GPU renders the display image and the friction map from a same set of 3D commands within the display image software code.
US09766704B2
A touch assembly is provided including a touch surface for receiving a touch force. At least one haptic feedback device is coupled to the touch surface for selectively vibrating the touch surface. At least one switch is operably coupled with the touch surface and is adjustable between an activated configuration and a deactivated configuration. At least one microprocessor is in electrical communication with the at least one haptic feedback device and the at least one switch for actuating the at least one haptic feedback device in response to the at least one switch adjusting from the activated configuration to the deactivated configuration.
US09766700B2
A gaze activated data unit transfer system is described. An apparatus may comprise a gaze interface application operative on a processor circuit to manage data unit transfer operations based on eye movements of a human user. The gaze interface application may comprise a gaze interpreter component operative to receive eye movement information of a human eye from one or more eye gaze trackers, and interpret the eye movement information as a data unit transfer request to transfer a data unit from a source device to a target device, a data connection component operative to establish a data connection between the source and target devices using the transceiver in response to the data unit transfer request, and a data transfer component operative to send the data unit from the source device to the target device over the data connection. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09766693B2
Provision of power scheduling framework for a plurality of virtual machines to facilitate energy savings in handing service instances includes configuring a first set of virtual machines in an active power mode and a second set of virtual machines in one or more other power modes, and managing, across a time period and based on service instance arrival, power mode configuration for the first set of virtual machines and the second set of virtual machines, the managing including initiating one or more transitions of at least one virtual machine between power modes of the plurality of power modes, wherein a transition energy cost is associated with transitioning from a lower power mode of the plurality of power modes to a higher power mode of the plurality of power modes, and wherein the managing accounts for transition energy cost in determining the one or more transitions.
US09766686B2
The embodiments disclosed herein provide a computing device that includes an upstream buffer and downstream data processing circuit that establish a data processing path where the data stored by upstream buffer is received and processed by the downstream data processing circuit. Using a buffer utilization characteristic of the upstream buffer such as its current availability (e.g., the buffer is 50% full) or an input data rate, the computing device adjusts the clock signal used to drive the downstream data processing circuit. For example, if the utilization of the upstream buffer is low, the number of clock edges in the clock signal may be reduced thereby reducing power consumption of the computing device. However, as the utilization of the buffer begins to increase, the computing device may increase the number of clock edges to prevent a buffer overflow.
US09766678B2
Described is an apparatus comprising: first and second processing cores; and a PCU which is operable to: generate a first VID for an off-die regulator external to the apparatus, the first VID resulting in a first power supply for the first processing core; and generate a second VID different from the first VID, the second VID resulting in a second power supply for the second processing core. Described is an apparatus comprising: a plurality of power-gate transistors controllable by a digital bus, the plurality of power-gate transistors operable to provide a first power supply to a processing core, and to receive a second power supply as input; an ADC to receive the first power supply and to generate a digital output representative of the first power supply; and a controller to receive the digital output representative and to generate the digital bus for controlling the plurality of power-gate transistors.
US09766677B2
Some embodiments involve a method of managing power for a first multiple-data-storage-devices enclosure. The method can include: checking out a first token over a network connection from a token pool shared by multiple-data-storage-devices enclosures including the first enclosure, wherein each token of the token pool is available to be checked out by a single device and wherein the enclosures share power drawn from a power supply; after checking out the first token, initiating activation of a data storage device within the first enclosure; monitoring power consumption within the first enclosure; and releasing the first token back to the token pool when the power consumption in the first enclosure substantially reaches a steady-state after the activation of the data storage device is initiated.
US09766673B2
In one embodiment, a system includes: a plurality of compute nodes to couple in a chassis; a first shared power supply to provide a baseline power level to the plurality of compute nodes; and an auxiliary power source to provide power to one or more of the plurality of compute nodes during operation at a higher power level than the baseline power level. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09766672B2
In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises at least one processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor and comprising logic instructions encoded in the computer readable medium, wherein the instructions, when executed in a processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising initializing a direct memory access profiler in an electronic system, wherein the direct memory access is coupled to a policy manager in the electronic system, measuring at least one memory consumption characteristic of the electronic system, communicating the at least one memory consumption characteristic to a policy manager of the electronic system, and using the at least one memory consumption characteristic to adjust a power state of the electronic system.
US09766668B2
A small form factor computer chassis is disclosed. The computer chassis includes a solid bulkhead that separates the computer chassis cavity into two thermal chambers. According to certain embodiments, a radiator that is oriented along the XZ plane and is along a wall of computer chassis helps remove heat from a liquid coolant arriving form a cold plate associated with a CPU and/or a GPU.
US09766645B2
A wireless thermostat includes a display configured to present an operating condition of the wireless thermostat and an adjustment selector to allow for manual adjustment of the operating condition. The wireless thermostat includes a communication module configured to communicate with at least one mobile device and allow for remote adjustment of the operating condition. The wireless thermostat includes a sensor for detecting a presence in proximity to the thermostat of at least one user and generating a presence signal in response to the detected user presence. The wireless thermostat includes a processor configured to implement changes in the operating condition in response to the manual adjustment at the selector and the remote adjustment at the mobile device. The processor also communicates with the sensor to receive the presence signal and transition the display between an awake state and a sleep state in response to the presence signal.
US09766644B2
A server manages consumption of power supplied by utility or electric power grid operator(s) to multiple power consuming devices. Power flow to the consuming devices is enabled and disabled by controllable devices controlled by one or more client devices. The server includes a command processor, event manager, database, and client device manager. The command processor receives commands from the operator(s) and issues event messages responsive thereto. The event manager maintains a power management status for each client device and issues event instructions responsive to event messages. The database stores information relating to power consumed by the consuming devices. The client device manager selects from the database, responsive to receipt of a power reduction event instruction, client device(s) to which to issue a message indicating a power reduction amount and/or identification of at least one controllable device to be instructed to disable power flow to associated consuming devices.
US09766643B1
In some implementations, a system includes a voltage regulating circuit and a compensation circuit. The voltage regulating circuit includes a pass element configured to provide a regulated voltage to a load. The compensation circuit is configured to adjust a variable resistance based on a current of the load, the variable resistance being coupled to a gate terminal of the pass element through a capacitor.
US09766632B2
A device having pressure independent control and balancing valves, suitable for use in a hydronic system, comprises a seat, a plug having an upstream surface and a downstream surface, and a piston, wherein the seat, plug and piston are aligned coaxially, a controller determines the size of a first flow restriction between the upstream surface of the plug and the seat, the piston is operable to move in response to differential pressure across the first restriction and a predetermined force, the position of the piston relative to the downstream surface of the plug determining the size of a second flow restriction thereby in use maintaining a substantially constant differential pressure across the first restriction.
US09766629B1
An autonomous pulse and glide system and method are disclosed. Pulse and glide is a fuel savings strategy that pulses a host vehicle to a maximum target speed and glides to a minimum target speed. Where the host vehicle detects that a lead vehicle is within a minimum distance the pulse and glide strategy is modified. The system may interrupt a pulse or may instruct the host vehicle to pass the lead vehicle. The host vehicle may also include an inter-vehicle communication module which facilitates a master/slave interaction with a lead or trailing vehicle.
US09766628B1
A computing device of a first vehicle may receive a first image and a second image of a second vehicle having flashing light signals. The computing device may determine, in the first image and the second image, an image region that bounds the second vehicle such that the image region substantially encompasses the second vehicle. The computing device may determine a polar grid that partitions the image region in the first image and the second image into polar bins, and identify portions of image data exhibiting a change in color and a change in brightness between the first image and the second image. The computing device may determine a type of the flashing light signals and a type of the second vehicle; and accordingly provide instructions to control the first vehicle.
US09766626B1
Aspects of the invention relate generally to autonomous vehicles. The features described improve the safety, use, driver experience, and performance of these vehicles by performing a behavior analysis on mobile objects in the vicinity of an autonomous vehicle. Specifically, the autonomous vehicle is capable of detecting nearby objects, such as vehicles and pedestrians, and is able to determine how the detected vehicles and pedestrians perceive their surroundings. The autonomous vehicle may then use this information to safely maneuver around all nearby objects.
US09766624B2
A robotic system that includes a mobile robot and a remote input device. The input device may be a joystick that is used to move a camera and a mobile platform of the robot. The system may operate in a mode where the mobile platform moves in a camera reference coordinate system. The camera reference coordinate system is fixed to a viewing image provided by the camera so that movement of the robot corresponds to a direction viewed on a screen. This prevents disorientation during movement of the robot if the camera is panned across a viewing area.
US09766618B2
A method includes receiving a given work product plan specifying a set of constituents to be used in forming a given work product, each constituent having one or more properties, the given work product being associated with a given class of work products. The method also includes obtaining information associated with one or more existing work product plans for one or more existing work products in the given class from a knowledge database and selecting proportions of the set of constituents to be used in forming the given work product based at least in part on distributions of characteristics associated with types of constituents used in forming existing work products in the given class and of properties of constituents used in forming existing work products in the given class. The method further includes generating an updated work product plan for the given work product specifying the selected proportions of the set of constituents to be used in forming the given work product.
US09766615B2
A motor drive system includes a motor drive processor, a motor drive memory component, a server, and a display that displays a machine readable code, wherein the motor drive forms a secure wireless connection with a smart device once the smart device has scanned the machine readable code.
US09766610B2
An illustrative application control system is provided having an entity and an electronic device with a display. The control system includes software operating instructions to direct movement of the entity and to direct display operation to interact with the entity. The entity may have the capability to move when positioned on the display and to detect pixels and pixel arrangements on the display. The electronic device may include the capability to generate and display the pixels and pixel arrangements in subsequent locations on the display to trigger entity responses. The software operating instructions may include content such as audio output and/or performance instructions to facilitate interaction between the entity and electronic device.
US09766603B2
Embodiments include a wireless mote network having a plurality of motes, wherein each of the plurality of motes includes a processing unit in communication with a communications device. Each of the motes includes at least a sensor configured to monitor an environmental condition in an area around the mote or an actuator configured to control one or more external systems. The wireless mote network also includes a central communications device configured to communicate with one or more of the motes within a range of the central communications device and a controller configured to communicate with the central communications device, to receive one or more signals indicative of the environmental condition of one or more of the plurality of motes, and to transmit one or more control signals indicating an operation of the actuator to one or more of the plurality of motes.
US09766602B2
A system, and computer usable program product for managing a local environment using data traffic information are provided in the illustrative embodiments. According to the invention, an data traffic on a data network associated with the local environment is monitored at a networking device. The local environment includes one or more devices. A device from the one or more devices is controllable using the data network. A condition in the local environment is inferred from the data traffic. An action to cause a change in the local environment is determined. A command corresponding to the action is sent to a subset of devices in the set of devices in the local environment to perform the action.
US09766594B2
A scorekeeping device includes: a module including: a case; a display housed inside the case and having at least first, second, and third parallel segments to show information, wherein the third segment is located between the first and the second segments; an internal circuit housed inside the case and electrically connected to the display; at least three buttons electrically connected to and configured to provide input to the internal circuit; and a battery housed inside the case and electrically connected to the internal circuit; and a band secured to the module and configured to removably secure the scorekeeping device on an associated user; wherein the internal circuit is programmed to show the information on each of the display segments.
US09766593B2
An atomic clock including an ion trap assembly, a C-field coil positioned for generating a first magnetic field in the interrogation region of the ion trap assembly, a compensation coil positioned for generating a second magnetic field in the interrogation region, wherein the combination of the first and second magnetic fields produces an ion number-dependent second order Zeeman shift (Zeeman shift) in the resonance frequency that is opposite in sign to an ion number-dependent second order Doppler shift (Doppler shift) in the resonance frequency, the C-field coil has a radius selected using data indicating how changes in the radius affect an ion-number-dependent shift in the resonance frequency, such that a difference in magnitude between the Doppler shift and the Zeeman shift is controlled or reduced, and the resonance frequency, including the adjustment by the Zeeman shift, is used to obtain the frequency standard.
US09766592B2
The invention concerns a pressure sensor including means of sensing pressure and converting pressure into an electrical signal able to be transmitted by an electrical circuit to an control interface circuit of an indicator device, wherein said sensing and conversion means include: a closed volume and a liquid contained in the closed volume, said liquid being electrically conductive and capable of moving inside said closed volume, at least one sensing member arranged inside the closed volume in a given position in said volume, said sensing member including at least one pair of electrodes and cooperating with the liquid when said liquid moves in the closed volume, so that said electrical circuit is closed when the liquid passes said sensing member. The pressure sensor is intended to be integrated in a pressure measuring device, particularly a timepiece.
US09766591B2
A method and apparatus for receiving an expiry time in a smart clip and one of timing and counting down to the expiry time comprises coupling an electronic receiver to the smart clip and connecting a timer to the electronic receiver are disclosed. Receiving the expiry time by the electronic receiver, and one of timing and counting down to the expiry time by the timer are also disclosed. Other features and embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
US09766585B2
A power line retaining member that houses, in a groove, a power line for connecting two separate components of an image forming device, the power line being a bare metal wire that has elasticity. The power line retaining member includes a guide and a restricting portion. The guide includes two side walls, internal wall surfaces of the two side walls and a bottom surface between the internal wall surfaces being electrically insulative and defining the groove, the guide holding the power line in an elastically deformed shape. The restricting portion is disposed on an internal wall surface that the power line exerts a restoring force against, the restricting portion restricting movement of the power line in a direction away from the bottom surface.
US09766583B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit that develops a first latent image using a first developer so that a first developer image is developed with the first developer, a second image forming unit that develops a second latent image using a second developer, which is lower in saturation or higher in light-permeability in comparison to the first developer, so that a second developer image is developed with the second developer, a transfer part that transfers the first developer image and the second developer image to a medium, and a control part that controls an amount of the second developer used to develop the second developer image according to a type of the medium.
US09766579B2
A fixing apparatus which fixes a toner image on a recording material, includes a tubular film; a heater disposed in contact with the film, the heater including a substrate and a heat generating resistor formed on the substrate; a contact member disposed in contact with a surface of the heater opposite to a surface of the heater in contact with the film, a coefficient of linear expansion of the contact member being larger than that of the substrate; and a support member configured to support the heater, the support member sandwiching the contact member with the heater, wherein a lubricant is applied in at least a longitudinal end portion of a contact region between the heater and the contact member.
US09766576B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a heater, a heat receiving member configured to fix a toner image on a sheet, a first temperature sensor configured to sense a first temperature of the heat receiving member, a second temperature sensor configured to sense a second temperature of the heat receiving member, and a controller. The controller is configured to, after the image forming unit starts image formation: when a difference between the first temperature and the second temperature exceeds a threshold value a first number of times, perform a temperature reduction control in which the controller reduces a number of sheets to be printed per unit time and the image forming unit performs image formation for the reduced number of sheets to be printed per unit time; and increase the threshold value in accordance with a time elapsed.
US09766555B2
An exposure apparatus includes a projection system having a final element that projects exposure light to an upper surface of a substrate through liquid between the final element and the substrate. A liquid confinement member has a recovery outlet, via which the liquid is removed along with gas, arranged such that the upper surface of the substrate faces the recovery outlet, and the recovery outlet surrounds a path of the exposure light. The liquid confinement member confines the liquid to an area smaller than an area of the upper surface of the substrate by removing the liquid via the recovery outlet from a gap between the liquid confinement member and the upper surface of the substrate. An anti-vibration system is disposed such that transmission of vibrations between the liquid confinement member and the projection system is limited.
US09766554B2
A structure in semiconductor fabrication includes at least a first periodic asymmetric feature and a periodic asymmetric second feature. The first feature contains a plurality of periodically distributed first elements. The first feature has a first asymmetric profile such that the first feature no longer has the same first asymmetric profile when it is rotated by 180 degrees. The second feature contains a plurality of periodically distributed second elements. The second feature has a second asymmetric profile such that the second feature no longer has the same second asymmetric profile when it is rotated by 180 degrees. The second asymmetric profile is different from the first asymmetric profile.
US09766552B2
A method of calculating electromagnetic scattering properties of a structure, the structure including materials of differing properties and the structure being periodic in at least one lateral direction and extending in a vertical direction, comprises: numerically solving a volume integral equation for electromagnetic scattering for a plurality of modes in the at least one lateral direction, by performing, for each respective mode, integration (1350) of a pseudo-spectral polynomial (Chebyshev) expansion in the vertical direction multiplied by a ID Green's function using the same sample points in the orthogonal direction for all of the plurality of modes. The integration is performed by solving a regularized linear system of equations between first (1116) and second (1120) discrete transformation steps to compute (1118) values of a regularized Chebyshev expansion coefficient vector (γ). Electromagnetic scattering properties of the structure are calculated using the results of the numerical solution.
US09766551B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of patterning can include dividing an image into a set of frame sections; determining a tip pattern for a respective portion of an image to be patterned by each tip of the tip array in each frame section of the set of frame sections; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a first location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the first frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a first pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate one or more tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the first pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the first frame section; disposing the tip array in a patterning position in a second location of the substrate corresponding to a location of the substrate in which the second frame section in the set of frame sections is to be patterned; projecting a second pattern of radiation onto the tip array to selectively irradiate tips of the tip array and pattern the substrate, wherein the second pattern of radiation corresponds to a tip pattern for the second frame section; and repeating the disposing and projecting for each frame section in the set of frame sections to pattern the image.
US09766549B2
The disclosure pertains to an optical apparatus, in particular for microlithography, that includes an optical module, a support structure and a connection apparatus. The connection apparatus includes at least one connection unit which includes a first connector part and a second connector part. The first connector part is connected to the optical module, and the second connector part is connected to the support structure.
US09766548B2
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus including a projection optical system configured to project light from a reticle onto a substrate, a processor configured to estimate a variation in imaging characteristic of the projection optical system, based on a model determined in advance, and an adjusting device configured to adjust the imaging characteristic of the projection optical system based on the variation estimated by the processor, wherein the processor is configured, if an error of the imaging characteristic of the projection optical system adjusted by the adjusting device based on the variation which is estimated based on a first number of models, for estimating the variation, determined in advance without the reticle, does not fall within a tolerance, to generate a second number of models for estimating the variation, the second number being larger than the first number.
US09766541B2
A positive-type resist composition which generates an acid upon exposure and whose solubility in an alkali developing solution increases under the action of an acid, the composition including a base material component whose solubility in an alkali developing solution increases under the action of an acid; and a compound represented by the following general formula (m0): Z01 to Z04 each independently represent a substituent having electron withdrawing properties, Rb21 and Rb22 each independently represent an alkyl group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, or a hydroxyl group, Rb1 represents an aryl group which may have a substituent, an alkyl group, or an alkenyl group, n1 and n2 represent an integer of 0 to 3, and X0− represents an organic anion.
US09766539B2
A method which determines patterns for a plurality of masks to be executed by a processor includes acquiring data on a pattern containing a plurality of pattern elements, and assigning the acquired plurality of pattern elements into masks, decomposing the acquired plurality of pattern elements into patterns of the masks, and calculating an evaluation value for an evaluation index, based on a number of masks, the distances between a plurality of pattern elements in each mask, and an angle of a line connecting a plurality of pattern elements in each mask. In the method, a pattern of each mask is determined based on the calculated evaluation value.
US09766538B2
A pellicle frame and a pellicle made with it is proposed in which at least one pair of the side bars of the frame are made to have a deflection (bow) which has an amount or a distance of displacement measured at the middle point of the side bar accounting for 0.01 through 1% of the length of the respective side bar.
US09766537B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of photolithography technologies. Disclosed is a mask comprising a transparent substrate, the transparent substrate being provided thereon with a semi-transmitting film layer and a light barrier layer to form a non-transmitting region, a semi-transmitting region, and a full transmitting region, the transparent substrate being further provided with a light extinction film layer located at a vicinity of the full transmitting region to weaken an intensity of ultraviolet light transmitting through the vicinity of the full transmitting region. The size of the via formed after an exposure process with the mask is less affected by a change in the thickness of the photoresist surrounding the via.
US09766534B2
A camera assembly and a method for mounting it in a portable electronic device are provided. The assembly includes a camera module, and a camera trim coupled with the camera module. The camera assembly includes a first shock mount coupling the camera trim to an interior surface of the housing, and a second shock mount coupling the camera trim to an exterior surface of the housing. The first and second shock mounts cooperate to suspend an outer perimeter of the camera trim within an opening of the housing of the portable electronic device. A mobile telecommunications device including a camera assembly as above is also provided.
US09766533B2
A flash device for a camera includes a light source unit and a driving unit. The light source unit includes a plurality of light emitting devices, each of which is configured to output light of different colors. The driving unit is configured to drive a first light emitting device among the plurality of light emitting devices when the camera images a subject to obtain a first image, and drive a second light emitting device different from the first light emitting device among the plurality of light emitting devices when the camera images the subject to obtain a second image.
US09766528B2
An electrochromic device includes a first flexible or rigid plastic substrate including a front surface, and a rear surface, wherein the rear surface comprises a first conductive material; and the front surface, the rear surface, or both the front surface and the rear surface of the first substrate comprises a gas diffusion barrier; and a second flexible or rigid plastic substrate including a front surface, and a rear surface, wherein the front surface comprises a second conductive material, wherein the first substrate is joined to the second substrate by a sealing member, where the rear surface of the first substrate and the front surface of the second substrate with the sealing member define a chamber therebetween.
US09766519B2
An array substrate is disclosed. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first film layer on a side surface of the substrate, an insulation layer on the side surface of the substrate, an electrostatic charge dispersion layer on the side surface of the substrate, and a second film layer arranged on the side surface of the substrate. The first film layer, the insulation layer, the electrostatic charge dispersion layer, and the second film layer are sequentially arranged on the substrate. In addition, the insulation layer and the electrostatic charge dispersion layer include via holes, the second film layer is electrically connected with the first film layer through the via holes, and the electrostatic charge dispersion layer is in a same profile as the second film layer.
US09766517B2
To provide a display device or the like that enables stable curing of a resin. The display device includes a first circuit and a second circuit over the same substrate. The first circuit has a function of performing display; the second circuit has a function of driving the first circuit; the second circuit includes a transistor and a capacitor; the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer over a first insulating layer; the capacitor includes a first conductive layer, a second insulating layer, and a second conductive layer; the first conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer; one of a source and a drain of the transistor is electrically connected to the second conductive layer; and the first conductive layer and the oxide semiconductor layer include the same metal element.
US09766507B2
A liquid crystal display device having a uniform gap between a TFT substrate and a CF substrate even in cases where a sealant is to be applied to a slim frame formed on the outside of the effective display area is provided. A liquid crystal display device includes an effective display area, a color resist coated area, and a seal area which overlaps the color resist coated area and in which a sealant for sealing liquid crystal is provided, wherein the color resist coated area overlapping the seal area has slits formed therein.
US09766506B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes features to prevent damage to the liquid crystal alignment layer when a color filter substrate and a thin-film transistor array substrate are moved relative to each other. The liquid crystal display panel may include a column spacer on the color filter substrate under the black matrix and a bump pattern on the array substrate where the column spacer and the bump pattern are in contact with each other. The array substrate may otherwise include a planarization layer with a step portion and a protective layer on the planarization layer where the protective layer is in contact with the column spacer.
US09766501B2
An alignment film for liquid crystal display device includes a first portion positioned towards to the liquid crystal layer and a second portion positioned away from the liquid crystal layer. The first portion provides improved anchoring force while the second portion exhibits a lower volume resistance than the first portion. Thus, AC image sticking and DC image sticking can be minimized at the same time.
US09766499B2
The present disclosure relates to a fabricating method of alignment film. The fabricating method of alignment film comprises: forming a blocking layer (2) on a substrate (1); and forming an alignment layer (3) on the blocking layer (2). According to the present disclosure, by way of a layered coating technology, a complete separation of the blocking layer and the alignment layer is achieved. Moreover, since the blocking layer is coated in advance, the alignment layer has a decreased angle with respect to the substrate, which facilitates a uniform distribution of the alignment layer such that the formation of Mura on the panel is effectively avoided. In addition, the blocking layer and the alignment layer are formed in different steps such that the thickness of the blocking layer and the alignment layer is accurately controlled. Therefore, an accurate distribution of capacitance on the blocking layer and the alignment layer is achieved and the residual charge on the alignment layer is effectively reduced.
US09766495B2
A transflective type liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in rows and columns to form a sub-pixel array, a plurality of first wires extending along the row direction or the column direction, and a plurality of second wires which are parallel with the first wires. The plurality of sub-pixels includes transmissive sub-pixels and reflective sub-pixels. Each row and column in the sub-pixel array has both transmissive sub-pixels and reflective sub-pixels. The transmissive sub-pixels are connected to and driven by the first wires, and the reflective sub-pixels are connected to and driven by the second wires.
US09766488B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus capable of achieving the weight lightening, thinning and narrowing of the frame is provided. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, an optical sheet, a backlight and a backlight housing body, which are sequentially laminated from a front side to a rear side. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a frame body which sandwiches the liquid crystal panel, the optical sheet, the backlight and the backlight housing body, and the frame body has a U-shaped cross section opened inward.
US09766487B2
The present invention provides a curved liquid crystal display device, which includes a curved backplane (3), a light guide plate (31) arranged on the curved backplane (3), a mold frame (2) mounted to the curved backplane (3), and a liquid crystal panel (1) bonded to the mold frame (2). The curved backplane (3) is in the form of a shell, which has two opposite inside walls that are respectively provided with a plurality of raised sections (32). The mold frame (2) includes two coupling sections (21) respectively formed at two opposite sides of a top portion thereof and a plurality of recessed grooves (22) formed in two opposite sides of a bottom portion thereof and having openings facing outward. The liquid crystal panel (1) is bonded to the coupling sections (21). The plurality of raised sections (32) are respectively received and retained in the plurality of recessed grooves (22) so as to fix the mold frame (2) to the curved backplane (3). The liquid crystal panel (1) is forced by the mold frame (2) to curve in a downward direction to have the liquid crystal panel (1) and the curved backplane (3) show identical curvatures.
US09766466B2
A semiconductor laser module (10) comprises a tapered laser diode (12) and/or a tapered amplifier diode equipped with beam shaping optics (14). The tapered laser diode and/or the tapered amplifier diode includes an emission facet (16) for emitting a laser beam (18) along a beam axis (24). The beam-shaping optics comprise a plano-convex cylindrical lens oriented so as to change divergence of the beam in the fast axis direction, the plano-convex spherical cylindrical lens having a planar surface (26) arranged facing the facet and a circular cylindrical surface (22) facing away from the facet.
US09766464B2
In a near-eye or heads-up display system including a display engine and an optical waveguide, a quarter-wave retarder (QWR) is positioned between a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) of the display engine and an input diffraction grating of the waveguide. Additionally, a linear polarizer can be positioned between the PBS and the QWR. Light corresponding to an image generated by a reflective microdisplay of the display engine is diffracted into the waveguide by the input diffraction grating, so it can travel by way of total internal reflection to an output coupler and viewed by a human eye. The QWR alone, or in combination with the linear polarizer, prevents a ghost image that may otherwise occur if a portion of the light corresponding to the image, that is diffracted into the waveguide by the input diffraction grating, is diffractively out-coupled by the input diffraction grating and thereafter reflects off the reflective microdisplay.
US09766462B1
Control of head-mounted display (HMD) systems is described. One method displays at least one image on a first display layer of a HMD system. While displaying the at least one image, the method adjust a transparency setting of a second display layer from a first value to a second value to cause the second display layer to be opaque to limit an amount of light that passes through the lens for viewing the at least one image on the first display layer.
US09766461B2
A head-mounted display (HMD) device has a chassis, a display assembly, and various sensors and electronics, where the display assembly, sensors and electronics are mounted to the chassis and enclosed within a sealed protective visor, and where the display assembly is mounted to the chassis only through a central location that is aligned with a center-point between the user's eyes, thereby decoupling the display assembly from most mechanical and thermal stresses.
US09766457B2
A head-up display device includes a housing, a base, a projecting board assembly, a protecting cover and a driving mechanism. The projecting board assembly has a holder and a projecting board. The protecting cover is movably arranged on the projecting board assembly, and can be used to cover the projecting board or uncover to expose the projecting board. The projecting board assembly is rotatably arranged above the base by the driving mechanism, and the driving mechanism can drive the projecting board assembly at a storing position or a displaying position. The driving mechanism can drive the protecting cover to be guided by the first guiding mechanism, so as to move the protecting cover. Otherwise, the driving mechanism can pull down the protecting cover by the second guiding mechanism to expose the projecting board, and make the projecting board assembly in the displaying position.
US09766450B2
A light deflector is provided including a mirror unit having a light reflection plane, a movable frame to support the mirror unit, a support frame disposed to surround the movable frame, a pair of serpentine beams each disposed between the movable frame and the support frame on both sides of the movable frame to form a turning shape, each of the serpentine beams having one end attached to the support frame, and another end attached to the movable frame, and a vibration damper provided on a portion that moves due to deformation of the serpentine beams caused by application of voltage being transferred.
US09766441B2
Surgical stereo vision systems and methods for microsurgery are described that enable hand-eye collocation, high resolution, and a large field of view. A digital stereo microscope apparatus, an operating system with a digital stereo microscope, and a method are described using a display unit located over an area of interest such that a human operator places hands, tools, or a combination thereof in the area of interest and views a magnified and augmented live stereo view of the area interest with eyes of the human operator substantially collocated with the hands of the human operator.
US09766434B2
A camera lens is disclosed. The camera lens comprises, from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with positive refractive power; a fourth lens with negative refractive power; a fifth lens with positive refractive power; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power. The camera lens satisfies specified conditions.
US09766431B2
An imaging lens includes: a movable lens group configured to travel to allow the imaging lens to come into focus; and a rearmost lens group arranged at a most-image-sided fixed position, and having negative refractive power. Following conditional expression is satisfied, −2
US09766420B2
A fiber optic connector for coupling focused radiant energy from a laser to a fiber optic conductor includes a quartz alignment ferrule that is fused mechanically and optically to the fiber's proximal end, either by an index matching first adhesive or by heat fusing the cladding to the ferrule without removing the cladding from the end of the fiber. The fiber and ferrule are attached to the fiber's proximal termination connector by a second adhesive with a high refractive index which absorbs errant radiant energy that has propagated in the fiber's cladding. The absorbed errant energy is dissipated by the connector assembly as it is converted to heat.
US09766419B2
A fiber optic cable sub-assembly comprises a fiber optic cable including at least one optical fiber, a cable jacket that houses the optical fiber and at least one metal strength member. A collar is attached to an end portion of the metal strength member, wherein the optical fiber extends beyond an outer axial end of the collar. In another example a fiber optic cable assembly is fabricated from the fiber optic cable sub-assembly wherein a connector housing is attached to the collar, and an interface operably connects an end portion of the optical fiber to an active optical component within the connector housing. In further examples, methods of assembly for a fiber optic cable sub-assembly are provided along with using the sub-assembly for making a fiber optic cable assembly.
US09766418B2
Optical connector systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical port includes a substrate, a laser silicon chip, an interposer, and a receptacle housing. The laser silicon chip includes an optical source, a laser beam emitting surface, and a grating at the laser beam emitting surface. The laser silicon chip is coupled to the substrate such that the laser beam emitting surface is transverse to the mounting surface of the substrate. The interposer includes an interposer fiber support bore, and is coupled to the laser beam emitting surface of the laser silicon chip such that the interposer fiber support bore is substantially aligned with the grating of the laser silicon chip. The receptacle housing includes a receptacle mating surface and defines an enclosure operable to receive a fiber optic connector. The receptacle mating surface includes a receptacle fiber support bore aligned with the interposer fiber support bore.
US09766416B1
There is provided an optical module, which includes a substrate; one or more optical devices disposed on the substrate; an integrated circuit (IC) device disposed on the substrate for driving the one or more optical devices; one or more optical fibers in optical communications with the one or more optical devices, respectively; an optical bench that attaches to the substrate and concentrates a direction of the light transmitted between the one or more optical devices and the one or more optical fibers; and a cover that attaches to the optical bench with the one or more optical fibers fixed therebetween. The optical bench changes a direction of the concentrated light.
US09766414B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relates to an indexing terminal including a multi-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location, a first single-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location and a second single-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location. The multi-fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location includes a plurality of fiber positions with one of the fiber positions optically coupled to the first single fiber ruggedized de-mateable connection location.
US09766413B2
A fiber optic connector and cable assembly is disclosed herein. The fiber optic connector and cable assembly includes a cable having at least one optical fiber, a jacket surrounding the optical fiber and at least one strength member for reinforcing the fiber optic cable. The fiber optic connector and cable assembly also includes a fiber optic connector having a main connector body having a distal end and a proximal end. The fiber optic connector also includes a ferrule supporting an end portion of the optical fiber. The ferrule is mounted at the distal end of the main connector body. The fiber optic connector further includes a spring for biasing the ferrule in a distal direction and a spring push for retaining the spring within the main connector body. The spring push is mounted at the proximal end of the main connector body. The spring push includes a main body and a stub that projects proximally outwardly from the main body. A crimp band is provided for securing the fiber optic cable to the fiber optic connector. The crimp band includes a first portion crimped down on the stub. The strength member is secured between the first portion of the crimp band and the stub. The crimp band also includes a second portion crimped down on the jacket of the fiber optic cable. The crimp band further includes an inner surface having gripping structures for gripping the strength member and/or the jacket.
US09766412B2
Reduced-profile connection components are described. The reduced-profile connection components are configured to connect various data transmission elements, including cables, network devices, and computing devices. A non-limiting example of a connection component includes a fiber optic connection component, including connectors, adapters, and assemblies formed therefrom. In some embodiments, the connection components may include mechanical transfer (MT) and multi-fiber push-on/pull-off (MPO) connection components, such as MT ferrules and MPO adapters. The reduced-profile connection components configured according to some embodiments have a smaller profile and/or require less parts to achieve a connection compared to conventional connection components. In some embodiments, the reduced-profile connection components may be used with conventional connection components. For example a reduced-profile connector may use a conventional MT ferrule to establish a connection within a conventional MPO adapter.
US09766410B1
Techniques for forming a photonic integrated circuit having a facet coupler and a surface coupler are described. The photonic integrated circuit may be on a wafer, which may be diced to form an integrated device. The facet coupler may be positioned proximate to an edge of the integrated device, and the surface coupler may be positioned on a surface of the integrated device. The surface coupler may allow for evaluation and assessment of the circuit's performance, which may facilitate wafer-level testing of the circuit and diagnosis of the circuit before and after packaging.
US09766409B2
A high density, low power, high performance information system, method and apparatus are described in which an integrated circuit apparatus includes a first integrated circuit link element (657) and a redundant integrated circuit link element (660) connected in parallel between first and second deflectable MEMS switches (652-655, 662-665) which are connected in a signal path and controlled to deselect the first integrated circuit link element (657) and connect the redundant integrated circuit link element (660) in the signal path in response to a two-state control signal provided to the first and second deflectable MEMs switches which identifies the first integrated circuit link element as being defective.
US09766405B2
A 2-dimensional grating generates multi-mode light from two or more single-mode inputs. One or more waveguides couple the light from the single-mode inputs to the 2-dimensional grating. The 2-dimensional grating couples and transmits the generated multi-mode light to an optical fiber configured to support multiple modes.
US09766403B2
Apparatuses and methods for tuning and switching between optical components are provided. The apparatuses and methods may be used in the context of optical communication. An example apparatus may include a first optical path having a first tunable component and a second optical path having a second tunable component. The apparatus may also include a first switch component for selectively connecting the first optical path to an output, and a second switch component for selectively connecting the second optical path to the output. The first and second switch components may be semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). The apparatus may have a controller that controls the first switch component and the second switch component to select which optical path is connected to the output and controls tuning of the tunable component in the optical path that is not connected to the output.
US09766399B2
A cross waveguide includes a first waveguide and a second waveguide, where the first waveguide and the second waveguide are mutually perpendicular and crosswise disposed, an area formed by a cross part of the first waveguide and the second waveguide is a cross area, the first waveguide and the second waveguide each include a shallow etching part and a core layer, and the shallow etching part is symmetrically distributed on two sides of the core layer in a length direction relative to an axis of the core layer. By appropriately adjusting a width of the core layer or a width of the shallow etching part, an energy loss generated during optical wave transmission in the cross waveguide can be effectively reduced.
US09766397B2
An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber including a core and a cladding surrounding the core, a non-strippable resin layer that adheres to and covers a surface of the glass fiber, and a buffer layer that covers the non-strippable resin layer, when pullout force measurement in which a length of 10 mm of each of the glass fiber and the non-strippable resin layer is pulled out at a tensile speed of 5 mm/min from the buffer layer is performed, a pullout force at 23° C. is 1.0 kg or less and a pullout force at 95° C. is 0.50 kg or less.
US09766394B2
A backlight module includes a backplane, a mold frame, a light guide plate, and an optic film. The optic film includes a first layer and a second layer stacked on the first layer and including a constraint portion including an extension section, a connection section, and a support section parallel with and opposite to the extension section. The connection section connects between the support section and the extension section. The extension section extends from an end of the second layer. The optic film is stacked on the light guide plate with the first layer engaging the light guide plate. The mold frame surrounds the light guide plate and the first layer and is received in the backplane. The connection section is located outside opposite sides of the backplane. The mold frame and the opposite sides of the backplane are received and retained between the support section and the extension section.
US09766390B2
Provided are an optical member capable of implementing optical images having desired shapes through a pattern design, and a lighting device using the same, the optical member including: a three-dimensional effect forming portion provided on a first surface of a base substrate; and a multiple effect forming portion disposed in a lamination form with the three-dimensional effect forming portion, wherein the three-dimensional effect forming portion has multiple main patterns sequentially arranged in a first direction on the first surface and having respective inclined surfaces with an inclination angle with respect to the first surface, wherein the multiple main patterns implement a line shaped beam of a first path by guiding a first incident beam into a first surface direction through refraction or reflection from the inclined surfaces, wherein the multiple effect forming portion are sequentially arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction and has multiple optical patterns.
US09766387B2
The disclosure provides a light guiding plate, used in a backlight module. The light guiding plate comprises a main board body and a sub board body. The main board body has an illuminating surface, a back surface opposite to the illuminating surface, and a first incident surface connected with the illuminating surface and the back surface. A plurality of quantum dots is uniformly embedded inside the sub board body. The sub board body is disposed on the first incident surface. The sub board body completely covers the first incident surface. The sub board body has a second incident surface, and the second incident surface is away from the first incident surface. The second incident surface is disposed opposite to a backlight source of the backlight module. The disclosure further provides a backlight module and a display.
US09766380B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention actively align a lens stack array with an array of focal planes to construct an array camera module. In one embodiment, a method for actively aligning a lens stack array with a sensor that has a focal plane array includes: aligning the lens stack array relative to the sensor in an initial position; varying the spatial relationship between the lens stack array and the sensor; capturing images of a known target that has a region of interest using a plurality of active focal planes at different spatial relationships; scoring the images based on the extent to which the region of interest is focused in the images; selecting a spatial relationship between the lens stack array and the sensor based on a comparison of the scores; and forming an array camera subassembly based on the selected spatial relationship.
US09766379B2
A microlens array substrate includes: a light transmitting substrate in which a first lens surface formed of a concave surface is formed on a substrate surface on one side; a first lens layer which covers the substrate surface on one side and has a refractive index which is different from that of the light transmitting substrate; a light transmitting layer which covers the first lens layer on the opposite side to the light transmitting substrate; and a second lens layer which covers the light transmitting layer on the opposite side to the light transmitting substrate and in which a second lens surface formed of a convex surface is formed on the opposite side to the light transmitting substrate, in which the light transmitting layer has smaller refractive index and coefficient of thermal expansion than those of the first lens layer and the second lens layer.
US09766376B2
An optical film includes a substrate, an anti-glare layer, a first anti-reflective layer and a second anti-reflective layer. The anti-glare layer is disposed on the substrate and has a microstructure disposed on a side of the anti-glare layer away from the substrate. The first anti-reflective layer is disposed on the microstructures of the anti-glare layer, and the anti-glare layer is located between the substrate and the first anti-reflective layer. The second anti-reflective layer is disposed on the first anti-reflective layer, and the first anti-reflective layer is located between the anti-glare layer and the second anti-reflective layer. A refractive index of the first anti-reflective layer is different from a refractive index of the anti-glare layer.
US09766375B2
In the antireflection film, a hydrogenated carbon film as a first layer is formed on a surface of an optical substrate. A MgF2 film as a second layer having a lower refractive index than the first layer is formed on the first layer and functions as a low refractive index layer. The hydrogenated carbon film and the MgF2 film are formed using a RF magnetron sputtering equipment. During the formation of the hydrogenated carbon film, a mixed gas of argon and hydrogen is supplied to a vacuum chamber such that some of C—C bonds in the film are replaced with C—H bonds. Some of C—C bonds are cut by hydrogenation, and strains (stress) accumulating due to C—C bonds can be relaxed. As a result, the antireflection film which has excellent adhesiveness and is not broken is obtained.
US09766371B2
A distributed optical fiber sensing system is provided. The system can include an interrogator, a transmission optical fiber, a sensing optical fiber, and a reflector. Each of the transmission optical fiber and the sensing optical fiber includes at least one circulator. The reflector is optically coupled to the transmission optical fiber for sensing separate regions along the sensing optical fiber.
US09766364B2
A control system for a well site, the well site includes connectable elements configured for inserting down a well. An explosion hazard zone surrounds the well site. A first electronics enclosure is remote from the explosion hazard zone and houses a first electronics module. A remote electronics control module is spaced apart from the first electronics housing and a remote hydraulics module removed from the first electronics module and the hazard zone module. The control system includes a human machine interface including a display and input. A central communications module is in wireless communication with the first electronics control module, the remote electronics module, and a remote location. A processor is in one or more of the first electronics module, the communications module or the human machine interface.
US09766361B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for electromagnetic surveying using dynamically-selected source waveforms. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a source waveform is adapted by dynamically selecting a source waveform from the set of pre-calculated waveform sequences. The dynamic selection of the source waveform may depend on a measured background noise level. Other embodiments, aspects, and features are also disclosed.
US09766352B2
A method of measuring ionizing radiation may include the steps of: a) creating charged particles; b) causing the charged particles to generate the electrons; c) collecting at least a portion of the multiplied free electrons using at least two anode pads provided within the chamber, each anode pad producing a corresponding anode output signal, to provide higher sensitivity; and d) recording each anode output signal.
US09766341B2
The system includes a reconfigurable GNSS antenna subsystem that dynamically reconfigures one or more antenna parameters to change one or more operating characteristics of an antenna based on environmental conditions and/or the presence of interfering signals to improve the quality of GNSS satellite signal reception. The system analyzes the received signals to determine if the GNSS satellite signals are sufficiently above received noise, if interfering signals are present, and/or if multipath signals are adversely impacting position calculations. Based on the analysis, the reconfigurable antenna subsystem selectively and dynamically reconfigures one or more parameters to change one or more operating characteristics of the antenna. As the conditions change, the reconfigurable antenna subsystem may dynamically reconfigure one or more of the antenna parameters accordingly.
US09766333B1
In an example method, a vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous mode could have a radar system used to aid in vehicle guidance. The method could include a plurality of antennas configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic signals. The method may also include a one or more sensors configured to measure a movement of the vehicle. A portion of the method may be performed by a processor configured to: i) determine adjustments based on the movement of the vehicle; ii) calculate distance and direction information for received electromagnetic signals; and iii) recover distance and direction information for received electromagnetic signals with the adjustments applied. The processor may be further configured to adjust the movement of the autonomous vehicle based on the distance and direction information with adjustments applied.
US09766330B2
A speed sensor which aligns a normal direction of one patch antenna which is disposed on a mounted board, and an optical axis of a dielectric lens uses a frame for inclining a sensor module, in order to obtain a component cos θ in a traveling direction when the speed sensor is installed on a horizontally vertical surface of an automobile or a railway car. When beams are condensed by using the one patch antenna and the cannonball-shaped dielectric lens, the dielectric lens is inclined and a bottom surface portion of the lens is cut with a plane parallel with a surface of the antenna-mounted board. The one patch antenna is configured by one patch and a GND electrode and the gain center of radiation characteristics is a normal direction of the antenna board. However, the radiation characteristics have a substantially hemisphere surface wave shape.
US09766323B2
The present invention relates to a method for terminal positioning. The method comprises: generating cell-specific reference signals CRSs, and transmitting the CRSs on one or more ports used for transmitting the CRSs; generating a positioning reference signal PRS, and transmitting the PRS on one of the one or more ports used for transmitting the CRSs. The method for terminal positioning provided by the embodiment of the present invention can reduce an impact caused by the limited number of symbols for transmitting the PRS, and increase the number of reference signal symbols available for positioning within a subframe, thereby reducing an impact of a secondary peak and enhancing the energy of a primary peak.
US09766322B2
A geolocation system includes an originator device configured to transmit a first wireless signal to a transponder device. The transponder device is configured to transmit a second wireless signal to the originator device. The system includes at least one observer device configured to receive the first wireless signal from the originator device and receive the second wireless signal from the transponder device. The system also includes a first processor configured to calculate a transactional difference range at the at least one observer device based on the first wireless signal received at the observer device and the second wireless signal received at the observer device. A corrected transactional difference range value may be calculated by subtracting a time-of-flight of the first wireless signal from the originator device to the transponder device from the transactional difference range. A method of performing geolocation using a transactional difference range is also disclosed.
US09766320B2
A method for locating a mobile device is disclosed. Initially, a set of modulated ultrasound signals and a set of radio signals are separately broadcast from a group of transmitters. The ultrasound signals include at least one symbol configured for pulse compression. After the receipt of a demodulated ultrasound signal from a mobile device, wherein the demodulated ultrasound signal is derived from the modulated ultrasound signals, transmitter identifier and timing information are extracted from the demodulated ultrasound signal. Timing information include, for example, the arrival time of the demodulated ultrasound signal in relation to the start time of its transmission. After the locations of the transmitters have been ascertained from the transmitter identifier information, the location of the mobile device can be determined based on the timing information and the locations of the transmitters.
US09766317B2
Exemplary system, method and computer accessible medium can be provided for evaluating at least one radio frequency transmitting arrangement. For example, it is possible to receive a first information associated with at least one scan of at least one live subject corresponding to one or more effects of the transmitting arrangement(s) on the at least one live subject, and determine a second information based on the first information.
US09766315B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for an adaptation of a slice positioning within a slice protocol for an MR examination of a first body region and a second body region of a patient, wherein the two body regions are formed and/or arranged mirror-symmetrical to one another within the patient, the slice protocol for the MR examination is designated, and a manual adaptation of the slice protocol takes place for positioning at least one slice of the MR examination for the first body region by means of at least one first adaptation value. An automatic determination of a second adaptation value is made for positioning of at least one slice of the magnetic resonance examination for the second body region, the determination of the second adaptation value depending on the first adaptation value. An automatic adaptation of the slice protocol of the magnetic resonance examination for the second body region is then made, dependent on the second adaptation value.
US09766304B2
An integrated magnetoresistive sensor of an AMR (Anisotropic Magneto Resistance) type, formed by a magnetoresistive strip of ferromagnetic material and having an elongated shape with a preferential magnetization direction. A set/reset coil has a stretch, which extends over and transversely to the magnetoresistive strip. A concentrating region, also of ferromagnetic material, extends over the stretch of the set/reset coil so as to form a magnetic circuit for the field generated by the set/reset coil during steps of refresh and maintenance of magnetization of the magnetoresistive coil.
US09766299B2
A power system includes a first power input, a second power input, a power output, a first ideal diode coupled to the a power input and a power output and a second ideal diode coupled to a second power input and the power output. The power system also includes a first switching circuit coupled to the first power input and the first ideal diode and a second switching circuit coupled to the second power input and the second ideal diode, the switching circuits operating as an open or a short circuit based on an input. The power system also includes a test controller coupled to the first switching circuit, the second switching circuit and the power output and configured to determine an operating status of the power system based on an input to the first switch, inputs to the second switch and the power output.
US09766292B2
An abnormality diagnostic for a MOSFET switch element in a rechargeable battery pack for determining a short circuit abnormality (fusion) in a MOSFET switch element that causes a charge current to flow in. An on/off controller turns off a MOSFET causing a charge current to flow into a battery module, a start-of-charge instruction unit transmits to a charger an instruction signal to start a charging operation, and a short circuit abnormality diagnostic unit determines, based on a current sensor output, whether current is flowing through the MOSFET due to the charging operation to diagnose a short circuit abnormality in the MOSFET. After diagnosis of the MOSFET, a diagnosis of a short circuit abnormality in a MOSFET that causes a discharge current to flow out of the battery module is performed, and then a diagnosis of a short circuit abnormality in a charge relay is performed.
US09766285B2
A solution for testing a set of one or more electronic device (105) is disclosed. A corresponding test board (100) comprises a support substrate (205), a set of one of more sockets (210) being mounted on the support substrate each one for housing an electronic device (105) to be tested with a main surface thereof facing the support substrate, for each socket a thermal conditioning element (235) for acting on the main surface of the electronic device, and for each socket biasing means (240) being switchable between an active condition, wherein the biasing means biases the thermal conditioning element in contact with the main surface of the electronic device, and a passive condition, wherein the biasing means maintains the thermal conditioning element separate from the main surface of the electronic device.
US09766273B2
A self-powered current sensor is described. The self-powered current sensor including an electrical signal input configured to receive a current signal. Further, the self-powered current sensor includes a power circuit configured to generate a power voltage from an electrical signal. The self-powered current sensor also includes a variable resistor configured to set a value corresponding to one or more indicators on the electrical sensor and an amplifier coupled with a variable resistor and a power circuit. And, the self-powered current sensor includes an alarm coupled with an amplifier, an alarm configured to activate based on a value set by said variable resistor.
US09766259B2
A device for detecting an acceleration in one direction and a speed of rotation along one direction, including a support and two structures mechanically coupled to each other in opposite phase and suspended relative to the support, each of the structures including: an excitation mass; an excitation mechanism configured to move the excitation mass in a given direction; an inertial mass suspended to the excitation mass; a detector connected to the inertial mass to be displaced by same, and the detector connected to the support; a mechanism for detecting displacement of the inertial mass; and a controller controlling the excitation mechanism and processing signals delivered by the detecting mechanism.
US09766251B2
Herein are reported a monoclonal antibody specifically binding to a human IgG1 antibody and not specifically binding to the immunoglobulin of an experimental animal and the use of the antibody in immunoassays.
US09766250B2
A method for detecting an interaction between a first protein and a second protein comprises the steps of: expressing in a cell a first fusion protein comprising the first protein and an association-inducing protein, and a second fusion protein comprising the second protein and a fluorescent protein having a multimerization ability; detecting a fluorescent focus formed by an association between the first fusion protein and the second fusion protein in the cell; and determining an interaction between the first protein and the second protein according to the detection of the fluorescent focus.
US09766240B2
Light-generating fusion proteins having a ligand binding site and a light-generating polypeptide moiety and their use as diagnostics, in drug screening and discovery, and as therapeutics, are disclosed. The light-generating fusion protein has a feature where the bioluminescence of the polypeptide moiety changes upon binding of a ligand at the ligand binding site. The ligand may be, for example, an enzyme present in an environment only under certain conditions, e.g., ubiquitin ligase in a hypoxic state, such that the light-generating fusion protein is “turned on” only under such conditions.
US09766236B2
This disclosure provides a taste receptor internalization assay useful for identifying taste modulators.
US09766232B2
The invention is to devices and method for rapid determination of analytes in liquid samples by various assays including immunoassays incorporating a sample dilution feature for forming a diluted sample for analysis. The devices and methods also include a dilution verification feature for verifying the degree of dilution of the diluted sample. The devices preferably are capable of being used in the point-of-care diagnostic field is provided.
US09766231B2
A biosensor device controls actuation of label particles e.g., using frustrated total internal reflection. By applying a predetermined actuation force on the label particles and determining the effect of the applied actuation force in a binding volume or surface of a sensor cartridge of the biosensor device, a feedback control of the actuation force is applied.
US09766223B2
This invention provides new methods and apparatus for rapidly analyzing a single bioparticle or a plurality of bioparticles to assess their condition. The invention is enabled by an optical microcavity comprising reflective structures to confine light and bioparticles in the same space. Under resonance conditions, an electromagnetic standing wave is established in the microcavity to interact with the bioparticle. Means are provided to bring a bioparticle into the microcavity and to detect changes in the resonance condition with and without the bioparticle in the microcavity. Information about the bioparticle is obtained using the benefits of light interactions as fast, non-contacting, and non-destructive.
US09766220B2
A method for measuring pollution that includes providing a plurality of analyte sensors arranged in a grid over a sensing area, wherein the analyte sensors measure a pollutant, and positioning at least one current sensor in the sensing area. A pollution source is localized using a pollution source locator including a dispersion model and at least one hardware processor to interpolate a location of a pollution source from variations in current measured from the current sensors and measurements of pollutants from the analyte sensors.
US09766215B2
An analytical system and method for detecting volatile organic chemicals in water including a coated SAW detector that provides for improved reduction of moisture at the coating of the SAW detector. A stabilized SAW sensitivity and long lasting calibration is achieved. The analytical system further includes an improved sample vessel and sparger that allow for easy grab sample analysis, while also providing efficient purging of the volatile organic compounds from the water sample. In addition, an improved preconcentrator provides a stabilized sorbent bed.
US09766201B2
Various devices, systems and methods for determining a parameter of and/or detecting chemical and biological substances in bodily fluid are described herein. A device or system may include a substrate. An active sensor having an electrical characteristic and/or a control sensor may be disposed on the substrate. In certain variations, a differential between a first signal from the active sensor, and a second signal from the control sensor may be used to determine a parameter of the chemical or biological substance in the sample of bodily fluid.
US09766200B2
The use of ion sensitive field effect transistor (ISFET) to detect methylated nucleotides in a DNA sample is described. A method of detecting methylated nucleotides in a DNA sample may include the steps of treating a sample of DNA with a reagent which discriminates between methylated and non-methylated nucleotides to provide treated DNA, amplifying the treated DNA and optionally sequencing the amplified DNA. An ISFET is used to monitor the addition of one or more dNTPs in the strand extension reactions during the amplification and/or sequencing step. Suitable apparatus is also provided.
US09766199B2
The present invention relates to organic thin film transistors and the preparation and use thereof in sensing applications, and in particular in glucose sensing applications.
US09766180B2
The present disclosure concerns a method and system for imaging a molecular strand (MS). The method comprises providing a sample volume (SV) comprising the strand (MS); providing an excitation beam (EB) having an excitation focus (EF) in the sample volume (SV); scanning the excitation focus (EF) in the sample volume (SV) along a one dimensional scanning line (SL); trapping an end of the strand (MS) in the sample volume (SV) and extending the strand (MS) along a one-dimensional trapping line (LL) parallel to the scanning line (SL); aligning the trapping line (LL) to coincide with the scanning line (SL) to have the scanning excitation focus (EF) coincide with the strand (MS); and recording the fluorescence response (FR) as a function of a plurality of distinct scanning positions (X0) of the excitation focus (EF) along the scanning line (SL).
US09766179B2
Provided herein is an apparatus, including an optical characterization device; a photon detector array configured to sequentially receive a first set of photons scattered from surface features of an article and a second set of photons scattered from surface features of the article and subsequently processed by the optical characterization device; and a chemical characterization means for chemically characterizing the surface features of the article, wherein the chemical characterization means is configured for processing the first set of photons received by the photon detector array and the second set of photons received by the photon detector array.
US09766170B2
A method and computer product program for determining Young's modulus. The method includes placing a probe in contact with a surface of a material on a substrate and, with an initial force of 800 nano newtons or less; determining the location of the surface relative to an initial indentation depth for the initial force; increasing the force on the probe from the initial force to a maximum force greater than the initial force to generate a load curve; decreasing the force on the probe from the maximum force to the initial force to generate an unload curve, the maximum force selected such that the unload curve is independent of the presence of the substrate; and using the unload curve, determining a relationship between (i) the reduced modulus of the sample material and (ii) the ratio of probe penetration depth and the thickness of the layer.
US09766165B2
An automated microscope slide staining system and staining apparatus and method that features a plurality of individually operable miniaturized pressurizable reaction compartments or a pressurizable common chamber for individually and independently processing a plurality of microscope slides. The apparatus preferably features independently movable slide support elements each having an individually operable heating element.
US09766163B2
An insertion-type probe main body for insertion into a pipe transporting gas and a method for making such an insertion-type probe main body are provided. The probe main body includes: an elongate upper tubular portion; an elongate lower tubular portion which is integral with and having a diameter smaller than the upper tubular portion; a bore which extends between the upper and lower tubular portions; and helical fins integrally formed on the lower tubular portion and which wind along and around an outer surface of the lower tubular portion and which overlap each other. A radial extension of the lower tubular portion plus helical fins corresponds to an external radius of the upper tubular portion, so that the helical fins extend in a streamline fashion from the upper tubular portion. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US09766158B2
The invention relates to a test bench (1) for testing a drive train of a wind turbine, comprising a drive device (40) for introducing test power into the drive train, which can be detachably connected to a drive train to be tested. The invention further relates to a method for testing a drive train of a wind turbine by way of a test bench (1), and to a drive train of a wind turbine. The test bench (1) according to the invention is characterized in that the drive device (40) for testing a drive train is or will be fitted and mounted on or to the drive train so as to be removable, wherein most of the weight of the drive device (40) is borne by the drive train when the drive device (40) is fitted or mounted.
US09766155B2
A method for measuring the positions of centers of curvature of optical surfaces of a single- or multi-lens optical system, an imaging lens system simultaneously images an object plane into a first and a second image plane. The optical system is arranged so that a supposed position of a first center of curvature is situated in the first image plane of the imaging lens system and a supposed position of a second center of curvature is situated in the second image plane of the imaging lens system. An object arranged in the object plane is then imaged simultaneously or sequentially at the first and the second image plane by means of measuring light. Reflections of the measuring light at optical surfaces of the optical system are detected by means of a spatially resolving light sensor. The actual positions of the first and the second center of curvature are calculated from the detected reflexes.
US09766144B2
A polymer layer system pressure sensor device includes a first polymer substrate having a first cavity and a first polymer membrane stretched over the first cavity. The first polymer membrane is configured to be deflected dependent on a pressure in the first cavity. The device further includes a first membrane metallization layer applied to the first polymer membrane above the first cavity. The first membrane metallization layer is configured to be deflected together with the first polymer membrane dependent on the pressure in the first cavity. The device further includes a second polymer substrate, arranged over the first polymer membrane, a second cavity, arranged over the first cavity, and a second polymer membrane, stretched over the second cavity. The device further includes a second membrane metallization layer applied to the second polymer membrane within the second cavity and includes a third polymer substrate arranged over the second polymer membrane.
US09766141B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic addressing of optical fiber sensors in fiber optic interferometry systems. Events that occur along the optical fiber span have defining attributes such as location along the optical fiber span, type, magnitude, time of occurrence, and duration. The event attributes may be used to dynamically form a unique address that fully defines and identifies the event. Other information, such as the corresponding identifier for one or more of the optical fiber span and the corresponding fiber optic interrogator may be included as part of the unique address.
US09766127B2
A terahertz detection assembly generally has a light generating apparatus configured to generate at least one illuminating light pattern and a substrate member positioned proximate to the light generating apparatus. The substrate member includes a semiconductive portion configured to receive at least a portion of the illuminating light pattern such that a conductive path is defined within the semiconductive portion. At least one waveguide is coupled to the semiconductive portion such that the waveguide is adjacent to the conductive path. The waveguide is configured to receive at least a portion of the illuminating light pattern such that the pattern is moving along the waveguide. The waveguide is further configured to receive a plurality of terahertz electromagnetic waves that are transmitted within the waveguide in the same direction as the motion of the illuminating light pattern to facilitate the detection and characterization of the terahertz electromagnetic waves.
US09766119B2
A method of distributed acoustic sensing includes providing a fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing system having a cable. A straight optical fiber extends parallel to a longitudinal axis of the cable along the cable length. A helically wrapped optical fiber extends along the cable length. The method includes transmitting optical signals into and receiving backscattered signals out of the optical fibers consisting of a component of said optical signals which component has been backscattered from impurities or inhomogeneities in the optical fibers, observing changes in the backscattered signals caused by axial stretching and compressing of the optical fibers caused by an incident wave, comparing the backscattered signals of the straight optical fiber and the helically wrapped fiber, and determining, based on the comparing of the backscattered signals, a direction of wave propagation of the incident wave with respect to the fiber axis for detecting broadside waves and axial waves distinguishably.
US09766118B2
A method for monitoring vibrations of the winding overhang in a generator (2) comprises the following steps: —detection of vibrations of the winding overhang (15) during the operation of the generator; —transformation of signals of the vibrations into the frequency range; —transformation of multiple individual vibrations from the frequency signals into the modal range; and —determination of deviations of the modal forms and/or individual bar vibrations in relation to a reference response.
US09766115B2
A balance ability measurement apparatus acquires load information on weight of a user as measured during a period of a stand-up movement which is a period of time from when the user starts the stand-up movement to when the user stabilizes standing posture. Based on the load information, the balance ability measurement apparatus calculates load change information on change in the weight of the user. Further, based on the load information, the balance ability measurement apparatus calculates left-right displacement information on displacement of the user in left-right direction. Based on the load change information and the left-right displacement information, the balance ability measurement apparatus calculates a balance ability evaluation value on balance ability of the user.
US09766111B2
A liquid surface detector includes a terminal, a covering portion, and a sealing film. The terminal includes a ridge portion between a first wall face and a second wall face. The terminal sends an electric signal relating to detection of height of a liquid surface. The covering portion covers the terminal. The sealing film is formed between the terminal and the covering portion and is put into close contact with the terminal and the covering portion. The terminal further includes a groove and two second slant faces. The groove has a V-shape in cross-section and includes two first slant faces. The groove cuts off in the V-shape the ridge portion of an area of the first wall face covered with the sealing film. The two second slant faces respectively connect together an area of the second wall face covered with the sealing film and the two first slant faces. A boundary portion formed by contact between the two second slant faces which are opposed to each other is continuous with a top portion of the groove.
US09766110B2
A filling level indicator includes a retainer, a bow rotatably supported on the retainer and having a lever arm fastened thereto, a float fastened to the lever arm, and a filling level sensor arranged in the retainer. The filling level sensor has a substrate, a resistance network arranged thereon, a contact spring structure, and a cover, connected to the substrate, that covers the resistance network and the contact spring structure. A magnet is connected to the bow or the lever arm and acts on the contact spring structure such that an electrical signal corresponding to the filling level is generated according to the pivoting range. The mount has a wall thickness that can be penetrated by the magnetic field of the magnet, and so metal particles are held on the outside of the mount by the magnetic field of the magnet.
US09766101B2
An apparatus for determining or monitoring a process variable of a medium in a pipeline, which has a predetermined inner cross section, comprising a sensor and a T-shaped adapter. The adapter has a first portion and a second portion arranged essentially perpendicular to the first portion. The first portion has essentially the same inner cross section as the pipeline and the sensor is so arranged in the second portion that the end face of the sensor facing the medium is flush with the inner surface of the first portion of the adapter.
US09766100B2
A computer implemented method, computer program product and computer system for sensor selection. The computer system can run the computer program to execute the method by dividing a two-dimensional area into cells, wherein the cells are arranged in a grid; receiving a selection trigger for a subset of cells of the grid, wherein at least one cell of the subset has at least one sensor and the at least one cell has a sampling frequency associated; determining a set of constraints for the at least one sensor; selecting the at least one sensor if the at least one sensor complies with the set of constraints; and calculating a sampling frequency of the at least one sensor dependent on the sampling frequency of the at least one cell.
US09766097B2
Monitoring unit and method for monitoring position signals of incremental position-measuring devices
In a monitoring unit for monitoring position signals of incremental position-measuring devices, at least two position signals are applied on the input side that result from the scanning of an incremental graduation track by a scanning unit and that are out-of-phase with each other. The monitoring unit includes a signal logic unit with which at least two position-dependent status data words are able to be generated from different position signals, and an evaluation unit to which the status data words are supplied, in which invalid statuses are ascertainable by comparing the status data words, and an error signal is able to be generated in response to an ascertained invalid status.
US09766084B2
A method and apparatus for recommending a route. The route recommending method includes obtaining user's current body information; obtaining geographic information from a current position to a destination; and determining a recommended route to the destination on the basis of the body information and the geographic information.
US09766061B2
An apparatus and method for measuring a pretilt angle of a liquid crystal (LC) are disclosed. The method includes irradiating polarized light on an LC cell including a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and an LC layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. At least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a minute branch electrode. Irradiated light is scanned within a predetermined angle range in a direction not parallel to the minute branch electrode, an intensity of light that is transmitted through the LC cell is detected, and a pretilt angle of the LC is obtained by using a light intensity detection signal corresponding to the transmitted light.
US09766060B1
Devices and methods are described that provide for scanning surfaces and generating 3-dimensional point clouds that describe the depth of the measured surface at each point. In general, the devices and methods utilize scanning mirror(s) that reflect a laser beam into a pattern of scan lines. When the raster pattern of scan lines is directed at a surface, reflections of the laser beam from the surface are received and used to the generate 3-dimensional point clouds that describe the measured surface depth at each point. The motion of the scanning mirror(s) can be dynamically adjusted to modify the characteristics of the resulting 3-dimensional point cloud of the surface. For example, the adjustment of the scanning mirror motion can modify the resolution or data density of the resulting 3-dimensional point cloud that describes the measured depths of the surface.
US09766056B2
In a monitoring apparatus, an optical sensor senses objects present in a sensing area, and moving speeds and moving directions of the objects are calculated based on changes with time in positional information of the sensed objects. An object which meets a predetermined moving condition is determined as a moving object. Hence an entrance of the moving object into the sensing area can be monitored. In this apparatus, by a determining section, it is determined whether or not an object is sensed in an area (after-passage sensing area) which is set to include positions adjacent to positions through which the sensed moving object has passed. When the object has been sensed in the area, by the determining section, it is further determined whether or not the object has remained for a predetermined determination period of time or more. This determined result is outputted by an outputting section.
US09766049B2
A projectile has a front portion, a divider and a cylindrical portion. The front portion has a wall defining an interior cavity, which is closed by the divider. The cylindrical portion comprises a cylindrical sidewall having an outer surface and an inner surface. The projectile also has a plurality of depressions in the cylindrical sidewall. The depressions have an outlet adjacent the second end, an inlet toward the first end and a neck area between the inlet and the outlet. A width of the inlet is smaller than a width of the outlet. The depressions at the neck area have a curved sidewall, but a generally straight sidewall between the neck area and the outlet. The surface of the depression extends at a ramp angle from the outer surface of the sidewall at the inlet of the depression toward the inner surface of the sidewall at the outlet.
US09766039B2
A method of producing a rifle scope having a body made in part of composite material. The method utilizes a composite material tubular housing element, having a rear and having an outer diameter and a metal eyepiece adapter in form of a tube having an inner diameter matching the outer diameter. In the method, the metal eyepiece adapter is adhered partially over the rear of the tubular housing element.
US09766029B2
A detachable chassis base for a tactical rifle is presented. The lower chassis receiver assembly can have a detachable chassis base that substantially selectively attaches to the chassis receiver interface. The detachable chassis base can be completely removable, or it can be hingedly attached to provide access without completely removing the chassis base, or a combination thereof. Multiple combinations of parts included in the detachable chassis base are possible. Several variations and combinations are illustrated herein, although others are contemplated.
US09766018B2
A metal heat storage apparatus comprises a metal heat storage medium, a medium insertion chamber insulating the inner side, outer side and the floor of the metal heat storage medium; an outer wall structure made of concrete further insulating the metal heat storage medium and including a floor, a central column, an outer wall body, and an upper cover; an infrared ray reflecting mirror disposed below the upper cover constituting the outer wall structure and reflecting infrared rays generated from the metal heat storage medium; a heat exchanger spirally disposed inside the metal heat storage medium and including supply and drain tubes exposed to the outside of the outer wall structure; a solar heater buried in the metal heat storage medium; and a high-density optical input port passing through the outer wall body and the insulating outer wall to provide solar energy to the solar heater.
US09766016B2
A capillary-driven heat transfer device is adapted to extract heat from a heat source and release this heat to a cold source using a two-phase working fluid. The device includes an evaporator having a microporous mass performing capillary pumping of fluid in the liquid phase, a condenser, a reservoir having an inner chamber and an inlet and/or outlet port, a vapor communication circuit, connecting the outlet of the evaporator to the inlet of the condenser, a liquid communication circuit, and a non-return device arranged between the inner chamber of the reservoir and the microporous mass of the evaporator, and arranged to prevent liquid present in the evaporator from moving to the inner chamber of the reservoir.
US09766014B2
A gas purging plug for blowing gas into a metallurgical vessel, having the form of an elongated body made of a first refractory material, contains a final visual wear indicator in the form of an elongated core extending from an inlet end to a distance, along a central longitudinal axis, less than the length of the elongated body. The final visual wear indicator is made of a second refractory material that differs in visual appearance from the first refractory material between 800 and 1500 degrees C. The plug also contains an intermediate visual wear indicator extending from the inlet end to a point between the end of the final visual wear indicator and the opposite end of the elongated body. The intermediate visual wear indicator is made of a third refractory material that differs in visual appearance from the first and second refractory materials between 800 and 1500 degrees C.
US09765999B2
The present invention is characterized in that: a flow diverter provided in an air conditioner has a flow diverter main body having an internal space, and a first connection portion to which a pipe is connected; the first connection portion has an inner peripheral surface that defines a hole through which the pipe is inserted; the inner peripheral surface has, in the direction of a central axis, a brazing portion which is provided at a location containing an end on the side where the pipe is inserted, and forms a gap filled with solder for brazing between the inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface of the pipe, and a restricting portion located closer to the flow diverter main body than to the brazing portion; and the inner diameter of the restricting portion is smaller than the inner diameter of the brazing portion.
US09765998B2
Technologies are described herein for cooling systems. In some aspects, a cooling system is configured to enter into a storage configuration or a winterization configuration. In the winterization configuration, refrigerant used in the cooling system is stored in an adsorbent in an adsorbent chamber.
US09765992B2
A solar receiver, designed to use a heat transfer medium, includes a plurality of panels. Each panel is arranged and configured to enable the heat transfer medium to flow in at least one flow direction, one flow direction defining a pass, to obtain unique mass flux in each pass to optimize the heat flux capability of the pass while minimizing pressure drop across the selected passes of the heat transfer surface. A method thereof is also provided.
US09765983B2
An HVAC remote controller for use in an HVAC system is described. In some instances, the HVAC remote controller may include a wirelessly interface for communicating with one or more HVAC controllers and/or other HVAC devices. The HVAC remote controller may be configured to execute a user setup routine for entering user setup information, where the user setup routine may cause the HVAC remote controller to display a sequence of two or more user setup screens, sometimes at a common menu level rather than a sub-menu. Some or all of the two or more user setup screens may include, for example, a message center indicating a parameter or function to be set, one or more buttons for adjusting or selecting the parameter or function, and a next button to advance the user setup routine to a next screen in the sequence of user setup screens.
US09765979B2
A heat-pump circuit may include an indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger, a compressor adapted to circulate a working fluid between the indoor and outdoor heat exchangers, and an expansion device disposed between the indoor and outdoor heat exchangers. A monitor for the heat-pump system may include a return-air temperature sensor, a supply-air temperature sensor, and a processor. The return-air temperature sensor may be adapted to measure a first air temperature of air upstream of the indoor heat exchanger. The supply-air temperature sensor may be adapted to measure a second air temperature of air downstream of the indoor heat exchanger. The processor may be in communication with the return-air temperature sensor and the supply-air temperature sensor. The processor may be programmed to determine a working-fluid-charge condition of the heat-pump system based on the first and second air temperatures.
US09765974B2
A fuel nozzle for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a body defining an axial direction and a radial direction, an air passageway defined axially in the body, and a fuel passageway defined axially in the body radially outwardly from the air passageway. The fuel passageway has an outer wall including an exit lip at a downstream portion of the outer wall. The exit lip has a surface treatment including a swirl-inducing relief. A gas turbine engine and a method of inducing swirl in at least one of pressurised fuel and air exiting a fuel nozzle of a gas turbine engine are also presented.
US09765972B2
A fuel injector for a gas turbine engine includes a monolithic nozzle body that defines within its interior one or more fuel circuits. Each fuel circuit includes an inlet, an outlet orifice, a main passage fluidly coupling the inlet with the outlet orifice, and a branch passage connected to the main passage. The branch passage connects to the main passage downstream of the inlet and upstream of the outlet orifice to form an effective metering flow area that is smaller than the flow area of the outlet orifice.
US09765970B2
A combustion chamber module for an aircraft turbomachine, including an annular combustion chamber in which each of primary and dilution ports of an outer annular wall, which is located at least partly in a wake of a fuel injector, has a discharge coefficient higher than that of its homologous port of an inner annular wall. A method for designing such a module includes determining wakes generated by fuel injectors, and then geometrically defining air inlet ports of coaxial walls of the combustion chamber such that an air flow rate actually entering through ports of the outer wall is substantially equal to an air flow rate entering through ports of the inner wall.
US09765959B2
A speaker including a speaker apparatus and a lighting apparatus are provided. The speaker having a conical vibration portion, and a lighting apparatus insertedly disposed at a center of the conical vibration portion to emit light to the conical vibration portion, so that efficient lighting is ensured and light is adjusted depending on the acoustic signal, thereby maximizing the visual sound effect.
US09765956B2
A mount for a light assembly in a luminaire has a base section and mounting arms upstanding from the base section. Each mounting arm has an upward length and a width and has a lower portion and an upper portion. Mounting pads for light sources are unitary with or attached to the mounting arm upper portions and have an upward length and a width. The width of the mounting pads extends in a direction oblique to the width of the mounting arm lower portions. Preferably, the length of the mounting pads extends in a direction oblique to the length of the mounting arm lower portions. Light sources mounted on the mounting pads may emit beams of light directed obliquely away from each other and obliquely towards the base.
US09765945B2
A lighting device may include a channel-shaped housing having two ends with a main axis of the housing extending between the ends, a pair of mounting fixtures for a pair of light radiation sources within the housing with the light radiation sources radiating light radiation in opposite directions along the main axis, and a pair of reflectors each facing a respective one of the mounting fixtures to receive light radiation along the main axis and reflect it to the outside of the housing.
US09765944B2
A troffer luminaire that includes a plurality of solid state lighting devices, and a first lens and a second lens having total internal reflection (TIR) to collect light from the lighting devices and produce a light output with good luminance uniformity; and to control the distribution profile of the light output through the first lens and the second lens as desired for particular lighting applications.
US09765941B2
An optical film has a plurality of aligned convex microlenses, each of which has a region α and a region β, region β forming the outer part of the convex shape of the microlens and positioned so as to cover region α. Both region α and region β contain a resin, and the refractive index of the resin in region α is higher than the refractive index of the resin in region β; region β contains fine particles, and region α contains fine particles, and the content of the fine particles contained in region α is lower than the content of the fine particles contained in region β; or region α contains fine particles, and region β contains fine particles, and the content of the fine particles contained in region α is higher than the content of the fine particles contained in region β.
US09765935B2
An enclosure is divided into first and second portions by a theoretical plane defined by a horizontal line. LEDs are mounted on an LED board in the enclosure and are operable to emit light when energized through an electrical path. A first pin is mounted to a first end of the enclosure and a second pin mounted to a second end of the enclosure, both pins being in the electrical path. Braces support the LED board and comprise first and second legs. The first leg and second leg extend to a first point and a second point of intersection of the plane and the internal surface of the enclosure, respectively. A first conductor connects the first pin to the LED board and a second conductor connects the second pin to the LED board. The first conductor and first pin and the second conductor and the second pin are one-piece.
US09765932B2
Gas-filling system including a base manifold having a flow-control component and a manifold body that is operably coupled to the flow-control component. The manifold body includes a fill port and first and second supply ports that open to an exterior of the base manifold. The first and second supply ports are in fluid communication with a common passage within the manifold body such that the gas flowing through the first supply port or through the second supply port flows through the common passage to the fill port. The fill port is configured to be in fluid communication with a container. The gas-filling system also includes an accessory module removably coupled to the manifold body. The accessory module is connected to the first supply port and has an inlet port.
US09765930B2
A compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling system has a single compressor, a storage tank configured to receive CNG from the compressor, and a CNG feedback to the compressor from the storage tank.
US09765927B2
There is disclosed a flange fitting for a pipe comprising: a flange ring for locating around the pipe and having a plurality of angularly spaced fixing holes; and a retaining ring for locating around the pipe within a groove in the outer surface thereof which in use restricts axial movement of the flange ring on the pipe; wherein the retaining ring has a plurality of angularly spaced reduced-profile sectors in regions corresponding to the positions of the fixing holes.
US09765919B2
The resilient foot has a rubber tubular member to provide a resilient support and an insert of solid material within the tubular member to limit the travel of the resilient foot under load. The insert is disposed in a bore of the tubular member and is inwardly spaced a small distance from the support surface of the tubular member to limit the vertical motion. The resilient foot has an enlarged elastomeric flange to provide non-slip characteristics and radial grooves are provided in the flange for the squeezing out of fluid between the foot and a mounting surface.
US09765912B2
A telescoping pipe coupling comprising a hollow body, a hollow tubular insert slidably disposed within the body, two gasket wells, two end connectors, one end connector coupled to each end of the telescoping pipe coupling, two gripper washer wells, a gasket for sealing the tubular insert with the body, two gaskets for sealing one or more pipe sections to the telescoping pipe coupling, two gasket retaining rings each comprising a shoulder, two gripper washers retained within the two gripper washer wells each comprising an outer periphery, wherein the shoulder of each gasket retaining ring is adjacent to the outer periphery of a gripper washer.
US09765906B2
A clamp is provided for mounting to a cable. The clamp has attachment means for connecting to a pipeline. Further, the clamp has plural clamp segments each with a curved section and tension devices connecting the clamp segments to each other to form a cylindrically shaped attachment area for accommodation of the cable in contact with the curved sections.
US09765902B2
A sanitary high pressure valve assembly is provided. The valve assembly includes an inlet adaptor for admitting pressurized gas into a sanitary central passageway for release into a storage vessel containing granular material for the purpose of aiding flow of the granular material from the storage vessel. The valve assembly also includes an isolation chamber for housing serviceable parts that are isolated from the sanitary central passageway.
US09765889B2
A device to provide a seal between a housing for a moving element such as a drill chain, piston or the like and the moving element. The device comprising a storage well to retain seal material, the block having an outlet connecting with an aperture in a housing enabling seal material to flow into the space between a housing and the moving element and form a seal, the device further including an inlet port enabling seal material precursor to be added into the block, and pressurising means to pressurise the seal material precursor and force it out of the aperture.
US09765887B2
The present invention provides a sealing ring and a preparation method thereof. The sealing ring, based on percent by weight, includes 80%-85% of aluminum, 10%-15% of titanium, 0.1%-1% of scrap iron, and 4%-4.9% of potassium fluoroaluminate. Moreover, the present invention provides a method for preparing sealing ring, which includes the following steps: Step A: melting the aluminum in a medium-frequency induction furnace, adding the potassium fluoroaluminate to the medium-frequency induction furnace after melting the aluminum, melting and stirring the mixture evenly; Step B: adding titanium scrap or sponge titanium, and scrap iron to the mixture successively, melting and mixing the mixture totally at 800° C. to 1200° C., standing the mixture after stirring evenly; Step C: removing scum on the surface; Step D: casting into a mold to obtain a final sealing ring.
US09765860B2
The present invention has a mechanical rotation drive mechanism (50) that drives rotation of at least one rotation pinion sprocket (22; 23) on its axis from among a plurality of pinion sprockets (20). The mechanical rotation drive mechanism (50) drives the rotation of at least one rotation pinion sprocket (22; 23) on its axis in concert with a sprocket movement mechanism (40A) so as to eliminate a phase shift, associated with a radial direction movement of the plurality of pinion sprockets (20) by the sprocket movement mechanism (40A), of the plurality of pinion sprockets (20) with respect to a chain (6).
US09765858B2
Example gear systems and methods for use are provided herein. An example gear system may include (a) an expandable gear that defines a plurality of circular sectors, (b) a hub disposed in the gear, where the hub includes an expandable portion, and (c) an expander, where the expandable gear has an expanded position when the expander is disposed within the hub and the expandable gear has an unexpanded position when the expander is disposed outside of the hub.
US09765856B2
A tensioner device, includes a housing defining a cavity with a plunger disposed in the cavity. A spring is engaged with the plunger for biasing the plunger in an outward direction. An oil passage is in communication with the cavity for delivering pressurized oil to the cavity and an oil reservoir is disposed in the housing and in communication with the cavity. The oil reservoir includes a vent opening at a vertical level at least as high as the oil passage into the cavity so that oil is maintained with the cavity when the tensioner is installed in an inverted orientation.
US09765854B2
A multi-stage transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft; an output shaft; first to fourth planetary gear devices transmitting rotary force between the input and output shafts, each of them having three rotary elements; and at least six shifting elements connected to the rotary elements of the planetary gear devices; wherein first rotary element of the first planetary gear device is installed to be fixable by any one of the shifting elements and variably connected to second rotary element of the second planetary gear device, second rotary element is continuously connected to the input shaft and variably connected to third rotary element of the second planetary gear device, and third rotary element is variably connected to the second rotary element of the second planetary gear device and continuously connected to first rotary element of the third planetary gear device.
US09765852B2
A device for guiding a long object is provided with a plurality of links. Each of the links has a pair of link parts that face each other along a first direction. The links are linked together while being arranged in series along a second direction. Each pair of link parts is linked together in the outer end and inner end of the link by a first arm and a second arm for each pair. A space enclosed by each pair of link parts, the first arms, and the second arms and formed so as to extend in the second direction constitutes an accommodating space for accommodating a long object. Each pair of link parts is provided with an elastically deformable linking part for linking a first link-forming part and a second link-forming part. The linking part has a curved section.
US09765850B2
The present disclosure provides a stator assembly comprising a high damping core, a low damping core coaxially aligned with the high damping core, a plurality of slots defined in at least one of the high damping core and the low damping core and extending between a first axial end face and a second axial end face of the at least one of the high damping core and the low damping core, and a control winding being integrally continuous and successively wound through the plurality of slots, such that the control winding enters the plurality of slots from at least one of the first axial end face and the second axial end face. In various embodiments, the control winding is configured to receive a current.
US09765844B2
A suspension device interposed between a vehicle body and a wheel, including a magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber in which a magnetic viscous fluid is sealed, a tube member composed of an outer tube connected to the vehicle body side and an inner tube connected to the wheel side and going into/out of the outer tube and accommodating the magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber, a lubricant liquid stored in the tube member, and a seal member closing a space between the inner tube and the magnetic viscous fluid shock absorber and preventing intrusion of the lubricant liquid to the wheel side.
US09765830B2
A selectable one-way clutch is provided. The selectable one-way clutch is shifted between overrunning mode and engagement mode by rotating a selector plate interposed between a notch plate and a pocket plate. The selectable one-way clutch comprises: a plunger that is connected to the selector plate and that is reciprocated by the actuator; a thermally shrinkable stopper member that is fitted onto the plunger; and a stationary member to which the stopper member is brought into abutment by a reciprocating motion of the plunger.
US09765824B2
A gear coupling for connecting a drive shaft and an output shaft includes a first coupling portion adapted for connection to the drive shaft and a second coupling portion adapted for connection to the output shaft, Each of the first and second coupling portions has a driver toothing with an internal toothing and an external toothing in engagement with the internal toothing. An intermediate tube made of an electrically insulating material connects the first and second coupling portions with one another and electrically insulates the first and second coupling portions from one another. One of the first and second coupling portions surrounds an inner periphery of the intermediate tube and the other one of the first and second coupling portions surrounds an outer periphery of the intermediate tube.
US09765820B2
A cage assembly for a rolling bearing including an improved lubricant configuration is provided. The cage includes a first cage half including a first rim and a first plurality of webs, and a second cage half including a second rim and a second plurality of webs. The first and second cage halves are assembled together with end faces of the first and second plurality of webs contacting each other to define a plurality of rolling element pockets. A first side plate is fastened to the first rim of the first cage half. A second side plate is fastened to the second rim of the second cage half. Lubricant is located in a first reservoir defined by a first groove in either the first rim or first side plate and is also located in a second reservoir defined by a second groove in either the second rim or the second side plate.
US09765819B1
Bearing assemblies, apparatuses, and motor assemblies using the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a bearing assembly may include a plurality of superhard bearing elements distributed circumferentially about an axis. Each of the superhard bearing elements may include a bearing surface. The bearing assembly may also include a support ring structure having a support ring that carries the superhard bearing elements. The support ring structure may include at least one erosion resistant region exhibiting a higher erosion resistance than another region of the support ring.
US09765817B1
A hydrostatic bearing assembly for a shaft is disclosed, which consists of a base ring, two side rings enclosed up the base ring at both sides, and a plurality of hydrostatic blocks fixed respectively on surfaces of the base ring and of the side rings corresponded to the shaft, as result to hold the shaft to resist against loadings from the axial direction and/or the radial direction and provide lubrication through oil passages inside. These hydrostatic blocks are locked with screws or bolts on the base ring and on the side rings in order to be replaced individually on site.
US09765810B2
Provided is a technique whereby a DLC film having a desired surface roughness and a desired film hardness can be easily formed within a short period of time while preventing cost increase so that a large quantity of boll joints, which are less expensive and yet have stable sliding characteristics, can be supplied. A method for manufacturing a ball joint provided with a ball stud that has a spherical surface section and a holder section that pivotally holds the spherical surface section, said method comprising: an intermediate underlayer-forming step for forming an intermediate underlayer, that has a fine irregular surface structure, on the surface of the spherical surface section using a sputtering method; and an amorphous hard carbon film-forming step for forming an amorphous hard carbon film, that has a root mean square roughness on the surface of 6.5-35 nm, on the intermediate underlayer using a PIG plasma film formation method.
US09765806B2
A quick disconnect device for detachably holding a long gun or other elongated emergency tool (EET). The quick disconnect device receives and captures the ball of a ball-and-stem structure that is attached to the EET. The quick disconnect device may allow the EET to rotate about the central axis of the stem, but otherwise prevents relative translational and rotational motion between the EET and the quick disconnect device. The quick disconnect device is especially suitable for mounting to clothing, such as a utility belt or a ballistic vest. the quick disconnect device allows the EET to be inserted without requiring the user to directly manipulate the quick connection device, but requires the user to manipulate some sort of mechanism on the quick connect device in order to release the EET.
US09765801B2
A device for locking a rod member is provided. The device includes a body section having a vertical hole therein, and a ring-type locking unit and a piston serially arranged along the hole, wherein the rod member is disposed in the hole to be axially movable through the locking unit and the piston. The locking unit may be a lock block including an outer ring having an inclined surface on one side thereof, thereby defining a wedge-type space, an inner ring coaxially disposed in one side of the outer ring and accommodating a pressurizing member interacting with the inclined surface, and a spring disposed in the other side of the outer ring so as to elastically connect the outer ring and the inner ring.
US09765798B2
A hydrostatic drive system (1) with a hydrostatic pump (3) driven by a drive motor (2) and connected in a closed circuit with a hydrostatic motor (4). The hydrostatic motor (4) is connected with a consumer (5). The closed circuit is formed by a first hydraulic connection (6a) and a second hydraulic connection (6b). A pressure accumulator device (30) can be connected with the two hydraulic connections (6a, 6b) for the storage of energy and the output of energy. The pressure accumulator device (30) is a double piston accumulator (31) having a high-pressure-side pressure chamber (32) and a low-pressure-side pressure chamber (33). The high-pressure-side pressure chamber (32) can be connected with one of the two hydraulic connections (6a, 6b) of the closed circuit and simultaneously the low-pressure-side pressure chamber (33) can be connected with the respective other hydraulic connection (6b, 6a) of the closed circuit.
US09765776B2
A screw spindle pump having a housing hi which a drive spindle and at least one running spindle having profile assemblies which engage inside each other are received, the free end of the drive spindle and the end portion of the running spindle being supported on a plate which is arranged in the housing, the plate having two faces which are inclined in opposing directions relative to each other and which form a V-shape and on which one of the spindles is supported, respectively.
US09765775B2
A vane pump with a pump housing in which a cam ring is constructed or arranged, and wherein a rotor is provided that is mounted in the cam ring so that it can rotate about a rotational axis , wherein the cam ring has an inner contour with a variable radius that varies between a maximum radius and a minimum radius in the circumferential direction about the rotational axis , wherein, in the radial gap between the inner contour and the rotor , a number of lift sections is constructed with pump chambers constructed in these sections, and wherein vane elements are mounted on the rotor , wherein these elements slide against the inner contour of the cam ring and limit the pump chambers in the circumferential direction. According to the invention, the radius of the inner contour varies about the rotational axis according to the function: r=r0+a·sin(n·φ), where r0=(rmax+rmin)/2, a =(rmax−rmin)/2, and φ=phase angle of the radius (r) between (rmin) and (rmax) in the direction of rotation of the rotor .
US09765770B2
An automatic valve including a valve seat having first gas flow passages extending there through and a valve guard having second gas flow passages extending there through. The valve further comprises at least one shutter member movably arranged between the valve guard and the valve seat, at least one set of spring members biasing the at least one shutter member towards a closed position in sealing engagement with the valve seat to close the first gas flow passages, and at least one spring holder ring provided with a plurality of spring retention seats. Each spring member of the set of spring members is partially housed in a respective spring pocket formed in the valve guard and retained in a respective one of the spring retention seat.
US09765768B2
A pump system/method configured to provide substantially constant flow of concrete, cement, or other material is disclosed. The system integrates a trapezoidal cutting ring and spectacle plate in conjunction with lofted transitional interfaces to the hydraulic pump cylinder rams and output ejection port to ensure that pressurized discharge concrete material is not allowed to be relaxed nor backflow into the material sourcing hopper. The trapezoidal cutting ring is configured to completely seal off the trapezoidal spectacle ports as it smoothly transitions between the hydraulic pump input ports during cycle changes thus generating a more uniform output flow of concrete while eliminating hopper backflow and hydraulic fluid shock. A control system is configured to coordinate operation of the hydraulic pump cylinder rams and cutting ring to ensure that output ejection port pressure and material flow is maintained at a relatively constant level throughout all portions of the pumping cycle.
US09765765B2
Variable displacement compressor, with center bore 101b in a center part of cylinder block 101, includes: first bore 101b1 supporting plain bearing 131 of drive shaft 110; second bore 101b2 with a peripheral wall radially outside of first bore 101b1; and third bore 101b3 connected to a crank chamber and radially outside of a first bore 101b1. A pressure supply path 145 for flowing a part of a discharge refrigerant from a discharge chamber to the crank chamber includes: second bore 101b2; a first path 145a communicating second bore 101b2 with the discharge chamber; a second path 145b that communicates with second bore 101b2, and axially extends from one end surface of drive shaft 110 toward the inside of drive shaft 110; and a third path 145c substantially orthogonal to second path 145b and opens to an outer peripheral surface of drive shaft 110, and communicates with the crank chamber.
US09765757B2
A system and method for preventing a rotor blade from striking a tower of the wind turbine is disclosed. The system includes a pitch adjustment mechanism, at least one electrical switch, and a mechanically-actuated positional switch. The pitch adjustment mechanism is configured to rotate the rotor blade about a pitch axis. Further, the pitch adjustment mechanism includes a motor and a brake. The electrical switch is configured with the motor, the brake, or both. The mechanically-actuated positional switch is fixed within a hub of the wind turbine. Further, the positional switch is configured with the electrical switch such that if the rotor blade rotates to an unsafe region, the positional switch is configured to trigger the electrical switch to implement one of tripping power to the motor of the pitch adjustment mechanism or actuating the brake of the pitch adjustment mechanism.
US09765737B2
Exemplary fuel injectors for use in fuel injection devices are disclosed. An injector may have a control chamber, which can be selectively relieved of pressure by means of a pilot valve in order to control a nozzle needle stroke of an axially displaceable nozzle needle of the injector. The fuel injector may have at least one nozzle on a first end, and the control chamber on a second end of the nozzle needle. The control chamber may be sub-divided by a throttle plate accommodated therein into a first chamber and a second chamber, with the second chamber being positioned closer to the nozzle, and the two chambers communicating with each other via the throttle plate. First and second resilient elements may be accommodated in a pre-stressed manner against the throttle plate in the first chamber and in the second chamber, respectively.
US09765729B2
A fan ramp for use in a thrust reverser portion of a nacelle is disclosed. The nacelle is included in a propulsion system. The fan ramp extends circumferentially about an axial fan ramp centerline. The fan ramp includes a forward edge, an aft edge, and a first blocker door pocket. The forward edge is disposed proximate an aft end of a fan case. The fan case at least partially surrounds a fan section of a gas turbine engine. The aft edge is disposed proximate a forward end of an array of cascades. The array of cascades is operable to permit a bypass airstream to pass there through during a thrust reversing operation. The first blocker door pocket is operable to receive at least a portion of a forward edge of a first blocker door included in the nacelle.
US09765727B2
A piston capable of withstanding high temperatures and extreme conditions of a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine and manufactured with reduced costs is provided. The method of manufacturing the piston includes casting or forging the bulk of the piston as a single-piece with an open cooling gallery from an economical first material, such as steel, cast iron, or aluminum. The method further includes forming a portion of a combustion bowl surface, which is a small area of the piston directly exposed to the combustion chamber, from a second material by additive machining. The second material has a higher thermal conductivity and higher resistance to oxidation, erosion, and oil coking, compared to the first material. The additive machining process is efficient and creates little waste, which further reduces production costs.
US09765726B2
A coated cylinder liner 20 comprises a wear resistant layer 22, such as a DLC coating, and a metallic adhesive layer 24, such as chromium or titanium, deposited on an inner surface 26 thereof. The layers 22, 24 each have a thickness tw, ta varying by not more than 5% along at least 70% of the length of the inner surface 26. The metallic adhesive layer 24 is deposited by sputtering a consumable metallic electrode 28 onto the inner surface 26. The sputtering can be magnetron sputtering. The consumable metallic electrode 28 can include a hollow opening 40 with orifices 50 for providing a carrier gas into the deposition chamber 52. In addition, the inner surface 26 of the cylinder liner 20 can provide the deposition chamber 52 by sealing a first opening 36 and second opening 38 of the cylinder liner 20.
US09765725B2
An apparatus and method for controlling a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. Each fuel injector in the system is operated to perform a predetermined injection pattern per engine cycle. A signal representative of a fuel pressure within the fuel rail during the operation of the fuel injectors is sampled. A Fourier analysis of the fuel rail pressure signal is performed to determine one or more harmonic components thereof. The determined harmonic components of the fuel rail pressure signal are used to calculate a dynamic fuel quantity that flows through a fuel injector during an injection pulse of the injection pattern. A fuel quantity actually injected by the fuel injector during the injection pulse as a function of the dynamic fuel quantity is calculated.
US09765723B2
A fuel injection control device is adapted for a fuel injection system including an injector and a high-pressure pump that raises pressure of fuel and supplies the fuel to the injector. The fuel injection control device includes a selecting unit for selecting by which one of full lift injection and partial injection to inject fuel, and a pump control unit for controlling operation of the high-pressure pump such that a pressure of fuel supplied to the injector coincides with a target pressure. The selecting unit selects the partial injection when a required injection quantity of fuel is equal to or smaller than a partial maximum injection quantity. A fuel injection system includes the fuel injection control device, the injector, and the high-pressure pump.
US09765722B2
A fuel injection system for an engine, the fuel injection system includes injectors and an electronic control unit. The injectors include needle valves; and the ECU is configured to: (i) execute partial lift injection and full lift injection with the injectors, the partial lift injection being injection during which the needle valve does not reach a fully-open state and the full lift injection being injection during which the needle valve reaches the fully-open state; (ii) operate the engine in a partial lift injection region where the injection of a required injection amount of a fuel is shared by the partial lift injection and the full lift injection; and (iii) perform the amount of correction of the required injection amount with respect to the injection amount shared by the full lift injection when the required injection amount is corrected while the engine is operated in the partial lift injection region.
US09765720B2
A method is provided for avoiding incorrect combustion misfire fault detection in an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle with a dual mass flywheel. In order to detect combustion misfiring, a characteristic variable, which is dependent on the acceleration of the internal combustion engine, is determined continuously during the ongoing operation of the internal combustion engine and compared with a predefined irregular running threshold value. When the irregular running threshold value is exceeded, a combustion misfire is detected, wherein the frequency of detected combustion misfiring, for example at a specific number of crank shaft revolutions, is detected. When a defined frequency threshold is exceeded, a combustion misfire fault detection is activated. When a dual mass flywheel bounce is detected with the simultaneous detection of combustion misfiring, the injection of at least one cylinder is reduced or switched off for a predefined frequency or for a predefined time.
US09765717B2
An engine assembly is provided. The assembly includes an internal combustion engine of the type having a air intake manifold and a fuel injector in fluid communication with a cylinder head of the engine and a gasoline or diesel fuel source, a supply line in communication with each channel of the air intake manifold and being in communication with a gaseous fuel source, the supply line further defining an adapter for controlling flow of gaseous fuel therethrough, and a control module for controlling the fuel injector and a valve, the control module being configured to enable the fuel injector when the engine is operating at a first predetermined operation condition and configured to enable the valve when the engine is operating at a second predetermined operation condition. A method of controlling the same is provided herein.
US09765705B2
A control technique for an engine having a two-step variable valve lift system includes a controller receiving a pressure in an intake manifold of the engine from a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) sensor and a position of an EGR valve of the engine from an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) sensor. In response to the controller detecting an upcoming HL-to-LL valve state transition, a set of airflow actuators of the engine is controlled, based on the intake manifold pressure and the EGR valve position, to generate a first torque reserve. In response to generating the first torque reserve, the controller then commands the HL-to-LL transition and depletion of the first torque reserve during the HL-to-LL transition to mitigate torque disturbance associated with this transition.
US09765700B2
Bleed air systems for use with aircrafts and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a turbo-compressor including a compressor having a compressor inlet fluidly coupled to a low-pressure compressor of the aircraft engine and a compressor outlet fluidly coupled to a first system of an aircraft. The turbo-compressor also includes a turbine inlet fluidly coupled to a high-pressure compressor of the aircraft engine and a turbine outlet fluidly coupled to a second system of the aircraft.
US09765684B2
A vehicle cooling system is provided having a heat exchanger, a cooling fan, and a fan shroud. The vehicle cooling system has a variable cooling fan immersion system that uses a control system and a variable cooling fan immersion depth adjustment mechanism to control the percentage of cooling fan immersion into the space enclosed by the fan shroud. The variable cooling fan immersion system is used to maximize the efficiency of a variable pitch cooling fan, a variable speed cooling fan drive, or both.
US09765671B2
An engine exhaust treatment apparatus, which suppresses thermal damage to an electrothermal ignition apparatus, includes: an exhaust passage; an oxidation catalyst disposed in the exhaust passage; a combustible gas generator; a combustible gas supplying passage; a heat dissipation port opened upstream in the exhaust passage from the oxidation catalyst and in a downstream part of the combustible gas supplying passage, the exhaust passage and the combustible gas supplying passage communicating with each other through the heat dissipation port; and an electrothermal ignition apparatus disposed in the combustible gas supplying passage. Heat of flaming combustion of the combustible gas ignited by the electrothermal ignition apparatus is supplied to the exhaust passage, to raise the temperature of exhaust in the exhaust passage. A heat dissipation plate is attached to an outer projecting portion of the electrothermal ignition apparatus. The outer projecting portion projects outside a wall of the exhaust treatment apparatus.
US09765663B2
A method of regenerating a lean NOx trap (LNT) of an exhaust purification system provided with the LNT and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst may include: determining whether a regeneration release condition of the LNT is satisfied; determining whether a regeneration demand condition of the LNT is satisfied; and performing regeneration of the LNT if the regeneration release condition of the LNT and the regeneration demand condition of the LNT are satisfied. In particular, the regeneration release condition of the LNT is satisfied if all of an engine operating condition, an LNT state condition, and a lambda sensor synchronization condition are satisfied.
US09765657B2
A system for monitoring operation of an internal combustion engine having a rocker arm assembly for actuating an engine valve is disclosed. The rocker arm assembly includes a first arm with a first end, a second arm also having a first end pivotally connected near the first end of the first arm, a latch that when latched secures the first arm relative to the second arm in a latched mode, and when unlatched allows the first arm to move relative to the second arm in an unlatched mode. The system also employing a sensor attached to one of the first and second arms that can detect when the arms are moving relative to each other, and adapted to provide a signal indicating the sensed movement.
US09765647B2
The present invention relates to a hydroelectric turbine recovery system, and in particular a system which significantly reduces the complexity of recovering a base mounted hydroelectric turbine from a deployment site on the seabed by providing a frame having an open mouth which can be advanced around the turbine before the frame is fully lowered into locking engagement with the base, thereby allowing the base, with the turbine thereon, to be recovered from the seabed.
US09765645B2
A journal configured to be driven in rotation in a housing of a turbine engine, or for an aircraft, the journal including: a circumferential main body including plural ventilation openings configured to allow plural axial airflows to circulate from upstream to downstream in the turbine engine, two consecutive ventilation openings being connected by a connecting segment, and a circumferential ring for recovering a flow of lubrication oil, which ring is rigidly connected to the main body and is radially inside the ventilation openings, the circumferential ring including plural radial discharge openings for allowing plural radial flows of oil to be discharged towards the outside, each discharge opening being radially aligned with a connecting segment of the main body to allow each flow of oil to be discharged radially between the airflows.
US09765636B2
An apparatus energized by a flowing fluid includes at least one turbine blade having a trailing edge angle and an elastic deformation member connected to the at least one turbine blade. The deformation of the elastic deformation member changes an orientation of a trailing edge angle of the at least one turbine blade.
US09765625B2
A blade (1) for a turbomachine, including an impact chamber (2), a single impulse body (3) being situated in the impact chamber, a clearance (S1+S2) between the impulse body and the impact chamber being at least 10 μm and/or at most 1.5 mm in at least one direction.
US09765624B2
The main aim of the invention is a propeller (32) for a turboengine (1) comprising a plurality of blades (48) and a blade support ring (47) provided with housings (50), each receiving a pivot (52) bearing the foot (58) of one of said blades (48), characterized in that at least one of the pivots (52) is equipped with at least one counterweight system (90, 91) provided with at least one inner channel (93, 96) for airflow ventilation discharge (F1, F3) for capturing and guiding said airflow directly in contact with the blade foot (58) borne by said at least one of the pivots (52).
US09765599B2
An electromagnetic perforation device for well casings includes a coil disposed around a core carried by a mandrel. The device further includes a power supply coupled to a current supply device, which is coupled to said coil. A stabilizing member extends from the mandrel and spaced apart on the mandrel from the coil core. The electromagnetic performance device may be positioned in a well casing, and the current supply device may rapidly supply a current to the coil to created an electromagnetic field in the coil and simultaneously induces a magnetic field in the well casing. The coil, current, and well casing may be selected such that electromagnetic field and the magnetic field produce repulsive magnetic forces that are sufficient to overcome a yield strength of the well casing and perforate the well casing.
US09765587B2
An integrated assembly for a mineral extraction system includes an annular blow out preventer (BOP) portion that includes a BOP body coupled to a first portion of an one-piece body, where the annular BOP portion is configured to seal an outer drill string of the mineral extraction system, a diverter portion formed at least partially by a second portion of the one-piece body, where the diverter portion comprises one or more openings, and a rotating control unit (RCU) assembly portion comprising a third portion of the one-piece body coupled to a rotation enabled portion, where the RCU assembly portion is configured to divert drilling fluid through the one or more openings of the diverter portion.
US09765576B2
A stop collar for a tubular and method for installing a stop collar on a tubular. The stop collar includes a flexible member extending circumferentially around the tubular more than once. A tension force on the flexible member causes the flexible member to apply a radially-inward gripping force on the tubular. The stop collar may also include a shield disposed around at least a portion of the flexible member, to protect the flexible member in a downhole environment. The stop collar may also or instead include an adhesive disposed radially between the flexible member and the tubular.
US09765566B1
A cordless motorized roller shade includes a motorized operation device, a shading device mounted on the motorized operation device and hanging down, and a combination module detachably mounted between the motorized operation device and the shading device. Thus, the roll cloth member of the motorized operation device is pressed by the holding units of the shading device so that the roll cloth member is kept at a straight state smoothly when hanging down. In addition, when the roll cloth member is moved upward, the rotary return wheel module of the motorized operation device aids the upward movement of the roll cloth member to reduce consumption of the electric power of the drive motor of the motorized operation device during operation so that the roll cloth member is folded upward in an energy-saving manner.
US09765565B2
A covering for an architectural opening including a first rail, a second rail moveable relative to the first rail, and a lift regulator coupled to the first rail. The lift regulator includes a drag mechanism, and the lift regulator automatically engages the drag mechanism to resist the second rail moving away from the first rail. In addition, the lift regulator automatically disengages the drag mechanism when the second rail moves toward the first rail.
US09765564B2
Method and Apparatus for fabricating a spacer frame for use in an insulating glass unit. One of a multiple number of possible spacer frame materials is chosen for the spacer frame. An elongated strip of the material is moved to a notching station where notches are formed at corner locations. The character of the notches is adjusted based on the selection of the metal strip material and more particularly to achieve bending of the material in an repeatable, straightforward manner. Downstream from the notching station the metal strip is bent into a channel shaped elongated frame member having side walls. Further downstream a leading strip of channel shaped material is severed or separated front succeeding material still passing through the notching and bending station.
US09765560B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for driving a moveable closure, such as a garage door. In an initialisation process in a setup mode for the door operator for driving a moveable closure between open and closed positions, the apparatus allows selection of opening and/or closing speeds for the closure from a plurality of predefined stored driving speeds. This selection, or the range of stored driving speeds available for selection, is made in accordance with the type of closure to be driven, and this may be established automatically by detecting certain characteristics of movement of the closure as part of the initialisation process.
US09765552B2
A door handle assembly for a motor vehicle includes an operating handle moveably supported on a handle mounting, a mechanical coupling device and a locking device. An acceleration force can move the locking device from a normal operating position, in which an actuation of the operating handle is possible, in a first blocking direction, in which an actuation of the closing assembly via the operating handle and/or the coupling device, is blocked. The locking device also blocks the door handle assembly when long lasting or strongly pronounced oscillations occur as a result of a crash. In that event, the locking device can move from the normal operating position in a second blocking direction, in which an actuation of the closing assembly via the operating handle and/or the coupling device is blocked, wherein the second blocking direction is oriented opposite the first blocking direction.
US09765551B2
A housing comprised of substantially arced configured first and second pieces pivotally coupled with one another to form an enclosure that defines a substantially circular-cylindrical hole for encompassing and securing an article therein. The housing includes a magnetic switch for resetting an internal alarm system of the EAS alarm tag to OFF, an interlocking sensor switch and an auxiliary sensor switch for arming the EAS alarm tag. When both the interlock sensor switch and the auxiliary sensor switch are closed, the internal alarm system of the EAS alarm tag is armed and set to ON, and if any one of the interlocking sensor switch and the auxiliary sensor switch is tampered, an alarm (external the EAS alarm tag and or) of the EAS alarm tag is triggered.
US09765541B2
The present apparatus and method relates in general to sealing a hole in a floor with a precast plug. A precast plug is created by pouring a wet aggregate mix into a form mold and thereafter inserting a pre formed rod into the uncured mixture, positioning it such that the center of the rod rests in the center of the form mold and the ends of the rod extend outward near the top of the form mold. The mix is then cured. The precast plug may then be transported to the hole that it is destined to fix. Grooves may be carved on either side of the hole to accommodate the rod' s ends. The interior of the hole and the exterior of the plug may then be covered with a sealant, after which the plug may be inserted into the hole. Once the sealant cures, the hole is fully repaired.
US09765521B1
The precast reinforced concrete construction elements with pre-stressing connectors provide beam-column connections which are post-tensioned through a combination of active and passive pre-stressing tendons. The active pre-stressing tendons improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the beam-column connections under service loads, as well as during application of external forces and stresses, such as during earthquakes. The passive pre-stressing tendons are lightly pre-stressed and only become effective during progressive collapse of the building. Specifically, the passive pre-stressing tendons become stressed only during downward movement of a joint due to the loss/damage of a column, thus providing resistance against further downward movement of the joint and thereby resisting the progressive collapse.
US09765513B2
A corner siding product may include a plurality of panels. Each panel may include a front face with a simulated pattern, a hollow back, a longitudinal length extending in an x-direction, a lateral width extending in a y-direction, and a depth extending in a z-direction. In addition, the corner siding product may include a living hinge extending in the y-direction between the panels along side edges thereof. The corner siding product can have an uninstalled configuration wherein it is substantially planar. Embodiments of the corner siding product also can have an installed configuration wherein the living hinge permits the panels to be non-planar relative to each other, such that they are complementary in shape to a corner of a building.
US09765511B2
A framing member forming a frame of a factory building is provided with a slit for attaching a holder on one side face of the framing member, the slit extending in a longitudinal direction of the framing member, the slit is provided with a detachment prevention mechanism configured to exert an action of preventing an insertion piece of the holder from being detached and to fix the holder to the framing member, along with an insertion of the insertion piece into the slit, and the holder is provided with a pinching piece configured to pinch an end edge portion of a wall panel between the pinching piece and the framing member to fix the wall panel to the framing member, along with the insertion of the insertion piece into the slit.
US09765489B2
Disclosed is an alkyd or hydrocarbon resin-based pre-manufactured thermoplastic airport runway signage that is applied in relatively large sections onto an airport runway where the alkyd or hydrocarbon resin-based composite includes a functionalized wax incorporated in the resin-based composite within the range of 0.2 to 3 percent by weight, thereby allowing the resin-based composite to exist in a molten state within a viscosity range of between 35,000 and 85,000 centipoise and wherein the top surface provides an area for surface indicia materials existing on the top surface together with retroreflective glass beads with an index of refraction of 1.9 such that when the beads are suspended in and applied on the surface of the resin-based composite in a molten state the beads do not sink into the resin-based composite provide for allowing and maintaining an overall retroreflectivity of about 1000 millicandellas/m2/lux (mcd).
US09765488B2
A compactor for compacting a jobsite with a plurality of work areas includes a frame, a compacting element coupled to the frame and having a variable vibratory mechanism and providing a first compaction effort to a first work area on which the compactor is located and a control system. The control system determines a first compaction state for the first work area, determine a second compaction state for a second work area, receive a vibration measurement, determine a first vibration distance, and determine a second vibration distance. The control system also determines a second compaction effort for the second work area based on the first compaction state, the second compaction state, the vibration measurement, the first vibration distance, and the second vibration distance. The control system provides the second compaction effort to the second work area.
US09765483B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing paper, card and board. The present invention is based on the discovery that controlling solids content during the process in a specified manner provide enhanced initial web strength of the paper prior to drying and allows for higher machine speeds in the paper production process as compared to known processes.
US09765473B2
An appliance for treating a textile. The appliance has a textile contact surface adapted to interact with the textile to be treated, an airflow generating device, and a first outlet connected to the airflow generating device. The first outlet is arranged adjacent to the textile contact surface. The first outlet is arranged to direct an airflow through the first outlet in an airflow direction that is directed away from a normal of the textile contact surface.
US09765472B2
An upper iron and a lower iron of a trouser-pressing machine. The trouser-pressing machine has an upper iron, a lower iron and a middle iron, and forms can be press both legs of a trouser at a time. In the covers of the present invention, inside peripheral parts of main parts of covers are formed non-porously corresponding to pressing surfaces of the upper iron and the lower iron. In the present invention, the part formed non-porously can be not only the entire inside peripheral parts but also the portions corresponding to one side end of the middle iron on which the crotch of the trouser is set.
US09765471B2
A dryer includes a cabinet that defines an outer appearance of the dryer and has at least one opening, a main drum rotatably disposed in the cabinet and configured to accommodate an object to be dried, a door portion coupled to the cabinet and configured to open and close the opening of the cabinet, and a sub drum rotatably mounted to the door portion and extending toward an inner space of the cabinet. The sub drum defines an accommodation space that is separated from the inner space of the main drum.
US09765470B1
The clothes drying rack is a collapsible rack adapted for use in drying apparel and textiles. The clothes drying rack has a reinforced top structure and bottom structure to support heavy loads. The top structure further comprises a plurality of clothes hooks to further enhance the capacity of the clothes drying rack. When not in use, the clothes drying rack can be collapsed into a smaller form factor for storage. The clothes drying rack comprises a top structure, a bottom structure, and a plurality of scissor structures.
US09765463B2
An apparatus and a method of operating a laundry treating appliance treating laundry according to a cycle of operation having by determining a parameter indicative of a change in packing density of the laundry in a treating chamber and taking an operating action based on the determined parameter.
US09765462B2
A drum type washing machine, including a cabinet having a vertical cross section with a quadrangular shape; a tub having one surface that faces one or more upper corners of the cabinet, and is adjacent to the cabinet; and a rotatable drum in the tub, and configured to hold or accommodate laundry, is disclosed.
US09765445B2
A new set of branched nanowire or nanotree structures and their fabrication process. Some structures have one or more of the following distinctions from other branched nanowires: (1) the trunk and branch diameter and branching number density can be changed along the trunk's length; (2) the branch's azimuthal direction can be controlled along the trunk's length; (3) the branch's diameter can be modulated along its length; (4) the crystal orientation and branches of the ensemble of nanowires can be aligned on a non-epitaxially matched substrate. The structures are made by a geometrically controlled kinetic growth method.
US09765431B2
The present application relates to atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes for producing metal phosphates such as titanium phosphate, aluminum phosphate and lithium phosphate, as well as to ALD processes for depositing lithium silicates.
US09765422B2
A method for the low-pressure carbonitriding of steel parts, in particular parts used in the manufacture of automobiles comprises a heating step that includes a simple heating phase (M) followed by an initial nitridation phase (Ni) from a temperature between 700° C. to 750° C. to a temperature between 860° C. and 1000° C. and carried out using a reduced temperature gradient relative to the simple heating phase. Additionally, alternate cementing (C1-Cn) and nitridation (N1-Nn) steps are performed at constant temperature, wherein the final nitridation step is accompanied with a decrease in temperature immediately before quenching (T).
US09765407B2
Nucleic acid oligonucleotide sequences are disclosed which include amplification oligomers and probe oligomers which are useful for detecting multiple types of human papillomaviruses (HPV) associated with cervical cancer. Methods for detecting multiple HPV types in biological specimens by amplifying HPV nucleic acid sequences in vitro and detecting the amplified products are disclosed.
US09765403B2
Compositions, reaction mixtures, kits and methods used in amplifying and detecting nucleic acids from various species of the class Mollicutes. Particular regions of the 23S rRNA or its gene have been identified as preferred targets for nucleic acid amplification reactions of a sample suspected containing at least one species of Mollicutes. Some oligomers comprise tag regions, target closing regions, promoter sequences, and/or binding moieties. Samples can be from any source suspected of containing a species of the class Mollicutes. Preferred sample sources include bioreactors, cell lines, cell culture wares and pharmaceutical manufacturing wares.
US09765390B2
Methods and kits are provided for nucleic acid analysis. In an illustrative method, Snapback-ARMS primers are used to amplify preferentially a target nucleic acid that is present in a low allele fraction. In another embodiment, tailed primers are used to identify the preferentially amplified allele.
US09765389B2
Systems and methods for performing simultaneous nucleic acid amplification and detection. The systems and methods comprise methods for managing a plurality of protocols in conjunction with directing a sensor array across each of a plurality of reaction chambers. In certain embodiments, the protocols comprise thermocycling profiles and the methods may introduce offsets and duration extensions into the thermocycling profiles to achieve more efficient detection behavior.
US09765386B2
The present invention relates to a novel method for detecting instantaneously a biomarker immobilized to a solid surface and related uses. The method comprises exposing the biomarker to a probe having a magnetic label in a solution; applying a magnetic field to the solution, whereby a complex of the biomarker and the probe is formed on the solid surface; withdrawing the magnetic field; removing the solution from the solid surface; and detecting the complex instantaneously, wherein the presence of the complex on the solid surface indicates the presence of the biomarker.
US09765381B2
Secreted luciferases which are different from those known heretofore have been desired. The present invention provides a luciferase mutant comprising an amino acid sequence in which at least one amino acid selected from amino acids at the positions of 1 to 4 is deleted in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2.
US09765374B2
A fungal alpha-amylase is provided from Aspergillus fumigatus (AfAmyl). AfAmyl has an optimal pH of 3.5 and is operable at 30-75 degrees C., allowing the enzyme to be used in combination with a glucoamylase and an isoamylase in a saccharification reaction. This obviates the necessity of running a saccharification reaction as a batch process, where the pH and temperature must be readjusted for optimal use of the alpha-amylase or glucoamylase. AfAmyl also catalyzes the saccharification of starch substrates to an oligosaccharide composition significantly enriched in DP2 and (DPI+DP2) compared to the products of saccharification catalyzed by an alpha-amylase from Aspergillus kawachii. This facilitates the utilization of the oligosaccharide composition by a fermenting organism in a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process, for example.
US09765360B2
Disclosed herein are linear donor molecules comprising homology arms of 50-750 base pairs (e.g., 50-100 base pairs) flanking one or more sequences of interest. The donor molecules and/or compositions comprising these molecules can be used in methods for targeted integration of an exogenous sequence into a specified region of interest in the genome of a cell.
US09765354B2
The present invention is directed to plants that display an improved oil quantity phenotype or an improved meal quality phenotype due to altered expression of an HIO nucleic acid. The invention is further directed to methods of generating plants with an improved oil quantity phenotype or improved meal quality phenotype.
US09765349B2
The present invention provides trans-complementation systems for expressing gene products in plants. In general, the invention provides systems including a carrier vector and a producer vector, both based on plant viruses. The producer vector is defective for at least one function needed for successful systemic infection of a plant, e.g., replication, cell-to-cell movement, or long distance movement. The carrier vector supplies the missing function in trans. Certain producer vectors lack a functional coat protein coding sequence, in which case the corresponding producer vector supplies coat protein in trans. The invention also provides novel plant viral vectors and methods of use, e.g., to produce polypeptides or active RNAs in plants.
US09765347B2
Provided is a transformant of S. pombe mutant which can produce and collect β-glucosidase without requiring complicated separation steps, and a vector which is useful for transforming a yeast of the genus Schizosaccharomyces. The transformant of a S. pombe mutant of the present invention is a transformant of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutant which exhibits an increased Gsf activity and decreased or no pyruvyl transferase Pvg1 enzymatic activity, and is comprised of a structural gene sequence encoding a β-glucosidase derived from a filamentous fungus, and a promoter sequence and a terminator sequence for expressing the structural gene in a chromosome or as an extrachromosomal gene. Further, the present invention relates to a cloning vector which is characterized by comprising a hsp9 gene promoter or an ihc1 gene promoter of a yeast of the genus Schizosaccharomyces, and is useful for transforming a yeast of the genus Schizosaccharomyces, an expression vector, a transformant, etc.
US09765341B2
Provided herein are DNA origami devices useful in the targeted delivery of biologically active entities to specific cell populations.
US09765340B2
RNA interference is provided for inhibition of phosphodiesterase type 4 mRNA expression for treating patients with a cAMP-related ocular disorder. Phosphodiesterase type 4 mRNA targets include mRNA for 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D phosphodiesterase isoforms.
US09765338B2
Provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for reducing expression of a DMPK mRNA and protein in an animal. Also provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for preferentially reducing CUGexp DMPK RNA, reducing myotonia or reducing spliceopathy in an animal. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, delay, or ameliorate type 1 myotonic dystrophy, or a symptom thereof.
US09765336B2
Oligonucleotide compounds modulate expression and/or function of Erythropoietin (EPO) polynucleotides and encoded products thereof. Methods for treating diseases associated with Erythropoietin (EPO) comprise administering one or more oligonucleotide compounds designed to inhibit the EPO natural antisense transcript to patients.
US09765334B2
Described herein are compositions and methods for survival prediction in gastric cancer patients after surgical operation. The compositions are microRNA molecules associated with the prognosis of gastric cancer, as well as various nucleic acid molecules relating thereto or derived therefrom.
US09765333B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising siRNA molecules that target Marburg virus (MARV) gene expression, lipid particles comprising one or more (e.g., a combination) of the siRNA molecules, and methods of delivering and/or administering the lipid particles, for the purposes of treating MARV infection.
US09765328B2
The present invention provides stable, nuclease-resistant TNA and TNA-DNA oligonucleotides, wherein the oligonucleotides are completely resistant to enzymatic degradation for at least 24-72 hours. Methods of synthesis and use in diagnostic and therapeutic applications are also provided. Specifically, in one embodiment, we describe the chemical and biological stability of TNA and mixed-backbone (mosaic) TNA-DNA oligonucleotides under a variety of conditions and sequence contexts.
US09765327B2
Described herein are methods and related compositions for inducing differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into hemogenic endothelium with pan-myeloid potential or restricted potential, by forced expression in the hPSCs of a combination of transcription factors as described herein.
US09765305B2
The present disclosure provides mutant vaccinia virus strains that can selectively replicate in tumor cells. The present disclosure also provides use of the mutant vaccinia virus strains for preventing and treating tumors.
US09765292B2
A bioreactor for preferably three-dimensional cell culturing comprises a scaffold chamber, a first tube, a second tube and a first valve with a scaffold adapter, a tube adapter and a medium adapter. The first valve has a housing with a longitudinal female portion ending in an opening and a longitudinal actuator being arranged through the opening of the female portion of the housing such that the actuator is arranged partially inside the housing and partially outside the housing, wherein the actuator of the first valve is axially moveable relative to the housing of the first valve between a first position in which the first valve is in the operation position and a second position in which the first valve is in the medium change position. By providing the actuators in the first valve which is applied by axial movements, operation of the bioreactor can be comparably simple and safe.
US09765291B2
An apparatus for collecting or culturing cells or cell colonies includes: a common substrate formed from a flexible resilient polymeric material and having a plurality of wells formed therein; and a plurality of rigid cell carriers releasably connected to said common substrate, with said carriers arranged in the form of an array, and with each of the carriers resiliently received in one of the wells. A method of collecting or culturing cells or cell colonies with such an apparatus is carried out by depositing a liquid media carrying cells on the apparatus so that said cells settle on or adhere to said the carriers; and then (c) releasing at least one selected carrier having said cells thereon by gradual application of release energy to each carrier from the cavity in which it is received (e.g., by pushing with a probe).
US09765290B2
An apparatus and method for melting soap fragments to create a soap bar from the soap fragments. The apparatus includes various replaceable molds to create soap bars having various shapes.
US09765287B2
Stabilized hydrogen peroxide-containing compositions and methods of making same are disclosed. The compositions contain a stabilizer system made up of a disulfonate surfactant, a diester solvent, and a sulfonic acid or a salt thereof in a sufficient quantity to provide the stabilized hydrogen peroxide with an acidic pH value. The compositions are suitable for use as disinfectants, as cleaning agents, and in various personal care applications such as hair care and tooth whitening.
US09765277B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for mixtures, methods for making mixtures, articles, methods for making articles, and methods of using articles.
US09765274B2
A lubricant composition includes an oil of lubricating viscosity and a 4-hydroxybenzamide as a friction modifier. The lubricant composition has a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from 5 to 18 mm2/s.
US09765263B2
Dehydration method for a liquid or gaseous effluent selected from LPG, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, solvents and natural gases, by inserting the liquid or gaseous effluent against gravity through a drying column having a drying bed with an initial height (H+h) constituted in its lower area by an inert material bed having the height of h and in its upper area by deliquescent desiccants having an initial height of H. The deliquescent desiccants have an initial weight of between 3 and 40 g, the h/H ratio is lower than 0.49, and the inert material has a specific surface area greater than 100 m2/m3 and lower than 800 m2/m3. The method further includes separating water obtained from the liquid or gaseous effluent.
US09765261B2
The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass to produce aqueous and organic products using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction.
US09765258B2
Provided is a metal oxonitridosilicate phosphor of a general formula M5−z−a−bAl3+xSi23−xN37−x−2aOx+2a:Euz,Mnb, wherein M is one or more alkaline earth metals; 0; 0; 0
US09765256B2
The polymer proppant and method for producing the same relate to oil and gas production technology using materials of high-molecular weight compounds with higher requirements for physical and mechanical properties. The proppant is used as propping granules utilized in the oil and gas production by a method of hydraulic fracturing of formation. The technical result achieved by implementation of the present invention is an increase in thermal strength of the proppant whose material provides a compressive strength of at least 150 MPa at a temperature of not less than 100° C. The polymer proppant represents microspheres of metathesis-radically cross-linked mixture of oligocyclopentadienes.
US09765254B2
This disclosure relates to anti-agglomerant low dosage hydrate inhibitors that can inhibit the formation of hydrate agglomerants and/or plugs. The anti-agglomerant low dosage hydrate inhibitors may be surfactants. The hydrate inhibitors may be used for inhibiting, retarding, mitigating, reducing, controlling and/or delaying formation of hydrocarbon hydrates, agglomerants of hydrates, and/or plugs. The hydrate inhibitors may be applied to prevent, reduce, and/or mitigate plugging of conduits, pipes, transfer lines, valves, and other places or equipment where hydrocarbon hydrate solids may form. The hydrate inhibitors may be cationic ammonium surfactants having an ionizable secondary amine.
US09765250B2
A non-azeotropic fluid mixture for air conditioning apparatus characterized because the mixture comprises the following refrigerant fluids (gases) in given proportions: 2-Methylpropane (Isobutane) CH(CH3)3 (R-600a), Pentafluoroethane (R-125), Tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) Difluoromethane (R-32). The composition of the mixture contains at least one polymerization inhibitor agent (hydroquinone, benzotriazole, dimethyl-t-butylphenol).
US09765249B2
A method of forming a mixture including a ceramic material into a sheet, sectioning at least a portion of the sheet using a mechanical object and forming at least one shaped abrasive particle from the sheet, such that the at least one shaped abrasive particle can have a two-dimensional shape as viewed in a plane defined by a length and a width of the shaped abrasive particle selected from the group consisting of polygons, ellipsoids, numerals, Greek alphabet characters, Latin alphabet characters, Russian alphabet characters, complex shapes having a combination of polygonal shapes, and a combination thereof.
US09765242B2
An adhesive film with excellent cuttability with respect to both a base layer and a surface layer or layers laminated thereon is provided, without significant formation of adhesive burrs in various shearing processes. The adhesive film includes a support member and an adhesive layer laminated on at least one side of the support member. The adhesive layer has a laminate structure having a base layer made of a resin-based adhesive and laminated on the surface of the support member and a surface layer made of a resin-based adhesive and laminated on the base layer. The base layer is non-directional and has lengthwise and widthwise shearing strengths of 2 g to 2000 g [200 mm/min, 25 mm] in the thickness range of 2 μm to 60 μm. The base layer has a shearing strength of 1.5 to 200 times the shearing strength of the surface layer.
US09765240B2
Herein are disclosed a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on a substrate, the adhesive layer containing stripes of first and second pressure-sensitive adhesives. The surface of the adhesive layer that faces the substrate is surface-enriched with the first pressure-sensitive adhesive. Methods of making are disclosed.
US09765236B2
One-component, solvent-free organosiloxane composition comprising a) a linear or branched polyorganosiloxane containing at least two alkenyl or alkynyl groups, as component A; b) a linear or branched polyorganosiloxane containing at least 3 Si—H groups, as component B; c) a hydrosilylation catalyst as component C; d) an alkynol of the general formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3 are selected independently of one another from H, C1-C6-alkyl and substituted or unsubstituted C3-C6-alkyl; or R1 is selected from H, C1-C6-alkyl and substituted or unsubstituted C3-C6-cycloalkyl, and R2, R3 are bonded together and form a 3- to 8-membered ring which can be substituted by one or more C1-C3-alkyl groups, as component D; and e) a fumed silica as component E.
US09765235B2
The present invention relates to a copolymer for the photoalignment of liquid crystals comprising a photoreactive group as given below in formula (I), compositions thereof, and its use for optical and electro optical devices, especially liquid crystal devices (LCDs).
US09765231B1
A primer composition that resists peeling and cracking is provided that includes an acrylic copolymer having a Tg of between −15 and −35° C.
US09765229B2
The present invention relates to an ink composition and a writing instrument. The ink composition comprises 10 to 70 wt % of a metallic pigment, 10 to 30 wt % of a resin, 0 to 20 wt % of a colorant, 0 to 20 wt % of an auxiliary agent and a solvent as the remainder; the solvent is a main solvent or a mixture of the main solvent and an auxiliary solvent; the resin includes a film-forming resin and a thickening resin; the present invention uses a low-level monohydric alcohol solvent as the main solvent, a polyvinyl acetal resin as the film-forming resin, and further includes the auxiliary agent, the metallic pigment or the colorants, so the ink composition with such good characteristics as being environmental friendly, drying quickly, being written smoothly and having strong compatibility to general writing surfaces is produced.
US09765222B2
A method of encapsulating pigment flakes with a metal oxide coating is provided. According to the method, pigment flakes are mixed with a solvent, a metal salt is added to the solvent, and a reducing agent is added to the solvent, so as to encapsulate the pigment flakes with a metal oxide coating.
US09765212B2
A rubbery polymer comprising: (a) butyl acrylate or a mixture of butyl acrylate and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate, (b) at least one member selected from the group consisting of methyl methacrylate, ethyl methacrylate, methyl acrylate, and ethyl acrylate, (c) acrylonitrile, (d) styrene, (e) a half ester maleate soap, and (f) a crosslinking agent selected from allyl methacrylate, and mixtures of allyl methacrylate with glycidyl methacrylate, trimethylolpropanetrimethyl acrylate, dicyclopentenyloxyethyl methacrylate and divinylbenzene.
US09765207B2
The present invention provides a means for improving the elastic modulus (rigidity), heat resistance, toughness, and impact resistance of a resin to provide these properties in a good balance. The present invention provides a polymer microparticle-dispersed resin composition containing 100 parts by weight of a resin and 0.1 to 150 parts by weight of polymer microparticles each containing at least two layers: a crosslinked polymer layer and a coating polymer layer, the resin composition having a particle dispersity of the polymer microparticles in the resin of not lower than 50%, the crosslinked polymer layer including 50% by weight to 99% by weight of at least one monomer having a Tg, as determined as a homopolymer, of not lower than 0° C., and 50% by weight to 1% by weight of at least one monomer having a Tg, as determined as a homopolymer, of lower than 0° C.
US09765206B2
Rubber composition for conveyor belts containing (A) a rubber component that contains a styrene-butadiene rubber mixture having a mean styrene content of from 28 to 35% by mass, which contains one or more types of styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of from 20 to 25% by mass and one or more types of styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of from more than 25 to 50% by mass, and at least one selected from butadiene rubber and natural rubber in a specific ratio, (B) silica, (C) resin, and (D) specific carbon black in a specific ratio; a rubber for conveyor belt covers, formed by using the rubber composition; and a conveyor belt cover provided by using the rubber composition.
US09765204B2
Flame retardants produced by heating certain phosphonic acid salts at temperatures over 200° C. are readily compounded into high temperature polyamides that are processed at temperatures above 270° C. to provide flame retardant, high temperature polyamide compositions.
US09765192B2
The present disclosure provides hydrosilylation curable compositions comprising resin linear organosiloxane block copolymers comprising, among other things, from about 0.5 to about 5 mole % C1 to C30 hydrocarbyl group comprising at least one aliphatic unsaturated bond. Such hydrosilylation curable resin-linear organosiloxane block copolymers have significantly faster cure speed, relative to their condensation curable counterparts. A faster cure speed can be important for encapsulating electronic devices, such as light-emitting diode (LED) chip devices, particularly devices having tall structures.
US09765191B2
The present invention relates to biostable gel comprising: (a) at least one silicon-containing polyol, polyamine, polyepoxy or polyisocyanate having 1 or more functional groups and a molecular weight of at least 20,000 which is cured in the presence of: (b) at least one diol, diamine or diisocyanate having a molecular weight of less than 10,000; and/or (c) an initiator, processes for their preparation and their use in the manufacture and repair of biomaterials and medical devices, articles or implants, in particular the manufacture of a soft tissue implant such as breast implants and the repair of orthopaedic joints such as spinal discs.
US09765183B2
A process for preparing a polymer having a 2,5-furandicarboxylate moiety within the polymer backbone and having a number average molecular weight of at least 10,000 (as determined by GPC based on polystyrene standards) includes a first step wherein a prepolymer is made having the 2,5-furandicarboxylate moiety within the polymer backbone, followed in a second step by a polycondensation reaction. In the first step a 2,5-furandicarboxylate ester is transesterified with a compound or mixture of compounds containing two or more hydroxyl groups, in the presence of a tin(IV) based transesterification catalyst. In the second step at reduced pressure and under melt conditions the prepolymer prepared in the first step is polycondensed in the presence of a tin (II) based polycondensation catalyst until the polymer is obtained. This polymer may then be subjected to Solid State Polycondensation. Polymers so produced may have a 2,5-furandicarboxylate moiety within the polymer backbone, and having a number average molecular weight of at least 20,000 (as determined by GPC based on styrene standards), and an absorbance as a 5 mg/mL solution in a dichloromethane:hexafluoroisopropanol 8:2 at 400 nm of below 0.05.
US09765172B2
The patent application relates to a process for preparing polyoxymethylene by polymerization of a reaction mixture (RG) which comprises at least one formaldehyde source and at least one initiator mixture (IG), wherein the initiator mixture (IG) comprises at least one polymerization initiator and at least one solvent of the general formula (I) R1—O—[—R3—O—]m—R2 (I), where m is 1, 2, 3 or 4; R1 and R2 are each, independently of one another, C3-C6-alkyl; R3 is C1-C5-alkylene.
US09765164B2
A linear low density polyethylene composition suitable for injection molding applications comprising less than or equal to 100 percent by weight of the units derived from ethylene, less than 35 percent by weight of units derived from one or more α-olefin comonomers, and characterized by its density, molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn), a melt index (I2), a molecular weight distribution (Mz/Mw), vinyl unsaturation, and zero shear viscosity ratio (ZSVR). The linear low density polyethylene composition exhibits low hexane extractable levels.
US09765159B2
The present invention relates to redispersible nanoparticles, to processes for the production thereof, and to the use thereof in formulations, surface coatings, paints and plastics.
US09765153B2
The invention provides anti-biotin antibodies and methods of using the same.
US09765148B2
The present invention relates to antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof which bind to the human CD70 protein with high affinity and display potent inhibition of tumor cell growth.
US09765146B2
There is disclosed compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-CXCR5 antibodies. More specifically, there is disclosed fully human antibodies that bind CXCR5, CXCR5-binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and CXCR5-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Further still, there is disclosed nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating or diagnosing subjects having CXCR5 related disorders or conditions, including various inflammatory disorders and various cancers.
US09765139B2
Production of etanercept using perfusion methods achieves attractive yields of properly folded protein. Desired temperature, feed media, titers and percent correctly folded protein are disclosed.
US09765122B2
The present invention provides viral-based nanoparticles for therapeutic and diagnostic use, and methods for making and using the nanoparticles. Specifically, such nanoparticles comprise decoration-competent viral particles shells such as expanded capsids of phages, stabilized with engineered decoration proteins that have been linked to one or more compounds not naturally occurring on a wild type viral capsid.
US09765118B2
As explained hereinbefore, the C12orf59 gene of the present invention suppresses cancer cell invasion and inhibits cancer cell survivability, and the over expression of C12orf59 protein or a fragment thereof inhibits cancer cell invasion, so that C12orf59 gene or a fragment thereof not only can be effectively used for the pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating cancer but also can be used as a clinical marker for screening a cancer treatment agent candidate, for diagnosing various cancers or for predicting pathological stage. In addition, the C12orf59 gene or a fragment thereof of the present invention can be used for the method for preventing and treating cancer and for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating cancer.
US09765117B2
Provided are novel peptides having a human minute binding protein-2 (HDM-2) targeting sequence that target the human minute binding protein-2. Also provided are fusion proteins comprising an HDM-2 targeting sequence. Also provided are methods of using the peptides to treat cancer.
US09765114B2
A novel compound of the formula (1): wherein X is a tyrosine residue or a methionine residue; Y and Z each are a single bond or the like; R1 is a hydrogen atom or the like; R2 is a hydroxy group or the like; R3 is a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, amino group or the like; R4 is a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, carboxy group or the like; m is 1 or 2; and n is an integer of 0 to 2, with the proviso that when n is 0, R3 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and its use in cancer immunotherapy.
US09765113B2
There are disclosed methods for prophylaxis or treatment of cancer in a mammal. The methods comprise administering an effective amount of an agent to the mammal, which binds to a MAP kinase or an integrin such that binding of the MAP kinase to the integrin is inhibited.
US09765110B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to neuroactive 19-alkoxy-17(20)-Z-vinylcyano-substituted steroids as referenced herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, for use as, for example, an anesthetic, and/or in the treatment of disorders relating to GABA function and activity. The present disclosure is further directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds.
US09765107B2
The present invention relates to Cyclic Phosphonate Substituted Nucleoside Derivatives of Formula (I): (structure) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein B, X, R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein, as well as to compositions and methods of using the Cyclic Phosphonate Substituted Nucleoside Derivatives for treating or preventing HCV infection in a patient.
US09765105B2
The present disclosure relates to a macrolide compound as shown by formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound of the present disclosure is an antibacterial agent, and can be used to treat various bacterial and protozoal infections. The present disclosure further relates to the preparation method of the compound and a pharmaceutical composition thereof.
US09765104B2
Disclosed is a steviol glycoside referred to as rebaudioside D3. Rebaudioside D3 has five β-D-glucosyl units connected to the aglycone steviol. Also disclosed are methods for producing rebaudioside D3, a UDP-glycosyltransferase fusion enzyme, and methods for producing rebaudioside D and rebaudioside E.
US09765102B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to ONO pincer ligands that can be in a trianionic, protonated or protonated equivalent form. The ONO pincer ligand can be combined with a metal comprising compound to form an ONO pincer ligand comprising transition metal complex. By choice of the ONO pincer ligand structure, the steric and electronic properties of the metal complexes therefrom can be controlled. The ONO pincer ligands comprise a central nitrogen atom that is disubstituted with a pair of three atom comprising bridges where the three atoms are a pair of sp2 hybridized carbons and an sp3 hybridized carbon.
US09765100B2
The present invention relates to compounds and methods for treating viral diseases. Some compounds of the invention are described by Formula I: wherein M+ is Na+, Li+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, or NRcRdReRf+ and Rc, Rd, Re and Rf are each independently hydrogen or C1-5 alkyl, or a stereoisomer, a diastereomer, an enantiomer or racemate thereof.
US09765099B2
The present disclosure provides compounds that are useful for inhibiting the STAT6 pathway. Also provided are related pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the compounds. In some embodiments, the compounds may be used to treat a disease such as, e.g., an allergic lung disease, allergic rhinitis, chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, or a cancer.
US09765092B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) wherein R, R1a, R1b, R2, R3, and X are as described in the description, to their preparation, to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and to their use as pharmaceuticals, to pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more compounds of formula (I), to methods for the preparation of such compounds of formula (I), and especially to their use as TPH modulators.
US09765085B2
Compounds of formula (II): wherein A, R1, R2, R5 and R13 are described herein, or a stereoisomer, enantiomer or tautomer thereof or mixtures thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, are described herein, as well as other compounds. These compounds have activity as SHIP1 modulators, and thus may be useful in treating a variety of diseases, disorders or conditions that would benefit from SHIP1 modulation. Compositions comprising a compound of the invention are also disclosed, as are methods of SHIP1 modulation by administration of such compounds to an animal in need thereof.
US09765082B2
A cocrystal of tiotropium bromide and lactose monohydrate is herein disclosed. In the cocrystal the components tiotropium bromide and lactose are preferably present in an almost stoichiometric ratio. Said cocrystal has a single endothermic event at about 191-193° C. determined by DSC. A process for the preparation of the cocrystal is also disclosed. Preferably, the cocrystal has a particle size distribution of D90<10 μm. The cocrystal is also disclosed for use as medicament, in particular for the treatment of a respiratory complaint, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis, emphysema and asthma. A pharmaceutical composition comprising the cocrystal as active ingredient is also disclosed, in particular for administration by inhalation. In the latter case, said cocrystal has a mean particle size of 0.5 to 10 μm, preferably 1 to 6 μm, more preferably 1.5 to 5 μm.
US09765075B2
Provided herein are novel substituted bridged urea and related analogs and methods of use thereof. The sirtuin-modulating compounds may be used for increasing the lifespan of a cell, and treating and/or preventing a wide variety of diseases and disorders including, for example, diseases or disorders related to aging or stress, diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease, blood clotting disorders, inflammation, cancer, and/or flushing as well as diseases or disorders that would benefit from increased mitochondrial activity. Also provided are compositions comprising a sirtuin-modulating compound in combination with another therapeutic agent.
US09765074B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are inhibitors of the ROMK (Kir1.1) channel. The compounds may be used as diuretic and/or natriuretic agents and for the therapy and prophylaxis of medical conditions including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, heart failure and chronic kidney disease and conditions associated with excessive salt and water retention.
US09765068B2
Described herein are compounds of Formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Compounds of the present invention are useful for inhibiting PRMT5 activity. Methods of using the compounds for treating PRMT5-mediated disorders are also described.
US09765067B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a method for manufacturing the compounds of the invention, and its therapeutic uses. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and a pharmaceutical composition.
US09765063B2
Amido compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: and wherein Cy1, Cy2, n1, n2, R1a, R1b, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described herein. The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune disorders, cancer, and graft-versus-host disease.
US09765054B2
Provided are certain histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors of Formula I, compositions thereof, and methods of their use.
US09765051B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to molecules, including conjugated fused polycyclic molecules, that may receive excited state energy from other molecules (e.g., light-absorbing molecules) or directly from the irradiation sources. According to some embodiments, the disclosure relates to molecules, including conjugated fused polycyclic molecules, that may resolve (e.g., quench, dissipate) excited state energy, normally by way of releasing it as heat. (e.g., as heat). Conjugated fused polycyclic molecules of various structures are disclosed including Formula III: The disclosure further relates to methods of use and/or therapy using molecules of Formulas I, II, and/or III.
US09765048B2
The present invention discloses organocatalytic process for asymmetric synthesis of highly enantioselective decanolide compounds in high yield with >99% ee. Further, the present invention disclose cost effective, improved organocatalytic process for asymmetric synthesis of highly enantioselective decanolides compounds from non-chiral, cheap, easily available raw materials.
US09765038B2
The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US09765018B2
There are disclosed compounds of formula (I) that modulate or inhibit the enzymatic activity of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds and methods of treating proliferative disorders, such as cancer, viral infections and/or inflammatory disorders utilizing the compounds of the invention.
US09765015B2
Additives for electrophoretic media comprising esters of branched polyols and fatty acids, such as esters of pentaerythritol propoxylate (5/4 PO/OH) and stearic acid. The fatty acids may be saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched. In some embodiments, the fatty acids are perfluorinated, or partially fluorinated. In some embodiments, the branched polyol will include oligomers of polypropylene oxide or polyethylene oxide. When the additives are included in an electrophoretic medium in a display, the resulting display has an improved contrast ratio and reducing ghosting.
US09765011B2
A method for synthesizing dimethyl carbonate from methanol and urea, in which a saline ureic medium is used that includes at least one inorganic salt selected from the group made up of zinc (Zn) (II) chloride, tin (Sn) chlorides and iron (Fe) (III) chloride, characterized in that: methanol, in the presence of a catalytic composition, is placed in contact with the saline ureic medium that is at least partially liquid at a temperature referred to as synthesis temperature, which is higher than 140° C., such that reaction vapors are produced; the reaction vapors are condensed, and a condensate of the reaction vapors is collected, including dimethyl carbonate; the method is carried out at atmospheric pressure. A method for enriching and purifying dimethyl carbonate is also described.
US09765010B2
Methods of making branched isoparaffin compositions derived from natural oil based linear internal olefins are disclosed. Uses of branched isoparaffins formed by such methods are also disclosed.
US09765008B2
A perfluorovinyloxy polyether carboxylic acid alkali metal salt represented by the general formula is provided: CF2═CF[OCF2CF(CF3)]bO(CF2)aO[CF(CF3)CF2O]cCF(CF3)COOM [I], wherein M is alkali metal, preferably sodium or potassium, a is an integer of 1 to 6, preferably 2, and b+c is an integer of 0 to 6, preferably 0 or 1. This perfluorovinyloxy polyether carboxylic acid alkali metal salt is produced by subjecting a perfluorovinyloxy polyether carboxylic acid alkyl ester represented by the general formula: CF2═CF[OCF2CF(CF3)]bO(CF2)aO[CF(CF3)CF2O]cCF(CF3)COOR [II], wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, a is an integer of 1 to 6, and b+c is an integer of 0 to 6; to hydrolysis or solvolysis in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide.
US09765007B2
A process for preparing dry methacrolein, and a process for producing methyl methacrylate are disclosed.
US09765006B2
The present invention refers to a process for producing 5-[4-(2-hydroxy-2-methyl)-1-oxo-prop-1-yl]-3-[4-(2-hydroxy-2-methyl)-1-oxo-prop-1-yl-phenyl]-2,3-dihydro-1,1,3-trimethyl-1H-indene (dimer isomer 5) that comprises the acylation of cumene in the 4-position with an isobutyryl halide, followed by benzylic halogenation and dimerization (cyclization) of the resulting product.
US09765002B2
The present invention relates to a process of a cis/trans isomerization of an unsaturated compound A being selected from the group consisting of unsaturated ketones, unsaturated ketals, unsaturated aldehydes, unsaturated acetals, unsaturated carboxylic acids, esters of an unsaturated carboxylic acid and amides of an unsaturated carboxylic acid using polythiol as cis/trans isomerization catalyst. It has been observed that the isomerization is very efficient and fast.
US09764998B2
Disclosed is a process for the production of 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO-1233zd) which includes reacting a propane feedstock comprising tetrachlorofluoropropanes, trichlorodifluoropropanes, dichlorotrifluoropropanes, or a mixture thereof, in the presence of a solid catalyst. The process generally comprises the following four steps: (i) providing a propane feedstock comprising trichlorodifluoropropanes and dichlorotrifluoropropanes, (ii) reacting the feedstock in a vapor phase reactor in the presence of HF and in the presence of a solid catalyst under conditions effective to form a product stream comprising HCFO-1233zd and unconverted starting materials, (iii) recovering or removing HCl and HF, and (iv) isolating HCFO-1233zd(E), HCFO-1233zd(Z), or both.
US09764997B1
A method for making hydrogenated cyclooctatetraene dimers including cyclo-dimerizing butadiene to form 1,5-cyclooctadiene in the presence of at least one first catalyst, dehydrogenating 1,5-cyclooctadiene to 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene, dimerizing 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene to a C16 multicyclic hydrocarbon cyclooctatetraene dimer, and hydrogenating multicyclic hydrocarbon cyclooctatetraene dimer to form hydrogenated cyclooctatetraene dimers.
US09764993B2
A water-insoluble phosphate fertilizer, methods of producing, and methods of using the same are provided. The fertilizer may comprise at least one alkaline earth metal selected from calcium and magnesium and optionally at least one nutrient ion selected from the group consisting of potassium, ammonium, zinc, iron, manganese, copper, boron, chlorine, iodine, molybdenum or selenium. The fertilizer compounds are preferably water-insoluble, dilute acid-soluble, and free-flowing powders.
US09764991B2
Porous aluminum-containing ceramic bodies are treated to form acicular mullite crystals onto the surfaces of their pores. The crystals are formed by contacting the body with a fluorine-containing gas or a source of both fluorine and silicon atoms to form fluorotopaz at the surface of the pores, and then decomposing the fluorotopaz to form acicular mullite crystals. This process allows the surface area of the ceramic body to be increased significantly while retaining the geometry (size, shape, general pore structure) of the starting body. The higher surface area makes the body more efficient as a particulate filter and also allows for easier introduction of catalytic materials.
US09764980B2
A glass composition of the present invention includes, in mol %, 66 to 72% SiO2, 1 to 4% Al2O3, 8 to 15% MgO, 1 to 8% CaO, 12 to 16% Na2O, and 0 to 1% K2O. A total content of MgO and CaO is in a range of 12 to 17%, and a molar ratio of CaO to the total content of MgO and CaO is in a range of 0.1 to 0.4. The glass composition of the present invention is suitable for production by the float process, and is suitable for chemical strengthening.
US09764978B2
A method and device for separating a substrate with a laser beam. The duration of the laser beam's effect is extremely short, so the substrate is only modified concentrically about the laser beam axis (Z) without it degrading the substrate material. While the laser beam acts upon the substrate, the substrate moves relative to a laser machining head, producing plural filament-type modifications along a separating surface to be incorporated. The laser beam is initially diverted by a transmission medium having a higher intensity dependent refractive index than air, then reaches the substrate. The non-constant pulsed laser intensity increases to a maximum over the temporal course of the single pulse, then reduces, and the refractive index changes. The laser beam focus point moves between the substrate's outer surfaces along the beam axis (Z), reaching the desired modification along the beam axis (Z) without correcting the laser machining head in the z-axis.
US09764977B2
A process in which a waste stream containing microbes and organic constituents is passed through a process environment comprising a solid media, microbes, and higher animals, such that some of the microbes and/or organic constituents within the waste stream are removed from the waste stream and some of the removed microbes are destroyed or consumed by the higher animals. The process environment may include an irrigated environment, a submerged environment, or a combined environment.
US09764970B2
The disclosure provides an ozone contact tank, which includes a water inlet gallery (1), an aeration gallery (2), a water distribution zone (3), a reaction zone (4) and a water outlet trough (5) which are disposed according to the intake order and are communicated in sequence; the top of the water inlet gallery (1) is communicated with the top of the aeration gallery (2); the bottom of the aeration gallery (2) is communicated with a water inlet end of the water distribution zone (3) via a narrow passage (6); the top of the water distribution zone (3) is communicated with the bottom of the reaction zone (4) via a perforated plate (41); the top of the reaction zone (4) is communicated with the water outlet trough (5). The disclosure also provides an ozone contact method using the ozone contact tank, which can greatly improve the disinfection effect.
US09764966B2
Hydrogen sulfide can be removed from a liquid effluent of an anaerobic reactor, by subsequently: —contacting the effluent liquid in counter current with a treated product gas of the anaerobic reactor to absorb hydrogen sulfide in the gas, —collecting the desulfurized effluent liquid after said contacting, —discharging at least part of the collected desulfurized effluent recirculation liquid as a treated effluent. To a remaining part of the desulfurized effluent waste water can be added and mixed, and the mixed water can be fed to the anaerobic reactor. Spent gas of the contacting step can be combined with sulfide-containing product gas of the anaerobic reactor and treated by desulfurization.
US09764965B1
A filter assembly consists of four principal components. The principle components include a top housing containing the means to fasten in a leak proof manner to a valved top of a sport bottle; a base housing; an outer independent charged layered membrane filter; and an inner independent charged layered membrane filter. Each charged layered filter is in a cylindrical form with pleats.
US09764959B2
A nanostructured metal oxide composition comprising hydroxides or oxygen vacancies or both hydroxides and oxygen vacancies on its surface is described. A process for preparing the nanostructured metal oxide composition comprising hydroxides or oxygen vacancies or both hydroxides and oxygen vacancies on its surface, which hydroxides and oxygen vacancies can participate in chemical reactions, which composition is prepared by a method selected from the group of methods comprising: i) controlled thermally induced dehydroxylation of nanostructured metal hydroxide precursors; ii) thermochemical reaction of said nanostructured metal oxide with hydrogen gas; iii) vacuum thermal treatment of said nanostructured metal oxide; and iv) aliovalent doping with a lower oxidation state metal. A photocatalyst comprising a nanostructured metal oxide composition comprising an optimal loading of hydroxides or oxygen vacancies or both hydroxides and oxygen vacancies on its surface, which hydroxides and/or oxygen vacancies can participate in chemical or physical reactions.
US09764958B2
The disclosure provides for methods of oxidizing carbide anions, or negative ions, from salt like carbides at temperatures from about 150° C. to about 750° C. In another aspect, the disclosure provides for reactions with intermediate transition metal carbides. In yet another aspect, the disclosure provides for a system of reactions where salt-like carbide anions and intermediate carbide anions are oxidized to produce pure carbon of various allotropes.
US09764956B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing graphene, said graphene, and an apparatus for manufacturing same. The method for manufacturing graphene comprises the steps of: loading a catalytic metal layer into a chamber; applying tensile force to the catalytic metal layer; and forming graphene on the catalytic metal layer by supplying a carbon source into the chamber while the tension is applied to the catalytic metal layer. Therefore, the size of the grains on the catalytic metal layer can be increased by applying tension to the catalytic metal layer, and high quality uniform graphene can be grown through the use of the catalytic metal layer.
US09764954B2
Methods of processing particulate carbon material, such as graphic particles or agglomerates of carbon nanoparticles such as CNTs are provided. The starting material is agitated in a treatment vessel in the presence of low-pressure (glow) plasma generated between electrodes. The material is agitated in the presence of conductive contact bodies such as metal balls, on the surface of which plasma glow is present and amongst which the material to be treated moves. The methods effectively deagglomerate nanoparticles, and exfoliate graphitic material to produce very thin graphitic sheets showing graphene-type characteristics. The resulting nanomaterials used by dispersal in composite materials, e.g. conductive polymeric composites for electric or electronic articles and devices. The particle surfaces can be functionalized by choosing appropriate gas in which to form the plasma.
US09764951B2
A method for preparing a magnesium-based hydrogen storage material, includes: a Mg—Ce—Ni family amorphous alloy is prepared by a rapid cooling process; the amorphous alloy is pulverized, so as to obtain a amorphous powder; the amorphous alloy is activated, so as to obtain a MgH2—Mg2NiH4—CeH2.73 family nanocrystalline composite; the abovementioned composite is carried out a hydrogen absorption and desorption cycle, then the composite is placed in a pure Ar atmosphere for passivation, finally, the passivated composite is oxidized, so as to obtain a MgH2—Mg2NiH4—CeH2.73—CeO2 family nanocrystalline composite.
US09764946B2
A capped micromachined device has a movable micromachined structure in a first hermetic chamber and one or more interconnections in a second hermetic chamber that is hermetically isolated from the first hermetic chamber, and a barrier layer on its cap where the cap faces the first hermetic chamber, such that the first hermetic chamber is isolated from outgassing from the cap.
US09764942B2
The present invention relates to a micromechanical device comprising a multi-layer micromechanical structure including only homogenous silicon material. The device layer comprises at least a rotor and at least two stators. At least some of the rotor and at least two stators are at least partially recessed to at least two different depths of recession from a first surface of the device layer and at least some of the rotor and at least two stators are at least partially recessed to at least two different depths of recession from a second surface of the device layer.
US09764936B2
A chilled beverage dispenser includes a lower housing, one or more bowls for storing a beverage positioned on the lower housing, and one or more locking members. Each locking member is rotatable between a first (closed) position, in which the locking member engages and prevents a bowl from being removed, and a second (open) position, in which the bowl may be readily removed from the lower housing. The chilled beverage dispenser may also include a bracket at the rear of the lower housing which engages a rear portion of a bowl, also preventing the bowl from being removed from the lower housing. The chilled beverage dispenser may also include a handle for engaging a dispensing valve, which is slidably removable from a cradle at the front of the bowl. The chilled beverage dispenser may also include a removable impeller cover and spray tube inside of the bowl.
US09764933B2
Provided is a system and method for positioning a load including an apparatus having a plurality of columns. Each column has a first support and a motor adapted to move the first support along an axis of the column. A second support is connected to at least two of the first supports and a track member for receiving a portion of a vehicle is connected to the second support. Load and position sensors are coupled to the apparatus for transmitting load and position signals. A controller is in communication with the columns and receives the load and position signals to compare the load and position signals to generate at least one control signal that is sent to at least one of said motors for controlling the position of at least one of said first supports.
US09764926B2
A brake assembly for an elevator includes a brake, a brake operating device and a first brake wire connected to the brake operating device and to the brake, the brake operating device being configured to release the brake by moving the brake operating device and the first brake wire to a first direction. A second brake wire is connected to the brake operating device and to the brake, and the brake operating device is configured to engage the brake by moving the brake operating device and the second brake wire to a second direction.
US09764924B2
A brake, which includes a frame part of the brake, an armature part movably supported on the frame part, and attached to the frame part a limit switch, the switching state of which changes when movement is exerted on the limit switch in the operating direction of the limit switch. The brake also includes a measuring pin that is movably supported on the frame part of the brake and that is separate from the armature part, which measuring pin is connected to the limit switch.
US09764921B2
The folding pocket device for a buckle folding machine includes a folding pocket having a feed-in aperture enabling a sheet to run therethrough in a running-in direction into a pocket space of the folding pocket. A sheet stop device includes a sheet stop extending essentially transversely to the running-in direction in the pocket space, which is displaceable in the running-in direction and in the opposite direction. A sheet directing device includes a diverting device, which is displaceable from a clearance position in which the diverting device opens up the way to the feed-in aperture into the folding pocket to a diverting position in which the diverting device blocks the feed-in aperture in order to divert a sheet. In order to achieve quick switching from the clearance position to the diverting position, the diverting device can be displaced from the clearance position to the diverting position by the sheet stop when the sheet stop is displaced opposite to the running-in direction.
US09764920B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes a binding unit including a first portion and a second portion and configured to nip a sheet bundle between the first portion and the second portion to deform the sheet bundle in a thickness direction to bind the sheet bundle, and a detachment unit configured to push the bound sheet bundle toward the second portion to detach the bound sheet bundle from the first portion.
US09764916B2
A sheet conveying device includes a conveying unit configured to convey sheets along a predetermined conveyance path, and a cover member disposed at a position covering the conveying unit and constituting one of exterior surfaces of the sheet conveying device. The cover member includes a first base portion constituting one of the exterior surfaces, a second base portion facing the first base portion across a space, and a plurality of linking portions provided between the first base portion and the second base portion and linking to both the first base portion and the second base portion. The first base portion, the second base portion, and the plurality of linking portions are integrally formed of a resin material into one piece. The second base portion includes a plurality of ribs protruding from a surface of the second base portion opposite to the first base portion.
US09764915B2
An items processing apparatus for placement and singulation of flat items has a placement device and a feed deck and a separation device. A portion of the placement device is arranged below the placement deck of the apparatus. The feed deck has an opening for an separation roller, and a portion of the separation device arranged above the feed deck. This portion and the separation roller form a gate of the separation device for the singulation of a stack of flat items. A control computer controls the placement device and separation device. The placement device is equipped for edge alignment of a stack of flat items with different formats and has at least two transport elements, which enable an automatic displacement of the stack transverse to the transport direction and placement of the stack at an alignment wall, as well as a transport of the stack in the transport direction toward the feed deck of the separation device, as well as a displacement of the stack counter to the transport direction. A movement assembly is provided to move the portion of the separation device in a direction counter to the transport direction. The control computer controls the alignment state of the transport elements of the placement device of the items processing apparatus, and controls the movement of the portion of the separation device. The aforementioned portion enables a displacement of the stack counter to the transport direction.
US09764908B2
A variable orifice assembly includes a housing defining a flow orifice therethrough and configured to be connected in fluid communication between two pipes of a particle conveyance system. The assembly includes a plurality of blades pivotally mounted to the housing to pivot between a retracted position and an extended position. Each blade includes a gas path edge. In the retracted position, the gas path edges of the blades conform to the flow orifice. In the extended position, the blades extend inward from the flow orifice.
US09764903B2
An object of the present invention is to suppress rise in running resistance with increases in weight of a transport vehicle group, and prevent higher energy consumption and manufacturing cost. A transport device transports a transport vehicle (1) carrying an article (E) along a transport path including a curved path and forms a continuous floor (B) on the transport vehicle (1) in the entire or partial transport path. The transport device includes: running rails (R) that are laid along the transport path to support running wheels (4, 5, and 6) of the transport vehicle (1); guide rails that guide the transport vehicle (1) along the transport path; a drive unit that drives the transport vehicle (1); and a water way (WW) that is formed along the transport path to reserve water (W).
US09764902B2
A cleanable belt conveyor and a method for making a cleanable belt conveyor having a simplified frame design. One version of such a conveyor comprises a frame and an insertable conveyor belt support. Another version comprises a modular frame formed by a plurality of shafts connected using connectors. Another version comprises a unitary frame and carryway structure, whereby the carryway for supporting a conveyor belt constitutes support structure for the frame. Another version comprises a carryway support rail including an integral curved reversing element. Another version comprises components connected through curvaceous connecting members.
US09764896B2
The invention relates a device for suctioning off waste products of the production machine comprising a suction chamber at which at least a suction element is assembled which extends into a suction space, which is outside the suction chamber in order to convey waste products into the suction chamber, wherein the suction element comprises an inlet area, which is facing the suction space and an outlet area, which ends in the suction chamber.
US09764891B1
The disclosure relates to a multi-chamber cartridge. The multi-chamber cartridge may include two chambers separated by a membrane. The two chambers may include a first chamber storing a first substance is positioned adjacent a second chamber. The multi-chamber cartridge may further include a piercing mechanism mounted within the first chamber. Upon an external force being applied to the piercing mechanism, the piercing mechanism pierces the membrane to allow the first substance to move to the second chamber.
US09764889B2
A shoe cover cartridge includes two guiding arms and a plurality of shoe covers overlapped in a sequential manner to define a standby shoe cover and a subsequent shoe cover. Front and rear interlocking units are provided at front and rear sides of each of the shoe cover respectively and are slidably engaged with the guiding arms at a position that the front interlocking unit at the subsequent shoe cover is located in front of the rear interlocking unit at the standby shoe cover along the guiding arms. Therefore, when the standby shoe cover is pulled for dispensing, the subsequent shoe cover is pulled by the standby shoe to dispense the shoe covers in a sequential order.
US09764878B2
A storage system for adult products includes a box, a lid, a locking mechanism and a ventilated tray. The box has an upper rim with a plurality of ventilation holes formed therein. The lid is hinged to the back of the box and configured to mate with the upper rim of the box without closing the plurality of ventilation holes. The lid includes a compartment formed within the top of the lid with a mini lid covering the compartment. The locking mechanism includes a sliding lock for securing the lid to the box. The sliding lock fits over a split lower rail of the box and an upper rail of the lid that includes an extended tab mates with the split lower rail and secures the lid to the box when the sliding mechanism is moved so as to fit over both rails at the same time.
US09764876B2
A sleeve pack (10) is disclosed having a pallet (50) and top cap (80) with one or more dividers (60) disposed therebetween and one or more sleeves (70) disposed between the pallet (50) and each divider (60) or top cap (80).
US09764872B2
Polyesters compositions comprising gas barrier enhancing additives and containers comprising such polyester compositions are provided herein. Also provided are methods for preparing polyester containers comprising said gas barrier enhancing additives. The polyester containers of the present invention exhibit decreased permeability to gases thereby providing improved shelf-life.
US09764863B2
A container is provided with a flange defining a container opening that may help expunge food product as the film and seal head comes down on the container flange. The flange of the container opening has a predetermined angle. The container flange with its sealing surface generally deflects or angularly pivots when sealed with the film during the sealing process. The container flange and film may push product contamination from the sealing surfaces inwardly into the container. The flange may be continuous about the periphery of the container opening.
US09764862B2
A machine for automatically inflating air cushions. The cushions have two plastic walls (21; 22) joined together around their periphery to define a closed space. The machine comprises a source of gas under pressure, and two jaws (1; 2) arranged such that they can move on a supporting structure. Each one of the jaws consists of a body (1; 3) each having a plane face (4:10) of substantially the same shape and surface area, it being possible for the faces to mate against one another in order to clamp between them the walls (21; 22) of a cushion. Each jaw comprises an aspiration channel (6; 7) opening onto its planer face. A first jaw on the inside of its body has a hollow needle (5) able to move relative to the body and capable in a certain position of having its pointed tip outside of the surface of the plane face. A second jaw within its body has a heating element (18) capable, when the two jaws are clamping between them the two walls of a cushion, of heat-welding the two walls together over a certain proportion of their contacting surface.
US09764859B2
Apparatus and methods for stationkeeping in a satellite. The satellite includes a north electric thruster and a south electric installed on a zenith side. An orbit controller selects a duration of a burn of the north electric thruster proximate to an ascending node that differs from a duration of a burn of the south electric thruster proximate to a descending node. The orbit controller is configured to select an offset of the burn of the north electric thruster in relation to the ascending node that differs from an offset of the burn of the south electric thruster in relation to the descending node.
US09764858B2
A method controls an operation of a spacecraft according to a model of the spacecraft. The method determines control inputs for controlling concurrently thrusters of the spacecraft and momentum exchange devices of the spacecraft using an optimization of a cost function over a receding horizon subject to constraints on a pose of the spacecraft and constraints on inputs to the thrusters. The cost function includes components for controlling the pose of the spacecraft and a momentum stored by the momentum exchange devices. The method generates a command to control concurrently the thrusters and the momentum exchange devices according to at least a portion of the control inputs.
US09764857B2
A deployable mast with spontaneous autonomous deployment comprises at least one elementary structural block with a longitudinal axis of deployment X, the elementary structural block comprising two, respectively lower and upper platforms parallel to a plane YZ orthogonal to axis X, and N stages stacked on one another parallel to axis X, where N is more than 1, and where i is between 1 and N−1. Each stage comprises at least six flexible longitudinal connection arms which are articulated by tape springs, which arms are, in the deployed position, on planes parallel to axis X and are inclined relative to axis X, the N stages being secured to one another in pairs by means of connection platforms parallel to the plane YZ; two adjacent lower and upper stages are offset angularly relative to one another by rotation around the axis of deployment X.
US09764853B2
A motionless skew detection system for an aircraft is disclosed, and includes a flight control surface of an aircraft wing, two drive mechanisms for operating the flight control surface, a first load sensor and a second load sensor for each of the two drive mechanisms, and a control module. Each of the two drive mechanisms are located on opposing sides of the flight control surface and each of the two drive mechanisms include at least a first linkage including a first outer surface and a second linkage including a second outer surface. The first load sensor is disposed along the first outer surface of the first linkage and the second load sensor is disposed along the second outer surface of the second linkage. The control module is in signal communication with the first load sensor and the second load sensor of each drive mechanism.
US09764851B2
Provided is a fuel system that can reduce the amount of fuel in a second tank before the amount of fuel in a first tank. A fuel system includes: a first tank and a second tank that respectively store fuel; a fuel supply pump that supplies at least the fuel in the first tank out of the first and second tanks to a fuel consuming section; a transfer pump that transfers the fuel in the second tank into the first tank; and a fuel passage having an inlet in communication with an inner portion of the first tank, and an outlet in communication with an inner portion of the second tank. The fuel in the first tank overflows into the second tank through the fuel passage.
US09764850B2
A fiber-reinforced composite structure includes a cut edge; an elastomeric cap covering the cut edge; and an adhesive sealant bonding the elastomeric cap to the cut edge. The fiber-reinforced composite structure is joined to a component and the elastomeric cap includes a generally Z or L-shaped cap with a web bonded to the cut edge of the fiber-reinforced structure and a flange bonded to the component and extending away from the fiber-reinforced structure.
US09764839B2
A tethered unmanned aerial vehicle firefighting system includes a firefighting drone, a lifting drone and a tether line coupling the firefighting drone to a control station through the lifting drone. The control station includes a control unit for controlling the firefighting drone and the lifting drone, a fire retardant supply, a pump coupled to the fire retardant supply, and a power supply. The tether line includes a power line coupling the power source to and powering the firefighting drone and a fire retardant hose coupled between the pump and a nozzle carried by the firefighting drone. A lifting tower hold the tether from the control station at a height above ground level, and the lifting drone maintains the tether above obstruction for the firefighter drone. The firefighter drone disperses fire retardant from the nozzle for firefighting purposes and with a substantially unlimited supply of retardant and power.
US09764837B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle comprising at least one rotor motor. The rotor motor is powered by a micro hybrid generation system. The micro hybrid generator system comprises a rechargeable battery configured to provide power to the at least one rotor motor, a small engine configured to generate mechanical power, a generator motor coupled to the small engine and configured to generate AC power using the mechanical power generated by the small engine, a bridge rectifier configured to convert the AC power generated by the generator motor to DC power and provide the DC power to either or both the rechargeable battery and the at least one rotor motor, and an electronic control unit configured to control a throttle of the small engine based, at least in part, on a power demand of at least one load, the at least one load including the at least one rotor motor.
US09764821B2
A propeller assembly having a hub having at least one receiver opening, a receiver located within the receiver opening and having a first collar defining a blade opening, a blade having a second collar and a protrusion with the second collar abutting the first collar and the protrusion received within the blade opening, and a first retainer, and a second retainer.
US09764817B2
The invention relates to a method for covering light aircraft and/or parts thereof with a polyester covering fabric, and to a dispersion hot-melt adhesive and to the use thereof for covering. The invention further relates to a light aircraft or to a part of the same which is covered with a polyester covering fabric by means of the method according to the invention.
US09764796B2
A number of variations may include a cable movement detector for determining a movement of a cable. A light source may be directed at the cable. A light detector may receive a reflection of the light source from the cable.
US09764787B2
A child's ride-on toy comprising a push rod and a removable cart connected to the child's ride-on toy is described. The push rod of a child's ride-on toy typically extends upward and rearward from a connector at the rear of the frame of the child's ride-on toy to a handle at a height that may be easily manipulated by an adult. The push rod may be manipulated by an adult to control the speed and direction of the child's ride-toy or removed and connected to the cart for use of the cart independently of the ride-on toy.
US09764786B2
A lock is provided. The lock includes a fixing base, an elastic member disposed on the fixing base, a stopper disposed above the elastic member, a numbering plate disposed above the stopper, a rotating disc disposed above the numbering plate, and a buckle seat disposed on the rotating disc. At least a portion of the stopping part is able to pass through the numbering plate. The rotating disc caps outside the numbering plate, the stopper, and at least a portion of the fixing base.
US09764780B2
An apparatus and method are provided for assembling a roof or floor of a cargo body, and for securing doors and other portions of a cargo body in place. In some cases, a plurality of sidewalls are provided, each comprising a side panel and an upper rail and/or lower rail coupled to the side panel. A roof panel can be located above the plurality of sidewalls adjacent the upper rails, with a roof bow extending between the upper rails below the roof panel and fixed to a track of one of the upper rails with a fastener. A floor cross member can be located between the lower rails, and can be secured to the lower rails via a track and fastener.
US09764777B2
A different materials joint structure includes: an iron member; an aluminum member disposed on the iron member and integrally joined with the iron member; and a sealant disposed between the iron member and the aluminum member. The aluminum member includes a lateral edge section projecting outwardly from the iron member and extending downwardly, the lateral edge section and a surface of a lateral end of the iron member define a concave section therebetween, and the sealant protruding outwardly from a position between lateral sections of the iron member and the aluminum member is held in the concave section.
US09764776B2
An air and water management system for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The system includes an air opening allowing air to enter the engine room on a side of the motor vehicle, an engine cover covering at least one component associated with the engine of the motor vehicle, a rib extending from a top side of the engine cover creating a gutter on the engine cover between the rib and a side of the engine room, a water channel formed integrally in the engine cover adjacent and laterally inward of and parallel to the rib and including a drain longitudinally to the rear of the motor vehicle at a rearward portion of the water channel. Air entering the air opening flows over the rib and into the engine room of the motor vehicle. The rib blocks debris that enters the air opening from flowing into the engine room.
US09764750B1
A control apparatus mounted on a railcar including a plurality of wheelsets includes: a torque basic value setting portion configured to set a basic value of torque applied to each of the plurality of wheelsets; an adhesion determining portion configured to determine whether or not each of the plurality of wheelsets adheres to a rail; and a torque correcting portion configured to correct the basic value of the torque to obtain a corrected value that is smaller than the basic value. The plurality of wheelsets includes one or more specific wheelsets and one or more general wheelsets other than the specific wheelsets. The torque correcting portion calculates the corrected value of the torque, applied to the general wheelset, in accordance with a first rule and calculates the corrected value of the torque, applied to the specific wheelset, in accordance with a second rule different from the first rule.
US09764749B2
Method for communicating information between an on-board control unit and a public transport network
A method is provided for communicating at least one item of information between a first control unit on-board a first vehicle and a public transport network. The information is sent as a command from the first control unit to a first communication unit on board the first vehicle. The first communication unit establishes a transmission link outside the vehicle with a second communication unit connected to a module for executing the command. The second communication unit and the execution module are located on the ground. The first control unit controls the execution module on the ground in a governed slave mode for the command by a master mode of the first control unit.
US09764744B2
A yaw rate estimation system for a vehicle includes a control receiving inputs indicative of (i) a first yaw rate determined by a yaw rate sensor of the vehicle, (ii) a second yaw rate derived from ABS wheel sensors of the vehicle, (iii) a third yaw rate derived from a lateral acceleration of the vehicle and (iv) a fourth yaw rate derived from a steering wheel angle, wheel angle and rate of change of steering wheel angle. The control is operable to process the inputs to estimate the yaw rate of the vehicle, with the estimated yaw rate derived from the inputs.
US09764743B2
A method for measuring an engine load of a drive motor in a vehicle. Here, at least one parameter which characterizes the engine load is allocated a driving distance equivalent. This driving distance equivalent is then incremented by a driving distance counter. If the vehicle is equipped with a sailing functionality, the driven distance is counted only if the vehicle is moving and the drive train is coupled to the drive motor without slip. A rate of rotation sensor, a clutch sensor and a driving distance counter able to be switched on and off are required for running the method of the present invention. A computer program is used in addition.
US09764742B1
Historical vehicle telematics data, corresponding to trips known to have been driven by specific persons within a limited pool of potential drivers, may be processed to generate a statistical model that is customized for those persons. Once generated, the custom statistical model may be used to process vehicle telematics data from trips where it is known that the driver was one of the drivers in the pool of drivers, but the specific identify of the driver is not known. Because the statistical model is specifically optimized or designed to distinguish among the drivers in the pool, the model may be more accurate than universal driver identification models.
US09764741B2
A skill-scoring system suitable for use on an automated vehicle includes an accelerometer and a controller. The accelerometer is used to determine an acceleration-value experienced by an operator of a host-vehicle while the operator operates the host-vehicle in a manual-mode along a travel-path. The controller is in communication with the accelerometer. The controller is configured to determine a skill-score based on a comparison of the acceleration-value to an expected-acceleration that the operator would experience when the host-vehicle is operated in an automated-mode along the travel-path.
US09764718B2
A method, and associated system and computer program product, for managing braking of a moving vehicle. A speed and deceleration of the moving vehicle are monitored. External and/or internal conditions relating to the moving vehicle and/or the vehicle's driver are detected. A hardware processor: calculates a braking distance for the moving vehicle for the detected external and/or internal conditions from the monitored speed and deceleration of the moving vehicle; determines a spacing distance between the moving vehicle and a second vehicle ahead of the moving vehicle; adds a cascading response distance to the calculated braking distance for a third vehicle ahead of the second vehicle; and determines that the calculated braking distance is greater than the determined spacing distance. An output is generated in response to the determination that the calculated braking distance is greater than the obtained spacing distance.
US09764711B2
A vehicle pop-up hood device includes: a hinge base that is fixed to a vehicle body; a first arm that is pivotably connected to the hinge base; and a second arm that is fixed to a vehicle rear side end portion of a front hood and is pivotably connected to the first arm. Further, the vehicle pop-up hood device includes: an actuator that is provided between the first arm and the second arm, and that, by being operated, pivots the second arm with respect to the first arm; and a connecting portion that, at a time of completion of operation of the actuator, is set in an operating state in which the connecting portion restricts movement of the second arm with respect to the hinge base.
US09764703B2
An apparatus and method for replacing a power source element is provided. The apparatus includes a multiple compartment housing attached to a vehicle, power source elements, a controller, and a communications interface. The power source elements are placed within receptacles of the multiple compartment housing. Each power source element is electrically connected to an input power coupler for electrical connection to the vehicle such that each power source element is configured to supply power to the vehicle independently without requiring power supplied by any other power source element. The controller is configured to monitor a power level of each power source element and generate an associated power level reading. The communication interface is configured to retrieve each associated power level reading from the controller and to an external system.
US09764697B1
A heat shield for a motor vehicle includes an elongated planar shield body for separating an exhaust pipe and a fuel tank of the motor vehicle, the shield body extending longitudinally along a longitudinal axis between the exhaust pipe and the fuel tank, the shield body having a generally concave surface extending from the axis to first and second vertical walls along first and second edges of the shield body, a forward attachment portion for attaching the shield body to a frame of the motor vehicle longitudinally forward of the fuel tank, a rearward attachment portion for attaching the shield body to the frame of the motor vehicle longitudinally rearward of the fuel tank, and a water escape port in the first vertical wall.
US09764695B2
At the inner side adhesion portion 28, a portion of the inner side vertical wall portion 22 is formed so as to be recessed to an inner side. An inclination angle θ2 of the inner side adhesion portion 28 with respect to a vehicle up-and-down direction is set to be greater than an inclination angle θ1 of the inner side vertical wall portion 22. At the outer side adhesion portion 38, a portion of the outer side vertical wall portion 32 is formed so as to be recessed to the inner side. An inclination angle θ4 of the outer side adhesion portion 38 with respect to the vehicle up-and-down direction is set to be greater than an inclination angle θ3 of the outer side vertical wall portion 32.
US09764690B2
The present invention relates to a self-propelled ground milling machine, comprising a drive engine arranged in an engine compartment and an engine compartment enclosure which covers the engine compartment at least partly to the sides and to the top. A part of the engine compartment enclosure is a cover which is adjustable between a covering position and a maintenance position. At the same time, a maintenance platform is provided which is movable between a stowage position and a maintenance position. When the maintenance platform is in the maintenance position, an operator standing on the floor surface of the maintenance platform can carry out maintenance work in the engine compartment of the self-propelled ground milling machine. The self-propelled ground milling machine preferably is a road milling machine, more particularly a large milling machine, a surface miner, a stabilizer or a recycler.
US09764685B2
A frame member of an instrument cluster assembly. The frame member includes a base portion, a first wing extending from a first side of the base portion, and a second side of the base portion that is opposite to the first side. A display overlapping portion extends from the base portion between the first side and the second side, and is configured to be mounted to a display area of a dial sheet that the frame member is coupled to. The first wing is configured to restrict bending of the dial sheet that the frame member is coupled to.
US09764683B2
A headlamp device for a motor vehicle includes a segmented light source, which has individually deactivatable light source segments for generating a glare-free main beam with the aid of an automatic dimming system. The headlamp device is configured such that one or more regions in the main beam distribution of the headlamp device can be suppressed selectively by deactivating individual light source segments. Each light source segment in the activated state lights up a main beam segment region with a respectively preset width in the main beam distribution of the headlamp. The width of the main beam segment region is preset in the main beam segment region depending on an expected average dynamic of objects to avoid dazzling under normal traffic conditions.
US09764680B2
A light fixture for a vehicle with a foldable roll-over protection structure includes a light and a linkage assembly coupling the light to a portion of the vehicle. The light is operable to rotate relative to the vehicle concurrently with the foldable roll-over protection structure via the linkage assembly between a first position corresponding to an upright position of the foldable roll-over protection structure and a second position corresponding to a folded position of the foldable roll-over protection structure. An angular displacement of the light between the first position and the second position is less than an angular displacement of the foldable roll-over protection structure between the upright position and the folded position.
US09764674B2
A trailer having a trailer ramp system that includes a trailer ramp coupled with the trailer and an actuator pivotally coupled to the trailer on a first end of the actuator and pivotally coupled to the trailer ramp on a second end of the actuator. The actuator is located below the trailer and is aligned with a central axis of the trailer ramp and a central axis of the trailer. The actuator is movable linearly to rotate the trailer ramp between an open position and a closed position.
US09764671B2
A valve for a brake cooling system may include a body including a first and a second end, a first at least one radial passage, and a second at least one radial passage fluidly communicable with the first end. A first seat may be disposed within the body proximate the first end, while a plug may include a stop, a collar, and a first trunk disposed between the stop and the collar. The collar and the first trunk may be disposed in the body while an adapter may include a second seat, a head, and a second trunk disposed between the second seat and the head. The second seat and the second trunk may be disposed in the plug with a chamber, fluidly communicable with the adapter and the first at least one radial passage, being defined in the first trunk of the plug. An actuator may be slidably disposed in the chamber, and be in operative association with a biasing member. A poppet may be in operative association with the biasing member and the first seat.
US09764645B2
An electric vehicle includes a motor, an inverter, a battery, a cooler configured to cool the inverter, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute following when abnormality occurs to the cooler: i) set a vehicle speed, at which an induced voltage by the motor becomes at most equal to an input voltage that is input to the inverter from the battery side, as vehicle speed limit, and ii) control the motor such that the electric vehicle travels within a range of the vehicle speed limit.
US09764631B2
A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle which uses an engine and first and second motor/generators as power sources may include an input device having a first input shaft receiving either or both of torques of the engine and the first motor/generator and provided with a first driving gear disposed thereon, and a second input shaft disposed in parallel with the first input shaft, receiving a torque of the second motor/generator, and provided with a second driving gear disposed thereon, an output device including an output shaft provided with one driven gear engaged with the first driving gear, a second driven gear engaged with the second driving gear, and an output gear disposed thereon, and outputting torque transmitted from the input device, and a final reduction device outputting torque transmitted from the output device as driving torque.
US09764618B2
A system for providing efficient climate control in a vehicle. The system has an HVAC system configured to receive a user-defined temperature. The HVAC system has a cabin temperature sensor. The system has a controller coupled to the HVAC system and coupleable to a mobile device. The controller is programmed to (i) receive an estimated travel time of the vehicle from the mobile device and (ii) modify output of the HVAC system based on the travel time being below a time threshold.
US09764617B2
Embodiments of the invention provide air conditioning system for use in a motor vehicle, the air conditioning system comprising a controller, at least one primary vent and an air delivery apparatus for location in a dashboard of a motor vehicle, the apparatus comprising: at least one secondary vent; and means for moving the at least one secondary vent between a retracted position in which the at least one secondary vent lies rearward of an A surface of the dashboard and a deployed position in which the at least one secondary vent is exposed for delivery of air to a zone of the vehicle, the controller being operable to: control the air conditioning system to provide a flow of air from the at least one primary vent while the air delivery apparatus is in a retracted position; and control the at least one vent to assume the deployed position responsive to a demand for a flow of air from the at least one secondary vent.
US09764609B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for warming a tire of a driven wheel of a vehicle, in which the vehicle includes one or more driven wheels and one or more non-driven wheels. The method includes determining a range of a transmission associated with the vehicle and determining a position of a throttle pedal associated with an engine of the vehicle. Based on the determined range of the transmission and the determined position of the throttle pedal, the method includes outputting one or more control signals to apply a braking force to the one or more non-driven wheels of the vehicle and outputting one or more control signals to drive the one or more driven wheels to warm the tire of the one or more driven wheels.
US09764607B2
Disclosed is a device for attaching a sensor for a TPMS. The device for attaching a sensor for a TPMS includes: a module housing including a sensor module for a TPMS; a binding unit including a wire that is long enough to be wrapped on a wheel circumference portion of a vehicle and a rotation shaft installed in the module housing to wind or unwind the wire by a normal/reverse rotation; an engaging and fixing unit including an engaged groove and an engaged protrusion formed to generate an engaging and contacting force while being able to control an unwinding rotation corresponding to the rotation shaft of the binding unit; and a rotation unit disposed to rotate the rotation shaft of the binding unit and formed to release an engaging and contacting state of the engaging and fixing unit in connection with the rotating.
US09764606B2
Ultrasonic transmitting elements in an electroacoustical transceiver transmit acoustic energy to an electroacoustical transponder, which includes ultrasonic receiving elements to convert the acoustic energy into electrical power for the purposes of powering one or more sensors that are electrically coupled to the electroacoustical transponder. The electroacoustical transponder transmits data collected by the sensor(s) back to the electroacoustical transceiver wirelessly, such as through impedance modulation or electromagnetic waves. A feedback control loop can be used to adjust system parameters so that the electroacoustical transponder operates at an impedance minimum. An implementation of the system can be used to collect data in a vehicle, such as the tire air pressure.
US09764597B2
An agricultural tire has an equatorial plane separating first and second sides. First and second inner sixths of the treads extend between the equatorial plane and circumferential reference planes disposed axially one-sixth of a tread width on either side of the equatorial plane. First and second middle sixths of the tread extend between inner circumferential planes and middle circumferential reference planes one-sixth of the tread width from the inner circumferential reference planes. Outer sixths extend between the middle circumferential reference planes and outer circumferential reference planes disposed one-sixth of the tread width from the middle planes. Net tread volume ratio is approximately 40 percent, where between 36 and 39 percent of lug volume is in the inner sixths, between 32 to 35 percent in the middle sixths, and 27 to 30 percent in the outer sixths of the tread.
US09764582B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet holding unit, a sheet conveying unit configured to convey a plurality of sheets one by one onto the sheet holding unit during sheet processing, wherein the plurality of sheets includes a first sheet and a second sheet that is conveyed immediately after the first sheet, an adhesive applying unit configured to apply an adhesive material on the first sheet held on the sheet holding unit before the second sheet is conveyed onto the first sheet, and a pressing unit configured to press the second sheet against the first sheet after the second sheet is conveyed onto the first sheet.
US09764579B2
The present invention aims principally to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can prevent occurrence of fusion between a receiving layer and a transfer layer and occurrence of peeling traces when the transfer layer is peeled from the receiving layer, even in the case that thermal energy applied on transfer of the transfer layer is increased and can obtain a high quality printed article and to provide a protective layer transfer sheet that can impart extremely good scratch resistance to the surface of a printed article. The protective layer transfer sheet includes a substrate, and a transfer layer provided on a surface of the substrate, and the transfer layer includes a binder resin and one or more substances selected from the group consisting of phosphoric acid esters, olefin-maleic acid copolymers, and amino polyether-modified silicone oils.
US09764571B2
A device for feeding sheets to a digital sheet-processing machine includes a feed drum for transporting the sheets to the printing machine. At least two transport paths are provided to convey the sheets to be processed to the feed cylinder in at least two different positions from where the sheets are taken over by a gripper device of the feed cylinder and accelerated to processing speed. A digital sheet-fed printing machine having the device is also provided.
US09764567B2
There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a transporting roller; a driven roller provided opposite the transporting roller to sandwich the recording medium between the driven roller and the transporting roller, while moving in an approaching-departing direction based on a thickness of the recording medium; a first biasing member biasing the driven roller to the transporting roller; a platen; a recording portion configured to jet ink droplets from nozzles; and a cooperative portion moving along with the movement of the driven roller in the approaching-departing direction to move the platen.
US09764555B2
An inkjet printer includes a cap to forma sealed space between the cap and a nozzle surface when attached to an ink head so as to cover the nozzle surface, a cleaning solution tank to accommodate a cleaning solution to clean the cap, a motor to cause the cap to move between a capping position, at which the cap covers the nozzle surface, and a cleaning position, at which the cap sinks in the cleaning solution accommodated in the cleaning solution tank.
US09764553B2
A head unit includes: a base extended in a first direction; a first head which is fixed to the base and includes a first nozzle plate; a second head which is fixed to the base, includes a second nozzle plate, and is configured to form dots in a line in the first direction with the first head; a first corrector configured to adjust arrangement of the first head with respect to the base, and disposed at a first side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction with respect to the first head; and a second corrector configured to adjust arrangement of the second head with respect to the base, and disposed at a second side opposite to the first side in the second direction with respect to the second head. The first and second nozzle plates are disposed between the first and second correctors in the second direction.
US09764551B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an ink-jet head is provided which comprises a substrate; a piezoelectric body configured to have a plurality of parallel partition walls at the same pitch interval in the nozzle arrangement direction on the substrate and be plurally arranged in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle arrangement direction; a frame body configured to be arranged on the substrate at the outside of the piezoelectric body; and a nozzle plate configured to have a plurality of discharge openings which is formed by shifting by a half pitch in the nozzle arrangement direction in each row of pressure chambers formed with plural rows by the frame body and a plurality of the partition walls and is respectively formed in the orthogonal direction at a pitch identical to the pitch in each the pressure chamber.
US09764546B2
There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus, including: a drive element configured to apply discharge energy to the liquid to discharge the liquid; signal generators configured to generate a plurality of types of drive signals having mutually different waveforms to drive the drive element; and drive switches electrically located between the signal generators and the drive element to correspond to the plurality of types of drive signals respectively. The drive switches include a first drive switch and a second drive switch which are different in ON-resistance.
US09764531B2
A method is disclosed for producing an electronic component including at least two functional layers. One of the functional layers has channels, open towards the other functional layer, which run inwards from one edge of the functional layer. Further, an adhesive which contacts the adjacent functional layers is located in at least one of the channels, and a hardening of the adhesive is effected by introducing UV radiation via the channels. Furthermore an electronic component is also disclosed, including at least two adjacent functional layers adhesively bonded together in sandwich-like fashion, wherein at least one of the functional layers has channels which extend inwards from at least one edge of the functional layer and an adhesive hardened by UV radiation is arranged in the channels. A detector element of a radiation detector including such an electronic component and a radiation detector having such a detector element are also disclosed.
US09764526B2
A machine for forming a container from a blank of sheet material is provided. The blank includes a reinforcing panel assembly for forming a reinforcing corner assembly. The machine includes a hopper station for storing the blank in a substantially flat configuration and a forming station for forming the blank into the container. The forming station includes an initial forming station that rotates a first portion of the reinforcing panel assembly with respect to a second portion of the reinforcing panel assembly, and a secondary forming station having male and female forming members with shapes corresponding to an interior shape and an exterior shape of the reinforcing corner assembly, respectively. The male and the female forming members are configured to form the reinforcing corner assembly by compressing together the first and second portions of the reinforcing panel assembly.
US09764524B2
A blank of sheet material for forming a polygonal container is provided. The blank includes a bottom panel, two opposing side panels, two opposing end panels, and a reinforcing panel assembly extending from a first side edge of a first end panel of the two end panels. The reinforcing panel assembly includes a corner panel extending from the first side edge of the first end panel, a first reinforcing side panel extending from a side edge of the corner panel, a second reinforcing side panel extending from a side edge of the first reinforcing side panel, a reinforcing corner panel extending from a side edge of the second reinforcing side panel, and an inner end panel extending from a side edge of the reinforcing corner panel. The corner panel and the reinforcing corner panel are configured, upon articulation of the blank, to be positioned into face-to-face relationship to form a corner wall of the container extending from a side edge of an end wall of the container to an end edge of a side wall of the container.
US09764519B2
A device for the production of structural components from a fiber composite material, the components being three-dimensionally arched over a large surface, including a jig having a convex mounting surface having receiving channels for the insertion of structural components, wherein the loaded jig interacts with a laminating bonding device having a corresponding shape for forming the structural component under pressure, wherein the mounting surface includes a plurality of individually elastically deformable mounting shell parts arranged adjacent to each other along at least one longitudinally extending pitch line and attached to a plurality of elastically deformable supporting frame elements extending on the interior of the shell at a right angle to the pitch line, and a plurality of actuators for deforming the mounting surface between an extended position (A) and at least one retracted position (B) to move the jig from the bonding device relative to the receiving channels without undercuts.
US09764513B2
The invention relates to a method for the construction of a shaped body from photopolymerizable material by using lithography-based generative production, in which a layer of liquid photopolymerizable material is defined on a production platform, and is polymerized in an exposure region having a predetermined contour, a further layer of photopolymerizable material is defined, the layer defined last is polymerized in an exposure region having a predetermined contour for the layer defined last, and the latter two steps are repeated until a shaped body having a predetermined shape has been formed by the sequence of cured layers with contours predetermined layer by layer, each exposure in an exposure region having a predetermined contour being carried out by controlled activation of individual exposure elements in a two-dimensional array of exposure elements, each exposure element being assigned an image element, wherein the exposure of the exposure region is carried out by a common light source and by a two-dimensional light intensity modulator which is illuminated by the light source and which has a grid of individually controllable intensity modulators, in such a way that each illuminated intensity modulator forms and exposure element that exposes an image element in the exposure region, wherein a two-dimensional matrix is compiled for each exposure step of a layer, each element of the matrix being assigned to an exposure element in the array of exposure elements and control instructions for this exposure element being obtained in the form of a time-dependent function which individually establishes the intensity profile of the radiation of the exposure element over the exposure step, characterized in that, if a component of the intensity variation common to all time-dependent function of the intensity profiles of all exposure elements to be activated exists as a general intensity variation in an exposure step, this general intensity variation is carried out by controlling the intensity of the light source in accordance with the general intensity variation.
US09764512B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for starting a strip material in a substrate processing machine wherein the machine is not stopped and/or operators do not have to reach into the running machine to start the strip material. Exemplary systems include a strip material guide apparatus including at least one guide arm and at least one gas stream generator configured to direct strip material from the guide arm into a substrate processing machine to join the strip material with one or more running substrates. The gas stream generator is operable to cause a leading end of a strip material dispensed from the guide arm to be conveyed via a gas stream toward the running substrates, such that the leading end of the strip material becomes engaged by the substrate processing machine and the strip material joins with the running substrate.
US09764507B2
A method for manufacturing a plastic fuel tank including: a) inserting a plastic parison including two distinct parts into an open two-cavity mold; b) inserting a core, bearing at least part of a reinforcing element configured to create a link between the two parison parts, inside the parison; c) pressing the parison firmly against the mold cavities, for example by blowing through the core and/or creating suction behind the cavities; d) fixing the part of the reinforcing element to at least one of the parison parts using the core; e) withdrawing the core; f) closing the mold, bringing its two cavities together to grip the two parison parts around their periphery to weld them together; g) injecting a pressurized fluid into the mold and/or creating a vacuum behind the mold cavities to press the parison firmly against the mold cavities; and h) opening the mold and extracting the tank.
US09764504B2
An injection molding machine is provided with a signal lamp capable of displaying an operation state of the injection molding machine, and the signal lamp is elevated by operating an elevation unit attached to the injection molding machine. When the signal lamp is moved downward, it is possible to prevent a carrying object passing above the signal lamp from colliding with or contacting the signal lamp.
US09764493B2
A method for trimming a rectangular container and an apparatus trimming a rectangular container are provided, by which an appropriate cut surface with a possible crack or burr suppressed can be obtained when a rectangular container is trimmed. When a punch cutter is initially allowed to cut into a rectangular tubular portion of an untrimmed rectangular container, the punch cutter is inclined relative to a thickness direction of a cut area of the rectangular tubular portion, and then, the punch cutter is circumferentially moved along a trim line on the rectangular tubular portion to cut the rectangular tubular portion.
US09764486B2
A power tool includes a housing, a motor positioned within the housing, a drive mechanism coupled to the motor and positioned within the housing, and a shear head rotatably mounted to the housing and coupled to the drive mechanism. The power tool also includes a manually-operable actuator supported by the housing. The actuator is movable between a first position, in which the shear head is held stationary relative to the housing, and a second position, in which the shear head is rotatable relative to the housing.
US09764485B1
A knife include a handle, button, blade with an integral tang, locking mechanism within the tang, and thrust mechanism. The blade moves between closed and open positions. The button may axially slide along the handle. When the blade is in the closed position and locked, movement of the button towards the first handle end releases the locking mechanism and the thrust mechanism moves the blade to the open position. A knife includes a stop pin connected to a tang of a blade and a stop plate positioned within a knife handle. The stop plate has two angled surfaces. The stop pin mates with both angled surfaces and the blade is constrained from movement in two planes.
US09764482B2
An industrial robot with parallel kinematics comprises a robot base, a carrier element for receiving a gripper, a tool or a machine element, at least two moveable actuating units, which are connected at their one end to actuating unit drives arranged on the robot base and of which the other ends are moveably connected to the carrier element, a first rotational axis, which is designed as a hollow body and which has a continuous cavity running in the axial direction, a first rotational axis drive, which is arranged on the robot base and which generates a first torque and transmits it to the first rotational axis, a second rotational axis, which is arranged at least partially in the first rotational axis, a second rotational axis drive, which is arranged on the robot base and which generates a second torque and transmits it to the second rotational axis.
US09764475B2
A robot system and a method, by which a robot can effectively and sequentially take out a plurality of randomly located workpieces, while avoiding interference by a simple calculation. A first detection coordinate system for determining the motion of the robot is defined on the lateral surface of the workpiece. The first detection coordinate system is translated by a predetermined distance in the negative direction of a Z-axis, and then an X-Z plane is rotated about an X-axis of the workpiece so that the X-Z plane is perpendicular to an X-Y plane of a robot coordinate system, whereby a work coordinate system is obtained. Next, the work coordinate system is rotated about the X-axis by a target angle, and then is translated by a distance corresponding to a radius of the workpiece in the positive direction of the Z-axis, whereby a second detection coordinate system is obtained and output.
US09764473B1
The disclosure relates to a system and/or method to create or otherwise define one or more virtual barriers for confining or controlling an autonomous robotic device substantially within one or more portion of one or more selected working areas, for example, to prohibit entrance of certain areas. The system and/or method may use a set of beacon transmitters that emit time-stamped signals, which are received by one or more robots and used to calculate the robotic device's distance from such beacons.
US09764472B1
Methods for automated robotic movement for a robotic device using an electronic computing device are presented, the methods including: causing the electronic computing device to establish a working zone; measuring distances to all obstacles in the working zone thereby detecting all obstacles in the working zone; establishing a coverage path that accounts for all detected obstacles; executing the coverage path such the robotic device covers the working zone at least once; if a new obstacle is detected, establishing an adapted coverage path that accounts for the new obstacle; and executing the adapted coverage path. In some embodiments, methods further include: bypassing the new obstacle; and returning to the coverage path.
US09764470B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for selectively deploying robots to performing mapping based on added cost. In various implementations, a measure of interest in mapping an area of an environment may be determined. A cost associated with a robot performing a task may also be determined. Then, an added cost associated with the robot mapping the area of the environment while performing the task may be determined. The robot may be selectively deployed to map the area while performing the task in response to a determination that the measure of interest justifies the added cost.
US09764464B2
A robot includes an actuator assembly, first and second parallel telescoping lead screw assemblies cantilevered from the actuator assembly, and an end effector supported by ends of the lead screw assemblies. The actuator assembly causes each lead screw assembly to independently deploy and retract.
US09764461B2
The present invention is to provide an industrial robot, which is placed in vacuum for use, capable of efficiently cooling down hand- or arm-driving motors which are arranged inside the arm in air. The industrial robot is provided with a motor for rotating a second arm unit with respect to a first arm unit, a motor for rotating a hand with respect to the second arm unit, a reduction gear for reducing the rotation of the motor and transmitting it to the second arm unit, and a reduction gear for reducing the rotation of the motor and transmitting it to the hand; the hand and the arm are placed in vacuum. The reduction gears and are coaxially arranged so that the center of rotation of the second arm unit with respect to the first arm unit coincides with the axial centers of the reduction gears. The interior space of the hollow first arm unit is kept at atmospheric pressure in which the motors and the reduction gears are arranged.
US09764460B2
Disclosed is a tool holder for releasingly holding an air tool. The holder comprises a housing comprising at least one horizontal tool track, each of which for slidably receiving the stepped annular spout of the tool therewithin through a track point, the housing adapted to be secured to a vertical surface about the rear thereof, which is perpendicular to the track, and at least one hinge member hingedly secured within the housing such that, the at least one hinge member is angularly movable between an open and a closed position, the at least one hinged member biased towards the closed position. Each of the at least one hinge member comprises at least one blocker, each of which for blocking and unblocking the track point in the closed and open positions respectively.
US09764452B2
A method and a device are disclosed which seek to improve productivity of the installation of fasteners. This improved productivity is achieved by holding a fastener to a driving tool with a mechanical means for a substantial portion of an installation sequence to prevent nuisance disengagement between fasteners and their driving means including dropping of fasteners early in an installation cycle. The productivity of this fastener holding approach is best realized by allowing a streamlined operation with little interaction between the fastener driving device and an operator. Specifically, a fastener installation device is described which requires no direct manipulation of said device during the sequence of loading a fastener into said device, installation of said fastener with said device, disengagement of said device from said fastener to allow complete installation of said fastener, and loading a subsequent fastener.
US09764447B2
A sleeve may be configured to secure an airfoil cluster for polishing. The sleeve may include a mock airfoil and a bypass flow path between the mock airfoil and an end wall of the sleeve. The sleeve may be positioned in an annular ring of sleeves in a polishing apparatus. The polishing apparatus may comprise an annular flow path for an abrasive fluid. The abrasive fluid may be flowed through the annular ring of sleeves in order to polish the airfoil cluster.
US09764446B2
The invention suppresses generation of noises attributable to rotation of a rotary joint. A rotary joint includes a rotating body that rotates on a rotating axis A, a housing disposed so as to surround the rotating body, and at least one bearing disposed between the rotating body and the housing and adapted to support rotation of the rotating body. The rotary joint supplies fluids through fluid connection ports formed in the housing and fluid passages formed inside the rotating body to a polishing table having attached thereto a polishing pad for polishing a substrate or a holding portion that is adapted to hold the substrate while pressing the substrate against the polishing pad. At least one elastic member is interposed at least either between the rotating body and the at least one bearing or between the housing and the at least one bearing.
US09764444B2
A power tool has a driving shaft for driving a working element and a clamping device for clamping the working element. The clamping device has a clamping position in which the working element may be fixed relative to the driving shaft and a release position in which the working element can be removed from the driving shaft. An operating member is coupled to the clamping device for moving the clamping device between positions. The clamping device also has a rotating position in which the working element can be rotated by an angle relative to the driving shaft and the operating member has an operating position that corresponds to the rotating position.
US09764442B2
There are provided a cutting/polishing tool that may be readily manufactured and have an improved cutting performance, and a manufacturing method thereof.The method for manufacturing the cutting/polishing tool including at least one cutting/polishing body may comprise preparing a tool body, and forming a cladding layer including cutting material particles by spraying, onto an outer surface of the tool body, the cutting material particles and a metal powder having a specific gravity greater than a specific gravity of the cutting material particles while heating the outer surface of the tool body using a heating device installed in a lower side of the outer surface of the tool body so that the metal powder is deposited on the outer surface of the tool body, wherein the cladding layer configures the at least one cutting/polishing body.
US09764438B2
A magnetic base for coupling a drill press to a ferromagnetic workpiece includes a ferromagnetic body having spaced, substantially parallel first and second rails. Each of the first and second rails includes a flat bottom surface engageable with the ferromagnetic workpiece. A coil is positioned between the first and second rails for generating a holding force on the ferromagnetic workpiece. The coil defines a central axis that is parallel with the bottom surface of each of the first and second rails.
US09764434B2
A generator assembly apparatus is provided for merging a first annular component and a second annular component of a generator. The generator assembly apparatus includes first and second component support frames, a moving device and an adjustment device. The first component support frame supports the first component securely mounted to the first component support frame. The second component support frame supports the second component securely mounted to the second component support frame. The moving device moves one component support frame relative to the other component support frame to merge the components by inserting one component at least partially into an interior region of the other component. The adjustment device adjusts a position of a support frame such that a pre-defined separation between the first component and the second component is maintained during merging.
US09764431B2
A system and apparatus for providing a temporary electrical bonding/grounding connection between a first conductive member and a second conductive member. The apparatus includes an electrically conductive cable having first and second ends. At least one magnet assembly is provided for mounting to the first conductive member. The at least one magnet assembly has multiple arcuate surfaces of different radiuses of curvature, with respective surfaces of the multiple arcuate surfaces being configured to properly mount to a respective arcuate surface of the first conductive member. A conductive coupling is provided on the at least one magnet assembly. The conductive coupling is configured to be electrically coupled to the first end of the cable. The second end of the cable is configured to be detachably and electrically coupled to the second conductive member.
US09764429B2
The present invention provides a flux-cored welding wire comprising a shell having a tubular cavity, which accommodates flux. The shell is made of 400 series stainless steels. The deposited metal formed after the welding using the flux-cored welding wire of the present invention has more uniform chemical compositions. Because the loss of chromium during the transition to the deposited metal is less than 0.1%, recourses is saved and welding cost is reduced. The filling ratio of the flux-cored welding wire of the present invention is 5%-25% (preferably 10%-20%). As a result, not only the stability of the compositions in the flux is increased, but also the disadvantages to the manufacture process caused by high filling ratio are avoided. The flux-cored welding wire of the present invention will not be rusty even after it is exposed to the air for a long time.
US09764427B2
Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may include cutting a part from a hard dielectric material using a continuous wave laser operating in a quasi-continuous wave (QCW) mode to emit consecutive laser light pulses in a wavelength range of about 1060 nm to 1070 nm. Cutting using a QCW laser may be performed with a lower duty cycle (e.g., between about 1% and 15%) and in an inert gas atmosphere such as nitrogen, argon or helium. Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may further include post-cut processing the cut edges of the part cut from the dielectric material, for example, by beveling and/or polishing the edges to reduce edge defects. The post-cut processing may be performed using a laser beam with different laser parameters than the beam used for cutting, for example, by using a shorter wavelength (e.g., 193 nm excimer laser) and/or a shorter pulse width (e.g., picosecond laser).
US09764426B2
The present disclosure is directed toward a machine tool configured to perform small-scale, high-accuracy drilling operations for small-hole applications. The small-hole applications for which the machine tool is designed includes holes with one or more diameters. A part may have a larger-diameter hole that penetrates through a fraction of the thickness of a part and a smaller-diameter hole that penetrates from the bottom of the larger-diameter hole through the remainder of the part thickness. Additionally, the machine tool may be used with parts in any of the following categories: (i) both the step-hole and the flow-hole are created using the machine tool; or, (ii) the step-hole is created with an up-stream process and the machine tool may accept the part, measure the step-holes and create the flow-holes; or, (iii) no step-hole is used and the machine tool may accept the part, measure the raw surface and create the flow-holes.
US09764425B2
A tool for forming a shaped product has a support body that is fabricated from a first material, such as for instance cast iron. The first material defines a first portion of a forming surface of the tool and has a feature supported thereon. The feature has a layer of a second material that is supported on the first material of the support body, a layer of a third material that is supported on the layer of the second material and a layer of a fourth material that is supported on the layer of the third material. The layer of the fourth material, such as for instance a tool steel alloy, defines a second portion of the forming surface of the tool. During use the first portion of the forming surface and the second portion of the forming surface cooperate to form a desired shape of the shaped product.
US09764423B2
The invention refers to a method for manufacturing a hybrid component including the following steps of manufacturing a preform as a first part of the hybrid component, then successively building up on that preform a second part of the component from a metallic powder material by means of an additive manufacturing process by scanning with an energy beam, thereby establishing a controlled grain orientation in primary and in secondary direction of at least a part of the second part of the component. The controlled secondary grain orientation is realized by applying a specific scanning pattern of the energy beam, which is aligned to the cross section profile of the component or to the local load conditions for the component.
US09764414B2
A spot welding system includes a position detection part which detects the position of a movable arm, a first calculation part which calculates the combined spring constant of the movable arm and a fixed arm based on a position when the movable arm is driven by a predetermined drive force and the drive force, a second calculation part which calculates the spring constant of the movable arm based on a position when the movable arm is driven by a predetermined drive force and the drive force, a third calculation part which calculates the spring constant of the fixed arm based on the combined spring constant and the spring constant of the movable arm, and an elastic displacement calculation part which calculates an amount of elastic displacement of the fixed arm based on the spring constant of the fixed arm and a drive force when welding is performed.
US09764404B2
An erosion device and a corresponding method are disclosed for machining a hollow-cylindrical workpiece, wherein the device is elongated and/or formed in the manner of a tube or cylinder and is characterized in that at least two rotationally acting drives (A1, A2), each with a drive shaft (AW1, AW2), and also an erosion electrode (E), interacting with the drives (A1, A2) and formed in the manner of a ring or disc, are provided. The drives (A1, A2) and the electrode (E) are adapted in size and extent to the internal diameter of the workpiece (W) to be machined, so that the device can be introduced into the respective hollow-cylindrical workpiece (W) and can be positioned at the location respectively to be machined or the region to be machined in the workpiece (W), and the erosion electrode (E) can be pivoted or can be rotated by a coupled pivoting or rotating movement of the at least two drives (A1, A2).
US09764395B2
A corner radius end mill includes a blended gash extending along a cutting edge. The blended gash is formed in a corner sector of the end mill. The corner sector has a first half-sector and a second half-sector defined on opposite sides of an imaginary bisection line of the corner sector, the first and second half-sectors subtending equal angles about the imaginary bisection line. The blended gash extends from a first extremity and blends an end gash surface and flute rake surface of the corner radius end mill. The blended gash is spaced from a radial tangent point by a predetermined distance, and extends to a second extremity which is spaced apart from the axial line and the second half-sector.
US09764394B2
A rotary cutting tool includes a cutter body having a head, a shank, and a cavity extending along a central, longitudinal axis of the cutter body. The head includes at least one cutting insert mounted in a pocket adjacent to a chip groove. A stiffening device includes a plurality of slugs with high compressive strength disposed within the cavity, and a first compression screw threaded into a rearward end of the cutting tool. In another embodiment, a second compression screw is threaded into a forward end of the cutter body. In another embodiment, each slug includes a coolant hole, circumferential grooves and axial grooves on its outer diameter, and a plurality of radial grooves on each end, and the first compression screw has a coolant hole for allowing coolant to pass therethrough.
US09764393B2
Implementations of key blank carriers or key blanks with a standard reference features may include alignment features on a key blank head, key blank tip, a key blank carrier coupled to a key blank sleeve and/or a key blank sleeve, and any feature directly attached to any portion of the key that may be used for referencing in the key duplication system, or any combination of these. The standard reference features may allow any key blank brand model to interface with the machine so as to consistently align each key, regardless of its make and model, for cutting in a universally configured key blank clamp that is clamped to reduce the movement of the key blank during duplication cutting.
US09764389B2
A cutting tool including an insert and a holder to which the insert is secured. The insert has a rod with a substantially circular transverse cross-section. The insert includes a shank portion and a cutting edge portion. The cutting edge portion is located at an end portion continuous with the shank portion. In the cutting edge portion, one end of a cutting edge ridge protrudes toward the periphery of the rod. When the insert is secured to the holder, the cutting edge ridge has a negative radial rake angle.
US09764386B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for creating a multiple alloy composite structure by forming a three-dimensional arrangement of a first alloy composition in which the three-dimensional arrangement has a substantially open and continuous porosity. The three-dimensional arrangement of the first alloy composition is infused with at least a second alloy composition, where the second alloy composition comprises a shape memory alloy. The three-dimensional arrangement is consolidated into a fully dense solid structure, and the original shape of the second alloy composition is set for reversible transformation. Strain is applied to the fully dense solid structure, which is treated with heat so that the shape memory alloy composition becomes memory activated to recover the original shape. An interwoven composite of the first alloy composition and the memory-activated second alloy composition is thereby formed in the multiple alloy composite structure.
US09764383B2
A method bonds a first member to a second member. The method provides a first member having a bonding surface. A second member is molded from a metal material so as to have a surface constructed and arranged to be bonded to the bonding surface. The surface of the second member is laser trimmed to remove material and to remove byproducts, resulting from molding the second member, from the surface of the second member to thereby define a clean, laser trimmed surface of the second member. A sealant is provided between and in contact with the bonding surface and the clean, laser trimmed surface. The sealant is permitted to cure to thereby bond the first member to the second member.
US09764373B2
It is a subject to provide a workpiece conveying device capable of linearly conveying a workpiece with a light-weight and simple configuration. The present invention is a workpiece conveying device 100 for conveying a workpiece W, the workpiece conveying device 100 comprising a main body portion 10; a rail portion 1 mounted to an upper portion of the main body portion 10; a guide portion 1a slidable along the rail portion 1; an arm 3 in which a first pivotally attaching portion 3b at the upper end thereof is pivotally attached to the guide portion 1a; a holding means 4 which is mounted to a second shall 3a at a lower end of the arm 3 and which can hold the workpiece W; an auxiliary arm 20 mounted to a first shaft 2b of the main body portion 10 to be rotatable; a slider portion 2a slidable along the auxiliary arm 20; and servomotors for driving the auxiliary arm 20, wherein a second pivotally attaching portion 3c at approximately a center of the arm 3 is pivotally attached to the slider portion 2a.
US09764372B2
The present invention relates to a method for the punching in and attachment of the fastener element to a planar workpiece, in particular to a sheet metal part. During the punching in of the fastener element in the workpiece a movably arranged die plunger of the die button is pressed with a predetermined pressing force against the workpiece. The pressing force is adapted such that the die plunger first moves once a slug has been cut out of the workpiece by a piercing section of the fastener element.
US09764368B2
Disclosed is a rolling mill, in particular a rolling mill having more than one mill stand, comprising at least two rolls (30) which are mounted in a roll bearing in a mill stand to absorb rolling forces, further comprising means (40) for moving at least one roll relative to the mill stand as well as means (50) for determining the roll pass, the determining means having a pass reference (54) and a spatial reference (56) as well as means (58) for measuring the relative position between the pass reference and the spatial reference. In order to create a rolling mill that provides as accurate information as possible about the roll pass, the pass reference and/or the spatial reference is/are arranged peripherally in relation to the power flow occurring between the roll and the mill stand.
US09764362B2
The present invention comprises: a separation silo, a discharge silo, a upper sidewall of the separation silo communicated with the discharge silo through a communication port, wherein an air curtain is disposed in the communication port to isolate the silos from each other, a discharge port is disposed at the bottom of the discharge silo, a suction outlet is mounted on the top of the separation silo, a feeding port is disposed at the lower part of a sidewall of the separation silo, which is precisely facing towards the underside of the end of the belt conveyer, a vibration trough is arranged at the lower part of the separation silo, a damper plate is disposed underside thereof, an air inlet is located underbelly thereof at the bottom of the separation silo, a rejection outlet is installed at the underside end of the vibrating trough.
US09764354B2
Methods, processes, compositions and systems for preventing leaching effects from water pipes (such as lead, steel and copper) having an inner diameter of at least approximately 12 mm. 2-part thermoset resin coating is applied to the inner surfaces of the pipes where the curing agent can be a phenol free and plasticizer free adduct type. The coating can reduce heavy metals, such as lead, from leaching from installed pipes to less than approximately 10 μg/L (10 ppb). When cured, specific leachates, Bisphenol A and Epichlorohydrin from the coatings will be (less than) <1 μg/L (1 ppb) with overall TOC levels measured at (less than) <2.5 mg/L (2.5 ppm). Pipes can be returned to service within approximately 24 hours, and preferably within approximately 4 hours.
US09764348B2
The invention relates to an assembly, in particular a play fountain, comprising a floor (1), a plurality of nozzles (2), preferably a reservoir for a liquid, in particular water, or means to connect the assembly to a liquid supply, and a control system (3) for controlling one or more of the nozzles (2) during operation of the assembly. The floor (1) is assembled modularly.
US09764340B2
The sprinkler has a drive motor with a gear assembly with a drive gear that is engaged with the sun gear of the flow adapter. A motor housing has a gear train chamber for the gear assembly, and a first chamber and a second chamber each providing for a path of flow. A switching mechanism has a valve block for alternatingly blocking and establishing the path of flow through one of the first chamber and the second chamber of the motor housing. A water wheel alternating in rotation between a clockwise direction and a counter clockwise direction based on the path of flow from one of the first chamber and the second chamber of the motor housing and engaging the gear assembly to rotate the gear assembly back and forth around the sun gear of the flow adapter and simultaneously moving the oscillating nozzle.
US09764338B2
A nozzle adjustment member for a sprinkler is revealed. A plurality of nozzle tubes aligned in at least one row is positioned on a wall of a hollow pipe. A top end of the nozzle tube is projecting to an outside of the hollow pipe. At least one pivot support is disposed on the outside of the hollow pipe. Each pivot support is pivoted with an adjustment piece having a plurality of guiding openings. The guiding openings are positioned over the plurality of nozzle tubes correspondingly. A nozzle cover is connected with the outside of the hollow pipe for covering the adjustment piece. A plurality of long through holes for mounting the corresponding nozzle tubes is arranged at the nozzle cover. Around a pivot hole, the adjustment piece swings so as to drive the plurality of nozzle tubes moving at an angle and different water distribution patterns are provided.
US09764335B2
A system for extracting metals (e.g. precious metals or dangerous metals) from a substrate material such as sludge from a lake bed or sewage treatment facility includes processing the substrate material and metals by exposing the substrate material and metals to the plasma of an electric arc. Then, the exposed substrate material and metals are passed through an electrically charged collection grid in which the metals, now electrically charged, are attracted to the collection grid and hold to the collection grid and the substrate material exits the collection grid with less concentrations (or none) of the metals. In some embodiments, in addition to recovering the metals (e.g. precious metals, dangerous metals, etc.), a flammable gas is produced.
US09764332B2
An improved belt separator system and an improved method to separate particle mixtures based on triboelectric separation of particles is disclosed. One or more gas nozzles, for example, a plurality of gas nozzles are provided as part of the system or installed into a system, such as an existing system, to improve dispersal of particles during operation.
US09764325B2
A storage system for storing samples, such as frozen biological samples in RFID-tagged vials. The storage system has a plurality of lowest-level containers, such as sample boxes; a plurality of mid-level containers, such as shelves and racks; and a highest-level container, such as a mechanical freezer. Each lowest-level container receives a plurality of samples in a corresponding plurality of storage locations, each mid-level container receives two or more lowest-level containers, and the highest-level container receives the two or more mid-level containers. Each mid-level container and each lowest-level container has a corresponding indicator device. A controller sub-system tracks the locations of samples stored in the storage system. When a desired sample is to be retrieved from the storage system, the controller sub-system activates (a) the indicator device corresponding to the mid-level container containing the desired sample and (b) the indicator device corresponding to the lowest-level container containing the desired sample.
US09764319B2
The disclosure provides methods and kits for diagnosing the nutritional state of selenium, using six proteins as biomarkers for which the expression increases when the metabolic state is supra-nutritional.
US09764313B2
Described is a selective catalytic reduction material comprising a spherical particle including an agglomeration of crystals of a molecular sieve. The catalyst is a crystalline material that is effective to catalyze the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in the presence of a reductant at temperatures between 200° C. and 600° C. A method for selectively reducing nitrogen oxides and an exhaust gas treatment system are also described.
US09764312B2
Catalyst composition useful in the catalytic dewaxing of a waxy hydrocarbon feedstock which catalyst composition includes a mixture of zeolite EU-2 and titania and may further include a noble metal. The zeolite EU-2 has a molar bulk ratio of silica-to-alumina (SAR) of greater than 100:1. The zeolite or mixture may have been dealuminated such as by acid leaching using a fluorosilicate salt or by steam treating.
US09764310B2
An oxidation catalyst is described for treating an exhaust gas from a diesel engine, which oxidation catalyst comprises: a substrate; a first washcoat region disposed on the substrate, wherein the first washcoat region comprises a first platinum group metal (PGM) and a first support material; a second washcoat region adjacent to the first washcoat region, wherein the second washcoat region comprises a second platinum group metal (PGM) and a second support material; a third washcoat region disposed on the substrate, wherein the third washcoat region comprises a third platinum group metal (PGM) and a third support material; and wherein either: (i) the third washcoat region is adjacent to the second washcoat region; or (ii) the second washcoat region is disposed or supported on the third washcoat region. Also described are uses and methods involving the oxidation catalyst.
US09764308B2
To provide an oxygen-absorbing polyester resin composition which exhibits excellent oxygen-absorbing capability even in the absence of transition metal catalyst without affected by the glass transition temperature of a polyester resin that is contained as a base resin.The oxygen-absorbing polyester resin composition including a base resin (A) which is a polyester resin, an oxygen-absorbing component (B) which is a compound having an unsaturated alicyclic structure, and an oxidation promotion component (C) for promoting the oxidation of the oxygen-absorbing component (B), said oxidation promotion component (C) being a compound having a benzyl hydrogen.
US09764307B2
Described herein is a building panel comprising a substrate and an odor and VOC reducing coating applied to the substrate, the coating comprising a blend of a first component comprising ethylene urea; a second component comprising silica; and a rheology modifier.
US09764303B2
A method for manufacturing a detection device includes dispensing a plurality of reagent droplets of a detection reagent to a fiber substrate by a dispensing unit, and absorbing the plurality of reagent droplets by the fiber substrate to form the detection device having at least one detection pore. The dispensing unit includes two plastic sheets and a water retention substrate, the water retention substrate contains the detection reagent, and one of the two plastic sheets has at least one opening.
US09764300B2
A plant for refining raw materials containing organic constituents includes a reactor configured to receive raw materials; a furnace configured to receive solids and fuel from the reactor; a return conduit configured to recirculate hot solids generated in the furnace to the reactor; and a sealing device configured to separate an oxidizing atmosphere of the furnace from an atmosphere of the reactor. The sealing device includes: a downpipe disposed between the furnace and the reactor, the downpipe being configured to withdraw a stream of solids from the furnace; a rising pipe disposed near a bottom of the downpipe and branching off there from to a top, the rising pipe being configured to transport a fluidized stream of solids to the reactor; and a conveying gas supply disposed below the rising pipe, the conveying gas supply being configured to fluidize a stream of solids withdrawn from the furnace.
US09764292B2
Membranes comprising first and second microporous surfaces, and, a porous bulk between the surfaces, the bulk comprising first and second regions; the first region comprising a first set of pores having outer rims, and having controlled pore size, and a second set of pores connecting the outer rims of the first set of pores, the second set of pores having a controlled pore size, and a polymer matrix supporting the first set of pores; the second region comprising a third set of pores having outer rims, and having a controlled pore size, and a fourth set of pores connecting the outer rims of the third set of pores, the fourth set of pores having a controlled pore size, and a polymer matrix supporting the third set of pores; and methods of making and using the membranes, are disclosed.
US09764284B2
A batch composition for making a highly porous honeycomb ceramic catalytic filter article, including base inorganic components including a mixture of a nano-zeolite powder, and an inorganic filler, in amounts defined herein; and super additives including: a mixture of at least two pore formers; a binder; and a metal salt, in amounts defined herein. Also disclosed are extruded catalyst filter articles and methods for making the articles.
US09764282B2
An aftertreatment component for use in an exhaust aftertreatment system. The aftertreatment component comprises an aftertreatment substrate and a compressible material. The compressible material may be formed from a plastic thermoset, a rubberized material, or a metal foil which permits for the selective expansion of the substrate within the compressible material, while also reducing cost and manufacturing complexity. In various embodiments, the aftertreatment substrate and the compressible materials may be formed separately and coupled to each other, or they may be formed concurrently via coextrusion.
US09764280B2
A method for the reduction and prevention of mercury emissions into the environment from combusted fossil fuels or other off-gases with the use of hypobromite is disclosed. The hypobromite is used for the capture of mercury from the resulting flue gases using a flue gas desulfurization system or scrubber. The method uses hypobromite in conjunction with a scrubber to capture mercury and lower its emission and/or re-emission with stack gases. The method allows the use of coal as a cleaner and environmentally friendlier fuel source as well as capturing mercury from other processing systems.
US09764261B2
A suction filter for an automatic transmission utilizes two different types of filter media: a coarse filter media and a fine filter media. The two types of media are arranged in series within a housing such that fluid flows through only one of the two filter media. A hinge valve is arranged in series with the coarse media. The hinge valve passively opens in response to a pressure differential. The hinge valve defines a non-zero flow area when in the closed position and an increasing flow area as it opens. The flow restriction associated with the hinge valve permits a larger ratio of coarse media area to fine media, thereby decreasing the flow restriction when the oil is cold without decreasing the clean-up rate in normal operating conditions.
