US09767188B1
Systems may include receiving, from the user device, data representing input to a virtual keyboard on the user device, where the virtual keyboard includes keys, and the data represents least one of: locations at which the keys were selected and durations for which the keys were selected. The systems may include using the data to identify character strings; and performing a spellcheck on the character strings to identify candidates for the character strings. The systems may also include determining popularities of the candidates; selecting one or more of the candidates based on popularity and ranking of the one or more candidates; and outputting the selected one or more candidates.
US09767165B1
Provided is a process including: obtaining a corpus having a plurality of document collections, each of which is associated with features; for a given document collection, computing a pertinence score for each feature; ranking the features based on the features' pertinence scores; selecting a first set of features based on a first coverage score thereof and a threshold; re-ranking the first set of features based on the features' relevance to the document collection; and selecting a second set of features from the first set of features based on a second coverage score thereof and the threshold, the second set of features being used for summarizing the document collection.
US09767164B2
Data searching over a network is facilitated. A search request is received from a user device via the network. The search request includes information related to the user device. The search request is processed by identifying a context chain related to the user device based on information passed with the search request. The context chain is an array of contexts. Contexts are added to and subtracted from the context chain dependent upon communications received from the user device. The search request is responded to by providing at least one search result to the user device. The search result is obtained from at least one context in the plurality of contexts.
US09767148B2
Excess capacity of a database system can be used for learning activities in a controlled computing environment. In this context, excess capacity of a database system can be used as needed and/or on a temporary basis. Furthermore, learning activities can be performed without requiring the use of the capacity that is configured or has been allotted for various other database operations, including those deemed, especially by the users of database system, to serve a main function or a more important purpose. As a result, learning can be performed without adversely affecting other operations deemed to be more critical, especially by the users of databases. Learning activities associated with a database environment can, for example, include learning operations directed to optimization of database queries, for example, by using a basic feedback or an expanded or active learning.
US09767144B2
A search system that automatically generates questions to refine an underspecified query. The system may generate questions even for queries against a database that contains unstructured textual descriptions of items, allowing the system to operate on a database of items that can be constructed inexpensively. The system extracts from the unstructured text combinations of words that may serve as a set of attribute values. The system uses a classifier to filter out attribute values from the set that would generate unanswerable questions. The remaining attribute values are ranked on their ability to narrow the search results and the highest ranking attribute value is used to generate a question to the user who submitted the query. The response to the question narrows the search results, and the process can be repeated iteratively until the search results are sufficiently narrow.
US09767142B2
Functionality is described herein for presenting representations of the z most recently presented items. The functionality also presents indicators which convey the presentation modes that were last used to present the z items. When the user selects one of the z items, the functionality presents it, as a default, using the last-used presentation mode, as conveyed by the indicator associated with this item. In one particular case, the last-used presentation mode corresponds to a full mode or a snap mode.
US09767140B2
Detecting data duplication includes maintaining a fingerprint directory including one or more entries. Each entry includes a data fingerprint and a data location for a data chunk. A shadow list including a record of fingerprint values not contained in the fingerprint directory is maintained. Each entry is associated with a seen-count attribute, which is an indication of how often a data fingerprint has been seen in arriving data chunks to be written in a storage system, and distinguishes multiply-seen entries for data fingerprints present in at least two data chunks from once-seen entries for data fingerprints present in no more than a single data chunk. Each entry retrieved from the shadow list relates to twice-seen fingerprints.
US09767136B2
There are provided mechanisms and methods for maintaining data stored in a data structure. These mechanisms and methods for maintaining data stored in a data structure can provide maintenance operations with improved efficiency, functionality, etc.
US09767135B2
In a method of the invention, a plurality of distributed service requestors input service requests, and the service requests are replicated to at least two of a plurality of request processing components that are located within a communication path between the requestors and the data store. The method also includes preventing any request processing component that has not successfully claimed the service request from processing the service request A first request processing component can claim responsibility for the service request; and the first request processing component can process its replica of the claimed service request, including accessing data within the data store. The method also includes preventing any of the plurality of request processing components from entering a duplicate claim to responsibility for the service request.
US09767127B2
Embodiments of methods for record linkage and comparing attributes are presented herein. Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention associate data records using distance measures and weights. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention generate a weight-based comparison of attributes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention involve deduplication of records in a single database and linkage of records in multiple databases. In some embodiments of the invention, records may be merged into a master database based on the linkage and comparison of attributes. In addition, embodiments of the present invention may calculate a quality measure to be used in comparing attributes and records.
US09767124B2
An information processing system comprises a terminal device and an image search system that are connected to each other via a network, the image search system comprises: a storage unit storing an object and linkage information; a first receiver receiving a captured image; and a first transmitter transmitting the linkage information associated with the object to a source from which the captured image is transmitted, and the terminal device comprises: an identification information acquisition unit acquiring identification information that identifies each terminal device; an image capturing unit capturing an image of a subject and output the captured image; a second transmitter transmitting the captured image to the image search system; a second receiver receiving the linkage information; and a third transmitter transmitting, when an access is made via the network on the basis of the linkage information, the identification information to an access destination to which the access is made.
US09767115B2
A system for replicating a filesystem running on multiple nodes comprising an originator system and a replica system. The originator system includes a plurality of nodes. The replica system includes a plurality of nodes and a processor. The plurality of nodes of the replica system are paired with the plurality of nodes of the originator system. The processor is configured to receive an indicator of a node of the plurality of nodes of the replica system finishing replication for a view of a filesystem at a point in time. The processor is further configured to indicate that replication for the view of the filesystem is complete in the event that all replica system nodes have received their indication for the view.
US09767113B2
Various embodiments for preserving data redundancy of identical data in a data deduplication system in a computing environment are provided. In one embodiment, a method for such preservation is disclosed. A selected range of virtual addresses of a virtual storage device in the computing environment is designated as not subject to a deduplication operation. Other system and computer program product embodiments are disclosed and provide related advantages.
US09767107B1
Improved techniques are provided for storing metadata associated with a plurality of sub-files associated with a single shared file in a parallel file system. The shared file is generated by a plurality of applications executing on a plurality of compute nodes. A compute node implements a Parallel Log Structured File System (PLFS) library to store at least one portion of the shared file generated by an application executing on the compute node and metadata for the at least one portion of the shared file on one or more object storage servers. The compute node is also configured to implement a partitioned data store for storing a partition of the metadata for the shared file, wherein the partitioned data store communicates with partitioned data stores on other compute nodes using a message passing interface. The partitioned data store can be implemented, for example, using Multidimensional Data Hashing Indexing Middleware (MDHIM).
US09767106B1
In an embodiment, a method can include loading a first snapshot of data stored on a storage device, the first snapshot being verified. The method can further include capturing a second snapshot of data stored on the store device after waiting an interval of time from creation of the first snapshot. The method can further include generating a list of closed files between the two snapshots by differentiating the first snapshot and the second snapshot. The method can additionally include verifying the second snapshot by comparing the closed files in the list of closed files by in the second snapshot to the closed files in the storage device, which is an active snapshot. The method can also include deleting the first snapshot.
US09767082B2
The present disclosure describes a method and a system of retrieving Ajax web page content. The method of retrieving Ajax web page content includes: obtaining information of web page codes; retrieving JavaScript information in the information of the web page codes; analyzing the JavaScript information to determine function(s) that include(s) Ajax call(s) in the web page codes; and triggering the determined function(s) that include(s) the Ajax call(s) to obtain web page content. Through analyzing JavaScript information in web page codes, the above technical scheme obtains function(s) that include(s) Ajax call(s) in the web page codes and further triggers the function(s) to obtain web page content generated thereby, thus achieving retrieval of dynamic content in an Ajax web page. Using the above technical scheme, a search engine can collect more complete web page contents and hence provide a better search service to users.
US09767079B1
Systems and methods for displaying expandable content by maintaining a content database of slot identifier entries, each entry identifying a respective content slot and a respective resource identifier of a corresponding electronic publication on which the respective content slot is positioned. A data processing system receives a request to provide content for a content slot, the request identifying a slot identifier and a resource identifier, and determines, by accessing the content database, one or more permitted expansion directions for the content slot. The data processing system selects an expandable content item for publication based on the one or more determined permitted expansion directions.
US09767078B2
A content management system including a document management system provides documents that include previews of folders in the content management system. The folder preview interface saved in the document is persistent despite changes to the folders stored by the content management system. In addition, previews of individual content items displayed within the folder preview interfaces are synchronized with the corresponding content items on the content management system. In some embodiments, the document may include other types of media including text, images, tables, video, etc. in addition to any embedded preview interfaces. Folder previews may also display previews of subfolders within the folder. A subfolder preview may display a list of content items within the subfolder. A user may also arrange multiple folder preview regions within the same document.
US09767072B2
Methods for determining the transfer function of a signal-processing system that do not require a known input signal. The methods are based on two representations 1(x) and I2(x) of an object, which the system has produced from differently scaled input signals originating from the object, or from a representation I1(x) of a first object and from a representation I2(x) of an object that is geometrically similar thereto but has been scaled differently. The representations are either given or are produced at the start of the method. According to the invention, the representations are transformed into a working space, and sections that relate to the same region of the object are selected in each case. The quotient of the functions corresponding to these two sections in the working space from which the unknown input signal comes makes it possible to clearly determine the transfer function sought. Various methods are indicated for this determination. The method can be used, in particular, to improve images from electron microscopes for which there are no suitable test structures for determining the transfer function.
US09767070B2
One embodiment is a storage system having one or more compute blades to generate and use data and one or more memory blades to generate a computational result. The computational result is generated by a computational function that transforms the data generated and used by the one or more compute blades. One or more storage devices are in communication with and remotely located from the one or more compute blades. The one or more storage devices store and serve the data for the one or more compute blades.
US09767066B2
A bridge for linking a first and a second wireless communication device and translating between differing wireless protocols is described and taught. The bridge system comprises at least one wireless device and a bridge apparatus. The bridge apparatus takes the form of a universal serial bus that contains components that allows it to function without a host system. Additionally, the bridge apparatus enables the translation between different wireless protocols. This, in turn, enables older or outdated wireless technology to function seamlessly with the most current wireless protocols.
US09767056B2
Transaction exchanges are controlled between two integrated circuits in a system having the integrated circuits (ICs), a power supply supplying power to a link between the ICs, thereby enabling transaction exchanges between both ICs and a controller controlling the ICs and the power supply. This involves receiving an order at the controller, wherein the order requires the link to be closed. An instruction is sent from the controller to each of the two ICs, wherein the instruction causes each of the ICs to stop initiating new transaction requests. For each one of the ICs, in response to detecting that the one of the two ICs has stopped initiating new transactions, it is detected when all pending transactions initiated by the one of the two ICs have been executed. The link is closed in response to detecting that all pending transactions of both of the two ICs have been executed.
US09767054B2
An image processing module input/output port in a DMAC includes an input part which receives second address information and an addressing request signal from an image processing module and an output part which outputs a reply signal indicating valid reception of the second address information to the image processing module. The image processing module input/output port can perform signal input/output control processing of returning, in response to the addressing request signal, the reply signal indicating confirmation of valid reception of the second address information to the image processing module when valid reception of the second address information is confirmed. A memory access controller performs memory access processing of accessing a storage area to be accessed in a memory based on the first address information (=the second address information) received via the image processing module input/output port.
US09767049B2
The present invention presents apparatuses and systems for operating multiple computers from a single keyboard and a single mouse and view composite videos generated from video output of the multiple computers on a single display, while preventing any possible information leakage between the computers. Keyboard and mouse commands detected by a host controller are used to control a video processor and a peripheral switch. The peripheral switch directs keyboard and mouse signals to one selected host and at the same time, the video processor creates an active display window showing video information from the selected host. Physical unidirectional isolators in the video, keyboard and mouse channels prevent any potential data leakages between hosts.
US09767046B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for a reconfigurable integrated system integrated onto a single circuit board are described herein. An embodiment includes a CPU host and microprocessor which attach and manage internal and external peripheral devices. Data received from sensors may include video data. Any data input may be routed by the system so as to be output at any display connected to the system. The enclosure of the integrated system may be a conformal heat sink design that enables a passively cooled system. The data may be in analog or digital format for output by the reconfigurable integrated system.
US09767040B2
In an example, a processing system of a database system may categorize event data taken from logged interactions of users with a multi-tenant information system to provide a metric. Event roll-up aggregate metrics used to provide the metric may be generated in connection with event capture. The processing system of the database system may periodically calculate the metric for a particular one of the tenants, and electronically store the periodically calculated metrics for accessing responsive to a query of the particular tenant.
US09767032B2
A cache and/or storage module may be configured to reduce write amplification in a cache storage. Cache layer write amplification (CLWA) may occur due to an over-permissive admission policy. The cache module may be configured to reduce CLWA by configuring admission policies to avoid unnecessary writes. Admission policies may be predicated on access and/or sequentiality metrics. Flash layer write amplification (FLWA) may arise due to the write-once properties of the storage medium. FLWA may be reduced by delegating cache eviction functionality to the underlying storage layer. The cache and storage layers may be configured to communicate coordination information, which may be leveraged to improve the performance of cache and/or storage operations.
US09767028B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for moving the interconnect protocol configuration registers into the main memory space of a node. The region of memory used for storing the interconnect protocol configuration registers may also be made cacheable to reduce the latency of accesses to the interconnect protocol configuration registers. Interconnect protocol configuration registers which are used during a startup routine may be prefetched into the host's cache to make the startup routine more efficient. The interconnect protocol configuration registers for various interconnect protocols may include one or more of device capability tables, memory-side statistics (e.g., to support two-level memory data mapping decisions), advanced memory and interconnect features such as repair resources and routing tables, prefetching hints, error correcting code (ECC) bits, lists of device capabilities, set and store base address, capability, device ID, status, configuration, capabilities, and other settings.
US09767027B2
A system for optimizing cache coherence message traffic volume is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of caches in a multi-level memory hierarchy and a plurality of agents. Each agent is associated with a cache. The system includes one or more monitoring engines. Each agent in the plurality of agents is associated with a monitoring engine. The agents can execute a processor level software instruction causing a memory region to be private to the agent. Each of the agents is configured to execute a memory access for data on an associated cache and to send a request for data up the hierarchy on a cache miss. The monitoring engine is configured to intercept request for data from an agent and to prevent snooping for the cache line in peer caches when the cache line associated with a memory region represented as private to the agent.
US09767025B2
Systems and methods for maintaining cache coherency in a multiprocessor system with shared memory, including a write-data-invalid (WDI) state configured to reduce stalls during write operations. The WDI state is a dataless state with guaranteed write permissions. When a first processor of the multiprocessor system makes a write request for a first cache entry of a first cache, the WDI state associated with the first cache entry includes write permissions for the write to directly proceed to one or more higher levels of memory in the shared memory, such that delays associated with obtaining write permissions is reduced at the first cache. The WDI state is treated as an invalid state for a read request to the first cache entry by the first processor.
US09767022B2
A capture service running on an application server receives events from a client application running on an application server to be stored in a data store and stores the events in an in-memory bounded buffer on the application server, the in-memory bounded buffer comprising a plurality of single-threaded segments, the capture service to write events to each segment in parallel. The in-memory bounded buffer provides a notification to a buffer flush regulator when a number of events stored in the in-memory bounded buffer reaches a predefined limit. The in-memory bounded buffer receive a request to flush the events in the in-memory bounded buffer from a consumer executor service. The consumer executor service consumes the events in the in-memory bounded buffer using a dynamically sized thread pool of consumer threads to read the segments of the bounded buffer in parallel, wherein consuming the events comprises writing the events directly to the data store.
US09767021B1
Described are techniques for destaging data. Write data for write operations are stored in cache page(s). The cache may be partitioned into cache pages and write data stored thereon may be marked as write pending denoting that write data needs to be written out to physical storage. Weight values may be determined for the cache pages in accordance with factors. A first cache page may be selected having a highest such weight value where the selected first cache page includes at least some write data marked as write pending. The write data of the selected first cache page may be destaged to physical storage.
US09767017B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for providing a memory device with volatile and non-volatile media. A volatile memory medium is on a circuit board configured to be installed on a memory bus of a processor. A non-volatile memory medium is on the same circuit board. A mapping module is configured to selectively store data in either the volatile memory medium or the non-volatile memory medium. The data is provided by way of one or more commands from the processor.
US09767007B2
According to one general aspect, a method may include monitoring the execution of at least a portion of a software application. The method may also include collecting subroutine call information regarding a plurality of subroutine calls included by the portion of the software application, wherein one or more of the subroutine calls is selected for detailed data recording. The method may further include pruning, as the software application is being executed, a subroutine call tree to include only the subroutine calls selected for detailed data recording and one or more parent subroutine calls of each subroutine calls selected for detailed data recording.
US09767003B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for setting, at a computing device, a breakpoint of a plurality of breakpoints for use by a debugger at an entry point of a plurality of entry points for a component of a plurality of components, wherein the breakpoint is set automatically. While executing the debugger on the component, it is determined whether the breakpoint is reached from outside of the component by a program. If the breakpoint is reached from outside of the component, the program executed by the debugger stops. If the breakpoint is reached from inside of the component, the program executed by the debugger continues.
US09766998B1
Methods and apparatus related to determining one or more user habits for a user. A group of one or more past user activity occurrences of a user may be determined based on similarity between the past user activity occurrences of the group. A user habit may be determined based on the past user activity occurrences of the group.
US09766993B2
Quality of information (QoI) assessment in dynamic sensor networks that includes evaluating, by a computer, a first value reflective of available reports from sensors that are dynamically associated with the computer. A second value reflective of reports expected to have been available for evaluation about the observed phenomena is estimated. A QoI of the available reports is assessed. The assessing is based on the first value reflective of the available reports and the second value reflective of reports expected to have been available for evaluation. A third value, based on the assessing is output.
US09766988B2
A technique for restoring file systems by applying full and incremental backups together while streaming them from multiple devices provides a faster system restore from a full backup where incremental backups must also be applied. A first storage device streams the full backup while at least one second storage device streams at least one incremental backup. As files are detected in the incremental backup, they are written instead of the corresponding file in the full backup. Incremental backups can be pre-merged to reduce their number to one less than a number of storage devices available to stream the backups, so that the full backup can be streamed along with the pre-merged incremental backup(s) to restore the file system.
US09766986B2
A server system receives messages from client computing devices. Each of the messages corresponds to a transaction. The server system assigns each respective transaction to a respective fresh virtual machine. Furthermore, the server system performs, as part of a respective virtual machine processing a respective transaction, a modification associated with the respective transaction to a shared database. The shared database is persisted independently of the plurality of virtual machines. In response to determining that processing of the respective transaction is complete, the server system discards the respective virtual machine. In response to determining that the respective transaction is associated with a cyber-attack, the server system uses checkpoint data associated with the respective transaction to roll back the modifications associated with the respective transaction to the shared database.
US09766981B2
A context-awareness synchronization apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided. The synchronization apparatus is electrically connected to a storage server via a network. The synchronization apparatus executes an operating system and an agent program installed on the operating system. The agent program configures a first and second individual spaces within the synchronization apparatus, determines a context of the synchronization apparatus, selects a first and second policy sets from a plurality of policy sets for the first and second individual spaces according to the context respectively, and handles the first and second individual spaces according to the first and second policy sets respectively. The first and second individual spaces are unaware of each other and only recognized by the agent program installed on the operating system. Each of the first and second policy sets includes a rule regarding synchronization between an individual space and the storage server.
US09766979B2
A paging scheme for a Solid State Drive (SSD) error correction mechanism that exchanges portions of a parity component, such as a page, between SRAM and less expensive DRAM, which stores the remainder of a context of pages. A parity operation applies an XOR function to corresponding memory positions in the pages of the context. Dedicated error correction (parity) SRAM need only enough memory for portions of memory, typically a cache line of a page, upon which the parity operation (XOR) is operating. The remaining portions in the context are swapped, or paged out, by cache logic such that the entire context is iteratively processed (XORed) by the parity operation.
US09766978B2
A memory comprises a set of content memory banks, a parity memory bank, and a register corresponding to the parity memory bank. A first memory interface device is configured to, in response to receiving a write request to write to the set of content memory banks, perform a write operation over multiple clock cycles including temporarily storing parity information corresponding to the write request in the register before the parity information is written to the parity memory bank. A second memory interface device is configured to: in response to i) receiving a read request to read data from a memory bank in the set of content memory banks, and ii) determining that information responsive to the read request is to be reconstructed using parity information, and selectively use information from either i) the register or ii) the parity memory bank, to reconstruct information responsive to the read request.
US09766977B2
An information handling system includes a plurality of storage disks arranged as a redundant array of independent disks and a controller. The controller communicates with each of the storage disks. The controller determines a total amount of storage space utilized to store parity information within the storage disks based on a smallest disk size of the storage disks and a number of storage disks in the redundant array of independent disks, calculates an amount of storage space utilized to store parity information on each of the disks based on the total amount of storage space utilized to store parity information and the number of storage disks, and allocates a parity region of sectors within each of the storage disks to store the parity information. The parity region is an inner most region of a disk.
US09766976B2
A method includes generating a first error correcting code (ECC) codeword and a second ECC codeword. The method further includes generating redundancy information based on at least a portion of the first ECC codeword and further based on at least a portion of the second ECC codeword. The method further includes storing the first ECC codeword, the second ECC codeword, and the redundancy information at a word line of a memory of a data storage device.
US09766968B2
Memory corruption detection technologies are described. A processor can include a memory to store data from an application, wherein the memory comprises a memory corruption detection (MCD) table. The processor can also include processor core coupled to the memory. The processor core can receive, from an application, a memory access request to access data of one or more contiguous memory blocks in a memory object of the memory. The processor core can also retrieve data stored in the one or more contiguous memory blocks based on the location indicated by the pointer. The processor core can also retrieve, from the MCD table, allocation information associated with the one or more contiguous memory blocks. The processor core can also send, to the application, a fault message when a fault event associated with the retrieved data occurs based on the allocation information.
US09766965B2
In an enterprise environment that includes multiple data centers each having a number of first servers, computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for detecting faulty storage device(s) that are implemented as redundant array of independent disks (RAID) in conjunction with each of the first servers. Each first server monitors lower-level health metrics (LHMs) for each of the storage devices that characterize read and write activity of each storage device over a period of time. The LHMs are used to generate high-level health metrics (HLMs) for each of the storage devices that are indicative of activity of each storage device over the period of time. Second server(s) of a monitoring system can use the HLMs to determine whether each of the storage devices have been inactive or active, and can generate a fault indication for any storage devices that were determined to be inactive while storage device(s) at the same first server were determined to be active.
US09766958B2
A computer readable storage medium containing a program which, when executed by a processor, performs an operation of emulating static thread local storage of an executable software code at runtime, is disclosed. The operation includes executing the executable software code within a process memory space. During the execution of the executable software code, an occurrence of an event that is associated with a thread create operation is monitored. When the monitored event occurs, a thread data block duplicate is established within the process memory space and associated with a thread created by the thread create operation. The thread data block duplicate is configured to be accessed by executing a thread local storage callback function.
US09766955B2
An example method to provision an interface for mediation of messages in an integration platform includes identifying a target healthcare system; identifying configuration rules and protocol requirements for the target healthcare system and comparing to a source healthcare system; defining a configuration for the interface associated with the target healthcare system based on the configuration rules, protocol requirements, and a relationship between the target healthcare system and the source healthcare system; constructing the target healthcare system interface route; creating an interface factory to return implementations of an interface route and configuration; passing the interface factory content to an interface control channel; loading a concrete implementation of the interface route and configuration; initializing the interface route; and instantiating interface endpoints and processors to enable communication between the source healthcare system and the target healthcare system via the interface route.
US09766950B2
There are provided methods for single-owner multi-consumer work queues for repeatable tasks. A method includes permitting a single owner thread of a single owner, multi-consumer, work queue to access the work queue using atomic instructions limited to only a single access and using non-atomic operations. The method further includes restricting the single owner thread from accessing the work queue using atomic instructions involving more than one access. The method also includes synchronizing amongst other threads with respect to their respective accesses to the work queue.
US09766947B2
Methods and apparatus to monitor server loads are disclosed. An example load monitor includes a first virtual machine to replicate a first server; a router interface to cause a router to redirect a portion of requests destined for the first server to the first virtual machine, the first virtual machine to serve the redirected requests; a collector to collect first metric data from the first virtual machine related to processing of the redirected requests; and an overload indicator to indicate an overload condition at the first server based on the first metric data collected from the first virtual machine.
US09766945B2
A method for scheduling computing resources with container migration includes determining a resource availability for one or more hosts, a resource allocation for one or more virtual machines (VMs), and a resource usage for one or more containers. The method includes identifying the hosts on which VMs and containers can be consolidated based on resource availability. The method also includes calculating a target resource configuration for one or more VMs. The method further includes removing or adding resources to the VMs for which a target resource configuration was calculated to achieve the target resource configuration. The method further includes allocating the one or more VMs on the one or more hosts based on the resource availability of the one or more hosts, and allocating the one or more containers on the one or more VMs based on the resource configuration of each VM and the resource usage of each container.
US09766941B2
Provisioning capacity measuring may be provided. First, a provisioning monitoring job may run on a grid manager that spawns a plurality of farm monitoring jobs onto a respective plurality of farms. Next, a user count for each of the respective plurality of farms may be respectively provided. The user count may comprise a number of users on each of the respective plurality of farms. An event alert may be provided when the user count for any of the respective plurality of farms is greater than a threshold.
US09766935B2
Disclosed is a method of managing computer resources in a dynamic computing environment. The method includes identifying available resources from an available pool based on an augmented model, the available pool including resources unallocated resources, allocating the identified available resources in accordance with the augmented model, identifying reserve resources from a reserve pool based on the augmented model, the reserve pool including resources not allocated and not configured, and upon determining the available pool includes a number of resources below a threshold, replenishing the available pool with the identified reserve resources.
US09766932B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards scheduling jobs with a speed for running a processor(s) having variable speeds to save energy yet complete in time, in which the volume of the job is not known in advance, that is, in a non-clairvoyant setting. A non-clairvoyant algorithm uses an existing clairvoyant algorithm to determine the speed based upon information known from running one or more jobs, in full or in part. Also described is rounding jobs based upon their densities into rounding queues so that a hybrid of highest density first rules and FIFO rules may be used to obtain information used by the clairvoyant algorithm.
US09766925B2
A transaction is initiated via a transaction begin instruction. During execution of the transaction, the transaction may abort. If the transaction aborts, a determination is made as to the type of transaction. Based on the transaction being a first type of transaction, resuming execution at the transaction begin instruction, and based on the transaction being a second type, resuming execution at an instruction following the transaction begin instruction. Regardless of transaction type, resuming execution includes restoring one or more registers specified in the transaction begin instruction and discarding transactional stores. For one type of transaction, the nonconstrained transaction, the resuming includes storing information in a transaction diagnostic block.
US09766923B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the development and execution of a software program. During operation, the system provides a mechanism for restricting a variable to a runtime context in the software program. Next, the system identifies the runtime context during execution of the software program. Finally, the system uses the mechanism to prevent incorrect execution of the software program by ensuring that a closure capturing the variable executes within the identified runtime context.
US09766921B2
A method and apparatus for configuring an overlay network are provided. In the method and apparatus, an application source comprising an executable portion is obtained. A computer system instance is caused to execute at least some of the executable portion, and a snapshot of the computer system instance after partial but incomplete execution of the executable portion is obtained such that the snapshot is usable to instantiate another computer system instance to continue execution of the executable portion from a point in execution at which the snapshot was obtained.
US09766911B2
Aspects of the invention are directed to a systems and methods for operating a non-native binary in dynamic binary translation environment. In accordance with an embodiment, there is provided a computer program product in a computer readable medium. The product includes program code for receiving a non-native binary in a computer readable medium and program code for translating the non-native binary. Additionally, the product includes program code for executing the translated non-native binary, the non-native binary including one or more threads, and program code for pausing execution of the translated non-native binary. The product also includes program code for providing guest instruction boundary information to a monitoring process and program code for analyzing a state of each thread of the translated non-native binary. Moreover, the product includes program code for fast-forwarding at least one thread so that its state is consistent with the guest instruction boundary.
US09766910B1
A distributed execution environment can provide access to field-programmable device resources. The field-programmable device resources can be provided in association with one or more instances that are instantiated within the distributed execution environment upon request from a computing system. The computing system can be associated with a customer of the distributed execution environment. The customer can program the field-programmable device resources using designs created by or for the customer.
US09766907B2
A cloned configuration of a source machine is created by determining a first set of physical location codes for a source machine. A map is generated based on the sorted physical location codes that maps the first set of physical location codes to a first set of generic location codes. A second set of physical location codes associated with a second set of adapter slots in a target machine is generated. A second map is generated based on the sorted second set of physical location codes that maps the second set of physical location codes to a second set of generic location codes. A third set of physical location codes is generated based on the first set of generic location codes and the second map. If an entry in the third set of physical location codes is not present the second set of physical location codes, an error is generated.
US09766903B2
In response to a first message received at a desktop of a data processing system from a message source, at least a portion of the first message is displayed in an area along an edge of a desktop screen presented by the desktop. In response to a first signal indicating that a cursor has been positioned within a predetermined distance of the displayed first message, further detailed information of the first message is displayed by increasing size of the area towards the edge of the desktop screen in an animated fashion, including displaying an input field without launching a separate window or process to allow a user to respond to the first message. In response to a second message entered into the input field by the user, the desktop transmits the second message to the message source.
US09766901B2
Described herein is a system comprising a peripheral device that is connected to a host device over a bus compatible with USB 3.0. The host device comprises a reduced functionality USB host controller configured to perform a set of one or more preprogrammed functions from the USB 3.0 specification, and a universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter (UART) configured to sample USB response data received from the peripheral device over the bus.
US09766888B2
A processor of an aspect includes packed data registers, and a decode unit to decode an instruction. The instruction may indicate a first source packed data to include at least four data elements, indicate a second source packed data to include at least four data elements, and indicate a destination storage location. An execution unit is coupled with the packed data registers and the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to store a result packed data in the destination storage location. The result packed data may include at least four indexes that may identify corresponding data element positions in the first and second source packed data. The indexes may be stored in positions in the result packed data that are to represent a sorted order of corresponding data elements in the first and second source packed data.
US09766875B2
A method of processing multimedia data includes: separating a defined application kernel into a data patch kernel and a data processing kernel; requesting, by the data processing kernel, access to patch data of the multimedia data, from the data patch kernel; performing, by the data patch kernel, an operation that is independent of the request and preparing data for the data access based on the request; and performing, by the data processing kernel, an arithmetic operation on work items of the prepared data when the data has been prepared by the data patch kernel.
US09766873B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for implementing software reconciliation frameworks to process changes detected to software installed on computer hosts. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving change data describing changes to one or more software components stored on a computer-readable storage device, determining installed software on a computer associated with the computer-readable storage device, receiving a manifest comprising a description of file changes associated with a software patch or update for the installed software, and comparing the change data to the manifest. Based on the comparing, if the change data matches the manifest, the changes are promoted, and if the change data does not match the manifest, the changes are marked for further analysis.
US09766869B2
An installation package may have metadata concerning optional parameters for a software package to be installed. The metadata may be read by an installation system, and a user interface presented to a user for input on the parameters values. The installation system may store the parameters for later replication of the installation. The installation system may perform the installation on a local device or a remote device, and may further be capable of presenting the user interface on another device. In some embodiments, the metadata may be available to the installation system without having to open the installation package.
US09766868B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for dynamic source code generation. In some embodiments, a request comprising data may be received. Parsed natural language may be generated using the data. Knowledgebase data may be obtained. Source code may be generated based on the parsed natural language and the knowledgebase data. The generate source code may be transmitted in response to the request.
US09766859B2
Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
US09766853B2
An example method includes, based on an adjustment to a first displayed volume control, instructing the first playback device to adjust playback volume level; based on an adjustment to a second displayed volume control, instructing the second playback device to adjust playback volume level; after sending the commands, instructing the first and/or second playback device to process an audio stream into a first and/or second channel and to reproduce a respective one of the first and second channel, wherein the grouped first and second playback devices provide multi-channel sound; and based on an adjustment to a third displayed volume control, instructing the first and/or second playback device to adjust a group volume level for both the first and second playback devices.
US09766836B2
A computer system for migrating data in a computer storage system. Data is selected to migrate from a first storage to the second storage, wherein selected files are in a resident state. Metadata is obtaining and subsets of data are ordered based on the obtained metadata, the order of the subsets of data following an expectation of update value. The subsets of data are transferring to the second storage based on the order of the subsets of data based on a predetermined schedule. Data determined as inactive is overwritten on the sequential access medium by transferred data. End data to the sequential access medium is set after a last active data is written before the one or more sets of data are determined to be inactive. The one or more sets of data determined to be inactive are deleted from the second storage and a transfer is initiated.
US09766834B2
As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, for enabling live partition mobility using ordered memory migration includes receiving a request to initialize a migration of a logical partition (LPAR) to a destination system. The method further includes creating a list which includes memory page identifiers corresponding to memory pages of the LPAR. The memory page identifiers of the list are ordered according to a page transfer priority. The method further includes identifying memory pages of the LPAR that will be unmodified during an estimated duration of time of the migration. The method further includes updating the list, based on the identified memory pages of the LPAR that will be unmodified during the estimated duration of time of the migration. The method further includes migrating the LPAR based on the list. A computer system, and a computer program product corresponding to the method are also disclosed herein.
US09766833B2
Systems and methods directed to the automation of Storage Area Network (SAN) configuration when storage volume migration or server virtual machine migration is conducted. Systems and methods described herein may involve the takeover of a SAN network attribute for the migration, and may involve translation of zone object formats to facilitate the migration and ensure compatibility when the takeover is conducted.
US09766831B2
An arbitration system and method is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first and a second memory devices, and a resistor coupled in common to the first and second memory devices, the first memory device includes a first calibration circuit configured to perform a first calibration operation responsive, at least in part, to an external calibration command, the first calibration operation being performed based on the resistor, and the second memory device includes a second calibration circuit configured to perform a second calibration operation responsive, at least in part, to the external calibration command, the second calibration operation being performed based on the resistor after the first calibration operation has finished.
US09766829B2
Embodiments relate to address probing for a transaction. An aspect includes determining, before starting execution of a transaction, a plurality of addresses that will be used by the transaction during execution. Another aspect includes probing each address of the plurality of addresses to determine whether any of the plurality of addresses has an address conflict. Yet another aspect includes, based on determining that none of the plurality of addresses has an address conflict, starting execution of the transaction.
US09766825B2
Systems and methods for performing file-level restore operations for block-level data volumes are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods restore data from a block-level data volume contained in secondary storage by receiving a request to restore one or more files from the block-level data volume, mounting a virtual GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk to the block-level data volume, accessing one or more mount paths established by the virtual GPT disk between the data agent and the block-level data volume, and browsing data from one or more files within the block-level data volume via the established one or more mount paths provided by the virtual GPT disk.
US09766820B2
An arithmetic processing device which connects to a main memory, the arithmetic processor includes a cache memory which stores data, an arithmetic unit which performs an arithmetic operation for data stored in the cache memory, a first control device which controls the cache memory and outputs a first request which reads the data stored in the main memory, and a second control device which is connected to the main memory and transmits a plurality of second requests which are divided the first request output from the first control device, receives data corresponding to the plurality of second requests which is transmitted from the main memory and sends each of the data to the first control device.
US09766818B2
An electronic system includes: a storage interface configured to receive system information; a storage control unit, coupled to the storage interface, configured to implement a preprocessing block for partitioning data based on the system information; and a learning block for processing partial data of the data for distributing machine learning processes.
US09766816B2
A method for data steering in tiered storage is described. In one embodiment, the method includes ranking a plurality of storage areas of a storage device according to at least one property of the plurality of storage areas. In some embodiments, the plurality of storage areas include at least a first storage area and a second storage area. The method includes obtaining a sample of data at the storage device, passing the sample of data through one or more compression codecs, and analyzing a result of passing the sample of data through the one or more compression codecs. In some embodiments, the result includes a score of compression savings associated with the sample of data. The method includes storing the data in one of the plurality of storage areas based at least in part on the analyzing the result of passing the sample of data through the one or more compression codecs.
US09766803B2
In an example embodiment, an application is executed on a mobile device, causing generation of application graphical output in an application layer. The application layer is rendered on a touchscreen display. A first gesture of a user is detected, and in response to the first gesture a viewfinder layer is generated, the viewfinder layer containing real-time image data from the embedded camera via a camera service. A composite of the application layer, the viewfinder layer, and a transparency mask is rendered so that a portion of the viewfinder layer is visible and a portion of the application layer is visible on the touchscreen display at the same time. Then a second gesture by the user is detected, and in response to the second gesture, viewfinder data from the viewfinder layer is captured and the viewfinder layer and transparency mask are removed.
US09766801B2
An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.
US09766800B2
According to one of aspects, an electronic device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The touch screen display is configured to display a screen. The touch screen display is configured to detect an operation. The controller is configured to display the screen, reduce the screen according to an operation detected through the touch screen display, and display a reduced screen.
US09766799B2
A control method of the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display a display screen representing a floor plan for one floor including rooms on the display; display device icons representing target devices within regions of the respective rooms included in the floor plan, the device icons being initially displayed at positions within the regions of the respective rooms; and output to a network a first control command, when selection of an illumination icon, representing an illumination device among the target devices, is sensed within a region of any of the rooms included in the floor plan, and when selection of any region within a room, in which selection of the illumination icon is sensed, is sensed, the first control command controlling on/off of power for an illumination device corresponding to the room in which selection of the illumination icon is sensed.
US09766797B2
Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter may include a method shortening text on a touchscreen computing device. The method can include detecting touch input on a touchscreen. The method can include determining a selected input text appearing on the touchscreen. The method can include determining the selected input text to be shortened. The method can include determining a length of a shortened output text. The method can include transmitting the selected input text and the length of the shortened output text to an external shortener for shortening and registration. The method can include presenting the shortened output text on the touchscreen.
US09766796B2
An apparatus includes a sensor configured to detect an object in a space and a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a reference object such that the reference object appears to be located in the space.
US09766789B1
In accordance with one embodiment, a method can be implemented that includes accessing a first data file associated with a first media application program, wherein the first data file includes a first identifier associated with a first designer-specified variable for controlling the first media application program; accessing a second data file associated with a second media application program, wherein the second data file includes a second identifier associated with a second designer-specified variable for controlling the second media application program; receiving with a computer processor the first designer-specified variable; receiving with the computer processor the second designer-specified variable; providing a computer user interface wherein the computer user interface presents a first input region for designation of a first designer-specified variable value and a second input region for designation of a second designer-specified variable value.
US09766788B2
This is directed to rotating an entire user interface of a portable electronic device. In particular, this is directed to defining a UI orientation mode in which a user can direct the device to rotate a UI. When the UI orientation mode is enabled, the electronic device can detect particular inputs, for example based on the outputs of motion sensing components such as an accelerometer and a magnetometer, to determine how to rotate the UI. Once the UI has been rotated to a desired orientation, a user can lock the UI orientation and exit the UI orientation mode.
US09766784B2
Dynamic scaling of messaging content is facilitated. Messaging content can include visual content other than the actual textual content of a message body for a messaging environment. In an aspect dynamic scaling of messaging content can allow message content such as pictures, images, emoticons, movies, maps, and the like to be presented to a user in a manner that facilities efficient comprehension of the message content. The tokens can be dynamically scaled as the messaging environment changes to maintain high levels of comprehension.
US09766776B2
Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating a learning user interface. The interface may be presented as a plurality of dynamic icons representing a plurality of items. The interface may further be facilitated by receiving a profile identifier and by accessing, via a processor, profile data associated with the profile identifier. The interface may be facilitated by determining, via the processor, a visual bias for at least one of the dynamic icons relative to another of the dynamic icons based on the profile data and may be facilitated by applying the visual bias, via the interface, to the at least one of the dynamic icons. Multiple interfaces may be applied to the same or different screens.
US09766767B2
A method and an apparatus for entering text in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes focusing on a selected text field and displaying a SIP, when the predefined text field is selected from among text fields, scroll-displaying the text fields in a display area in response to a requested scroll, when a user requests the scroll of the display area of the text fields, and identifying, from a result of the scroll display, whether the selected text field is being displayed in the display area, and determining whether text is to be entered into the selected text field.
US09766754B2
A display device includes a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels comprising a plurality of sub-pixels; a black matrix located between the sub-pixels; and an optical sensing array at the black matrix, the optical sensing array comprising a row conductor, and a column conductor that crosses the row conductor at a crossing region.
US09766753B2
The present invention discloses embodiments for an optical touch systems and methods. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to an optical touch system that includes at least two image sensors configured to detect a plurality of objects over a touch surface to generate a plurality of object images; a plurality of first light receiving elements, wherein the first light receiving elements are arranged on a side of the touch surface along a first direction and are configured to detect the objects; and a processing unit configured to calculate a plurality of candidate coordinate data, based on the object images, and select the coordinate data that represents coordinate data of the objects from the candidate coordinate data, based on detection data of the first light receiving elements.
US09766743B2
A mobile terminal including a main body having front, side and rear surfaces; a sensing unit configured to sense a movement of the main body; a display unit including a first region located on the front surface and a second region extending from the first region and located on the side surface; and a controller configured to display first information on the first region of the display unit, activate the second region when the movement of the main body meets a preset condition in a deactivated state of the second region, and display second information associated with the first information on the second region.
US09766740B2
Disclosed is a method for driving a liquid crystal panel, which includes: when a greyscale value of the liquid crystal panel is smaller than a first grey level, a first driving voltage that is a normal driving voltage corresponding to the greyscale value is applied to drive the data lines; and when the greyscale value of the liquid crystal panel is greater than the first grey level and smaller than or equal to a maximum grey level, driving of the data lines includes a first phase and a second phase, the first phase being in front of the second phase, the first phase using a second driving voltage smaller than or equal to the first driving voltage to drive the liquid crystal panel, the second phase using a third driving voltage that is a normal driving voltage corresponding to the greyscale value to drive the liquid crystal panel.
US09766730B2
A method for converting a driving frequency of a touch panel includes receiving a control signal for a display porch time, changing the display porch time based on the control signal, changing a cycle of the horizontal synchronizing signal based on the changed display porch time, and generating a touch driving signal synchronized with the horizontal synchronizing signal.
US09766726B2
A portable device including a stylus unit, which is an input means for the portable device; a housing unit configured to accommodate the stylus unit; a sensor unit configured to sense a pulled out length of the stylus unit from the housing unit and a rotation angle of the stylus unit; and a processor configured to display a menu interface corresponding to the pulled out length of the stylus unit when the stylus unit is pulled out from the housing unit.
US09766721B2
The present disclosure provides a method, a video system, and a system for realizing a simple air mouse. The method includes: a video terminal obtaining current position parameters of an air mouse, wherein the current position parameters comprise a deflection angle and a deflection direction of the air mouse with respect to an originally-calibrated coordinate position; and determining a position of a cursor on the video terminal according to the current position parameters and a preset scale parameter. By presetting reference points in the air mouse, the present disclosure obtains the deflection angle and the deflection direction of the air mouse with respect to the original position by the camera device based on the above reference points, and determines the position of the cursor on the video terminal according to the deflection angle and the deflection direction and the preset scale parameter.
US09766717B2
There is provided an optical pointing system including at least one reference beacon, an image sensor, a storage unit and a processing unit. The image sensor is configured to capture an image frame containing a beacon image associated with the at least one reference beacon. The storage unit is configured to save image data of at least one object image in the image frame. The processing unit is configured to sequentially process every pixel of the image frame for identifying the object image and real-timely remove or merge the image data, saved in the storage unit, associated with two object images within a pixel range of the image frame thereby reducing the used memory space.
US09766715B2
A transmissive head-mount type display device includes an image display section adapted to display a virtual image, and capable of transmitting an external sight, an object acquisition section adapted to obtain a selectable object located in a predetermined distance range from the image display section, and a position of a specific object included in the external sight, and a control section adapted to display an object-correspondence virtual image associated with the object obtained as the virtual image using the image display section, identify a change in the position of the specific object based on the position of the specific object obtained, select the object based on a relationship between the change in the position of the specific object identified and a position of the object obtained, and display a specific check image associated with the object selected as the virtual image using the image display section.
US09766713B2
A system includes one or more hardware processors, a head mounted display configured to display a virtual environment to a user, an input device, and a virtual mini-board module. The mini-board module is configured to render the virtual environment for presentation to the user via the HMD, the virtual environment is rendered from a first perspective providing a field of view of the virtual environment to the user, provide a virtual mini-board to the user within the field of view, the virtual mini-board displaying a region of the virtual environment, detect an interaction event performed by the user on the virtual mini-board, identify the first object based on the interaction event performed on the virtual mini-board, and perform the interaction event on the first object within the virtual environment based on the interaction event performed on the virtual mini-board.
US09766712B2
To orient a user within a map display, a portable device displays a panoramic view representative of the user's real-world surroundings. The portable device also displays a map representation of an adjacent area above the panoramic view so that the area displayed in the map representation appears further away than the real-world surroundings depicted in the panoramic view. The portable device may also display an intersection which includes a commonly shared boundary between the panoramic view and the map representation so that the user can identify the relationship between the two displays.
US09766697B2
A method including generating a virtual space image for displaying on a head mounted display (HMD). The method further includes acquiring a rotational direction and a rotational speed of the HMD. The method further includes subjecting the virtual space image to blurring processing based on the rotational direction and the rotational speed, the blurring processing being performed on end regions of the virtual space image on both sides of the virtual space image in a direction corresponding to the rotational direction, a size of the end regions corresponding to the rotational speed, and an intensity of blurring of the end regions corresponding to the rotational speed.
US09766695B2
An apparatus of this invention is directed to an information processing apparatus that continues detection of an instruction of an operator even if the reliability of instruction information detection has lowered due to a device fault, degradation of the environment, and the like. The information processing apparatus includes an instruction history accumulator that accumulates a history of at least two different pieces of instruction information detected from a user and an instruction of the user in association with each other, an instruction information receiver that receives the instruction information, an instruction recognizer that recognizes the instruction of the user from the received instruction information by referring to the history of the instruction information, a reliability determiner that determines the reliability of the received instruction information by referring to the history of the instruction information, and an instruction information changer that changes the instruction information to be received to another instruction information by referring to the history of the instruction information when the reliability determiner determines that the reliability of the received instruction information has lowered.
US09766694B2
There are disclosed a mobile terminal and a controlling method thereof, which is able to simply input a real-time external image to an input field as data, specifically, such that a user may input a character or picture captured from the real-time image inputted from the outside via the camera and that the real time image maybe captured without switching a screen displaying the input field, so as to allow a user to intuitively recognize which input field an object provided in the image is inputted to.
US09766685B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes a logic to cause at least one core to operate with a power control cycle including a plurality of on times and a plurality of off times according to an ON-OFF keying protocol, where the on and off times vary depending on whether and when an interrupt is incurred. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09766682B1
An apparatus includes a sleep clock circuit that generates a sleep clock signal and an accurate clock circuit that, when on, generates an accurate clock signal. The apparatus is configured to enter a sleep mode, generate sleep clock measurements by measuring the sleep clock signal using the accurate clock signal during an initial sleep interval, estimate a cumulative error using the sleep clock measurements, and determine a final sleep interval using the cumulative error. A method includes determining a duration of an initial sleep interval and generating measurements of a sleep clock signal using an accurate clock signal. The measurements of the sleep clock signal correspond to sampling intervals within the initial sleep interval. A cumulative error value is generated according to the measurements, and a duration of a final sleep interval is determined according to the cumulative error value.
US09766674B2
A system for sharing a power delivery controller is described herein. The system includes a plurality of ports and a power delivery controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of ports. The power delivery controller is to send a first message to a particular port of the plurality of ports and remain connected to the particular port and enable power delivery to the particular port in response to a particular return message from the port.
US09766669B2
A system including a chassis (102), a vent (130,132) in the chassis to exchange air from outside the chassis with air inside the chassis, a temperature sensor (114) inside the chassis, a power supply (106) to supply power to the system, and a controller (120) coupled to the temperature sensor to perform an airflow block response action (121) if the controller determines the temperature from the temperature sensor is higher than a threshold temperature for a level of power being drawn by the system from the power supply.
US09766665B2
A multiple mode display apparatus and methods of use. An apparatus includes a display surface with a first and a second display area. A housing pivotally attached with the display proximate a first edge of the housing is displaceable from a coplanar position with the surface of the display device to a position wherein an angle of at least 90 degrees between the surface of the display and the housing is formed along said first edge. In the first position, the first display area is visible and activated to receive user input or to display output. The second display area is covered by the housing and placed in a mode of reduced power consumption. In the second position, the second display area is visible and activated to display output.
US09766660B2
A flexible display apparatuses includes a flexible display module configured to extend in a first direction, and including a front surface configured to display an image, and a rear surface opposite the front surface, a housing configured to house the flexible display module, a first roller inside the housing and configured to contact the front surface of the flexible display module to bend the front surface inward, and a second roller spaced from the first roller in the housing and configured to contact the rear surface of the flexible display module to bend the rear surface inward.
US09766655B2
There is provided a wristband for attaching to a computer device. The wristband includes a first end of the wristband configured to attach to a first side of the computer device, a second end of the wristband configured to attach to a second side of the computer device, and an earpiece compartment for placing an earpiece in the wristband. The wristband can be configured to provide power to the earpiece while the earpiece is placed inside the wristband. The wristband may further include a battery, and wherein the battery of the wristband provides power to a battery of the earpiece. The wristband may also include, wherein the clasp has a switch that is activated in response to a closure of the clasp causing a signal to be transmitted by the wristband to the computer device.
US09766654B2
There is disclosed a liquid crystal display device in which a touch panel and a front window are attached to a front surface of a liquid crystal display panel with a touch-panel flexible wiring substrate mounted to the touch panel. The front window is attached to the touch panel by an adhesive sheet. The touch panel and the front window may be peeled off in the vicinity of the portion in which the touch-panel flexible wiring substrate is mounted to the touch panel, due to mechanical shock. In order to prevent the peeling-off of the touch panel and the front window, protrusions are formed in the adhesive sheet to increase the adhesive force between the touch panel and the front window in this portion.
US09766652B2
The present specification provides a conductive structure body comprising: a substrate; a conductive layer; at least one intermediate layer; and a darkening layer, and a method of manufacturing the same. The conductive structure body may prevent reflectance by the conductive layer without affecting conductivity of the conductive layer, and may improve a concealing property of the conductive layer by improving absorbance. Accordingly, a display panel having improved visibility may be developed by using the conductive structure body.
US09766641B2
An on-load tap-changer for dry transformers, having an electric insulating hollow casing extending around a virtual axis, wherein several electric contact sections are foreseen along a path on the inner surface of the hollow casing, which are electrically joined through the wall of the hollow casing and a selector contact in the inner of the cylinder which is moveable along the path and that's outer end is selectively connectable with one of the contact sections by a respective movement. Respective cables are foreseen to electrically connect the contact sections from the radial outer side of the hollow casing, wherein at least some of the cables have a respective surrounding outer insulation at least at their respective connected end.
US09766637B2
An operation control system for a mining machine includes, based on travel path information including at least information on moisture content of a travel path on which a mining machine operating at a mine runs, and position information being information on a position of a travel path corresponding to the travel path information, generating speed limit information for changing a speed limit for the mining machine to run on the travel path corresponding to the travel path information.
US09766634B2
This invention provides a fluid mechanism that can arrange a plurality of fluid device units and external fluid devices mounted as a set on the fluid device units effectively and compactly. Each of the fluid device units is arranged with respective side surfaces in a longitudinal direction of the fluid device unit tightly attached, and the external fluid devices are arranged side-by-side external to and outside of the fluid device unit in the width direction. Furthermore, as for an introducing path and a discharging path that connect the external fluid devices and the fluid device unit, the introducing path, which is short, is connected to the discharging path, which is long.
US09766631B2
A method and a system for controlling automatic quantitative fluid supply are disclosed, and the method and the system automatically control the quantitative fluid supply by timing a period of time t required for introducing gas (20) into a sealing tank (4) in such a way that the pressure in the sealing tank (4) reaches a default value and calculating a period of time T, required for continuously introducing the gas (20) into the sealing tank (4) to extrude a fixed volume (V) of the fluid, from the time t, in the process of automatic quantitative fluid supply, so as to automatically control the switching-on and -off of a gas passage (1), overcome the impact of the reduction of the liquid level on the quantitative supply accuracy and guarantee the accuracy requirement of repeated quantitative supply.
US09766614B2
A motor control apparatus of the present invention is a motor control apparatus for compensating elastic deformation between a servo motor and a driven part, driven by the servo motor, which includes a position command generator for generating a position command of the motor, a compensation filter for compensating the position command generated by the position command generator and a servo control unit for controlling the movement of the motor based on a position command after compensation, i.e., the compensated position command by the compensation filter, and is constructed such that the compensation filter includes a filter F(s) having an inertia JL of the driven part, a stiffness coefficient K of an elastically deformable part and a damping coefficient C of the elastically deformable part as the elements of filter coefficients.
US09766611B2
An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interface component is adapted to communicate with industrial controllers by integrating a computer process interface library into the automation interface component. The computer process interface library exposes the automation interface component to client application processes, so that the client application processes can communicate with the at least one industrial controller programmatically. The automation interface is provided with functionality for downloading, uploading and programming of control programs to the processors of the industrial controllers.
US09766608B2
A power tool having a digital control unit is provided, an interface of the digital control unit being switchable between standard operation and communication operation. In communication operation, operating data of the power tool are able to be transmitted via the interface.
US09766606B2
A thermostat for controlling an HVAC system is described, the thermostat having a user interface that is visually pleasing, approachable, and easy to use while also providing ready access to, and intuitive navigation within, a menuing system capable of receiving a variety of different types of user settings and/or control parameters. For some embodiments, the thermostat comprises a housing, a ring-shaped user-interface component configured to track a rotational input motion of a user, a processing system configured to identify a setpoint temperature value based on the tracked rotational input motion, and an electronic display coupled to the processing system. An interactive thermostat menuing system is accessible to the user by an inward pressing of the ring-shaped user interface component. User navigation within the interactive thermostat menuing system is achievable by virtue of respective rotational input motions and inward pressings of the ring-shaped user interface component.
US09766605B1
A method may involve receiving one or more criteria for a waveguide array antenna. The waveguide array antenna includes a plurality of waveguides. The plurality of waveguides may include a plurality of radiation elements. The method may also involve determining a dataset configured to associate radiation characteristics of a given radiation element with given configuration parameters including a given resonance length a given rotation angle of the given radiation element. The method also involves generating configuration parameters for the plurality of radiation elements based on the dataset. The configuration parameters may cause the waveguide array antenna to be associated with the one or more criteria. The method may also involve providing a request for fabrication of the waveguide array antenna to have the plurality of radiation elements configured according to the configuration parameters.
US09766587B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a cartridge. The main assembly includes a mounting portion for mounting the cartridge and a door for causing the mounting portion to be in an open state and a closed state. The main assembly or the cartridge includes an expansion and contraction member for displacing at least a part of the cartridge. Opening and closing of the door is interrelated with expansion and contraction of the expansion and contraction member. In the closed state, the cartridge mounted in the mounting portion is in a first position, inside the main assembly, where an image is formable. In the open state, the cartridge mounted in the mounting portion is in a second position where at least a part thereof projects to an outside of the main assembly.
US09766586B2
A door is held in an open condition by locking a stopper member whose one end is turnably supported by an apparatus body. The stopper member is composed of a base member having a project portion and a turning shaft portion supported by a printer body, and a reinforcing member. The reinforcing member is joined with the base member by a joining mechanism such that, in a case when a force of predetermined magnitude is applied to the door in opening the door, the base member is broken and the reinforcing member holds the door by supporting the project portion and the turning shaft portion of the broken base member.
US09766584B1
A switching power supply comprises a transformer; a switching element; a power supply control section which outputs a first gate voltage of a first pulse width consecutively for plural times when the switching element is driven in a burst mode in which the switching element is intermittently driven; a drive time control section which, based on the first gate voltage input consecutively for plural times when the switching element is driven, outputs a second gate voltage to the switching element consecutively for plural times and gradually increases a pulse width of the second gate voltage to a first pulse width from a second pulse width narrower than the first pulse width; and a switching section to which a feedback voltage is input which switches an input destination of the first gate voltage output by the power supply control section from the switching element to the drive time control section in the burst mode.
US09766580B2
A fixing device having a cam and a contact member is configured to satisfy: D4>D2, and D3−D4
US09766563B2
The toner according to the present invention is used for electrostatic latent image development, and has toner particles containing a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent. The binder resin is composed of a non-crystalline resin and a crystalline resin. The toner satisfies the relationship represented by specific expressions specified by the endothermic property of the crystalline resin, the endothermic property of the toner and the content ratio of the binder resin in the toner particles.
US09766559B2
An edge-dominant alignment method for use in an exposure scanner system is provided. The method includes the steps of: providing a wafer having a plurality of shot areas, wherein each shot area has a plurality of alignment marks; determining a first outer zone of the wafer, wherein the first outer zone includes a first portion of the shot areas along a first outer edge of the wafer; determining a scan path according to the shot areas of the first outer zone; and performing an aligning process to each shot area of the first outer zone according to the scan path and an alignment mark of each shot area of the first outer zone.
US09766543B2
In one embodiment, a liquid treatment method includes (A) imaging a discharging port part of the liquid nozzle each time the discharging process is performed to one substrate, and acquiring, from images thus obtained, size data on foreign matter possibly present at the discharging port part; and (B) based on a history of the size data arranged in chronological order, judging whether an abnormality in substrate-processing has occurred. In the item (B), if the number of continuous acquisition, indicating how many times the size data not smaller than a first threshold value has been acquired continuously, exceeds a predetermined value, then judging that an abnormality in substrate-processing has occurred.
US09766536B2
The present disclosure provides a photolithography mask. The photolithography mask includes a substrate that contains a low thermal expansion material (LTEM). A multilayer (ML) structure is disposed over the substrate. The ML structure is configured to reflect radiation. The ML structure contains a plurality of interleaving film pairs. Each film pair includes a first film and a second film. The first film and the second film have different material compositions. Each film pair has a respective thickness. For at least a subset of the plurality of the film pairs, the respective thicknesses of the film pairs change randomly along a predefined direction.
US09766527B2
Provided is an electrochromic element, including a first electrode, a second electrode, a carrier, and an electrolyte, and an anodic organic electrochromic compound and a cathodic redox substance that are arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode being transparent, in which: the electrolyte, and the anodic organic electrochromic compound and the cathodic redox substance are mixed; the electrolyte is in contact with the first electrode, the second electrode, and the carrier; the carrier has a redox substance; the reduced form of the redox substance of the carrier is more easily oxidized than the reduced form of the anodic organic electrochromic compound.
US09766524B2
Provided are a liquid crystal display and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display. According to an aspect of the present inventive concept, there is provided a liquid crystal display which includes a first substrate which includes a display area and a non-display area, and a plurality of data fan-out lines which is disposed in the non-display area and includes a first conductive line extending toward the display area, and a second conductive line extending to overlap the first conductive line. At least a portion of the second conductive line includes a first wiring section extending in a direction parallel to an x-axis, and a second wiring section extending in a direction parallel to a y-axis. In the first wiring section, an upper surface of the second conductive line includes an inclined surface which slopes upward toward a negative direction of the y-axis.
US09766509B2
A pixel unit is provided. The pixel unit includes a first strip main electrode extending to a first edge of the pixel unit. A first strip edge electrode of the first strip main electrode extends perpendicularly to the first edge. The present invention improves light leakage or dark lines occurring in the edge region of the pixel unit due to misalignment between an upper substrate and a lower substrate which are assembled.
US09766502B2
The present invention relates to the field of optical alignment, which provides a method for fabricating a photolytic alignment film, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The method for fabricating a photolytic alignment film includes: step a: irradiating a substrate coated with a photolytic alignment material by polarized ultraviolet rays to decompose the photolytic alignment material into decomposition products, wherein the decomposition products including at least one non-polymer; and step b: rinsing the substrate irradiated by polarized ultraviolet rays by using a cleaning agent to remove the non-polymer so as to form a photolytic alignment film. In the technical solution of the present invention, the photolytic alignment film can be fabricated at a greatly lowered cost because the non-polymer is rinsed by using a cleaning agent.
US09766494B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a double-faced display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, the double-faced display panel includes: an array substrate, including a first transparent substrate, a first trans-reflective layer formed on the first transparent substrate and a first electrode layer formed on the first trans-reflective layer; an opposed substrate, disposed to face the array substrate, and including a second transparent substrate, a second trans-reflective layer formed on a side of the second transparent substrate facing the first transparent substrate and a second electrode layer formed on a side of the second transparent substrate facing the first transparent substrate; a display structure, disposed between the array substrate and the opposed substrate and including a plurality groups of display units arranged in matrix, wherein each of the first and second trans-reflective layers includes a plurality of reflection regions and a plurality of transmission regions disposed alternately.
US09766491B2
A system is disclosed for correcting a color of light being generated by an LCD image system having an LED and an LCD glass component that is illuminated by the LED. A plurality of color correction filters are constructed, with each providing a predetermined, differing color shift to light being output by the LCD glass component, based on a measured color of the light being output from the LCD glass component. Each of the color correction filters is constructed based on a known range of color variations that may be present in a color of the light being output from the LCD glass component. Each filter provides a color shift that shifts the color of the light being output from the LCD glass component from outside a predetermined target color area back into the predetermined target color area.
US09766454B2
A dual output headlight system includes a projection system having a laser light source to emit incoherent light. The projection system also has a partitioned display surface including a headlight display section and a selectively active augmented display section. The partitioned display surface is positioned in a first path of the incoherent light from the laser light source and to generate a display output. The dual output headlight system also includes an optical splitter positioned in a second path of the display output to split the display output into a headlight illumination output and a graphical output.
US09766447B2
A light source apparatus includes first and second light sources having different maximum light amounts used, a first light amount detection section detecting a light amount of first light of the first light source, a second light amount detection section detecting a light amount of second light of the second light source, a light amount limiting section limiting a light amount of light incident upon the second light amount detection section so that light amounts detected in the first light amount detection section and the second light amount detection section match a predetermined value within a detection range when light with the maximum light amounts used are emitted from the first light source and the second light source, and a control section controlling amounts of light emission of the first light source and the second light source based on detection results of the first and second light amount detection sections.
US09766445B2
A cell suction support system includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a microscopic image of a group of cells in a cell container; an image processor that uses the microscopic image to calculate a characteristic amount of each cell, and detects a cell having a characteristic amount that satisfies a predetermined condition; a display that displays information concerning the group of cells so that the detected cell is distinguishable; and a movement controller that moves the cell container so that a designated specific cell is placed at a predetermined suction position, while moving a suction tip to the suction position.
US09766443B2
A varioscope optical unit has a positive member (9) with a positive refractive power and a negative member (11) with a negative refractive power arranged along an optical axis (OA) so that the negative member follows the positive member along an observation direction (B). At least one of the members is displaceable along the optical axis. Each member has a first termination lens surfaces (23, 27) counter to the observation direction (B) and second termination lens surface (25, 29) in the observation direction. The second termination lens surface of the positive member and the first termination lens surface of the negative member are concave when viewed in the observation direction (B) and have radii of curvature of at most 500 mm. The second termination lens surface of the negative member is convex when viewed in the observation direction (B) and has a radius of curvature of at most 70 mm.
US09766438B2
There is provided a projection optical system capable of projecting an image formed on an image forming unit on a projection plane, which has an extremely short projection distance and a small size.
US09766429B2
An imaging lens for a solid-state image sensor includes five lenses, arranged in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex surface on the object side, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with positive or negative refractive power having a meniscus shape with a convex surface on the object side and a concave surface on the image side near an optical axis, a fourth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens, having a concave surface on the image side near the optical axis, and a fifth lens as a double-sided aspheric lens, having a concave surface on the image side near the optical axis; wherein the first to fifth lenses are made of plastic materials.
US09766428B2
A mirror assembly (1) includes a mirror head (4), a bracket (5) fastened to the mirror head, and fastening elements (6) located at the bracket at a distance from the mirror head and connectable to the wing mirror (2) of a vehicle (3). The bracket has bracket parts (7, 8) joined in a longitudinal direction and mutually connected through a pivoting element (9), wherein a bracket part (7) faces towards the mirror head (4) relatively to the pivoting element and another bracket part (8) faces away from the mirror head (4) relatively to the pivoting element. Because one of the fastening elements is located at the bracket part (7) facing the mirror head and another of the fastening elements is located at the bracket part (8) facing away from the mirror head, the mutual orientation of the fastening elements can be adjusted to the exterior shape of the wing mirror.
US09766422B1
Methods and systems for heating a space deployed membrane assembly are provided. The membrane assembly can include one or more framed sections. Each section can include a composite membrane having a membrane substrate and a transparent, electrically conductive resistive coating. The composite membrane is held within a frame. Electrically conductive bus bars are provided and are placed in intimate electrical contact with the resistive coating. The electrically conductive bus bars are generally arranged, on opposite sides of the perimeter of the membrane. A controller passes current between selected bus bars, with different bus bars operative to pass current between them at different times. The magnitude of the voltage applied to the bus bars, the location of the bus bars, the operational sequence of powering the bus bars, and the time over which current is passed between a selected pair of bus bars, are selected to provide substantially uniform time averaged heating of the membrane.
US09766404B1
An integrated circuit that includes a wavelength-filter layer stack (which may include silicon oxynitride) and an optical substrate (such as a silicon-on-insulator platform) is described. During operation, an optical signal received from an optical fiber or an optical waveguide is wavelength filtered into a set of wavelength-filter optical waveguides by an optical multiplexer/demultiplexer (such as an Echelle grating and/or an array waveguide grating) in the wavelength-filter layer stack. Then, wavelength-filtered optical signals are optically coupled to the optical substrate, where they are received using photodetectors. Alternatively, modulators in the optical substrate modulate wavelength-filtered modulated optical signals, which are then optically coupled to the set of wavelength-filter optical waveguides in the wavelength-filter layer stack. Next, the wavelength-filtered modulated optical signals are combined using the optical multiplexer/demultiplexer, and the resulting optical signal is output to the optical fiber or the optical waveguide.
US09766396B2
A high backscattering fiber comprising a perturbed segment in which the perturbed segment reflects a relative power that is more than three (3) decibels (dB) above Rayleigh scattering. The high backscattering fiber also exhibits a coupling loss of less than 0.5 dB.
US09766372B2
Systems and methods for calibrating resistivity tools in environments with radio-frequency (RF) noise are described herein. The method may include receiving a first measurement from a resistivity tool. The measurement may be taken with the resistivity tool elevated to reduce ground effects on the measurements. The first measurement may be altered by excluding at least some RF noise from the first measurement. The RF noise may be a by product of the resistivity tool being elevated. Additionally, the resistivity tool may be calibrated using the altered first measurement.
US09766369B2
In some embodiments, apparatus and systems, as well as methods, may operate to select from multiple optical detectors and/or multiple detector amplifiers to form combinations of detectors and amplifiers as part of an optical detection system. The selection may be based on minimizing noise equivalent power (NEP) of the optical detector or a combination of an optical detector and a detector amplifier over a desired temperature range. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09766365B2
A method for making downhole electromagnetic logging while drilling measurements includes rotating an electromagnetic logging while drilling tool in a subterranean wellbore. The logging tool includes first and second transmitters, each of which includes a tilted antenna, and a receiver axially spaced apart from one another. Electromagnetic voltage measurements are made at the receiver while the tilted transmitting antenna in the first transmitter fires during tool rotation. The electromagnetic voltage measurements are mathematically rotated through at least the arbitrary angle to obtain rotated measurements, selected ratios of which are processing to compute gain compensated measurement quantities.
US09766351B2
A radioisotope generator that releases a daughter radioisotope from radioactive decay of a corresponding parent isotope, such as a 82Sr/82Rb radioisotope generator or 68Ge/68Ga radioisotope generator, may be used to generate radioisotopes for medical imaging applications. In some examples, a gamma ray detector is positioned to detect gamma rays emanating from radioactive eluate flowing from the generator. Based on the detected gamma rays, an activity of the daughter radioisotope in the eluate and an activity of the parent radioisotope in the eluate may be determined. Depending on the application, the activity of the daughter radioisotope and the activity of the parent radioisotope may be determined in substantially real time, e.g., so that the eluate can be diverted from patient dosing based on determined activity information for the eluate.
US09766349B1
A localization server improves position estimates of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) using probabilistic shadow matching and pseudorange matching is disclosed herein. The localization server may utilize one or more of the following information: the locations of the satellites, the GNSS receiver's location estimate and associated estimated uncertainty, the reported pseudoranges of the satellites, the GNSS estimated clock bias, the SNRs of the satellites, and 3D environment information regarding the location of the receiver. The localization server utilizes a Bayesian framework to calculate an improved location estimate using the GNSS location fixes, pseudorange information, and satellite SNRs thereby improving localization and tracking for a user device.
US09766348B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) chipsets or architecture. Based upon a requested accuracy and/or update of a host application, embodiments of the disclosure can calculate position data points on-board the GNSS chipset or allow a host processor to calculate position data points, which can allow the host processor to enter a low power mode if the requested update rate and/or accuracy allow.
US09766347B2
A receiver is arranged to receive a plurality of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals from up to four different satellite navigation systems including a GLONASS system, a BeiDou system, a GPS system, and a Galileo system. Received GNSS signals are mixed with a first local frequency signal to generate a plurality of mixed signals. The mixed signals are processed in up to three parallel branches. In a first branch, a first portion of the mixed signals are transformed by passing the first portion through a band-pass filter having a bandwidth between about 0 MHz and 46 MHz and by amplifying the filtered signals with an AGC circuit. In a second branch, a second portion of the mixed signals are transformed by rejecting image signals of the second portion with an image rejection filter and mixing image rejection filter output signals with a second local frequency signal to derive first remixed signals. In a third branch, a third portion of the mixed signals are transformed by adjusting a phase of the third portion to overlap a band of the first remixed signals. The adjusted third portion of the mixed signals and the first remixed signals are concurrently band pass filtered with a low IF filter.
US09766343B2
A system and method to determine the location of an interfering signal source within a few meters. Three or more networked GNSS receivers are located at known locations and used to simultaneously collect and time-stamp data samples at L1 and L2. The data samples are passed over the network to a server which identifies samples associated with an interfering signal, cross correlates associated samples from pairs of receivers, and applies a discriminator function to significantly improve the accuracy of a computed time difference of arrival (TDOA) for the interfering signal, thereby significantly improving the accuracy of the location determination.
US09766340B2
GPS correction method comprising providing benchmark GPS devices located respectively at a priori known stationary benchmark points within respective geographical zones, the stationary benchmark points having corresponding benchmark GPS coordinates; providing a benchmark database storing data mapping the GPS devices to the benchmark GPS coordinates of their respective stationary benchmark points and their respective geographical zones; receiving first GPS coordinates associated to objects within the geographical zones and second GPS coordinates associated to the stationary benchmark points measured at a same time period, the first GPS coordinates being transmitted by the benchmark GPS devices and the second GPS coordinates being transmitted by GPS devices associated to the objects; and generating corrected GPS coordinates of the object by measuring a deviation between the benchmark GPS coordinates and the second GPS coordinates and using the deviation for correcting the first GPS coordinates. There is also provided a GPS correction system.
US09766332B2
The present invention provides a non-contact monitoring system, including: a radar detection module, an infrared sensing module, a micro control unit and a communication module. The radar detection module transmits a radar detection signal via the radar antenna to an area, receives a radar reflection signal from the area, and transmits the radar reflection signal to the micro control unit. The infrared sensing module detects a heat source of an organism in the area, and transmits an infrared sensing signal to the micro control unit. The micro control unit receives and processes the radar reflection signal transmitted by the radar detection module and the infrared sensing signal transmitted by the infrared sensing module, and transmits an alarm signal to the communication module. The communication module receives the alarm signal transmitted by the micro control unit, and transmits the alarm signal to a remote monitoring end via the antenna.
US09766331B2
A plurality of antenna elements may receive a plurality of signals. Each of the plurality of antenna elements may correspond to at least one of a plurality of sectors of a sectorized antenna. A receiver may process each of the plurality of signals in parallel, including decoding one or more messages from the plurality of signals. The receiver may output at least one of the one or more messages.
US09766325B2
A laser jammer configured for being a part of a countermeasure system. The system comprises a stage having an axis of rotation and laser source mounted on the stage. The laser source is configured for emitting a laser beam having an optical axis perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The laser has a first spread in a first plane parallel to the rotation axis of the stage and including the optical axis, and a second spread in a second plane perpendicular to the first plane and including the optical axis. The first spread is greater than the second spread.
US09766324B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for detecting objects, including humans, using a mobile communications device. A communication space is scanned with a beam-shaped signal transmitted by a phased antenna array of the mobile communications device. Information is discerned from one or more attenuated signals received from the communication space based on the beam-shaped signal. The information is analyzed to determine an object in the communication space. Whether the object is likely at least a portion of a human is determined. A communication signal transmitted by the phased antenna array is modified in response to determining that the object is likely at least a portion of a human, and that the at least a portion of the human has a predetermined spatial relationship with the phased antenna array.
US09766318B2
An arrangement for measuring an internal clock within an electricity meter includes an optical communication circuit within the meter, an optical detector external to the meter, and a frequency counter. The optical communication circuit within the electricity meter is operably coupled to receive a pulse output of the meter's internal clock, and is further configured to generate a corresponding optical pulse representative of the pulse output. The optical detector is configured to detect the pulse output via an optical port of the electricity meter. The frequency counter is operably coupled to receive from the optical detector a signal that is representative of the detected pulse output.
US09766314B2
A system, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and method of designing quiet variable-rate MRI slice-select pulses includes creating discretized first slice-select constant-amplitude gradient and RF waveforms, associating discretized time points having a first constant time increment with the first waveforms, selecting a scaling function that smooths the gradient waveform when multiplied together, multiplying the gradient and RF waveforms by the corresponding value of the scaling function to create second gradient and RF waveforms, dividing the time increment between the discretized time points by the corresponding value of the scaling function to create a remapped time increment, cumulatively summing the remapped time increments to create a remapped time scale, interpolating the second gradient and RF waveforms along the remapped time scale to form final gradient and RF waveforms, and providing the final gradient and RF waveforms for incorporation into an MRI pulse sequence.
US09766312B2
An NMR apparatus includes a superconducting magnet coil system configured to generate a homogeneous magnetic field, and a helium (He) tank having an inner tube mechanically rigidly connected to the He tank and in which the magnet coil system is positioned. The He tank is configured to contain liquid helium to cool the magnet coils. A radiation shield has a radiation shield inner tube encompassing the He tank and spaced from the He inner tube to create a space between the He inner tube and the radiation shield inner tube to reduce an evaporation rate of the liquid helium. The NMR apparatus additionally includes a field shaping device with a magnetic material arranged in the space, in order to shim the homogeneous magnetic field. The field shaping device is fixed in the space so as to be in rigid mechanical contact with the He tank but without contacting the radiation shield.
US09766300B2
A vertical Hall sensor circuit comprises an arrangement comprising a vertical Hall effect region of a first doping type, formed within a semiconductor substrate and having a stress dependency with respect to a Hall effect-related electrical characteristic. The vertical Hall sensor circuit further comprises a stress compensation circuit which comprises at least one of a lateral resistor arrangement and a vertical resistor arrangement. The lateral resistor arrangement has a first resistive element and a second resistive element, which are parallel to a surface of the semiconductor substrate and orthogonal to each other, for generating a stress-dependent lateral resistor arrangement signal on the basis of a reference signal inputted to the stress compensation circuit. The vertical resistor arrangement has a third resistive element of the first doping type for vertically conducting an electric current flow, for generating a stress-dependent vertical resistor arrangement signal on the basis of the reference signal. The vertical Hall sensor circuit further comprises a first circuit for providing a first signal to the arrangement, the first signal being based on at least one of the stress-dependent lateral resistor arrangement signal and the stress-dependent vertical resistor arrangement signal.
US09766291B2
One embodiment describes a switching device system, which includes a first single pole switching device that selectively connects and disconnects a first phase of electric power to a first winding of a three phase motor; a second single switching device that selectively connects and disconnects a second phase of electric power to a second winding of the three phase motor; in which the first and second single pole switching devices control temperature of the motor by, at a first time, connecting the first phase and the second phase electric power to the motor.
US09766287B2
An example test system includes: a heating mechanism; a cooling mechanism; an instrument module having one or more interfaces to receive signals from a device under test (DUT), where the instrument module includes one or more electrical components to affect the signals, where the instrument module is between the heating mechanism and the cooling mechanism, and where the heating mechanism and the cooling mechanism are each configured to operate to maintain the instrument module within a target temperature range.
US09766281B2
It is proposed a method for monitoring an electrical power supply line comprised in a seismic cable and extending along the seismic cable. The seismic cable includes: a plurality of seismic sensors arranged along the seismic cable, a plurality of controllers arranged along the seismic cable, and an optical transmission line extending along the seismic cable for carrying data signals from or towards the controllers. The electrical power supply line supplies at least one pair of master and slave controllers. The master controller of a given pair of master and slave controllers performs a step of monitoring a portion of the electrical power supply line between the master and slave controllers, by using an optical loop established on a portion of the optical transmission line between the master and slave controllers, and starting from the master controller and passing through the slave controller.
US09766279B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus that can prevent erroneous detection of a sensor output due to an AC line noise. A power supply circuit includes a noise filter, input rectifying smoothing circuit, converter circuit, and output smoothing circuit. The input rectifying smoothing circuit rectifies an input AC voltage passed through the noise filter to a pulsating flow and then smooth it. The converter circuit converts a DC voltage rectified and smoothed into a desired output voltage. The output smoothing circuit smoothes the convert output voltage to supply it to a control part. The noise determination part detects a noise that could not have been removed by the noise filter, as an AC line noise. The control part invalidates a detection signal outputted from the sensor for a previously set invalid period from the moment the AC line noise has been detected.
US09766277B2
A system for sensing electrical power usage in an electrical power infrastructure of a structure. The system can include a sensing device configured to be attached to a panel of the circuit breaker box overlying at least part of the one or more main electrical power supply lines. The system also can include a calibration device configured to be electrically coupled to the electrical power infrastructure of the structure. The system further can include one or more processing modules configured to receive one or more output signals from the sensing device. The sensing device can be devoid of being electrically or physically coupled to the one or more main electrical power supply lines or the electrical power infrastructure when the sensing device is attached to the panel. Other embodiments are provided.
US09766274B2
Disclosed is a current sampling circuit including a proportional current output circuit and a full differential common mode negative feedback circuit, specifically the proportional current output circuit is configured to calculate a current output from a power device according to a preset proportion to obtain a first proportional current and a second proportional current, and to output the first proportional current and the second proportional current to the full differential common mode negative feedback circuit; and the full differential common mode negative feedback circuit is configured to shunt respectively the first proportional current and the second proportional current using a full differential common mode negative feedback network with a bias current in microamps to obtain a first sampling current and a second sampling current, and to output constantly the first sampling current and the second sampling current. Further disclosed is a current sampling method.
US09766271B2
An electrical circuit protecting an electrical utility meter used in connection with an electrical supply connection having a plurality of phases is disclosed. The circuit includes a plurality of voltage transformers, each of the plurality of voltage transformers electrically connected between one of the plurality of phases of the electrical supply connection and an input power connection of an electrical meter, and an electrical connection of the electrical meter dedicated to a power supply of the electrical meter.
US09766267B2
A device for calculating a position of an actuator, the actuator including a movement mechanism configured to move in one direction in proportion to a control signal generated for each minimum movement amount ΔM and a movement amount detection sensor configured to detect a movement amount of the movement mechanism in a minimum resolution ΔS, where A=ΔS/ΔM≧2, and the device includes a position calculation unit configured to calculating a position SA of the movement mechanism at a target position from the control signal at a time point T1, at which the sensor signal becomes (S0+m×ΔS) or (S0−m×ΔS), where m is a natural number of 1 or more, the control signal at the target position of the movement mechanism is denoted by M0, and the sensor signal is denoted by S0.
US09766264B2
Described herein is an accelerometer that can be sensitive to acceleration, but not anchor motion due to sources other than acceleration. The accelerometer can employ a set of electrodes and/or transducers that can register motion of the proof mass and support structure and employ and output-cancelling mechanism so that the accelerometer can distinguish between acceleration and anchor motion due to sources other than acceleration. For example, the effects of anchor motion can be cancelled from an output signal of the accelerometer so that the accelerometer exhibits sensitivity to only acceleration.
US09766263B2
Disclosed is apparatus and a method for detecting udder disease in dairy animals. An accelerometer is attached to each of a plurality of dairy animals. A processor determines a measure of the activity of the dairy animals to which the accelerometers are attached. Data is recorded by and automatically transmitted from a sensor unit secured to an animal, without the requirement for costly and time consuming chemical analysis of milk, or of visual or veterinary inspection of individual animals in a herd. The development of an udder disease in a dairy animal, such as mastitis, may be identified from a decrease in the monitored measure of activity of a dairy animal. A separate baseline measure of activity may be determined for each dairy animal and the activity of a plurality of dairy animals in one or more herds may be taken into account, in order to reduce false positives due to external effects which are not specific to a single dairy animal.
US09766256B2
Methods for separating, cells, particles, or other molecules of interest (MOI) from unwanted materials not of interest (MNOI). by forced movement of MOI into certain zones having properties which deter the entry of unwanted materials. MOI are tagged with magnetic particles and moved with a magnetic field through a fluid, or zones, of higher specific gravity that prevents, unwanted less dense materials from entering. Buoyant or other forces are used to remove any unbound material from the complexes with ASG before reading. Readable labels include the magnetic particle tagged complex itself, and other labels such as enzymes, chemiluminescent materials, radioactive isotopes, chromogenic and fluorogenic substrates and other labels may be used. The invention applies to many assays, diagnostic tests, separative procedures and chemical syntheses.
US09766255B2
Disclosed is a biosensor engineered to conditionally respond to the presence of specific small molecules, the biosensors including conditionally stable ligand-binding domains (LBDs) which respond to the presence of specific small molecules, wherein readout of binding is provided by reporter genes or transcription factors (TFs) fused to the LBDs.
US09766253B2
The present invention relates to the diagnosis of acquired sensory neuronopathies (SNN), and to the treatment of these disorders.
US09766252B2
An embodiment of the invention is a peptide comprising four domains, wherein domain I consists of thioctyl or monocytl, domain II consists of 2 to 3 positively charged amino acids selected from the group consisting of lysine and arginine, domain III consists of a dimeric ethylene unit; and domain IV comprises the peptide with SEQ ID No. 1 or a sequence having at least 90% identity to SEQ ID No. I. The peptide is preferably attached to a gold nanostructure, preferably a gold nanorod to provide an EFGR kit. An EFGR detection kit of the invention employs a gold nanostructure attached to a peptide sequence, the peptide sequence includes a binding sequence with an affinity toward EGFR, a ligand bound to gold atoms of the nanorod, a positively charged amino acid that maintains activity of the binding sequence, and a unit that increases hydrophilicity of the peptide sequence.
US09766242B2
The invention provides methods of measuring and/or quantifying the presence and/or amount of Her-3 and/or Her-3 in a complex and the presence and/or amount of p95 in a sample. The invention also provides antibodies specific for Her-3.
US09766239B2
Synbodies specific for Norovirus and coupled with a substrate provide Norovirus binding and detection platforms (FIG. 1). A Norovirus capturing platform, comprising one or more synbodies selected from the group consisting of synbodies 6-6, 92-92, 93-93, and 94-94 coupled to a substrate, has been found to found to bind with either GII.4 Minerva or both GII.4 Minerva and GII.4 Sydney# strains of norovirus.
US09766237B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions, methods, and kits for the detection, separation and/or isolation of microorganisms. Specifically, the disclosure relates to compositions, methods, and kits for using polylysine-coated particles to capture microorganisms such as bacteria.
US09766233B2
Apparatuses and methods of optically analyzing fluid within a pipette are described herein. In an embodiment, an optical reader subassembly includes a housing including an internal area, a container configured to hold a fluid sample at a sample position in a light tight manner within the internal area of the housing, a light source configured to project light onto the fluid sample within the container, and an optical sensor configured to move between different sensor positions while the fluid sample remains stationary at the sample position, the different sensor positions including at least two of: (i) a first sensor position for taking a luminescence reading of the fluid sample; (ii) a second sensor position for taking a dark current or other background measurement; and (iii) a third sensor position for taking a fluorescence reading of the fluid sample.
US09766228B2
The invention relates to a biocompatible scaffold for three dimensional cultivation of cells, said scaffold comprise one or more fibers randomly oriented to form a scaffold with open spaces for cultured cells. The one or more fibers are also coated with a bio-active coating and have a diameter of 100-3000 nm.
US09766227B2
An objective is to provide screening methods for substances having an activity of promoting maturation into hemocytes. It was revealed that in the maturation process of erythrocytes and platelets, RP S19 multimers are released to the outside of the cell and act on the C5a receptors of erythroblasts and megakaryocytes, thereby causing maturation of erythroblasts and megakaryocytes to erythrocytes and platelets. Based on such findings, the present invention provides methods of screening for substances having an activity of promoting maturation into hemocytes by targeting the RP S19 multimers and C5a receptors. The screening methods of the present invention can detect hemocyte maturation using an increase of the R4 RGS family as an indicator. Furthermore, the present invention provides agents for promoting hemocyte maturation, which comprise RP S19 multimers and a substance having an activity of promoting maturation into hemocytes as useful components. The present invention also provides methods for producing erythrocytes and platelets, which include the step of contacting RP S19 multimers and a substance having an activity of promoting maturation into hemocytes with erythroblasts or megakaryocytes.
US09766225B2
An indexer adapted to index a test sensor from a test-sensor cartridge. The indexer includes an indexer face having a first aperture formed generally through the center thereof. The indexer further includes a retention pin extending through the first aperture and a flexible pawl positioned near an edge of the indexer face. The indexer is adapted to be rotated in a first direction and a second generally opposite direction about the retention pin. The flexible pawl is configured to bend when the indexer is rotated in the second direction. The flexible pawl is configured to assist in rotating the test-sensor cartridge.
US09766222B2
A customizable diagnostic meter is provided. The diagnostic meter includes a meter for performing a diagnostic test, wherein the meter includes a housing having a slot, and a module having one or more functions. The slot is configured to receive and removably secure at least a portion of the module. A customizable diagnostic meter kit including two or more modules configured to be inserted in a meter is also provided.
US09766219B2
A gas inlet system for introducing gas into an isotope ratio analyser, the gas inlet system including a reference system comprising: a first supply of a reference gas having a first known isotope ratio; a supply of a carrier gas, wherein the supplies of reference gas and carrier gas are each connected by respective reference and carrier gas lines to a first mixing junction where the reference gas and carrier gas combine; a mixing zone connected downstream of the first mixing junction wherein the combined reference gas and carrier gas mix together; an exit line for transporting the mixed gas from the mixing zone to the isotope ratio analyser; and an opening on the exit line, wherein the opening is downstream of the mixing zone. Also provided is a method of determining an isotope ratio.
US09766217B2
Described are methods for determination of peptide specific parameter(s) of a mixture comprising a target peptide and a related impurity (or impurities) to be used in a simulation model of chromatographic separation using mathematical model(s). Also described are chromatographic simulation methods using above determined parameters, as well as computer systems and computer programs for performing one or more of the above method(s).
US09766210B2
A method for evaluating installation of blind rivets including measuring the “cycle time” represented “y0”, transmitting sound waves through the blind rivet installed in the structure, measuring the “travel time” represented “x0”, relating “travel time” and “cycle time”, and obtaining a pair of times (x0,y0), providing a time relation pattern establishing a borderline between an area of suitable rivets and an area of unsuitable rivets, the border represented y=f(x), so for cycle time values greater than y=f(x), it is considered a “suitable area”, for cycle time values less than y=f(x), it is considered an “unsuitable area”, representing pair (x0,y0) in the graphic representation and verifying if the value of y0 is greater or less than the value of y=f(x0), classifying installation of the rivet as suitable or unsuitable according to the verification.
US09766207B2
Methods and devices for purifying, detecting, and collecting analytes fractionated based on pI, separating analytes via electrophoresis and pI, and purifying a target molecule using pI focusing and subsequent crystallization are provided.
US09766203B2
The potentiometric sensor element comprises a measuring element and a shield housing permanently bonded to the measuring element, in which housing an electronic sensor unit is accommodated and which is sealed off against external influences. The electronic sensor unit is connected to a contactless interface adapted to exchange energy and signals with a corresponding contactless interface in an electronic base unit. The shield housing comprises an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve, accommodated within the outer sleeve, wherein the electronic sensor unit is accommodated in the inner sleeve and is surrounded there by a first casting compound. The filled inner sleeve is in turn bonded permanently to the outer sleeve by means of a second casting compound, which is different from the first casting compound.
US09766193B2
A liquid concentration detecting device including a first substrate, a first temperature sensing element and a concentration sensor is provided. The first temperature sensing element and the concentration sensor are respectively disposed on opposite first surface and second surface of the first substrate. The concentration sensor includes a second substrate, a porous element, a heating element and a second temperature sensing element. The second substrate is disposed above the second surface. A portion of the liquid flows into the concentration sensor through the porous element, and the heating element heats the liquid in the concentration sensor. The second temperature sensing element measures the temperature variation of the liquid in the concentration sensor. The measured temperature and the temperature variation are compared to deduce a concentration of the liquid under detection.
US09766182B2
This invention discloses a compact laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) apparatus suitable for field operations. The LIBS apparatus comprises a Q-switched laser with laser pulse energy between several tens and several thousands of micro joules (μJ), which is significantly lower than that of traditional LIBS lasers. The spectrograph of the LIBS apparatus employs a dual CCD (charge coupled device) design, which maintains compact size and in the meantime offers large spectral coverage and high spectral resolution.
US09766176B2
A method and an arrangement are disclosed in connection with a measurement arrangement of optical parameters of a separate sample taken from a process liquid, in which method a sample is taken from the process liquid. The sample can be arranged into a sample vessel provided with at least one measurement window, and optical parameters of the sample in the sample vessel are measured through the measurement window. In the sample in the sample vessel, a flow is produced which can be used to mitigate (e.g., prevent) the measurement window surface in contact with the sample from getting dirty. A back-and-forth flow can be produced in the sample residing in the sample vessel by means of pressure variation focused on the sample, and the back-and-forth flow can be focused on the surface of the optical measurement window.
US09766172B2
An extension assembly is connected or connectable, in terms of driving, to a double-motor rheometer. The double-motor rheometer includes first and second measuring motors controllable independently of each other, and provided for determining a torsional moment generated by the corresponding measuring motor. The extension assembly includes first and second sample holding parts for holding a first sample portion and a second sample portion of the sample. The first sample holding part is driveable by the first measuring motor in a rotational movement about a first axis, and the second sample holding part is driveable by the second measuring motor in a rotational movement about a second axis. The first axis is arranged so as to be parallel to and spaced apart from the second axis. The sample held in the first sample portion and in the second sample portion extends between the respective sample holding parts.
US09766168B2
A process is disclosed for using multiple acoustic resonators to sample fluids (gas or liquids), capture particulate (or aerosols) entrained in the fluid, and deliver a concentrated sample of particulate. The acoustic concentrator demonstrates many improvements over prior art that includes improved concentration of particulate below 3 micron, adjustability of the level of concentration, ability to function over a wide range of humidity and temperature, and reduced overall power consumption. For example, when installed on the inlet of an aerosol detection system, the acoustic concentrator has been shown to increase sensitivity that may lead to earlier detection of bioaerosol agents.
US09766164B2
A sample preparation apparatus and method of preparing a rock sample using such an apparatus, as useful in connection with the digital numerical simulation of properties of the rock. The disclosed apparatus includes a fixably mounted diamond wire cutter. Three linear translation stages are coupled to a specimen holder. One of the translation stages moves the specimen in a direction parallel to the plane of the cutting wire. The other two translation stages move the specimen in different directions from one another, and when actuated together, advance the specimen into the wire for short distances in a direction out of the plane of the cutting wire. Short piecewise linear cuts are made in the specimen, to provide a sample of the desired shape with a small cross-section.
US09766162B2
A method for determining a mechanical performance parameter of a structure in which damage has caused a wall of the structure to change from an initial shape to a damaged shape. The method comprising for geometrically characterizing an external surface of the damaged shape; modeling a test body comprising a surface substantially identical to the external surface of the damaged shape; modeling a test wall having a portion of a shape substantially identical to the initial shape; calculating a deformed test wall and a stress state related to the deformation, the deformation of the test wall being caused by a relative displacement of the test body and the test wall, the relative displacement being configured to give the deformed test wall an external surface substantially identical to the external surface of the damaged shape; and evaluating mechanical performance of the deformed test wall.
US09766151B2
A measurement terminals include: a sensor that measures pipe vibration in a pipe; a measurement information acquisition unit that acquires measurement position information and measurement time information; a transmitter that transmits the pipe vibration, the measurement position information and the measurement time information to an analyzer; a receiver that receives an analysis result from the analyzer; and an output unit that outputs the analysis result from the analyzer. The analyzer includes: a receiver that receives the pipe vibration, the measurement position information, and the measurement time information from the measurement terminals; a storage storing pipe data regarding an installation structure and installation position of the pipe; a leakage position analyzer that analyzes a leakage position in the pipe on the basis of the pipe vibration, the measurement position information, the measurement time information, and the pipe data; and a transmitter that transmits the analysis result to the measurement terminals.
US09766150B2
Disclosed is a mounting device (6) including a receiving opening (8) with a circular inner locating surface (10) which is coaxial with the axis of rotation (3) and serves for engagement with radially outer vertices (24) of the polygon profile of a holding pin (23). Arranged adjacent to the inner locating surface is a positioning disk (14) which has an opening (15) coaxial with the axis of rotation (3) and of such polygonal shape and size that the polygon profile of the holding pin (23) engaging in the opening (15) is supported in the opening (15) in a manner preventing relative rotation.
US09766145B2
A fluid filled pressure measurement system having a pressure sensor or pressure gauge and a diaphragm seal to a process wherein the diaphragm seal is moveable by changing the volume behind the diaphragm seal by the volume member. In a first position the diaphragm seal is seated or is a parked position such that the diaphragm seal is fixed to avoid deformations during cleaning.
US09766139B2
The present invention, in one aspect, provides systems and methods for using a single slug or multiple slugs containing one or more calibrators to determine a relationship between temperature and an electrical characteristic of the thermal sensor for use in connection with calibrating thermal sensors. In some embodiments, the present invention uses the described calibrator systems and methods to calibrate thermal control elements on a microfluidic device. In non-limiting embodiment, the calibrator can be one or more of droplets, plugs, slugs, segments or a continuous flow of any appropriate solution that, when heated, yields a thermal response profile with a plurality of features (e.g., maxima, minima, inflection points, linear regions, etc.).
US09766138B2
The invention relates to a temperature measuring device for measurement of the external temperature of the ambient air in a vehicle, wherein the temperature measuring device is disposed in a flow path of an air flow and the air flow can be generated from ambient air of the vehicle both through speed-dependent wind resistance of the vehicle and/or wind and also through a compressor unit disposed in the flow path.
US09766124B2
A device is provided for combining two or more separate components of an optical analysis system, to use common entrance and exit apertures for optical measurements across a measurement space such as a stack, combustion chamber, duct or pipeline, in such way that the optical paths from the respective light sources to detectors are substantially the same, enabling multiple optical measurements over a single optical path or closely aligned optical paths with equivalent ambient conditions such as temperature and pressure distribution and background substance concentrations. The device and a set of interconnectable devices forming a modular system are useful, for example, in absorption spectroscopy, such as for measuring the amount fraction of the chemical constituents of a fluid in a measurement volume.
US09766121B2
The present application discloses device and system embodiments that address mobile device integration considerations for various categories of UV sensors, including cameras, photodiodes, and chemical sensors. The UV sensors may use the functionalities of the existing in-built sensors in conventional mobile devices, and/or integrate additional components specific to UV sensing. By optimally positioning the sensors, UV sensing and other collateral functionalities (e.g., charging a photovoltaic cell integrated with the mobile device) can be realized in parallel.
US09766117B2
An interactive scale may provide a display, load cells, proximity sensor, light sensor, microcontroller, wireless transceiver, audio indicator(s) and/or visual indicator(s). The interactive scale may provide a variety of features, including proximity detection, detection of lighting conditions, wireless data communication, data tracking, and visual/audio indicator(s) that aid in utilizing the scale.
US09766105B2
An agricultural sprayer arrangement includes a chassis; a ground engaging traction member carried by the chassis; a liquid tank carried by the chassis; a boom carried by the chassis; a conduit associated with the boom in fluid communication with the liquid tank that acts as a fluid flow path; a nozzle having an inlet in fluid communication with the conduit; a first flow sensor placed upstream of the inlet in the fluid flow path that provides a first flow signal; a second flow sensor placed downstream of the inlet in the fluid flow path that provides a second flow signal; and an electrical processing circuit coupled to the first flow sensor and the second flow sensor that is configured to compare the first and second flow signals to determine a flow rate decrease and issue an alarm if the flow rate decrease is less than a predetermined threshold level.
US09766103B2
A measuring device, measuring arrangement and a method for determining a measured quantity. The measuring device a sensor device, an evaluation device and an interface. The sensor device generates measurement information which is dependent on the measured quantity and the evaluation device determines a result value for the measured quantity. To devise a measuring device which manages with a limited power demand and storage demand and which also allows a complex evaluation for obtaining the result value for the measured quantity, the evaluation device of the measuring device outputs the measurement information or information dependent on it via the interface to a separate data device of the measuring arrangement, receives intermediate information from the data device which is generated depending on the measurement information or the information dependent on it and determines the result value based on the intermediate information.
US09766102B2
A calibration device for a network analyzer with several ports provides a calibration circuit, which is connected in each case via a terminal port respectively to one of the several ports of the network analyzer. A first transistor and a second transistor are connected in series to each terminal port. In this context, both transistors are connected by their common connection to the terminal port. The first transistor and/or the second transistor is operated as an adjustable load.
US09766099B2
An optical sensor having one or more sensing interference elements is disclosed. A first detector function generates a coarse optical path difference signal for example using a discrete Fourier transform of a detected interference spectrum, and a second detector function generates a refined optical path difference signal using the coarse optical path difference signal and for example a cross correlation of the interference spectrum with one or more sets of periodic transfer functions.
US09766098B2
An optical position measuring instrument including a scale and a scanning unit, wherein the scanning unit and the scale are movable with respect to one another. The scanning unit includes a detector unit, and a reflector unit that has a first and second wave front correctors and a beam direction inverter. The reflector unit is disposed so that beams first pass through the scale and the first wave front corrector, then a back-reflection of partial beams is effected in a direction of the scale, and the partial beams then pass through the scale and the second wave front corrector before the partial beams then arrive at the detector unit, wherein it is ensured that wave front deformations of the partial beams are converted into wave front deformations that compensate for resultant wave front deformations of the partial beams upon a second diffraction at the scale.
US09766094B2
A smart lower end system that can detect multiple events and failures during the generation of pressure pulses by a pulser is disclosed. Pulser failures may occur if the pilot valve fails to fully close or open, if the signal shaft fails to move and close pilot valve orifice, or if movement of the pilot valve or signal shaft is restricted. The components of the smart lower end system may cycle between sleep and wake states to allow for low power operation.
US09766089B2
An approach is provided for correlating and navigating between a live camera image and a prerecorded panoramic image. A mapping and augmented reality application correlates at least one live image with a prerecorded panoramic image, when a location of a device used to capture the at least one live image matches a location of a device used to capture the panoramic prerecorded image. The mapping and augmented reality application causes, at least in part, automatically alternating presentation on a screen of the device capturing the at least one live image, of the at least one live image and the prerecorded panoramic image.
US09766079B1
A method and system of tracking and reporting locations of entity employees, the method for use with at least a first interface device including a display screen, the method comprising the steps of, providing a processor programmed to perform the steps of, storing schedules of entity employees where the schedules indicate scheduled locations of employees during time slots, receiving an indication from a first employee indicating at least a first future time slot, identifying locations of the entity employees during the future time slot, using the schedules of entity employees to generate a location representation indicating the locations of at least a subset of the entity employees during the at least a first future time slot and presenting the location representation via the first interface device.
US09766078B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to localizing mobile devices. In one example, a first location method associated with a first accuracy value may be used to estimate a location of the mobile device. A confidence circle indicative of a level of confidence in the estimation of the location is calculated. The confidence circle may be displayed on a mobile device. When other location methods become available, the size of the displayed confidence circle may be expanded based on information from an accelerometer of the client device or the accuracy of the other available location methods. This may be especially useful when the mobile device is transitioning between areas which are associated with different location methods that may be more or less accurate.
US09766075B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for tracking an object moving relative to a moving platform, the moving platform moving relative to an external frame of reference. The system includes An inertial sensor for tracking the object relative to the external reference frame, a non-inertial sensor for tracking the object relative to the moving platform, and a processor to perform sensor fusion of the inertial and non-inertial measurements in order to accurately track the object and concurrently estimate the misalignment of the non-inertial sensor's reference frame relative to the moving platform.
US09766074B2
This document discloses, among other things, a system and method for implementing an algorithm to determine pose, velocity, acceleration or other navigation information using feature tracking data. The algorithm has computational complexity that is linear with the number of features tracked.
US09766063B2
A method for treating a nonhomogeneous material surface of an object is provided. A plurality of test patches of the surface is treated for different amounts of time wherein the plurality of test patches have a total surface area. A property of each test patch is measured. A calibration curve of the property is generated with respect to time. The calibration curve and a target property are used to obtain a target time. A surface of the object with a surface area, which is greater than the total surface area of the plurality of test patches, is treated for the target time.
US09766047B2
An armored cab comprises a top wall, two side walls, a front wall, a back wall, and a bottom wall, the cab having a longitudinal axis. The bottom wall comprises a generally centrally disposed downwardly facing smooth concave wall portion extending substantially an entire length of the cab and generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cab and forming a power train tunnel of the cab, and a pair of opposite laterally disposed wall portions extending substantially the entire length of the cab and generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cab, each of the opposite laterally disposed wall portions extending downwardly and laterally inwardly and terminating in a lowermost portion of the bottom wall on either lateral side of the concave wall portion. The concave wall portion and the opposite laterally disposed wall portions are configured so as to present a substantially reduced surface area of the lowermost portions of the bottom wall in a downwardly facing direction. The armored cab includes various additional features that improve occupant survivability.
US09766043B2
A multi-function dry fire training device to be inserted into the chamber of a firearm, which comprises an illuminator for emitting, upon receiving a command from a controller, a beam of visible or invisible illumination from the barrel of the firearm, the beam being parallel to its central axis; a controller for controlling the functionality of the device including illumination of the illuminator, in response to activation of the firearm trigger; an actuator, being electrically connected to the controller, for activating the controller whenever being struck by the firearm striker and a power source for providing DC power to the controller and illuminator.
US09766041B2
A device and method for selectively illuminating and designating multiple targets in the air or on the ground simultaneously. The device comprises a light source, a switching array and a ball lens. Light from the light source is routed through the switching array, which can addressably output multiple light beams simultaneously. The light beams from the switching array illuminate the backside of a low F-number ball lens. The ball lens creates highly collimated output beams independently (and simultaneously) from any of the output source points of the switching array. These output beams can be used to simultaneously designate multiple targets. When the target illuminating device includes an optional detector array, light scattered from targets can be refracted by the balls lens to impinge on the detector array. Signals from the detector array representing the received light beams can be used for target imaging.
US09766040B2
An improved display provides an intermediate point in the projectile trajectory being an aiming point and indicated in relation to the visualized target or target reference. The rangefinder device is calibrated to a weapon having a sight, for example, having a riflescope calibrated at 100 yards. The aiming point is displayed showing the intermediate point in the projectile trajectory that corresponds with riflescope cross hairs at a predetermined zero setting. The user places the riflescope cross hairs on the point visualized in the display. Alternatively, the aiming point is displayed relative to the magnified image of the target, a generic reference images, or a user selectable reference image.
US09766033B2
A stabilizer shock mount attachable to a bow stabilizer assists in quieting the stabilizer during the drawing of a bow and after the bow is fired. The stabilizer shock mount has a first end attachable to the bow and a second end attachable to the bow stabilizer. The stabilizer shock mount allows the bow stabilizer to flex such that the vibrations from the bow stabilizer will not be transferred back to the bow. Additionally, when drawing the bow, the stabilizer shock mount allows the bow stabilizer to achieve stillness more quickly.
US09766030B2
There is provided an automatic firing apparatus, and a method for operating the automatic firing apparatus, the apparatus comprising a trigger actuator for automatically firing bullets contained in a magazine of a firearm; a magazine release actuator for releasing an empty magazine from the firearm; a magazine bank for storing a bullet magazine inside the firearm; and a magazine loading actuator for loading a new magazine inside the firearm from the magazine bank. There is further provided a magazine bank apparatus for use with a firearm comprising a magazine bank base having a plurality of slots adapted to receive and store bullet magazines; and a magazine load actuator adapted to be automatically triggered for loading a bullet magazine among the stored bullet magazines inside the firearm.
US09766026B2
A gas operating system for automatic cycling of a pistol-caliber firearm is disclosed. The disclosed system may be configured to utilize gas produced by combustion of pistol cartridge propellant to automatically cycle the firearm. To that end, the disclosed system may include a gas block which routes high-pressure gas from the barrel through a gas port to a piston. The location of the gas port may be selected to lie within a region of the barrel which generally corresponds with the peak of the pressure curve associated with a given pistol cartridge. The high-pressure gas may impinge on the piston head, forcing the piston rearward and into physical contact with a short-stroke operating rod affixed to the bolt carrier of the host firearm. Consequently, the bolt carrier may be driven rearward, allowing for cycling of the firearm to progress.
US09766015B2
It is aimed to reduce the size of heat exchange tubes and also to reduce pressure loss of a fluid flowing in an external flow path formed between adjacent heat exchange tubes. A first projecting portion 41 and a second projecting portion 42 of a first heat exchange tube 2A are joined to portions around an inlet 3C and outlet 3D of a second heat exchange tube 2B. A first flow path forming portion 61, a second flow path forming portion 62, and a third flow path forming portion 63 of an internal flow path 3 of each of the first heat exchange tube 2A and the second heat exchange tube 2B face a first thin portion 21A and a second thin portion 21B of the second heat exchange tube 2B or the first heat exchange tube 2A across an external flow path 4. The first flow path forming portions 61, the second flow path forming portions 62, and the third flow path forming portions 63 of the first heat exchange tube 2A and the second heat exchange tube 2B are arranged in a staggered pattern in a width direction of the heat exchange tubes 2.
US09766012B2
The removal of moisture from an object to be sterilized is provided through at least the steps of placing the load in the chamber, reducing the pressure within the chamber to increase the rate of evaporation of moisture from the load, monitoring over a predetermined period of time the increase in the quantity of vapor within the chamber resulting from evaporation of moisture from the load, admitting gas into the chamber and repeating the steps following placing the load into the chamber.
US09766010B2
An apparatus, system and method for illuminating the interior of a refrigerated appliance such as refrigerator, freezer or combination includes storage shelf or surface in the appliance, a divider positioned relative at shelf or storage surface, and a divider lighting subassembly on the divider. Electrical power is provided from an electrical power source in the appliance to the divider lighting subassembly on the divider. Light sources of the divided light subassembly can be selected to illuminate from a position on the divider. Different lighting schemes can be instructed to the light sources. The light sources can be LEDs.
US09766008B1
The portable, modular refrigeration device includes a base member that supports a refrigeration cycle therein. The base member may be hemispherical in shape, and include a top peripheral edge that enables a pivoting, dome cover to attach thereon. The pivoting, dome cover is also hemispherical in shape, and is made of a translucent material so as to enable view of contents being stored there under. A removable tray is provided, and is seated on a lip provided in the base member. The lip is located below the peripheral edge. The removable tray features a plurality of slots that enable refrigerated air to be directed upwardly from the base member into the pivoting, dome cover.
US09766003B2
An air conditioner controller and a safety protection circuit for the same are provided. The air conditioner controller includes a central processing unit, a drive unit, a safety locking unit and a protection detection unit, where the central processing unit is configured to output an air conditioner control signal; the air conditioner motor drive unit is configured to receive a drive control signal output from the safety locking unit and the detection protection signal, and output a drive signal to control an operation of an air conditioner motor; the safety locking unit is configured to receive the detection protection signal and the air conditioner control signal, output the drive control signal, and control the air conditioner control signal to be transmitted or cut off based on the detection protection signal output from the protection detection unit.
US09766000B2
A valve body in each of heat medium flow switching devices has an open portion. When the length from a connection between a first passage pipe and a third passage pipe to a connection between a second passage pipe and the third passage pipe is defined as a casing passage width, a valve body passage width of the open portion in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the valve body is smaller than the casing passage width.
US09765997B2
A CPU 110 compares the extracted outside air temperature with a first low pressure saturation temperature. When the outside air temperature is lower than the first low pressure saturation temperature, the CPU 110 switches a first three-way valve 22 and a second three-way valve 23 so that a second outdoor heat exchanger 25 is used as a condenser and that a first outdoor heat exchanger 24 is not used. When the outside air temperature is higher than a second low pressure saturation temperature which is the first low pressure saturation temperature to which a predetermined temperature is added, the CPU 110 switches the first three-way valve 22 and the second three-way valve 23 so that the first outdoor heat exchanger 24 is used as a condenser and that the second outdoor heat exchanger 25 is not used.
US09765994B2
A process of transferring heat from a first relatively cold medium to a second relatively hot medium features rotating a contained amount of a compressible fluid about an axis of rotation, thus generating a radial temperature gradient in the fluid, and heating the second medium by the fluid in a section of the fluid relatively far from the axis of rotation. An apparatus for carrying out the process includes a gastight drum rotatably mounted in a frame, and a first heat exchanger mounted inside the drum relatively far from the axis of rotation of the drum.
US09765991B2
A concentrating solar collector module includes improvements in performance and assemblability. In one configuration, the module includes a reflector having a reflective front surface shaped to concentrate incoming solar radiation onto a focal line, first and second rails, one rail attached to each edge of the reflector, and a set of truss connectors attached to the rails. The truss connectors and rails may form ways that enable constrained sliding engagement of the truss connectors along the rails before attachment of the truss connectors to the rails. The module may also include a plurality of framing members connected to the truss connectors and forming a structural lattice that cooperates with the reflector to lend rigidity to the solar collector module. At least some of the framing members may be disposed in front of the front reflective surface.
US09765990B2
A pressure compensation and mixing device for a fluid heater has a mixing unit and a pressure compensation unit. The mixing unit is configured to mix a fluid guided in the mixing unit. The pressure compensation unit is configured to homogenize the pressure in the fluid. The mixing unit and the pressure compensation unit are integrated in a housing which allows for a compact structure. By the mixing unit, a specific homogenization of the temperature of the water heated by the fluid heater is achieved.
US09765988B2
A dry wall extrusion grille comprising a frame, a liner bar grille, sheet rock screws, pre-perforated through holes, indented slots, and a flexible edge.
US09765984B2
Systems and methods for configuring a temperature control system of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system controller are described. The HVAC system controller includes a processor in communication with a memory and a user interface. The processor is configured to determine a dynamic parameter related to a dynamic property of a conditioned space and maintain a controlled environment within the conditioned space by utilizing the dynamic parameter.
US09765981B2
A humidification filter, in one aspect, includes at least one of natural fiber and regenerated fiber mixed with a hydrophobic synthetic fiber.
US09765980B2
Biosafety units, methods of making, and sealing the same are disclosed herein. The units comprise at least one controlled air, sealable, sterilizable cleanroom; and a mechanical system room adjacent to the cleanroom comprising: at least two air handling units in a support room adjacent the cleanroom that provide redundant air to the cleanroom with at least Class 100,000 air purity, the air handling units connected to a one or more supply ducts to the cleanroom, and an exhaust duct in communication with the cleanroom and the air handling unit exhaust, wherein a pressure gradient is formed between the cleanroom and the exterior of the structure; and at least two power supplies that provide redundant power to electrical outlets in the cleanroom, wherein the at least two power supplies are connectable to one or more external power sources and the structure is pre-validatable or validated for pharmaceutical manufacturing.
US09765976B2
A domestic cooking appliance is provided. The appliance has an inner space for cooking a food item; a gas burner; an exhaust opening; and a gas flue for directing exhaust gases from the inner space to the exhaust opening. The gas flue has a first part having a plurality of embossed projections, and a first fastener hole; and a second part that attaches to the first part, the second part having a plurality of embossed recesses that engage the plurality of embossed projections, and a second fastener hole that aligns with the first fastener hole when the first part and the second part are in an assembled position. The first part and the second part form a first tubular flue section when they are attached to each other, and the first part has more embossed projections than it does fastener holes.
US09765973B2
A system includes a multi-tube fuel nozzle. The multi-tube fuel nozzle includes multiple mixing tubes. Each mixing tube includes an annular wall disposed about a central passage and an air inlet region configured to be disposed about a fuel injector extending into the central passage. The central passage extends from an upstream end to a downstream end of the annular wall relative to a direction of flow through the central passage. The air inlet region includes an air entry surface of the annular wall that gradually decreases in diameter in the direction of flow.
US09765969B2
An improved combustor for a gas turbine is operable to provide high combustion efficiency in a compact combustion chamber. The combustor includes a counter swirl doublet for improved fuel/air mixing. The enhanced combustor assembly and method of operation improves operation of the turbine.
US09765968B2
A combustor is provided for a turbine engine. The combustor includes a first liner having a first side and a second side and a second liner having a first side and a second side. The second side of the second liner forms a combustion chamber with the second side of the first liner, and the combustion chamber is configured to receive an air-fuel mixture for combustion therein. The first liner defines a plurality of effusion cooling holes configured to form a film of cooling air on the second side of the first liner. The plurality of effusion cooling holes including a first effusion cooling hole extending from the first side to the second side with a non-linear line of sight.
US09765964B2
A system for boiler control is provided. The system includes supply units to provide supplies of combustion materials for combustion thereof, a vessel coupled to the supply units in which the combustion materials are combusted, a carbon monoxide (CO) sensor disposed at an outlet of the vessel to sense a quantity of exhaust CO output from the vessel as a product of combustion therein and a control unit. The control unit is coupled to the supply units and the sensor and configured to issue a main servo command and a pulse servo command to one or more of the supply units to control operations of the one or more supply units in accordance with the sensed quantity of the exhaust CO.
US09765958B2
An illuminated mirror having a mirror defining a front surface and a rear surface. The mirror includes a reflective mirror portion and a translucent portion through which light can pass. A housing is secured to the rear surface of the mirror and the housing includes a first surface, a second surface, and a gap extending between the first surface and the second surface. The mirror further includes a light source coupled to a flexible substrate and positioned behind the rear surface of the mirror; and a reflective element secured to the rear surface and positioned adjacent the translucent portion of the mirror. The flexible substrate is secured to the first surface and the second surface.
US09765939B2
A shield drive device for a head lamp may include a shield deployed in front of a light source positioned in a lamp assembly to be opened and closed while rotating by using a hinge portion as an axis, an actuator connected to a shield arm through a shaft while being deployed below the shield to rotate the shield, a sliding contact member deployed to be close to the shield arm of the shield to provide friction contact force when the shield rotates, and a sliding stopper and a spring mounted on the shield arm of the shield and configured to decelerate and control a motion of the shield while being compressed or de-compressed while contacting the sliding contact member when the shield rotates.
US09765929B2
A composite material comprises of at least first and second layers, each comprising a polymeric matrix material and wound tows for reinforcement. The tows are wound in opposite directions in each of the first and second layers such that overlapping tows form crossover regions. The wound tows in the second layer are arranged such that the crossover regions are formed to be laterally offset from the crossover regions in the first layer.
US09765925B2
A platform stabilization system comprises a support frame, a platform and a plurality of isolators each extending directly between the support frame and the platform. Each isolator permits linear movement of the platform relative to the support frame with three degrees of freedom and permits rotational movement of the platform relative to the support frame with three degrees of freedom. The isolators cooperate to form an isolation array supporting the platform directly within, and spacing the platform from, the support frame. The isolation array permits limited linear movement of the platform within the support frame with three degrees of freedom and permits limited rotational movement of the platform relative to the support frame with three degrees of freedom. The isolation array is substantially more resistant to linear movement of the platform than to rotational movement of the platform and does not rotationally constrain the platform.
US09765920B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for positioning at least one optical element (22), wherein the apparatus (1) comprises at least one movable carrier (20) for holding the optical element (22), at least one fixed support portion (10) for supporting the carrier (20), connecting means for connecting the carrier and the support portion, and actuating means for creating forces to influence the relative position of the carrier (20) to the support portion (10). The apparatus (1) is characterized in that the connecting means comprise at least one retention device (32) for applying tension force between the carrier (20) and the support portion (10) and at least one bearing (31), wherein the bearing (31) comprises a first bearing magnet (311), wherein at least a part of the surface (3121) of the first bearing magnet (312) has the shape of a partial sphere and a second bearing magnet (312), wherein at least part of the surface (3111) of the second bearing magnet (311) has the shape of a partial hollow sphere for at least partially receiving the partial sphere surface (3121) of the first bearing magnet (312), wherein the first and second bearing magnets (311, 312) are permanent magnets and are arranged such that the opposing magnet poles of the first and second bearing magnet (311, 312) are facing each other. Also a system for directing a beam, in particular a laser beam, including at least one positioning apparatus is disclosed.
US09765916B2
A method of improving the life expectancy of piping has steps of determining a circumferential position in the piping having a highest expected rate of wall thickness reduction; determining a circumferential section of a pipe length having a greatest wall thickness; and installing the pipe length in the piping by rotating the pipe length to align the circumferential section of the pipe length having the greatest wall thickness with the circumferential position of the piping having the highest expected rate of wall thickness reduction.
US09765898B2
A valve device for switching or metering a fluid includes a housing, a flow channel defined by the housing, and a valve body arranged in the flow channel. The valve body has a sealing section which contacts a housing-side sealing seat when the valve device is closed. The sealing section at least slightly protrudes beyond a surface of the valve body facing the sealing seat.
US09765877B2
A shift by wire control for a multi-speed vehicle transmission is provided. The control includes a shift by wire shift valve in fluid communication with other shift valves and clutch trim valves to provide double blocking features in the neutral range and a reverse range. The shift by wire valve is configured with multiple differential areas to provide failure modes for all forward ranges.
US09765875B2
A gearbox assembly includes a housing with a housing interior. A sump is disposed within a lower region of the gearbox housing. A lubricated transmission element is arranged in the housing interior above the sump. A lubricant impoundment is arranged within the housing and in series between the transmission element and the sump such that lubricant flowing in a primary lubricant flow path between the transmission element and the sump is impounded in the lubricant impoundment, thereby providing a supply of lubricant for a secondary lubricant flow path disposed within the gearbox housing.
US09765874B2
A number of variations may include a gear drive comprising: a housing; a first ring gear; a shaft supported in the housing, wherein the shaft has a central axis of rotation; a second ring gear, wherein the second ring gear is coaxial with the shaft and operably connected and rotatable with the shaft; at least one intermediate gear, wherein the at least one intermediate gear includes a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is operably engaged with the first ring gear and the second end is operably engaged with the second ring gear; and a bias spring, wherein the bias spring comprises a first end, a second end, and a plurality of coils, and wherein the first end is stationary in the housing.
US09765872B2
A hydrokinetic torque coupling device includes an impeller, a casing having a first engagement surface, a damper assembly, a turbine-piston and a drive-clutch component non-moveably attached to the turbine-piston and having a second engagement surface. The turbine-piston is axially displaceable relative to the casing to move the second engagement surface axially towards and away from the first engagement surface for positioning the hydrokinetic torque coupling device respectively into and out of a lockup mode in which the first and second engagement surfaces frictionally interlock with one another to mechanically lock the casing non-rotatably relative to the input part of the damper assembly. The drive-clutch component is configured to engage and rotationally drive a torsional vibration damper.
US09765868B1
A shaft circulation ball screw includes: a screw, a nut, a circulation member, and two fixing rings. The screw is provided with a stop portion for the two ends of the circulation member to rest against, a distance from the stop portion to a central axis of the screw is defined as a first height H, a distance from a highest point of the rolling elements which are located in the return passage to the central axis of the screw is defined as a second height Hmax, and Hmax satisfies the following relation: Hmax−0.5×BD≦H≦Hmax.
US09765867B2
An electromechanical actuator includes a first electric motor, a first motion conversion mechanism, a second motion conversion mechanism, and a rotation restriction mechanism for the second motion conversion mechanism. The first motion conversion mechanism includes a first member that is rotated by an output of the first electric motor and a second member that is fastened to the first member. The second motion conversion mechanism includes a third member that is movable integrally with the first member and a fourth member that is fastened to the third member. The rotation restriction mechanism is configured to be capable of selectively restricting and allowing rotation of the fourth member in accordance with movement of the third member.
US09765866B2
A backlash-free spindle nut is disclosed with a thread that can be meshed with a spindle. The spindle nut has a first nut part with a first internal thread and a second nut part with a second internal thread that can be twisted in relation to the first nut part. To generate a preload between the first nut part and the second nut part, the spindle nut has an elastic element. The preload can be adjusted through relative twisting between the first nut part and the second nut part. The elastic element can work between the first nut part and a secure intermediate part, whereby relative twisting between the first nut part and the second nut part can be locked by locking a relative twisting position between the second nut part and the intermediate part.
US09765864B2
A control module of a window shade includes a drive axle affixed with a sleeve, an arrester assembled around the sleeve, a cord drum connected with an operating cord, a clutch operable to couple and decouple the cord drum with respect to the drive axle, and a release unit including a stick that is operatively connected with the arrester. The arrester blocks rotation of the drive axle in a locking state, and has an unlocking state allowing rotation of the drive axle. The operating cord is pulled to drive the cord drum in rotation and turn the clutch to a coupling state, such that the rotation of the cord drum is transmitted through the clutch to drive the drive axle in rotation for raising the shading structure. Moreover, the stick is operable to switch the arrester from to the unlocking state for lowering the shading structure by gravity action.
US09765857B2
A chain guide element having a first guide rail and a second guide rail which is spaced from the first guide rail to guide a moving chain therebetween. On each lateral side of the chain guide element connecting elements connect the two guide rails in spaced relationship to slidably receive a moving chain. First supporting elements are positioned on the laterally arranged connecting elements that connect the first and second guide rails, and second supporting elements are carried by a stationary component to cooperate with the first supporting elements so that the chain guide element is pivotable and is linearly movable relative to the second supporting elements.
US09765848B2
A vibration damping having a first torsional vibration damper couplable to a drive member with a first secondary side rotatable with respect to the first primary side against a return action of a first damper element arrangement, a second torsional vibration damper with a second primary side connected to the first secondary side and with a second secondary side rotatable with respect to the second primary side against the return action of a second damper element arrangement and couplable to an output member, and a deflection mass pendulum arrangement having at least one deflection mass. The first damper element arrangement has a plurality of first damper element units acting parallel to one another and/or the second damper element arrangement has a plurality of second damper element units acting parallel to one another.
US09765846B2
A positioning apparatus mounted with at least one linear axis or axis of rotation and a robot on a base and mounted with vibration isolators and the robot includes vibration isolators that are capable of seating and suspending the base and a controller that controls suspension and seating of the vibration isolators in accordance with an operating condition of the robot.
US09765845B2
An example mount assembly includes an upper mount and a lower mount. The assembly also includes an inertia track having a central opening defining an axis. The inertia track defines a passage in fluid communication with the first chamber and the second chamber. The inertia track is moveable along the axis.
US09765840B2
A damping bearing (20) including an inner ball portion (34) attached to an end of a support shaft (32), and an outer collar portion (30) attached to a housing (22) for rotation of the housing relative to the support shaft about a center point. A chamber (28) for a damping fluid such as grease is defined by clearance between the end of the shaft and the housing. The fluid chamber has opposed bounding surfaces (29, 37) that are non-spherical about the center of rotation so that the chamber changes shape upon rotation of the bearing, thus shifting damping fluid across the chamber. The chamber may be a flat cylindrical void normal to a centerline (33) of the shaft. It may provide only enough clearance for less than ±10 of relative rotation between the housing and shaft. A set-screw (26) may pressurize the fluid in the chamber.
US09765838B2
A leaf spring manufactured from composite material has a variable cross sectional area. The leaf spring is manufactured by die forming a core of a constant cross section, then winding fibers onto the core to create a spring with a variable cross section and then cutting the spring to size. A ply lay-up station is shown which winds fiber onto a die formed workpiece as it moves through the station.
US09765837B2
A variable stiffness spring is provided that includes a dielectric diaphragm having a biaxially pre-strained film, where the dielectric diaphragm includes an out-of-plane stiffness at zero voltage, a first electrode disposed on a first side of the dielectric diaphragm and a second electrode disposed on a second side of the dielectric diaphragm, where the out-of-plain stiffness is relaxed by an applied voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09765834B2
A brake disc for a wheeled vehicle; said brake disc including opposing annular braking surfaces; each of said surfaces provided with an identical pattern of disparate arcuate groove segments; said groove segments arranged in groups oriented in both clockwise and anti-clockwise directions; each of said groups including, one series of at least two arcuate groove segments lying along a common arc extending from proximate a hub of said braking surface to proximate the periphery of said braking surface, one inward arcuate groove segment extending from proximate said hub to a point intermediate said hub and said periphery, and one outward arcuate groove segment extending from a point intermediate said hub and said periphery to proximate said periphery.
US09765833B2
A disc brake assembly includes a rotor with an ABS tone ring insert assembly that functions as a rotation indicator in an anti-lock braking system. The insert is positioned in the hat of a rotor disc in a spaced relationship and is mounted to the mounting flange of the rotor disc. Forming the ring insert separately from the rotor disc also allows different coating materials to be used on the tone ring that may be more heat resistant. The ring insert assembly can be made of powder metal or made as a cast iron cylinder with a toothed cap made of powder metal having a corrosion resistant coating. Cost savings can be realized along with high performance when only a portion of the assembly if made of powder metal and coated.
US09765829B2
An actuating piston, and a piston assembly and a disconnect system including the actuating piston are provided. The actuating piston includes an annular backing plate having an axial projection on a first side between an inner radius and an outer radius and an annular piston having a recess between an inner radius and an outer radius. The annular piston is disposed on the annular backing plate so that the axial projection is received in the recess. The actuating piston is selected from a set of actuating pistons, each having a different height based on at least one of the wall thickness of the annular piston being varied or a height of the axial projection being varied, and one of the actuating pistons with a desired height is selected based on an actual height of the friction device.
US09765828B2
A method for manufacturing a friction plate provided with a core plate includes subjecting a spline portion formed at an outer periphery or an inner periphery of the core plate to a hardening process by laser.
US09765822B2
A bearing seal is fitted into a seal groove formed in an outer race, and firmly mounted to the outer race. First detent ribs and second detent ribs are formed on both surfaces of one side of a seal base plate made of rubber and having the shape of a strip. When one side of the seal base plate is fitted into the seal groove formed in an inner diameter surface of the outer race, the first detent ribs and second detent ribs come into elastic contact with the side surfaces of the seal groove, respectively, so as to prevent the bearing seal from being pulled out of the seal groove.
US09765818B2
A modular plain bearing is provided. The modular plain bearing includes a first end portion having a terminal edge with a plurality of first fingers and a second end portion having a terminal edge with a plurality of second fingers. The plurality of fingers cooperatively engage to provide a snap fit connection between the parts. For longer plain bearings, a bearing extender is provided. The bearing extender includes at least a first connector having a plurality of first connector fingers. The bearing extender may include either a second connector opposite the first connector having a plurality of second connector fingers.
US09765816B2
A bearing assembly may include a first bearing element defining a first bearing surface and a second bearing element defining a second bearing surface. One of the first and second bearing elements may have a fluid channel with an inlet for receiving a bearing fluid and at least one outlet in the bearing surface of the one of the first and second bearing elements. The first bearing element may be configured for rotation at a design rate of rotation relative to the second bearing element with the first bearing surface facing the second bearing surface. The first bearing element may apply a force directed from the first bearing surface toward the second bearing surface during rotation at a reduced rate of rotation less than the design rate of rotation.
US09765815B2
A system for suspending a rotating body consisting of a combination of magnetic and engineered materials. The suspension system allows for some axial motion to account for varying system loads.
US09765809B2
A method for producing a spindle drive for an adjustable element of a vehicle, wherein the spindle drive has a substantially tubular spindle drive housing and two connections for diverting driving movements, wherein at least one connection of the spindle drive has a connection head which is connected to the spindle drive via a connection neck which is thinner than the connection head. A sealing cap for the spindle drive housing is provided with a sealing opening, in order to install the sealing cap, the sealing cap is pulled with the sealing opening thereof over the connection head of a connection of the spindle drive, and the peripheral region of the sealing opening is elastically deformed by the engagement with the connection head and is therefore widened, and that the peripheral region of the sealing opening is subsequently deformed back elastically in frictionally sealing engagement with the connection neck.
US09765800B2
A piston main body in a piston assembly of a fluid pressure cylinder includes a first piston member and a second piston member including a plate-shaped member. The first piston member and the second piston member are joined in a state overlapping in the axial direction of a piston rod. The second piston member is not provided with a hole that passes through in the plate thickness direction.
US09765796B2
Devices and methods for reducing noise of a blower reduce and/or substantially block the exchange of gas within the blower housing from an area of a generally high-velocity flow of gas to an area of a comparatively lower-velocity flow of gas, for example near the outlet of the blower housing.
US09765790B2
An electrical submersible pump assembly has a thrust bearing mechanism with first and second thrust runners axially and rotationally secured to the shaft and located within a housing. First and second thrust receiving structures are rigidly mounted in the housing to receive thrust from the first and second thrust transferring devices. A deflectable member located in the first thrust transfer thrust device decreases in axial thickness in response to thrust of a selected level. The second thrust transfer thrust device has an axial length less than an axial distance from the second thrust receiving structure to the second thrust runner, defining an initial axial gap. During operation of the pump, the shaft and the first and second thrust runners move axially a limited extent, closing the gap and transferring thrust from the second thrust transfer device to the second thrust receiving structure.
US09765785B2
A milk pump that is connected to, but electrically isolated from dairy lines, pipes, and other electrically conductive components using insulators in the milk pump between a motor and a pump.
US09765781B2
A scroll compressor includes fixed and movable scrolls, each scroll having a spiral lap placed on one surface of a plate. The lap of the fixed scroll and the lap of the movable scroll are interlocked to form a compression chamber between the laps of the scrolls which are adjacent to each other. At least one of the laps has a spiral shape in which a base radius of an involute decreases as a winding angle increases in a region extending from a winding start part to a winding middle part, and the base radius of the involute in a region extending from the winding middle part to a winding end part is larger than the smallest value of the base radius of the involute in the region extending from the winding start part to the winding middle part.
US09765772B2
A liquid gear pump includes a gear pump assembly and an electric motor with an motor shaft. The gear pump assembly includes a pump housing which defines a pump chamber, an inlet and an outlet which are in fluid communication with the pump chamber, and a driving gear and an idle gear which are received in the pump chamber. The driving gear is driven by the motor shaft. The idle gear is supported on an idle shaft and engaged with the driving gear. The driving gear and the idle gear are made of a material with a main component of PPS.
US09765763B2
A device is described for receiving and dispensing hydraulic fluid, in particular for a hybrid or electric vehicle, having a cylinder, a piston, which is movable in the cylinder for receiving and dispensing hydraulic fluid, and a drive unit; a ramp mechanism being provided, having at least one ramp on which at least one rolling element rolls for moving the piston, the ramp mechanism being situated between a face of the piston and a face of a gearwheel driven by the drive unit.
US09765754B2
Apparatus for the generation of pressure waves for seismic surveys in marine environment comprising a cylinder (3), defining an axis, in which a striker piston (1) and a pump piston (2) are situated, each having two respective opposite sides with respect to said axis, of which a side of the striker piston (1) situated in front of the pump piston (2) is defined first impact side, and a side of the pump piston (2) in front of the striker piston (1) is defined second impact side, the pump piston (2) and the striker piston (1) sliding in the cylinder (3) in a direction parallel to the axis, and the pump piston (2) and striker piston (1) being such as to strike against each other, by means of the first and the second impact sides, the striker piston (1) being driven by activation means pressing on the side opposite to its own impact side, wherein the cylinder (3) comprises, at one of its ends, a chamber (15) having a diameter larger, smaller or equal to that of the portion of cylinder (3) in which the striker piston (1) is housed, wherein in said chamber (15) a part of the pump piston (2) can slide, communication passages which connect the chamber (15) with the water of the marine environment (10), so as to transmit an impulse generated by said impact to the marine environment.
US09765747B2
A permanently engaged starter assembly includes a ring gear, a return gear, and a starter gear. The return gear is fixed to a shaft of a starter return mechanism. The starter gear is arranged for fixing to a shaft of a starter motor and arranged in a torque path between the ring gear and the return gear. In an example embodiment, the ring gear has a central axis and the return gear is radially outside of the starter gear when measured from the ring gear central axis. In an example embodiment, the ring gear includes a first gear tooth, the return gear includes a second gear tooth, and the starter gear includes third and fourth gear teeth engaged with the first and second gear teeth, respectively.
US09765741B2
The invention relates to a common rail system for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, comprising a high-pressure pump which delivers highly pressurized fuel to a high-pressure accumulator, from which the fuel is fed to at least one injection valve of the internal combustion engine, a low-pressure pump for conveying fuel from a fuel container via a conveying line to the high-pressure pump, a flow control valve as an electromagnetic switching valve which is arranged in the conveying line for controlling the fuel quantity which is fed by the high-pressure pump to the high-pressure accumulator; it is provided according to the invention that the flow control valve is configured as a ball seat valve with an inlet opening which is connected to the low-pressure pump and an outlet opening which is connected to the high-pressure pump, which ball seat valve is open in the de-energized state.
US09765736B2
A fuel supply system includes a feeder fuel circuit configured to: (i) convey a first fuel in a direction of a mixing tank via a first pump device proceeding from a first fuel tank for a first fuel type; or (ii) convey a second fuel in the direction of the mixing tank via the first pump device proceeding from a second fuel tank for a second fuel type; and a booster fuel circuit configured to convey fuel via a second pump device proceeding from the mixing tank in a direction of at least one marine diesel engine, the booster fuel circuit having an automatic fine filter positioned upstream of or downstream of the at least one marine diesel engine and in the booster fuel circuit, respectively.
US09765733B2
An evaporation fuel purge system includes: a fuel tank; a canister that absorbs and desorbs evaporation fuel emitted from the fuel tank; an intake passage for an internal combustion engine in which the evaporation fuel desorbed from the canister is mixed with fuel for combustion; a purge passage that connects the canister to the intake passage; an ejector device disposed in the purge passage; and a fluid drive device. The ejector device has a nozzle part that accelerates external fluid. The fluid drive device sends outside air corresponding to the external fluid to flow into the nozzle part.
US09765732B2
A mixing valve of an exhaust-gas recirculation device of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle includes an intake flap and an exhaust-gas flap coupled rigidly to one another via a coupling rod. During driving of the exhaust-gas flap, the intake flap is first pivoted in the opposite direction via the coupling rod. The exhaust-gas flap and intake flap are pivoted in the same direction only above a provided pivoting angle.
US09765728B2
A piston for an internal combustion engine includes a piston head and a piston skirt, wherein the piston head has a piston base, a circumferential ring part and, in the region of the ring part, a circumferential closed cooling channel or sealed cavity. An inner side of the piston has two lower surfaces which transform continuously in the region of the piston central axis (M) to form an arched surface. The piston skirt has piston hubs provided with hub bores which are interconnected by means of running surfaces which have inner surfaces facing the inside of the piston. Starting from the free ends of the piston skirt, inside the piston on the pressure side (DS) and/or counter pressure side (GDS), an inner surface of a running surface continuously transforms into a guiding surface for a coolant which transforms continuously on the side thereof into a lower surface.
US09765719B2
A control circuit includes a sweep circuit for supplying a sweep current to a gas concentration sensor, a current detection resistor for detecting a sensor current flowing in the gas concentration sensor, a calculation circuit for calculating an impedance of the gas concentration sensor based on the sensor current and an inter-terminal voltage of the gas concentration sensor, and a protective element for suppressing external noise from being applied to the sweep circuit and the calculation circuit. The sweep current is divided to flow in a first protective element and the gas concentration sensor. The sensor current is divided to flow in a second protective element and the current detection resistor. The calculation circuit calculates a loss current flowing to the first protective element or a second loss current flowing to the second protective element and calculates the sensor current based on the calculated current.
US09765716B2
A hybrid power supply system for an engine is disclosed. The hybrid power supply system includes a sensing unit to generate a signal indicative of a speed of the engine and a controller to determine the speed of the engine based on the signal received from the sensing unit. The controller compares the speed of the engine with a predefined maximum idle speed, and cuts off a supply of fuel to the engine, when the speed of the engine is greater than or equal to the predefined maximum idle speed. The controller shuts off an inlet valve and an exhaust valve associated with a cylinder of the engine. The closure of the inlet valve and the exhaust valve allow compression and expansion of air within the cylinder during supply of a rotational power by a flywheel.
US09765713B2
A hydrogen fuel assist device for an internal combustion engine includes: a hydrogen gas generator for generating hydrogen gas; a fluid pump capable of pumping the hydrogen gas into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine through an air throttle valve, which is connected to the combustion chamber, at varying flow rates; and a pump controller for controlling a rotational speed of the fluid pump in response to opening degree of a fuel throttle valve connected to the combustion chamber so as to adjust the flow rate of the hydrogen gas to be supplied into the combustion chamber during operation of the internal combustion engine.
US09765711B2
A system and method for determining information related to a rotation of a shaft. The method includes receiving a signal associated with a plurality of targets and gaps passing by a sensor. The targets and gaps are positioned around a circumference of a wheel that is fixed for rotation with the shaft. The method includes forming a sensed target-and-gap sequence based on the signal, wherein the sensed target-and-gap sequence represents a subset of the targets and gaps. The method further includes comparing the sensed target-and-gap sequence to a set of known target-and-gap sequences stored in memory. Each known target-and-gap sequence is associated with a respective known circumferential portion of the wheel. The method also includes determining which respective, known target-and-gap sequence is identical to the sensed target-and-gap sequence.
US09765704B2
A control system for an engine is provided. The control system includes an accelerator opening acquiring module for acquiring an opening of an accelerator, a target acceleration setting module for setting a target acceleration of a vehicle based on the accelerator opening acquired by the accelerator opening acquiring module, and an engine control module for adjusting an engine torque to achieve the target acceleration set by the target acceleration setting module. Within a predetermined range of the accelerator opening, the target acceleration setting module sets the target acceleration corresponding to the accelerator opening acquired by the accelerator opening acquiring module, to cause a change of the target acceleration with respect to a change of the accelerator opening to be substantially constant regardless of an operating state of the vehicle, the predetermined range including a value of the accelerator opening at which the target acceleration becomes zero.
US09765698B2
A flexible bellows assembly is disclosed for sealing an engine igniter for use with an engine. The bellows assembly includes a mounting arrangement that is operable to be secured to a combustor diffuser instead of the combustor liner. The bellows has a component that impinges upon a surface of the combustor liner so as to form a sealed chamber between a metal diffuser and a ceramic combustion liner. An igniter passes through the sealed chamber and provides ignition to the combustor.
US09765695B2
A gas turbine arrangement, including a gas generator section (A), a power turbine section (B), and a generator section (C) coupled on a common shaft (10). The power turbine has its bearing block (12) provided with a copper cooling cup (9), which possesses a high thermal conductivity and conveys heat flux away from the side and block of the bearing and which has a design that enables the effect of a penetrating airflow.
US09765693B2
The present invention discloses a novel apparatus and methods for controlling an air injection system for augmenting the power of a gas turbine engine, improving gas turbine engine operation, and reducing the response time necessary to meet changing demands of a power plant. Improvements in control of the air injection system include ways directed towards preheating the air injection system, including using an gas turbine components, such as an inlet bleed heat system to aid in the preheating process.
US09765692B2
In various embodiments, a lubricating shaft assembly may comprise a shaft, a front seal, a front seat, an inner race, a spacer, a lubricating fitting and a nut. The front seat may define a first portion of a fluid conduit. The front seat may be part of a first load path. The inner race may define a second portion of the fluid conduit. The inner race may be installed about the shaft. The inner race may be part of the first load path. The spacer may define an internal diameter of a third portion of the fluid conduit. The lubricating fitting may be installed about at least a portion of the spacer. The lubricating fitting may define an outer diameter of the third portion of the fluid conduit. The lubricating fitting may be outside the first load path.
US09765690B2
Systems and methods are provided for a diagnostic system for a machine with a combustion engine and a variable geometry turbocharger that includes a vane position sensor. The diagnostic system includes a controller configured to calculate a learned span value of the turbocharger based on the output of the vane position sensor during a diagnostic procedure and a reference vane position sensor value. A plurality of learned span values are calculated each during a different one of a plurality of diagnostic procedures performed over a period of time and a first regression analysis to predict an expected learned span value at a defined future time using the calculated learned span value and the plurality of stored learned span values. An alert message is generated when the expected learned span value is indicative of a potential future fault of the turbocharger.
US09765687B2
A turbocharger includes a variable turbine nozzle formed between first and second walls. A variable-vane assembly has a fixed nozzle ring and a plurality of circumferentially spaced vanes disposed in the nozzle and rotatably mounted on the nozzle ring such that the vanes are pivotable. The nozzle ring defines the first wall of the turbine nozzle, each vane having a first end adjacent the first wall and a second end adjacent the second wall. The second wall of the turbine nozzle is formed by a gas pressure-responsive member that is arranged to be axially movable relative to the vanes. A first stop is positioned so that the gas pressure-responsive member is urged against the first stop by a differential gas pressure exerted on the gas pressure-responsive member so that there is a non-zero first value for a clearance between the second ends of the vanes and the second wall of the turbine nozzle.
US09765683B2
A water pump apparatus is provided having a plurality of modular components, which allows for construction of various configurations of the water pump apparatus depending on specific vehicle requirements. The water pump apparatus modular components include a pump housing with a fluid chamber formed therein, a bearing housing for attachment to the pump housing, and a thermostat housing for connecting to the bearing housing and the pump housing. A method for forming modular components for assembling a water pump apparatus for use in an internal combustion engine is also provided.
US09765675B2
Incorporated in an exhaust pipe are an HC-SCR NOx catalyst capable of reducing NOx at temperatures less than a set temperature T and a catalyzed particulate filter with an oxidation catalyst capable of reducing NOx at temperatures not less than the set temperature T. When an exhaust gas temperature is less than the set temperature T, fuel with a set flow rate Q is intermittently added from a fuel addition unit on an entry side of the HC-SCR NOx catalyst to the HC-SCR NOx catalyst; when the exhaust gas temperature is not less than the set temperature T, the fuel with flow rate Q′ not less than the set flow rate Q is temporarily rich-spike added from the fuel addition unit and is made arrival at a catalyzed particulate filter. With an active temperature range being expanded, exhaust emission control is performed in a wide temperature range.
US09765672B2
This control device for an internal combustion engine equipped with an exhaust purification catalyst, which is disposed in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and capable of storing oxygen, includes: a downstream air-fuel ratio detection means that is disposed downstream of the exhaust purification catalyst in the exhaust flow direction; and an inflow air-fuel ratio control means that controls the air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst. If the outflow air-fuel ratio detected by the downstream air-fuel ratio detection means is equal to or less than a rich-determination air-fuel ratio, which is richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, the inflow air-fuel ratio control means sets the target air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst continuously or intermittently leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio until the oxygen storage amount of the exhaust purification catalyst reaches a prescribed storage amount. If the oxygen storage amount of the exhaust purification catalyst is equal to or greater than the prescribed storage amount, the inflow air-fuel ratio control means sets the target air-fuel ratio continuously or intermittently richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio until the oxygen storage amount decreases toward zero without reaching the maximum oxygen storage amount.
US09765667B2
A method is provided for loading or reloading a decomposition unit of an SCR system, the SCR system being mounted on board a vehicle and including a filler pipe in communication with the decomposition unit. The method is such that at least one capsule containing at least one protein component adapted to decompose ammonia precursor is introduced through the filler pipe and is then guided through the filler pipe towards the decomposition unit.
US09765656B2
Methods and systems are provided for deactivating a valve actuation mechanism. In one example, a system may include a hydraulic gallery that may deliver a restricted flow of hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic flow restrictor to a pressure relief valve within a valve deactivation oil control valve, and during a second condition may deliver an unrestricted flow of hydraulic fluid from the valve deactivation oil control valve to the hydraulic flow restrictor. The hydraulic flow restrictor may comprise two vertical bores within the camshaft carrier that are fluidically coupled via a restrictive groove on the bottom surface of the camshaft carrier.
US09765653B2
A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a driving rotation member to which rotation of a crankshaft is transmitted, a driven rotation member coupled to a camshaft so as to be rotatable relative to the driving rotation member, an electric motor having a motor output shaft to cause rotation of the driven rotation member relative to the driving rotation member, a cover member arranged axially facing a front end portion of the motor output shaft and an electromagnetic induction type rotational angle detection mechanism disposed between the motor output shaft and the cover member so as to detect a rotational angle of the motor output shaft. The rotational angle detection mechanism has a detected part provided to the front end portion of the motor output shaft and a detecting part provided to a portion of the cover member axially facing the detected part.
US09765638B2
An assembling method of a seal structure of a rotary machine includes inserting a pin member into a through hole formed in a cylindrical member; threadably fitting the pin member into a pin installation hole of a segment; inserting a locking member into a first pin hole formed in the segment and a second pin hole formed in the pin member and fixing the pin member to the segment; arranging the segment in a groove part; inserting the cylindrical member; positioning the cylindrical member by causing the cylindrical member to slide in the axial direction; fixing the cylindrical member with respect to a seal mounting hole; causing the pin member to engage with a temporary joint member; moving an outer circumference side member and an inner circumference side member to approach to each other in the radial direction; and taking out the temporary joint member.
US09765637B2
An assembly for an aircraft turbine engine including an integral element including a disk and a plurality of blades is provided. Each blade has a connection zone connecting the blade to the disk, the connection zone including a first part arranged at the external flowpath delimitation surface provided on the disk, and at least one second end part arranged at a recess formed in the disk along the axial extension of the external surface, the average fillet radius defined by the second end part being larger than the fillet radius defined by the first part. The assembly further includes a flowpath reconstruction part formed in the aerodynamic continuity of the external surface, so as to cover the recess.
US09765629B2
A method and a cooling system for cooling blades of at least one blade row in a rotary flow machine includes an axial flow channel which is radially limited on the inside by a rotor unit and at the outside by at least one stationary component, the blades are arranged at the rotary unit and provide a shrouded blade tip facing radially to said stationary component. Pressurized cooling air is fed through from radially outside towards the tip of each of said blades in the at least one blade row, and the pressurized cooling air enters the blades through at least one opening at the shrouded blades' tip.
US09765627B2
An airfoil includes a dovetail root having a base. A grooved slot is disposed in the base and a plurality of root lightening cavities is disposed in the grooved slot.
US09765621B2
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine using a controller that controls an air flow path by adjusting at least one of a variable geometry turbine (VGT) and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) flow rate during engine operation. The method determines inputs, such as engine speed and fuel rate from the sensor data, and employs a switch based gain-scheduled explicit model predictive controller (MPC) responsive to the inputs to determine the air flow path.
US09765614B2
Wireless communication and electromagnetic telemetry between various surface or downhole devices may be provided using two or more dipole antennas. The dipole antennas may be formed, for example, by electrically isolating, for each electric dipole antenna, two electrically conductive portions. The two electrically conductive portions are part of a downhole casing, a downhole liner, a completion, a production tube, or a downhole tool. The two or more electric dipole antennas are disposed in different sections of a completed well, in one or more lateral wells, in different completed wells, or in any combination of those. An electromagnetic signal is transmitting from at least one of the two or more dipole antennas and received at any other of the two or more dipole antennas, thereby providing telemetry or wireless communication between the dipole antennas of the petrophysical devices.
US09765607B2
A method of producing petroleum from at least one open hole in at least one petroleum production zone of a hydrocarbon well comprising the steps of locating a plurality of sliding valves along at least one production tubing; inserting the plurality of sliding valves and the production tubing into the at least one open hole; cementing the plurality of sliding valves in the at least one open hole; opening at least one of the cemented sliding valves; removing at least some of the cement adjacent the opened sliding valves without using jetting tools or cutting tools to establish at least one communication path between the interior of the production tubing and the at least one petroleum production zone; directing a fracing material radially through the at least one sliding valve radially toward the at least one production zone; producing hydrocarbons from the at least one petroleum production zone through the plurality of the sliding valves the cement adjacent to which has been removed.
US09765604B2
A method for extracting geothermal energy from a geothermal reservoir formation. A production well is used to extract brine from the reservoir formation. At least one of nitrogen (N2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) may be used to form a supplemental working fluid which may be injected into a supplemental working fluid injection well. The supplemental working fluid may be used to augment a pressure of the reservoir formation, to thus drive a flow of the brine out from the reservoir formation.
US09765593B2
A method of manufacturing a configurable pre-machined forging for use with a multiple bore tubing hanger or a mono bore tubing hanger includes providing a configurable common master valve block with a main bore along a main central axis. After providing the configurable common master valve block, a target subsea assembly is identified that has a mono bore subsea completion with a production bore along a central axis of a tubing hanger, or a multiple bore subsea completion with the production bore offset from the central axis of the tubing hanger. If the target subsea assembly has the mono bore subsea completion, the machining of a lower interface of the common master valve block is centered around the main central axis. If the target subsea assembly has the multiple bore subsea completion, the machining has an eccentric interface axis that is parallel to, and offset from, the main central axis.
US09765591B2
A process for plugging a wellbore, e.g., an oil or gas well, which comprises installing swelling elastomer sealing units across an interval of casing which is properly in the annulus space between the outside of the casing and the rock face. The swellable elastomer sealing units can also be used to seal off perforated casing, production screen and open hole completions. The plug and abandonment system is comprised of swelling elastomer units that are connected together to achieve a desired sealing contact length. These connected units may be hung off below or placed above a packer, cement retainer, cast iron bridge plug or setting slips. Both the tubular form of the plugging unit and the rod form of the plugging unit can be used in conjunction with conventional settable medium (cementing, barite or sized aggregate) plug setting operations. The elastomers incorporated are designed to swell with the current wellbore fluid and/or any possible future wellbore fluid. The swelling elastomers create sufficient expansion force to effectively seal off the wellbore internal to the casing, liner, screen or open-hole interval.
US09765589B2
A system includes a subsea chemical injection system configured to inject a chemical into a well, wherein the choke trim comprises a first cylinder comprising a first plurality of spiral flow paths, a second cylinder comprising a second plurality of spiral flow paths, wherein the first cylinder is disposed within the second cylinder, and an outer portion comprising a plurality of axial passages, wherein the second cylinder is disposed within the outer portion.
US09765583B2
A method for estimating equivalent top of fluid level or a theoretical surface annular back pressure in a subterranean wellbore includes acquiring first and second axially spaced pressure measurements in the wellbore. The pressure measurements may then be processed to compute the equivalent top of fluid level and/or theoretical surface annular back pressure of drilling fluid between the measurement locations. A tool string including a large number of axially spaced pressure sensors (e.g., four or more or even six or more) electronically coupled with a surface processor via wired drill pipe may be used to obtain a plurality of values corresponding to various wellbore intervals. The equivalent top of fluid level and/or theoretical surface annular back pressures may be used in automated managed pressure drilling operations.
US09765582B2
Systems and methods are provided that may include employing a lockscrew to provide radial and axial force in connecting tubular members in a mineral extraction system. The lockscrew may be angled relative to the tubular members, at an angle that is greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees. Further, the lockscrew may have an end portion which mates with a slot in a locking segment, and the lockscrew and locking segment may be moved from an unlocked to a locked position. In a locked position, the lockscrew exerts force axially downward and radially inward to push the locking segment against a tubular member, locking the member in place. The interconnection between the lockscrew and the locking segment may enable easier installation and may utilize parts which may be easier to manufacture. Furthermore, the angle of the lockscrew may provide improved support for tubular members.
US09765581B2
A tubular gripping apparatus includes a main bowl including a bore formed therethrough about an axis, and a movable bowl movably receivable within the main bowl. The movable bowl includes a bore formed therethrough about an axis with a tapered surface extending along the bore of the movable bowl, in which the tubular gripping apparatus further includes a plurality of slip assemblies movably receivable within the movable bowl, the plurality of slip assemblies configured to engage an outer surface of a tubular member.
US09765580B2
An elevator to manipulate a tubular segment includes an elevator body with a bore formed therethrough having an axis therein, the elevator body including a first elevator segment and a second elevator segment, in which each of the first elevator segment and the second elevator segment includes a plurality of openings extending from an outer surface of the elevator body to the bore of the elevator body. The elevator also includes a plurality of slip assemblies disposed inside the plurality of openings of the first elevator segment and the second elevator segment and coupled to the elevator body, each of the plurality of slip assemblies including a slip, the slip including an engagement surface disposed orthogonal to the axis of the bore of the elevator body that engages the tubular segment.
US09765578B2
A sanitary check valve arranged between a drop and outlet pipes in a water well casing that will prevent operate to block a back flow of water through the drop pipe when pumping from a water source is discontinued as could contaminate that water source. The valve is for fitting into an actuator fitting body that mounts between the drop and outlet pipes opposite ends and includes a side plate for releasable coupling to a separate actuator mount that connects through the well casing and includes a drain pipe. The drop and outlet pipes fitted to the fitting body are lowered into the well casing to where the side plate edges slid between parallel sides of the mount, coupling the assembly together such that an upward water flow moves the float valve off of the drop pipe end to pass that flow through the outlet pipe for use, and, when that upward flow is stopped, the valve closes over the drop pipe end and opens to the mount drain pipe to a water flow that dumps outside the well casing.
US09765577B2
A method of fabricating a centralizer for a tubular body in a wellbore is provided herein. The method includes providing a centralizer, wherein the centralizer include an elongated body having an inner surface and an outer surface, and wherein the inner surface defines a bore there through. The bore is dimensioned to slidingly receive a tubular body. The method also includes applying a first low-coefficient of friction treatment to the inner surface and the outer surface using a ferritic nitro-carburizing process. The method further includes depositing a second low-coefficient of friction treatment onto at least the inner surface. The coatings are designed to provide a reduced coefficient of friction on the surfaces.
US09765572B2
Embodiments relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) including a polycrystalline diamond (“PCD”) table in which a metal-solvent catalyst is alloyed with at least one alloying element to improve thermal stability of the PCD table. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a substrate and a PCD table bonded to the substrate. The PCD table includes diamond grains defining interstitial regions. The PCD table includes an alloy comprising at least one Group VIII metal and at least one metallic alloying element that lowers a temperature at which melting of the at least one Group VIII metal begins. The alloy includes one or more solid solution phases comprising the at least one Group VIII metal and the at least one metallic alloying element and one or more intermediate compounds comprising the at least one Group VIII metal and the at least one metallic alloying element.
US09765569B2
A movable barrier operator is provided that includes a motor coupled to a movable barrier to move the movable barrier, a computing device which controls movement of the motor, a manual drive coupled to the movable barrier to move the movable barrier, a ring coupled to move with the manual drive, and a sensor that senses and communicates rotation of the ring to the computing device. In response to receiving the sensed rotation of the ring, the computing device prevents operation of the motor to move the movable barrier.
US09765568B2
Methods and apparatus to control architectural opening covering assemblies are disclosed herein. An example architectural opening covering assembly includes a manual controller operatively coupled to a tube to rotate the tube. The tube includes an architectural opening covering. The example architectural opening covering assembly also includes a motor operatively coupled to the tube to rotate the tube. A local controller is communicatively coupled to the motor to control the motor. The example architectural opening covering assembly further includes a gravitational sensor to determine an angular position of the tube.
US09765558B2
A closing device includes an actuator mechanism and a hydraulic damper mechanism. The actuator mechanism includes a pushrod urged by a resilient member towards its extended position. The hydraulic damper mechanism includes a piston, a first rack and pinion gearing for converting the translational motion of the pushrod into a rotational motion of a first pinion, a transmission, which includes a second rack and pinion gearing, between the first pinion and the piston for transmitting and converting the rotational motion of the first pinion into a translational motion of the piston, a one-way valve allowing fluid flow from a first side to a second side of the cylinder cavity when opening the hinged member, and a restricted fluid passage between the first and second sides of the cylinder cavity. The transmission provides together with the pinions of the first and second rack and pinion gearings a reduction gearing between the pushrod and the piston so that the piston reciprocates over a smaller distance than the pushrod.
US09765556B2
A security lock that retrains movement of a hinge is described. A locking system that includes a hinge that includes a first connector, a second connector and a pivot pin, the first connector pivotable relative to the second connector around the pivot pin, and a lock configured to be positioned over the pivot pin to restrain movement of the first connector is described.
US09765549B2
A door handle assembly for use with a door is provided with a base plate, a door handle having a working end pivotally connected to the base plate and a free end opposite of the working end configured for manipulation by an operator. An adapter plate mounted on the working end of the door handle and a cam lever are also included in the present door handle assembly. A securable end of the cam lever is affixable to the adapter plate, and a free end of the cam lever is configured for engagement with a cam, for activating a door latch assembly.
US09765545B1
A shelter for an automobile has a pair of tracks positioned on opposing sides of the automobile and rest on a supporting surface such as the floor of a garage or car-port. A plurality of frames each having a u-shaped contour extend on opposing sides and over the automobile and are spaced apart from it. The terminal ends the frames are engaged with trucks which are in rolling engagement with the tracks. A canopy of a flexible material is attached over the frames and is movable between a folded state and an unfolded state when the trucks are moved within the tracks. The tracks have mutually orthogonal roller contact surfaces and the trucks have mutually orthogonal rollers positioned for rolling on the roller contact surfaces of said tracks. The canopy is able to be withdrawn from either of opposing sides and is further able to be drawn over the automobile to the supporting surface at both opposing sides.
US09765538B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing high electrical resistance for aerial work platform components
Methods, systems and apparatuses for providing high electrical resistance for an upper control assembly (including control handles) of an aerial lift are provided through an isolation member that is integral to the upper control assembly and interposed between fluid lines in the control assembly and a set of fluid conduits that extend from the control assembly towards other portions of the aerial lift. The isolation member is a dielectric element that comprises a manifold that is made of material that is substantially electrically non-conductive, and that has a plurality of through-holes or hoses configured to allow hydraulic fluid to flow through the isolation member into and out of the fluid lines and conduits. These methods, systems and apparatuses are preferably used in upper control assemblies of aerial platforms that can carry one or more operators in order to prevent such operators from electrocution when controlling the lift.
US09765534B1
A concrete float body whose bottom (working) surface has a 3D shape/profile/contour over a nose region and a tail region of the float body. The nose region may be tapered across a width dimension of the float body. The tail region may be tapered across a width dimension of the float body. The nose and tail regions may have rounded corners. A perimetal edge of the float body may have a radius. The 3D surface may be produced by extruding, cutting from a solid material, die cast molding, or injection molding the float body wherein the bottom surface has a curvilinear shape along the width dimension, and monotonically decreasing a thickness dimension of the float body between the bottom surface and a top surface by removing material from the bottom surface.
US09765527B2
A safety grip system comprises first and second safety grips that are mountable to a support structure. Each safety grip comprises a main body sized to overlie at least a portion of the support structure and have a textured exterior surface. The first and second safety grips are interlockable such that when the first safety grip is non-rotatably mounted to the support structure, the second safety grip is also non-rotatably mounted to the support structure.
US09765526B2
A heat panel system for preventing ice formation about a roof or gutter includes at least two heat panels that are connected using a fastener. The heat panels each include a body including at least one channel configured to accept a heating element. Tongues and grooves or other mating arrangements on the panels and the fastener permit two panels to be joined by a fastener so as to inhibit relative lateral movement and enhance heat transfer between panels. A single panel or a multi-panel system can be mounted directly on the roof, and/or a single panel system can be mounted in a gutter. By using these heat panels and fasteners, heat panel systems of varying widths can be made using the same supplies.
US09765514B2
Among other things, there is shown embodiments of an enclosure such as a portable building with features focusing on overall improvement in energy usage. Wall, roof and floor configurations are disclosed that provide significant energy savings. Methods are also disclosed for preparing such features and/or refitting existing portable buildings for such energy savings.
US09765512B2
A structure comprising a space frame including a plurality of strut sections which cross at one or more locations within the space frame to define a node at each respective crossing location, wherein the strut sections are laminates comprising a plurality of ply layers, and wherein the ply layers of the crossing strut sections are interleaved at the node(s). Also a method of forming the structure. Also An aerofoil structure, comprising a space frame defining a cage adapted to receive upper and lower covers so as to form upper and lower aerodynamic surfaces of the aerofoil, and at least one spar extending generally spanwise across the structure, wherein the spar includes a spar web and upper and lower spar caps, and wherein the spar web is disposed on one of an interior or exterior side of the cage, and the spar caps are attached to the other of the interior or exterior side of the cage.
US09765506B2
A splash guard system for includes a toilet that has a bowl and a seat. A guard is positioned within the bowl. A plurality of mounts is provided and each of the mounts is attached to the guard. A plurality of retainers is provided and each of the retainers is attached to an associated one of the mounts. Each of the retainers engages the bowl to retain the guard within the bowl.
US09765496B2
Hammering device meant for hammering poles, steel profiles and other elongated objects into the ground which hammering device comprises a body (1) which can be attached to a power tool, a vibrator device (6) which is attached to the body (1) with the help of damping cushions (9) and movable gripping jaws (10) which are adjusted to the mentioned vibrator device (6) in order to grip the object to be hammered at least with a side grip wherein the gripping elements (23) of the gripping jaws (10) can be brought closer and farther away with the help of a regulating unit, such as a hydraulic cylinder (16). In order to maintain the mutual symmetry of the gripping jaws (10) during their movement the gripping jaws (10) essentially comprise arms (2), (3) which are attached to be stiff at the location of the turning joints (8) of the gripping jaws which arms are directed in such a way that the ends of the arms (2), (3) are located next to each other and stay essentially next to each other during the turning movements meant for the gripping jaws (10), and in that the ends of the mentioned arms (2); (3) are connected to each other with the help of a short arm (4) which has a pivot mounting.
US09765495B2
The invention relates to improved water control gates and related inflatable actuators, and associated sealing, manufacture and operation apparatus and methods. Advancements in technologies related to air fitting design, inflated bladder stress relief, inflatable bladder strength enhancement, water gate related slide friction mitigation, abutment and other impounded water seals, gate panel fabrication, traffic accommodating water impoundment structures, and water gate panel system operation efficiency, as well as nappe aeration, hinges, and bladder manufacture technology are disclosed herein.
US09765492B2
Snowplow apparatus comprises a connecting frame having a rearward mount with means for removable attachment to a motor vehicle at two spaced-apart points, and at least one forward mount with means for attachment to a snowplow. The connecting frame includes a first horizontal hinge adjacent the rearward mount and a second horizontal hinge adjacent the forward mount, a pivot axis of the first hinge and a pivot axis of the second hinge extending transverse to a central longitudinal axis of the vehicle. A snowplow, including at least one elongate snowplow blade, is attached to the connecting frame at the forward mount. A first powered mechanism raises and lowers the snowplow about the pivot axis of the first hinge and a second powered mechanism pivots the snowplow about the pivot axis of the second hinge, thereby adjusting the orientation of the snowplow blade with respect to the road when in the lowered operative position.
US09765485B2
A free movement, arris protection, construction joint has a pair of arris protection members formed complementarily from strips of sheet with a continuous trapezium wave form. A divider one of the members is typically 100 mm deep for a nominal 0.1 m deep slab. The other one is typically 50 mm deep. The members are of steel plate.The wave form is comprised of flanges extending in the length of the joint and of webs angled to the flanges and the length of the joint. The flanges are spaced on opposite sides of a mid-plane of the joint. The members are bolted together with flangible nylon bolts, with their top (in use) edges flush. Welded to the outer ones of the flanges are L strips having apertures in their flats extending from the flanges for anchoring the joint to its slabs.
US09765481B2
A fabric, in particular a press felt, is provided for use in a press section of a machine for producing a fiber web such as a paper, cardboard, or tissue web. The fabric is formed of multiple strips which are arranged adjacent one another and extend substantially parallel to one another in a machine direction. The strips together form a width of the fabric in the machine transverse direction. Each strip is designed as a double-layered sheet material. Strips arranged adjacently in respective pairs are connected by way of a connecting strip. A part of the width of each of the connecting strips extends in the machine transverse direction into the two adjacent strips. The strips are connected to the connecting strips.
US09765480B2
An installation for drying a non-woven web includes a device (10, 11), a diffusion chamber (10) having an outlet fitting (21) in which there is mounted a perforated sheet (24) creating a drop in pressure.
US09765476B2
The invention relates to a treatment plate (10) for a garment treatment appliance (100) for treating garments (30), which plate has a contact surface which is provided with a sol-gel coating (20) that comprises an oxide of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, scandium, yttrium, or a mixture or combination thereof. The layer preferably has a thickness of less than 1 μm. Such a layer shows excellent properties. A garment treatment appliance comprising such a treatment plate, as well as processes to produce the coating on the contact surface of the treatment plate are also disclosed.
US09765475B2
A steaming device (1) is operable in a cordless mode and has a steaming body (2) having a first water chamber (6), a second water chamber (7), a steam generator (8), a first fluid path (20) between the first water chamber (6) and the second water chamber (7), and a second fluid path (26) between the second water chamber (7) and the steam generator (8). The first fluid path (20) is configured to prevent water flow from the first water chamber (6) to the second water chamber (7) when the steaming body (2) is orientated in a normal operating position. The first fluid path (20) is also configured to allow water flow from the first water chamber (6) to the second water chamber (7) when the steaming body is orientated in a rest position in which the steaming body is inclined at an angle to the normal operating position.
US09765469B2
The souring of wet laundry in a laundry treating appliance may be retarded by sending an alert signal indicative of an ending of a cycle of operation from the laundry treating appliance to a remote electronic device. The appliance may receive an authorization signal from the electronic device indicative of an instruction to execute an anti-sour cycle. An anti-sour cycle comprising the energizing of a fan to flow air through a laundry treating chamber may be automatically initiated for the laundry treating appliance.
US09765466B2
A balancer of a washing machine having improved balancing performance. The balancer includes a balancer housing having an annular channel therein, at least one mass movably disposed in the channel at least one groove recessed in an inner surface of the balancer housing so as to accommodate the mass, and at least one magnet coupled to an outer surface of the balancer housing to restrict the mass accommodated in the groove when an RPM of the drum is within a specific RPM range. The magnet is configured as a plurality of N poles and S poles which are arranged alternately, and the outermost pole of the magnet among the plural N poles and S poles has a relatively shorter length than another adjacent pole.
US09765464B2
A method for washing articles in a wash chamber of the washing machine appliance is provided. The method includes receiving user input of a user-selected water fill amount for a wash cycle, the user-selected water fill amount being the largest water fill amount available for selection by a user. The method also includes determining a characteristic of a load of the washing machine appliance and determining that an amount of water associated with the user-selected water fill amount is inadequate for the load. In response, the method includes providing the wash chamber of the washing machine appliance with an amount of water greater than an amount associated with the user-selected water fill amount.
US09765460B2
The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for imaging. The method includes capturing, by a device, a plurality of images of a work piece and mapping, by the device, the plurality of images of the work piece to a digital representation of the work piece. The method further includes detecting, by the device, an outline of an existing design within the digital representation of the work piece, wherein the device comprises an image capture device operably connected to a sewing head having a reciprocating needle, the reciprocating needle defining a cycle path, the image capture device being adjacent to a portion of the cycle path.
US09765458B2
The present invention provides a mounting mat (30) for mounting a pollution control element (20) or monolith in a pollution control device (10), said mounting mat comprising a layer having a mixture of long and short fibers wherein said short fibers have a length of not more than about 13 mm and wherein said long fibers have a length of at least about 20 mm and wherein the amount of said short fibers is at least about 3% by weight based on the total weight of said mixture of long and short fibers.
US09765455B2
A method of preparing a fiber for use in forming a ceramic matrix composite material comprises the steps of removing a polymer coating from an outer surface of glass or ceramic fibers by providing heated and humidified gas across the glass or ceramic fibers for a period of time.
US09765453B2
The present invention relates to flame retardant fabrics and safety apparel, especially yarn used for high flame resistant safety apparel fabric wherein the yarn uses a cheese method and the yarn is used to weave fabric. The fabric as described contains at least 60% high flame resistant modacrylic fiber which after cheese dyeing is woven into fabric. The safety apparel that use this fabric will not continue to burn after leaving a fire, will not melt or cause the wearer secondary injury and complies with the relevant standards of the European Union, the United States and China.
US09765448B2
A flame resistant polymer is obtained by reacting polyacrylonitrile with amine and nitro compounds, the polyacrylonitrile being polymerized by aqueous suspension polymerization using a redox initiator and containing an S component at an amount of 3,000 μg/g or less. A PAN-based polymer in which both yarn producing properties and flame resistance are improved can be realized.
US09765440B2
There is disclosed a method for producing corrosion and erosion-resistant mixed oxide coatings on a metal substrate, as well as a mixed oxide coating itself. A surface of the substrate metal is oxidized and converted into a first coating compound comprising a primary oxide of that metal by a plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) process. One or more secondary oxide compounds comprising oxides of secondary elements not present in conventional alloys of the substrate metals at significant (>2 wt %) levels are added to the first oxide coating. The source of the secondary element(s) is at least one of: i) a soluble salt of the secondary element(s) in the electrolyte; ii) an enrichment of the surface of the substrate metal with secondary element(s) prior to PEO processing; and iii) a suspension of the secondary element(s) or oxide(s) of the secondary element(s) applied to the oxide of the metal after this has been formed by the PEO process.
US09765436B2
A powder feeder for a cold spray system includes a rotatable drum body, a housing surrounding the drum body, and a support structure. The support structure couples to the housing and supports the housing such that the drum body rotates about a rotation axis to provide in-situ blending of powder disposed within an interior of the drum body.
US09765435B2
A process for producing a titanium load-bearing structure, which comprises cold-gas dynamic spraying of titanium particles on to a suitably shaped support member, and a titanium load bearing structure so-produced.
US09765433B2
The fastening elements 71 are first set through the rotary disk 1 to be then fixed to the retention plates 2 so that the stretching force induced by the fixing operation is acting upon the retention plates 2. This helps prevent the rotary disk 1 from being affected by the stretching force and thus deformed. Further, the fastening holes 22 are located adjacent to the retention grooves 21 so that they can directly and effectively apply forces to the support members 3 and due to the torque (distance) thereof with respect to the support members 3 being reduced, it is possible to effectively reduce the occurrence of deformation of the retention plates 2. To summarize, since the stretching force induced by fixing is born by the retention plates 2, the rotary disk 1 may have a lifespan that is greater than that of the retention plates 2 and with the arrangement that releasable engagement is formed between the retention plates 2 and the rotary disk 1, it only needs to replace an individual one of the retention plates 2 that has been deformed in the maintenance thereof. Further, due to the size of the retention plates 2 being reduced, the cost of maintenance can be greatly lowered down.
US09765426B1
The present invention relates to sputter targets for electrochemical device layer deposition comprising a lithium-containing target material with near-metallic electrical conductivity which includes (a) at least one metal and (b) a lithium-containing material, the lithium-containing material being selected from the group consisting of lithium metal and a lithium-containing salt, wherein the at least one metal and the lithium-containing material are formed into the lithium-containing target material and wherein the lithium-containing target material is configured with a composition sufficient for physical vapor deposition of a lithium-containing electrode of the electrochemical device in a single step, the lithium-containing electrode as deposited requiring no further lithium doping. Furthermore, the composition of the metallic lithium-containing target material may be configured to provide a low enough electrical resistance to permit DC sputtering. Chambers and tools including the sputter target and process flows for fabricating electrochemical devices including steps utilizing the sputter target are also described.
US09765419B2
New methods for aging aluminum alloys having zinc and magnesium are disclosed. The methods may include first aging the aluminum alloy at a first temperature of from about 310° F. to 530° F. and for a first aging time of from 1 minute to 6 hours, and then second aging the aluminum alloy at a second temperature for a second aging time of at least 30 minutes, with the second temperature being lower than the first temperature.
US09765417B2
A low-yield ratio high-strength electric resistance welded steel pipe has a yield ratio of 80% or less and a TS of 655 MPa or more. A steel material has a composition containing 0.38% to 0.45% C, 0.1% to 0.3% Si, 1.0% to 1.8% Mn, 0.03% or less P, 0.03% or less S, 0.01% to 0.07% sol. Al, and 0.01% or less N on a mass basis.
US09765413B2
A high-strength galvanized steel sheet with high yield ratio having excellent ductility and stretch flange formability, the steel sheet having a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.04% or more and 0.13% or less, Si: 0.9% or more and 2.3% or less, Mn: 0.8% or more and 2.4% or less, P: 0.1% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Al: 0.01% or more and 0.1% or less, N: 0.008% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities and a microstructure including, in terms of area ratio, 94% or more of a ferrite phase and 2% or less of a martensite ferrite phase, wherein mean grain size of ferrite is 10 μm or less, Vickers hardness of ferrite is 140 or more, mean grain size of carbide particles existing at grain boundaries of ferrite is 0.5 μm or less, and aspect ratio of carbide particles existing at the grain boundaries of ferrite is 2.0 or less.
US09765404B2
The present disclosure provides methods for detecting and identifying plant events that contain donor sequences inserted precisely into targeted genomic loci, and plants and plant cells comprising such targeted genomic loci. The method comprises the steps of amplifying a genomic DNA with a first round of PCR to produce a first amplicon from donor sequences inserted in the reverse orientation, amplifying the first amplicon with a second round of PCR and detecting the presence of the second amplicon, wherein the production of the first and second amplicon indicates the presence of the site specific integration event.
US09765380B2
This disclosure provides ten (10) specific peptides, and particular peptide characteristics, from the cell membrane-bound Her2 protein and a diagnostic assay useful for determining the presence and amount of full length and truncated versions of the full-length Her2 protein in cells derived from formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue.
US09765378B2
The invention provides a method of preparing a new recombinant antibacterial polypeptide medicine, which primarily relates to liquid culture medium formula suitable for large-scale production of the antibacterial polypeptide, as well as optimization of the enlarged culture parameters.
US09765372B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic enhancing activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US09765365B2
The invention relates to recombinant host cells having at least one integrated polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide that catalyzes a step in a pyruvate-utilizing biosynthetic pathway, e.g., pyruvate to acetolactate conversion. The invention also relates to methods of increasing the biosynthetic production of isobutanol, 2,3-butanediol, 2-butanol or 2-butanone using such host cells.
US09765364B2
This invention provides a method for the prolonged production of ethanol using a metabolically enhanced cyanobacterium.
US09765356B2
The present invention relates to a method of increasing resistance against fungal pathogens of the family Phacosporaceae in transgenic plants and/or plant cells. In these plants, the ethylene signaling pathway and/or activity of the ethylene signaling compounds is changed. This is achieved by priming the ethylene signaling pathway in these plants in comparison to wild type plants and/or wild type plant cells. Depending on the activating or inhibitory function of a particular signaling compound overexpression or knock-down of the cognate gene might be used.
US09765353B2
Provided are the DNA of a glycoalkaloid biosynthetic enzyme of solanaceous plants (Solanaceae) such as potato, solanaceous plants producing no glycoalkaloids, and a method of producing a cultivar with a reduced risk of accumulating glycoalkaloids, which involves crossing plants in which the expression of an oxidase gene involved in glycoalkaloid biosynthesis is suppressed or the activity of the enzyme is lowered, as mother plants, and screening progeny resulting from the crossing.
US09765352B2
Compositions and methods are provided for the introduction and the regulated expression of genes in plants. Compositions include promoter constructs that provide a level of activity useful for the regulated expression of site-specific recombinases, while avoiding premature excision. Further provided are isolated polynucleotides encoding novel babyboom polypeptides, expression cassettes, and plants comprising the same. Methods for the introduction of genes into plants are provided, including methods for plastid transformation and methods for the transformation of tissues from mature seeds and leaves.
US09765351B2
This invention relates to methods of controlling gene expression or gene suppression in eukaryotic cells. One aspect of this invention includes modifying the degree of silencing of a target gene by use of a modified suppression element. Another aspect includes providing a eukaryotic cell having a desired phenotype resulting from transcription in the eukaryotic cell of a modified suppression element. Also provided are transgenic eukaryotic cells, transgenic plant cells, plants, and seeds containing modified suppression elements, and useful derivatives of such transgenic plant cells, plants, or seeds, such as food or feed products.
US09765348B2
Disclosed are genetically engineered organisms, such as yeast and bacteria, that have the ability to metabolize atypical nitrogen sources, such as melamine and cyanamide. Fermentation methods using the genetically engineered organisms are also described. The methods of the invention are robust processes for the industrial bioproduction of a variety of compounds, including commodities, fine chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.
US09765344B2
Method for enhancing the fermentative potential and growth rate of microorganisms under anaerobiosis
The present invention concerns a method for enhancing the growth rate, the biomass production and/or the fermentative potential of an anaerobic microorganism, comprising the steps consisting in: (a) modifying said anaerobic microorganism by inactivating the ohrR gene, the ohrR gene product or homolog thereof; (b) culturing the modified anaerobic microorganism obtained in step (a) under low-ORP anaerobic conditions.
US09765339B2
The present invention relates to FLT3 receptor antagonists or inhibitors of FLT3 receptor gene expression for the treatment or the prevention of pain disorders.
US09765330B1
Allograft recognition and rejection of donor cells in a host is reduced by limiting or even abrogating expression of the donor cell's MHC-I peptides to avoid CD8+ T-cell recognition and by expression of inhibitory factors to avoid an NK cell mediated cytotoxic response.
US09765319B2
The invention relates to xylanases and to polynucleotides encoding the xylanases. In addition, methods of designing new xylanases and methods of use thereof are also provided. The xylanases have increased activity and stability at increased pH and temperature.
US09765313B2
The present invention relates to the field of genetic engineering, in particular, the present invention relates to a method for producing a phytase variant with an improved thermal stability, and a phytase variant and the use thereof. The phytase variant contains at least one proline modification, compared to the phytase from Escherichia coli and other mutants thereof. The phytase variants with the modification have preferably improved properties, such as the thermal stability, optimal reaction temperature, pH property, specific activity, protease resistance and performance in animal feeds.
US09765311B2
Disclosed are mutant DNA polymerases having increased 3′-mismatch discrimination relative to a corresponding, unmodified polymerase. The mutant polymerases are useful in a variety of disclosed primer extension methods. Also disclosed are related compositions, including recombinant nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells, which are useful, e.g., for production of the mutant DNA polymerases.
US09765295B2
Provided are a sanal culturing composition and a method for culturing sanal using the same.
US09765285B2
Acidic viscoelastic cleaning compositions are disclosed which use non polymer thickening agents. According to the invention, cleaning compositions have been developed using viscoelastic surfactants in acidic cleaning formulations. These provide the dual benefit of thickening as well as an additional cleaning, thereby improving performance. Applicants have also identified several pseudo linking agents which when, used with viscoelastic surfactants provide enhanced viscoelasticity and cleaning.
US09765282B2
The present invention relates to the field of perfumery. More particularly, it concerns polymers derived from siloxane derivatives and comprising at least one β-thio carbonyl moiety capable of liberating an active molecule such as, for example, an α,β-unsaturated ketone or aldehyde. The present invention concerns also the use of polymers in perfumery as part of a perfuming or malodor counteracting composition as well as the perfuming compositions or perfumed articles comprising the invention's compounds.
US09765281B2
The present invention relates to the use of short-path evaporation for reducing from deodorized triglyceride oils the content of propanol components selected from chloropropanols, chloropropanol fatty acid esters, epoxypropanols, epoxypropanol fatty acid esters, and combinations of two or more thereof. It further relates to the use of short-path evaporation wherein further the content of acyl glycerol components is reduced and these acyl glycerol components are selected from diacyl-glycerols, triglycerides with molecular weight in the range below 730 and mixtures of two or more thereof.
US09765276B2
A lubricating composition for use in heavy duty diesel engines which is formulated to allow the use of organomolybdenum compounds but which overcomes the issue of Cu and/or Pb corrosion. The lubricant is characterized by having a synergistic additive composition comprising (A) a sulfur-free organo-molybdenum compound, (B) a sulfur-containing organo-molybdenum compound and (C) a triazole derivative prepared by reacting 1,2,4-triazole, a formaldehyde source and an amine; (A), (B) and (C) being present in an amount sufficient to allow the lubricating composition to pass the High Temperature Corrosion Bench Test ASTM D 6594 with respect to Cu and/or Pb corrosion.
US09765268B2
A method of producing oil, gas, and ash fertilizer from a feedstock includes inputting the feedstock into a reaction chamber having a wall, and combusting the feedstock in the reaction chamber. An electrical current flow is induced between the reaction chamber wall and the feedstock so as to cause arcing in the feedstock within the reaction chamber. Ash reaction byproducts migrate downward through the reaction chamber onto ash support structure, which is substantially electrically isolated from the reaction chamber wall. Gas and liquid reaction byproducts migrate upward through the reaction chamber to an upper chamber by a partial vacuum in the upper chamber, and are evacuated therefrom. The oil and gas are then separated from the evacuated gas/liquid products, providing the oil and the gas products. The oil is refinable, the gas is high in energy content, and the ash fertilizer is high in nitrogen.
US09765259B2
A liquid-crystal medium containing a component A of one or more compounds of formula X the preparation thereof, and the use of these liquid-crystal media, in particular in components for high-frequency technology, and components of this type which contain the media, and the production and use of these components. The components are suitable for phase shifters in the microwave and millimeter wave region, for microwave and millimeter wave array antennae and for tuneable reflectarrays.
US09765248B2
The invention relates to an adhesive composition comprising at least one polyamide noted A, with a mean number of carbon atoms per nitrogen atom, noted CA, of between 4 and 8.5 and advantageously between 4 and 7; at least one polyamide noted B, with a melting point of greater than or equal to 180° C. and a mean number of carbon atoms per nitrogen atom, noted CB, of between 7 and 10 and advantageously between 7.5 and 9.5; at least one polyamide noted C, with a mean number of carbon atoms per nitrogen atom, noted CC, of between 9 and 18 and advantageously between 10 and 18; at least 50% by weight of the said composition being formed from one or more polyamides chosen from polyamides A, B and C, the mass-weighted mean of the heats of fusion of these polyamides in the said composition being greater than 25 J/g (DSC),the mean number of carbon atoms per nitrogen atom of the polyamides A, B and C also satisfying the following strict inequality: CA
US09765244B2
An adhesive film for polarizing plates includes a (meth)acrylic copolymer obtained by polymerizing about 15 wt % to about 30 wt % of a (meth)acrylic monomer having a hetero-alicyclic ring. The adhesive film has a storage modulus (G′) of about 30 kPa or greater as determined from Frequency sweep testing at 85° C. by oscillation at an angular speed of 10−3 rad/s to 102 rad/s. An adhesive composition for the same, a polarizing plate including the same, and an optical display device including the same are also disclosed.
US09765224B2
Disclosed is an antifogging film-forming material obtained by reacting, in the presence of a quaternary ammonium salt or quaternary phosphonium salt, a copolymer represented by a certain general formula with a multifunctional epoxy compound having a solubility of 40-100 mass % in 25° C. water. The antifogging film-forming material is characterized by having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000-5,000,000. With this material, it becomes possible to obtain an antifogging article excellent in antifogging property, heat resistance, chemical resistance and abrasion resistance.
US09765221B2
Provided is an orange ink composition for a sublimation transfer, which contains an aromatic compound having a specific structure.
US09765220B2
Compounds useful as fluorescent or colored dyes are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I): including stereoisomers, salts and tautomers thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, M1, M2, A, q, w and n are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds are also provided.
US09765215B2
Curable compositions are provided comprising (i) at least one epoxy resin as specified (ii) an epoxide hardener system comprising (a) a carboxylic acid anhydride, (b) a first amine having a melting point from about 30 C to about 100 C and containing at least one primary amine group; and (c) a second amine having a melting point of from about 50 C to about 180 C and having at least one primary amine group, wherein the first and second amines are selected such that they have a difference in melting points of at least 10 C and wherein the first and second amines are contained in minor amounts by weight as compared to the carboxylic acid anhydride; and (iii) a filler as specified. Also provided are compositions obtainable by curing the curable composition, the use of the curable composition for filling of voids in honeycomb structures and processes for filing voids in honeycomb structures.
US09765214B2
Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a block copolymer; where the block copolymer comprises a first polymer and a second polymer; where the first polymer and the second polymer of the block copolymer are different from each other and the block copolymer forms a phase separated structure; an additive polymer; where the additive polymer comprises a bottle brush polymer; where the bottle brush polymer comprises a homopolymer that is the chemically and structurally the same as one of the polymers in the block copolymer or where the additive polymer comprises a graft copolymer that has a preferential interaction with one of the blocks of the block copolymers; and a solvent.
US09765211B2
A polymeric powder composition prepared from an emulsion blend comprising from 95 to less than 100 percent by weight latex based substrate polymer, wherein the latex based substrate polymer comprises units derived from one or more monomers selected from the group consisting of alkyl (meth)acrylates, functionalized alkyl(meth)acrylates styrene, acrylonitrile, butadiene, chloroprene, vinyl chloride, (meth)acrylates, vinyl acetate, and combinations of two or more thereof and wherein the latex based substrate polymer has a Tg equal to or greater than 60° C. and an average particle size between 100 nm and 10 μm; and from greater than 0 to 5 percent by weight binder latex polymer, wherein the binder has a Tg of equal to or less than 10° C. and has units derived from one or more (meth)acrylic monomers, and wherein the binder polymer has an average particle size from 50 to 250 nm is provided.
US09765210B2
Disclosed herein is a thermoplastic resin composition. The thermoplastic resin composition includes: a matrix resin including a resin including a methyl methacrylate repeat unit; and an impact modifier, wherein the impact modifier includes a first core-shell type impact modifier including a butadiene rubber polymer core and a second core-shell type impact modifier including an acrylate rubber polymer core, and the second impact modifier is present in a greater amount than the first impact modifier. The thermoplastic resin composition can exhibit excellent properties in terms of weatherability, colorability, and gloss.
US09765202B2
Rubber composition which improves dispersibility of silica and enhances processability by reducing viscosity of an unvulcanized rubber and which suppresses rubber scorching, inhibits shrinkage without delaying a vulcanization rate and improves a heat resistance, and a tire prepared by using the above rubber composition. Rubber composition prepared by blending at least one rubber component selected from a natural rubber and/or a diene base synthetic rubber with silica and a glycerin fatty acid ester composition, wherein a blend amount of the glycerin fatty acid ester composition is 0.5 to 15 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; the fatty acid has 8 to 28 carbon atoms; the glycerin fatty acid ester composition contains glycerin fatty acid monoester and glycerin fatty acid diester; and a content of the glycerin fatty acid monoester in the glycerin fatty acid ester composition is 85% by mass or less.
US09765198B2
Provided is a resin composition excellent in processability and productivity, which improves low crystallization rate and improves processability in forming such as injection molding or sheet forming. Provided is a polyester resin composition including a polyester resin (A), a crystallization promoter (B), and pentaerythritol (C).
US09765195B2
The present invention aims to provide a chlorinated vinyl chloride-based resin composition with excellent thermal stability and a molded body thereof. The present invention relates to a resin composition for molding, including a chlorinated vinyl chloride-based resin, a thermal stabilizer, and a polyalcohol and/or a partial ester of a polyalcohol. The chlorinated vinyl chloride-based resin has a chlorine content of 65% by weight or more and less than 72% by weight. The chlorinated vinyl chloride-based resin has, based on the total number of moles of a structural unit (a) —CCl2—, a structural unit (b) —CHCl—, and a structural unit (c) —CH2—, a proportion of the structural unit (a) of 17.5 mol % or less, a proportion of the structural unit (b) of 46.0 mol % or more, and a proportion of the structural unit (c) of 37.0 mol % or less. The thermal stabilizer contains at least one of a compound represented by the formula Ca1-xMgx(OH)2 where x satisfies the inequality 0
US09765189B2
An organopolysiloxane emulsion composition having good age stability is prepared by (I) emulsifying a mixture comprising (A) an organopolysiloxane of formula: HO(R12SiO)nH, (B) a surfactant and (C-1) water to form a first emulsion composition and (II) effecting emulsion polymerization of the first emulsion composition in the presence of (D) an acid catalyst below 40° C. The target emulsion composition contains an organopolysiloxane product having a viscosity≧300,000 mPa·s at 25° C. and an octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane content≦3,000 ppm, and has an emulsified particle size≦500 nm.
US09765187B2
The present invention relates to MRI contrasting agent for contrasting cancer cell which contains ultrafine nanoparticles. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a self-assembled ligand composition comprising a ligand A, which is separated at a specific pH range, and a ligand B of which surface charge changes at a specific pH range, MRI contrast agent for contrasting cancer cell comprising said ligand composition and MRI contrasting nanoparticles, and the methods for preparing them.
US09765182B2
Disclosed is an elastomer synthesized by a reacting epoxidized vegetable oil with carboxylic acid to form the elastomer compound. More specifically, disclosed herein is an elastomer compound having a polyester component. The method for making the elastomer comprises mixing a polybasic acid with an alcohol solvent to form a solution, reacting said solution having carboxylic groups with epoxidized vegetable oil, and heating the solution at a range of approximately 50° C. to 80° C., wherein an amorphous polyester elastomer is formed. Also disclosed is an elastomer foam product formed by a reacting epoxidized vegetable oil with carboxylic acid.
US09765181B2
Described are coating compositions comprising a polyester, the polyester comprising: at least one polyester which comprises a dicarboxylic acid component comprising terephthalic acid residues, and a glycol component comprising 30 to 40 mole % 2,2,4,4-tetramethyl-1,3-cyclobutanediol residues and 60 to 70 mole % cyclohexanedimethanol residues, where the inherent viscosity of the polyester is from 0.10 to 0.70 dL/g, and where the coating composition is made from a film or sheet.
US09765165B2
A process for the preparation of a polyolefin in a slurry loop reactor provided with settling legs may include introducing olefin reactants, diluents, and polymerization catalyst into the reactor while circulating. The process may include polymerizing the olefin reactants to produce a slurry, continuously withdrawing the slurry, via the settling legs, and transferring withdrawn solid olefin polymer particles to a recovery section. Each settling leg may have an inlet connected to the reactor and an outlet connected to the recovery section. At least one settling leg is continuously open, allowing continuous withdrawal of slurry. Each outlet of the settling legs may be connected to the recovery section by a conduit provided with a pressure control device. The pressure in the reactor may be controlled by operating the pressure control device.
US09765162B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for removing halogens generated during the preparation of polybutene, which are capable of improving the utilization of polybutene and light polymers by removing halogen components contained in the polybutene and the light polymers. The method for removing halogens generated during the preparation of polybutene comprises the steps of: preparing a reaction product by supplying a catalyst and a reaction raw material to a reactor and polymerizing; removing a catalyst component from the reaction product and neutralizing; separating the reaction product into an organic compound and impurities comprising the catalyst component; heating the organic compound to distill an unreacted material; and removing a halogen component in a remaining polymerization mixture after the distillation using a halogen removing catalyst, or removing a halogen component in polybutene and light polymers obtained from the polymerization mixture using the halogen removing catalyst.
US09765160B2
The invention provides an ethylene-based polymer comprising the following properties: a) weight fraction (w) of molecular weight above 5*106 g/mol, w>A−B*I2, where A=0.4 wt %, and B is 0.02 wt %/(dg/min), and w
US09765157B2
The present invention provides a bispecific antibody construct comprising a first human binding domain which binds to human CDH19 on the surface of a target cell and a second binding domain which binds a human CD3 on the surface of a T cell. Moreover, the invention provides a polynucleotide encoding the antibody construct, a vector comprising the polynucleotide and a host cell transformed or transfected with the polynucleotide or vector. Furthermore, the invention provides a process for the production of the antibody construct of the invention, a medical use of the antibody construct in the treatment of melanoma, and a kit comprising the antibody construct.
US09765151B2
The present invention provides a component having effects in vivo of improving or optimizing the intestinal environment, suppressing intestinal putrefaction, or suppressing alternation of intestinal bacterial growth and/or pathological changes of intestinal bacterial growth in gut microbiota. The invention also provides an active ingredient suitably used for treating intestinal diseases. The invention provides a monoclonal IgA antibody that binds to amino acids 11 to 333 of serine hydroxymethyltransferase.
US09765145B2
There is disclosed compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-CXCR3 antibodies. More specifically, there is disclosed fully human antibodies that bind CXCR3, CXCR3-binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and CXCR3-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 CXCR3 related disorders or conditions, including various inflammatory disorders and various cancers.
US09765143B2
Methods are provided to manipulate phagocytosis of cells, including hematopoietic cells, e.g. circulating hematopoietic cells, bone marrow cells, acute leukemia cells, etc.; and solid tumor cells. In some embodiments of the invention the circulating cells are hematopoietic stem cells, or hematopoietic progenitor cells, particularly in a transplantation context, where protection from phagocytosis is desirable. In other embodiments the circulating cells are leukemia cells, particularly acute myeloid leukemia (AML), where increased phagocytosis is desirable.
US09765138B2
The present invention is directed to therapeutic methods using IL-6 antagonists such as anti-IL-6 antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for IL-6 to prevent or treat rheumatoid arthritis.
US09765135B2
An objective of the invention is to provide anti-C5 antibodies and methods of using the same. The invention provides anti-C5 antibodies and methods of using the same. In some embodiments, an isolated anti-C5 antibody of the present invention binds to an epitope within the β chain of C5 with a higher affinity at neutral pH than at acidic pH. The invention also provides isolated nucleic acids encoding an anti-C5 antibody of the present invention. The invention also provides host cells comprising a nucleic acid of the present invention. The invention also provides a method of producing an antibody comprising culturing a host cell of the present invention so that the antibody is produced. The invention further provides a method of producing an anti-C5 antibody comprising immunizing an animal against a polypeptide which comprises the MG1-MG2 domain of the β chain of C5. Anti-C5 antibodies of the present invention may be for use as a medicament. Anti-C5 antibodies of the present invention may be for use in treating a complement-mediated disease or condition which involves excessive or uncontrolled activation of C5. Anti-C5 antibodies of the present invention may be for use in enhancing the clearance of C5 from plasma.
US09765129B2
The present invention relates generally to a method of increasing lipid oxidation in a mammal and to agents useful for same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method of increasing lipid oxidation in a mammal by administering a ligand which interacts with the IL-6 receptor and signals via interaction with a gp130/LIF receptor heterodimer. In a related aspect, the present invention provides a method of increasing insulin sensitivity in a mammal. The method of present invention is useful, inter alia, in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of conditions characterized by unwanted lipid accumulation (such as obesity, obesity induced-metabolic disorders, type II diabetes, dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, obstructive sleep apnea, cardiovascular disease or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) or inadequate insulin sensitivity.
US09765126B2
The disclosure generally relates to methods and materials for modulating cell productivity. In particular, the present disclosure provides polynucleotides encoding transcription factor proteins that when overexpressed in microorganisms result in increased in productivity, such as increased biomass productivity. Also disclosed are methods of using the genetically engineered host strains to modulate or increase productivity of host cells such as, for example, algal or heterokont cells. Genetically engineered host cells, such as algal and heterokont cells having increased biomass productivity and bioproducts derived from such host cells are also disclosed.
US09765125B2
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major health concern, especially in very young, elderly, or immunocompromised patients. The present disclosure provides, inter alia, certain highly effective vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions in Streptococcus pneumoniae that contain fusion proteins. The antigens may be used therapeutically or prophylactically.
US09765109B2
Oligonucleotides with a novel sugar-phosphate backbone containing at least one 2′-arabino-fluoronucleoside and an internucleoside 3′-NH—P(—O)(OR)—O-5′ linkage, where R is a positively charged counter ion or hydrogen, and methods of synthesizing and using the inventive oligonucleotides are provided. The inventive phosphoramidate 2′-arabino-fluorooligonucleotides have a high RNA binding affinity to complementary nucleic acids and are base and acid stable.
US09765106B2
N. gonorrhoeae has become resistant to almost every conventional antibiotic. Described herein is the use of CMP-nonulosonate analogs to counter gonococcal complement evasion. The nonulosonate sugar is incorporated into the lipooligosaccharide of the N. gonorrhoeae which in turn reduces the serum resistance of the bacteria. This provides a novel therapeutic strategy against the global threat of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea.
US09765098B2
Provided in the present invention is a preparation method for a phosphonic salt, comprising the step of: reacting 3,7,11-trimethyldodec-1,4,6,10-tetraene-3-ol with triarylphosphine and an acid in an alcohol solvent at 50-100° C. to form the phosphonic salt, wherein the acid is a sulfamic acid or methanesulfonic acid, and the alcohol solvent is a straight chain monohydric alcohol containing 1-5 carbon atoms. The method is performed in nearly neutral conditions, greatly reducing the generation of impurities and greatly obtaining phosphonic salt with an increased E content. The yield of lycopene obtained by using the phosphonic salt as a raw material is high.
US09765094B2
Ultrastable silver nanoparticles, methods of making the same, and methods of using the same, are disclosed.
US09765091B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of Formula (I), wherein M, A and Y are defined as in Formula (I); invention compounds are modulators of metabotropic glutamate receptors—subtype 4 (“mGluR4”) which are useful for the treatment or prevention of central nervous system disorders as well as other disorders modulated by mGluR4 receptors. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions and the use of such compounds in the manufacture of medicaments, as well as to the use of such compounds for the prevention and treatment of such diseases in which mGluR4 is involved.
US09765087B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof: which inhibit RNA-containing virus, particularly the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US09765081B2
A pharmaceutical composition is provided which includes perillyl alcohol conjugated with a therapeutic agent and further includes and a hydrolyzable acylated aliphatic tail. A method of using the pharmaceutical composition is also provided for treating a condition or disease of a patient, e.g., cancer.
US09765080B2
Compounds of formula (I) that are capable of acting as purine receptor antagonists, pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of making the compounds, are. disclosed. The compounds and compositions can be used in treating or preventing disorders related to purine receptor hyperfunctioning.
US09765079B2
Crystalline forms of pemetrexed diacid are provided (Forms 1 and 2) which are readily produced for either laboratory-scale or industrial scale. Processes for the preparation of Forms 1 and 2 are also provided.
US09765069B2
The present invention relates to certain tetramic acid derivatives that are suitable for use in the preparation and development of antimicrobial (e.g. antibacterial or antifungal) compositions. The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds as antimicrobial (e.g. antibacterial or antifungal agents) and, in particular, as topical antibacterial or antifungal agents.
US09765058B2
Compounds of formula (I), and their use as pharmaceuticals.
US09765053B2
Compounds and methods are provided for the treatment of disease conditions in which modification of serotonergic receptor activity has a beneficial effect. In the method, an effective amount of a compound is administered to a patient in need of such treatment.
US09765052B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6a and R6b are as defined in the description; or a stereoisomer, salt, tautomer or N-oxide, or a polymorphic crystalline form, a co-crystal or a solvate of a compound or a stereoisomer, salt, tautomer or N-oxide thereof, and to mixtures, methods and uses thereof.
US09765031B2
A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, comprising (i) a CB1 receptor mediating scaffold conjugated to (ii) a second therapeutic scaffold.
US09765025B2
The present invention provides a method for producing an atropisomer of a pyrrole derivative having excellent mineralocorticoid receptor antagonistic activity, and an intermediate thereof. A method for producing an atropisomer of a pyrrole derivative using a compound represented by (B) [wherein R1 represents a C1-C4 alkyl group, and R2 represents a 2-hydroxyethyl group or a carboxymethyl group] as a production intermediate.
US09765014B2
The present disclosure provides a process for producing dimethyl carbonate with high conversion rate. Alkylene glycol reacts with urea via alcohylysis reaction to produce alkylene carbonate and ammonia. The alkylene carbonate produced reacts with methanol via transesterification reaction to produce dimethyl carbonate. Before the dimethyl carbonate is separated from the mixture, the nitrogen-containing impurities are substantially removed. Unreacted feedstock and catalysts are recycled in the process.
US09765013B2
A method for preparing an aromatic carbonate, of the present invention, comprises the steps of: (A) preparing a reaction mixture containing an aliphatic carbonate by reacting an organometallic compound and carbon dioxide; and (B) preparing an aromatic carbonate by reacting the reaction mixture and an aromatic alcohol. The method for preparing an aromatic carbonate allows an aromatic carbonate to be economically prepared in a high yield by using carbon dioxide as a carbonyl supply source.
US09765005B2
A method of using homogenous rhodium catalysts comprising N-heterocyclic carbene ligands for the hydroformylation of olefins and substituted olefins is provided. In some aspects, the methods provided herein relate to the hydroformylation of allyl alcohol to 4-hydroxybutaldehyde in the presence of a rhodium catalyst which contains one or more N-heterocyclic carbene ligands of the formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are defined herein.
US09764999B2
Various compositions, including particularly aerosol compositions containing fluorinated olefins, including particularly 2,3,3,3-tetraluorpropene (HFO-1234yf), in a variety of applications are disclosed.
US09764996B2
A method of making a catalyst containing nanosize zeolite particles supported on a support material is disclosed. A process for making styrene or ethylbenzene by reacting toluene with a C1 source over a catalyst containing nanosize zeolite particles supported on a support material is disclosed.
US09764990B2
A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body having a partition wall which is constituted of a porous body. The porous body includes a refractory aggregate and a bonding material. The porous body constituting includes the bonding material at a mass proportion of 20 to 35 mass %. In an observation of a cross section of the partition wall with an electron microscope, when observing any given ten visual fields meeting a following condition (1), the number of refractory aggregates meeting a following condition (2) is five pieces or more in all of the ten visual fields.Condition (1): a proportion of an area occupied by the bonding material is 30% or more.Condition (2): the refractory aggregate has a particle diameter of 5 μm or more, and 60% or more of an outer circumference of the refractory aggregate is surrounded by the bonding material.
US09764988B1
A Ca—SiAlON ceramic with enhanced mechanical properties and a method employing micron-sized and submicron precursors to form the Ca—SiAlON ceramic. The Ca—SiAlON ceramic comprises not more than 42 wt % silicon, relative to the total weight of the Ca—SiAlON ceramic. The method employs submicron particles and also allows for substituting a portion of aluminum nitride with aluminum to form the Ca—SiAlON ceramic with enhanced mechanical properties.
US09764987B2
Methods for producing Polymer Derived Ceramic (PDCs) particles and bulk ceramic components and compositions from partially cured gelatinous polymer ceramic precursors and unique bulk composite PDC ceramics and unique PDC ceramic particles in size and composition. Methods of making fully dense PDCs over approximately 2 μm to approximately 300 mm in diameter for applications such as but not limited to proppants, hybrid ball bearings, catalysts, and the like. Methods can include emulsion processes or spray processes to produce PDCs. The ceramic particles and compositions can be shaped and chemically and materially augmented with enhancement particles in the liquid resin or gelatinous polymeric state before being pyrolyzed into ceramic components. The resulting ceramic components have a very smooth surface and are fully dense, not porous as ceramic components from the sol-gel process.
US09764986B2
In one aspect, articles employing CVD coatings deposited at low temperatures are described herein. Briefly, a coated article described herein comprises a substrate and a refractory coating adhered to the substrate, the refractory coating including a layer of TiN deposited by thermal CVD, the layer of TiN having an average crystallite size of 0.05 μm to 0.5 μm and residual tensile stress of 100 MPa to 700 MPa.
US09764976B2
A process for reducing the production of sludge by municipal or industrial wastewater purification plants, comprising a step of mesophilic or thermophilic anaerobic digestion (20), or anaerobic digestion combining these two operating modes, of a stream of sludge to be treated (1), and at least one biological solubilization anaerobic treatment step (30); the process comprises, upstream of the anaerobic digestion step, a step of dehydration (10) of the sludge to be treated, followed by a step of mixing (15) the dehydrated sludge with a recirculated fraction of sludge that is more liquid, originating from recycling of the digestion (20), and/or from the anaerobic treatment step (30), and/or centrates originating from a final dehydration (50) of the treated sludge, wherein the recirculation rate is chosen such that the mixture has a dryness suitable for digestion, this mixture then being directed towards the digestion.
US09764969B2
In a method of manufacturing a bimetallic catalyst for reductively decomposing nitrate nitrogen, a powder including a trivalent iron oxide, a powder including a trivalent iron oxyhydroxide powder or a combination thereof is mixed in an aqueous solution. A copper precursor and a palladium precursor are mixed in the aqueous solution to form a precursor mixture. The precursor mixture is dried. The dried precursor mixture is fired at a temperature from about 300° C. to about 450° C. to form a fired product. The fired product is reduced by a reducing agent. A hydrochloric acid solution is mixed in the aqueous solution, or mixed with the copper precursor or the palladium precursor.
US09764968B2
A method and system of providing ultrapure water for semiconductor fabrication operations is provided. The water is treated by utilizing a free radical scavenging system and a free radical removal system. The free radical scavenging system can utilize actinic radiation with a free radical precursor compound, such as ammonium persulfate. The free radical removal system can comprise use of a reducing agent. The ultrapure water may be further treated by utilizing ion exchange media and degasification apparatus. A control system can be utilized to regulate addition of the precursor compound, the intensity of the actinic radiation, and addition of the reducing agent to the water.
US09764964B2
The present invention disclosed use of lactam as a solvent in the preparation of nanomaterials by precipitation method, sol-gel method or high temperature pyrolysis. These methods are able to recycle lactam solvent, which meet requirements of environmental protection.
US09764953B2
The present invention provides for a bio-mimetic polymer capable of catalyzing or mineralizing calcium ion and phosphate ions into an apatite.
US09764950B2
A semiconductor arrangement includes a substrate region and a first semiconductor column projecting from the substrate region. The semiconductor arrangement includes a second semiconductor column projecting from the substrate region and adjacent the first semiconductor column. The second semiconductor column is separated a first distance from the first semiconductor column along a first axis. The semiconductor arrangement includes a third semiconductor column projecting from the substrate region and adjacent the first semiconductor column. The third semiconductor column is separated a second distance from the first semiconductor column along a second axis that is substantially perpendicular to the first axis. The second distance is different than the first distance.
US09764948B2
Micro-electromechanical (MEMS) devices and methods of forming are provided. An outgas layer is deposited on a surface of a cap wafer. The cap wafer is bonded to a substrate in a manner that forms a first sealed cavity including a first movable element and a second sealed cavity including a second movable element. The out gas layer is annealed to release gas from the out gas layer into the second sealed cavity and increase a pressure of the second sealed cavity so that the second sealed cavity has a higher pressure than the first sealed cavity after the annealing.
US09764947B2
The voltages output from a low-pressure MEMS sensor are increased by increasing the sensitivity of the sensor. Sensitivity is increased by thinning the diaphragm of the low pressure sensor device. Nonlinearity increased by thinning the diaphragm is reduced by simultaneously creating a cross stiffener on the top side of the diaphragm. An over-etch of the top side further increases sensitivity.
US09764945B2
A micromechanical component and a corresponding test method for a micromechanical component are described. The micromechanical component includes at least one first region, which is elastically connected to a second region via a spring device, a resistor element, which is situated in and/or on the spring device and is at least partially interruptible in the event of damage to the spring device, and a detection device, which is electrically connected to the resistor element, for detecting an interruption in the resistor element and for generating a corresponding detection signal.
US09764939B2
An apparatus for ventilating a web of material used in the manufacture of pocketed springs may be removably attached to a pocket coiler. The apparatus has an upper movable portion which pivots relative to a stationary portion. The stationary portion may be removably attached to the pocket coiler. Each portion has at least one roller, a web of material passing between the rollers during use. One of the rollers may have protrusions to create openings in the material before the material enters the pocket coiler.
US09764937B2
A dispenser dispenses a consumable product from a container. The container is supported within a housing by a container holder. The container holder is vertically moveable within a movement range in the housing. A biasing structure biases the container holder upwardly. A sign is connected to move up and down with the container holder. An indicator associated with the sign is vertically fixed relative to the housing. When an amount of product remaining in the container reaches a low level, the biasing force of the biasing structure will lift the container holder, causing the indicator to be aligned with a portion of the sign that gives a visual cue to a user that the amount of product remaining is at a low level.
US09764935B2
The disclosure concerns a system including a multi-tower modular dispensing system including at least a first dispensing head and a second dispensing head at a counter, a transfer unit located remotely from the counter, piping extending from the transfer unit to the counter, the transfer unit including a centralized ingredient system having a plurality of beverage ingredient sources, the centralized ingredient system configured to supply beverage ingredients to the piping for the dispensing of a first beverage at the counter, the piping including a main micro bundle, the main micro bundle including at least two separate beverage ingredient lines.
US09764919B2
An image forming apparatus includes a coating portion configured to perform a coating process that forms a coating film on a recording sheet with an image formed thereon, a main transport path configured to transport the recording sheet with the image formed thereon and to have a branching portion formed thereon, and a sub transport path configured to be once branched from the main transport path at the branching portion and to be returned to the main transport path again. The coating portion is disposed on the sub transport path.
US09764900B2
The invention relates to a rack storage system comprising a storage rack (1) with storage shelves (12a, 12b) having storage spaces (17) for articles in rack stages (16) lying one above the other with a rack aisle (15) extending in between. Several guide tracks with first and second guide rails run along the rack aisle (15) (27, 28). First and second conveyor vehicles (3a, 3b) can be moved on the guide tracks, each of the conveyor vehicles (3a, 3b) having a drive motor (65a, 65b) and an electronic control unit (66a, 66b) and being controllable independently of one another. The first guide rail (27) is equipped with a first contact line arrangement (67) and the second guide rail (28) is equipped with a second contact line arrangement (68), each of the contact line arrangements (67, 68) comprising dedicated contact lines (69, 70). For energy and/or data supplying purposes, current collectors (71a) of the first conveyor vehicle (3a) contact the contact lines (69) of the first contact line arrangement (67) and current collectors (71b) of the second conveyor vehicle (3b) contact the contact lines (70) of the second contact line arrangement (68). The first conveyor vehicle (3a) and the second conveyor vehicle (3b) can be moved simultaneously and independently of one another on the same conveying track.
US09764898B2
An automated warehouse includes: a plurality of shelves each configured to accommodate an article; a loading-and-unloading port where the article is loaded and unloaded; a stacker crane configured to convey the article between the shelves and the loading-and-unloading port; and a traveling path on which the stacker crane travels. The stacker crane includes a traveling unit including a traveling drive wheel configured to roll along the traveling path, a mast vertically provided on the traveling unit so as to overlap the traveling drive wheel when viewed from a vertical direction, and a lifting platform arranged on one side in a travel direction with respect to the mast and configured to ascend and descend along the mast.
US09764895B2
The present invention relates to an opening and closing latch for a compactor truck hopper that can be used with refuse compactor trucks. The latch for a compactor truck hopper comprises: two identical upper supports attached to the upper left and upper right parts of the container of the truck; to hook-shaped lower plates located in the lower left and lower right parts of the container of the truck, each plate being accompanied by a stud, a spring and securing elements. The hopper latch of the present invention facilitates refuse unloading, since when the hopper comes into contact with the lower part of the latch, the lower part of the latch automatically closes and when the hopper ceases to be in contact with the lower part pf the latch, the lower part of the latch automatically remains free to be opened. Furthermore, the hopper latch, according to the present invention, provides complete and correct closure of the hopper to prevent undesired spillage of leachates during refuse compaction.
US09764890B2
A liquid spray dispensing system has a liquid container receivable within a housing, provided in separable housing portions. The liquid container has at least one flexible side or end wall or a slidable end wall, movable by an actuator, to reduce the volume of a liquid storage compartment containing the liquid to be dispensed through a spray nozzle unit operably connected to the liquid storage compartment. By operating the spray nozzle unit, or a switch operably connected to a spray actuator of the spray nozzle unit, the actuator moves the flexible or slidable wall to reduce the volume of the liquid storage compartment, and thereby cause the pressurized liquid to be dispensed through the spray nozzle unit.
US09764885B2
Disclosed is an oral care implement package (1), comprising: a front panel (100), at least a portion of the front panel (100) being transparent, a backer (200) connected to the front panel (100) with a space for receiving an oral care implement (400) being provided between the backer (200) and the front panel (100), and a magnifying mirror (310) facing the space and visible through the portion of the front panel (100), the magnifying mirror (3109 being in contact with the backer (200), the front panel (100), or both the backer (200) and the front panel (100). Also disclosed is a kit for an oral care implement package (1).
US09764884B2
The invention features a packaging material including a film having a barrier layer formed from an admixture containing a base polymer and a surface-modifying macromolecule. The invention also features containers made from the packaging materials and methods of storing a good.
US09764880B2
A hopper cover for a dispensing machine includes an exterior side having an exterior surface and an interior side having an interior surface that defines a plurality of recesses. The plurality of recesses are configured to receive a plurality of components of the dispensing machine. Each recess of the plurality of recesses corresponds with a specific component of the plurality of components. The hopper cover is configured to cover a hopper cavity of the dispensing machine when in a first orientation and facilitate organized disassembly and reassembly of the dispensing machine when in a second orientation.
US09764873B2
Systems and methods for vacuum compensation in hot-filled and cooled containers. Each container reduces, via one or more vacuum panels, a first portion of a vacuum created in the container. Each container also has a repositionable portion to reduce a second portion of the vacuum. During hot-filling, no portion of the repositionable portion extends below a standing or bearing surface of the container.
US09764871B2
A blood-sampling-tube automatic preparation device comprising a blood-sampling-tube containing section having at least two blood-sampling-tube containers, a label printing and pasting unit that prints blood sampling information data and then pastes the printed label on a surface of a blood-sampling-tube, a hand pasting label printer, a blood-sampling-tube collecting section in which one or more blood-sampling-tubes with label pasted and/or one or more printed labels for hand pasting are collected for each patient, a blood-sampling-tube transferring device that receives a blood-sampling-tube from the blood-sampling-tube container and transfers it to the label printing and pasting unit, and a control device that controls each component. All blood-sampling-tube containers of the blood-sampling-tube containing section are arranged in a row on a same horizontal surface and the blood-sampling-tube transferring device, the label printing and pasting unit, and the hand pasting label printer are arranged to be mutually superposed under the blood-sampling-tube containing section.
US09764852B2
Methods and systems are provided for displaying information on a display device of an aircraft. The method comprises receiving aircraft data from one or more aircraft components; displaying on a user interface the aircraft data and at least one interactive display element associated with an autopilot control function; receiving user input based on an interaction with the at least one interactive display element; and selectively changing an appearance of the at least one interactive display element based on the user input.
US09764845B2
A module for sealing an interface between compartments of a pressurized cabin of an aircraft. The module comprises a frame, a sheet and a rigid structure. The frame includes an opening surrounded by attachment surfaces. The frame is connected or connectable to a support structure of the aircraft. The sheet is attached to the attachment surfaces of the frame for sealing the at least one opening. The rigid structure is attached to the sheet within the frame without contacting the frame so that a displacement of the rigid structure relative to the frame induces tensile stress in the sheet between the frame and the rigid structure.
US09764844B2
Components and systems of an aircraft seating assembly are disclosed. The aircraft seating assembly can include a seat pan, a connection frame, and one or more mounts for removably coupling the seat pan to the connection frame. The aircraft seating assembly can include a back support having a removably coupled cushioning member. The aircraft seating assembly can include a tilt system which can allow the back support to articulate relative to the connection frame. The aircraft seating assembly can include a retention system coupled to the back support, the retention system can retain an object in place when in a closed configuration.
US09764836B1
This disclosure provides egress and ingress for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a fulfillment center (FC) to perform deliveries of products and return to the FC from such deliveries while providing minimal exposure of an interior of the FC. The UAV may be used to deliver the cargo from the FC to a destination, and then return to the FC to retrieve other cargo for another transport to another destination. In some embodiments, departing UAVs may be launched from the FC through a launch bay and returning UAVs may land upon a conveyance system to await being transported back into the FC. A flight coordinator may also provide assignments to the UAV based upon a current state of the UAV and other nearby UAVs and also based on a current order backlog of the FC and/or other considerations.
US09764832B2
A rotor blade system includes a hub assembly pivotally attached to a rotor blade, a mast attached to the hub assembly, and a swashplate engaged with the mast, the swashplate includes a non-rotating ring and a rotating ring. The method to raise the swashplate includes using an anti-drive link system pivotally engaged with a transmission top case and pivotally engaged with the non-rotating ring.
US09764827B2
A hydraulic strut assembly, for use in a semi-levered landing gear in an aircraft, comprising an actuator and a manifold associated with the actuator. The actuator comprises a housing, a first piston, a second piston, and a third piston. The first piston is positioned between outer and inner cylindrical structures of the housing. The outer and inner cylindrical structures and first piston form an outer chamber that receives a first fluid. The inner cylindrical structure, the first piston, and the second piston, which is nested within the first piston, form an inner chamber, which holds a second fluid comprising a gas. A volume of the inner chamber changes when at least one of the first and second pistons moves. The third piston is positioned between the outer cylindrical structure and the first piston. The first, second, and third pistons move in a direction parallel to an axis through the housing.
US09764826B2
A landing gear assembly having a first part movable relative to a second part, and a spring coupled to the first and second parts via first and second anchor points. A lost motion assembly is provided to enable one of the anchor points to translate along one of the parts. As such, the spring extends less as the first part moves relative to the second part than it would if each anchor point was fixed to a respective part.
US09764824B2
Thermal actuation of riblets is described herein. One disclosed example apparatus includes a riblet defining an aerodynamic surface of a vehicle. The disclosed example apparatus also includes a thermal expansion element within or operatively coupled to the riblet, wherein the thermal expansion element changes shape in response to a surrounding temperature, to displace a movable portion of the riblet relative to the aerodynamic surface to alter an aerodynamic characteristic of the vehicle.
US09764823B2
An apparatus, method and system for combining aerodynamic design with engine power to increase synergy between the two and increase climb performance, engine-out performance, and fuel efficiency for a variety of aircraft or the like.
US09764816B2
An aircraft structure part comprising a floor structure, a hull structure, and a connecting element. The connecting element comprises a rod attached, at its first end, to one of the hull and the floor; an attachment element, attached to the other of the hull and the floor, and provided with an opening in which the second end of the rod is slidably mounted; and an endstop attached to the rod so as to engage with the attachment element, to limit the sliding amplitude of the rod in the opening. When the connection between the floor and the hull is loaded in tension, the endstop makes it possible to comply with the standards for withstanding acceleration towards the aircraft front. When the connection is loaded in compression, the rod slides freely in the opening, which limits the constraints of withstanding compressive stresses, reducing the weight of the connecting element.
US09764813B1
A tiller is for an outboard motor. The tiller comprises a tiller body that is elongated along a tiller axis between a fixed end and a free end. A throttle grip is disposed on the free end. The throttle grip is rotatable through a first (left handed) range of motion from an idle position in which the outboard motor is controlled at idle speed to first (left handed) wide open throttle position in which the outboard motor is controlled at wide open throttle speed and alternately through a second (right handed) range of motion from the idle position to a second (right handed) wide open throttle position in which the outboard motor is controlled at wide open throttle speed.
US09764812B1
A method for setting an engine speed of an internal combustion engine in a marine propulsion system to an operator-selected engine speed includes predicting a position of a throttle valve of the engine that is needed to provide the operator-selected engine speed, and determining a feed forward signal that will move the throttle valve to the predicted position. After moving the throttle valve to the predicted position, the method next includes controlling the engine speed with a feedback controller so as to obtain the operator-selected engine speed. The feed forward signal is determined based on at least one of the following criteria: an operator-selected control mode of the marine propulsion system; and an external operating condition of the marine propulsion system. A system for setting the engine speed to the operator-selected engine speed is also described.
US09764808B2
An enhanced system for controlling boat fenders wherein, based on a tidal range chart, a motion function is calculated for one or more boat fenders, which is loaded into a fender controller so that fenders are lifted or lowered to protect a boat over a period of time as boat rises and falls with water levels when stationed at a dock.
US09764804B1
A floating ocean platform stabilized in position by energy produced from wave energy. In one embodiment, the platform may be used to support a roadway to build a floating bridge. The platform may also include a wave break mechanism for additional stability and may submerge for storm survival. The platform may be constructed in modules to permit reconfiguration and management of resources. In other embodiments, the platform may support communities. The bridge may also provide transmission lines for conducting wave generated electricity back to the mainland.
US09764800B2
A ship and associated methods of operation. In an example embodiment, a method of transporting includes providing multiple vessels each having a hull defining an air cavity over a water surface. Different ones of the vessels are loaded with material destined for different end locations. The vessels are connected to one another with rigid couplings to effect tandem movement of the multiple vessels over water as one ship while permitting each vessel to undergo changes in pitch. The vessels are transported to a first destination and one or more of the vessels are disconnected from the ship.
US09764799B2
A method of supporting a chain stopper on a vessel, a chain stopper assembly for a vessel, and a vessel. The method of supporting a chain stopper on a vessel may comprise the steps of connecting a swivel element to the support structure on the vessel such that the swivel element is pivotable around a first axis perpendicular to a substantially horizontal axis; and coupling a chain stopper element to the swivel element such that the chain stopper element is pivotable relative to the swivel element around the substantially horizontal axis.
US09764795B2
An interlocked bottom bracket bearing device is provided, including an axial tube, two bottom bracket bearing assemblies and two annular members. The axial tube includes a first end and a second end. Each said bottom bracket bearing assembly includes a small-diameter portion and a large-diameter portion. Said two small-diameter portions are respectively assembled to the first and second ends. A side of each said large-diameter portion is radially and annularly formed with a protruding flange. Said two annular members are respectively sleeved on said two large-diameter portions. The annular members are abutted against the protruding flanges. Wherein said two bottom bracket bearing assemblies are located on two opposite sides of the bottom bracket tube, the annular member is radially clamped and a portion of the annular member is axially clamped between the protruding flange and a side wall of bottom bracket tube.
US09764793B2
A front fork has a damping variable leg including: an outer tube at an upper end side; an inner tube at a lower end side and inserted into the outer tube; a piston rod attached to the outer tube and extending toward the lower end side; a piston at a lower end of the piston rod; and a damping force variable device at the piston so as to generate variable damping force by controlling a flow of an operating fluid. The damping variable leg further includes: a conductor member attached to the piston; and a coil conductor covered with an insulating member and attached to the inner tube. The conductor member is configured to be inserted into the coil conductor. The damping variable leg detects a stroke amount of the damping variable leg based on a change in inductance of the coil conductor.
US09764781B2
A stowable side fairing for a tractor-trailer having a frame includes first and second panels rotatably coupled to the frame and extending downward from the frame. A cross-member is rotatably coupled at a first end to the first panel and at a second end to the second panel. The side fairing further includes a drive arm rotatably coupled at a first end to the frame and at a second end to the cross-member. An actuator is configured to rotate the drive arm about the first end to move the side fairing between a deployed position and a stowed position.
US09764779B2
My bus enhances the viewing experience of passengers by providing a panoramic front window to enable a passenger to see into a cab section of the bus and through the panoramic front window. The panoramic front window has a predetermined configuration that minimizes drag.
US09764775B2
A vehicle lower portion structure has a floor panel, rockers, a floor tunnel, and beads. The floor panel forms a floor portion of the vehicle. The pair of rockers are disposed respectively on both outer sides in the vehicle transverse direction of the floor panel, and extend in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The floor tunnel is disposed in a central portion in the vehicle transverse direction of the floor panel, and extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The beads are formed protruding towards the vehicle upward side on the floor panel between the rockers and the floor tunnel such that ridgelines thereof extend in the vehicle longitudinal direction.
US09764771B1
A cowl top garnish includes a protruding portion that protrudes upward, with its top being situated at an upper position when a vehicle body is viewed in a lateral cross-sectional view. The protruding portion has a front segment that is disposed in along the width of the vehicle and extends from the top in a lower forward direction, and a rear segment that extends from the top in a lower backward direction. The protruding portion is an element having flexibility that allows the front segment and the rear segment to spread when a load acts on the protruding portion from above the top. The front segment has a projecting portion that projects toward the rear segment. The rear segment has a load receiving portion onto which the projecting portion abuts to receive the load when the load acts on the front segment in the backward direction.
US09764762B2
A rotary pivot arm positioning assembly for a paving, texturing, or curing machine allows the machine to automatically transition from an operational orientation to a transport orientation without manual repositioning or disconnection of its components. The assembly includes a pivot arm coupled to both the front and aft ends of an end frame by a helical actuator, slew gear drive or other rotary actuator. The rotary actuator articulates each pivot arm, as well as the adjustable leg and steerable crawler connected to the pivot arm, through at least a 90-degree range. The end frame may be fixed to the left or right end of the machine. The assembly may additionally include a second helical actuator, slew gear drive or rotary actuator connecting each steerable crawler to the adjustable leg and configured to rotate the steerable crawler through a full 360 degrees.
US09764754B2
A push cart, including: a frame, a rear wheel assembly, a front wheel assembly, a connection rod linkage. The frame includes an upper frame and a lower frame, and the upper frame is disposed on the lower frame. The rear wheel assembly is movably disposed on the lower frame or the upper frame. The front wheel assembly is disposed on the lower frame. The frame is connected to the rear wheel assembly via the connection rod linkage. The rotation of the upper frame or the lower frame drives the connection rod linkage to flatten the rear wheel assembly with the upper frame or the lower frame, or to unfold the rear wheel assembly.
US09764752B2
A wheeled cart includes a number of unique methods to synchronously stow all of the rear wheels of a fold flat, compact wheeled cart device without removing any of the wheels themselves and the innovations are applicable to cargo carriers, golf bag carts, trolleys, baby strollers, and other devices for moving cargo. In alternative designs, the folding motion of either the forward wheel frame, or the swiveling motion of the rear wheel frame, or both, synchronously setup or stow the cart's at least two rear wheels to achieve an ultra-thin stowed profile, orienting all the cart's wheels in a co-planar stowed relationship, closely parallel with all other parts.
US09764739B2
A transfer case and transmission are designed to permit the transmission hydraulic control system to control a range selection coupler and a torque on demand clutch in the transfer case. Two pressure circuits are transmitted from the transmission to the transfer case: a high range circuit and a low range circuit. The low range circuit is pressurized to engage low range while the range circuit is pressurized to engage high range. The torque on demand clutch is controlled by whichever of these circuits has the higher pressure. Lubrication is provided to a front section of the transfer case via the transmission output shaft, with the fluid returning to the transmission sump through a drainback passageway. The rear portion of the transfer case has a segregated sump. A control strategy is employed to partially fill front section of the transfer case with fluid in preparation for vehicle towing.
US09764737B2
A vehicle speed calculating device is provided. The device includes a first vehicle speed calculating module configured to calculate a first vehicle speed based on a vehicle speed pulse count of a vehicle, a second vehicle speed calculating module configured to calculate a second vehicle speed based on positioning signals broadcasted from positioning satellites, an acceleration acquiring module configured to acquire an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor provided to the vehicle, an estimating module configured to estimate a speed error based on a correlative relationship of a difference value between the first and second vehicle speeds with the acceleration, and a correcting module configured to correct the first vehicle speed based on the speed error.
US09764736B2
An autonomous vehicle may operate in an environment in which there is an unexpected dynamic object. The autonomous vehicle can detect the dynamic object. The dynamic object can have an associated movement. The movement of the dynamic object can be tracked. The movement of the dynamic object can be classified as being one ballistic or non-ballistic. It can be determined whether the dynamic object is on a collision course with the autonomous vehicle. Responsive to determining that the dynamic object is on a collision course with the autonomous vehicle, a driving maneuver for the autonomous vehicle can be determined. The driving maneuver can be based at least in part on the movement of the dynamic object. The autonomous vehicle can be caused to implement the determined driving maneuver.
US09764734B1
A drive and control system is disclosed for use on a zero turn vehicle having a pair of drive motors, an operator drive input capable of providing a drive signal corresponding to a desired drive status by an operator and an operator steering input capable of providing a steering signal corresponding to a desired steering of the vehicle. Sensors on the vehicle generate signals corresponding to roll, pitch and yaw. A stability control module includes a processor receiving the steering and drive inputs and provides output signals to the drive motors. Upon initialization of the vehicle, the processor determines initial orientation parameters from the sensors and determines if the input and steering are in neutral. When the drive input is not in neutral, and the steering is in neutral, the processor determines desired pitch, yaw and roll parameters. The processor receives additional sensor signals during operation to monitor pitch and roll of the vehicle and if a measured parameter exceeds the desired parameter, the processor will vary the output signals to the drive motors to provide a heading correction to the vehicle.
US09764731B2
During deceleration with operation of an engine, an amount of wall surface deposition is estimated to tend to increase with a decrease in corrected operation time that is based on an operation time of the engine. A target amount of fuel injection is set by adding a correction value that is set according to a variation in the amount of wall surface deposition to a base amount of fuel injection. Fuel injection control of the engine is performed by using the set target amount of fuel injection.
US09764729B2
An ECU selects a CS mode when an SOC of a power storage device becomes smaller than a threshold value during a CD mode being selected. The ECU allows switching to the CD mode when the SOC exceeds a CD mode allowance SOC threshold value which is greater than the threshold value during the CS mode being selected. When an increase in the SOC is requested by means of an SOC restoration switch, the ECU executes an SOC restoration control. The CD mode allowance SOC threshold value in a case where an increase in the SOC is requested by means of the SOC restoration switch is smaller than the threshold value in a case where an increase in the SOC is not requested by means of the SOC restoration switch.
US09764728B2
An electric vehicle may include at least one motor configured to transmit a drive output. A motor-generator unit may be configured to supply the at least one motor with electrical power. The motor-generator unit may include an internal combustion piston engine, which may include a crankshaft configured to rotation about an axis of rotation, and an electrical generator that may be drive connected to the piston engine. A control device may be in communication with the motor-generator unit. The control device may be configured to vary a generator torque of the electrical generator during a rotation cycle of the crankshaft in response to a crankshaft angle.
US09764722B2
A brake system for controlling a brake of a unit hauled by a vehicle, the brake system including a first pedal for braking a right rear wheel of the vehicle through a first braking circuit, a second pedal for braking a left rear wheel of the vehicle through a second braking circuit, an input line arrangement including a first input line for receiving a fluid from the first braking circuit and a second input line for receiving a fluid from the second braking circuit, at least one output line for sending a fluid to the brake of the hauled unit, and a selective connector for selectively connecting the input line arrangement to the output line by setting a first connection configuration when the vehicle has a speed greater than a threshold value and a second connection configuration when the vehicle has a speed lower than the threshold value, whereby in the first connection configuration pushing any of the pedals activates the brake of the hauled unit, and in the second connection configuration pushing only one of the pedals leaves the brake of the hauled unit inactive, so that the vehicle can be steered by braking.
US09764719B2
A method and a device for avoiding a possible subsequent collision and for reducing the accident consequences of a collision, in which after a first collision of the vehicle with a further road user has taken place, an automatic braking intervention by a vehicle safety system is released according to a braking model by ascertaining vehicle data from the handling of the host vehicle, buffering the vehicle data ascertained in a memory, inferring the category of the road being traveled on at the moment from the buffered vehicle data, determining an initial distance as a function of the road category determined, and ascertaining the condition for releasing the brake using this initial distance.
US09764707B2
A structure of an underrun protection bound to a plurality of brackets disposed at the front or rear portion of a frame of a vehicle is disclosed. The structure has a hollow having a closed section defined by a distal face of a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a proximal face of the longitudinal direction, an upper face, and a lower face. A plurality of lightening holes are formed in line along an extending direction of the underrun protection on at least one of the distal face and the proximal face. The plurality of lightening holes have diameters in vertical direction set larger as departing farther from binder parts each at which the underrun protection is bound to one of the plurality of brackets.
US09764705B2
There is provided a vehicle connecting member including: a front face portion that is connected to a crash box; a first connecting section inserted with and connected to a front end portion of a side member provided running along a vehicle front-rear direction at the vehicle front-rear direction rear side of the crash box; a second connecting section that is formed at a vehicle width direction outside of the first connecting section in a vehicle plan view, and that is connected to a lower end portion of an outrigger provided running along the vehicle front-rear direction at the vehicle width direction outside of the side member so as to extend toward a vehicle vertical direction lower side; and one or more lateral ribs that couple together the first connecting section and the second connecting section.
US09764704B1
A bumper assembly includes an elongated beam and a pair of crush cans. The elongated beam includes a plurality of reinforcing walls extending horizontally that define a gap in a central portion of the beam. The pair of crush can assemblies is attached to the beam at transversely spaced locations relative to the central portion of the beam. The central portion of the beam is structured to have less bending resistance than the right and left sides. The reinforcing walls span the crush can assemblies so that the gap facilitates bending the central portion of the beam. A method of making a bumper is also disclosed that includes the steps of selecting a bumper beam and partially removing an upper/central portion and a lower/central portion of the bumper beam.
US09764702B2
A system and method for management of electrical powering of at least one piece of electrical equipment by a power supply battery of a motor vehicle including an internal combustion engine. The motor vehicle includes a system for automatically stopping and restarting the internal combustion engine. The system and method: determine a charge status of the power supply battery; compare the charge status of the power supply battery with a predefined threshold value; and control cutting off of the power supply to the at least one piece of electrical equipment during an automatic restarting of the internal combustion engine if the charge status of the power supply battery is lower than the predefined threshold value.
US09764700B2
A method is described for controlling a voltage limit for a maximally permissible operating voltage in an on-board electrical system of a vehicle, including the step of adapting the voltage limit in dependence on vehicle data, wherein an actual voltage is ascertained and the actual voltage is short-circuited or limited if the actual voltage exceeds the voltage limit. Also described is a device for controlling a voltage limit for a maximally permissible operating voltage in an on-board electrical system of a vehicle, having an adaptation device for adapting the voltage limit in dependence on vehicle data.
US09764699B2
A vehicle communication system (100) for facilitating control over a function of a vehicle (102) comprises a base station (104) positioned in the vehicle (102) and a mobile communication unit (122). The base station (104) comprises a first transmitter for transmitting a signal to the mobile communication unit and a first receiver for receiving a signal from the mobile communication unit (122). The base station (104) is configured to receive a first request from the mobile communication unit (122), wherein the first request seeks performance of a first vehicle function, determine a position of the mobile communication unit (122) relative to the vehicle (102), compare the position of the mobile communication unit (122) relative to the vehicle (102) to a first criteria, and facilitate performance of the first vehicle function if the position of the mobile communication unit (122) relative to the vehicle (102) satisfies the first criteria.
US09764696B2
A laminated composite interior component, including: a first member that has a predetermined mating surface; and a second member made of an elastically deformable resin material, the second member having a plate-like portion that is substantially parallel to the mating surface and that has multiple protrusions which are formed integrally with plate-like portion and which protrude toward the mating surface such that a space is formed between the mating surface and the plate-like portion, the second member being arranged so as to be laminated on the first member with the protrusions in contact with the mating surface, cushioning characteristics being imparted to the laminated composite interior component when distal ends of the protrusions are pressed against the mating surface and elastically deformed, the laminated composite interior component being configured such that the multiple protrusions have the same shape, the plate-like portion is dotted with the multiple protrusions, bending stiffness of each of the protrusions against a compression load is anisotropic around an axis of the protrusion, and each of the multiple protrusions is configured to be bent and deformed in a specific direction about its axis, and the multiple protrusions are arranged at such locations as to constitute respective sides of each of multiple polygons so that there is formed a lattice pattern in which each of the sides of each of the multiple polygons overlaps with a corresponding one of the sides of an adjacent one of the polygons.
US09764693B1
An electronic device holder for uses such as within a motor vehicle. The holder preferably works with gravity and angular forces using the weight of the electronic device, which can be a smart phone or tablet. Top and bottom contact pads can be provided secure and prevent movement of an inserted electronic device. The twisting action of the electronic device to insert the phone into the holder exerts pressure on the lower part of the holder portion, with enough pressure to stabilize and prevent movement or any significant movement of the electronic device with respect to the holder.
US09764691B2
A universally mountable articulating step for a vehicle which includes a bypass linkage set which is common to mounting in a plurality of vehicles. The linkage set includes front and rear casting members that enable the step to collapse on itself. An independent mounting adapter which is unique to a particular vehicle is provided including a mounting configuration adapted to be attached to a vehicle and attachment mounting locations on which the bypass linkage set is to be mounted.
