US09773237B2
A software- and/or hardware-based transaction manager that reflects the application program interface(s) and/or system(s) for establishing sessions used to commit to, rollback and/or execute multiple payments made pursuant to a single financial transaction. This is accomplished by sharing sessions through co-browsing, or by continuous event logging and maintaining synchronous payments across a group of users in order to support the lifecycle of each individual payment and session along with completion responsibility of the overall transaction.
US09773228B2
Techniques to share images in a social networking system. In an embodiment, an image is received from a first user, the image is associated with a first archive of the first user within a social networking system, and the image is associated with a second archive of a second user within the social networking system without the social networking system receiving a request from the second user to download the image. The image may be received from a mobile device. The image may be captured by a camera of a mobile device. The image may be automatically uploaded from a mobile device. A request may be received from the second user to include the image in the second archive associated with the second user. Associating the image with the second archive of the second user may comprise including a link to the image in the second archive.
US09773227B2
A computerized method for detecting fraud includes obtaining frequency information on entities in transaction data for at least one individual account, converting frequency information to a frequency variable, and predicting whether an activity is fraudulent in response to the frequency variable. In some embodiments, the frequency variable is used with at least one other variable to predict fraudulent activity.
US09773226B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for servicing a customized mobile content that can allow a user to easily download and use various mobile contents regardless of a type of his/her own terminal by: verifying user information by using metadata and a template that are stored in advance from information published by a content publishing institution, generating a mobile content suitable for types of the content publishing institution and a user terminal and transmitting the generated mobile content to the user terminal, downloading the mobile content through a program for the mobile content installed in the user terminal, and displaying the downloaded mobile content to the user.
US09773221B1
A machine or group of machines for monitoring location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle includes a server comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a clock, and a server communication transceiver that receives location information of a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a GPS receiver, a microprocessor and a wireless communication transceiver coupled to the GPS receiver, the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver programmed to receive data sent by a plurality of GPS satellites, calculate location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver and transmit the location information.
US09773219B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for using geometry sensitivity information for guiding workflows in order to produce reliable models and quantities of interest. One method includes determining a geometric model associated with a target object; determining one or more quantities of interest; determining sensitivity information associated with one or more subdivisions of the geometric model and the one or more quantities of interest; and generating, using a processor, a workflow based on the sensitivity information.
US09773214B2
A user requests a plurality of content feeds. Content associated with the content feeds is periodically retrieved and converted to a print format. Contents associated with the content feeds are stored in the print format. Indications corresponding to the content feeds are provided to a network connected printer and displayed on a user interface thereof, including an indication that new content is available in the print format.
US09773210B2
There is provided a system for providing information. The system includes a data classifying device configured to receive original data and classify the original data as real time data or general data; a real time data analyzing device configured to receive the real time data from the data classifying device and generate condensed information including only a part that satisfies predefined conditions among attribute information of the real time data; and a distributed parallel processing device configured to receive the general data from the data classifying device, perform a predetermined distributed parallel computation process on the general data, and generate analysis information.
US09773203B2
Creating antennas connected to printed chips by post processing with a laser or other cutting device
An RFID antenna structure for use with an RFID device is disclosed. A printed electronic circuit (PEC) is assembled onto an area of a conductor that is initially substantially flat, with minimal apertures cut into it. The substantially flat conductor makes the printing of the functional chip/circuit easier. Then, the conductor is cut post process with a laser or other cutting tool to create the interconnection. In another embodiment, the conductors of the PEC bridge the position where an aperture should be to create part of an RFID antenna. Further, the conductive layer and the PEC are then cut post process to create an antenna for the RFID device.
US09773198B2
A printing apparatus to communicate with a terminal apparatus, includes a storing unit, an acquiring unit, a receiving unit, and a printing unit. The storing unit stores information for specifying first paper types selectable in the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus acquires the information from the printing apparatus and displays the first paper types as selection candidate paper types. The acquiring unit acquires a second paper type. The receiving unit receives a first paper type from the first paper types for printing of an image. The printing unit prints the image where the first paper type corresponding to second paper types is received and any of the second paper types corresponding to the first paper type is acquired, and does not print the image where the first paper type corresponding to second paper types is received and another second paper type different from the second paper types is acquired.
US09773196B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for segregating target individuals represented in a probe digital image from background pixels in the probe digital image. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods train a neural network based on two or more of training position channels, training shape input channels, training color channels, or training object data. Moreover, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods utilize the trained neural network to select a target individual in a probe digital image. Specifically, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods generate position channels, training shape input channels, and color channels corresponding the probe digital image, and utilize the generated channels in conjunction with the trained neural network to select the target individual.
US09773192B2
Techniques to identify and track a pre-identified region-of-interest (ROI) through a temporal sequence of frames/images are described. In general, a down-sampled color gradient (edge map) of an arbitrary sized ROI from a prior frame may be used to generate a small template. This initial template may be used to identify a region of a new or current frame that may be overscan and used to create a current frame's edge map. By comparing the prior frame's template to the current frame's edge map, a cost value or image may be found and used to identify the current frame's ROI center. The size of the current frame's ROI may be found by varying the size of putative new ROIs and testing for their congruence with the prior frame's template. Subsequent ROI's for subsequent frames may be identified to, effectively, track an arbitrarily sized ROI through a sequence of video frames.
US09773178B2
Techniques are described for vehicle or entity tracking. In one example, techniques include receiving a first set of data, said data comprising video or images from a first mobile data source, determining that said first set of data matches a second set of data in a first data source, the second set of data corresponding to a vehicle or entity being tracked; requesting a third set of data, said data comprising video or images from a second mobile data source, and determining a confidence level based on how well said first and third data sets match said second data set.
US09773176B2
According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus and an image processing method includes a processed image generation unit, a provisional detection unit, and a final detection unit. The processed image generation unit generates a processed image for detection processing from an image around a vehicle taken by a camera provided on the vehicle. The provisional detection unit scans a scanning frame of a predetermined size according to a detection target object on the processed image, and detects a plurality of position candidate regions of the detection target object within the processed image by determining a feature value for respective scanning positions using a dictionary of the detection target object. The final detection unit determines an overlapping region of the plurality of position candidate regions, and determines a final detection position of the detection target object within the processed image based on the overlapping region and the plurality of position candidate regions.
US09773159B2
At least one example embodiment discloses an image feature extracting method. The method includes determining a probabilistic model based on pixel values of pixels in a kernel, determining image feature information of a current pixel of the pixels in the kernel and determining whether to change the image feature information of the current pixel based on a random value and a probability value of the current pixel, the probability value being based on the probabilistic model.
US09773151B2
The present invention relates generally to a system and methods that facilitates the identification of an individual through the use of data. Certain more particular embodiments of the present invention facilitate the contactless acquisition and processing of biometric data for identification purposes from a biometric source. One preferred embodiment of the present invention of the system includes an apparatus by which is sized and shape to capture of one or more images of an portion of individual for processing and identification purposes. Advantageously, certain embodiments of the present invention facilitate the enrollment of one or more individuals for verification and identification purposes through the use of the data developed from the one or more captured images.
US09773150B1
A method for evaluating an individual fingerprint template by using a remote dataset, comprising the steps of capturing a fingerprint representation by a fingerprint reader on a device, extracting significant data from the captured fingerprint representation, thereby creating an individual fingerprint template for the captured fingerprint representation, transmitting the individual fingerprint template from the device to a remote dataset comprising a plurality of fingerprint templates, determining an impostor score distribution for the individual fingerprint template, determining a security threshold for the individual fingerprint template, and transmitting the determined security threshold to the device. The advantage of the invention is that an individual security threshold can be set for a user, which will improve the FAR distribution of a device.
US09773139B2
There is set forth herein an indicia reading apparatus comprising two or more light sensing assemblies. In one embodiment, the indicia reading apparatus can comprise a linear light sensing assembly and an area light sensing assembly, and can be operative to determine the range between the apparatus and the indicia. In one embodiment, the indicia reading apparatus can be operative to apply a range-assisted gain to the data output by one or more of the linear light sensing assembly and the area light sensing assembly to increase the likelihood of indicia reading and improve expected indicia read time.
US09773124B2
A system and method of performing date shifting with randomized intervals for the de-identification of a dataset from a source database containing information identifiable to individuals is provided. The de-identified dataset is retrieved comprising a plurality of entries or records containing personal identifying information. Date quasi-identifiers in the dataset for the entries can be identified within the data set which may be used potentially identifiable for a patient. Date events are consolidated in the date quasi-identifiers and connected dates in the dataset. The date events are moved relative to an anchor date in a longitudinal sequence of the date events. De-identification of the entries in the dataset including the date quasi-identifiers is performed to meet a risk metric defining risk of re-identified patients associated with the records.
US09773120B1
Methods and systems are disclosed a digital investigation tool capable of recovering and decrypting content. The tool combines digital techniques with decryption capability for a wide range of encryption algorithms. In one implementation, the tool identifies the type and/or vendor of the encryption algorithm used to protect the content. The tool then automatically obtains the decryption information needed to decrypt the content. Depending on the encryption algorithm used, the information may include a master key, user-specific keys, user IDs, passwords, and the like. The decryption information may be accumulated in a local or remote storage location accessible by the tool, or it may be acquired in real time on an as-needed basis from a third-party encryption vendor, a key server, and the like. Such an arrangement allows law enforcement agencies as well as corporate security personnel to quickly recover and decrypt content stored on a computer system.
US09773115B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes storing secure boot variables in a baseboard management controller; and sending the secure boot variables to a basic input/output system (BIOS) during a power on self-test, where the BIOS utilizes the secure boot variables during runtime to authenticate drivers and an operating system loader execution. In particular embodiments, the secure boot variables may be included in a white list, a black list, or a key list and, further, stored in erasable programmable read only memory.
US09773112B1
According to one embodiment, a computerized method comprises, accessing information associated with one or more observed events, wherein one or more of the observed events constitutes an anomalous behavior; accessing a reference model based on a first plurality of events, the reference model comprises a first event of the first plurality of events, a second event of the first plurality of events and a relationship that identifies that the second event of the first plurality of events is based on the first event of the first plurality of events, wherein at least one of the first event and the second event constitutes an anomalous behavior; and comparing the information associated with the one or more observed events with the reference model to determine whether at least one observed event of the one or more observed events matches at least one of the first event of the first plurality of events or the second event of the first plurality of events that constitutes the anomalous behavior is provided.
US09773109B2
Methods and systems are presented of presenting false and/or decoy content to an intruder operating on a computer system by obfuscating critical files on a computer storage device with data that directs subsequent infiltration and propagation to designated decoy hosts and decoy applications.Method and systems are provided for selectively presenting different contents to different viewers/users of application resource files for the purpose of preventing the valuable content from being read, tampered with, exfiltrated, or used as a means to perform subsequent attacks on network resources.
US09773105B2
A mobile device security system can include circuitry configured to receive first user-interaction information associated with the mobile device. The first user-interaction information can be indicative of first sensed interactions of a user with the mobile device during a first period of time. The system can also include circuitry configured to receive second user-interaction information associated with the mobile device. The second user-interaction information can be indicative of second sensed interactions of a user with the mobile device during a second period of time that is subsequent to the first period of time. The system can also include circuitry configured to compare the first and second user-interaction information. The system can also include circuitry configured to report anomaly information to a security service of the mobile device and/or a remote system, where a difference between the first and second user-interaction information exceeds a threshold.
US09773097B2
An optimization system includes a) one or more processors; b) a loop search engine configured to perform a loop search based on a random blending ratio of blending components for at least a product, and to generate a first optimized blending ratio; and c) a local search engine configured to perform a local search based on the first optimized blending ratio, and to generate a second optimized blending ratio. The loop search engine and the local search engine are implemented on the one or more processors.
US09773096B2
A glycemic control system includes a physician processor, remote processor, and a portable telephone having a data input mechanism, a display, and an internal processor for bi-directional communication with the physician's processor and the remote processor. A patient inputs data to the internal processor responsive to input from the physician's processor and then transmits the information to the remote processor where an optimized number of units to be administered is sent back and displayed on the portable telephone.
US09773093B2
A medical system is disclosed, which can be useable in particular for monitoring and/or controlling at least one bodily function of a user. The medical system comprises a control device and at least one medical user element embodied separately from the control device. The medical user element and the control device are designed to exchange data wirelessly. The medical system is designed to enable an automatic assignment step, wherein an exchange of personal data between the medical user element and the control device is enabled by the automatic assignment step. The medical system is furthermore designed to automatically initiate the automatic assignment step by means of an assignment coupling between the medical user element and the control device. The medical system is furthermore designed to enable a separation of the assignment coupling for medical operation of the medical system after the assignment step.
US09773090B2
A method, computer program and system to identify peaks generated by different physical ions in a solution including substances by analyzing mass and intensity coordinates of all peaks in a set of mass spectra measured with errors for a certain concentration c of the solution is here disclosed. The peaks in different mass spectra are associated to a same ion if they are sufficiently ‘close’ according to specific discrimination criteria that go beyond the proximity of mass values.A two stage process is applied, each stage consisting in applying the method to identify peaks in mass spectra. In stage 1, the method to identify peaks is applied on each set of mass spectra for each concentration. Resulting sequences of peaks, one peak in each spectrum, are associated to different ions. This output of stage 1 is converted into a set of virtual mass spectra having as virtual peaks, average peak coordinate values calculated on each sequence. The method to identify peaks is applied once on the virtual mass spectra and the resulting ion identification table refers to peak coordinates values associated to one ion for each concentration of the solution.
US09773089B2
A method includes generating a schematic of an integrated circuit (IC), the IC having a circuit component. The method also includes searching a database having one or more configurations of the circuit component, each of the one or more configurations of the circuit component having a corresponding estimated resistance capacitance (RC) value and an assigned color scheme based on the estimated RC value. The method further includes displaying the circuit component in the schematic as a symbol representing the circuit component, the symbol representing the circuit component being displayed having the assigned color scheme of a selected circuit component configuration.
US09773085B2
This application discloses a computing system implementing tools and mechanisms to generate a framework for a system-level design of an electronic system, wherein the system-level design includes multiple electronic designs from different electronic design automation tools. The tools and mechanisms can correlate design components in the electronic designs to different portions of the framework for the system-level design, and determine whether the electronic designs are congruent with the system-level design based, at least in part, on the correlation of the electronic designs to the different portions of the framework for the system-level design.
US09773076B2
In a method, conductive lines used in a circuit are formed. Signal traces of a plurality of signal traces are grouped to a first group of first signal traces or a second group of second signal traces. A first mask is used to form a first conductive line for a first signal trace of the first group. A second mask is used to form a second conductive line for a second signal trace of the second group. The first traces each have a first width. The second traces each have a second width different from the first width. The grouping is based on at least one of following conditions: a current flowing through a signal trace of the signal traces of the plurality of signal traces, a length of the signal trace, a resistivity of the signal trace, or a resistivity-capacitive constant of the signal trace.
US09773075B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes, in a processor, slicing an ore-body solid model stored in a memory into a plurality of horizontal and a plurality of vertical pieces and deriving, from the sliced horizontal pieces and the vertical pieces, information corresponding to stope blocks and pillar blocks of the ore-body, stope blocks and pillar blocks corresponding to particular pieces of the plurality of horizontal pieces and the plurality of vertical pieces.
US09773068B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for deriving trustful metadata for an application are disclosed. For example, the method crawls online for the application, analyzes the application to determine a function of the application, and generates trustful meta-data for the application based upon the function of the application.
US09773064B1
Apparatus, systems and methods for contextual search term evaluation are disclosed. A current search query is received during a search session. A predicate subsequence in the search query is identified. A subsequent search term in the query is identified. The search term attributes of the subsequent search term are adjusted.
US09773062B2
The present invention relates to methods, devices and systems for associating consumable data with an assay consumable used in a biological assay. Provided are assay systems and associated consumables, wherein the assay system adjusts one or more steps of an assay protocol based on consumable data specific for that consumable. Various types of consumable data are described, as well as methods of using such information in the conduct of an assay by an assay system.
US09773061B2
An administrative computer which is connected to a plurality of search execution computers, includes: a distributed administration manager which receives graphs which retains a relation which connects data value and is configured with a group which is connected by the relation, and distributes same among a plurality of search execution computers; and a distributed search manager which, when a search condition is received, transmits the search condition to the plurality of search execution computers, and receives search results. The distributed administration manager groups the graphs with matching relations, segments the graphs which is associated with the group, and positions same on the plurality of search execution computers. The distributed search manager transmits search conditions including search conditions of the relations between the data and search conditions of the data value to each of the plurality of search execution computers, and has the search executed in parallel.
US09773054B2
According to an aspect, storing and querying conceptual indices (CIs) includes creating a conceptual inverted index (CII) from the CIs. The CII includes CII entries, each of which corresponds to a concept in a concept graph. Creating the CII includes populating each entry with pointers to documents selected from the CIs having likelihoods of being related to the concept that are greater than a threshold value, and the corresponding likelihoods. An aspect also includes receiving a query that includes a concept in the concept graph, and generating query results from a search that include the row at least a subset of the pointers to documents. Each of the CIs is associated with a corresponding document and includes a CI entry for each concept in the concept graph, and each of the CI entries specifies a value indicating a likelihood that the document is related to the concept in the concept graph.
US09773050B2
A method for aggregating and presenting task data includes retrieving, from a task database, a plurality of task objects, each including at least a task description and a task date. A subset of the task objects are aggregated to obtain aggregated task data. A visual representation of the aggregated task data is displayed on a computing device, the visual representation including a temporal distribution of the subset of task objects and, for each task date of the subset of the task objects, a visual cue indicating an intensity level of the task objects associated with each task date.
US09773045B2
Search results may include both objective results and person results. In one example, a search query is evaluated to determine whether it is the type of query that a user might want to ask to a friend. If the query is of such a type, then the search engine may examine a social graph to determine which friends of the user who entered the query may have information that is relevant to answering the query. If such friends exist, then the friends may be displayed along with objective search results, along with an explanation of each friend's relevance to the query. Clicking on a person in the results may cause a conversation to be initiated with that person, thereby allowing the user who entered the query to ask his or her friend about the subject of the query.
US09773042B1
According to one embodiment, a first storage system receives a first data stream from a second storage system over a network. The first data stream includes data objects and differential object information identifying at least one data object missing from the first data stream. A difference between the first data stream and a second data stream that has been previously received is determined based on the differential object information, including identifying a data object that has been added, deleted, or modified in view of the second data stream. The first data stream is reconstructed based on the second data stream and the difference between the first data stream and the second data stream, generating a third data stream. The third data stream is stored in a persistent storage device of the first storage system, the third data stream representing a complete first data stream without a missing data object.
US09773039B2
A computer-implemented system and method for identifying near duplicate documents is provided. A set of documents is obtained and each document is divided into segments. Each of the segments is hashed. A segment identification and sequence order is assigned to each of the hashed segments. The sequence order is based on an order in which the segments occur in one such document. The segments are compared based on the segment identification and those documents with at least two matching segments are identified. The sequence orders of the matching segments are compared and based on the comparison, a determination is made that the identified documents share a relative sequence of the matching segments. The identified documents are designated as near duplicate documents.
US09773029B2
A method, computer program product and system for building a data model. In response to receiving a plurality of data field(s) as input, a database associated with each of the data fields(s) received is identified. A schema underlying the associated database is ascertained. One or more element(s) for each of the plurality of data fields(s) is identified based on applying the ascertained schema of the associated database(s). A data model is generated utilizing the identified one or more element(s) corresponding to each of the plurality of data field(s) associated to each of the database(s).
US09773026B1
Described are techniques for determining utilization. A plurality of indicator values for a plurality of utilization indicators for each system included in a set of one or more systems are received. Each of the plurality of indicator values represents a score for a different one of the plurality of utilization indicators. A system utilization score for each of the one or more systems is determined in accordance with the plurality of indicator values for each system. An overall utilization score of the set of systems is determined in accordance with the system utilization score for each of the one or more systems.
US09773025B2
Described are systems and methods for storing a variable number of instances of data objects (e.g., 1, 2, 3, or up to N−1 instances, where N is the number of instances of the data object included in primary data) in secondary storage across a data storage network. In some examples, a system for storing a variable number of instances of data objects includes, one or more computing devices storing a set of data objects and multiple storage devices distinct from the one or more computing devices. Each of the multiple storage devices is configured to store at least a single instance of a data object. The system also includes a database configured to store information associated with the data objects. This information includes substantially unique identifiers for the data objects and, for each of the data objects, a number of instances of the data object stored on the multiple storage devices.
US09773024B2
A method of sharing data stored in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes sensing a user's gesture requesting a share panel, and causing the share panel including a list of identification information of one or more external devices to appear from a side of a screen and then displaying the share panel at the side of the screen, according to the user's gesture requesting the share panel.
US09773023B2
A computer-implemented method for method for selecting visual subject matter stored in a database includes receiving user input that indicates a first region of a first image that is stored in the database and, based on metadata associated with the first image stored in the database, determining at least one visual feature in the first region of the first image stored in the database. The method further includes, based on metadata associated with other images stored in the database, selecting a second image from the database that includes a visual feature that correlates with the visual feature in the first region of the first image, wherein the metadata associated with the first image stored in the database and the metadata associated with the other images stored in the database include image correlation information received from a remote server device.
US09773022B2
A system and method is provided for displaying surfaces of an object from a vantage point different from the vantage point from which imagery of the object was captured. In some aspects, imagery may be generated for display by combining visual characteristics from multiple source images and applying greater weight to the visual characteristics of some of the source images relative to the other source images. The weight may be based on the orientation of the surface relative to the location from which the image was captured and the location from which the object will be displayed.
US09773014B2
According to one general aspect, a system may include a plurality of data nodes. Each data node may include either or both of a first storage medium and a second storage medium that is slower than the first storage medium. Each data node may be configured to store a piece data in either the first storage medium or the second storage medium. The system may be configured to store a plurality of copies of an active piece of data within two or more data nodes. A fast copy of the active piece of data may be stored by a first storage medium of a first data node. One or more slow copies of the active piece of data may be stored by respective second storage mediums of one or more respective other data nodes.
US09773013B2
A first computing device is part of a distributed electronic storage system (DESS) that also comprises one or more second computing devices. The first computing device comprises client process circuitry and DESS interface circuitry. The DESS interface circuitry is operable to: receive, from client process circuitry of the first computing device, a first client file system request that requires accessing a storage resource on one or more of the second computing devices; determine resources required for servicing of the first client file system request; generate a plurality of DESS file system requests for the first file system request; and transmit the plurality of DESS file system requests onto the one or more network links. How many such DESS file system requests are generated is determined based on the resources required for servicing the first client file system request.
US09773011B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for on-demand caching in a wide area network (WAN) separated distributed file system or clustered file system. The mechanism monitors file access by a plurality of cache sites in the WAN separated distributed file system or clustered file system. The mechanism identifies access patterns by cache sites. The mechanism shares the access patterns with the plurality of cache sites. A given cache site within the plurality of cache sites combines the access patterns with local access information and identifies files to pre-fetch based on the combined information.
US09773006B1
Techniques for managing non-snappable volumes are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for managing non-snappable volumes comprising identifying a virtual disk associated with a virtual machine, identifying a non-snappable volume associated with the virtual disk, analyzing the non-snappable volume, using at least one computer processor, to determine whether the non-snappable volume contains application data, and performing one or more responsive actions in the event the non-snappable volume is determined to contain application data.
US09773004B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that replicates data and provides instantaneous access to data includes receiving in a destination volume one or more named data extents and one or more references to the one or more named data extents associated with a file in parallel from a source volume. A determination is made to check whether the one or more references arrive before the one or more named data extents arrive. Each of the received one or more references which are determined to have arrived prior to the one or more data extents is allocated as absent by the storage management computing device. An instantaneous access to the file is provided during the allocation.
US09773002B2
Techniques for enabling user search of content stored in a file archive include providing a search interface comprising a search rules portion and an action rules portion, receiving a file archive search criterion comprising at least one search rule, and searching the file archive using the search criterion. The techniques also include generating a set of files filtered using the search criterion and performing an action specified in the action rules portion on a file included in the set of files.
US09773001B2
A method for processing a media resource playlist in a local area network, where the local area network includes a media server and a media renderer, includes: updating a stored playlist and a stored playlist element table when determining that a state of the media server changes; and sending the updated playlist to the media renderer. In addition, a playlist processing apparatus and a communication system are provided correspondingly.
US09772999B2
An apparatus and method for searching and displaying using cognitive pattern recognition including searching for document(s) with at least one search text, wherein each search text is associated with a highlight option; selecting to enable or disable the highlight option for each of the search text; displaying a progressive relationship of the document(s) in scaled common image format (CIF) by displaying: a first display presenting the document(s), wherein each of the document(s) includes all of the search text; a second display presenting only pages from the document(s) where the only pages presented include one or more of the search text with its associated highlight option enabled; and a third display presenting one page from the only pages wherein all occurrences of the search text where the highlight option for the search text is enabled are displayed simultaneously on the page.
US09772989B2
A template management apparatus includes a standard format classifying part, a group classifying part, and a replacing part. The standard format classifying part classifies a sample character string included in a template, as a standard format character string or a non-standard format character string. The group classifying part classifies the standard format character string into a standard format character string group according to its representation format, and classifies the non-standard format character string into a non-standard format character string group according to its content. The replacing part replaces the sample character string classified into the standard format character string group, with a replacement standard format character string represented in a representation format corresponding to the sample character string, and replaces the sample character string classified into the non-standard format character string group, with a replacement non-standard format character string represented in a different language from the sample character string.
US09772982B2
A system of forming a help file in a computer system, including an external configuration file containing information about a computer application running on the computer system, a help file having at least one page of help and an internal configuration file, and a control element to generate the at least one page of help according to the internal configuration file, wherein the control element incorporates the information from the external configuration file to the at least one page of help upon activation of the pages of help.
US09772981B2
Data storage is improved by combining content indexing and data reduction in text-containing files by using common word elimination. Raw data is processed by finding words in selected files, creating an index of found words, and replacing the words in the raw data with pointers to the corresponding words in the index. Each word appears only once in the index. Consequently, the index is relatively small and the procedure is completely reversible. In particular, the index is small relative to other methods because the data is transformed in place, and the transformed data and index are used together to capture the total information about the data.
US09772972B2
Provided are, among other things, systems, apparatuses methods and techniques for generating discrete-time sinusoidal sequences. One such apparatus includes a plurality of parallel processing branches, with each of the parallel processing branches operating at a subsampled rate and utilizing a recursive filter to generate sub-rate samples which represent a different subsampling phase of a complete signal that is output by the apparatus.
US09772951B2
Aspects of the present invention provide a solution for managing memory. A method according to an embodiment includes: prior to any storage of a page in the memory: analyzing the page to compute an identifier for the page based on characteristics of the page; and comparing the computed identifier with other identifiers of other pages currently stored in the memory to find an identical page, wherein a match between the computed identifier and the identifier of one of the other pages currently stored in memory indicates that the page corresponding to the computed identifier and the other page corresponding to the matching identifier are identical; storing, in the case that an identical page is found, a link to the identical page in a portion of the memory; and storing, in case that the identical page is not found, the page in the portion of the memory and storing the identifier.
US09772932B2
A method and a system for testing an application across platforms. Application testing for checking functionality of an application is carried out to insure that same applications have the same behavior on different platforms. Such platforms include function, user interface (UI), and generated data. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for cross-platform application testing. A first response to an action is determined on a first platform. The action is triggered on a second platform, the second platform being different from the first platform. Then, a second response is determined to the action on the second platform. Finally, the first response and the second response are compared to test consistency of the application on the first platform and the second platform. A corresponding system for testing an application across platforms is also provided.
US09772926B2
A method and computer system for compiling, by a computing device, a list of hosting software classes included in the hosting software fix pack when a fix is available. An execution path of each application hosted on a hosting software may be recorded. The execution path may be stored in a data store for each application. It may be determined which operations of each application interact with the hosting software. The operations of each application used at runtime that interact with the hosting software may be stored, including storing invoked hosting software operations and classes used by the operations of each application. The invoked hosting software operations and classes may be compared with corresponding operations and classes provided in the list included in the hosting software fix pack. A list of each intersection of the comparison for each application impacted by the hosting software fix pack may be generated.
US09772913B1
A memory controller for dual-channel DDR DIMMs comprises a first memory channel configured to execute a first memory transaction with a first memory device of a dual-channel DDR DIMM, and a second memory channel configured to execute a second memory transaction with a second memory device of the dual-channel DDR DIMM. The memory controller is configured to determine that the first memory channel is experiencing a degraded performance level in executing the first memory transaction with the first device, and to prevent read-write memory transactions and write-read memory transactions on the first and second memory channels in response to determining that the first memory channel is experiencing the degraded performance level.
US09772912B2
Systems and methods utilize a configurable and fault-tolerant baseboard management controller (BMC) arrangement in a multi-node system. In one example, the method may include designating a first BMC of the plurality of BMCs in a role of master BMC, determining that the first BMC can no longer serve the role of master BMC, and designating the BMC other than the first BMC to serve the role of the master BMC.
US09772910B1
Resources are optimized in an integrated data protection system having a production host, primary storage and a backup appliance for backup and restore of lost data to a selected restore point. Data tracks in primary storage having changed data are pushed to backup storage with a changed-tracks bitmap mapping the changed tracks. A selected restore capacity is reserved on a restore device, but the restore device is only provisioned for a capacity sufficient to store changed tracks corresponding to the selected restore point, thus obviating the creation and storing of metadata for the unprovisioned capacity. This conserves significant storage and memory capacity and reduces processing requirements.
US09772909B1
A computer-implemented proxy server local to a backup target system performs a backup method for a system supporting a plurality of virtual machines. The backup method includes receiving an initialization of a connection over a network from a backup server identifying the system to backup to the backup target system, establishing a communication connection over the network with the system to backup including identifying an interface for accessing data of the system to backup, receiving an image of the system to backup from the backup server, retrieving a data set corresponding to the image from the system to backup over the network, and writing the data set to a local file in the backup target system.
US09772904B2
A method begins by a processing module receiving a random order of encoded data slices and interpreting slice names to de-randomize the encoded data slices into of sets of transmit encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module determining whether a decode threshold number of encoded data slices of a set of transmit encoded data slices have been received. When not received, the method continues with the processing module determining whether a sufficient number of encoded data slices of the set of transmit encoded data slices are still to be received and waiting until the decode threshold number of encoded data slices are received when encoded data slices are still to be received. When the decode threshold number of encoded data slices are received, the method continues with the processing module decoding the decode threshold number of encoded data slices to recapture a corresponding data segment.
US09772903B2
The disclosed system and method detect and correct register file read path errors that may occur as a result of reducing or eliminating supply voltage guardbands and/or frequency guardbands for a CPU, thereby increasing overall energy efficiency of the system.
US09772899B2
A system for error correction code (ECC) management of write-once memory (WOM) codes includes, for example, a host processor is arranged to send a data word that is to be stored in a WOM (Write-Once Memory) device. A host interface is arranged to receive the first data word for processing by a WOM controller and an ECC controller. The WOM controller is for generating a first WOM-encoded word in response to an original symbol of the first data word, while the ECC controller is for generating a first set of ECC bits in response to the original symbol of the first data word. A memory device interface is for writing the first WOM-encoded word and the first set of ECC bits to the WOM device in accordance with the memory address associated with the first data word.
US09772897B1
A processing subsystem for providing diagnostic of a processing system is provided. The processing subsystem includes a real-time processing unit that receives a first input that includes data from one or more sensors and processes the first input to generate first output that controls an actuator. The processing subsystem also includes a power and safety management unit that receives a second input and processes the second input to generate second output for testing of the first output. A method and a system for providing diagnostic for a processing system are provided as well.
US09772896B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for identifying unusual intervals in an information technology (IT) system. Aspects include training a log analysis system based on historical data for the IT system, the historical data including a plurality of intervals each having an interval anomaly score and receiving status messages from a plurality of pieces of IT equipment in the IT system. Aspects also include grouping the status messages into an interval and calculating an interval anomaly score for the interval and comparing the interval anomaly score with one or more priority level cutoffs created by the training and responsively generating an alert based on the comparison, wherein the alert indicates that the interval is unusual.
US09772883B2
An approach is disclosed for enhancing mobile-device operation by resource sharing and/or pooling. The approach can be implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to trigger a first device to share content or request functionality of any of a plurality of other devices. The programming instructions can further be operable to discover a candidate device that is capable of receiving the content or a request to provide the functionality. The programming instructions can further be operable to determine that the candidate device can receive the content or provide the functionality based on predetermined criteria. The programming instructions can further be operable to establish a connection with the candidate device. The programming instructions can further be operable to send the content from the first device to the candidate device or receive functionality from the candidate device.
US09772882B2
The execution of an executable code by a set of processing modules is provided, wherein the executable code is executed by at least one first processing module of the set of processing modules, wherein said executable code comprises a set of parallel executable parts, wherein each parallel executable part of the executable code comprises at least two parallel executable steps, and wherein said executing comprises: detecting by the at least one first processing module a parallel executable part of the set of parallel executable parts of the executable code to be executed; selecting by the at least one first processing module at least two second processing modules of the set of processing modules; and commanding by the at least one first processing module the selected at least two second processing modules to perform the at least two parallel executable steps of the detected parallel executable part of the executable code.
US09772879B2
An embodiment includes a method includes designating a portion of a plurality of processing cores as an input/output (I/O) core and compiling a program source code to produce compiled program source code, including identifying an I/O operation region of the program source code, determining a number of I/O operations for the I/O operation region, and determining a number of system resources and system resource types for the I/O operation region. The method also includes executing the program source code using the plurality of processing cores, including scheduling the I/O operation region of the program source code on the I/O core of the plurality of processing cores.
US09772878B2
A job scheduler system includes one or more hardware processors, a memory including a job group queue stored in the memory, and a job scheduler engine configured to create a first job group in the job group queue, the first job group includes a generation counter having an initial value, receive a first request to steal the first job group, determine a state of the first job group based at least in part on the generation counter, the state indicating that the first job group is available to steal, based on the determining the state of the first job group, atomically increment the generation counter, thereby making the first job group unavailable for stealing, and alter an execution order of the first job group ahead of at least one other job group in the job group queue.
US09772860B2
Efficient power management of a system with virtual machines is disclosed. In particular, such efficient power management may enable coordination of system-wide power changes with virtual machines. Additionally, such efficient power management may enable coherent power changes in a system with a virtual machine monitor. Furthermore, such efficient power management may enable dynamic control and communication of power state changes.
US09772856B2
In one embodiment, a system has a master programmable device (PD) with native dual-boot capability and one or more slave PDs with no native dual-boot capability. A master golden image includes an embedded dual-boot function. During power-up, each PD copies its primary image into its volatile configuration memory and determines whether the primary image is valid. When the master's configuration engine detects an invalid master primary image, then the master's native dual-boot capability enables the master to implement a system-reboot procedure, which includes copying the master golden image from an external memory device into the master's volatile configuration memory and launching the embedded dual-boot function, which in turn copies the slave golden images from the external memory device into the slaves' volatile configuration memories before enabling other master-golden-image functions. Significant system reliability and robustness are achieved without provisioning every PD with native dual-boot capability.
US09772852B2
An apparatus that includes a program controller to fetch and issue instructions is described. The apparatus includes an execution lane having at least one execution unit to execute the instructions. The execution lane is part of an execution lane array that is coupled to a two dimensional shift register array structure, wherein, execution lane s of the execution lane array are located at respective array locations and are coupled to dedicated registers at same respective array locations in the two-dimensional shift register array.
US09772838B2
A firmware update system is described that collectively handles firmware updates for hardware resources of a computing device. The firmware update system may be configured to handle firmware updates in a consistent manner across different computing platforms/architectures. A data structure is defined to associate each updateable resource with a corresponding identifier to enumerate the updateable resources to the firmware update system. The firmware update system may reference the data structure to produce representations of the each individual resource that provide an operating system level abstraction through which detection, analysis, acquisition, deployment, installation, and tracking of firmware updates is managed. Using the representations, the firmware update system operates to discover available firmware updates collectively for the enumerated resources, match the updates to appropriate resources, and initiate installation of the updates.
US09772836B2
A system, a method, and a computer-program product for delivering of correction packages are disclosed. At least one correction instruction is generated based on at least one correction to a software application. At least one correction package is assembled and linked to the generated correction instruction. The assembled correction package is transported to the software application for applying to the software application.
US09772833B2
The present invention discloses an application instance staging method and apparatus. The method comprising: obtaining a list of functional services bound to an application program; determining a buildpack corresponding to the bound functional service; and performing, by the determined buildpack, application instance staging of the application program. With the technical solution according to embodiments of the invention, an application program can be automatically extended during application instance staging, such that it can interact with the bound service.
US09772823B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium for linking a set of executable code snippets to perform a complicated task, comprising: decomposing a natural language statement into a plurality of decomposed natural language components; searching a repository of code snippets to identify code snippets corresponding to each of the decomposed natural language components; ordering execution of the code snippets based upon the plurality of decomposed natural language components; and, executing the code snippets in order of the natural language statement requests until a final outcome is achieved.
US09772821B2
A cryptographic data processing method, implemented in an electronic device including a processor, the method including steps of providing a point of an elliptic curve in a Galois field, and a whole number, and of calculating a scalar product of the point by the number, the coordinates of the point and the number having a size greater than the size of words that may be processed directly by the processor, the scalar multiplication of the point by the number including steps of: storing scalar multiples of the point multiplied-by the number 2 raised to a power belonging to a series of whole numbers, setting a resulting point for each non-zero bit of the first number, adding the resulting point and one of the stored multiple points, and providing at the output of the processor the resulting point as result of the scalar product.
US09772818B2
Event detection system having multiple sensor systems in cooperation with an impact detection system
A damage detection and remediation system includes a sensing device for detecting damage events related to a structure of interest. Such damage events may include impact from a ballistic object, a tamper event, a physical impact, or other events that may affect structural integrity or cause failure. Illustratively, the sensing device is in communication with a measurement system to determine damage criteria, and a processing system which is configured to use the damage criteria to determine, for example, a direction of the initiation point of a ballistic causing the damage event.
US09772815B1
Systems and methods for performing personalized operations of a mobile device are provided. An example method includes determining a user-defined signature has been received. The user-defined signature can include a combination of an acoustic input and non-acoustic input. The method can further include performing, in response to the determination, operations of the mobile device, the operations being associated with the user-defined signature. Exemplary acoustic input includes a voice sound with at least one spoken keyword. The spoken keyword is used to identify the operations. Exemplary non-acoustic input includes motions of the mobile device detected by an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a magnetometer. Exemplary motions include vibrations of the mobile device, tapping the mobile device, rotations of the mobile device, movements of the mobile device as to draw a figure in a space.
US09772801B2
Volume expansion in a storage management system coupled to a storage system via a network is performed. A request for expanding an original volume of a first cluster located at the storage system to a target volume is received. A second cluster located at the storage system is obtained. A remaining storage space of the second cluster is larger than a storage space required by the target volume. The storage system is instructed to create the target volume at the second cluster, and the original volume is expanded to the target volume.
US09772795B2
An information processing apparatus performs data processing and includes a first device, a second device, and a power source unit to supply predetermined power. The first device includes a first communication unit that communicates with the second device, a first initialization unit that initializes the first communication unit with the supplied power based on a notification received from a second communication unit of the second device, a detection unit that detects the second device, and a transmission unit that transmits specific logical information to the detected second device. The second device stores the acquired specific logical information and includes a second initialization unit that initializes the second communication unit with the supplied predetermined power, and a third initialization unit that completes an initial setting of the second device by writing the specific logical information into storage based on the notification from the initialized second communication unit.
US09772790B2
In a method for controlling data stored in an Solid State Disk (SSD) of a data de-duplication system, a storage controller obtains stability information of a data block. The stability information comprises a reference count of the data block and a length of a period of time when the data block is stored in the SSD. The storage controller identifies a stability level of the data block according to the stability information, and sends the stability level of the data block to the SSD. The SSD moves the data block to a target block which corresponds to the stability level. Thereby, the SSD can store data blocks having a same stability level together.
US09772789B1
The system, process, and methods herein describe a mechanism for aligning IOs with block sizes. The alignment may occur on a data protection appliance as part of a continuous replication process. The IO offset may be rounded down, and the size may be rounded up, so that each is a multiple of the block size.
US09772788B1
An electrical connector includes a plurality of pins for transmitting electrical signals and at least one illumination device disposed on the electrical connector and electrically coupled to at least one of the pins. The illumination device is disposed so as to radiate light from the exterior of the electrical connector. The radiated light is visible while the electrical connector is engaged. The illumination device is configured to be controlled by pins that are not used for data transmission.
US09772781B2
A method of maintaining and updating a logical-to-physical (LtoP) table in a storage device including a processor, a volatile memory, and a non-volatile memory, the storage device being in communication with a host utilizing atomic writes, the method including receiving, by the processor, data for storing at a plurality of physical addresses in the non-volatile memory, the data being associated with a plurality of logical addresses of the host, storing, by the processor, the plurality of physical addresses in an atomic segment in the volatile memory, storing, by the processor, one or more of zones of the LtoP table in the non-volatile memory, the one or more zones of the LtoP table corresponding in size to the atomic segment, and updating the one or more zones of the LtoP table with the plurality of physical addresses in the atomic segment.
US09772779B2
Methods for operating a distributed controller system in a memory device include receiving a read command, a master controller generating an indication to a data cache controller in response to the read command, and the data cache controller accepting data from a memory array of the memory device in response to the indication.
US09772776B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for swapping a memory page from memory to a swap device. An example system for swapping a memory page from memory to a swap device includes a memory to store one or more memory pages. The system also includes a swap device selector that receives an indication to swap out a memory page from memory to a swap device. The swap device selector identifies a memory group to which the memory page belongs and selects a swap device from a plurality of swap devices assigned to the identified memory group. The memory group identifies a plurality of applications having a common property. The system further includes a swap module that copies the memory page into the selected swap device.
US09772772B2
An information view may be displayed on a multi-touch display based on detected force or pressure from a push by a touch on a displayed image and from the push an indentation of a component portion. A detailed view of the information view may be displayed based on a further indentation of the component portion.
US09772767B2
Disclosed are a mobile terminal and controlling method thereof. The mobile terminal is controllable in response to a pinch-in/out touch gesture. The present invention includes activating a 1st application file via a specific application, displaying a 1st file image corresponding to the 1st application file on a touch screen in a single view state of displaying a single file image on the touchscreen, receiving a pinch-in touch gesture performed on the touchscreen, and switching the single view state to a multi-view state of displaying a plurality of file images in response to the reception of the pinch-in touch gesture. A 2nd file image corresponding to each of at least one 2nd application file and the 1st file image are displayed on the touchscreen in the multi-view state. The 1st application file and the at least one 2nd application file are activated by the specific application.
US09772764B2
Automatically alternating between input modes on a computing device based on a usage pattern is provided. A first input mode is initiated for interacting with content displayed on the computing device. An input corresponding to a second input mode on the computing is then detected. A transition is then made from the first input mode to the second input mode on the computing device. Upon the detecting a termination of the input on the displayed content the second input mode, a gradual transition is made from the second input mode to the first input mode based on a current sensor state of the computing device and a threshold.
US09772758B2
The present disclosure describes an administration system which facilitates efficient setup, organization, and maintenance of tournaments, including league games. In particular, the administration system provides a user-friendly, intuitive and efficient-to-use interface for organizing tournaments and tournament brackets. The user interfaces and methods described provide tournament organizers and administrators with the ability to quickly and dynamically build custom tournament brackets of virtually any desired depth and configuration. The administration system, and in particular the tournament bracket management user interfaces, enable tournament administrators to focus on the task of building a custom tournament bracket structure quickly, while also automatically handling the minute logistics underlying the tournament such as when and where games are to be played.
US09772755B2
A remote control service on a mobile device interrogates a program on another computing device to obtain metadata describing the structure of information being displayed on the computing device. The remote control service then calculates a different data structure that is used to display a subset of the data on the display screen of the mobile device.
US09772751B2
A first user interface is displayed without concurrently displaying a second user interface that is distinct from the first user interface. A gesture to select the second user interface is detected on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the gesture, an animation is displayed of a transition from display of the first user interface to display of the second user interface. The animation comprises sliding a first element of the second user interface onto the display from a first side of the display while simultaneously sliding a second element of the second user interface that contacts the first element horizontally across the top of the first element. The first element of the second user interface is distinct from the second element of the second user interface.
US09772747B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for performing a function corresponding to a recognized user input through a touch screen. The method includes displaying a window of an application; displaying a setting menu of the application; receiving a selection for at least one item in the setting menu; recognizing an input object that performed the selection; registering the input object as an object for executing a function corresponding to the at least one item selected by the input object; detecting an input by the input object in the application window; and executing the function in response to the input by the input object.
US09772738B2
A mobile terminal and screen operation method for the same are disclosed. The screen operation method includes: displaying a screen containing an amorphous object that is changeable at least in part to a specific form according to an input event; receiving a generated input event; and displaying a concrete object that is generated from the amorphous object by modifying the amorphous object at least in part according to the input event.
US09772729B2
Input devices which include a capacitive force sensor, along with methods of making and using such, are provided. The input device includes a structural component having first and second substantially opposing sides, a plurality of sensor electrodes located on the first side of the structural component, the plurality of sensor electrodes configured to capacitively sense positional information associated with user input in a sensing region, a first capacitive electrode located on the second side of the structural component, the first capacitive electrode being configured to capacitively couple to a second capacitive electrode that is separated from the first capacitive electrode by a gas and moveable relative to the first capacitive electrode, and a biasing member configured to be physically coupled to the structural component such that a force associated with the user input causes a change in a separation distance between the first and second capacitive electrodes based on the force.
US09772725B2
A processing system comprises a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module is configured to acquire changes in absolute capacitance from a first plurality of sensor electrodes of a sensor electrode pattern. The sensor module is also configured to utilize the changes in absolute capacitance to determine a drive order in which to drive sensor electrodes of the first plurality of sensor electrodes to acquire changes in transcapacitance between the first plurality of sensor electrodes and a second plurality of sensor electrodes of the sensor electrode pattern. The determination module is configured to determine positional information for an input object in a sensing region of the capacitive sensing device based on the changes in transcapacitance.
US09772722B2
A method can include determining an initial position of an object with respect to a sensing region formed by a plurality of sensors and having a core region bounded by at least one edge; if the initial position is proximate to the edge and a size of the object was previously calculated, determining a final edge position of the object using the previously calculated object size; and if the initial position is proximate to the edge and the size of the object was not previously calculated, determining a size of the object.
US09772720B2
Control apparatus includes an optical subsystem, which is configured to direct first light toward a scene that includes a hand of a user in proximity to a wall of a room and to receive the first light that is reflected from the scene, and to direct second light toward the wall so as to project an image of a control device onto the wall. A processor is configured to control the optical subsystem so as to generate, responsively to the received first light, a depth map of the scene, to process the depth map so as to detect a proximity of the hand to the wall in a location of the projected image, and to control electrical equipment in the room responsively to the proximity.
US09772719B2
In various embodiments, a touch surface may comprise multiple individual sensors, each of which is capable of mechanical deflection in a direction parallel to the surface, with the device using the touch surface being able to detect such deflection in each sensor. With this capability, the device may be able to detect intended movement of a touch over the touch surface even if no additional sensors are activated by that movement. Such sensors may be useful for detecting very small motions, and may be especially useful for motions in which the shape of the user's thumb results in the same touch area being in contact with the thumb even though the thumb is executing an extension or retraction movement.
US09772717B2
An input sensor, an electronic device comprising such, and a method of manufacturing the same are described. The input sensor may be implemented as part of a mechanical key input. The input sensor includes a substrate having a first substrate portion with a signal pattern unit patterned therein, the signal pattern unit configured to generate a signal according to a touch or proximity of an object, and a second substrate portion having an integrated circuit united disposed thereon, the integrated circuit being electrically connected to the surface pattern unit, and a key support having a seating portion configured to support the substrate. The input sensor, electronic device, and the manufacturing method can be modified without limit.
US09772711B2
A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a first gesture on a touch screen, dividing a display region of the touch screen into two or more regions according to the first gesture, detecting a second gesture originating in one of the two or more divided regions, and displaying the second gesture according to a region attribute of the one region and the second gesture.
US09772702B2
A display device has a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and a backlight provided to face a substrate over which the pixel array is formed, and display element portions photosensor portions are formed in the pixels. In the display device, in one frame period for displaying a black image which is interposed between two successive periods forming an image or a backlighting shutoff period in one frame period in which the display element portion holds an image, an accumulation operation of the photosensor portion is performed, the pixels are successively selected for each row, and a signal corresponding to the potential of a signal charge accumulation portion of the photosensor portion is output.
US09772700B2
A method for generating display data comprises detecting user input via an input interface. A processor is in communication with the input interface to generate display data comprising a display object for display by a display device. The display object is representative of an action that will subsequently be performed by the processor on continuation of the user input. The display data on the display device is output whilst the user input is being detected. Alternatively, the display object is caused to appear on the display device over time as the user input is being performed, wherein the rate at which the display object appears is different to the rate of performance of the user input. A device and executable computer program for performing the steps of the method is also provided.
US09772692B2
A flexible display device includes a substrate, at least one sensing pattern, and a fold detector. The substrate is foldable along at least one folding line. The sensing pattern is in a peripheral area of the substrate. The fold detector is connected to the sensing pattern and detects whether the sensing pattern is disconnected.
US09772691B2
A mobile device has a user interface comprising a plurality of keys arranged in a plurality of groups. A processor is operatively coupled to the user input device to receive user input from the user input device and to identify which group of keys has received the user input. A display is operatively coupled to the processor for displaying characters corresponding to the keys of the group in response to the user input. The keys may have capacitive touch sensors with haptic feedback.
US09772689B2
Enhanced image viewing, in which a user's gesture is recognized from first and second images, an interaction command corresponding to the recognized user's gesture is determined, and, based on the determined interaction command, an image object displayed in a user interface is manipulated.
US09772686B2
An imaging display apparatus, includes: display means for image display; first image signal generation means for generating a display image signal based on a captured image signal captured by an imaging section with a field of view direction of a user being a direction of an object; second image signal generation means for generating a display image signal of an image different from an image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means; and control means for allowing, simultaneously on the display means, display of the image of the display image signal generated by the first image signal generation means and display of the image of the display image signal generated by the second image signal generation means.
US09772679B1
Object tracking for device input can be improved by utilizing various tracking parameters to correlate objects between analyzed image frames. In some embodiments, relatively low resolution infrared cameras can be used for object tracking, in order to conserve resources on the device. Intensity segmentation can be used to identify potential objects of interest to be analyzed in captured image data. One or more tracking parameters, such as size, shape, and/or distance, can be specified for each of the objects in order to correlate objects between images. The correlations can be ranked by confidence or other such metrics in order to improve overall accuracy. Tracking data can also be stored for a period of time such that objects that are not clearly distinguishable for a while but then reappear can again be correlated with objects from earlier images.
US09772665B2
In an example embodiment, a power switching circuit of an automobile audio bus (A2B) chip is provided in a bi-directional, multi-node two-wire conductor system that includes a plurality of A2B chips interconnected on a twisted wire pair bus (A2B bus), with at least one A2B chip functioning as a master and the remaining A2B chips functioning as slaves. The power switching circuit of the A2B chip powers up a next downstream A2B chip in the A2B bus sequentially according to a power switching procedure, and the power switching circuit is configured to detect faults in the A2B bus before, during, and after the power switching procedure. Each A2B chip enables power to the next downstream A2B chip without risk of damage to any components in the system due to line faults on the downstream A2B bus, or collapse of the power supply at the local A2B chip.
US09772660B2
The present invention relates to a tablet capable of sensing a location using electromagnetic induction and electrostatic capacitance. The tablet comprises: a loop antenna, having a closed-loop shape for surrounding a sensing area, capable of sensing an electromagnetic wave emitted from an electronic pen; a first line antenna provided with a plurality of first conductive patterns, both ends of each of the plurality of first conductive patterns being located on one side of the first line antenna; a second line antenna provided with a plurality of second conductive patterns which cross the plurality of first conductive patterns in the sensing area, both ends of each of the plurality of second conductive patterns being located on the side on which the both ends of each of the plurality of first conductive patterns are located; and a control circuit for sensing a location using electromagnetic induction and electrostatic capacitance by controlling a connection relation between the plurality of first conductive patterns and the plurality of second conductive patterns. Accordingly, it is possible to selectively recognize the manipulation of the electronic pen and the touch of a finger with the same antenna pattern.
US09772654B2
Described herein are techniques related to devices with wireless docking capabilities and more particularly near field communications-based techniques for docking and undocking devices. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09772651B2
An embedded multimedia card (eMMC) is provided. The eMMC includes a clock channel receiving a clock output from a host, data channels receiving data signals from the host, and a command channel receiving a SWITCH command including delay offset values from the host so as to adjust a delay of at least one of the data signals, which are received, in response to the delay offset values.
US09772644B2
An apparatus, including a plurality of devices, a network operations center (NOC), and a plurality of control nodes. Each device consumes a portion of the resource when turned on, and performs a corresponding function within an acceptable operational margin by cycling on and off. The NOC generates a plurality of run time schedules that coordinates run times for the each of the plurality of devices to control the peak demand of the resource. Each of the control nodes is coupled to a corresponding one of the devices. The plurality of control nodes transmits sensor data and device status to the NOC for generation of the plurality of run time schedules, and executes selected ones of the run time schedules to cycle the plurality of devices, and employs the sensor data and device status in a model to detect exceptions to normal operation of a facility.
US09772643B2
The apparatuses and methods herein facilitate generation of energy-related revenue for an energy customer of an electricity supplier, for a system that includes an energy storage asset. The apparatuses and methods herein can be used to generate operating schedules for a controller of the energy storage asset. When implemented, the generated operating schedules facilitates derivation of the energy-related revenue, over a time period T, associated with operation of the at least one energy storage asset according to the generated operating schedule. The energy-related revenue available to the energy customer over the time period T is based at least in part on a wholesale electricity market.
US09772641B2
A control device has a monitoring section that monitors an amount of electric energy of a first machine, and a power supply controller that controls power supply of a second machine in accordance with an amount of electric energy of the first machine and schedule information indicative of an operation schedule of each of the first machine and the second machine.
US09772633B2
According to one aspect, a system for controlling each control volume of a plurality of control volumes is provided. The system includes a plurality of sensors corresponding to the plurality of control volumes, and each sensors is configured to detect a temperature value of the control volume corresponding to the sensor, and generate a feedback signal for the control volume corresponding to the sensor based on the temperature value. The system further includes a primary controller configured to receive a set point temperature value for each control volume, receive the feedback signal for each control volume, execute a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) control that is configured to determine a target set point temperature value for each control volume based on the set point temperature value for the control volume and the feedback signal for the control volume, and transmit the target set point temperature value for each control volume.
US09772629B2
Methods and apparatus for in-situ calibration of a flow controller are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of flowing a gas includes providing a flow controller configured to provide a first gas at a first value of a flow rate based on a calculated first relationship determined by using a standard gas; determining an actual first relationship between the flow rate and the setpoint for the first gas from a plurality of values of the flow rate of the first gas determined at a corresponding plurality of values of the setpoint of the flow controller, wherein each of the plurality of values of the flow rate is determined from flowing the first gas through the flow controller at corresponding ones of the plurality of values for the setpoint; and flowing the first gas at the first value of the flow rate based on the actual first relationship.
US09772622B2
A motor control system of the present invention includes a servo electricity supply unit supplying electricity to a servo motor, and a controller controlling the servo motor, a mechanical brake and the servo electricity supply unit. The controller controls the servo electricity supply unit to stop the supply of electricity to the servo motor when a signal receiving unit receives a signal for actuating the mechanical brake and to resume the supply of electricity to the servo motor when an abnormality determining unit determines that abnormality exists in the mechanical brake.
US09772621B2
The application provides molds for the manufacture of intraluminal endoprostheses and methods for their manufacture. In particular embodiments, the methods comprise the steps of providing a 3D model of the mold, meshing the model, manufacturing a mold based on said meshed 3D model. Also provided herein are methods for manufacturing an endoprosthesis using said mold.
US09772606B1
The present disclosure relates to a watch type terminal including a body comprising a display unit and a band connected to the body and formed to be worn on a wrist, wherein the body includes a first disk configured to overlap with the display unit and comprise a first hand, a second disk disposed below the first disk to comprise a second hand, a first and a second pinion coupled to the edges of the first and the second disk, respectively, and a rotation drive unit configured to provide a rotational force to the pinions to rotate the first and the second disk so as to display visual information by the first and the second hand.
US09772601B2
A process unit includes a rotatable image bearer, an optical writing head to expose the image bearer within an maximum exposure range in an axial direction of the image bearer, a developer bearer, spacers disposed in axial end portions of the image bearer to determine a position of the optical writing head relative to the image bearer and slidingly contact the image bearer, a cleaner disposed downstream from the developer bearer in an image bearer rotation direction, and a remover to slidingly contact the axial end portion of the image bearer to remove a substance adhering thereto. In the axial direction, inner ends of the spacers are positioned inside a toner layer range of the developer bearer extending beyond a largest sheet width. The remover is disposed downstream from the cleaner and crossing a line extending from the inner end of the spacer perpendicularly to the axial direction.
US09772599B2
A driving force transmission unit includes a first coupling, a second coupling, and a first rotary shaft. The first coupling includes a first contact portion and a hole, the inner circumferential surface of which has a rounded rectangular shape in cross section including a circular arc portion. The second coupling includes a second contact portion disposed at a position facing the first contact portion to contact the first contact portion along a direction of rotation of the second coupling. The first rotary shaft is connected to the first coupling and includes a shaft portion, an outer circumferential surface which has a rounded rectangular shape in cross section including a circular arc portion inserted into the hole of the first coupling.
US09772592B2
An image forming apparatus includes a conversion unit that converts image data based on a conversion condition, an image forming unit that forms an image based on the converted image data, a measurement unit that measures a measuring image, and a generation unit that controls the image forming unit to form a first measuring image while the image forming unit is continuously forming images, and generates the conversion condition based on first measurement data of the first measuring image and a first feedback condition. The generation unit controls the image forming unit to form a second measuring image during a period from when toner discharge processing has been performed until the image forming unit forms a subsequent image, and generates the conversion condition based on second measurement data of the second measuring image, and a second feedback condition with a larger correction amount than the first feedback condition.
US09772589B2
An image forming apparatus suppresses the occurrence of dew condensation in a post-processing operation when the sheet is jammed. When information indicating that a sheet is jammed is received, if the sheet detecting sensor detects the sheet on a switching member, a controller executes a conveying action to drive the sheet conveying portion until an upstream edge of the sheet in the sheet conveyance direction passes through the switching member and then stops the sheet conveying portion.
US09772586B2
An image heating device includes, a moving member configured to move while contacting a recording material at one surface of the moving member, a backup member configured to contact the other surface of the moving member, a holding member configured to hold the backup member, a nip portion forming member contacting the one surface of the moving member, and configured to form a nip portion in corporation with the backup member via the moving member, and a high thermal conductive member held between the holding member and the backup member, wherein the recording material on which an image has been formed is heated by heat received from the moving member while being nipped and conveyed at the nip portion, and wherein the holding member includes a recessed portion configured not to apply pressure to the high thermal conductive member.
US09772581B2
A developer container, which is configured to contain developer therein, includes a developer conveyance plate configured to allow the developer to be placed thereon and convey the developer, an opening member including an opening for discharging the developer, and a coupling member coupling the opening member and the developer conveyance plate with each other. The developer conveyance plate includes a vibration target unit configured to receive a vibration. The coupling member extends/compresses, or swings when the developer conveyance plate conveys the developer toward an opening side where the opening is located.
US09772569B2
An undercoat layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a binder resin, and a complex particle composed of a core particle coated with tin oxide doped with zinc.
US09772563B2
At least a first reticle is stored in a housing of a stocker. A first gas is delivered to the housing. At least one reticle pod having an additional reticle is delivered into a enclosure within the housing of the stocker. A second gas different from the first gas is delivered to the enclosure. The reticle pod is automatically retrieved from the enclosure. The delivery and retrieval of the reticle pod and delivery of the first gas and the second gas are automatically controlled.
US09772562B2
A reconstruction process includes measuring structures formed on a substrate by a lithographic process, determining a reconstruction model for generating modeled patterns, computing and minimizing a multi-variable cost function including model errors. Errors induced by nuisance parameters are modeled based on statistical description of the nuisance parameters' behavior, described by probability density functions. From the statistical description model errors are calculated expressed in terms of average model errors and weighing matrices. These are used to modify the cost function so as to reduce the influence of the nuisance parameters in the reconstruction, without increasing the complexity of the reconstruction model. The nuisance parameters may be parameters of the modeled structure, and/or parameters of an inspection apparatus used in the reconstruction.
US09772552B2
A thiosulfate polymer composition includes an electron-accepting photosensitizer component, either as a separate compound or as an attachment to the thiosulfate polymer. The thiosulfate polymer composition can be applied to various articles, or used to form a predetermined polymeric pattern after photothermal reaction to form crosslinked disulfide bonds, removing non-crosslinked polymer, and reaction with a disulfide-reactive material. Such thiosulfate polymer compositions can also be used to sequester metals in nanoparticulate form, and as a way for shaping human hair in hairdressing operations.
US09772549B2
An immersive display system is disclosed that includes screens configured to mitigate reduction in contrast ratio due at least in part to peripheral light incident on the screens. The immersive display system includes at least two screens and at least two projector systems. The screens have a multi-layered structure configured to selectively reflect light in a tailored polarization state. Adjacent screens can be configured to selectively reflect light in orthogonal polarization states. The projector systems can be configured to project video onto their respective screens with light in a suitable polarization state. The screens can be further configured to selectively reflect light within a plurality of tailored spectral bands, the spectral bands being different for respective screens.
US09772534B2
A liquid crystal display is provided. The display includes: gate lines applied with a gate signal; data lines applied with a data signal; reference voltage lines respectively applied with first and second reference voltage having different polarities; first, second, and third subpixel electrodes included in one pixel area; a first switching element connected to the first gate line, the first data line, and the first subpixel electrode; a second switching element connected to the first gate line, the first data line, and the second subpixel electrode; a third switching element connected to the first or second gate line, the first or second data line, and the third subpixel electrode; a fourth switching element connected to the first gate line, the first reference voltage line, and the first subpixel electrode; and a fifth switching element connected to the first gate line, the second reference voltage line, and the second subpixel electrode.
US09772531B2
The present invention provides a color liquid crystal display panel, which includes: a plurality of mutually parallel layers of liquid crystal cells (2) and bonding members (8) bonding the plurality of layers of liquid crystal cells (2). Each of the liquid crystal cells (2) includes a thin-film transistor substrate (20), a package substrate (30), and a dye-liquid crystal layer (40) sealed between the thin-film transistor substrate (20) and the package substrate (30). The dye-liquid crystal layer (40) includes a liquid crystal material and a dichroic dye. The dichroic dye of each of the liquid crystal cells (2) absorbs light of a predetermined range of wavelength. The plurality of layers of liquid crystal cells (2) respectively absorbs lights of different ranges of wavelength. The present invention includes a dichroic dye combined in a liquid crystal material in order to use the dichroic dye to absorb light of some colors thereby achieving color displaying without using a conventionally used polarizer and manufacture of a color filter substrate, so that the manufacture cost of and the requirement for backlighting brightness by the liquid crystal display panel can both be reduced.
US09772530B2
A display provides increased contrast and resolution via first LCD panel energized to generate an image and a second LCD panel configured to increase contrast of the image. The second panel is an LCD panel without color filters and is configured to increase contrast by decreasing black levels of dark portions of images using polarization rotation and filtration. The second LCD panel may have higher resolution than the first LCD panel. A half wave plate and/or film is placed in between the first and the second panel. The panels may be directly illuminated or edge lit, and may be globally or locally dimmed lights that may also include individual control of color intensities for each image or frame displayed.
US09772529B2
A liquid crystal display includes first and second substrates; first and second electrodes provided on the first and second substrates respectively; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second substrates. The first electrode includes first openings each having an elongated shape in a first direction and which are arranged with regularity, and a short side edge thereof is longer than a length between the first openings adjacent in the first direction. The second electrode includes second openings each having an elongated shape in the first direction and which are arranged with regularity, and a short side edge thereof is longer than a length between the second openings adjacent in the first direction. Each of the first and second openings has a recess in at least either of two outer edge parts along the first direction in a planar view.
US09772523B2
A liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate including a pixel region and a fan-out unit on a periphery of the pixel region, the pixel region including pixels; gate lines disposed on the first substrate; data lines disposed on the first substrate to intersect the gate lines, the data lines being insulated from the gate lines; a data fan-out line extending from one of the data lines to be disposed in the fan-out unit; a data pad line disposed in the fan-out unit and electrically connected to a driving integrated circuit; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; and a sealant bonding the first substrate to the second substrate. The data fan-out line overlaps the data pad line between the pixel region and the sealant.
US09772521B2
A flat panel display is disclosed. The display includes an array substrate, and a color filter substrate. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units, and each pixel unit includes at least three sub-pixels. The color filter substrate is placed opposite to a pixel array and includes a red resist, a green resist and a blue resist which respectively correspond to the sub-pixels. A ratio of thicknesses of the red, green and blue resists is configured in such a way that a ratio of total transmittances of the sub-pixels corresponding to the red, green and blue resists has a preset value.
US09772519B2
A touching display panel and a display device using the same are provided. The touching display panel includes a liquid crystal layer, a first substrate having a hard surface structure, a second substrate, a touch sensor layer, a thin-film transistor layer, and a color filter layer. The first and second substrates are respectively disposed at two sides of the liquid crystal layer. The touch sensor layer is disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and is formed on the first substrate. The thin-film transistor layer and the color filter layer are both disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. At least one of the thin-film transistor layer and the color filter layer is formed on the first substrate.
US09772518B2
In an electro-optical device, a relay electrode (first electrode) includes a conduction section that overlaps the projection portion of an inter-layer insulation film, and the conduction section is exposed from the surface (flat surface) of the inter-layer insulation film. An insulation film which has a film thickness thinner than the height of the projection portion is formed on the surface (flat surface) of the inter-layer insulation film, and a pixel electrode is electrically conducted to the conduction section through the opening of the insulation film. In this case, since the opening is shallow, a large uneven part is hardly generated on the surface of the pixel electrode.
US09772515B2
An optical element includes a light guide plate with a first major surface and with a second major surface opposite the first major surface and with side faces connecting the first and second major surfaces, wherein the light guide plate includes a matrix material transparent to ultraviolet light in which scattering centers are embedded, at least one light-emitting semiconductor device that couples ultraviolet light into the light guide plate via a side face when in operation, a first filter layer on the first major surface and a second filter layer on the second major surface, wherein the filter layers opaque to ultraviolet light and at least partially transparent to visible light, and a first photochromic layer at least on the first major surface, between the light guide panel and the first filter layer, with a transparency to visible light by ultraviolet light.
US09772500B2
A double-layered liquid crystal lens in which two liquid crystal layers are disposed, and a 3D display apparatus. In a 3D display mode, under control of an electric field, liquid crystal molecules of a first liquid crystal layer are deflected to form a plurality of first lenticular lens structures. In case of switching from the 3D display mode into a 2D display mode, under the control of an electric field, liquid crystal molecules in a second liquid crystal layer are deflected to form a plurality of second lenticular lens structures; the second lenticular lens structures are mirror symmetric to the corresponding first lenticular lens structures, so as to compensate a phase delay of a light modulated by the first lenticular lens structures, such that the light passes through the double-layered liquid crystal lens without deflection, and thus a normal 2D display state is realized.
US09772496B2
In a vehicle display device including a HUD that displays a virtual image on a front field of a view of a driver and a viewpoint detecting camera that captures an image of the driver, a measuring camera is capable of capturing the virtual image. A calibration pattern is at a predetermined position with respect to a viewing angle of the virtual image and angles of view of the viewpoint detecting and measuring cameras. The calibration pattern is captured by the viewpoint detecting and measuring cameras, and the virtual image is captured by the measuring camera. The relative position and orientation between the viewpoint detecting camera and HUD are calculated as orientation information using an image captured by the viewpoint detecting camera and an image captured by the measuring camera. In addition, the position of the virtual image displayed by the HUD is adjusted using the calculated orientation information.
US09772495B2
The present invention provides a digital loupe device and its automatic view stabilizing method. The digital loupe device is worn or head-mounted on the operator's head via a wearable frame that is connected to a plural of axial rotation modules. A pair of lighting capture modules set on the axial rotation module is used to illuminate the target view and capture the image of the target view in order to send feedback signal. Both the lighting capture modules and axial rotation modules are electronically connected to at least one control unit. The control unit, base on the feedback signal received, moves the lighting capture modules via the axial rotation modules till the desired image of the target view is obtained. The display module connected to the wearable frame can show the captured image and information provided by the control unit.
US09772482B2
An illumination device for an optical device, a microscope or a macroscope includes a first illumination source configured to emit light which is directed via an illumination beam path onto an object to be illuminated that is arranged in an object plane. At least one second illumination source is positionable in the illumination beam path, and is transparent or semitransparent as well as self-luminous. The at least one second illumination source is configured to allow light emitted from the first illumination source to pass through at least in part. The object plane having the object to be illuminated is configured to be illuminated both by the first and by the at least one second illumination source.
US09772479B2
An optical device includes a first sub-assembly having an input lens for collimating illuminating light and having an optical axis. The first sub-assembly also has an output lens for focusing collimated light received from a sample, the output lens having an optical axis which is offset and substantially parallel with the optical axis of the input lens, and further includes a first support piece which houses and supports the input lens and the output lens. The optical device also includes a second sub-assembly having an input filter for filtering the collimated illuminating light, an output filter for filtering the collimated light received from the sample, and a second support piece which houses and supports the input filter and the output filter. The first and second support pieces are joined together by a liquid-tight joint.
US09772474B2
An imaging lens assembly is provided in the present disclosure. The imaging lens assembly includes a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with positive refractive power, a forth lens with positive refractive power and a fifth lens with negative refractive power, the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the forth lens and the fifth lens are arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, and satisfy the conditions provided in the present disclosure.
US09772473B2
An imaging lens assembly is provided in the present disclosure. The imaging lens assembly includes a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with negative refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, a fourth lens with positive refractive power, and a fifth lens with negative refractive power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens are arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, and satisfy conditions provided in the present disclosure.
US09772471B2
the An optical imaging lens includes four lens elements positioned in order from object side to the image side of the optical imaging lens. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of lens elements, the refracting power of lens elements, the thickness of the at least one lens element, one or more air gaps between lens elements along the optical axis, and a half field of view HFOV of the optical imaging lens, an embodiment satisfies the relation: 4.21≦T3/(G12×tan(HFOV))≦7.55, for which T3 is the thickness of the third lens element and G12 is the air gap between the first lens element and the second lens element. The optical imaging lens provided by embodiments of the present invention has better optical characteristics and a reduced total length in comparison to conventional lenses.
US09772462B2
A structure is formed which is prepared as a via for electrical contact passing through layers of an optical waveguide, in a multilayer structure including an electrical substrate and the laminated layers of the optical waveguide. The surface of an electrode pad is plated with solder. The layers of the optical waveguide are formed above the portion plated with solder are removed to expose the portion plated with solder. A device is prepared having both a light-emitter or photoreceptor in optical contact with the optical waveguide, and a stud (pillar). The stud (pillar) is inserted into the portion in which layers of the optical waveguide have been removed, and the plated solder is melted to bond the electrode pad on top of the electrical substrate to the tip of the inserted stud (pillar).
US09772457B2
Multi-fiber, fiber optic cable assemblies may be configured so that the terminal ends of the cables have pre-assembled back-post assemblies that include pre-assembled ferrules, such as MPO ferrules that meet the requisite tolerances needed for fiber optic transmissions. To protect the pre-assembled components from damage prior to and during installation, pre-assembled components may be enclosed within a protective housing. The housing with pre-assembled components may be of a size smaller than fully assembled connectors so as to be sized to fit through a conduit. The remaining connector housing components for the multi-fiber connectors may be provided separately and may be configured to be attached to the back-post assembly after installation of the cable.
US09772444B2
An optical fiber including a core and a cladding including an inner cladding layer and an outer cladding layer is provided. The refractive index of the core Δ1, the refractive index of the inner cladding layer Δ2, and the refractive index of the outer cladding layer Δ3 have a relationship denoted by the following expressions: Δ1max>Δ2min and Δ1max>Δ3, and 0.01%<|Δ2min−Δ3|<0.03%. An outer circumference radius r1 of the core, an outer circumferential radius r2 of the inner cladding layer, and an outer circumferential radius r3 of the outer cladding layer have a relationship denoted by the following expressions: r1
US09772441B2
An illumination device includes: a light source; an optical component provided separately from the light source; a holding member holding the light source and the optical component; and a variable pressing member variably pressing the optical component against the holding member.
US09772440B2
A modular light-emitting panel assembly has first and second light guides edge lit by respective light sources. Each light guide has a light input edge, opposed side edges, opposed major surfaces and a pattern of light extracting elements at at least one of the major surfaces. The light guides are juxtaposed with a side edge of the first light guide abutting a side edge of the second light guide at a seam and with the major surfaces nominally coplanar. Various embodiments of the panel assembly additionally include respective structures that reduce visibility of the seam when the light sources illuminate the panel assembly.
US09772431B2
Embodiments described herein provide for terahertz tags and methods of making and using them. A tag may include a terahertz reflective material; and a saturated hygroscopic material positioned on the terahertz reflective material. A tag may include a terahertz reflective material; and an anhydrous hygroscopic material positioned on the terahertz reflective material. A humidity sensor may include a terahertz reflective material; and an anhydrous hygroscopic material positioned on the terahertz reflective material. A temperature sensor may include a terahertz reflective material; an anhydrous hygroscopic material positioned on the terahertz reflective material; and a polymer overlay having thermally controlled water permeability disposed on the anhydrous hygroscopic material. Some embodiments relate to a tag identification device configured to transmit an incident signal toward the tag, and to receive a reply signal from the tag in response to the incident signal.
US09772427B2
The disclosure provides a multi-power multi-dosage accelerator. The multi-power multi-dosage accelerator comprises an electron gun configured to provide a first voltage of the electron gun and a second voltage of the electron gun, and an accelerating tube configured to generate a first X-ray having a first dosage and first power according to the first voltage of the electron gun and generate a second X-ray having a second dosage and second power according to the second voltage of the electron gun, wherein the first dosage is a dosage which can be accepted by human bodies and is much less than the second dosage, the first X-ray is used for inspecting a first area where a person is located, and the second X-ray is used for inspecting a second area where goods are located.
US09772424B2
In one aspect, a resistivity logging tool for a fluid-producing formation if provided. The resistivity logging tool includes at least one transmitter device connected to at least one excitation electrode, multiple receiver devices respectively connected to monitoring electrodes, and a controller. The transmitter can inject an excitation current into the formation via the excitation electrode. Each receiver device can determine a respective voltage level induced by the excitation current. The controller can determine whether a voltage level measured by at least one receiver device is within a specified range. Based on the measured voltage level, the controller can select a global amplitude adjustment algorithm for modifying excitation currents or a localized amplitude adjustment algorithm for modifying one or more gains of one or more receiver devices. The controller can modify the excitation current or gains by executing the selected algorithm.
US09772410B2
A high pixel density intraoral x-ray imaging sensor includes a direct conversion, fully depleted silicon detector bump bonded to a readout CMOS substrate by cu-pillar bump bonds.
US09772404B2
In order to provide an optical sensor that can accurately sense a direction of movement of an object to be sensed even in a case where disturbance light is present, an optical sensor of the present invention includes: a light-emitting element; a circularly-segmented light-receiving element group (RDPD), including light-receiving elements circularly provided at edges of a region on which reflected light from an object to be sensed reflecting light emitted by the light-emitting element is incident, for generating respective photocurrents upon receiving the reflected light; and a gesture circuit section for sensing a direction of movement of the object to be sensed upon receiving the photocurrents generated by the light-receiving elements included in the circularly-segmented light-receiving element group (RDPD).
US09772401B2
This disclosure provides apparatuses and methods for detecting foreign objects. An apparatus for detecting a presence of an object comprises at least one radar antenna attached to a wirelessly chargeable vehicle. The at least one radar antenna is configured to transmit a radar signal into a space between a wireless power receiver of the vehicle and a wireless charger as the vehicle moves in a primary direction of movement of the vehicle and receive the radar signal. The apparatus further comprises a radar processing circuit configured to determine a presence of the object in the space based on at least one characteristic of the received radar signal. The radar processing circuit is further configured to provide an indication to receive power from the wireless charger based at least in part on the determining the presence of the object.
US09772398B2
Optical proximity sensors, methods for use therewith, and systems including optical proximity sensor are described herein. Such an optical proximity sensor includes a light source and a light detector, wherein the light detector includes a plurality of individually selectable photodiodes (PDs). During a calibration mode, individual PDs of the plurality of PDs of the light detector are tested to identify which PDs are crosstalk dominated. During an operation mode, the PDs of the light detector that were not identified as being crosstalk dominated are used to produce a light detection value or signal that is useful for detecting the presence, proximity and/or motion of an object within the sense region of the optical proximity sensor. By not using the PDs that were identified as being crosstalk dominated, the signal-to-noise ratio of the light detection value or signal is improved compared to if the crosstalk dominated PDs were also used.
US09772391B2
A test and measurement system including a test and measurement instrument, a probe connected to the test and measurement instrument, a device under test connected to the probe, at least one memory configured to store parameters for characterizing the probe, a user interface and a processor. The user interface is configured to receive a nominal source impedance of the device under test. The processor is configured to receive the parameters for characterizing the probe from the memory and the nominal source impedance of the device under test from the user interface and to calculate an equalization filter using the parameters for characterizing the probe and nominal source impedance from the user interface.
US09772387B2
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, very high magnetic gradients and magnetic slew are applied to magnetizable particle imaging in order to realize high spatial resolution.
US09772385B2
A rotating magnetic field Hall apparatus is provided and includes first and second magnets disposed in a master-slave configuration, a device-under-test (DUT) stage interposable between the first and second magnets on which a DUT is disposable in first or second orientations for Hall measurement or photoelectromagnetic (PEM) testing, respectively, controllers disposed to center the DUT stage between the first and second magnets and orthogonal magnetic field sensors disposed aside lateral sides of the first magnet to facilitate positional initialization of the first and second magnets and to generate in-phase and out-of-phase reference signals for phase-sensitive or lock-in Hall signal detection. The system also includes software system to perform signal processing to yield the final Hall signal.
US09772379B2
A method and a test device are disclosed for testing a latching magnet of a switch. The switch includes a switching contact; an electronic trip unit to monitor the current flowing and to test whether a current-dependent trip condition is met; an electrical energy store, forming a circuit with the winding of the latching magnet, the circuit being closed by the trip unit when the trip condition is met; an actuator, actuated for a first closing time by closing of the circuit and configured to separate the contact elements; and a first diode, connected in parallel with the winding and via which stored energy of the latching magnet is dissipated. The test device is configured to close the circuit for a second closing time, which is so short that no actuation of the actuator takes place. After the reopening, a test is performed to ascertain whether stored energy is dissipating.
US09772378B2
An example apparatus for interfacing between automatic test equipment (ATE) and a device under test (DUT) includes: multiple stages arranged in sequence between the ATE and the DUT, where each of the multiple stages includes a driver, at least two of the multiple stages each includes a filter, each filter is arranged between two drivers, and each filter is configured to reduce jitter produced by a preceding driver in a signal transmitted between the ATE and the DUT.
US09772356B2
Shunt arrangements and current measuring circuits are provided for temperature compensated current measurements as well as current measurements that are compensated for changes in the characteristics of the shunt material as a result of manufacturing tolerances. The current measuring circuits may include a temperature sensing element in a negative feedback path of an operational amplifier for providing temperature compensation. The shunt arrangements may include a calibration shunt formed in the same material as a main shunt and circuitry for measuring the temperature drift error of the calibration shunt and applying that error to compensate for temperature drift of the main shunt.
US09772355B2
According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a Power Distribution Unit (PDU) comprising an input configured to be coupled to a power source and to receive input power, a busbar coupled to the input at a first location on the busbar, the bus bar having a resistance, at least one power outlet coupled to a second location on the busbar via a first output line and configured to provide output power to a load, and a sensing circuit coupled proximate to the first location on the busbar and coupled proximate to the second location on the busbar and configured to determine a voltage drop between the first location and the second location and to calculate a magnitude of an output current provided to the at least one power outlet via the output line based on the voltage drop and the resistance of the busbar.
US09772354B2
If an output voltage increases higher than a first limit voltage, a first output transistor is controlled such that the output voltage approaches the first limit voltage, and if the output voltage decreases lower than a second limit voltage, a second output transistor is controlled such that the output voltage approaches the second limit voltage. As a result, it is possible to limit the range of the output voltage and to reduce power consumption, without an increase in an output current at the time of limiter operation, differently from a voltage limiter circuit of the related art.
US09772350B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an RF probe for coupling out a probe signal from a transmission line of a circuit. The RF probe includes at least two probe pins having first ends for contacting the circuit and second ends. Furthermore, the RF probe includes a provider for providing a variable impedance at the second ends of the probe pins. The RF probe is configured to provide the probe signal based on a signal propagating along at least one of the probe pins.
US09772349B1
A circuit board tester and method that precisely aligns the probe plate and circuit board is disclosed. With a circuit board and probe plate mounting within a housing having a top and bottom, hinged together, at closure there may be slight misalignments of the two. By making one of the two plates floating, or laterally slideable with respect to each other, it is possible to make final alignment at closure. One of the two plates can be provided with a pin and the other with a pin receiving alignment block. With the lateral slideability, the pin and block can insure proper probe alignment. Additional systems for correcting misaligned pins or blocks are also disclosed.
US09772341B2
An automatic positioning apparatus can be used for sucking out the specimen even if the shapes of racks differ from each other is provided. The automatic positioning apparatus includes a shape-information obtaining apparatus which obtains the shape information of the rack including arrangement information of a specimen vessel, a position determining apparatus which transports racks to arrange the specimen vessel at a specimen-sucking position, and a control unit which controls the position determining apparatus to transport racks depending on shaped of the racks based on the shape information of racks. Further, the automatic positioning apparatus includes a vessel detecting apparatus which detects whether there is the specimen vessel held in the rack, and at the same time, determines a position of the specimen vessel on the transport path as an adjustment reference position.
US09772339B2
A computer-implemented method for identifying a first object-of-interest is provided. The first object-of-interest includes two identifiers and a sample portion. The method includes imaging the first object-of-interest including the two identifiers. The imaging generates a first set of image data. The method further includes determining a position of the first object-of-interest in the field-of-view of an optical sensor and determining the two identifiers from the first set of image data. The method includes identifying the first object-of-interest based on the two identifiers.
US09772334B2
Method of diagnosing and treating inflammatory bowel disease are disclosed herein. Inflammatory bowel disease can be treated and diagnosed using cathelicidin peptides and detection agents thereof. Specifically, method of treating and diagnosing Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are disclosed herein.
US09772325B2
A method is provided to measure modulation of bile salt export transport and/or formation activity in hepatocyte or stable cell line preparations by test agents including but not limited to drugs, drug candidates, biologicals, food components, herb or plant components, proteins, peptides, DNA, RNA. Furthermore, the method is to determine modulation of bile salt export transport and/or formation activity not only by said test agents, but further their metabolites or bio transformed products formed in situ. The bile salt export transport and/or formation activity modulation includes but not limited to inhibition, induction, activation and/or regulation. The method can be practiced to identify test agents, which have potential to cause liver injury, drug-drug interactions, and/or can be used as therapeutic agents for the treatment of cholestasis, abnormality of bile salt metabolism, liver diseases and cholesterol abnormality.
US09772323B2
The invention relates to devices and methods for nanopore sequencing. The invention provides for using the signals from N monomeric units (n-mers) within the nanopore to provide sequence information. The invention includes substrates having arrays of nanopores with incorporated electronic circuits, for example, in semiconductor substrates. In some cases, the arrays of nanopores reside in discrete reservoirs.
US09772310B2
To provide a biosensor including a suctioning mechanism while using a detection element such as a surface acoustic wave device, included are: a first cover member 1 including an element-accommodating recess 5 on an upper face thereof; a detection element 3 including an element substrate 10, and at least one detection unit 13 located on the upper face of the element substrate 10 to perform detection of an analyte; and a second cover member 2 joined to the first cover member 1 and covering the detection element 3, and including an inflow port 14 from which the analyte flows in and a groove 15 extending from the inflow port 14 to at least above the detection unit.
US09772309B2
Methods and apparatus for characterizing composite materials for manufacturing quality assurance (QA), periodic inspection during the useful life, or for forensic analysis/material testing. System are provided that relate eddy-current sensor responses to the fiber layup of a composite structure, the presence of impact damage on a composite structure with or without a metal liner, volumetric stress within the composite, fiber tow density, and other NDE inspection requirements. Also provided are systems that determine electromagnetic material properties and material dimensions of composite materials from capacitive sensor inspection measurements. These properties are related to the presence of buried defects in non-conductive composite materials, moisture ingress, aging of the material due to service or environmental/thermal exposure, or changes in manufacturing quality.
US09772306B2
The present invention discloses a gas analyzing apparatus and a sampling device. The gas analyzing apparatus includes a sampling device and an ion mobility spectrum analysis device. The sampling device includes a multi-capillary column and a temperature control system. The ion mobility spectrum analysis device is adapted for analyzing a gas leaded-in by the sampling device and includes a reaction cavity for reaction between sample molecules and reaction ions, the cavity having a sampling opening for leading-in of the gas. An outlet end of the multi-capillary column is inserted directly into the cavity of the ion mobility spectrum analysis device through the sampling opening of the ion mobility spectrum analysis device.
US09772294B2
A method includes optically interacting a bulk material or powder stored in a storage bin with an integrated computational element (“ICE”) configured to modify an electromagnetic radiation according to a characteristic of the bulk material or powder. The method also includes detecting the modified electromagnetic radiation with a detector, and producing an output signal correlated to a value for the characteristic of the bulk material or powder, and receiving and processing the output signal with a signal processor to yield a value for the characteristic of the bulk material or powder. Also, the method includes transmitting a message flagging the storage bin when it is determined that the bulk material or powder is not suitable for continued storage. The bulk material or powder includes a dry cement or a dry cement component.
US09772282B2
System for scatter-based differentiation of cells. The system includes a planar substrate having cells disposed thereon for imaging and a microscope employing relatively low magnification detection optics providing a wide field of view focused on the cells on the substrate and defining a microscope optical axis. An illuminator delivers light to the ceils on the substrate focused to a spot larger than the field of view of the microscope, the illuminator having an illumination optical axis highly oblique to the microscope optical axis wherein scattered light is collected by the microscope. A defection system receives the scattered light from the microscope to provide a measure of signal intensity and a measure of size for each cell for discrimination of cell type.
US09772276B2
A detection device having: a terahertz wave generation element; a terahertz wave detection element; a first transmission path arranged upon the terahertz wave generation element; a second transmission path arranged upon the terahertz wave detection element; and a sealed section arranged between the terahertz wave generation element and the terahertz wave detection element and separated from the first transmission path and the second transmission path, so as to surround the first transmission path and the second transmission path. A space between an emission surface in the first transmission path and an incident surface in the second transmission path is connected to a space between the first transmission path and the sealed section and to a space between the second transmission path and the sealed section.
US09772269B2
Density measurement of mixtures of heavy and light crudes using the vibrating tube densitometer technique determine incompatibility in the crudes mixture containing asphaltenes by determining the incipient point of asphaltenes incompatibility threshold in the mixtures of crudes.
US09772258B2
A method for testing a punctured tyre's resistance to a loss in pressure includes: creating a plurality of punctures in a wall of the tyre by inserting a plurality of puncturing objects through the wall; running the tyre with the puncturing objects in the wall thereof over a given distance with a regulated inflation pressure; stopping the running of the tyre; and determining, for each puncture, a pressure loss resistance index based on an estimate of a leak rate of the puncture.
US09772247B2
A pressure sensor includes a sensor chip that detects a pressure of a pressure medium; and a case that accommodates the sensor chip and has an inlet port connected with the outside, the case having a pressure inlet portion surrounding the inlet port. The pressure inlet portion is configured from: a front wall placed forward of the case with a clearance; a top wall and a pair of side walls, each which is connected to the front wall; and an opening introducing the pressure medium into the inlet port from a lower position with respect to the inlet port. The top wall is connected to the side walls and angled in entirety toward an upper position with respect to the inlet port. The front wall has an opening end configuring the opening, the opening end being recessed toward the top wall in an arc shape.
US09772246B2
A remote seal assembly for a process transmitter includes a seal body containing a cavity sealed by a diaphragm. The seal body configured to be mounted to a process element containing a process fluid such that a first side of the diaphragm is exposed to the process fluid. A capillary contains a fill fluid that is in fluid communication with the cavity and a second side of the diaphragm. A coupling has a capillary recess and two cavities separated by a second diaphragm. The capillary extends through the capillary recess and connects to the coupling such that the fill fluid in the capillary is in fluid communication with one of the two cavities and the second diaphragm. A thermally conductive element preferably extends continuously along the capillary from the seal body toward the coupling and into the capillary recess without contacting the coupling.
US09772244B2
This disclosure provides example methods, devices, and systems for a sensor having thermal gradients. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a sensor assembly including a housing; a first header and a second header coupled to the housing; a first transducer coupled to the first header, wherein the first transducer is configured to measure a first pressure to generate a first pressure signal; a second transducer coupled to the second header, wherein the second transducer is configured to measure a second pressure to generate a second pressure signal; and wherein the first transducer and the second transducer are positioned in the housing such that a first temperature of the first transducer is about equivalent to a second temperature of the second transducer during operation of the sensor assembly.
US09772239B2
A torque detection apparatus includes a magnetic element that outputs a signal corresponding to a magnetic flux from a magnetic circuit including a magnetic yoke. The torque detection apparatus further includes a signal retrieval member electrically connected to the magnetic element, and a unit housing formed of resin and molded integrally with the magnetic element and the signal retrieval member so as to cover the magnetic element and the signal retrieval member. The unit housing includes a body portion provided with an internal space in which the magnetic yoke is housed, and a connector portion provided with an internal space in which an end of the signal retrieval member exposed from the resin is disposed. In the unit housing, a communication path is formed through which the internal space is in communication with the internal space.
US09772233B2
This document discusses, among other things, an apparatus and method for providing temperature information. In an example, an integrated circuit apparatus can include a first resistor configured to be coupled to a first terminal of a temperature-sensitive resistance, a second resistor configured to be coupled to a second terminal of the temperature-sensitive resistance, and a temperature information circuit configured to receive a first voltage from the first terminal of the temperature-sensitive resistance and a second voltage from the second terminal of the temperature-sensitive resistance. The temperature information circuit can provide the temperature information using the first and second voltages.
US09772232B2
A semiconductor device that may include at least one temperature sensing circuit is disclosed. The temperature sensing circuits may be used to control various operating parameters to improve the operation of the semiconductor device over a wide temperature range. In this way, operating specifications of a semiconductor device at worst case temperatures may be met without compromising performance at other operating temperatures. The temperature sensing circuit may provide a plurality of temperature ranges for setting the operational parameters. Each temperature range can include a temperature range upper limit value and a temperature range lower limit value and adjacent temperature ranges may overlap. The temperature ranges may be set in accordance with a count value that can incrementally change in response to the at least one temperature sensing circuit.
US09772230B2
A hand-held measurement device for appearance analyses includes a measurement array which comprises a number of illumination means for applying illumination light to a measurement field in at least three illumination directions and a number of pick-up means for capturing the measurement light in at least one observation direction. The illumination directions and the observation directions lie in a common system plane. At least one pick-up means is embodied to spectrally gauge the measurement light in a locally integral way, and at least one imaging pick-up means is embodied to gauge the measurement light in terms of color in a locally resolved way. The spectral pick-up means and the locally resolving pick-up means are arranged such that they receive the measurement light reflected by the measurement field under the same observation conditions and in particular from the same observation direction.
US09772229B2
A spectral camera for producing a spectral output is disclosed. The spectral camera has an objective lens for producing an image, an optical duplicator, an array of filters, and a sensor array arranged to detect the filtered image copies simultaneously on different parts of the sensor array. Further, a field stop defines an outline of the image copies projected on the sensor array. The filters are integrated on the sensor array, which has a planar structure without perpendicular physical barriers for preventing cross talk between each of the adjacent optical channels. The field stop enables adjacent image copies to fit together without gaps for such barriers. The integrated filters mean there is no parasitic cavity causing crosstalk between the adjacent image copies. This means there is no longer a need for barriers between adjacent projected image copies, and thus sensor area can be better utilized.
US09772226B2
A referenced and stabilized optical measurement system includes a light source, a plurality of optical elements and optical fiber assemblies and a detector arranged to compensate for the effects of system variation which may affect measurement performance. A non-continuous light source provides a common source light on a common source path. A reference light and a measurement light are derived from the common source light and propagated across separate paths of optically matching optical components in order to produce a common signal variation on both the reference light signal and the measurement light signal. Light paths exposed to air are contained indiscrete volumes for purging gasses from the volumes. Ratios of the reference signal and measurement signal are acquired under various conditions for compensating the measurement signal for system variations.
US09772224B2
A component measurement apparatus includes: a sensor module that receives reflected light and outputs a signal corresponding to light intensity of the reflected light; a calibration plate that outputs first reflected light to the sensor module, the first reflected light being used for comparing the light intensity of the reflected light; and a calibration unit that switches the input reflected light to the sensor module between the second reflected light reflected at a measured portion, and the first reflected light.
US09772222B2
A photoelectric sensor retainer and a photoelectric pulse wave measuring apparatus including the same are provided. The photoelectric sensor retainer includes a sensor mounting unit on which a photoelectric sensor having a light-receiving surface is attachable and detachable, the light-receiving surface facing a measuring direction. The photoelectric sensor retainer further includes a pressing unit configured to press an upper surface of the sensor mounting unit in the measuring direction to apply pressure to the sensor mounting unit, and a pedestal including a seating plate configured to support the pressing unit, the seating plate having a principal plane perpendicular to a pressing direction of the pressing unit.
US09772216B2
Powder dispensing and sensing apparatus and methods are provided. The powder dispensing and sensing apparatus includes a tray support structure to receive a cartridge tray holding cartridges, a powder dispenser assembly including powder dispenser modules to dispense powder into respective cartridges of a batch of cartridges in the cartridge tray, a powder transport system to deliver powder to the powder dispenser modules, a sensor module including sensor cells to sense respective fill states, such as the weights, of each of the cartridges in the batch of cartridges, and a control system to control the powder dispenser modules in response to the respective sensed fill states of each of the cartridges of the batch of cartridges.
US09772204B2
A length-measuring device includes a scale and a mounting element. The mounting element has a first fastening portion by which the mounting element is stationarily attached to the scale and a second fastening portion configured to be stationarily attached to a support. An arrangement of a plurality of flexible struts is provided between the first fastening portion and the second fastening portion which, through flexure, allows the first fastening portion to move relative to the second fastening portion perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction. The arrangement of struts is configured to compensate for a flexure-induced change in length of the struts in such a way that no movement will result from the flexure-induced change in length between the first fastening portion and the second fastening portion in the longitudinal direction.
US09772200B2
A magnetically-based position sensor. The sensor includes a magnet, a first collector, a second collector, and a magnetic sensing element. The magnet has at least two poles, and moves along a path. The first collector has a first end and a second end and is configured to collect a magnetic flux. In addition, the first collector is positioned at an angle relative to an axis running parallel to the path and perpendicular to the magnet. The second collector is configured to collect a magnetic flux, and is positioned at an angle relative to the axis running parallel to the path and perpendicular to the magnet, and parallel to the first collector. The magnetic sensing element is coupled to the first and second collectors. A magnetic flux is collected by the first and second collectors, and varies as the magnet moves along the path such that the magnetic flux collected by the first and second collectors indicates a position of the magnet along the path.
US09772198B2
In a linear displacement sensor, two magnets with different polarities define one pitch of a magnetic scale. kn (k is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, n is a natural number greater than or equal to 1) sensor units configured to output a plurality of signals whose period is one pitch and whose phases with respect to the pitch are different are arranged along the magnetic scale in a one-pitch segment. Periodic errors with n periods per pitch of the sensor units are canceled out by averaging the phases from the kn sensor units.
US09772197B2
A dispatch system for autonomous vehicle is provided. The dispatch system includes a plurality of autonomous vehicles respectively including a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit obtains a vehicle location information of itself, and communicates with other autonomous vehicles. The control unit obtains a vehicle available information of itself. One of the autonomous vehicles is selected as a dispatch control center for controlling scheduling of all autonomous vehicles. When the dispatch control center receives a transportation request massage, the dispatch control center performs an optimized scheduling assignment and thus generates a scheduling signal. The scheduling signal is transmitted to the other autonomous vehicles by the communication unit, so as to assign one of the autonomous vehicles as a designated vehicle for transportation.
US09772187B2
A ring laser gyroscope (RLG) is provided. The RLG includes a primary resonator, a secondary resonator, and an optical source to provide a pump field. The pump field in the primary resonator stimulates an optical gain curve at a first stokes wave frequency. A first order SBS field stimulates a second optical gain curve at a second stokes wave frequency. The second order SBS gain gives rise to a frequency-shifted field propagating in the first direction. The fraction of the pump field that couples out of the primary resonator, through the secondary resonator, and out of the secondary resonator is larger than the fraction of: the first order SBS field that couples out of the primary resonator, through the secondary resonator, and out of the secondary resonator; and a second order SBS field that couples out of the primary resonator, through the secondary resonator, and out of the secondary resonator.
US09772184B2
A device and method for centering a vehicle in a test stand having at least two pairs of rollers for supporting at least one of the front wheels and the rear wheels of the vehicle, and a measurement system. A controller is connected to the steering system of the vehicle, with which the steering angle of at least one of the front wheels and the rear wheels can be changed in accordance with data of the measurement system.
US09772175B2
A system for controlling a phase measurement in an atom interferometer comprising one or more lasers, a processor, and a memory. The one or more lasers are for providing interrogating beams. A first cloud of atoms and a second cloud of atoms traverse an interrogating region of the atom interferometer in substantially opposite directions. The interrogating beams interact substantially simultaneously with both atoms in the first cloud and atoms in the second cloud. The first cloud of atoms and the second cloud of atoms interact with each of the interrogating beams in a different order. The processor is configured to determine a phase adjustment offset of at least one interrogating beam based at least in part on one or more past interactions of one or more interrogating beams with either the first cloud of atoms or the second cloud of atoms.
US09772171B2
A method is disclosed for modifying pre-existing ammunition projectile (10) which includes a hard metal inner core (11). The projectile is secured and a drill is applied to the tip end (17) of the projectile so as to create a bore (20) extending into the core. An insert (22) is then coupled to the projectile. The insert may include a shaft portion (23) which extends into the core channel and a tip portion (25). The insert is made of a non-hard metal or soft material.
US09772166B2
Disclosed are ventilation systems for a ballistic resistant vest and related methods of creating a cooling barrier between a wearer's body and a ballistic vest. In a preferred embodiment, the ventilation system may be defined by a panel that features vented grooves. In a preferred mode of use, the panel is preferably positioned between a vest and the torso of a wearer of the vest whereby a space is created therebetween the vest and wearer so that air may freely flow. Suitably, the tension of the vest against the body is sufficient to hold the panel in place between the body and the vest.
US09772165B1
A dual bow sighting apparatus includes a mounting member configured for attachment to the archery bow. An upper sight assembly is coupled to an upper end of the mounting member at a predetermined vertical elevation, the upper sight assembly having an upper frame section and a pendulum sight pivotally coupled to the upper frame section. A lower sight assembly is coupled to a lower end of the mounting member and positioned at a vertically adjustable elevation relative to the upper sighting assembly, the lower sight assembly having a lower frame section and a vertical sight pin extending upwardly from the lower frame section. An elevation adjustment assembly is coupled to the mounting member and having a linkage in communication with the lower sight assembly such that actuation of the linkage by a user changes a vertical distance between the upper and lower sight assemblies, respectively.
US09772162B2
A pouch for carrying a concealed handgun includes a compartment for rapidly accessing extra ammunition. The bag resembles a normal small bag conventionally worn on a user's belt, but is designed to securely hold a handgun and allow rapid employment of the handgun. The ammunition compartment is virtually totally concealed and drops a magazine for a semi-automatic handgun or a rapid reloading apparatus for a revolver directly into the palm of a user's hand.
US09772160B2
A firearm maintenance tool has a body including a rail mount segment and a spindle rotatably mounted to the body and adapted to receive an elongated cleaning rod. The tool may include a square drive element adapted to engage a tool socket. The body may be an elongated body, and the rail segment may extend the length of the body. The body may be an elongated body defining a body axis, and the spindle may extend perpendicularly from the body along a spindle axis perpendicular to the body axis. The body may define a first aperture receiving the spindle, and a second aperture receiving a retention element operably securing the spindle to the body. The first and second apertures may be perpendicular to each other.
US09772154B2
A shotgun ammunition conversion system has a detachable magazine well having a sleeve defining a rectangular passage adapted to removably receive an ammunition magazine, a boss extending forward of the sleeve and at a level above at least a portion of the sleeve, the boss being adapted to be received in the rear aperture of the magazine tube, and a tang extending rearward of the sleeve and defining a tang aperture operable to receive a fastener associated with a shotgun frame to secure the magazine well to the shotgun with the sleeve proximate and aligned with the loading port when the boss is received in the rear aperture of the magazine tube. The boss may have a lower cylindrical surface portion operable to contact a lower portion of the magazine tube adjacent to the rear aperture. The boss may be a cylindrical body.
US09772152B1
An ammunition storage and a magazine loading/unloading device for weapons. The apparatus provides for the rapid loading of ammunition into a magazine used for holding a number of rounds of ammunition. It is comprised of a loader body having a reservoir section, having a magwell section, and a connecting way to receive an ammunition magazine, and having a manner for connecting the magwell section to the reservoir section; an essentially rectangular block which slidably interfaces with the essentially rectangular inner space of the loader body and the rectangular block with an aperture for receiving a plunger handle; and a spring retaining clip to hold the ammunition in the inner space of the loader body. The device loader body can be a single or alternatively a two piece reservoir assembly and can be used as an unloading device as well.
US09772149B2
Methods for improving heat transfer at the interface between the internal reactor wall and mesh media containing microfibrous entrapped catalysts (MFECs) and/or microfibrous entrapped sorbents (MFESs) are described herein. Improved (e.g., more rapid) heat transfer can be achieved using a variety of approaches including increasing the contacting area of the interface between the mesh media and the reactor wall so that more contacting points are formed, enhancing the contacting efficiency at the contacting points between the mesh media and the reactor wall, increasing the number of contact points between the mesh media and the reactor wall using fine fibers, and combinations thereof.
US09772147B2
A heat sink mounting apparatus including: a heat sink; and a device housing, the housing having a slot in the wall of the housing configured to receive a heat sink, wherein the heat sink and the housing are configured such that the heat sink can be secured within the slot with an interference fit.
US09772144B2
A heat exchanger includes a heat exchange body 2, at least one cover 4 and a manifold 3 connecting the cover 4 to the heat exchange body 2. The heat exchange body 2 is delimited by at least one blanking plate 6. The manifold 3 includes a base plate 20 surrounded by an edge 21 for fixing the cover 4, and the fixing edge 21 is formed by a double-thickness wall 22, one end 23 of which is at least partially fixed to the blanking plate 6.
US09772142B2
A water-cooling device includes a main body having a pump chamber and a heat exchange chamber, which are partitioned from each other by a water room partitioning board. The water room partitioning board has a communication section for communicating the pump chamber with the heat exchange chamber. A pump unit is disposed in the pump chamber. A heat transfer unit is disposed in the heat exchange chamber. A cooling fluid is filled up in the pump chamber and the heat exchange chamber. The water-cooling device has greatly enhanced heat dissipation performance. Moreover, the water-cooling device is free from the problem of overheating of the stator assembly in operation.
US09772128B2
An intermittent operation based continuous absorption system (IOBCAS) which supports cooling effect during the daytime without the use of a solution pump is provided. The IOBCAS may utilize an isochoric process for pressurization of the system and the system may include a plurality of generator-absorber units that intermittently operate in succession to provide a continuous refrigeration cooling effect during the daytime. The system of the present disclosure enables the plurality of generator-absorber units to switch between a generation, absorption, and heat recovery mode of operation to provide cooling effect during the daytime which a higher coefficient of performance compared with conventional intermittent system.
US09772125B2
A cryogenic refrigerator includes a displacer that is reciprocably mounted within a cylinder; a spool valve that is connected to the compressor and performs switching between an intake mode where a high-pressure refrigerant gas is supplied from the compressor to the cylinder and an exhaust mode where a low-pressure refrigerant gas within the cylinder is made to flow back to the compressor; and a drive unit that drives the spool valve. The spool valve has a valve body, and a drive rod that moves relative to the valve body and is integrated with the spool. The drive unit performs driving so that the magnitude of a speed when the drive rod moves from a top dead center to a bottom dead center is different from the magnitude of a speed when the drive rod moves from the bottom dead center to the top dead center, at the same displacement position.
US09772120B2
Systems and methods for solar fluid heating in a multi-story building. A system in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes solar collectors installed in solar-facing walls of the multi-story building, in which fluid receives thermal energy from the solar collectors. The system also includes fluid storage vessels. The system further includes a circulating pump coupled to the solar collectors to circulate the heated fluid between the solar collectors and the fluid storage vessels on a floor of the multi-story building.
US09772111B2
A method for replacing a swirler (2) of a premixing or main burner of a burner arrangement (1), wherein the swirler (2) is connected to a distributor flange plate (5) of the burner arrangement (1) via a fuel gas feed pipe (3) and a fuel oil feed line (4) accommodated therein. The fuel gas feed line and the fuel oil feed line are severed to enable removal of the separated end portion of the fuel gas feed line. A sleeve is installed to replace the removed end portion.
US09772104B2
The present invention provides a circulating fluidized bed boiler, comprising: furnace side walls; a ceiling; an air distribution plate provided at a bottom of a furnace; and at least one air distribution cone provided on the air distribution plate, wherein each air distribution cone extends upwards from the air distribution plate into an interior of the furnace and has a shape gradually tapered in an extending direction, cone side walls which form the air distribution cone are provided with secondary air ports, the cone side walls are separated from the furnace side walls, and a furnace combustion space is formed and surrounded by the ceiling, the furnace side walls, the air distribution plate, and the cone side walls. The present invention further relates to an air distributor for a circulating fluidized bed boiler, the air distributor being provided on an air distribution plate of the boiler, wherein the air distributor is in a form of an air distribution cone, which extends upwards from the air distribution plate into an interior of a furnace to form a shape gradually tapered in an extending direction, and secondary air ports are formed in air distribution cone side walls forming the air distribution cone. The present invention also relates to an air distributor assembly for a circulating fluidized bed boiler.
US09772102B1
A lighting device, for attachment to an object structured to be worn on at least one facial feature of a human user, having a releasable fastener adapted for attachment to the above-noted object and a pole, having a first end pivotably connected to the clip, and a second end, opposed to the first end. An electric lamp is pivotably connected to the second end. Further, the pole defines an internal cavity and has battery contacts positioned to contact a battery set placed in the internal cavity. A conductive assembly is electrically connected between the battery contacts and the electric lamp, so as to power the electric lamp.
US09772097B2
A lighting device comprising a housing (102) with a driver electronics module (104) including driver circuitry for driving light sources and an electronics connector (106). The lighting device further comprising a circuit board (108) arranged in the housing, including a board connector (110). Furthermore lighting device comprises at least one light source (109) arranged on the circuit board and being in connection with the board connector, wherein the electronics connector and the board connector extend transverse to a planar extension of the circuit board. The board connector and the electronics connector are aligned so that they have an area of overlap, wherein the board connector and the electronics connector are biased against each other such that there is at least a line of contact which provides a galvanic connection, and wherein a heat induced electrical interconnection is provided along the line of contact. Such a connection is time- and cost efficient to assemble compared to a wire connection.
US09772081B2
A lighting device for vehicles with a semiconductor-based light source and an optical unit having an imaging device for producing a predetermined light distribution and having an optical element arranged between the semiconductor-based light source and the imaging device. The optical element has a back side facing the semiconductor-based light source and has a front side facing the imaging device. The optical element is formed as a color correction element which has a color correction-free partial surface area through which a firstly emitted partial light beam of the semiconductor-based light source passes and has a color correction-affected partial surface area through which the secondly emitted partial light beam of the semiconductor-based light source passes in a border angle area.
US09772070B2
A chemical illuminant includes an outer case comprising sealable opposite ends situated in a lengthwise direction of the outer case; one ampoule housed in the outer case; a pair of compositions that emit light when mixed with each other; and a spacer arranged in the outer case, wherein one of the compositions is contained in a space formed inside of the outer case, but outside of the ampoule, and the other of the compositions is contained in the ampoule, a space in which the one of the compositions is contained is formed between the spacer and an inner surface of the outer case, at least one recess is formed at a periphery of the spacer, and the ampoule is supported in the recess.
US09772069B2
Provided is an electro-mechanoluminescent (EML) film. The EML film includes an upper supporting layer including an upper PDMS layer, including PDMS to which a stress is applied, and an upper electrode layer that is formed on a bottom of the upper PDMS layer and includes the PDMS and AgNW which are mixed with each other, a lower supporting layer including a lower PDMS layer and a lower electrode layer that is formed on a top of the lower PDMS layer and includes the PDMS and the AgNW mixed with each other, and an emitting layer formed between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer, the emitting layer including a mixture, where a luminescent material with metal ions doped thereon is mixed with the PDMS, and simultaneously causing ML of a first color based on the stress and EL of a second color based on the electric field.
US09772067B2
A laser processing machine arrangement includes a laser processing head for laser processing a workpiece, the workpiece comprising a processing zone from which laser radiation is emitted radially during operation of the laser processing head, a laser protection wall that surrounds the laser processing head and a danger region disposed around the laser processing head, the laser protection wall shielding the laser radiation that is emitted radially from the processing, and at least one opening in the laser protection wall, through which the danger region can be entered, wherein the laser protection wall and the at least one in the laser protection wall are arranged in such a manner that the at least one opening is completely shadowed by the laser protection wall or is completely shadowed with cooperation of the laser protection wall from the laser radiation during operation of the laser processing head.
US09772054B2
Provided is a flexible hose assembly having an inner nipple coupled to an inner flexible hose and an outer nipple at least partially surrounding the inner nipple and being coupled to an outer flexible hose, wherein a first fluid flowing through the inner nipple is directed outward in-between the inner and outer flexible hoses and a second fluid flowing in-between the inner and outer nipples is directed inward to the inner flexible hose. By directing the second fluid inward and the first flow outward, the outer flexible hose is prevented from collapsing on the inner flexible hose when pressure of the second fluid flowing through the inner flexible hose is greater than a pressure of the first fluid flowing through the outer flexible hose.
US09772050B2
An air conditioning flashing hood adapted to be connected to the wall structure and extend through the exterior wall of the structure to provide a passage through which a refrigerant line and an electrical control line may extend to communicate with an external compressor. The air conditioning flashing hood includes an internal sealing element which compresses against the outer surface of the refrigerant line and the electrical control line to form a substantially weather-tight seal therebetween to mitigate fluid migration along the lines into the structure, as well as to provide a barrier for any bugs, debris or animals to keep such undesirable objects from entering the structure.
US09772049B2
A support clamp for securing components to a machine structure is disclosed herein. The support clamp is formed of a continuous wire that includes a first fastening portion, a second fastening portion, a first component receiving portion, and a second component receiving portion. The first and second fastening portions include a first arc shape extending in a first plane with the second fastening portion being symmetrical to the first fastening portion. The first and second component receiving portions include a second arc shape, each extending away from the first plane.
US09772048B2
In a rotary handle for a thermostatically controlled valve, which is arranged on an actuator brought out of a valve housing, having a stop body, which acts together with a stop cam provided on the valve housing. It is provided that the stop body is movable in the rotation direction in such a way that by a relative movement between the stop body and the rotary handle, turning of the rotary handle by a rotation angle greater than 360° is made possible.
US09772038B2
An intermediate piece for a stop valve, in particular a membrane valve, for fluids including a pressure piece. The pressure piece has at least two locking slides for locking a locking member of a closure element. The intermediate piece includes a cylinder in which the pressure piece can be guided in axial manner. The intermediate piece has a recess, which is arranged in such a way that in mounting position of the pressure piece the locking slide can be shifted into the recess, thus releasing the locking member.
US09772026B2
A differential is provided. The differential includes a housing that has a sump, an input shaft, a ring gear, a carrier that is affixed to the ring gear, and a diverter. The sump is configured to collect lubricating fluid. The ring gear is configured to transfer lubricating fluid out of the sump. The diverter is configured to direct the lubricating fluid to the input shaft and carrier.
US09772018B2
There is provided a working machine which is capable of vehicle speed control through accelerator pedal operation even during execution of work under a condition where engine rotational speed is maintained constant. The working machine has the normal mode for exercising vehicle speed control by controlling engine rotational speed on the basis of the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal and by controlling the swash plate of the HST pump on the basis of the engine rotational speed, and the attachment mode for exercising vehicle speed control by controlling the swash plate of the HST pump on the basis of the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal irrespective of engine rotational speed.
US09772009B2
A tensioner system may be replaced by selecting replacement components. Components such as a housing, roller arm, pulley, and index plate locating pin may be selected from a group of housings, roller arms, pulleys, and index plate locating pins, respectively. The selection of the components allows a user to assemble multiple variations of tensioner that are commercially available. The location of the index plate locating pin on the index plate allows for proper orientation of the tensioner in the vehicle in order to apply the proper tension to a belt. The selection of the components may be based on current tensioner model, or based on dimensions measured from the current tensioner.
US09772005B2
A continuously variable transmission metal element includes a first ring slot, a second ring slot, a neck portion, an ear portion, and a body portion. The body portion includes an inclined surface. A plate thickness of the continuously variable transmission metal element in a longitudinal direction at an inner end of the inclined surface in a radial direction is larger than a distance between a first metal mold molding surface of a first metal mold and a second metal mold molding surface of a second metal mold in the longitudinal direction at a position corresponding to the inner end of the inclined surface. The first metal mold and the second metal mold constitute a metal mold to press a roughly formed metal element material between the first metal mold molding surface and the second metal mold molding surface so as to provide the continuously variable transmission metal element.
US09772004B1
A method for balancing a shaft assembly having a shaft member. The method can include providing a balance weight having a body portion that is formed of a material that permits transmission of ultra-violet (UV) light therethrough, the body portion having a perimeter; applying an UV light-curable adhesive to at least one of the balance weight and the shaft member; positioning the balance weight to the shaft member such that the UV light-curable adhesive is abutted to the balance weight and the shaft member; and transmitting UV light through the balance weight to cure at least a portion of the UV light-curable adhesive that is disposed inwardly of the perimeter of the body portion.
US09772003B2
A laminar flow path (34) is opened into the vortex chambers (33a and 33b) from inner peripheral surfaces that face in radial directions of the vortex chambers (33a and 33b) being aimed in circumferential directions of the vortex chambers (33a and 33b) among wall surfaces defining the vortex chambers (33a and 33b). A communication hole (32b) is opened into the vortex chamber (33a and 33b) from an end surface that faces in a direction of center axis of the vortex chamber (33a and 33b) being aimed in a direction of a center axis among the wall surfaces defining the vortex chamber (33a and 33b). Blocking members (36a and 36b) extending in the direction of the center axis so as to surround the communication hole (32b) from an outside in the radial direction are provided within the vortex chambers (33a and 33b). The blocking members (36a and 36b) are provided with flow openings (37a and 37b) penetrating the blocking members (36a and 36b). The vortex chambers (33a and 33b) form circulating flows of a liquid according to a flow speed of the liquid flowing in from the laminar flow path (34) and allows the liquid to flow out from the communication hole (32b) through the flow openings (37a and 37b). Therefore, simplification of structure and facilitation of manufacture are achieved while maintaining product characteristics of a vibration damping device.
US09772002B2
A vibration isolator (10) is a liquid-enclosed vibration isolator and includes: a tubular first mounting member (11) connected to one of a vibration generator and a vibration absorber, and a second mounting member (12) connected to the other; an elastic body (13) elastically connecting the mounting members; and a partition member (16) partitioning a liquid chamber (19) in the first mounting member (11) within which a liquid (L) is enclosed into a primary liquid chamber (14) that uses the elastic body (13) as a part of a wall surface thereof and a secondary liquid chamber (15), wherein the partition member (16) is formed with a restriction passage (24) communicating the primary and secondary liquid chambers (14, 15) with each other, and a porous body (28) having numerous pores (31), which are disposed in parallel so as to communicate a side of the primary liquid chamber (14) and a side of the secondary liquid chamber (15) with each other, is arranged in the restriction passage (24).
US09772000B2
Provided on one plane of an annular piston are a sheet surface on which a leaf valve is seated and a supporting part constructed of a slope part and a flange part, and provided on the other plane is a leg part having a depression on an edge part. When two pistons are axially stacked, the sheet surface of one of the pistons is contained inside the depression of the other piston, and the sheet surface of the one piston is protected.
US09771999B2
A mono-tube type hydraulic shock absorber includes a cylinder, a free piston that partitions the inside of the cylinder into a liquid chamber in which a hydraulic fluid is filled and a gas chamber in which a gas is filled, a piston slidably inserted into the cylinder, the piston partitioning the liquid chamber into two working chambers, a sealing ring provided on an outer periphery of the free piston, the sealing ring being configured to seal between the cylinder and the free piston, and a lubricating oil enclosed within the gas chamber to lubricate between the sealing ring and the cylinder.
US09771998B1
Branched hierarchical micro-truss structures may be incorporated into energy-absorbing structures to exhibit a tailored multi-stage buckling response to a range of different compressive loads. Branched hierarchical micro-truss structures may also be configured to function as vascular systems to deliver fluid for thermal load management or altering the aerodynamic properties of a vehicle or structure into which the branched hierarchical micro-truss structure is incorporated. The branched hierarchical micro-truss structure includes a first layer having a series of interconnected struts and a second layer having a series of struts branching outward from an end of each of the struts in the first layer.
US09771989B2
A hydraulic unit and an electromagnetic unit are disposed in directions that are orthogonal to each other. The electromagnetic unit is configured such that a solenoid shaft is held when a coil is energized, and such that movement of the solenoid shaft toward the right side in the drawing is allowed during movement of the piston rod when the coil is not energized. When a hydraulic pressure for a piston is reduced with the coil not energized in a parking unlocked state, switching is performed to a parking locked state with a piston rod moved downward in the drawing while moving the solenoid shaft rightward in the drawing through abutment between a roller of a pin of the piston rod and a distal end portion of the solenoid shaft.
US09771986B2
A selectable one-way clutch adapted to prevent an undesirable engagement is provided. The selectable one-way clutch comprises a drag increasing device that increases a drag of oil acting between the pocket plate and the selector plate against a force rotating the selector plate in a direction to bring the selectable one-way clutch into the engagement mode.
US09771984B2
A dual gain friction clutch is adapted to transmit an operational range of torques from a drive member to a driven member. The dual gain friction clutch incorporates a first friction clutch pack and a second friction clutch pack, the pack being axially aligned and adapted to address one of two segments of the operational range of torques. The clutch further includes a spring-loaded skate detent unit configured to control transition between the two segments of operational ranges of torques. Each friction clutch pack may include identical respective friction discs coupled to the drive member and respective pressure plates coupled to the driven member for selectively providing torque control within either of the lower and higher segments of the operational ranges of torques. The first clutch pack is configured to operate alone and independently of the second clutch pack during the lower segment of operational range of torques while and both friction clutch packs are configured to operate as a single combined friction clutch unit during the higher segment of operational range of torques.
US09771980B2
A rolling bearing retainer which is formed by insert molding a resinous material together with a core member within a mold, in which the core member is embedded within a resin part made of the resinous material and a support area exposure part is provided at a plurality of locations of the resin part for exposing a support area of the core member supported within a cavity of the mold. The resin part includes a ring shaped body and a plurality of support column bodies extending axially from the ring shaped body and defining a pocket for retaining a rolling element therebetween, and the core member is provided with a ring shaped body embedded part and a plurality of support column body embedded parts extending from the ring shaped body embedded part.
US09771974B2
The bearing assembly includes one or more elastomeric members loaded in a precompression by a shim that includes a shape memory alloy. The shape memory alloy is configured to generate the precompression in the elastomeric members upon a temperature change.
US09771971B1
An automotive component having an opening through which a ball joint extends, the ball joint comprising: a housing having an exterior substantially cylindrical surface, a seating surface radially extending from the exterior surface for abutting an adjacent first side of the automotive component, and a peripheral groove disposed in the exterior surface spaced axially from the seating surface a predetermined distance; a ball stud having a ball end mounted within the housing and a shank extending axially out of a crown of the housing; a flexible boot having an distal end sealingly engaged on the shank and an opposing proximal base end, the base end including a metal base ring with an inwardly extending flexible detent engaged in the peripheral groove in the housing and a base seal sealing engaged on the exterior surface, the base ring having a radially extending abutment surface for retaining an adjacent second side of the automotive component, and wherein the automotive component is selected from the group consisting of: a control arm; a stabilizer link; a stabilizer bar; and a steering linkage.
US09771970B1
A coaxial multi-member mechanism for using as the front axle and the rear axle in an electric vehicle is presented to allow the wheels of the vehicle changing the track widths from a wide track to a narrow track or vice versa in vehicle moving condition. The wide track mode is for safer high speed driving and more collision protection from the four wheels. The narrow track is used on the other hand for narrow street and slow speed driving and for easy parking in a narrow space.
US09771969B2
In a method of manufacturing an intermediate shaft including: an internal shaft having an external spline; a tubular external shaft having on an inner circumference thereof an internal spline; and a resin coating provided on the external spline, a central axis line of an internal shaft manufacturing intermediate product and a central axis line of an external shaft manufacturing intermediate product are aligned with each other, and the internal shaft manufacturing intermediate product and the external shaft manufacturing intermediate product are held in such a way that the central axis lines thereof can be adjusted, in a heating adaptation step. In this state, the internal shaft manufacturing intermediate product and the external shaft manufacturing intermediate product slide relatively in an axial direction. In the heating adaptation step, a grease is interposed between the internal shaft manufacturing intermediate product and the external shaft manufacturing intermediate product.
US09771967B2
A push-pull cable system including a cable assembly, a stabilizing element, and a guide member. The stabilizing element and guide member may maintain alignment of a wire of the cable assembly as it pushes against a mechanism resistive force that is not aligned with the wire itself. As a result, the cable system may be utilized in applications wherein space constraints prevent alignment of the wire with the resistive force vector of the mechanism.
US09771966B2
A hardware apparatus includes a base portion formed by a disc-shaped base plate and a cylindrical member. The cylindrical member includes a first threaded surface. The disc-shaped base plate includes a first opening and the cylindrical member includes a second opening, with the first and second openings being concentric. The hardware apparatus further includes a cap portion including a second threaded surface. The cap portion is attachable to said base portion through engagement of the first and second threaded surfaces. In one implementation, the first threaded surface is an outer surface and the second threaded surface is an inner surface. In an alternative implementation, the second threaded surface is an outer surface and the first threaded surface is an inner surface.
US09771965B2
An earth bolt with a surface treatment layer are a method of surface treatment of the earth bolt are provided. The surface treatment includes a tin-zinc plated layer, a colored chromate film layer and a silicate coating layer. Since the earth bolt with the surface treatment layer has improved electro-conductivity and anti-rusting property, it may protect electrical/electronic components fitted to a vehicle from electromagnetic shock and remove noise therefrom, thereby improving reliability of a vehicle body.
US09771964B2
A fastening device (2;20) for assembling panels (170;180) in furniture, the device (2;20) having an axial extension along an axial direction and a lateral extension along a lateral direction, said device (2;20) comprising an upper part (4;40), and a lower part (5;50) a circumferential extending peripheral surface (10;110), the device (2;20) having an axially extending through passage (8;80) for the insertion of a pin the in the axial direction, wherein the fastening device (2;20) comprises elements for taking up forces along both the axial and lateral direction.
US09771962B2
The present invention relates to a fastening arrangement for fastening a component A to a component B with automatic tolerance compensation between the components A and B. The fastening arrangement comprises a fixable base element into which a mounting screw can be screwed via a first thread pair, and an adjusting element with an external thread that can be screwed into the base element via a second thread pair, wherein a first and a second anti-rotation safeguard are provided between the base element and the adjusting element, wherein said anti-rotation safeguards can be used to prevent detachment of the adjusting element from the base element during transport as well as locking of the adjusting element with the base element.
US09771947B2
A cross-flow fan includes a plurality of fan blades provided to be circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The fan blade has an inner edge portion arranged on the radially inner side to/from which air flows in/out, and an outer edge portion arranged on the radially outer side to/from which air flows in/out. Fan blade has a blade surface extending between the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion. The blade surface includes a pressure surface arranged on the rotation direction side of the cross-flow fan and a suction surface arranged on the back side of the pressure surface. When cut along a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis of the cross-flow fan, the fan blade has a blade cross-sectional shape in which a concave portion concave from the pressure surface is formed.
US09771946B2
A turbocharger includes a two-piece thrust collar that includes inner and outer portions disposed around a rotatable shaft. The inner portion is engaged with a bushing disposed in and connected to the center housing by a retainer. The outer portion is disposed adjacent the inner portion along the rotatable shaft and connected to the rotatable shaft such that it rotates therewith. The outer portion forms an annular channel that extends in a radial direction relative to the rotatable shaft and peripherally around the shaft. An oil deflector is connected to the compressor back-plate and includes a base flange and a raised portion disposed at least partially over the annular channel.
US09771944B2
A motor controller of the present invention comprises units which obtain information indicative of a motor speed (ω) and information indicative of motor torque (T), an air flow calculation section which calculates an air flow (Q) of a fan based on the motor speed (ω) and the motor torque (T); and a speed command generation section which generates a speed command (ω*) of a motor such that the air flow (Q) coincides with the predetermined air flow command (Q*).
US09771943B2
A regulating rod (1) has a rod part (2) which has an end region (3) provided with an external thread and an end piece (4) which has a receiving recess (5). A knurled nut (6) is arranged and guided in the receiving recess (5) and has an internal thread into which the external thread of the externally threaded end region (3) is screwed. The end piece (4) further has a weld window (8) adjacent the knurled nut. Once the length of the regulating rod is adjusted by rotation of the knurled nut, further rotation of the knurled nut is prevented by introducing and filling the weld window with a weld filler such that the knurled nut (6) is non-detachably fixed and thereby the set length of the regulating rod is fixed.
US09771940B2
A vacuum pump comprises: a pump; a pump stator; a base having an exhaust-side space into which the gas discharged by the pump rotor and the pump stator flows and an exhaust port in communication with the exhaust-side space; and a groove pumping element that is provided in a ring shape around a rotational axis of the pump rotor on a downstream end face of the pump rotor or on an inner bottom of the base opposite to the downstream end face and discharges gas from an inner peripheral side of the pump rotor to the exhaust-side space, the groove pumping element being circumferentially provided with alternating grooves defining a concave portion and convex portions, and the groove pumping element being located outside an exhaust path through which gas flows into the exhaust-side space and is thereafter discharged to the exhaust port.
US09771935B2
A variable displacement vane pump has a control slide displaceable within its housing and a first control chamber and a second control chamber for receiving pressurized lubricant. A thermally adjustable control valve is provided in the housing for adjusting pump displacement based on a temperature of the lubricant. In addition to fluid communication channels in the control chambers, at least one vent port is provided in the second chamber. The control valve is configured to control pressure and fluid communication between the chambers along with the control slide. The control valve can help reduce pump displacement at lower temperatures and low engine speeds. At lower temperatures, the second control chamber can be pressurized by the first control chamber. At higher temperatures, the second control chamber can be vented through the control valve and/or the vent port, despite the position of the control slide.
US09771929B2
In a piston pump assembly, cradle bearings support a swash plate on an inner surface of a housing assembly. The cradle bearing and/or the corresponding portion of the housing inner surface may have undercut portions allowing deflection of an inward portion of the cradle bearing when the swash plate is subjected to pressure forces from hydraulic fluid compressed within pump cylinders by the pump pistons. Deflection of the cradle bearings allows increased contact pressure to be further distributed across the engaging surfaces of the swash plates and the cradle bearings.
US09771928B2
A valve seat member which partitions between a supply passage and a pressurizing chamber, includes an inner flow path, which communicates between the supply passage and the pressurizing chamber, and an outer flow path, which is placed on a radially outer side of the inner flow path. An inner valve is seatable against inner valve seat formed in an opening of the inner flow path. An outer valve is contactable with an end surface of the inner valve, which is opposite from the inner valve seat. The outer valve is seatable against an outer valve seat, which is formed in an opening of the outer flow path.
US09771922B2
A flowing-water driveable turbine assembly (104) for location in river or sea areas with unidirectional and bidirectional water flows. The turbine assembly comprises a turbine support (106) with positive buoyancy in water. The turbine support (106) is arranged to be anchored by an anchoring system (108) to a water bed. The turbine assembly comprises at least one turbine (110). The positive buoyancy of the turbine assembly in water has an upward force to constrain the turbine support 106 and the at least one turbine (110) to a position of floating equilibrium against a downward force of the anchoring system (108). The turbine assembly may have variable buoyancy, a duct around each turbine for directing water through the turbine to generate power from water flow, and a winch or winches for submerging the turbine assembly or parts thereof.
US09771918B2
It is possible to adjust electromagnetic energy introduced from a low-voltage side of a primary winding 20 of an ignition coil 2 after start discharging to a spark plug 1 from the ignition coil 2 in the correct proportion by threshold-determining either one or both of a primary voltage V1 applied to a primary side of the ignition coil 2 and a secondary current I2 flowing in a secondary side of the ignition coil 2, and by opening and closing a discharging switch 32 disposed between an auxiliary power supply 3 including an energy storage coil 330 and a low-voltage side terminal 201 of the ignition coil 2.
US09771912B2
A fuel injector for internal combustion engines is provided, which has a valve seat member, bordering a valve chamber, having a valve seat and spray orifices and a central blind-end bore as well as a valve member that is able to be driven to cause a lift motion having a closing head, which, together with a valve seat, forms a sealing seat lying upstream of the spray orifices. In order to prevent an underpressure developing in the blind-end bore in the closing phase of the sealing seat, and a partial return flow of the fuel connected with it, the closing head of the valve member is provided, at its end face facing towards the valve seat member, with a plunger sticking out from closing head, which has a shape adjusted to the contour of the blind-end bore, and dips into the blind-end bore when the sealing seat is closed.
US09771910B2
Methods and systems are provided for delivering fuel to a port injector fuel rail in a port fuel direct injection (PFDI) engine. In one example, the port injector fuel rail may receive fuel from each of a compression chamber and a step chamber of a direct injection fuel pump coupled in the PFDI engine. In this way, pressurized fuel may be supplied to the port injector fuel rail during an entire cycle of the direct injection fuel pump.
US09771906B2
An engine fuel control system includes a fuel metering valve operable to control the flow of fuel between a supply line and a delivery line. The delivery line is configured to receive fuel from one or more fuel pumps. The engine fuel control system further includes a pressure raising arrangement which receives the fuel flow from the delivery line and raises the fuel pressure therein. The engine fuel control system further includes a pressure sensor arranged to sense the pressure of the fuel in the supply line between the one or more fuel pumps and the fuel metering valve, or to sense the pressure of the fuel in the delivery line between the fuel metering valve and the pressure raising arrangement.
US09771901B2
An exhaust gas recirculation valve having a cam structure for opening and closing a gas passage through which exhaust gas is recirculated to an intake manifold. The valve includes a valve housing having the gas passage, a valve unit linearly moving to selectively open and close the gas passage, a motor generating power to drive the valve unit, a valve actuator driving the valve unit to move linearly, and a power transmission transmitting the rotation force from the motor to the valve actuator. The valve actuator includes a power-transmission gear unit to transmit the rotation force from the motor, and the valve actuator includes an actuating gear unit to be rotated by being meshed with the power-transmission gear unit. The valve has a cam structure in which the power-transmission gear unit and the actuating gear unit are arranged in line with a direction of linear motion of the valve unit.
US09771895B2
An exhaust nozzle liner assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a first liner, a second liner spaced from the first liner by a gap, a seal assembly located at least partially within the gap to provide a continuous surface defined by the first liner, the seal assembly and the second liner, and a seal retainer to retain the seal assembly.
US09771893B2
A turbofan engine includes a fan variable area nozzle includes having a first fan nacelle section and a second fan nacelle section movably mounted relative the first fan nacelle section. The second fan nacelle section axially slides afterward relative to the fixed first fan nacelle section to change the effective area of the fan nozzle exit area.
US09771885B2
A control apparatus for an engine includes a control unit. The engine includes a sensor. The control unit determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in a calculation function of the control unit on the basis of a comparison result between the control required injection amount and the monitoring required injection amount. The control unit determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the calculation function of the control unit without using the comparison result when the comparison result is calculated during a predetermined period. The predetermined period is a period of a delay that occurs between updating of one of respective values of the control rotation speed and the monitoring rotation speed and updating of the other value due to a difference between the first timing and the second timing.
US09771884B2
A system according to the present disclosure includes a pump operating parameter module and a purge flow control module. The pump operating parameter module determines a value of an operating parameter of a purge pump that delivers purge fluid from a canister in an evaporative emissions system to an intake system of an engine. The operating parameter of the purge pump includes at least one of a speed of the purge pump, an amount of current supplied to the purge pump, and an amount of power supplied to the purge pump. The purge flow control module controls at least one of a purge valve and the purge pump to adjust an amount of purge fluid delivered to a cylinder of an engine based on the determined value of the operating parameter of the purge pump.
US09771876B2
Various embodiments include a system having: at least one computing device configured to tune a set of gas turbines (GTs) by performing actions including: commanding each GT in the set of GTs to a base load level, based upon a measured ambient condition for each GT; commanding each GT in the set of GTs to adjust a respective output to match a nominal mega-watt power output value, and subsequently measuring an actual emissions value for each GT; adjusting an operating condition of each GT in the set of GTs based upon a difference between the respective measured actual emissions value and a nominal emissions value at the ambient condition; and further adjusting an operating condition of each GT in the set of GTs based upon a determined emissions measurement error.
US09771874B2
Various embodiments include a system having: at least one computing device configured to tune a set of gas turbines (GTs) by performing actions including: commanding each GT in the set of GTs to a base load level, based upon a measured ambient condition for each GT; commanding each GT in the set of GTs to adjust a respective output to match a nominal mega-watt power output value, and subsequently measuring an actual fuel flow value for each GT; and adjusting an operating condition of each GT in the set of GTs based upon a difference between the respective measured actual fuel flow value and a nominal fuel flow value at the ambient condition.
US09771871B2
A fan shaft includes a first end, a second end, and an axis, the fan shaft and configured to be coupled to a gear assembly of a gas turbine engine at the first end and to a fan more proximal to the second end than the first end such that in response to being coupled, the fan shaft can transfer torque from the gear assembly to the fan. At least one axial portion of the fan shaft satisfies the relationship 0.55 ≤ T * C J * τ ≤ 0.95 , where T represents peak torque during fan blade off, C represents a distance from a centerline of the gas turbine engine to an outer fiber of the fan shaft, J represents a polar moment of inertia of the fan shaft, and τ represents yield stress in shear of the fan shaft.
US09771870B2
A blade for a gas turbine engine includes a fixed length member and a floating blade seal that is movable relative to the floating blade seal to change the length of the blade and vary the gap between the blade and an engine housing component.
US09771857B1
An internal combustion engine may be coupled to a two-step engine boosting system to provide desired boost to the engine to meet torque demand. The two-step engine boosting system may first provide boost to the engine by nitrous oxide injection into the engine, followed by switching to providing boost from a frame rail air boosting system to generate the desired boost. Air from an air pump coupled to a transmission of the engine may flow air to the frame rail air boosting system for storage and for subsequent use in providing boost to the engine.
US09771856B2
A centrifugal compressor having a casing that houses an impeller allowing rotation about a rotational axis C, a gas channel, a treatment hollow part provided inside the casing, a first channel open to the gas channel on the downstream side of the blade leading edge of the impeller, a second channel open to the gas channel at the upstream side of the blade leading edge, a guide vane that imparts a swirl component in an opposite rotational direction of the impeller to gas discharged from the second channel, a constricting part that constricts the gas channel, and a rectifying part that rectifies gas in a direction that minimizes the swirl component about the rotational axis C and also increases the component in the direction of the rotational axis C.
US09771854B2
There is provided an engine water-cooling device that can increase warming-up efficiency of an engine. The engine water-cooling device includes a thermostat housing that houses a thermostat. The thermostat housing is mounted to a front wall of a cylinder head in one side portion in a width direction of the cylinder head. A cooling water pump is mounted to a front wall of a cylinder block in a central portion in a width direction of the cylinder block. A bypass passage includes an intra-head bypass passage in the cylinder head, and the intra-head bypass passage includes a width-direction passage portion extending from a position behind the thermostat housing to a position behind and above the cooling water pump.
US09771852B2
An exhaust pipe flange with an exhaust gas pipe and with a flange plate fastened to the exhaust gas pipe, wherein the flange plate has an inner side which can be turned toward a cylinder head with a sealing surface which can be placed directly or indirectly against a cylinder head, and a seat in which the exhaust gas pipe is received. The exhaust gas pipe is joined to the flange plate and sealed in the region of the seat on the inner side by a welded connection.
US09771849B2
Method for operating a delivery device for a reducing agent and delivery device for a reducing agent
A method for operating a delivery device for delivering a reducing agent from a reducing agent tank into an exhaust treatment device of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, includes at least intermittently carrying out a ventilation process of the delivery device during operation of the internal combustion engine. A registration of a ventilation process first occurs. A timing unit having a preset time interval and/or a mass-flow summing unit having a preset total mass flow is then actuated. When the preset time interval and/or the preset total mass flow is reached, the ventilation process is then carried out. In particular, monitoring the delivery device by a pressure sensor can thus be omitted. A delivery device for delivering a reducing agent is also provided.
US09771848B2
An ECU executes a program including the steps of: determining whether an insulation resistance Ri is smaller than a threshold value Ri(0); if the insulation resistance Ri is smaller than the threshold value Ri(0), determining whether there is electric leakage between a vehicular body and an EHC and whether there is a possibility that there is electric leakage at a location other than a location between the vehicular body and the EHC; and if there is electric leakage between the vehicular body and the EHC, performing heating control.
US09771839B2
A system (44) for controlling camshaft (28) phase in an engine (20) with a crankshaft (26), including: an actuator (42) driving a phaser (38) attached to the camshaft (28). The phaser (38) has a first portion (46) in communication with the crankshaft (26), a second portion (48) attached to the camshaft (28) and in communication with the first portion (46), and a third portion (50) attached to the actuator (42) and in communication with the second portion (48). One portion includes a receiver (52), and another portion includes a lock (54) having: a first position (78) where the portions with the receiver (52) and lock (54) can rotate with respect to each other; and a second position (80) where the portions with the receiver (52) and lock (54) are coupled. The lock (54) moves between positions in response to predetermined torque differential between the actuator (42) and camshaft (28).
US09771821B1
An interstage seal for a turbine of a gas turbine engine, the interstage seal having a seal carrier with an axial extending seal tooth movable with a stator of the engine, and a rotor with a seal surface that forms the interstage seal with the seal tooth, where a magnetic force produced by two magnets and a gas force produced by a gas pressure acting on the seal carrier forms a balancing force to maintain a close clearance of the seal without the seal tooth contacting the rotor seal surfaces during engine operation. In other embodiments, two pairs of magnets produce first and second magnetic forces that balance the seal in the engine.
US09771818B2
A turbine seal system comprises an annular structural frame, a circumferential ring, a fairing and a seal. The circumferential ring is joined to the annular structural frame. The fairing is disposed within the annular structural frame and is engaged with the circumferential ring to limit circumferential rotation of the fairing with respect to the annular structural frame. The seal extends between the fairing and the circumferential ring. In one embodiment, the structural component comprises a ring-strut-ring turbine exhaust case.
US09771806B2
A turbine blade has hollowness, and is provided with a back-side wall of which a portion of the inner wall surface is exposed at the rear edge portion, with cooling air flown along the inner wall surface at the exposed region; and a recess provided in the inner wall surface at the exposed region. The contour of the recess (5) viewed from the normal direction of the inner wall surface of the back-side wall is set to a shape that is symmetrical centered on a reference axis (L) that intersects the flow direction of cooling air, and that broadens along the reference axis (L).
US09771802B2
A turbomachine including a rotor having an axis and a plurality of disks positioned adjacent to each other in the axial direction, each disk including opposing axially facing surfaces and a circumferentially extending radially facing surface located between the axially facing surfaces. At least one row of blades is positioned on each of the disks, and the blades include an airfoil extending radially outward from the disk A non-segmented circumferentially continuous ring structure includes an outer rim defining a thermal barrier extending axially in overlapping relation over a portion of the radially facing surface of at least one disk, and extending to a location adjacent to a blade on the disk A compliant element is located between a radially inner circumferential portion of the ring structure and a flange structure that extends axially from an axially facing surface of the disk.
US09771795B2
There are provided methods, systems and processes for the utilization of microbial and related genetic information for use in the exploration, determination, production and recovery of natural resources, including energy sources, and the monitoring, control and analysis of processes and activities.
US09771789B2
A downhole tool includes a cylindrical housing. A magnet and an antenna may be positioned within the housing. An excluder may be positioned around the housing, and a thickness of the excluder may vary around the housing.
US09771788B2
A system for use in subterranean operations comprising a drill string positioned within a wellbore, a sensor adapted to sense a physical parameter in relation to the drill string and generate a signal representing the physical parameter, and a control member adapted to affect subterranean longitudinal movement of the drill string in a predetermined longitudinal sequence of increments within the wellbore in response to the signal.
US09771782B2
A method of time delayed reduction in the molecular weight of polymers in a viscosified fluid and a method of time delayed breaking of viscosified fluids through treatment of the viscosified fluid with a viscosity breaking composition. The viscosity breaking composition is formed from a peroxygen compound, a peroxygen inhibiting agent and a peroxygen catalyzing agent, where the relative concentration of the components determines the duration of the a time interval require for breaking the viscosified fluid.
US09771778B2
In one aspect, an apparatus for use in a wellbore is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment includes a string for placement in the wellbore and a switch on an outside of the string, wherein the switch includes a plurality of magnetic elements that provide a continuous electrical when the plurality of magnetic elements are aligned by an externally applied magnetic field. In one embodiment, the switch includes a channel that houses the plurality of magnetic elements that remain unaligned until the magnetic elements are aligned by the externally applied magnetic field.
US09771772B2
Methods may comprise providing a cement dry blend comprising a plurality of cement particles and a plurality of inert microparticles, wherein the inert microparticles have an average diameter at least about 3 times smaller than that of the average diameter of the cement particles; mixing water, a set retarding additive, and the cement dry blend to yield a cement slurry; storing the cement slurry; mixing a cement set accelerator into the cement slurry; introducing the cement slurry into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation; and allowing the cement slurry to set at a location within the wellbore, the subterranean formation, or both.
US09771770B2
A vibrator tool for use in inserting a bottom hole assembly into a wellbore. The vibrator tool includes a substantially cylindrical body, a motor within the substantially cylindrical body, and a non-linear shaft attached to the motor so that the motor turns the non-linear shaft. The non-linear shaft extends outwardly from the motor within the substantially cylindrical body. The vibrator tool further includes a bearing attached to the shaft a predetermined distance from the motor so that the bearing rotates as the non-linear shaft turns. The bearing contacts portions of the inner surface of the cylindrical body as the non-linear shaft turns, thereby vibrating the substantially cylindrical body.
US09771766B2
Inside blowout preventer release tool having an upper section and a tubular lower section. The upper section includes a pair of longitudinal members defining a central open region, and a formed lifting feature accepting a manipulator. The lifting feature is positioned such that when the release tool body and an inside blowout preventer connected thereto are lifted by the rig hoist they are easily moved over, aligned with, and connected with a working drillpipe while minimizing possibility of slipping off cables or chains. The lower section includes a threaded end mating with a mating end of an inside blowout preventer, a central longitudinal bore to accept a length-adjustable release rod, and an upper end formed to mate with the upper section. Slots in each longitudinal member may define one or more manipulating handles for a rig worker, machine, or tool, or a pair of generally horizontal hand holds are provided.
US09771759B2
The present disclosure describes various embodiments, as well as features and aspects thereof, of an improved drill bit assembly for a percussion boring system. More specifically, one non-limiting embodiment of an improved drill bit assembly for a percussion boring system comprises a bit and a product engagement member. The bit comprises a slant faced head and at least one exhaust port. The product engagement member comprises a product coupling portion and at least one fluid restriction portion. This improved drill bit assembly is such that, when the product engagement member is detachably engaged with the slant faced head of the bit, a first portion of the fluid stream expelled from the bit is directed substantially forward of the slant faced head and a second portion of the fluid stream is directed substantially rearward from the slant faced head.
US09771757B2
A downhole motor rotary drive system including a housing, a rotor rotatably and coaxially disposed within the housing, and an annular space between the rotor and housing. The rotor includes first and second ends, a bore extending between the first and second ends, an inlet port extending from the bore to the annular space, and an outlet port extending from the annular space to the bore. A plurality of gates are disposed within the annular space, each configured to engage the rotor and the housing, and a plurality of lobes extend within the annular space such that the lobes and the gates divide the annular space into a plurality of chambers. A flow path is defined by the annular space between the inlet and outlet ports, and the rotor is configured to rotate relative to the housing when a fluid is circulated along the flow path.
US09771756B1
A ladder footing apparatus for supporting the base of a ladder, wherein the ladder is being positioned against a first wall structure at a top end of the ladder. The ladder footing apparatus includes an elongated handle having respective one and other opposed ends, a resilient pad member supported at one end of the elongated handle, the resilient pad member for engaging a second wall structure that is in opposed position to said first wall structure, and a hook member supported at the other opposed end of the elongated handle, said hook member for engaging a lower rung of the ladder.
US09771750B2
Device for opening cabinet door of cabinet body. Cabinet door is attached to cabinet body by self-closing hinges. Cabinet door is held in closed position at a small distance from the front of cabinet body. In order to allow cabinet door to be opened without gripping elements, without hindering the self-closing of the hinges, there is a unit having ejection piston with a locking apparatus and tension rod in cabinet body. Ejection piston is supported in the unit by compression spring, and tension rod is supported in the unit by tension spring. Ejection piston and tension rod are coupled to each other by a control apparatus having a freewheel, and thus by tapping on cabinet door the opening of cabinet door can be initiated and cabinet door can be brought into an intermediate position. In the intermediate position, cabinet door can be grasped by a hand and opened further.
US09771748B2
A device that has adjustable torque, and is used for the mechanical automation of closing a sliding screen door panel in a manner that is consistent with the force of a natural beings manual operation of the sliding screen door panel. The device is engineered to be consistent with the design of the said sliding screen panel, to prevent failure of the sliding screen panel after longterm continuous use with the device.
US09771741B2
A dual cam lock apparatus comprising a locking blade, a rotatable lock, a first cam and a second cam. The first cam comprises a first cam body and a first arm extending from the first cam body. The first cam is rotatable by the rotatable lock to move the first arm in and out of contact with the locking blade. The second cam comprises a second cam body with at least one slot therethrough which receives at least one protrusion of the first cam, and a second arm extending from the second cam body and coupled with the locking blade. The slot has an angular span across which the protrusion rotates before further rotation of the protrusion causes rotation of the second cam, whereby rotation of the second cam rotates the second arm to move the locking blade between the locking and release position.
US09771733B2
An embedded pole installation method including applying a rotational force to a leading pole and an intermediate pole. The leading pole comprises a first helical plate disposed on a first portion of the leading pole. The intermediate pole is coupled to a second portion of the leading pole and comprises a second helical plate disposed on a first portion of the intermediate pole. The diameter of the intermediate pole is greater than a diameter of the leading pole. Applying the rotational force embeds the first helical plate and the second helical plate into a foundation such that a second portion of the intermediate pole does not penetrate the foundation. The method further includes coupling a utility pole to the second portion of the intermediate pole.
US09771727B2
A process for making a fibrous panel member and a flooring structure is disclosed. The flooring structure has a subfloor, a surface layer, and an insulative pad disposed between the subfloor and the surface layer. The insulative pad has an MDI binder and reinforcement fibers distributed uniformly and randomly within a first plane. The process includes mixing a porous fiber material with a MDI adhesive. The fiber batt is compressed between a pair of porous belts. Steam and heat are applied to the compressed batt to form a bound flexible batting material.
US09771721B2
A floor panel is arranged for forming a floor covering, and substantially consists of synthetic material and has a decorative upper side. The floor panel, on at least one pair of opposite edges, comprises coupling parts which allow coupling two of such floor panels to each other. The coupling parts effect a locking in a first direction perpendicular to the plane of the floor panels as well as in a second direction perpendicular to the respective edge and in the plane of the floor panels. The at least one of the coupling parts comprises a separate locking element, which, in coupled condition, provides for at least a locking in the first direction.
US09771720B2
A rain gutter system, including a gutter, and a debris cover, and a method of manufacturing the gutter and the debris cover, wherein the gutter includes a front wall and a back wall interconnected through a bottom and spaced-apart to cooperatively define a water-collecting channel therebetween, the front wall including a lip extending in the direction toward the back wall and a drip edge extending in a direction away from the back wall, the back wall extending upward vertically beyond the height of the front wall. In further embodiments, the rain gutter system includes at least one hanger, and the at least one hanger is positioned in the channel of the gutter, spaced-apart from the bottom. The debris cover allows water to penetrate the debris cover, is attached on top of the gutter at a desirable pitch, and includes a mircomesh.
US09771718B1
An elongated structural ceiling grid member including an open-ended upper portion, an open-ended lower portion, and first and second flanges. The open-ended upper section is formed by a floor and a first set of second parallel and spaced sidewalls extending from and substantially perpendicular to the floor. The open-ended upper portion has an opening opposite the floor and defined by the first and second parallel and spaced sidewalls. The open-ended lower portion is formed by a ceiling and a second set of parallel and spaced sidewalls that extend from and are substantially perpendicular to the ceiling. The open-ended lower portion has a second opening opposite the ceiling and defined by the third and fourth parallel and spaced sidewalls. The first flange is attached to and extends perpendicular to the third parallel and spaced sidewall and the second flange is attached to and extends perpendicular to the fourth parallel and spaced sidewall.
US09771689B2
The inventive tissue products have high bulk and improved surface smoothness, particularly compared to tissue products of similar basis weights. The tissue products may have a sheet bulk greater than about 15 cc/g, such as from about 15 to about 25 cc/g and a surface smoothness S90 value less than about 90 μm. Further, the tissue products are generally strong enough to withstand use and may have a geometric mean tensile strength greater than about 2,000 g/3″. The tissue products may be converted into rolled tissue products having improved roll bulk, such as a roll bulk greater than 15 cc/g.
US09771683B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a wet paper web transfer belt wherein the adhesive properties and releasing properties of the wet paper web with the wet paper web contacting surface of conventional wet paper web transfer belts have been further improved and paper robbing and floating edges do not occur.This is achieved by a wet paper web transfer belt in which a polyurethane is integrated with a reinforcing base material comprising a wet paper web-side surface and a machine-side surface, at least the wet paper web-side surface of the reinforcing base material is embedded in the polyurethane, an outer circumferential layer comprising a wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by some of the polyurethane; wherein, at least the outer circumferential layer comprises two different types of fillers including a high-roundness filler with a relatively high roundness and a low-roundness filler with a relatively low roundness.
US09771682B2
A mounting and support mechanism for a rotary feeder gear motor having an adjusting housing, wherein the adjusting housing includes a support flange adjacent the gear motor, a hollow adjusting housing and a support flange adjacent a stationary feeder end cover. Contained within the adjusting housing is a carrier extension wherein the carrier extension at one end encases a stationary bushing, the stationary bushing houses an adjusting shaft to provide movement of a rotor assembly axially, and at the opposite end the carrier extension connects to a bearing carrier mechanism.
US09771680B2
A characterization method for characterizing an article made of composite material having woven, braided, or sewn fiber reinforcement, the method including a determination step of using X-ray tomography to determine gray levels of at least a portion of the article, followed by an exploitation step of exploiting the gray levels to obtain information concerning the weaving by distinguishing between at least the free matrix and the threads of fibers mixed with the matrix, the threads being considered as being a material that is homogeneous.
US09771672B2
The invention relates to a re-weaving machine (1) and re-woven tire cord fabric which enables to weave the defected tire cord fabrics (B) to be woven again without being damaged after finishing process, re-woven tire cord fabric. The objective of the present invention is to provide a reweaving machine (1) which allows weaving the tire cord fabrics (B) again without getting damaged even in tire cord fabrics (B) with high linear densities and high weft densities, and which has blades (10) that can be adjusted according to the different cord fabric features.
US09771670B2
An open-end spinning device of a rotor spinning machine has a spinning rotor with a rotor cup, in which fiber material is spun, and with a rotor shaft through which the spinning rotor is driven. A bearing is arranged in a contactless way with a drive to drive the spinning rotor. A rotor housing is provided in which the rotor cup is arranged and which is impinged with spinning negative pressure (pSU) during spinning operation through a negative pressure channel. A drive housing is provided in which the rotor shaft of the spinning rotor extends, and in which the drive and the bearing of the spinning rotor are arranged. The rotor housing and the drive housing are arranged spaced apart from one another in the open-end spinning device in the axial direction of the rotor shaft. In a method to operate such an open-end spinning device, the rotor housing is impinged with spinning negative pressure (pSU) during the spinning operation. Air current is prevented from flowing from the rotor housing into the drive housing by arranging the rotor housing and the drive housing spaced apart from one another in the axial direction of the rotor shaft.
US09771668B2
A fluid-swellable fiber in particular for the use as a surgical suture, the fiber comprising chitosan, the fiber's swelling ratio being less than 100%, and a fabric comprising the fiber. Moreover, a method of manufacturing from a chitosan-containing solution a fiber comprising chitosan, wherein during manufacture, the solution is brought into contact with a coagulation medium containing at least one organic solvent, a method of removing a fiber from a living organism, wherein the fiber is at least partly dissolved in a solvent applied from the outside, and a kit comprising a chitosan containing fiber and a solvent for at least partly dissolving the fiber.
US09771667B2
This invention provides novel compositions and processes for analyte detection, quantification and amplification. Nucleic acid arrays and libraries of analytes are usefully incorporated into such compositions and processes. Universal detection elements, signaling entities and the like are employed to detect and if necessary or desirable, to quantify analytes. Amplification of target analytes are also provided by the compositions and processes of this invention.
US09771666B2
Bulk single crystal of aluminum nitride (AlN) having an areal planar defect density≦100 cm−2. Methods for growing single crystal aluminum nitride include melting an aluminum foil to uniformly wet a foundation with a layer of aluminum, the foundation forming a portion of an AlN seed holder, for an AlN seed to be used for the AlN growth. The holder may consist essentially of a substantially impervious backing plate.
US09771662B2
This disclosure enables high-productivity fabrication of porous semiconductor layers (made of single layer or multi-layer porous semiconductors such as porous silicon, comprising single porosity or multi-porosity layers). Some applications include fabrication of MEMS separation and sacrificial layers for die detachment and MEMS device fabrication, membrane formation and shallow trench isolation (STI) porous silicon (using porous silicon formation with an optimal porosity and its subsequent oxidation). Further, this disclosure is applicable to the general fields of photovoltaics, MEMS, including sensors and actuators, stand-alone, or integrated with integrated semiconductor microelectronics, semiconductor microelectronics chips and optoelectronics.
US09771655B2
A web transport system for transporting a web of media along a web-transport path includes a fluid bar for guiding the web of media, and first and second fluid shields positioned proximate to first and second ends of the fluid bar. A liquid is pumped through holes in an exterior bearing surface of the fluid bar into a region between the web of media and the bearing surface of the fluid bar, thereby pushing the web of media away from the fluid bar. The fluid shields are positioned to redirect fluid that is ejected from the region between the web of media and the bearing surface of the fluid bar along the edges of the web of media.
US09771653B2
Apparatus, printers, and methods to remove material from a printer surface are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a fluid remover to remove printing material from a printer surface, and a coating material reservoir to store coating material and to apply the coating material to the fluid remover to reduce an amount of printing material transferred to the fluid remover from the printer surface.
US09771648B2
A sputtering apparatus includes a chamber for containing a feed gas. An anode is positioned inside the chamber. A cathode assembly comprising target material is positioned adjacent to an anode inside the chamber. A magnet is positioned adjacent to cathode assembly. A platen that supports a substrate is positioned adjacent to the cathode assembly. An output of the power supply is electrically connected to the cathode assembly. The power supply generates a plurality of voltage pulse trains comprising at least a first and a second voltage pulse train. The first voltage pulse train generates a first discharge from the feed gas that causes sputtering of a first layer of target material having properties that are determined by at least one of a peak amplitude, a rise time, and a duration of pulses in the first voltage pulse train. The second voltage pulse train generates a second discharge from the feed gas that causes sputtering of a second layer of target material having properties that are determined by at least one of a peak amplitude, a rise time, and a duration of pulses in the second voltage pulse train.
US09771642B2
The embodiments described herein relate to BMG articles with high bulk having all dimensions greater than the critical dimension. Exemplary BMG article can include at least one bulk component and/or one or more fixation elements configured on surface of the bulk component or inserted into the bulk component. Other embodiments relate to methods of making the BMG articles by thermo-plastic-formation of BMG alloy materials.
US09771639B2
The present invention relates to a high-strength high-toughness steel plate and a method of manufacturing the steel plate. The steel plate contains the following chemical compositions, by weight, C: 0.03-0.06%, Si≦0.30%, Mn: 1.0-1.5%, P≦0.020%, S≦0.010%, Al: 0.02-0.05%, Ti: 0.005-0.025%, N≦0.006%, Ca≦0.005%, and more than one of Cr≦0.75%, Ni≦0.40%, Mo≦0.30%, other compositions being Ferrum and unavoidable impurities. The finished steel plate, with a thickness of 6-25 mm, has a yield strength of ≧700 MPa, an elongation A50 of ≧18%, Akv at −60° C. of ≧150 J and good cool bending property.
US09771631B2
A method for leaching one or more target metals from a sulfide ore and/or concentrate containing such, the method comprising the steps of: (a) Exposing the ore and/or concentrate to an aqueous solution of chlorine-based oxidising species in which the hypochlorous acid comprises at least 10 mol % of the chlorine-based oxidising species; (b) Allowing and/or facilitating the oxidation of the target metals by the hypochlorous acid, thereby decreasing the pH such that the predominant chlorine-based oxidising species becomes chlorine; (c) Allowing and/or facilitating the oxidation of the target metals by the chlorine; (d) Allowing and/or facilitating the dissolution of the target metals by the solution species formed during the oxidation by hypochlorous acid and/or chlorine; and (e) Passing the pregnant solution produced thereby to a means for metal recovery.
US09771628B2
Provided is a duplex stainless steel having a high strength and a high toughness. A stainless steel according to the present invention includes: a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, C: at most 0.030%, Si: 0.20 to 1.00%, Mn: at most 8.00%, P: at most 0.040%, S: at most 0.0100%, Cu: more than 2.00% and at most 4.00%, Ni: 4.00 to 8.00%, Cr: 20.0 to 30.0%, Mo: at least 0.50% and less than 2.00%, N: 0.100 to 0.350%, and sol. Al: at most 0.040%, the balance being Fe and impurities; and a structure, wherein a rate of ferrite in the structure is 30 to 70%, and a hardness of the ferrite in the structure is at least 300 Hv10gf.
US09771626B2
A method of starting a molten bath-based process for smelting a metalliferous material is disclosed. The method includes using the heat flux of water-cooled elements in lower parts of a smelting vessel to provide an indication of molten bath temperature during at least an early part of the start-up method and adjusting injection rates of oxygen-containing gas and/or carbonaceous material into the smelting vessel to control the molten bath temperature during start-up without exceeding critical heat flux levels and tripping the start-up method.
US09771625B2
A mechanism of monoamine oxidases (MAOs) driven epithelium-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for treating cancer by inhibiting or suppressing MAOs in cancer cells. Novel MAOs inhibitors, such as small molecules, siRNA, shRNA, antisense oligonucleotides, aptamers, decoys, and pharmaceutical compositions useful for treating cancer by disrupting the workings of MAOs are provided. In particular, a class of conjugates formed by covalently conjugating near infrared dye 783, IR-780, and MHI-148 to a MAO inhibitor, such as clorgyline, with and without encapsulation it in a nanoparticle is provided. Other aspects of the invention include methods for forming the nano-conjugates, method for monitoring treatment progress in a cancer patient by monitoring the changes in MAO activity, methods for screening patients who are at risk of cancer or differentiating different forms of cancer by assaying the level and location of MAO activity.
US09771618B2
Clinical tests for testing therapeutic sensitivity of cancerous breast tissue and methods and kits for performing the same are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods for predicting the efficacy of treatment of breast cancer. In addition, certain embodiments are directed to a kit for testing therapeutic sensitivity of breast cancer tissue.
US09771616B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule comprising an annexin A5 (ANXA5) gene regulation element which comprises at least one point mutation corresponding to nucleotide 186 (G to A), 203 (A to C), 229 (T to C), and 276 (G to A) of SEQ ID NO: 2, a vector comprising the nucleic acid molecule, and a host transformed with the vector. The invention also relates to specific uses, in particular diagnostic uses of the nucleic acid molecules described herein. The invention also relates to haplotyping an ANXA5 gene regulation element from a nucleic acid from an individual which involves determining nucleotides present at positions 186, 203, 229 and 276 of the individual's copy of the ANXA5 gene regulation element by comparison to SEQ ID NO: 2.
US09771614B2
A method for detecting an analyte employing a nanopore substrate positioned between first and second reservoirs by providing an indicator molecule not associated with the analyte and detecting a change in an optical signal emitted from the indicator moiety as the analyte translocates through a nanopore channel of the nanopore substrate.
US09771607B2
The present invention relates to the field of biotechnology engineering. It provides a method of constructing a recombinant Bacillus subtilis that can produce specific-molecular-weight hyaluronic acids. By integranted expression of hasA from Streptococcus zooepidemicus and overexpression of genes of HA synthetic pathway, tuaD, glmU and glmS, high yield HA production was achieved in the recombinant strain. Additionally, introduction and functional expression of the leech hyaluronidase in the recombinant strain substantially increased the yield of HA to 19.38 g·L−1. Moreover, HAs with a broad range of molecular weights (103 Da to 106 MDa) were efficiently produced by controlling the expression level of hyaluronidase using RBS mutants with different translational strengths. The method of the present invention can be used to produce low molecular weight HAs at large scale in industrial applications.
US09771599B2
The present invention relates to a method for transducing a target cell, the method comprising the step of contacting a target cell with a retroviral vector and a poloxamer having a molecular weight of 12.8 kDa to about 15 kDa. Further, the invention relates to the use of a poloxamer as defined herein, optionally in combination with a polycationic substance as defined herein, for transducing a target cell with a retroviral vector and a kit comprising a retroviral vector, a poloxamer as defined herein and, optionally, instructions for use.
US09771594B2
A biologically active RNA-alkali metal-dication formulation, a pharmaceutical composition containing the complexes, and methods of producing the same. The formulation is particularly useful to introduce RNA and an attached cargo into cells allowing its biological intracellular activities: e.g. immunostimulation (immunomodulation), RNA interference or gene expression.
US09771593B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 2 (TNFR2), in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor 2 (TNFR2). The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of TNFR2.
US09771588B2
The present invention concerns methods and reagents useful in modulating gene expression in a variety of applications, including use in therapeutic, diagnostic, target validation, and genomic discovery applications. Specifically, the invention relates to synthetic chemically modified small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules capable of mediating RNA interference (RNAi) against target nucleic acid sequences. The small nucleic acid molecules are useful in the treatment of any disease or condition that responds to modulation of gene expression or activity in a cell, tissue, or organism.
US09771585B2
The present invention provides oligonucleotide inhibitors of miR-155 and compositions thereof. The invention further provides methods for treating cancer such as a T cell lymphoma in a subject by administering to the subject an oligonucleotide inhibitor of miR-155. The invention also provides methods for reducing or inhibiting the proliferation of malignant T cells by administering an oligonucleotide inhibitor of miR-155.
US09771568B2
Provided are isolated polypeptides having beta-glucosidase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US09771562B2
The invention discloses a methodology for the culture of prostate tissue organoids from mouse and human prostate.
US09771561B2
Methods for obtaining multipotent Apelin receptor-positive lateral plate mesoderm cells, mesenchymal stem cells, and mesangioblasts under serum-free conditions are disclosed.
US09771555B2
The present invention relates to canine amniotic membrane-derived multipotent stem cells (cAM-MSCs) and preparation method thereof. More particularly, the present invention relates to canine amniotic membrane-derived multipotent stem cells, which show negative immunological properties on human markers CD3, CD11c, CD28, CD34, CD38, CD41a, CD45, and CD62L and positive immunological properties on human markers CD90 and CD105, and have the ability to be maintained in an undifferentiated state for 20 passages or more and the ability to be differentiated into fat, bones, nerves, cartilage, etc.
US09771550B2
This disclosure relates to a cleaning composition that contains 1) HF; 2) substituted or unsubstituted boric acid; 3) ammonium sulfate; 4) at least one metal corrosion inhibitor; 5) water; and 6) optionally, at least one pH adjusting agent, the pH adjusting agent being a base free of a metal ion. This disclosure also relates to a method of using the above composition for cleaning a semiconductor substrate.
US09771548B2
Compositions comprising cellulase and at least one poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compound having a degree of substitution with an organic group of about 0.05-3.0 are disclosed. Such compositions can be dry or aqueous, the latter of which can have a viscosity of at least about 10 cPs. The disclosed composition can be in the form of a personal care product, household product, or industrial product, for example. Also disclosed are a method for preparing an aqueous composition comprising cellulase and a poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compound, and a method of treating a material such as fabric by contacting it with this aqueous composition.
US09771547B2
The present invention relates generally to cleaning compositions and, more specifically, to cleaning compositions containing a polyetheramine that is suitable for removal of stains from soiled materials.
US09771544B2
A composition for treating a hard surface. The composition has: (a) at least one adhesion promoter; (b) at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of: anionic, non-ionic, cationic, amphoteric, zwitterionic, and combinations thereof; (c) mineral oil; (d) water; (e) optionally, at least one solvent; and wherein the composition is self-adhering upon application to a surface to be treated, and wherein the composition provides a wet film to said surface when water passes over said composition and surface.
US09771537B2
Disclosed herein is a multigrade engine oil with excellent low temperature viscometric properties, including improved mini-rotary viscometer (MRV) results. In one embodiment, the multigrade engine oil comprises a major amount of a first lubricating base oil having a MRV viscosity at a test temperature from about −25° C. to about −40° C. of greater than 60,000 cP and a MRV yield stress at the test temperature of greater than zero; a second lubricating base oil having a MRV viscosity at the test temperature of 60,000 cP of less and no MRV yield stress at the test temperature; and a pour point depressant. The multigrade engine oil has a MRV viscosity at the test temperature of 60,000 cP or less and no MRV yield stress at the test temperature. Since the first lubricating base oil is present in a major amount, the first lubricating base oil is present in an amount greater than any other component of the multigrade engine oil, including the amount of the second lubricating base oil. Also disclosed herein is a process for preparing a multigrade engine oil with excellent low temperature viscometric properties, including improved MRV results.
US09771535B2
The present invention discloses a gasoline efficacy promoter (GEP) boosting combustion efficiency of gasoline in internal combustion engines by a mechanism of micro-dissociation comprising a microemulsion of modified bio-carbon, a surfactant, water, a modified vegetable oil and a dispersant, and a method of making it. The gasoline efficacy promoter, environmentally friendly and stable for longer than six months, can increase the combustion efficiency by more than 10%, and reduce 80% of NOx formation in exhaust emission when an appropriate dosage is added to a fuel tank in a vehicle.
US09771534B2
Disclosed here are systems and methods including one or more FBCs and one or more suitable aftertreatment devices, including DOCs, DPFs, and suitable combinations thereof. The systems and methods disclosed may include selecting a suitable FBC for use with a fuel with a specified sulfur content. Systems and methods disclosed here may also include using one or more ECUs to control one or more FBC dosing/metering devices to supply FBCs from one or more FBC reservoirs in the presence of a specified event.
US09771525B2
A method and apparatus for upgrading heavy oil is described, having a symbiotic relationship between a cracking reactor vessel and a steam reformer vessel. A first portion of an uncracked residue oil stream from the cracking reactor vessel is passed through a heat exchanger positioned within the steam reformer vessel and back to the cracking reactor vessel, such that a heat exchange takes place which heats the uncracked residue oil stream to promote cracking. A second portion of the uncracked residue oil stream from the cracking reactor vessel is injected directly into the steam reformer vessel. That portion of the uncracked residue oil stream not vaporized in the steam reformer vessel is converted into coke which becomes deposited in a fluidized bed of the steam reformer vessel. The fluidized bed activates steam which reacts with the coke to generate hydrogen. Hydrogen from the steam reformer vessel is directed into the cracking reactor vessel to assist with cracking.
US09771524B2
Methods for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed are disclosed. The methods include a hydrocarbon feed having an insolubility number, Ifeed, with at least a first fluid to form a fluid-feed mixture; and inducing a centrifugal force to the fluid-feed mixture sufficient to form at least a higher density portion and a lower density portion, said lower density portion having an insolubility number, ILD, wherein ILD/Ifeed≦0.95. Methods and apparatus for hydroprocessing the treated feed and blending with a fuel oil blend-stock are also described.
US09771521B2
A method of reforming a heavy hydrocarbon distillate, which includes treating a heavy hydrocarbon distillate and a lignocellulosic biomass with a solvent, is provided.The method can be useful in maximizing conversion of the heavy hydrocarbon distillate into higher value-added distillate, for example, naphtha and a middle distillate, and allowing a sulfur compound produced by the decomposition of a heavy hydrocarbon distillate to catalyze pretreatment of the lignocellulosic biomass.Also, oxygen, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), levulinic acid, formic acid, and sulfuric acid produced by decomposition of the lignocellulosic biomass can catalyze decomposition of a heavy hydrocarbon distillate and lignocellulosic biomass, thereby activating decomposition of a heavy hydrocarbon distillate.
US09771520B2
Hydrocarbon-containing feedstocks are processed to produce useful intermediates or products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can process a petroleum-containing feedstock, such as oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, and other naturally-occurring and synthetic materials that include both hydrocarbon components and solid matter, to obtain a useful intermediate or product.
US09771514B2
A sealant, a preparation method and a curing method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The sealant includes a viscous transparent base material and electrochromic material doped in the base material. The electrochromic material is mutually linked to form a conductive chain and can change color in the case that an electric field is applied upon the electrochromic material, to prevent light from passing through.
US09771510B2
Compositions that swell on contact with water contain a non-swellable thermoplastic or thermoset polymer and a swellable inorganic compound. In particular, the compositions are suitable for use in subterranean wells such as those used in the oil and gas industry. The polymer may be polypropylene and the inorganic compound may be magnesium oxide.
US09771507B2
A method of forming a shaped abrasive particle including extruding a mixture into a form, applying a dopant material to an exterior surface of the form, and forming a precursor shaped abrasive particle from the form.
US09771506B2
An abrasive grain is disclosed and may include a body. The body may define a length (l), a height (h), and a width (w). In a particular aspect, the length is greater than or equal to the height and the height is greater than or equal to the width. Further, in a particular aspect, the body may include a primary aspect ratio defined by the ratio of length:height of at least about 2:1. The body may also include an upright orientation probability of at least about 50%.
US09771505B2
An abrasive grain includes a surface having at least a first face with a first outline, and at least one second face with a second outline. The first outline does not contain any vertices, but the second outline contains at least one vertex. The abrasive grain may include a ceramic material, especially polycrystalline α-Al2O3.
US09771501B2
A two-part adhesive formulation is provided that has an adhesive part A and an activator part B. The part A includes a monomer amount of a methacrylate ester monomer, a crosslinker amount of a polyfunctional monomer, an anti-oxidant, a free-radical polymerization inhibitor, and an adhesion promoter system to improve cured adhesive strength to a substrate, an impact modifier and a toughening agent and a free-radical polymerization initiator. The part B includes an impact modifier, butyl rubber, methacrylate ester monomer, and a free-radical polymerization accelerator yet varies in the weight ratio used relative to part A. Each of the part A and the part B have separate storage stability of at least 300 days at 23° C. A process of applying an adhesive to a substrate is provided that includes combining together parts A and B to form an adhesive mixture and applying the mixture to the substrate and allowed to cure.
US09771500B2
The present invention provides a sealant composition for electronic device, in which the curing does not proceed when heated, which does not cause the problem of use in the mounting process of electronic device. The present invention relates to a sealant composition for electronic device comprising (a) a compound having two or more (meth)acryloyl groups and (c) a nitroxide compound and/or a thiocarbonylthio compound.
US09771496B2
Described are chemical-mechanical polishing compositions (e.g., slurries) and methods of using the slurries for chemical-mechanical polishing (or planarizing) a surface of a substrate that contains tungsten, the compositions containing cationic surfactant and cyclodextrin.
US09771487B2
A sustainable material suitable for three-dimensional printing is disclosed. The sustainable material comprises a resin derived from a bio-based diacid monomer and a bio-based glycol monomer. The resulting sustainable material provides a much more robust 3-D printing material with different properties than conventional materials.
US09771478B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for increasing microcapsule dispersion in self-healing paint and coating applications, and more particularly for non-covalent functionalization of polymeric microcapsule shell walls for improved dispersion in polymeric material formulations. Some embodiments are methods of forming a microcapsule dispersion, the methods including providing a polymeric material capable of forming a plurality of microcapsules; initiating polymerization of the polymeric material under reaction conditions sufficient to permit formation of the plurality of microcapsules; and adding an ethoxy-functionalized dispersant to the polymeric material before formation of the plurality of microcapsules is complete, thereby forming the microcapsule dispersion.
US09771469B2
This invention relates to a tire with tread for promoting a combination of wet traction and service at low temperatures of a rubber composition containing a styrene/butadiene elastomer, cis 1,4-polybutadiene rubber, liquid high Tg styrene/butadiene polymer, resin and vegetable triglyceride oil.
US09771463B2
The invention relates to a hollow glass microsphere and polymer composite having enhanced viscoelastic and rheological properties.
US09771462B2
Methods and materials are described for preparing organic-inorganic hybrid gel compositions where a sulfur-containing cross-linking agent covalently links the organic and inorganic components. The gel compositions are further dried to provide porous gel compositions and aerogels. The mechanical and thermal properties of the dried gel compositions are also disclosed.
US09771461B2
A method for producing a rubber composition include a mixing step, a drying step, and a dispersion step. In the mixing step, an aqueous solution that includes at least one of oxycellulose fibers and cellulose nanofibers is mixed with rubber latex to obtain a first mixture. In the drying step, the first mixture is dried to obtain a second mixture. In the dispersion step, the second mixture is tight-milled using an open roll to obtain a rubber composition. The rubber composition does not include an aggregate that includes at least one of the oxycellulose fibers and the cellulose nanofibers, and has a diameter of 0.1 mm or more.
US09771457B2
Process for the production of a mercapto-terminated liquid polymer with the formula HS—R—(Sy —R)t —SH, wherein each R is independently selected from branched alkanediyl or branched arenediyi groups and groups with the structure —(CH2)p—O—(CH2)q—O—(CH2)r- and wherein 0-20% of the number of R-groups in the polymer are branched alkanediyl or branched arenediyl groups and 80-100% of the number of R-groups in the polymer have the structure —(CH2)p—O—(CH2)r—, wherein t has a value in the range 1-60, y is an average value in the range 1.0-1.5, q is an integer the range 1 to 8, and p and r are integers the range 1-10.The resulting polymer has an improved ability of recovering its original shape after release from deforming compression forces and improved tendency to recover during the application of those forces.
US09771454B2
A method of production of a polyether rubber containing units expressed by the following general formula (1) in 0.1 mol % to less than 30 mol % including reacting a polyether rubber containing epihalohydrin monomer units in 0.1 mol % or more and a nitrogen atom-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound by kneading in the presence of an acid acceptor using an extruder-kneader so as to make at least part of halogen atoms forming the epihalohydrin monomer units be substituted by a group containing a cationic nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic structure is provided. (wherein, in the above general formula (1), A+ is a group containing a cationic nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic structure, where the group containing a cationic nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic structure is bonded with a carbon atom at the “2” position shown in the above general formula (1) through a nitrogen atom forming the cationic nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic structure, and X− is any counter anion.)
US09771452B2
In one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a lighting element located in a housing, wherein the housing is formed from a plastic composition including, for example, a polycarbonate formed from reacting, in the presence of a transesterification catalyst, a diaryl carbonate ester and a bisphenol A, wherein the bisphenol A has a sulfur concentration of 1 ppm to 15 ppm, based upon a weight of the bisphenol A; and a conversion material wherein the conversion material includes an inorganic material that converts radiation of a certain wavelength and re-emits of a different wavelength; wherein after the conversion material has been exposed to an excitation source, the conversion material has a luminescence lifetime of less than 10−4 seconds when the excitation source is removed.
US09771437B2
The present invention describes the preparation of highly-performing “Acrylamide Free” polyelectrolytic polymers by using not toxic monomers and the way such new monomers can be advantageously used in the field of several civil and/or industrial applications. The new polyelectrolytic polymers developed herein can be then used both as replacement of the common acrylamide-based polymers and in the applications wherein the absence of residual toxic polymerization monomers is requested.
US09771432B2
This invention describes a method of conjugating a cell binding agent such as an antibody with an effector group (e.g., a cytotoxic agent) or a reporter group (e.g., a radionuclide), whereby the reporter or effector group is first reacted with a bifunctional linker and the mixture is then used without purification for the conjugation reaction with the cell binding agent. The method described in this invention is advantageous for preparation of stably-linked conjugates of cell binding agents, such as antibodies with effector or reporter groups. This conjugation method provides in high yields conjugates of high purity and homogeneity that are without inter-chain cross-linking and inactivated linker residues.
US09771431B2
The present invention provides antibodies, as well as molecules having at least the antigen-binding portion of an antibody, recognizing a specific epitope of the protein CEACAM1 and optionally binds also other subtypes of the CEACAM protein family. Disclosed antibodies and antibody fragments are characterized by specific CDR sequences. Methods of production and use in therapy and diagnosis, of such antibodies and antibody fragments are also provided.
US09771424B2
The present invention relates to an ICOS binding protein, or antigen binding portion thereof that is an agonist human ICOS and does not induce complement, ADCC, or CDC when placed in contact with a T cell in vivo and methods of treating cancer, infectious disease and/or sepsis with said ICOS binding protein or antigen binding portion thereof. Further the ICOS binding proteins or antigen binding portions thereof of the present invention are capable of activating a T cell when placed in contact with said T cell; stimulating T cell proliferation when placed in contact with said T cell and/or inducing cytokine production when placed in contact with said T cell. The present invention relates to ICOS binding proteins or antigen binding portions thereof comprising one or more of: SEQ ID NO:1; SEQ ID NO:2; SEQ ID NO:3; SEQ ID NO:4; SEQ ID NO:5; and/or SEQ ID NO:6.
US09771422B2
The present disclosure is directed to the treatment of diseases or conditions involving the buildup of fatty tissues, such as obesity, metabolic syndrome, type II diabetes, etc. A composition containing a monoclonal antibody directed against gastric inhibitory polypeptide is administered. This results in a reduced rate of weight gain and a marked decrease in lipid synthesis and accumulation.
US09771420B2
The present invention relates neutralizing epitopes of IL-17A and IL-17F and antibodies which bind those epitopes. The present invention also relates to the therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing them.
US09771417B2
The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies binding to human angiopoietin-like 4 protein (hereinafter, sometimes referred to as “ANGPTL4”), and pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment comprising the same.
US09771415B2
The present invention relates to unique CDR3 amino acid sequences, and to antibodies comprising said sequences. Also provided are therapeutic applications of said antibodies for use in treating or preventing influenza infection, diagnostic applications of said antibodies for use in detecting influenza virus, potency testing of influenza virus vaccines, and screening applications of said antibodies for use in designing a universal influenza vaccine.
US09771413B2
Provided are novel human-derived antibodies specifically recognizing polyomavirus polypeptides, preferably capable of binding to polyomaviruses of the type of JC virus (JCV) and/or BK virus (BKV) as well as methods related thereto. Furthermore, assays and kits related to antibodies specific for polyomaviruses, polyomavirus VP1 and or polyomavirus VP1 Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), preferably of the type of JCV and/or BKV, are disclosed. The human-derived antibodies as well as binding fragments, derivatives and variants thereof can be used in pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions for polyomavirus targeted immunotherapy and diagnostics.
US09771409B2
The present invention discloses cryopreserved recombinant cells for screening drug candidates that transiently overexpress one or more drug transporter proteins and/or drug metabolizing enzymes. Advantageously, such cells provide a cost-efficient consumable product that streamlines the process of screening whether drug candidates are substrates or inhibitors of drug transporter proteins and/or drug metabolizing enzymes.
US09771405B2
This document provides natriuretic polypeptides. For example, this document provides polypeptides having a natriuretic activity. In some cases, a polypeptide provided herein can have natriuretic activities without inducing excessive hypotension. This document also provides methods and materials for inducing natriuretic activities within a mammal.
US09771401B2
The present technology is directed to the nucleic acid molecule encoding novel fluorescent proteins, in particular, green fluorescent proteins (GFPs), such as those that may be isolated from an organism of genus Rhacostoma, as well as compositions comprising the same and methods for analyzing a physiologically active substance in a cell wherein the fluorescent proteins are expressed in the cell.
US09771396B2
The present disclosure describes environmentally responsive polypeptides capable of displaying stimuli-triggered conformational changes in a reversible or irreversible manner that may be accompanied by aggregation. Polypeptides include a number of repeated motifs and may be elastomeric or non-elastomeric. The polypeptides may be used to deliver therapeutics to a biological site and to develop bioactive polypeptides that are environmentally responsive.
US09771394B2
The present invention provides antimicrobial polymyxin compounds of the following formula I: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, or solvates thereof that are antibacterial agents, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, methods for their use, and methods for preparing these compounds.
US09771388B2
The present invention provides novel metal complexes, methods of making, and methods of using the same.
US09771376B2
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables RA, subscript n, ring A, X2, L, subscript m, X1, B, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and RN have the meaning as described herein, and compositions containing such compounds and methods for using such compounds and compositions.
US09771375B2
The present invention is directed to substituted indazole compounds, pharmaceutical compositions of these compounds and methods of use thereof. The compounds of the present invention are ketohexokinase (KHK) inhibitors, useful for treating or ameliorating a KHK mediated metabolic disorders and/or diseases such as obesity, Type II diabetes mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome X. In some embodiments, the substituted indazole compounds are of formula I, wherein R1-R3, Q, X, Y, Z, a, and b are defined herein.
US09771371B2
Provided herein are Heteroaryl Compounds having the following structure: wherein R1-R4 are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a Heteroaryl Compound and methods for treating or preventing cancer, inflammatory conditions, immunological conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes, obesity, neurological disorders, age-related diseases, or cardiovascular conditions, comprising administering an effective amount of a Heteroaryl Compound to a patient in need thereof.
US09771355B2
The invention relates to the compounds of formula I and formula Ia or its pharmaceutical acceptable polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of formula I or formula Ia; and methods for treating or preventing epilepsy, seizures and convulsions may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, intravenous, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of epilepsy, seizures and convulsions.
US09771353B2
Compounds are of formula (I): The compounds have antiinflammatory activity (e.g., through inhibition of one or more of members of: the family of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase enzymes; Syk kinase; and members of the Src family of tyrosine kinases) and have use in therapy, including in pharmaceutical combinations, especially in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory diseases of the lung, eye and intestines.
US09771350B2
This invention relates to a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Such compounds possess both muscarinic receptor antagonist and β2 adrenergic receptor agonist activities. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds as bronchodilating agents to treat pulmonary disorders.
US09771347B2
Disclosed herein is a process of making a compound of formula I The compound of formula I is an inhibitor of MEK and thus can be used to treat cancer.
US09771345B2
The present invention is directed to a monomer useful in preparing therapeutic compounds. The monomer includes one or more pharmacophores which potentially binds to a target molecule with a dissociation constant of less than 300 μM and a linker element connected to the pharmacophore. The linker element has a molecular weight less than 500 daltons, is connected, directly or indirectly through a connector, to the pharmacophore.
US09771343B2
The present invention belongs to the field of natural medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry, and specifically relates to novel 2-alkyl- or 2-aromatic-substituted tanshinone I derivatives of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a process for the preparation of these compounds, compositions containing such compounds and their use in preparing antineoplastic medicaments. When Z=R, said derivative is 2-alkyl-substituted tanshinone I; when Z=Ar, said derivative is 2-aryl-substituted tanshinone I; when Z=Het, said derivative is 2-heteroaryl- or 2-heterocyclyl-substituted tanshinone I.
US09771342B2
The present invention relates to a novel monascuspurpurone compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof as described in the specification, the process for preparation of the same, and the composition comprising the same. The uses to of a monascuspurpurone compound for promoting adipocyte differentiation, for increasing the activity of PPARγ and/or C/EBPα, for lowering blood glucose, for preventing and/or treating a disease or disorder related to insulin resistance, and for preventing and/or treating metabolic syndrome or its complications are also provided.
US09771337B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having the formula: where R1, R2, R3, X, R4, R5, and R6 are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds have neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and process and intermediates for preparing such compounds.
US09771321B2
A family of covalent kinetic stabilizer compounds that selectively and covalently react with the prominent plasma protein transthyretin in preference to more than 4000 other human plasma proteins is disclosed. A contemplated compound corresponds in structure to Formula I, below, where the various substituents are defined within, and reacts chemoselectively with one or two of four Lys-15 ε-amino groups within the transthyretin tetramer. The crystal structure confirms the binding orientation of the compound substructure and the conjugating amide bond. A covalent transthyretin kinetic stabilizer exhibits superior amyloid inhibition potency, compared to a non-covalent counterpart, and inhibits cytotoxicity associated with amyloidogenesis.
US09771319B2
A specific cross-linker, an alkaline metal bis(styrenesulfonyl)imide monomer, is used in the synthesis of single ionic conductive copolymers that are non-fluorinated and non-PEO based. Such copolymers meet the security and costs requirements to be used as solid polymers electrolytes (SPE). They are promising alternatives to standard liquid electrolytes in alkaline metal-ion batteries because of their improved security and inflammability properties. The copolymers described are either polyvinylsulfonates or acrylate vinylsulfonate block-copolymers. Preferred acrylate monomers are methacrylates and preferred vinylsulfonates are styrene sulfonates. The copolymer is prepared by radical polymerization of the vinyl sulfonate and the cross-linker and optionally the acrylate, in particular radical photopolymerization using a functionalized bis(acyl)phosphane oxide (BAPO) as photoinitiator. Also described is the use of such copolymer as solid polymer electrolyte in a lithium ion battery.
US09771311B2
Method for coupling a phenol and an arene using selenium dioxide, and also novel phenol-arene derivatives.
US09771304B2
Disclosed are embodiments of synthetic garnet materials for use in radiofrequency applications. In some embodiments, increased amounts of bismuth can be added into specific sites in the crystal structure of the synthetic garnet in order to boost certain properties, such as the dielectric constant and magnetization. Accordingly, embodiments of the disclosed materials can be used in high frequency applications, such as in base station antennas.
US09771299B2
The invention provides an environment-friendly optical glass with excellent negative anomalous dispersion performance and an optical element. The optical glass with excellent negative anomalous dispersion performance contains 0-5% of Nb2O5, exclusive of TiO2 and F, wherein the relative partial dispersion Pg, F of the optical glass is less than 0.57, and the negative anomalous dispersion ΔPg, F is less than and equal to −0.008. There is no need to add any non-environmentally friendly element into the optical glass provided by the present invention, with the refractive index of 1.60-1.65, the Abbe number of 40-46, and the negative anomalous dispersion ΔPg, F of generally less than −0.01. Therefore, the optical glass, with excellent negative anomalous dispersion performance and environmental performance, is applicable to be extensively applied to digital camera, digital video, camera phone, etc.
US09771298B2
Apparatus and method for producing a reliable breaking line for the industrial cutting to length of glass sheets by means of a cutting wheel running on a float glass line under pressure imposed from above, with the following features: a) the location of the beginning of a breaking line is determined and a cutting wheel holder (20) with a cutting wheel (2) is brought into position, b) the cutting wheel holder (20) is lowered and the cutting wheel (2) is lowered onto the glass sheet (1) concerned with the desired pressing pressure, wherein the pressing pressure is set by means of a swing arm (3) and is monitored by means of a strain gauge (4) secured thereto, c) a change in the height of the glass sheet (1) prompts a control signal for an actuating motor (12) to be derived from the change in the resistance of the strain gauge (4), and the actuating motor brings about a corresponding change in the pressing pressure of the cutting wheel (2).
US09771290B2
The present invention provides a process for working up alkaline waste water which is formed during washing of crude nitrobenzene obtained by nitration of benzene, wherein (i) the alkaline waste water is heated to a temperature of from 150° C. to 500° C. under an increased pressure with respect to atmospheric pressure with exclusion of oxygen; (ii) a base is added to the waste water obtained in (i); and (iii) the waste water obtained in (ii) is purified further by stripping with a stripping gas and the stripping gas stream loaded with impurities is then cooled to a temperature of from 10° C. to 60° C.
US09771287B2
Installation and method for processing wastewater, comprising: a) providing wastewater for processing; b) reducing O2 content of said wastewater by unactivated aerobic digestion; c) subsequently to ‘b’, eliminating substantially all O2 from said wastewater by anaerobic digestion; d) subsequently to ‘c’, transferring said wastewater to a closed photobioreactor; and e) subsequently to ‘d’, maintaining said wastewater in said photobioreactor in conditions favorable for algal photosynthesis, thereby allowing algae to grow in said photobioreactor. A method for growing algae is also disclosed whereby time, density and flow speed are controlled. The photobioreactor may have a conduit with two proportions of different cross sections.
US09771285B2
An apparatus for a programmable self sanitizing water dispenser apparatus with a digital controller as well as a programmable method for generating ozone for cleaning the reservoir and the water contained within it. The apparatus includes an anti-spill receiver that houses the controller and that can contain a ozone generator.
US09771272B2
To provide an oxide semiconductor with a novel structure. Such an oxide semiconductor is composed of an aggregation of a plurality of InGaZnO4 crystals each of which is larger than or equal to 1 nm and smaller than or equal to 3 nm, and in the oxide semiconductor, the plurality of InGaZnO4 crystals have no orientation. Alternatively, such an oxide semiconductor is such that a diffraction pattern like a halo pattern is observed by electron diffraction measurement performed by using an electron beam with a probe diameter larger than or equal to 300 nm, and that a diffraction pattern having a plurality of spots arranged circularly is observed by electron diffraction measurement performed by using an electron beam with a probe diameter larger than or equal to 1 nm and smaller than or equal to 30 nm.
US09771269B2
Carbon dioxide, such as may be used for a carbonated beverage, is produced by microwave thermal decomposition of a starting material. An apparatus for the process includes a microwave generator, a microwave chamber, a capsule received in the chamber containing starting material(s) and one or more channel(s) for recovering CO2 generated in the process.
US09771265B2
Methods are disclosed for manufacturing carbon rods from lignin scrap and for using such lignin-derived carbon rods for manufacturing carbon nanotubes in an arc discharge process.
US09771258B2
A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) package includes a substrate extending between a first pair of outer edges to define a length and a second pair of outer edges to define a width. A seal ring assembly is disposed on the substrate and includes at least one seal ring creating a first boundary point adjacent to at least one MEMS device and a second boundary point adjacent at least one of the outer edges. The package further includes a window lid on the seal ring assembly to define a seal gap containing the at least one MEMS device. The seal ring assembly anchors the window lid to the substrate at the second boundary point such that deflection of the window lid into the seal gap is reduced.
US09771251B2
A gathering and dispensing scoop with agitating gate valve provides a scoop body defining an upper opening, a bottom opening, and a channel extending therebetween. A handle extends radially from an outer peripheral surface of the scoop body. A gate valve transects the channel and has a user operable finger tab adjacent to the handle for a user to move the gate valve from a first position transecting the channel and obstructing the bottom opening to a second position wherein the gate valve no longer obstructs the channel and opens the bottom opening.
US09771249B2
Disclosed is a sporting vehicle lift that lifts a sporting vehicle and allows a car to be placed under the lifted vehicle. Sling arms that move vertically on a lift tower are connected to a lift pan with pivot connector to raise and lower the lift pan with respect to the floor and allow said lift pan to pivot. The lift pan rotates towards the tower by either placing the pivot connectors on the lift pan in a position so that the center of gravity causes the lift pan to rotate towards the tower, or by using a tilt arm, that is connected to the lift pan, which engages a pivot pin on the tower to rotate the lift pan as the lift pan is raised.
US09771245B2
Disclosed is a tired gantry crane and a straddle carrier for receiving power in a contactless fashion, and the tired gantry crane includes a rechargeable battery provided to supply power from the inside thereof, and a power collecting unit configured to receive power from a power supply unit installed at the outside, wherein the power supply unit and the power collecting unit interact with each other by means of magnetic induction. The straddle carrier includes a power collecting unit configured to receive power in a contactless fashion from a power supply unit installed at the outside, the power collecting unit charges a rechargeable battery installed at the straddle carrier, and the power supply unit and the power collecting unit interact with each other by means of magnetic induction.
US09771244B2
The invention relates to an elevator comprising a hoistway; an elevator car vertically movable in the hoistway; a plurality of ropes connected to the car; a rotatable traction member comprising a circumferential traction surface area for each of the several ropes; each rope being arranged to pass around the rotatable traction member resting against a circumferential traction surface area of the traction member; drive machinery for controlling rotation of the rotatable traction member. The elevator comprises means for detecting displacement of each of the ropes over a first limit position of the rope in the first axial direction of the rotatable traction member, and over a second limit position of the rope in the second axial direction of the traction member; and in that displacement of one or more of said ropes in axial direction of the rotatable traction member over the first or second limit position is arranged to trigger the drive machinery to stop the rotation of the rotatable traction member.
US09771241B2
The elevator system includes an elevator hoistway bounded by a surrounding structure, two or more entrances to the elevator hoistway, guide rails, which are fitted into the elevator hoistway and also an elevator car with door(s), which elevator car is configured to be movable in the elevator hoistway between the aforementioned entrances to the elevator hoistway along a vertical trajectory determined by the guide rails. Each entrance to the elevator hoistway may be bounded by a door frame, onto which a hoistway door is fitted. The door opening of the elevator car may be bounded by a door frame, onto which the car door is fitted. The elevator system includes for each entrance to the elevator hoistway a marking piece fixed immovably to the frame of the hoistway door, wherein the marking piece indicates the location in the elevator hoistway of the entrance to the elevator hoistway. The elevator system may also include a reader moving along with the elevator car, wherein the reader may be fixed immovably to a fixing point on the frame of the car door and may be configured to read the marking piece.
US09771240B2
Embodiments are directed to reducing at least one dynamically generated error in terms of an actual position of an elevator car, comprising: triggering an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to compute a position of an elevator car of an elevator system, obtaining a position of a correcting vane in a hoist-way of the elevator system, obtaining a position of the elevator car as determined by an encoder of the elevator system, and estimating the position of the elevator car based on the computation of the position by the IMU, the position of the correcting vane, and the position of the elevator car as determined by the encoder.
US09771228B2
A sheet feeding device has a mounting portion allowing a stack of sheets to be mounted in a top-bottom direction, a suction/transportation portion provided above the mounting portion for attracting a first sheet positioned on top of the stack, and a blowing portion for blowing air to a foremost edge of the first sheet in a transportation direction while the first sheet is being attracted by the suction/transportation portion, thereby separating the first sheet from a second sheet next to the first sheet. After the first sheet is separated from the second sheet, the suction/transportation portion transports the first sheet in the transportation direction. The suction/transportation portion sets a suction force applied to the foremost edge of the first sheet smaller when the blowing portion blows air to the first sheet than when the suction/transportation portion transports the first sheet.
US09771224B2
An apparatus for moving proppant from a container has a frame with a surface for suitable for receiving a container thereon, a hopper affixed to the frame, and a conveyor having a surface positioned below the hopper. The hopper has an opening at or adjacent to a lower end thereof. The hopper is suitable for receiving proppant from the container. The surface of the conveyor is suitable for receiving the proppant a discharged through the opening of the hopper. A receptacle is translatably positioned at the surface of the frame. A metering gate is translatably positioned adjacent to the opening of the hopper.
US09771218B2
Disclosed is a method for picking items according to the goods-to-man principle a picking station in which items are placed in order load carriers that are conveyed through the picking station in a row, and the put place of the order load carriers in the row changes when a chronologically preceding order load carrier is loaded and conveyed away. This disclosure also relates to a corresponding order picking station.
US09771215B2
The present application includes a trash can assembly having a container configured to hold a trash bag. The container includes a door assembly in communication with one or more walls of a container. The door assembly includes an opening to permit the passage of a collection of trash bags. The assembly also includes a defined internal compartment to house and protect the trash bags within the container. The compartment may include a slot for withdrawal of a trash bag internally or may be sealed with a slot in the door for external withdrawal.
US09771214B1
Metal tableware articles are separated from trash as the trash is deposited into a trash container through a removable cover having brackets supporting a shaft of a magnetic bar assembly for rotation on a horizontal axis. The shaft is rotated from outside the cover by an axially movable rotatable pin having a knob on its outer end and extending through the side wall of the cover for releasably engaging one end of the shaft. When the knob and pin are retracted axially, the bar assembly may be lowered from the cover for cleaning. The bar assembly has axially spaced magnetic plate units each having a pair of generally triangular metal plates with flat corner surfaces and with a panel of magnetic material of the same shape sandwiched between the plates. The bar assembly is spaced above the bottom surface of the cover for protection of the bar assembly.
US09771211B2
A capsule, including: a deformable casing defining a cavity containing an initial product joined to a fluid for making a final product; a nozzle associated with the casing to inject the fluid of a brewing machine, the nozzle having a longitudinal side wall being provided with at least one outflow opening to the cavity, and the nozzle having an end wall provided with a second opening enabling the final product to exit from the cavity.
US09771204B2
An insulated container that includes a body and a lid assembly is described. The lid assembly may include a two-piece lid (e.g., two lids) connected with at least one linkage. The two lids may be operable to open in concert in response to a user asserting a single force applied on one of the lids. For example, the lid assembly may be configured such that the assertion of an opening force on one of the lids is transferred via the linkage to the other lid so that both lids open at a similar rate.
US09771202B1
A moisture removal pouch is disclosed with a main pouch body including a front panel portion defining at least one permanently sealed front compartment with desiccated silica permanently sealed therein, a rear panel portion opposite the front panel portion and defining at least one permanently sealed rear compartment with desiccated silica permanently sealed therein, the front and rear panel portions permanently sealed together at a bottom edge and side edges so as to define an electronic device receiving cavity and a main pouch body opening sized to receive an electronic device into the electronic device cavity. The pouch also includes an air-permeable inner liner facilitating a moisture removal operational configuration in which the main pouch body opening is closed in a non-airtight sealable manner and includes a pouch cover disposed to selectively cover the main pouch body opening in the non-airtight sealable manner.
US09771192B2
The invention relates to a method for producing tubular bags made from plastic film or from composite film having a plastic layer on the bag content side, having a self-cutting plastic closure attached to the tubular bag, consisting of a spout part having a fastening flange, a cutting body, which is movably guided in the spout part, and a screw cover having means for activating the cutting body. The film material (5) is supplied from a supply roll to a bag manufacturing machine and the plastic closure is sealed onto the film material in a spout region of a tubular bag. According to the invention, the film material (5) is thinned on the inside of the bag in a ring-shaped region, which is intended for cutting by the cutting body, by means of a thermal embossing process. The plastic closure is then positioned and sealed onto the film material such that the cutting organ embedded in the spout part can become effective in the thinned, ring-shaped region upon use thereof.
US09771189B2
A water bottle cap system combination that can be used with wide mouth water bottles or mason jars. The water bottle cap system includes a large cap portion and a small cap portion, which are coupled by a flexible strap. The small cap portion can be screwed onto the spout of the large cap portion, which is screwed onto the water bottle or mason jar. The small cap portion can be unscrewed from the spout and temporarily attached to the strap so that the small cap portion is out of the way of the spout, but still attached to the water bottle cap system, during drinking or pouring from the water bottle.
US09771188B2
A personal utensil and container for transporting the utensil in a relatively sanitary fashion includes a first container portion and a second container portion pivotably mounted to the first container portion. The first container portion is pivotable between a closed position defining a storage cavity and an open position exposing a first inner surface of the first container portion and a second inner surface of the second container portion. The utensil is mountable within the storage cavity. A hinge is secured to the first and second container portions and defines a pivot axis. The first and second container portions are pivotable about the pivot axis. A lock mechanism is mounted to the first container portion. The lock mechanism engages the second container portion in the closed position to releasably secure the first container portion to the second container portion.
US09771186B1
A handled shipping bag or sack is described that is capable of manufacture without requiring registration of the handle to a width of the bag. The shipping bag includes a cover tape having perforations particularly well suited for finger holds of a user that center the users hand relative to the width of the bag without requiring a registration of the finger holds relative to the bag during the manufacture of the bag.
US09771185B2
A package has a package body and a handle for carrying the package. The package body has at least one face and a reclosable opening on the at least one face. The handle is positioned over the reclosable opening and has a first strap, a second strap, and a connection portion. The first strap includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the first strap is attached to a face of the package body. The second strap includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the second strap is attached to a face of the package body and is disposed opposite to the first end of the first strap. The connection portion is located on the second end of the second strap and is detachably engaged to the second end of the first strap.
US09771180B2
A handle may be provided with a neck supporting part that mates with the neck of the bottle, a bottom supporting part that receives the bottom of a bottle and supports the bottom of the bottle, and a gripping part that connects the bottom supporting part and the neck supporting part. The neck supporting part may have a first engagement part and a second engagement part with which the neck may engage and disengage. The gripping part extends in a substantially vertical direction along the body of the bottle when the neck is engaged with the first engagement part and extends in a substantially slanted direction relative to the substantially vertical direction so as to draw apart from the bottle when the neck is engaged with the second engagement part.
US09771178B2
Resin pallets having a deck and a base, where the deck and base are joined by an interlock, which is optionally reversible, are described. Methods of making such pallets by assembling the pallets by interlocking parts to form the pallets, in an optionally reversible method, are also described.
US09771167B2
A method of starting a turboshaft engine (5) of an aircraft (1), said aircraft (1) being provided with a rotary wing, said aircraft (1) having a freewheel (15) interposed in a drive train (10) between said engine (5) and a rotor (2) of said rotary wing (1), said engine (5) comprising a gas generator (6) and a free turbine (9), the drive train (10) including an upstream portion (11) connecting said free turbine (9) to said freewheel (15), the method comprising the following steps: measuring the torque (Tq) exerted on said upstream portion (11), and measuring a speed of rotation (Ng) of said gas generator (6); comparing said torque (Tq) with a torque threshold (Stq) and comparing said speed of rotation (Ng) with a gas generator speed threshold (Sng); and stopping said engine (5) when said torque (Tq) is less than the torque threshold (Stq) and when said speed of rotation (Ng) is greater than the gas generator speed threshold (Sng).
US09771164B2
A more-electric engine (MEE) system configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes includes a first power generating sub-system and a second power generating sub-system. The first power generating sub-system is configured to output electric power to a first power bus. The second power generating sub-system is configured to output electric power to a second power bus. The MEE system further includes an electronic source/load management and distribution (SLMD) module in power and signal communication with each of the first power generating sub-system, the second power generating sub-system, and the plurality of electrical sub-systems. The electronic SLMD module is configured to selectively operate the MEE system in one of a first operating mode or a second operating mode among the plurality of operating modes. The first and second operating modes adjust the delivery of the first and second electric power to the first and second power buses.
US09771159B1
A canopy release assembly includes a base plate member and a pin assembly movably coupled to the base plate member. The pin assembly is configured to move to and from a locked state and an unlocked state. A cover is pivotally coupled to the base plate member and is configured to move to and from a closed state to an open state. A first release member has a first end coupled to the pin assembly and is configured to move the pin assembly to the unlocked state in the open state of the cover. A second release member is coupled to the cover and configured to engage the pin assembly in the closed state of the cover to move the pin assembly to the unlocked state.
US09771158B2
An electrothermal heater mat for anti-icing or de-icing of a helicopter rotor blade or other aerodynamic surface comprises a substrate, such as a flexible polyimide sheet, bearing tracks of a material of selected electrical resistivity, these tracks being formed by printing onto the substrate with a thermosetting ink loaded with electrically conductive (e.g. carbon) particles. Electrical bus bars/terminals for the supply of electrical energy to the resistive tracks may also be printed, using an ink loaded with particles of higher conductivity material such as copper or silver.
US09771156B2
A passenger seat device for a vehicle cabin comprises a front end and a rear end, a backrest arranged at the rear end, a plurality of seat surface segments extending from the rear end to the front end and a seat frame for carrying the seat surface segments and the backrest. The seat surface segments are arranged in a side-by-side relationship and constitute a seat surface and the seat surface segments are individually adjustable between at least two different vertical positions relative to the seat frame. The passenger seat device may flexibly seat passengers with different constitutions.
US09771151B2
A rotor blade for a reaction drive type helicopter is provided. The rotor blade includes a main duct extending from a proximal end, couplable to and for fluid communication with a rotor hub, to a distal end for ducting a first air/gas stream from the rotor hub to the distal end. A nozzle is attached to an outlet of the main duct at the distal end for receiving the first air/gas stream from the main duct and releasing the first air/gas stream to propel the rotor blade. A circulation control is carried at a trailing edge of the blade. A trailing edge duct is carried intermediate the trailing edge and the main duct and is in fluid communication with the main duct by a partition with a plurality of orifices formed therein to bleed air from the main duct and generate a second air/gas stream therein with a pressure less than the pressure of the first air/gas stream. The trailing edge duct supplies the second air/gas stream to the circulation control.
US09771145B2
According to one embodiment, a flight control system includes a pilot control assembly and a flight control computer. The pilot control assembly can receive commands from a pilot. The flight control computer can receive, from the pilot control assembly, a pilot command to change a first flight characteristic, wherein changing the first flight characteristic would result in an expected change to a second flight characteristic. The flight control computer can instruct, in response to the received pilot command, the flight control system to change a first operating condition of the flight control system based on an inherently-coupled relationship between the first flight characteristic and the second flight characteristic. The flight control computer can instruct, in response to the expected change to the second flight characteristic, the flight control system to change a second operating condition of the flight control system.
US09771144B2
A high lift system for an aircraft, comprises a drive unit, a high lift surface, at least one primary drive station, each primary drive station having a shaft connection couplable with the drive unit and a primary lever couplable with the high lift surface. The high lift system further comprises at least one secondary unit, each secondary unit having a secondary lever couplable with the high lift surface. Each one of the at least one primary drive station is adapted for moving the respective primary lever on driving the shaft connection, and each one of the at least one secondary unit comprises a selectively activatable brake, such that the secondary lever follows the motion of the one of the at least one high lift surface when the brake is deactivated.
US09771141B2
A slat control system for an aircraft may include a flight control computer configured to generate a gap command in response to an occurrence of a gap-command condition. The slat control system may further include an edge control system including an edge control device having a plurality of control device positions including at least one designated control device position. The slat control system may additionally include a device actuation system configured to move a leading edge device of an aircraft. The edge control system may be configured to automatically command the device actuation system to extend the leading edge device from a sealed position to a gapped position when the edge control device is in the designated control device position and the gap command is received by the edge control system.
US09771133B2
A water mat is provided. The mat includes a first buoyant layer, a netting layer and a second buoyant layer. The netting layer may be adhered in between the upper and lower foam layers. The netting layer may include crisscrossing fibers having a first set of fibers substantially parallel relative to each other and a second set of fibers substantially parallel relative to each other. The first set of fibers crisscross with the second set of fibers, and are thereby perpendicular relative to the second set of fibers. The netting layer provides additional strength to the mat.
US09771132B1
A floating apparatus for supporting a grill including a substantially rectangular float having an outer rim, a substantially rectangular base disposed within the outer rim, and a cavity disposed within the outer rim above the base. Each of a right grill support and a left grill support of a pair of grill supports has a linear base rod and an upper support attached to a top surface of the base rod. The base rod of each of the right grill support and the left grill support is disposed within the cavity. A plurality of magnets is disposed within a middle segment of the upper support of each of the right grill support and the left grill support. At least one cup holder unit is disposed within the cavity of the float. A portable outdoor grill is removably securable to the plurality of magnets.
US09771126B2
A bicycle crank assembly is basically provided with a bicycle crank arm and an electrical unit. The bicycle crank arm includes a crank portion and a sprocket mounting portion. The sprocket mounting portion includes at least one sprocket mounting arm having a distal end part forming a sprocket mounting structure. The electrical unit includes a first attachment part that is disposed on a first sprocket mounting arm of the at least one sprocket mounting arm at the sprocket mounting structure.
US09771110B2
A method is provided for enhancing in-service structural performance of a sheet metal component incorporating a discontinuity. The method comprises heat-treating a zone of the sheet metal component a predetermined distance from the discontinuity thereby changing the strength and ductility of the zone and shifting the deformation induced in the sheet metal component by a subsequent deformation event away from the discontinuity to the zone.
US09771104B2
To provide a torque detection device which allows less deformation of detection coils than in the conventional techniques in axially pressing and holding in yokes, coil bobbins around which the detection coils are wound. A torque sensor includes a pair of coils, coil bobbins around which the coils are respectively wound, yokes which respectively hold the coil bobbins, one yoke cover fitted by pressing into inner diameters of the yokes, and pressing portions which are formed to project radially and outward at a plurality of circumferential positions of a radial outer end portion of respective flange portions of the coil bobbins, and act between the coil bobbins to axially press the coil bobbins during assembly.
US09771103B2
A method of controlling disturbances associated with electric power steering (EPS) systems maintains an original assist torque to feedback signal in the EPS, such as a column torque, and further minimizes the impact from the disturbance source to the feedback signal so that the disturbance is rejected while the original steering feel is maintained. The method further considers interaction of the rejection feature with other functions of the EPS. In one embodiment, relationships for isolating the disturbance are achieved by utilizing a combined feedback and feed-forward compensator.
US09771100B2
Provided is a control device for a steer-by-wire steering mechanism, the control device including: a tire lateral force detection unit configured to detect tire lateral forces acting on left and right wheels; and a toe angle control unit configured to control toe angles of left and right wheels independently of each other such that the detected tire lateral forces become target lateral forces. Not during deceleration, the toe angle control unit sets target lateral forces FLt and FRt such that the total sum of the left and right target lateral forces is not changed and the total sum of absolute values thereof is decreased, and during deceleration, the toe angle control unit sets the target lateral forces FLt and FRt such that straight traveling stability can be obtained.
US09771097B2
An active-return control section that calculates a return control current based on a steering angle, the vehicle speed and a motor angular velocity/Gr ratio, and drives the motor by a compensated-current command value obtained by subtracting the return control current from the current command value. The active-return control section includes a base-return control current calculating section that calculates a base-return control current, a target steering velocity calculating section that calculates a target steering velocity, a return control gain calculating section that obtains a deviation between the target steering velocity and the motor angular velocity/Gr ratio and sign-processes, and calculates a return control gain by at least two among a P-control calculation, an I-control calculation and a D-control calculation, a limiter that limits a maximum value of the return control gain, and a correcting section to output the return control current by correcting the control current with output of the limiter.
US09771086B2
An air-conditioning duct in a passenger car of transportation which is extended in a vehicle length direction in a ceiling portion of the passenger car utilized by the general public and receives conditioned air from an air-conditioning apparatus regulating a temperature of the air to guide the conditioned air into an inside of the passenger car. The air-conditioning duct in a passenger car has a non-uniform distribution configuration which makes the discharge volume of the conditioned air from the air-conditioning duct into the inside of the passenger car different and non-uniform among the respective regions of the inside of the passenger car.
US09771082B2
A method for reducing cognitive demand on a vehicle operator comprises detecting one or more passengers in a vehicle in addition to the vehicle operator, determining an acceptable level of cognitive demand on the vehicle operator corresponding to an operating environment, determining an existing level of cognitive demand on the vehicle operator in the operating environment, determining whether the existing level of cognitive demand is greater than the acceptable level of cognitive demand, and wherein, if the existing level of cognitive demand is greater than the acceptable level of cognitive demand, generating a stimulus directed to the one or more passengers in order to reduce the existing level of cognitive demand on the vehicle operator.
US09771078B2
An autonomous mode controller (61) that outputs an acceleration command (SAa), a braking command (SBa) and a torque command (Ta) is connected to a steering actuator (33) and a traveling drive unit (52). The steering actuator (33) generates combined torque (T1) based upon steering torque (Tm) from a steering handle (32) and the torque command (Ta), and controls a steering angle (θ) of a vehicle based upon the combined torque (T1). The traveling drive unit (52) selects a larger one of an acceleration command (SAm) by an accelerator pedal (50) and the acceleration command (SAa) as an acceleration command (SA), and selects a larger one of a braking command (SBm) by a brake pedal (51) and the acceleration command (SBa) as a braking command (SB). The traveling drive unit (52) controls a vehicle speed based upon the acceleration command (SA) and the braking command (SB).
US09771076B2
A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to allow cranking of an engine by increasing clutch torque at a time a deceleration request is detected during free running in which a vehicle is allowed to run in a state in which a clutch is disengaged and the engine is stopped, and makes an increasing rate of the clutch torque larger at a time when a negative pressure of a brake booster is small than at a time when the negative pressure of the brake booster is large.
US09771075B2
A method is provided for use in a vehicle. The vehicle includes a transmission, a turbocharger, a transmission control module (TCM), an engine, and an engine control module (ECM). The engine includes a crankshaft that rotates at an engine speed and the turbocharger includes a turbine that rotates at a turbine speed. The method includes requesting a downshift of the transmission from an off-going gear ratio to an on-coming gear ratio. The turbine is rotating at an off-going turbine speed at the off-going gear ratio and the turbine is configured to rotate at an on-coming turbine speed at the on-coming gear ratio, greater than the off-going gear speed. A determination is made that the requested downshift is a powerdown low-throttle shift. An engine speed request value is then transmitted from the TCM to the ECM. The transmitted engine speed request value is at least equal to the on-coming gear speed.
US09771068B2
There is provided a running-support system and a running-support method capable of providing more suitable running support at the time of turning a curve. In the running-support system or the running-support method, a steering-support section provides steering support using at least one of a piece of map information on a curve and a lane image picked up by an image pickup section at the time of turning the curve. The steering-support section suppresses the steering support without being based on the piece of map information when the steering-support section detects an end point of the curve on the basis of the lane image.
US09771067B2
In motor double-drive mode, a first rotation speed and a second rotation speed as a drive shaft rotation speed are calculated from rotation speeds of motors on the assumption that an engine rotation speed is zero. A state where a difference between the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed is larger than a threshold continues, and, when a malfunction counter becomes larger than a threshold, it is determined that there is a malfunction in a one-way clutch or pinion gears. At a start of the engine, it is determined that there is a malfunction in the one-way clutch when the engine rotation speed is normally increasing, and it is determined that there is a malfunction in the pinion gears when the engine rotation speed is not normally increasing.
US09771062B2
A method for braking a vehicle driving forward, in which the vehicle has a propulsion system including a combustion engine with an output shaft (2a), a gearbox (3) with an input shaft (3a), an electric machine (9) comprising a stator and a rotor, and a planetary gear comprising three components in the form of a sun gear (10), a ring gear (11) and a planet wheel carrier (12). The vehicle is driven with one of the components connected to an output shaft of the combustion engine rotating with a lower rotational speed than one of the components connected to the electric machine. When the vehicle is braked, the electric machine is controlled to apply a brake torque to the input shaft of the gearbox, making the rotational speed of the combustion engine increase.
US09771061B2
A control system is for a vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine. The control system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to limit an output of the internal combustion engine when the electronic control unit determines that the vehicle runs in an unmanned state, such that the output of the internal combustion engine is lower the vehicle runs in the unmanned state than when the vehicle runs in a manned state.
US09771058B2
A control method of a hybrid vehicle may include performing a series of commands by a control portion including determining whether an accelerator pedal change amount detected by an accelerator pedal sensor is greater than a predetermined value, starting up an engine through a Hybrid Shaft Generator (HSG) during conversion into an HEV mode from an EV mode, controlling the engine to output constant torque, and synchronizing engine torque with motor torque to engage a clutch.
US09771055B1
A front impact mitigation system for a host vehicle and a method for operating a front impact mitigation system. The front impact mitigation system can take into account the position of a rear object that trails the host vehicle to develop a modified front impact mitigation control signal that at least partially mitigates the likelihood of certain rear impact collisions between the rear object and the host vehicle when the host vehicle is responding to the presence of an impending leading obstacle. A modified front impact mitigation control signal may be developed to account for the speed of the host vehicle and the distance that the rear object trails the host vehicle.
US09771050B1
Airbag cushion assemblies comprising an airbag inflation tunnel positioned within an airbag cushion. Some embodiments may comprise an airbag cushion comprising an inflator opening and an airbag inflation tunnel coupled to the airbag cushion. The inflation tunnel may be configured to direct inflation gas from an inflator positioned within the inflator opening down the airbag inflation tunnel upon deployment of the inflator. A plurality of directional vent openings may be positioned within the airbag inflation tunnel that may be configured to direct the inflation gas laterally relative to the inflator. The inflation tunnel may further be configured such that the inflation gas contacts a terminal end of the inflation tunnel prior to exiting the plurality of directional vent openings.
US09771042B2
A system for classifying an occupant located on a seating surface of a vehicle seat. The system includes a movable element and an electrode located in the vehicle seat. A sensing circuit is provided to supply a signal to the conductor. The sensing circuit also includes measurement electronics configured to measure the signal to the conductor and the vibration of the moveable element. A controller is configured to discriminate between different types of objects located on the seating surface based on changes in the signal being supplied to the conductor and the vibration of the moveable element.
US09771036B2
An electrically conductive path connecting member includes a plurality of conductors and one pair of insulating holding members. The plurality of conductors respectively have bent parts in a longitudinal direction. The one pair of insulating holding members hold both end parts of the conductors.
US09771032B2
A vehicle dent guard for protecting the sides or doors of a vehicle from dents and scratches. The vehicle dent guard is telescopic and includes an outer tubular member having one or more inner tubular members adjustably positioned therein. The tubular members preferably have a semi-cylindrical shape such that one side is rounded and the other side is flat. The flat side can be affixed to the door of a car in a horizontal orientation by means of fasteners thereon, such as magnets. Once installed, the inner tubular members can be extended from the outer tubular member in order to protect the entire width of the vehicle door. In this way, the vehicle dent guard absorbs the impact of a collision so that an object does not directly strike the vehicle door.
US09771031B2
A metallic decorative part for a vehicle display device includes: a substrate body molded from synthetic resin; a metal thin film formed of metal and deposited on a surface of the substrate body; and a mirror surface formed on a surface of the metal thin film in accordance with a surface shape of the substrate body. The mirror surface is formed such that, in a waviness curve obtained from the surface shape with a cutoff value defined as 250 μm, and in terms of a ratio between an amplitude as an average height of a waviness waveform and a wavelength as an average length of the waviness waveform, the ratio of the wavelength to the amplitude of 1 is equal to or greater than 600 and equal to or smaller than 6000, and mirror surface roughness is greater than 0 and equal to or smaller than 0.35 μm.
US09771028B2
A load carrying assembly for use with a pick-up truck having a load carrying bed, includes a first load bearing structure and a second load bearing structure which are both mounted to the truck above the bed. The structure includes a cross member and a pair of spaced apart upright support members. The structure includes a cross member and a pair of spaced apart upright support members. The assembly further includes an interlocking system comprising connecting formations in the form of bolt holes defined through the members and nuts and bolts for releasably bolting the structures to one another in an arrangement wherein certain members abut one another, thereby to form a unitary combined load bearing structure to provide for enhanced stable support of the load by the structure.
US09771027B2
The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a console support panel which includes a first portion defining a cavity to receive therein a pivot shaft of an inertia block; and a second portion positioned next to the first portion and to support a movable cover, wherein the first portion further includes a lead-in rib extending into the cavity to restrain translational movement of the pivot shaft. In certain embodiments, the lead-in rib includes first and second lead-in ribs to restrain translational movement of first and second ends of the pivot shaft, respectively.
US09771026B2
One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to a storage container including first, second and third walls, a first panel having first and second sides, the first side being connected to the first wall, and a second panel having third and fourth sides, the third side being connected to the second side, the fourth side being connected to and movable along the second and third walls.
US09771021B1
Pedestrian marking systems, vehicles containing the same, and methods of providing pedestrian marking lighting are disclosed. A system includes a light emitting module having light emitting diodes, a sensor module, and a master controller. The master controller is includes a storage medium with instructions that direct the master controller to receive data from the sensor module, where the data provides an indication of a pedestrian located in the vicinity of the vehicle, determine location coordinates of the pedestrian, determine a direction of light based on the location coordinates such that the light is aimed at the pedestrian, direct the light emitting module to selectively activate the light emitting diodes such that the light emitting diodes produce a collective beam that corresponds to the first direction, determine that the vehicle is turning in a direction towards the pedestrian, and provide a notification to the pedestrian that the vehicle is turning.
US09771018B2
The transport authentication system and method includes an electronic vehicle identification device configured to connect to a vehicle that is registered for on-call or scheduled transportation use with a service provider organization (“SPO”) to obtain vehicle identification information from the vehicle, such as by being connected to the OBD port of the vehicle. The obtained vehicle identification information is transmitted to a SPO for comparison with identification authentication information retained by the SPO. A notice may then be transmitted to a potential passenger or package owner to notify the individual that the vehicle is an authentic, authorized vehicle for transport service. Driver identification information may additionally be obtained for comparison to driver identification authentication information retained by the SPO. Notification may thus also be transmitted to the potential passenger or package owner that the driver is the authorized, registered driver.
US09771009B2
A vehicle seat that can reduce manufacturing costs while increasing assembling rigidity of an elastic spring for supporting an occupant is described. A vehicle seat includes an elastic spring bridged between a front frame and a rear frame to support an occupant. A hook member is attached to a rear end portion of the elastic spring to be hooked to the rear frame. The hook member includes a hook body extending along an outer periphery of the rear frame and a projection projecting from a front edge of the hook body toward the rear frame and formed to have a width smaller than a width of the hook body. A through-hole is formed in a portion of the hook body, which is opposed to the projection. The through-hole has a width larger than a width of the projection and a length larger than a projecting length of the projection.
US09771008B2
A seat back structure for a vehicle according to one aspect of the present invention including a headrest, a seat back frame, a pad disposed in front of a surface of the seat back frame, a backrest surface of the pad, and right and left side supports each provided on either side of the backrest surface in a seat width direction, in which a right slit portion and a left slit portion are provided between the backrest surface and the right and the left side supports, respectively, each of the right slit portion and the left slit portion penetrating the pad in the thickness direction of the pad and extending in a vertical direction of the pad, and the right and the left slit portions are spaced apart from each other in the seat width direction.
US09771002B2
A locking unit (10) for a vehicle seat (1) includes a housing with a side plate (16) which has at least one first mounting aperture (17), and/or with a cover plate (18) which has at least one second mounting aperture (19), and at least one mounting stud (51, 52). The first mounting aperture (17) and/or the second mounting aperture (19) are designed so that the mounting stud (51, 52) can be placed in at least two different positions in the first mounting aperture (17) and/or in the second mounting aperture (19).
US09771001B2
An electrical grid management system is disclosed, and includes a plurality of segmented pathways that each include a corresponding renewable energy source and a vehicle propelled along the plurality of segmented pathways. The electrical grid management system includes a system control module including control logic determining a baseline operational plan. The baseline operation plan is based on scheduling and operational requirements of the vehicle. The electrical grid management system also includes a corresponding supercapacitor provided for at least one of the plurality of segmented pathways. The supercapacitor stores energy generated by the corresponding renewable energy source for later use to propel the vehicle along a corresponding segmented pathway. The electrical grid management system includes a plurality of section control modules in communication with the system control module, the corresponding supercapacitor, and the main grid.
US09770999B2
A control method of a cooling water pump of fuel cell vehicle is provided. The method includes comparing a derived temperature value, including a cooling water temperature of a fuel cell or an estimated temperature of a stack of the fuel cell, with predetermined temperature criteria and comparing a required output value of the stack of the fuel cell with predetermined output criteria. The cooling water pump is then operated in a normal mode when the derived temperature value is greater than the temperature criteria or when the required output value is greater than the output criteria. Additionally, the cooling water pump is operated in a stop mode when the derived temperature value is less than the temperature criteria and, simultaneously, when the required output value is less than the output criteria.
US09770998B2
A control method and system for starting a fuel cell vehicle is provided. The method includes setting a first output power that is an output power required for driving the vehicle and beginning to increase the fuel cell temperature after setting the first output power. In addition, available output power of a fuel cell is estimated and a discharge power of a high-voltage battery is received. A second output power that is a sum of the available output power of the fuel cell and the discharge power of the high-voltage battery is calculated. The method further includes determining whether the second output power is greater than the first output power and determining whether starting of the vehicle is allowable based on the determination of whether the second output power is greater than the first output power.
US09770969B2
A hybrid powertrain that includes a combustion engine (4); a gearbox (2) with an input shaft (8) and an output shaft (20); a first planetary gear (10) connected to the input shaft (8) a second planetary gear (12) connected to the first planetary gear (10); a first electrical machine (14) connected to the first planetary gear (10); a second electrical machine (16) connected to the second planetary gear (12); a first gear pair (G1, 60) and a third gear pair (G1, 72) situated between the first planetary gear (10) and the output shaft (20); and a second gear pair (66) and a fourth gear pair (G2, 78) situated between the second planetary gear (12) and the output shaft (20); a countershaft (18) provided between the respective first and the second planetary gears (10, 12) and the output shaft (2), and (18) connected to the output shaft (20) via a fifth gear pair (G3M 21). Also, disclosed is a method for controlling the hybrid powertrain. Also a method for controlling a hybrid powertrain (3) and a computer program (P) for controlling the hybrid powertrain (3).
US09770968B2
A flywheel module comprises a coupling unit which has an input shaft and an output shaft. This coupling unit has a first coupling of which a first coupling half can be connected to a combustion engine and a second coupling half can be connected to a continuously variable transmission. The flywheel module further comprises a flywheel unit which has an in/output and is formed by a flywheel and a reduction gear unit connected to the flywheel. This flywheel unit is exclusively connected to the in/output via the coupling unit.
US09770962B2
A vehicle passenger reminder system for notifying a user that a passenger has been left unattended in a vehicle. The vehicle passenger reminder system includes a driver weight sensor to be positioned on the driver's seat to determine if the driver is seated in the vehicle. The system further includes a child weight sensor for a child seat to determine if a child is seated in a vehicle. When the driver exits the vehicle, a control unit of the present invention determines if the child is still seated in the vehicle, and an alarm system is activated to notify the user. Further, a cooling mechanism is provided that includes a fan for cooling the child if a temperature sensor detects that the temperature within the vehicle has risen to a predetermined temperature.
US09770958B2
An assembly (AS1) in accordance with the subject matter of the present disclosure can include a gas spring (200), an internally-mounted device (300) and a mounting assembly (400, 500) operatively connecting the internally-mounted device to an end member (202, 204) of the gas spring (200). The mounting assembly (400, 500) can permit at least a portion of the internally-mounted device to undergo 360 degree rotational and pivotal displacement relative the end member (202, 204) of the as spring (200). The mounting assembly (400, 500) can include a device mount (402, 502) that can be operatively secured to the internally-mounted device (300) and a retainer (404, 504) that is secured to the end member (202, 204) and operatively retains the device mount (402, 502) adjacent the end member (202, 204). The device mount (402, 502) and the retainer (404, 504) can include complimentary semi-spherical surfaces that permit the relative movement between internally-mounted device (300) and the end member (202, 204) of the gas spring (200).
US09770956B2
Liner assemblies for axle brackets of axle coupling assemblies are disclosed. The liner assemblies include a body having an elongated base and at least one extension member having a connector. Liner assembly and axle bracket combinations and method of connecting liner assemblies to axle brackets also are disclosed, with the liner assemblies including a body having an elongated base and at least one extension member having at least one connector, with the axle brackets including a body having a central portion and including at least one connector receiver configured to receive the at least one connector of the at least one extension member of the liner assemblies.
US09770954B1
A trailer to vehicle laterally stable hitching mechanism wherein an attaching plate of the trailer vertically and laterally self-aligns into a receiving plate of the vehicle establishing the trailer as an operational extension of the vehicle.
US09770939B2
A manufacturing method and structure of a carbon fiber rim is revealed. A metal strip is formed by heating a metal substrate to a moldable temperature and then extruded molding. The metal strip comprises two side walls, a connecting wall and an inner rim wall to form a space surrounded by the side walls, the connecting wall, and the inner rim wall. Next, two terminals of the strip are connected to form a circle as a rim frame's embryo. The two side walls, or the two side walls and the inner rim wall of the rim frame's embryo are milled to form plural through holes and become a rim frame. Afterwards, the surface of the rim frame is roughened and covered with a trimmed carbon fiber cloth having a predetermined shape. After heatsetting and surface treating, a carbon fiber rim having a light weight and a strong structure is obtained.
US09770938B2
Technologies are generally described for protecting an edge of a container opening from material, such as container contents being moved into or out of the container, and for protecting container contents from contamination from the edge of the container opening, e.g., rust or debris at the edge.
US09770928B2
A printing apparatus is provided and includes cover members for covering at least a portion of a conveyance path for conveying a medium. The cover members are configured such that at least a portion of a part covering a conveyance path is able to expand and contract. Therefore, if necessary, it is possible to expand or contract the area of the cover members covering the conveyance path. On the occasion of setting the medium or when a jam has occurred, it is possible to contract the cover members in the conveyance direction of the medium. Also, even if the cover members move once from the state where they cover the conveyance path, it is possible to easily return the cover members to their original positions, and it is possible to easily return the cover members to the state where they cover a portion of the conveyance path.
US09770927B2
Examples of a container assembly are disclosed herein. An example of the container assembly includes a regulated tank to supply printing composition and a free tank to supply reserve printing composition to the regulated tank. The container assembly also includes a regulator assembly to control flow of the reserve printing composition from the free tank to the regulated tank and an inflation assembly to prime the regulated tank to supply the printing composition. The container assembly additionally includes a labyrinth to fluidically isolate the flow of ambient air into and out of the regulator assembly from the flow of a supply of air into the inflation assembly.
US09770926B2
Example implementations relate to swath height error compensation. Some examples may determine a density of an image to be printed in an overlap area of a printing material. The overlap area may include target pixels capable of being printed by a first set of drop ejection elements and a second set of drop ejection elements that are redundant to the first set of drop ejection elements. Some implementations may also determine a mask to apply to the first and second set of drop ejection elements based on the determined density, and the mask may designate at least one additional drop to apply to at least one target pixel in the overlap area by at least one of the first and second set of drop ejection elements. Some implementations may also apply the mask to the first set of drop ejection elements and the second set of drop ejection elements.
US09770920B2
A test chart having printed regions is output at respective ink densities. An indication of a selected ink density is received. One or more resources of a printing device are determined according to the selected ink density to control one or more ink limits and a color separation of the printing device.
US09770919B2
There is provided a recording apparatus in which it is possible to use a suitable reaction liquid to be applied on the recording medium, out of multiple types of reaction liquids. A recording apparatus includes a transport mechanism that transports a recording medium, a reaction liquid applying mechanism that selectively applies, on the recording medium, either a first reaction liquid that reacts with ink or a second reaction liquid that reacts with the ink and is different from the first reaction liquid, and an ink discharge mechanism that is positioned downstream from the reaction liquid applying mechanism in the transport direction of the recording medium and discharges the ink onto the recording medium. It is preferable that the reaction liquid applying mechanism include a first reaction liquid discharge unit that discharges the first reaction liquid and a second reaction liquid discharge unit that discharges the second reaction liquid.
US09770916B2
A printer to which an ink tank that contains an ink is fixed and that is configured such that a user can refill the ink tank with the ink includes: a consumption amount calculation unit that calculates a consumption amount of the ink; a storage unit that stores a count value that is updated based on the consumption amount of the ink calculated by the consumption amount calculation unit; a sensor that detect whether or not the ink is present at a predetermined position in the ink tank; and a control unit that executes ink presence/absence detection with the sensor. The ink presence/absence detection is for determining whether or not the ink is present. The control unit resets the count value to an initial value thereof if the control unit executes the ink presence/absence detection and determines that the ink is present.
US09770915B1
A replaceable item for a host device includes a non-volatile memory and logic. The non-volatile memory stores passwords or authentication values, and/or a cryptographic key. The logic satisfactorily responds to requests for passwords a maximum permitted number of times to authenticate the replaceable item within the host device.
US09770914B2
An ink cartridge for an inkjet printer includes a bottom face and a front face; an ink interface on the front face of the ink cartridge for connection to a cartridge receiving structure; a guide interface in the bottom face for guiding the cartridge along a straight line during insertion into the cartridge receiving structure for connecting the ink interface; a latch track disposed in the bottom face of the ink cartridge to guide a latch of the cartridge receiving structure; a latch stop disposed in the latch track for engaging the latch, where the latch track comprises a locking track and an unlocking track to accommodate movement of the latch with respect to the latch stop, the locking track being at least partly separate from the unlocking track; and a latch guide for redirecting the latch towards the locking track, rather than the unlocking track.
US09770911B2
In a liquid ejection head and a liquid ejection apparatus that can suppress deterioration of image quality, a plurality of second beam-shaped member is provided on the downstream side of a first beam-shaped member in a flow passage connected to an ejection element substrate. The first beam-shaped member divides the flow passage into two flow passages in a liquid-flowing direction and the second beam-shaped member sandwich a line extending from the first beam-shaped member in the liquid-flowing direction.
US09770907B2
A MEMS device includes a drive region having a stacked structural body in which a first electrode layer, a first dielectric layer, and a second electrode layer are stacked in that order. The stacked structural body extends from the drive region to a non-drive region that is outer than the drive region and, in an extending direction of the stacked structural body, the first electrode layer and the first dielectric layer extend farther outward than the second electrode layer. A second dielectric layer covering an end of the second electrode layer in the extending direction is stacked on the second electrode layer in the non-drive region and the first dielectric layer that is formed outer in the extending direction than the second electrode layer. A third electrode layer electrically connected to the second electrode layer is stacked on the second dielectric layer and on the second electrode layer in a region outside the second dielectric layer. In the extending direction, the end of the second electrode layer is formed more to a drive region side than a second dielectric layer-side end of the third electrode layer.
US09770898B2
An image forming device includes a pattern determining unit and a pattern forming unit. In response to determining that dots are formed continuously in a moving direction on a dot omission pixels within a designated range in the moving direction based on recording data before supplementation of dots by a defective nozzle, and in response to determining that dots are formed continuously in the moving direction on adjacent pixels within the designated range, the pattern determining unit determines a dot pattern after supplementation for a plurality of pixels based on the recording data such that the dot pattern after supplementation is indicative of either enlarging at least a portion of dots formed on the adjacent pixels within the designated range or arranging dots in secondary adjacent pixels within the designated range regardless of dot arrangement of the secondary adjacent pixels according to the recording data before supplementation of dots.
US09770886B2
The present invention relates to adhesives that are suitable for use as electrically conductive materials in the fabrication of electronic devices, integrated circuits, semiconductor devices, passive components, solar cells, solar modules, and/or light emitting diodes. The adhesive of the present invention comprises one or more epoxy resins, silver-coated particles having a silver content of 2 to 30 wt.-%, based on the total amount of the silver-coated particles, and one or more amine-epoxy adducts, comprising one or more functional groups, each derived from an alkyl-substituted nitrogen-containing heterocycle.
US09770884B2
A metal-resin composite and method for producing the same are provided. The method comprises: A) forming nanopores in at least a part of a surface of a metal sheet; and B) injection molding a thermoplastic resin directly on the surface of the metal sheet. The thermoplastic resin includes a main resin and a polyolefin resin. The main resin includes a mixture of polyphenylene ether and polyphenylene sulfide. And the polyolefin resin has a melting point of about 65° C. to about 105° C.
US09770879B2
A press drive for a press includes an elbow lever drive. The elbow lever drive includes a first lever, a second lever and a connecting rod. The lengths of the two levers as well as the connecting rod are fixed. The first lever is pivotally supported on the press frame by a first support bearing. The second lever is supported on the plunger via a second support bearing. The connecting rod and the two levers are supported by an elbow joint so as to be pivotable relative to each other about a common pivot axis. The connecting rod is driven by an eccentric drive. An adjustment arrangement is provided for moving the eccentric drive relative to the press frame or respectively, the first support bearing. In this way, different operating modes can be established depending on the position of the eccentric drive along the adjustment path.
US09770878B2
A compactor system for compacting waste having liquid components. The compactor system includes a storage container having a storage chamber and a dump door. A charge container includes a compacting chamber and a loading opening. An outlet fitting is mounted to the charge container. The outlet fitting is in fluid communication with the compacting chamber. A pump is in fluid communication with the outlet fitting. A storage tank is in fluid communication with the pump. The storage tank, storage container and charge container are positioned on a support surface. The pump pumps fluid from the compacting chamber into the storage tank.
US09770872B2
Fiber reinforced composite structures having curved stepped surfaces are fabricated by laying up plies of fiber reinforced material over a tool having a stepped tool feature. The plies are rotated about a fixed axis as they are laid up to substantially form a fixed axis rosette pattern. The plies are angularly oriented such that at least certain of the plies have fiber orientations other than 0, +45, −45 and 90 degrees. Potential bridging of the fibers over the stepped tool features is reduced or eliminated by cutting slits in the plies in the area of the stepped features, so that the plies can be fully compacted.
