US09786673B1
A semiconductor memory device may include: a first group of pillars having diameters which are gradually increased toward the a first side; and interlayer insulating layers and conductive patterns surrounding the pillars of the first group, the interlayer insulating layers and conductive patterns being alternately stacked.
US09786660B1
A transistor device includes a source contact extending in a first direction, a gate finger extending in the first direction adjacent the source contact, and a drain contact adjacent the gate finger, wherein the gate finger is between the drain contact and the source contact. The device further includes a gate jumper extending in the first direction, a gate bus connected to the gate jumper and the gate finger, and a gate signal distribution bar that is spaced apart from the gate bus in the first direction and that connects the gate jumper to the gate finger.
US09786652B2
An ESD protection device is fabricated in a semiconductor substrate that includes a semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type. A first well implantation procedure implants dopant of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor layer to form inner and outer sinker regions. The inner sinker region is configured to establish a common collector region of first and second bipolar transistor devices. A second well implantation procedure implants dopant of the first conductivity type in the semiconductor layer to form respective base regions of the first and second bipolar transistor devices. Conduction of the first bipolar transistor device is triggered by breakdown between the inner sinker region and the base region of the first bipolar transistor device. Conduction of the second bipolar transistor device is triggered by breakdown between the outer sinker region and the base region of the second bipolar transistor device.
US09786650B1
A process for making and using a semiconductor wafer includes instantiating first and second designs of experiments (DOES), each comprised of at least two fill cells. The fill cells contain structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). The first DOE contains fill cells configured to enable non-contact (NC) detection of snake opens, and the second DOE contains fill cells configured to enable NC detection of metal island opens. The process may further include obtaining NC measurements from the first and/or second DOE(s) and using such measurements, at least in part, to selectively perform additional processing, metrology or inspection steps on the wafer, and/or on other wafer(s) currently being manufactured.
US09786646B2
A repairable matrix-addressed system includes a system substrate, an array of electrically conductive row lines, and an array of electrically conductive column lines disposed over the system substrate. The row lines extend over the system substrate in a row direction and the column lines extend over the system substrate in a column direction different from the row direction to define an array of non-electrically conductive intersections between the row lines and the column lines. An array of electrically conductive line segments is disposed over the system substrate. The line segments extend over the system substrate substantially parallel to the row direction and have a line segment length that is less than the distance between adjacent column lines. Each line segment is electrically connected to a column line. One or more devices are electrically connected to each row line and to each line segment adjacent to the row line.
US09786645B2
An integrated circuit is provided. A standard cell includes a plurality of PMOS transistors and a plurality of NMOS transistors. The PMOS transistors are disposed in a first row and a second row in the semiconductor substrate. The NMOS transistors are disposed in a third row in the semiconductor substrate. The third row is adjacent to the first and second rows and arranged between the first and second rows.
US09786641B2
Package structures and methods are provided to integrate optoelectronic and CMOS devices using SOI semiconductor substrates for photonics applications. For example, a package structure includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip, and an optoelectronics device and interposer mounted to the IC chip. The IC chip includes a SOI substrate having a buried oxide layer, an active silicon layer disposed adjacent to the buried oxide layer, and a BEOL structure formed over the active silicon layer. An optical waveguide structure is patterned from the active silicon layer of the IC chip. The optoelectronics device is mounted on the buried oxide layer in alignment with a portion of the optical waveguide structure to enable direct or adiabatic coupling between the optoelectronics device and the optical waveguide structure. The interposer is bonded to the BEOL structure, and includes at least one substrate having conductive vias and wiring to provide electrical connections to the BEOL structure.
US09786639B2
Solid state light fixtures include a plurality of blue-shifted-yellow/green light emitting diode (“LED”) packages and a plurality of blue-shifted-red LED packages, where the solid state light fixture emits light having a correlated color temperature of between 1800 K and 5500 K, a CRI value of between 80 and 99, a CRI R9 value of between 15 and 75, and a Qg value of between 90 and 110 when the blue-shifted-yellow/green LED packages and the blue-shifted-red LED packages are operating at steady-state operating temperatures of at least 80° C.
US09786633B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having first and second opposing surfaces and a plurality of electrical connections extending between the first and second surfaces. The semiconductor structure also includes one or more interconnect pads having first and second opposing surfaces and one or more sides. The first surface of each one of the interconnect pads is disposed over or beneath select portions of at least the second surface of the substrate and is electrically coupled to select ones of the plurality of electrical connections. The semiconductor structure additionally includes an isolating layer having first and second opposing surfaces and openings formed in select portions of the isolating layer extending between the second surface of the isolating layer and the second surfaces of the interconnect pads. A corresponding method for fabricating a semiconductor structure is also provided.
US09786631B2
A device package includes a die and a molding compound around the die. The molding compound has a non-planar surface recessed from a top surface of the die. The device package also includes an interconnect structure over the die. The interconnect structure includes a redistribution layer extending onto the molding compound and conformal to the non-planar surface of the molding compound. The device package further includes a first connector disposed over the die and bonded to the interconnect structure.
US09786629B2
Dual-side reinforcement (DSR) materials and methods for semiconductor fabrication. The DSR materials exhibit the properties of conventional underfill materials with enhanced stability at room temperature.
US09786627B2
The invention relates to a method for connecting a power semi-conductor chip having upper-sided potential surfaces to thick wires or strips, consisting of the following steps: Providing a metal molded body corresponding to the shape of the upper-sided potential surfaces, applying a connecting layer to the upper-sided potential surfaces or to the metal molded bodies, and applying the metal molded bodies and adding a material fit, electrically conductive compound to the potential surfaces prior to the joining of the thick wire bonds to the non-added upper side of the molded body.
US09786622B2
A semiconductor package includes a workpiece with a conductive trace and a chip with a conductive pillar. The chip is attached to the workpiece and a solder joint region is formed between the conductive pillar and the conductive trace. The distance between the conductive pillar and the conductive trace is less than or equal to about 16 μm.
US09786616B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes elements formed on a substrate, a first insulation layer, a first pad and a second pad arranged on the first insulation layer and located above the elements, and a second insulation layer that is arranged on the side surfaces and upper surfaces of the first pad and the second pad. The second insulation layer includes openings at upper surfaces of the first pad and the second pad. The thickness of the first pad and the second pad is 2 μm or more, the thickness of the second insulation layer is less than or equal to ⅖ of the thickness of the first pad and the second pad, and the distance between the first pad and the second pad is greater than or equal to four times the thickness of the first pad and the second pad.
US09786609B2
A stress shield for a plastic integrated circuit package is disclosed. A shield plate is attached by an adhesive to a top surface of an integrated circuit die such that the shield plate covers less than all of the top surface and leaves bond pads exposed. A molding material is applied over the shield plate and the integrated circuit die. The shield plate shields the integrated circuit die from stresses imparted by the molding material.
US09786601B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating layer laminated on the semiconductor substrate, a first metal wiring pattern embedded in a wire-forming region of the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer laminated on the first insulating layer, a second metal wiring pattern embedded in a wire-forming region of the second insulating layer and first dummy metal patterns embedded each in a wire-opposed region opposing to the wire-forming region of the second insulating layer and in a non-wire-opposed region opposing to a non-wire-forming region other than the wire-forming region of the second insulating layer, the wire-opposed region and the non-wire-opposed region each in a non-wire-forming region other than the wire-forming region of the first insulating layer.
US09786599B2
An embodiment is a method including forming a first package. The forming the first package includes forming a through via adjacent a first die, at least laterally encapsulating the first die and the through via with an encapsulant, and forming a first redistribution structure over the first die, the through via, and the encapsulant. The forming the first redistribution structure including forming a first via on the through via, and forming a first metallization pattern on the first via, at least one sidewall of the first metallization pattern directly overlying the through via.
US09786597B2
Self-aligned pitch split techniques for metal wiring involving a hybrid (subtractive patterning/damascene) metallization approach are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a metal wiring layer on a wafer includes the following steps. A copper layer is formed on the wafer. A patterned hardmask is formed on the copper layer. The copper layer is subtractively patterned using the patterned hardmask to form a plurality of first copper lines. Spacers are formed on opposite sides of the first copper lines. A planarizing dielectric material is deposited onto the wafer, filling spaces between the first copper lines. One or more trenches are etched in the planarizing dielectric material. The trenches are filled with copper to form a plurality of second copper lines that are self-aligned with the first copper lines. An electronic device is also provided.
US09786587B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed in which an implant board and a semiconductor element of a semiconductor mounting board are bonded and electrically connected through implant pins and which can be manufactured with high productivity. Implant pins are bonded to a semiconductor element and/or a circuit pattern of a semiconductor mounting board through cylindrical terminals press-fitted into the other ends of the implant pins. Press-fitting depth L2 of each of the implant pins into corresponding cylindrical terminals is adjustable, so that total length of the implant pin and cylindrical terminal which are press-fitted to each other matches up with the distance between the semiconductor element and/or the circuit pattern on the semiconductor mounting board and an implant board.
US09786585B2
One example discloses a lead-frame, comprising: a die-pad having a die coupling surface; a set of terminals each having an outer terminal edge and an inner terminal edge; wherein the outer terminal edge faces away from the die-pad and the inner terminal edge faces toward the die-pad; and a terminal connector having a first side coupled to the inner terminal edge and a second side coupled to the die-pad.
US09786583B2
A power semiconductor package device and a method of preparation the device are disclosed. The package device includes a die paddle, a first pin, a second pin, and a semiconductor chip attached to the die paddle. A first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode of the semiconductor chip are connected to the first pin, the second pin and the die paddle respectively. A plastic package body covers the semiconductor chip, the die paddle, the first pin and the second pin. The first pin and the second pin are located near two adjacent corners of the plastic package body. The bottom surface and two side surfaces of each of the first pin and the second pin are exposed from the plastic package body. Locking mechanisms are constructed to prevent the first pin and the second pin from falling off the power semiconductor package device during a manufacturing cutting process. Portions of the first pin, portions of the second pin, and portions of the plastic package body can be cut off. Therefore, the size of the power semiconductor package device is reduced.
US09786581B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward through-silicon via (TSV)-based devices and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a die having active circuitry disposed on a first side of the die and a second side disposed opposite to the first side, a bulk semiconductor material disposed between the first side and the second side of the die and a device including one or more of a capacitor, resistor or resonator disposed in the bulk semiconductor material, the capacitor, resistor or resonator including one or more TSV structures that extend through the bulk semiconductor material, an electrically insulative material disposed in the one or more TSV structures and an electrode material or resistor material in contact with the electrically insulative material within the one or more TSV structures.
US09786580B2
An apparatus comprising a substrate with multiple electronic devices. An interconnect structure formed on a first side of the substrate interconnects the electronic devices. Dummy TSVs each extend through the substrate and form an alignment mark on a second side of the substrate. Functional TSVs each extend through the substrate and electrically connect to the electronic devices. A redistribution layer (RDL) formed on the second side of the substrate interconnects ones of the dummy TSVs with ones of the functional TSVs. Step heights of the RDL over the functional TSVs are less than a predetermined value, whereas step heights of the RDL over the dummy TSVs are greater than the predetermined value.
US09786577B2
A power-module substrate including a circuit layer having a first aluminum layer bonded on one surface of a ceramic substrate and a first copper layer bonded on the first aluminum layer by solid-phase-diffusion bonding, and a metal layer having a second aluminum layer made from a same material as the first aluminum layer and bonded on the other surface of the ceramic substrate and a second copper layer made from a same material as the first copper layer and bonded on the second aluminum layer by solid-phase-diffusion bonding, in which a thickness t1 of the first copper layer is 1.7 mm to 5 mm, a sum of the thickness t1 of the first copper layer and a thickness t2 of the second copper layer is 7 mm or smaller, and a ratio t2/t1 is larger than 0 and 1.2 or smaller except for a range of 0.6 to 0.8.
US09786576B2
A positive-type photosensitive resin composition includes (A) a phenol resin modified by a compound having an unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 4 to 100 carbon atoms; (B) a compound that produces an acid by light; (C) a thermal crosslinking agent; and (D) a solvent. The positive-type photosensitive resin composition according to the present invention can be developed by an alkaline aqueous solution, and an effect thereof is that a resist pattern having sufficiently high sensitivity and resolution, excellent adhesion, and good thermal shock resistance can be formed.
US09786574B2
Thin film based fan out wafer level packaging and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. Embodiments include a method including forming tapered via holes in a first surface of a polymer film; forming a conductive pillar on the first surface of a semiconductor device; bonding a solderable surface of the conductive copper pillars to metallization on the second side of the polymer film; bonding the semiconductor device to the first surface of the polymer film over the conductive pillars with an underfill material; and depositing an encapsulant material over the semiconductor device and polymer film.
US09786572B1
A contact spring for placement in a gap between an electrical substrate opposite a lid (electrically conductive heat spreader) of an electronic device comprises a spring that both conducts heat from the substrate to the lid and electrically connects the substrate and lid. The spring comprises a flat single element configured as a plurality of polygons, providing contact points, the spring substantially lying in a plane and extending substantially in a straight line, or a spiral. The spring in an electronic device such as a flip chip ball grid array having this lid and an electrical substrate with EMI emitters: (1) provides low impedance electrical connection between the electronic circuit and lid; (2) grounds the lid to the electronic circuit; (3) minimizes EMI in the electronic circuit; (4) conducts heat from the electronic circuit to the lid; or any one or combination of the foregoing features (1)-(4).
US09786571B1
Provided is a test key including a plurality of diffusion regions, a plurality of gate lines, a dielectric layer, a first comb structure and a second comb structure. The diffusion regions are disposed in a substrate and parallel to each other. The gate lines are disposed on the substrate and across the diffusion regions. The dielectric layer covers the gate lines and the diffusion regions. The first comb structure includes a plurality of first metal teeth disposed on the dielectric layer and overlapping with the diffusion regions. The second comb structure includes a plurality of second metal teeth disposed on the dielectric layer and not overlapping with the diffusion regions.
US09786560B2
A method for forming a semiconductor package structure is provided. The method for forming a semiconductor package structure includes providing a substrate, wherein the substrate has a front side and a back side, forming a first guard ring doped region and a second guard ring doped region in the substrate, wherein the first guard ring doped region and the second guard ring doped region have different conductive types, forming a trench through the substrate from a back side of the substrate, conformally forming an insulating layer lining the back side of the substrate, a bottom surface and sidewalls of the trench, removing a portion of the insulating layer on the back side of the substrate to form a through via, and forming a conductive material in the through via, wherein a through silicon via (TSV) interconnect structure is formed by the insulating layer and the conductive material.
US09786559B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming through-silicon vias (TSVs) implementing a negative thermal expansion (NTE) material such as zirconium tungstate (ZrW2O8) or hafnium tungstate (HfW2O8). In some cases, the NTE material is disposed between the substrate and conductive core material of the TSV and serves to offset, at least in part, the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch there between, thus reducing heat-induced stresses and/or protrusion (pumping) of the conductive core material. The NTE material also may protect against leakage, voltage breakdown, and/or diffusion of the conductive core material. Furthermore, the NTE material may reduce radial stresses in high-aspect-ratio TSVs. In some cases, techniques disclosed herein may improve TSV reliability, enhance three-dimensional integration, and/or enhance performance in three-dimensional integrated circuits and/or other three-dimensional packages. Other embodiments which can employ techniques described herein will be apparent in light of this disclosure.
US09786552B2
A method of forming fine patterns includes forming a partition on a base layer. The partition includes a partition block, a first open region provided to face the partition block, and first lines extending from the partition block to the first open region. A spacer is formed on sidewalls of the partition to define a second open region overlapping with the first open region and to include second lines on sidewalls of the first lines. The partition may be removed to open a third open region occupied by the partition block and spaces between the second lines. A target pattern is formed to include third lines filling the spaces between the second lines, a first pad block filling the second open region, and a second pad block filling the third open region. Each of the first and second pad blocks is separated into a plurality of pads.
US09786532B2
A substrate processing apparatus is described herein. The substrate processing apparatus comprises a transferring device including: a grasping section configured to grasp a substrate holder, a transferring section configured to transfer the substrate holder grasped by the grasping section, and a processing bath for storing a substrate held by the substrate holder so that a surface of the substrate is vertically oriented. The grasping section is configured to grasp the substrate holder with a surface of the substrate oriented horizontally. The transferring section is configured to transfer the substrate holder above the processing bath, with the surface of the substrate oriented horizontally.
US09786530B2
A wafer transfer method includes the following steps. An initial position of a first wafer in a wafer cassette is detected. A picking entry position in the wafer cassette is determined based on the initial position of the first wafer, in which the picking entry position is spaced apart from the initial position of the first wafer. A wafer transfer blade is moved to the picking entry position.
US09786528B2
The substrate supporting table includes a supporting plate that supports a substrate, a peripheral wall that encompasses a flow path of a coolant under the supporting plate and has an upper end enclosed by the supporting plate, a lower cover that encloses a bottom portion of the flow path and encloses a lower end of the peripheral wall. The substrate supporting table further includes a coolant supplying component that supplies a coolant through an upstream input of the flow path, a discharging component that discharges the coolant through a downstream output of the flow path, and a partition disposed between a supplying hole of the coolant supplying component and a discharging hole of the discharging component. A gap is formed between the partition and the bottom portion of the flow path.
US09786526B2
A method and an apparatus for etching microstructures and the like that provides improved selectivity to surrounding materials when etching silicon using xenon difluoride (XeF2). Etch selectivity is greatly enhanced with the addition of hydrogen to the process chamber.
US09786519B2
Packaged semiconductor devices and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a packaged semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit die and a first interconnect structure coupled to the integrated circuit die. Through-vias are also coupled to the first interconnect structure. A molding material is disposed around the integrated circuit die and the through-vias over the first interconnect structure. The molding material has a pit disposed therein. A recovery material is disposed within the pit in the molding material. A second interconnect structure is disposed over the molding material, the recovery material, the integrated circuit die, and the through-vias.
US09786518B2
A method of fabricating a receptacle down BGA carrier having a top surface and a bottom surface, the method comprising combining a conductive portion and a molded dielectric portion, said dielectric portion having an inner surface intersecting said top surface, said inner surface forming a cavity for receiving a die; selectively etching part of said conductive portion; and applying solder resist to a portion of a top surface of said conductive portion.
US09786515B1
A semiconductor device package and method of manufacturing is provided. An interconnect pre-assembly includes a first frame having a plurality of first signal conduits affixed to a second frame having a plurality of second signal conduits embedded in a second substrate forming an electrical coupling between one or more first signal conduits and one or more of the second signal conduits. One or more conductive balls are connected to the one or more second signal conduits. The interconnect pre-assembly is placed over a semiconductor die, having at least one of the first conductive balls disposed over the semiconductor die. An encapsulant encapsulates the interconnect pre-assembly, the semiconductor die, and the one or more conductive balls, such that a portion of the one or more first conductive balls is exposed at a top surface of the encapsulant.
US09786513B2
In a manufacturing method for a semiconductor device according to an embodiment, a first heat treatment to anneal or oxidize an SiC layer in an atmosphere where a gas including carbon (C) exists is applied. Further, the semiconductor device according to the embodiment includes: an SiC substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a first conductivity type SiC layer disposed on the first surface side of the SiC substrate, and including a low level density region having Z1/2 level density of 1×1011 cm−3 or less measured by deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS); a second conductivity type SiC region disposed on a surface of the SiC layer; a first electrode disposed on the SiC region; and a second electrode disposed on the second surface side of the SiC substrate.
US09786510B2
A fin-shaped structure includes a substrate having a first fin-shaped structure located in a first area and a second fin-shaped structure located in a second area, wherein the second fin-shaped structure includes a ladder-shaped cross-sectional profile part. The present invention also provides two methods of forming this fin-shaped structure. In one case, a substrate having a first fin-shaped structure and a second fin-shaped structure is provided. A treatment process is performed to modify an external surface of the top of the second fin-shaped structure, thereby forming a modified part. A removing process is performed to remove the modified part through a high removing selectivity to the first fin-shaped structure and the second fin-shaped structure, and the modified part, thereby the second fin-shaped structure having a ladder-shaped cross-sectional profile part is formed.
US09786507B2
Disclosed are field effect transistor (FET) formation methods using a final gate cut process and the resulting structures. One method forms an elongated gate across first and second semiconductor bodies for first and second FETs, respectively. An opening is formed in a portion of the elongated gate between the semiconductor bodies, cutting at least the gate conductor layer. The opening is filled with an isolation layer, thereby forming an isolation region that segments the elongated gate into first and second gates for the first and second FETs, respectively. Another method forms at least three gates across an elongated semiconductor body. An isolation region is formed that extends, not only through a portion of a center one of the gates, but also through a corresponding portion of the elongated semiconductor body adjacent to that gate, thereby segmenting the elongated semiconductor body into discrete semiconductor bodies for first and second FETs.
US09786504B1
A method for forming a patterned layer is provided. The method comprises forming a first material layer over a first substrate, forming a photoresist layer on the first material layer, wherein the photoresist layer includes at least one island portion and a spacing surrounding a lateral portion of the island portion, trimming the island portion to enlarge the spacing, forming a second material layer filled in the enlarged spacing and surrounding the trimmed island portion, removing the trimmed island portion to form a first opening passing through the second material layer and exposing a portion of the first material layer, and removing the exposed portion of the first material layer through the first opening to form a second opening in the first material layer.
US09786503B2
Provided is a method for increasing pattern density of a structure using an integration scheme and perform pitch splitting at the resist level without the use of hard mandrels, the method comprising: providing a substrate having a patterned resist layer and an underlying layer comprising a silicon anti-reflective coating layer, an amorphous layer, and a target layer; performing a resist hardening process; performing a first conformal spacer deposition using an atomic layer deposition technique with an oxide, performing a spacer first reactive ion etch process and a first pull process on the first conformal layer, performing a second conformal spacer deposition using titanium oxide; performing a second spacer RIE process and a second pull process, generating a second spacer pattern; and transferring the second spacer pattern into the target layer, wherein targets include patterning uniformity, pulldown of structures, slimming of structures, aspect ratio of structures, and line width roughness.
US09786502B2
A method for forming fin structure includes following steps. A substrate is provided. A first mandrel and a plurality of second mandrels are formed on the substrate simultaneously. A plurality of spacers are respectively formed on sidewalls of the first mandrel and the second mandrels and followed by removing the first mandrel and the second mandrels to form a first spacer pattern and a plurality of second spacer patterns. Then the substrate is etched to simultaneously form at least a first fin and a plurality of second fins on the substrate with the first spacer pattern and the second spacer patterns serving as an etching mask. At least one of the second fins is immediately next to the first fin, and a fin width of the first fin is larger than a fin width of the second fins. Then, the second fins are removed from the substrate.
US09786500B2
The present application discloses a method of fabricating a polycrystalline semiconductor layer, comprising forming a heat storage layer; forming a buffer layer on the heat storage layer; forming a first amorphous semiconductor layer on a side of the buffer layer distal to the heat storage layer; and crystallizing the first amorphous semiconductor layer to form a first polycrystalline semiconductor layer.
US09786499B2
A method of manufacturing a substrate includes: irradiating, along a first path, a laser beam emitted from a source onto a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a target layer of the laser beam, and wherein the substrate is disposed on a stage; and irradiating, along a second path, a portion the laser beam, which was emitted from the source and reached the target layer, by reflecting the laser beam back onto the target layer using a reflection mirror. An area of a second region of the target layer is greater than an area of a first region of the target layer, wherein the laser beam is irradiated along the second path in the second region, and the laser beam is irradiated along the first path in the first region.
US09786494B2
Disclosed is a film formation method, including vaporizing a plurality of raw material monomers in respective corresponding vaporizers, supplying the plurality of raw material monomers into a film formation apparatus, causing vapor deposition polymerization of the plurality of raw material monomers in the film formation apparatus to form an organic film on a substrate, and removing an impurity contained in at least one raw material monomer among the plurality of raw material monomers before the vapor deposition polymerization.
US09786485B2
A mass analyser comprises a pair of electrode arrays. Each array has a set of focusing electrodes which are supplied, in use, with voltage to create an electrostatic field in a space between the electrode arrays causing ions to undergo periodic, oscillatory motion in the space, ions passing between electrodes of the sets of focusing electrodes and being repeatedly focused at a center plane, mid-way between the electrode arrays. At least one electrode of each set of focusing electrodes has an electrode surface closer to the center plane than the electrode surfaces of other electrodes of the same set. The analyzer may be an ion trap mass analyser or a multi-turn ToF mass analyzer.
US09786481B2
A mass spectrometer or ion mobility spectrometer is disclosed comprising means for detecting a blockage in an inlet orifice arranged between an ion source and a vacuum chamber. The blockage is detected as a result of a reduction in pressure within the vacuum chamber. This change in pressure is detected indirectly by monitoring the amount of power that a vacuum pump is using, the amount of current that a vacuum pump is drawing, the temperature of a vacuum pump or a region in proximity to the vacuum pump, or the flow rate of gas out of a vacuum pump.
US09786476B2
A method of identifying precursor ion species from their fragments comprises obtaining mass spectra of a plurality of precursor ion species and their fragments to high mass accuracy. The fragment mass spectrum, obtained from fragmentation of multiple precursor ion species, is then scanned it identify pairs of fragments whose combined mass matches the mass of one of the precursor ion species. Once pairs of fragment ion shave been matched to precursor ions, the composite fragment ion spectrum is broken down into portions, one per fragment pair. Analysis continues until no further pairs are identified. A simplified fragment ion spectrum is then reconstructed for each precursor sample ion by stitching together the broken down sections of the composite fragment spectrum. The resultant reconstructed, simplified fragment spectra are sent to a search engine which returns a score-sorted list of likely candidates for each synthetic fragment ion spectrum.
US09786472B2
A plasma processing apparatus performs plasma processing on a substrate held by a carrier. The carrier includes a frame disposed around the substrate and a holding sheet which holds the substrate and the frame. The plasma processing apparatus includes: a chamber; a stage which is disposed within the chamber and has an upper surface on which the carrier is mounted; a gas hole which is provided at a position of the upper surface opposing a bottom surface of the frame and through which cooling gas is supplied between the stage and the carrier; and a plasma exciting unit which generates plasma within the chamber.
US09786470B2
An ion beam generator includes a plurality of arc chambers, wherein each arc chamber of the plurality of arc chamber is integral with every arc chamber of the plurality of arc chambers. The ion beam generator further includes a plurality of extraction slits, wherein each extraction slit of the plurality of extraction slits is configured to extract ions from a corresponding arc chamber of the plurality of arc chambers. The ion beam generator further includes a plurality of arc slits, wherein each arc slit of the plurality of arc slits is configured to provide an ion path between a corresponding extraction slit of the plurality of extraction slits and the corresponding arc chamber of the plurality of arc chambers.
US09786460B2
A wiring device including a face contact; one or more line contact arms; one or more load contact arms; and a fault detection circuit. The one or more line contact arms having an upper line contact located on a bent portion of the line contact arm, and a lower line contact located on a substantially straight portion of the line contact arm. The one or more load contact arms having a load contact located on a bent portion of the load contact arm. The fault detection circuit that detects a fault condition in said wiring device and generates a fault detection signal when said fault condition is detected, wherein said fault detection signal electrically disconnects the face contact from the upper line contact and the lower line contact from the load contact.
US09786452B2
A switching system may include a body and a set of key elements. The body may be electrically connectable to a first electrical device and a second electrical device, and may have a keypad with key element attachment features to which the key elements can be attached. The key elements may be attachable in various positions and/or combinations on the keypad. The key elements may include one or more buttons of various sizes and/or a rocker. The keypad may have multiple positions to which key elements can be attached, with larger key elements requiring multiple positions. The key element attachment features may be domes, which may be inserted into holes in tabs extending from the key elements to pivotably attach the key elements to the keypad. Each key element may be retained on the keypad independently of any other component aside from the keypad and the key element.
US09786449B2
Systems and methods for providing input component assemblies for dome switches are provided. In some embodiments, an input component assembly may include a contact area coupled to a circuit board for a switch, a conductive covering for enclosing the circuit board, and a dome positioned over the conductive covering, where the dome is operative to close at least one circuit of the switch when the dome is depressed towards the conductive covering.
US09786445B2
One embodiment is an EDLC with a capacitor cell that includes two electrodes of opposite polarity aligned in parallel, and a peptide separator disposed between the electrodes. The separator may be a peptide coating on an electrode surface. Another embodiment is an electrode for an electrochemical energy storage device, such as an EDLC, the electrode including graphene and coated with peptide. The peptide may act as a separator for the EDLC. A further embodiment is an electrode for an electrochemical energy storage device, the electrode-unit including: two graphene layers, CNTs, and electrolyte. The graphene layers are arranged separated along a first axis and aligned with parallel surfaces, where at least one graphene layer is coated with peptide. The CNTs are arranged along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and disposed between the graphene layers. The electrolyte is impregnated within the volume defined between the graphene layers and CNTs.
US09786444B2
An electrical energy storage device structure comprises a first conductive sheet, a second conductive sheet and an electrolyte sheet placed between the first conductive sheet and the second conductive sheet. In the device, at least one of the first conductive sheet and the second conductive sheet comprises a layer of carbon nanoparticles. The carbon nanoparticle layer is arranged to be adjacent to the electrolyte sheet. The carbon nanoparticles may include both high aspect ratio carbon nanoparticles and low aspect ratio carbon nanoparticles. The device is flexible and at least partially transparent.
US09786441B2
The instant disclosure provides a solid electrolytic capacitor package structure and method of manufacturing the same. The solid electrolytic capacitor package structure includes a capacitor assembly, at least one electrode pin and a package body enclosing the capacitor assembly and the electrode pin. The electrode pin includes an embedded portion enclosed by the package body and an exposed portion positioned outside the package body. The method of manufacturing the solid electrolytic capacitor package structure includes a protection step including forming a protecting film on the exposed portion; a coating step including depositing a nanomaterial on the solid electrolytic capacitor package structure to form a nanofilm, wherein the nanomaterial penetrates into defects of the solid electrolytic capacitor package structure; and a deprotection step including removing the protecting film. The instant disclosure provides improved air-tight and water-tight properties of the solid electrolytic capacitor package structure, thereby increasing the lifetime thereof.
US09786439B2
A solid electrolyte capacitor includes a bottomed cylindrical housing having a bottom surface portion, a side surface portion raised from the bottom surface portion and an opening portion formed on an end portion of the side surface portion; a capacitor element housed in the inside of the housing, the capacitor element being formed by winding an anode foil and a cathode foil in an overlapping state with a separator interposed therebetween and by filling a solid electrolyte between the anode foil and the cathode foil; and a sealing member sealing the opening portion of the housing in a state where the capacitor element is housed in the inside of the housing, wherein an oxide film repairing body made of a hydrophilic synthetic resin is disposed at least one of between the bottom surface portion and the capacitor element of the housing and between the capacitor element and the sealing member.
US09786437B1
A multilayer chip capacitor includes electrodes comprised of numerous, closely spaced conductive layers interposed within a dielectric laminate. Adjacent conductive layers are essentially non-overlapping, so that fringe capacitance between opposing electrodes provides substantially all of the capacitance. The conductive layers may be shaped to form a non-planer boundary between electrodes. An additional high frequency integrated capacitor is formed from external electrode plates. The non-planar electrode boundary principle is also applied to discoidal capacitors in the form of a non-concentric electrode boundary.
US09786433B2
First and second divisional cores each including right and left leg portions and a yoke interconnecting those together are formed by molding respective yoke-side core members in a resin. Cylindrical core mounting portions extending from the outer circumference of the surface of the yoke-side core member are formed integrally with the respective right and left leg portions of the first divisional core. I-shaped leg-portion-side core members and spacers are attached in the cylindrical core mounting portion formed in each of the right and left leg portions. The surface of the yoke-side core member molded in the resin and the surface of the leg-portion-side core member are disposed so as to have a spacer therebetween. The two divisional cores are joined together by butting respective leg portions of the two divisional cores with each other to form an annular mold core, and a coil is wound around the mold core.
US09786421B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing magnets, including magnets comprising coil windings which may be multiple meters in length. In an embodiment, the support structure comprises a cylinder in which machined grooves are formed to define the magnet conductor path. The segments may consist of a composite material or a metal in the shape of a cylinder, but which need not be manufactured from a single piece of material. Rather, the support structure may be formed in multiple connectable segments which, when connected together, form a completed wiring support structure. Each segment may be of sufficient length to support multiple individual coil turns in a helical configuration. When the segments are connected the helical configuration continues without interruption from connectable segment to connectable segment. The segmented wiring support structure of the invention may be applied to linear or curved magnet geometries.
US09786415B2
A configuration and a method of constructing a high-temperature superconductor tape including a plurality superconducting filaments sandwiched between a substrate and an overlayer, and having a compliant material extending between the substrate and the overlayer and isolating each superconducting filament.
US09786414B2
A cable including a first insulating layer, a twisted pair, a ground structure, and at least one conducting element is provided. The twisted pair is disposed in the first insulating layer and includes two signal wires, wherein the two signal wires are intertwisted to each other. The ground structure is disposed at the first insulating layer. The conducting element includes a main body portion and at least one extending portion. The main body portion is disposed in the twisted pair to be surrounded by the two signal wires. The extending portion is connected to the main body portion and grounded to the ground structure.
US09786409B2
Oxacycloolefinic polymers as typically obtained by metathesis polymerization using Ru-catalysts, show good solubility and are well suitable as dielectric material in electronic devices such as capacitors and organic field effect transistors.
US09786407B1
A method was developed to impart a significant enhancement in the electrical conductivity of a graphene/polymer composite by the addition of a non-conducting filler to the insulating polymer that acts as both a toughening agent and dispersion aid.
US09786394B2
A component cooling water system for a nuclear power plant. In one embodiment, the system includes an inner containment vessel housing a nuclear reactor and an outer containment enclosure structure. An annular water reservoir is formed between the containment vessel and containment enclosure structure which provides a heat sink for dissipating thermal energy. A shell-less heat exchanger is provided having an exposed tube bundle immersed in water held within the annular water reservoir. Component cooling water from the plant flows through the tube bundle and is cooled by transferring heat to the annular water reservoir. In one non-limiting embodiment, the tube bundle may be U-shaped.
US09786393B2
A nuclear reactor containment system with passive cooling capabilities. In one embodiment, the system includes an inner containment vessel for housing a nuclear steam supply system and an outer containment enclosure structure. An annular water-filled reservoir may be provided between the containment vessel and containment enclosure structure which provides a heat sink for dissipating thermal energy, in the event of a thermal energy release incident inside the containment vessel, the reactor containment system provides passive water and air cooling systems operable to regulate the heat of the containment vessel and the equipment inside. In one embodiment, cooling water makeup to the system is not required to maintain containment vessel and reactor temperatures within acceptable margins.
US09786392B2
Illustrative embodiments provide methods and systems for migrating fuel assemblies in a nuclear fission reactor, methods of operating a nuclear fission traveling wave reactor, methods of controlling a nuclear fission traveling wave reactor, systems for controlling a nuclear fission traveling wave reactor, computer software program products for controlling a nuclear fission traveling wave reactor, and nuclear fission traveling wave reactors with systems for migrating fuel assemblies.
US09786391B2
A method of manufacturing nuclear fuel elements may include: forming a graphite base portion of the fuel element; depositing a first layer of graphite spheres on the base portion; depositing a first layer of fuel, burnable poison and/or breeder particles on the first layer of graphite spheres; forming a second layer of graphite spheres on the first layer of particles; depositing a second layer of fuel, burnable poison and/or breeder particles on the second layer of graphite spheres; and forming a graphite cap portion of the fuel element. Fuel, burnable poison and/or breeder particles of the first layer may be are spaced apart by substantially the same distance, and fuel, burnable poison and/or breeder particles of the second layer may be spaced apart by substantially the same distance. The fuel element may be a spherical fuel pebble. The fuel particles may be tri-structural-isotropic (TRISO) particles without an overcoat.
US09786383B2
A read sensing method for an OTP non-volatile memory is provided. The memory array is connected with plural bit lines. Firstly, a selected memory cell of the memory array is determined, wherein one of the plural bit lines connected with the selected memory cell is a selected bit line and the other bit lines are unselected bit lines. Then, the unselected bit lines are precharged to a precharge voltage. Then, the selected bit line is connected with the data line, and the data line is discharged to a reset voltage. After a cell current from the selected memory cell is received, a voltage level of the data line is gradually changed from the reset voltage. According to at least one result of comparing a voltage level of the data line with a comparing voltage, an output signal is generated.
US09786380B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell includes a charge storage layer, a word line that is connected to a gate of the memory cell, and a controller that performs a write operation on the memory cell by applying a write voltage to the word line, and a verify operation to verify a threshold voltage of the memory cell after the write operation. The verify operation includes a first verify operation using a first verify voltage, and a second verify operation using a second verify voltage higher than the first verify voltage.
US09786378B1
A memory device and associated techniques provide a uniform erase depth for different blocks of memory cells which are at different distances from pass gates of a voltage source. In one approach, a voltage of a source side select gate transistor of a memory string is a decreasing function of the distance. In another approach, a magnitude or duration of an erase voltage at a source end of a memory string is an increasing function of the distance. Adjacent blocks can be arranged in subsets and treated as being at a common distance. In another approach, an additional erase pulse can be applied when the distance of the block exceeds a threshold. Other variables such as initial erase voltage and step size can also be adjusted as a function of distance.
US09786372B2
According to example embodiments of inventive concepts, a nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array, an address decoder, an input/output circuit, a voltage generation circuit, and control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory blocks on a substrate. Each of the memory blocks includes a plurality of strings connected between bit lines and a common source line. The address decoder is configured to measure impedance information of word lines of a selected memory block. The voltage generation circuit is configured to generate word line voltages to be applied to word lines, and at least one of the word line voltages includes an offset voltage and a target voltage. The control logic is configured to adjust a level of the offset voltage and the offset time depending on the measured impedance information of the word lines.
US09786366B2
Apparatuses, memories, and methods for decoding memory addresses for selecting access lines in a memory are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an address decoder circuit coupled to first and second select lines, a polarity line, and an access line. The first select line is configured to provide a first voltage, the second select line is configured to provide a second voltage, and the polarity line is configured to provide a polarity signal. The address decoder circuit is configured to receive address information and further configured to couple the access line to the first select line responsive to the address information having a combination of logic levels and the polarity signal having a first logic level and further configured to couple the access line to the second select line responsive to the address information having the combination of logic levels and the polarity signal having a second logic level.
US09786363B1
A word-line enable pulse generator for a SRAM is provided. A delay unit receives an enable signal to provide an intermediate signal. A first inverter receives the intermediate signal to provide a word-line enable pulse signal to a plurality of word line drivers of the SRAM. The delay unit includes a first transistor coupled between an input terminal of the first inverter and a first power source, a resistor coupled between the input terminal of the first inverter and a second power source that is different from the first power source, and a second transistor coupled between the input terminal of the first inverter and the resistor. The first transistor and the second transistor form a second inverter. A specific edge of the word-line enable pulse signal is delayed from the specific edge of the enable signal by a delay time corresponding to resistance of the resistor.
US09786362B1
A memory circuit comprises an array of data storage elements; access circuitry to access a data bit, stored by a data storage element enabled for access, by an access signal for that data storage element; and control circuitry to enable groups of data storage elements for access, the groups having a group size, the group size being one or more, the access signals for data storage elements in a group being combined to provide a combined access signal common to that group of data storage elements; the control circuitry being configured to selectively operate in at least a first mode and a second mode, the group size in the first mode being different to the group size in the second mode.
US09786357B2
In some embodiments, a method includes receiving, at a voltage distribution circuit, a power enable signal. In response to the power enable signal, the voltage distribution circuit may connect a word line driver circuit to a bit-cell voltage circuit such that an operating voltage is received at a bit-cell circuit before a word line signal form the word line driver circuit is received at the bit-cell circuit, where the operating voltage is provided by the bit-cell voltage circuit. The method may further include the bit-cell circuit providing the operating voltage along a bit line based on a data stored at the bit-cell circuit and based on the word line signal. In some embodiments, a static noise margin of one or more portions of the bit-cell circuit may be improved. Additionally, in some cases, a wakeup time of the bit-cell circuit may be ignored, resulting in a faster read operation.
US09786355B2
A semiconductor device includes a receiver configured to receive a reference voltage via a first input terminal, receive an input signal via a second input terminal, and generate an output signal by comparing the reference voltage to the input signal with each other. A termination circuit associated with the input signal terminal may be adjusted and a logic threshold voltage may be adjusted to accommodate the adjustment in the termination circuit.
US09786353B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a comparator to be clocked by a clock signal to be provided by a clocking circuit, wherein the clocking circuit includes: a voltage controlled delay line having two or more delay cells; a multiplexer coupled to the voltage controlled delay line and operable to configure the clocking circuit as a ring oscillator with the voltage controlled delay line forming at least one delay section of the ring oscillator; and select logic coupled to the multiplexer, the select logic is to receive a signal indicating arrival of an input clock, and is to control the multiplexer according to the indication. Described is also an apparatus which comprises: a data path to receive input data; and a clock path to receive an input clock and to provide a preconditioned clock to the data path when the input clock is absent.
US09786346B2
Virtual ground sensing circuits, electrical systems, computing devices, and related methods are disclosed. A virtual ground sensing circuit includes a sense circuit configured to compare a reference voltage potential to a sense node voltage potential, and virtual ground circuitry operably coupled to the sense circuit. The virtual ground circuitry is configured to provide a virtual ground at a first bias voltage potential to a conductive line operably coupled to a selected ferroelectric memory cell, and discharge the conductive line to the sense node responsive to the selected ferroelectric memory cell changing from a first polarization state to a second polarization state. A method includes applying a second bias voltage potential to another conductive line operably coupled to the selected ferroelectric memory cell, and comparing a sense node voltage potential to a reference voltage potential. Electrical systems and computing devices include virtual ground sensing circuits.
US09786345B1
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. Before reading a memory cell, the voltage on an access line of the memory cell may be initialized to a value associated with the threshold voltage of a switching component in electronic communication with the memory cell. The voltage may be initialized by reducing the existing voltage on the access line to the value. The switching component or an additional pull down device, or both, may be used to reduce the voltage of the access line. After the access line has been initialized to the value, the read operation may be triggered.
US09786343B1
Improved STT MRAM CSL array bias schemes are provided. In one aspect, a method for operating a CSL STT MRAM array includes: providing the STT MRAM array having a plurality of word lines perpendicular to both a plurality of bit lines and at least one source line; a plurality of memory cells including magnetic tunnel junctions in series with field effect transistors, wherein the field effect transistors are gated by the word lines, wherein the bit lines are connected to the magnetic tunnel junctions, and wherein the source line is connected to the field effect transistors; and applying a first word line voltage (Vdd) to a selected one of the word lines during a read, and a different second word line voltage (Vpp) to the selected word line during a write.
US09786342B2
A memory control circuit to control a first memory comprising a plurality of MRAM cells, each MRAM cell including of a magnetoresistive element to store data, has a second memory, when there is a read request to a first address of the first memory, to read data of a second address different from the first address, from the first memory and store the read data, a controller to control access to the first memory and the second memory, a capacitor connected in series to the magnetoresistive element, and a sense amplifier to sense a logic of the data from a voltage between both electrodes of the capacitor, the voltage varying in accordance with a current flowing through the magnetoresistive element.
US09786336B2
A data processing system includes a first memory, a second memory, a temperature sensor, and a controller. The temperature sensor is configured to sense a temperature at the data processing system and generate a temperature signal. The controller is configured to control whether the first memory is enabled or disabled and whether the second memory is enabled or disabled based on the temperature signal and based on a first temperature threshold associated with the first memory and a second temperature threshold associated with the second memory.
US09786313B2
An optical-information recording/reproducing apparatus of the present invention is capable of carrying out position detection of a reproduction image even if reproduction image data with incomplete alignment marks (markers) is obtained. A relative correlation value is calculated from a first correlation value retained by a first correlation-value retaining unit and a second correlation value retained by a second correlation-value retaining unit, and pass/fail of a position detection result of the marker is judged according to the relative correlation value. The pass/fail of the position detection result is judged by mutually comparing the detection positions of the markers judged as passes by the relative correlation-value judgement, the positions of the markers judged as fail by the relative correlation-value judgement or the mutual position judgement is complemented, and the position of two-dimensional data is detected based on the pass-judged markers and the complemented markers.
US09786306B2
According to one embodiment, a failure prognosis device includes circuitry configured to determine whether a sign of failure exists in a head, based on a signal quality value and a floating quantity of the head, the signal quality value being based on an error between a reproducing signal acquired from the head when reading data stored on a storage surface of a disk and a predetermined target signal, and output a determination result.
US09786302B1
A tunneling magnetoresistive (TMR) read head for magnetic tape has a tape-bearing surface (TBS) and includes a first magnetic shield, a first gap layer on the first shield, a TMR sensor on the first gap layer and recessed from the TBS, a second gap layer on the TMR sensor, a second magnetic shield on the second gap layer, and a magnetic flux guide between the first and second gap layers between the TBS and the recessed TMR sensor. The first gap layer has an insulating portion with an edge at the TBS and a non-magnetic electrically-conducting portion recessed from the TBS, with the TMR sensor located on the conductive portion. The sense current is between the two shields. An insulating isolation layer may be located between the first gap layer and the first shield layer with the sense current being between the second shield and the first gap layer.
US09786301B1
Apparatuses and methods for providing thin shields in a multiple sensor array are provided. One such apparatus is a magnetic read transducer including a first read sensor, a second read sensor, and a shield assembly positioned between the first read sensor and the second read sensor at an air bearing surface (ABS) of the magnetic read transducer, the shield assembly including a first shield layer assembly having a first footprint with a first area, and a second shield layer assembly having a second footprint with a second area, where the second area is greater than the first area.
US09786300B2
A non-intrusive speech quality estimation technique is based on statistical or probability models such as Gaussian Mixture Models (“GMMs”). Perceptual features are extracted from the received speech signal and assessed by an artificial reference model formed using statistical models. The models characterize the statistical behavior of speech features. Consistency measures between the input speech features and the models are calculated to form indicators of speech quality. The consistency values are mapped to a speech quality score using a mapping optimized using machine learning algorithms, such as Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (“MARS”). The technique provides competitive or better quality estimates relative to known techniques while having lower computational complexity.
US09786294B1
This disclosure describes architectures and techniques to visually indicate an operational state of an electronic device. In some instances, the electronic device comprises a voice-controlled device configured to interact with a user through voice input and visual output. The voice-controlled device may be positioned in a home environment, such as on a table in a room. The user may interact with the voice-controlled device through speech and the voice-controlled device may perform operations requested by the speech. As the voice-controlled device enters different operational states while interacting with the user, one or more lights of the voice-controlled device may be illuminated to indicate the different operational states.
US09786293B2
In a signal coding method, bits for coding allocated to different bands of a frequency domain signal obtained from an input signal are adjusted to improve the coding quality. The total available bits for coding are first allocated to the bands of the frequency domain signal according to a predetermined allocation rule. The numbers of bits allocated to the respective bands of the frequency domain signal are then adjusted when a highest frequency of the frequency domain signal to which bits are allocated is greater than a predetermined value. The frequency domain signal is coded according to the adjusted bit allocation for the bands of the frequency domain signal.
US09786291B2
A client device encodes data into an audio signal and communicates the audio data to an additional client device, which decodes the data from the audio signal. The data is partitioned into characters, which are subsequently partitioned into a plurality of sub-characters. Each sub-character is encoded into a frequency, and multiple frequencies that encode sub-characters are combined by the client device to generate an audio signal. Frequencies encoding sub-characters may be above 16 kilohertz, so the sub-characters are transmitted using frequencies that are inaudible to humans. The audio signal is communicated to an additional client device, which decodes frequencies from the audio signal to sub-characters, which are then combined into characters by the additional client device to generate the data.
US09786290B2
The present invention relates to a new method and apparatus for improvement of High Frequency Reconstruction (HFR) techniques using frequency translation or folding or a combination thereof. The proposed invention is applicable to audio source coding systems, and offers significantly reduced computational complexity. This is accomplished by means of frequency translation or folding in the subband domain, preferably integrated with spectral envelope adjustment in the same domain. The concept of dissonance guard-band filtering is further presented. The proposed invention offers a low-complexity, intermediate quality HFR method useful in speech and natural audio coding applications.
US09786288B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to audio object extraction. A method for audio object extraction from audio content of a format based on a plurality of channels is disclosed. The method comprises applying audio object extraction on individual frames of the audio content at least partially based on frequency spectral similarities among the plurality of channels. The method further comprises performing audio object composition across the frames of the audio content, based on the audio object extraction on the individual frames, to generate a track of at least one audio object. Corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US09786286B2
A low-quality rendition of a complex soundtrack is created, synchronized and combined with the soundtrack. The low-quality rendition may be monitored in mastering operations, for example, to control the removal, replacement or addition of aural content in the soundtrack without the need for expensive equipment that would otherwise be required to render the soundtrack.
US09786284B2
This document describes various techniques for dual-band speech encoding. In some embodiments, a first type of speech feature is received from a remote entity, an estimate of a second type of speech feature is determined based on the first type of speech feature, the estimate of the second type of speech feature is provided to a speech recognizer, speech-recognition results based on the estimate of the second type of speech feature are received from the speech recognizer, and the speech-recognition results are transmitted to the remote entity.
US09786278B2
Provided are an image display apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The image display apparatus enabling voice recognition includes: a first voice inputter which receives a user-side audio signal; an audio outputter which outputs an audio signal processed by the image display apparatus; a first voice recognizer which recognizes the user-side audio signal received through the first voice inputter; and a controller which decreases a volume of the audio signal output through the audio outputter to a predetermined level if a voice recognition start command is received.
US09786273B2
The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmental noise, and/or natural variations in speaking style. The alternate input modalities use disambiguation or recognition engines to compensate for reduced keyboards, sloppy input, and/or natural variations in writing style. The ambiguity remaining in the speech recognition process is mostly orthogonal to the ambiguity inherent in the alternate input modality, such that the combination of the two modalities resolves the recognition errors efficiently and accurately. The invention is especially well suited for mobile devices with limited space for keyboards or touch-screen input.
US09786272B2
According to an embodiment, a decoder includes a token operating unit, a node adder, and a connection detector. The token operating unit is configured to, every time a signal or a feature is input, propagate each of a plurality of tokens, which is an object assigned with a state of the of a path being searched, according to a digraph until a state or a transition assigned with a non-empty input symbol is reached. The node adder is configured to, in each instance of token propagating, add, in a lattice, a node corresponding to a state assigned to each of the plurality of tokens. The connection detector is configured to refer to the digraph and detect a node that is connected to a node added in an i-th instance in the lattice and that is added in an i+1-th instance in the lattice.
US09786269B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for language modeling of complete language sequences. Training data indicating language sequences is accessed, and counts for a number of times each language sequence occurs in the training data are determined. A proper subset of the language sequences is selected, and a first component of a language model is trained. The first component includes first probability data for assigning scores to the selected language sequences. A second component of the language model is trained based on the training data, where the second component includes second probability data for assigning scores to language sequences that are not included in the selected language sequences. Adjustment data that normalizes the second probability data with respect to the first probability data is generated, and the first component, the second component, and the adjustment data are stored.
US09786266B2
Methods and systems for acoustically treating material are described. Acoustic energy is emitted into a waveguide having a wall with a shape that tapers away from the acoustic source. The wall may have a substantially conical or parabolic shape. When emitted therein, the waveguide causes convergence of the acoustic energy so as to form an acoustic focal zone at a vessel. In some embodiments, a substantial portion of the acoustic focal zone is located outside of the internal volume defined by the waveguide.
US09786263B2
An electronic apparatus with a noise reduction function includes a microphone for inputting an external sound signal inside a vehicle, a DSP for generating a noise reduction signal in order to reduce noise of the external sound signal, a determination unit for determining a driving state of the vehicle, a correction unit for relatively increasing a degree of noise reduction when it is determined that the vehicle is in automatic driving and relatively decreasing a degree of noise reduction when it is determined that the vehicle is in manual driving, and a speaker for outputting the corrected noise reduction signal.
US09786260B2
A power system on an electric guitar may include a cover plate covering a standard cavity in the electric guitar. A rechargeable power source may be contained within the standard cavity and may not extend beyond an external surface of the cover plate. Other instruments or configurations may be used.
US09786259B2
Systems and methods selectively mix a first and second song together during a live performance. The first song has a plurality of first stems, each having stereo audio that combine to form the audio of the first song. The second song has a plurality of second stems, each having stereo audio that combine to form the audio of the second song. A computer, with memory and a processor, executes machine readable instructions of a multiple channel audio mixing application with stored within the memory. The multiple channel audio mixing application plays and mixes audio of at least one of the first stems with audio of at least one of the second stems. The multiple channel audio mixing application is controlled in real-time during the performance to select the at least one first stem and the at least one second stem for the mixing.
US09786254B2
In a method of capacitive sensing using an integrated capacitive sensor device and display device, a transmitter signal is transmitted with a combination electrode of the integrated capacitive sensor device and display device. The combination electrode is configured for both capacitive sensing and display updating. The transmitter signal transitions at least twice during a non-display update time period associated with row update of the display device. A display of the display device is updated during an update time period. A resulting signal is received with a receiver electrode of the integrated capacitive sensor device and display device during the non-display update time period. The resulting signal corresponds to the transmitter signal.
US09786252B2
A background light suppression apparatus and method capable of suppressing influences of background light in a depth sensor includes measuring output signals of sub pixels for a sub integration time shorter than a frame integration time; and integrating differences between the output signals after the sub integration time.
US09786233B2
An electronic label system including a control unit and a plurality of electronic label units is provided. The control unit transmits wireless power. The electronic label units are coupled to the control unit. The electronic label units respectively output a plurality of state information to the control unit, so that the control unit monitors operation states of the electronic label units according to the state information. The state information is transmitted to the control unit when a state of the electronic label units is varied. The control unit transmits the wireless power to the electronic label units by using wireless communications, and the electronic label units are charged with the wireless power. Furthermore, a wired communication interface is used as the communication interface between the net unit and the electronic label units in the electronic label system, so that the cost of the electronic label system is reduced.
US09786222B2
A pixel circuit and an OLED display including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor having a double gate structure, the driving transistor including a first gate electrode electrically connected to a first node, a second gate electrode electrically connected to a second node, a first electrode electrically connected to a first power supply voltage, and a second electrode electrically connected to the anode of the OLED. The pixel circuit also includes a switching transistor including a gate electrode configured to receive a scan signal, a first electrode configured to receive a data voltage, and a second electrode electrically connected to the first node. The pixel circuit further includes a storage capacitor and a compensation capacitor including a first electrode electrically connected to the second node and a second electrode electrically connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor.
US09786220B2
A display device and method of driving the display device are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a scan driver configured to apply a scan signal having activation and deactivation levels to the pixels. Each of the pixels includes a storage capacitor, a switching transistor, a driving transistor and an emitting element configured to emit light based on an emission current received from the driving transistor. The scan driver is configured to selectively control the activation level of the scan signal so as to control the amount of charge stored in the storage capacitor. The driving transistor is configured to control the emission current based on the amount of charge stored in the storage capacitor.
US09786219B2
An organic light emitting display panel includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes an organic light emitting diode and each coupled to a first power voltage line. A voltage supplied to the first power voltage line in a display mode is lower than a voltage supplied to the first power voltage line in an aging mode. The display mode includes a mode in which the organic light emitting diode emits light. The aging mode includes a mode in which the organic light emitting diode does not emit light.
US09786218B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a pixel unit, a first voltage supply unit, a second voltage supply unit, and a selection unit. The pixel unit includes a plurality of pixels coupled to power lines. The first voltage supply unit is configured to output a first voltage. The second voltage supply unit is configured to output a second voltage. The selection unit is configured to supply any one of the first and second voltages to the pixels through the power lines.
US09786215B2
A display panel and a driving method thereof are provided. The display panel has a clock signal generating module, a scanning signal generating module, a data signal generating module, first and second data lines, and first and second pixel columns. The first data line connects to second and third sets of pixels in the first pixel columns, and the second data line connects to fourth set of pixels in the second pixel columns and the next first set of pixels adjacent thereto. The present invention can reduce the power consumption of the display panel.
US09786211B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a driving method and a display apparatus. The data signals are outputted by different operational amplifiers to the subpixels of different colors connected to the same data line, and the data signals are outputted by the same operational amplifier to the subpixels of the same color on the same data line.
US09786204B2
An educational system for visualizing sound by a student in a laboratory. The system includes a speaker powered by an audio amplifier. A function generator or a microphone controls the amplitude and frequency of pressure waves originating from the speaker. A model of the ear canal is suspended over the speaker, the model having a plastic pipe with two open ends and a membrane stretched taut over one of the open ends with constant tension. A mirror is affixed to the membrane, creating a mass-loaded membrane. A laser pointer emits light directed toward the mirror. A screen receives a light reflection pattern created by the light reflected from the mirror, with the model ear canal, speaker, membrane, and mirror placed equidistant between the screen and the laser pointer. The system is adapted to demonstrate hearing sensitivity to a deaf or hearing-impaired person in an educational setting.
US09786202B2
A surgical training system and method. The system comprises means for recording reference data representing a reference manipulation of a computer generated model of an object by a master user; means for physically guiding a trainee user based on the recorded reference data during a training manipulation of the model of the object by the trainee user; and means for recording assessment data representing an assessment manipulation of the model of the object by the trainee user without guidance.
US09786198B2
The invention relates to a method and a device (1) for simulating an electrode welding process having an electrode holder simulator (2) and a simulated electrode (3) arranged thereon, a simulated workpiece (4), an input device (6), an output device (7) and a control device (10). For the ideal training of an electrode welding process under conditions as real as possible, the control device (10) is connected to a memory (11) for storing parameters (Pi) of an ideal motion of the electrode holder simulator (2) during an ignition process and is designed for detecting the parameters (Pr) during an actual motion of the electrode holder simulator (2) and comparing them to the stored parameters (Pi) of the ideal motion of the electrode holder simulator during an ignition process and displaying the deviations between the parameters (Pr) of the actual motion and the parameters (Pi) of the ideal motion in the output device (7).
US09786195B2
A system of evaluating reading fluency by monitoring the underlining of text as it is being read on a tablet or other computing device. The text or passage is presented on the screen of the tablet computing device with a touchscreen, such as, but not limited to, an iPad. The reader uses a stylus, finger, or other device to underline each word as it is read, and may go back and re-underline any words to regress within the passage. Alternatively, a mouse can be used to indicate words as they are read. Computer software tracks the reader's underlining, providing detailed information about reading rate, pauses, regressions, and other word and word combination features.
US09786194B2
The present invention relates to a macroscopic, two or three dimensional image-making support medium which is a new reinvented version of a conventional utilitarian fine artist's canvas, canvas panel, canvas pad, art board or drawing pad, the novel image support medium facilitates artistic expression and the creation and display of macroscopic art, design or architecture, made therewith, thereupon or therefrom. The invention also relates to various methods of making such novel two or three dimensional image-making support mediums or the images provided thereby.
US09786188B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided a safety motor controller (SMC) for installing in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) between at least one electronic speed controller (ESC) configured to use a predetermined data protocol and an existing motor controller (EMC) configured to transmit EMC motor control signals in accordance with the predetermined data protocol to the at least one ESC, the SMC including: an input port configured to receive the EMC motor control signals in accordance with the predetermined data protocol from the EMC; and a processor configured to detect a trigger event and to transmit SMC motor control signals corresponding to at least one of the EMC motor control signals in accordance with the predetermined data protocol to the at least one ESC in response to the trigger event.
US09786184B2
The present disclosure relates to the secure transmission of an aircraft trajectory that is to be flown or that has been flown. A ground-referenced description of the trajectory of the aircraft expressed in ground-referenced parameters is converted, using a description of an imaginary atmospheric model describing imaginary atmospheric conditions along the trajectory, into an air-referenced description of the aircraft trajectory expressed in air-referenced parameters. For decryption, knowledge of the imaginary atmospheric conditions allows the air-referenced description of the aircraft trajectory to be converted back into the ground-referenced description of the aircraft trajectory. Thus, the ground-referenced trajectory may be though of as the plain text, the imaginary atmospheric model as the cipher key and the air-referenced trajectory as the cipher text.
US09786183B2
Systems and methods for vessel position reporting and monitoring. Methods and systems for augmenting e-Navigation messages to provide ancillary information, such as a history of previous vessel positions. A compact representation is provided, in which transmitters may select among a plurality of possible position layouts to provide a compact representation. Transmitted messages are received by a satellite or other surveillance platform employing a compatible radio frequency receiver to collect message signals over a large area or great distance.
US09786176B2
A system and method for user interaction includes a network, a server connected to the network, a supervisor device receiving information from a global positioning system and connected to the network, a user device receiving information from the global positioning system and connected to the network. The supervisor, having the supervisor device, defines a set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones in which the user device is tracked, and saves the set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones to a supervisor account on the server. The user downloads a user application, sets-up a user account, and downloads the set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones. As the user, having the user device, moves through the virtual geographic zones and sub-zones the location of the user device is determined and a set of supervisor-defined actions are executed on the user device based on the location of the user device.
US09786175B1
Methods and systems for monitoring parking areas and/or recommending a parking spot or a parking area to a driver are provided. The methods and systems can operate using incomplete camera or sensor coverage and minimal additional overhead. A method for assigning parking locations can include providing a first parking area and a second parking area, providing a means for determining a first parking area density and a means for determining a second parking area density, calculating a first parking index for the first parking area and a second parking index for the second parking area, providing a user interface suitable for assigning parking areas to drivers, and providing an assigned parking area based on the means for determining the first parking area density, the means for determining the second parking area density, the first parking index, and the second parking index.
US09786169B2
An on-vehicle information providing device for providing information to a driver based on information sent from an information providing center is disclosed. When a vehicle leaves an off-street facility having multiple exits to enter a road, the on-vehicle information providing device performs a first process of sending the information providing center vehicle-side information including information obtained based on starting time and exiting time of the vehicle and information identifying one of the exits selected for the vehicle to leave the facility; and performs a second process of receiving from the information providing center exit status information including exit time lengths calculated for the respective exits by the information providing center based on the vehicle-side information received from multiple vehicles and providing information to the driver based on the received exit status information.
US09786155B2
A system is provided that includes a control panel of a security system, a memory of the security system having a reference frequency hopping pattern and a reference frequency offset saved therein, a plurality of wireless threat sensors that communicate with the control panel using the reference frequency hopping pattern and a fixed frequency offset for each frequency and each hop of the reference frequency hop pattern, wherein the fixed frequency offset is an integer multiple of the reference frequency offset, and a processor of the security system that detects any nearby security systems that use the reference frequency hopping pattern, determines the integer multiple of the reference frequency offset used by each of the nearby security systems, and sets the fixed frequency offset used by the plurality of sensors at a selected integer multiple of the reference frequency offset that is not used by any nearby security system.
US09786150B2
A method for outputting a combined power source alarm for an implantable blood pump includes determining a status for each of first and second power sources of the blood pump. A combined power source alarm based on the statuses of the first and second power sources is outputted. A method for generating an alarm based on fault detections in a mechanically assisted circulation system includes processing a series of fault detection indications to classify a fault as active or inactive. An alarm is generated if the fault is active for more than a predetermined amount of time.
US09786147B2
An event processing device includes: an event detection unit that, when received data satisfies predetermined conditions, detects the data as an event; a data storage unit that, irrespective of the event detection result, stores data received by the event detection unit; a relevance information definition storage unit that stores relevance information definitions that define the association between data; an integrated analysis unit that, when data is newly stored in the data storage unit, links the newly stored data with past data included in the past data stored in the data storage unit and the relationship of which with the newly stored data satisfies the relevance information definition; and an event display unit that displays the newly stored data and the past data linked with each other.
US09786146B2
Devices and methods for generating locational and other pertinent information from a tracking device associated with an asset in need of tracking during a tracking event and for selectively retaining and deleting information stored during a loss of communication between the tracking device and a communication network, to increase probability of retaining information suitable for use as evidence in court or other proceedings in which accurate information is desired regarding the tracking event.
US09786132B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the above mentioned present disclosure, a display for an automated teller machine includes an amount display unit configured to display a total amount to be deposited in a plurality of accounts, an account selection unit configured to allow a user to select an account among the plurality of accounts and an amount entry unit configured to allow the user to set an amount and deposit the amount in the selected account.
US09786121B2
A system for interactive gaming among a plurality of players includes a host computer system and a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system via a network. The plurality of player terminals are located at a plurality of licensed gaming locations. The plurality of player terminals are configured to engage the plurality of players in a common interactive game operated by the host computer system. The plurality of player terminals include means for dispensing player winnings from the player terminal.
US09786117B2
A system, apparatus and method for presenting payouts in primary and/or secondary gaming activities. A plurality of wheels, rings, or other shapes are provided, where each includes a plurality of different symbols, numbers, or other indicia that can be used as a part of a collective payout award. The wheels, rings, or shapes are rotated, and at least one segment designator is provided to demarcate segments of each wheel, ring, or shape as an active segment when the wheels, rings, or shapes stop spinning. The payout amount is based on the aggregate of the symbols, numbers, and/or other indicia presented via the segment designator(s) when the spinning wheels, rings, or shapes have come to rest. In an alternate embodiment, the segment designators are rotated, and demarcate segments of each wheel, ring, or shape as an active segment when the segment designators stop spinning.
US09786116B2
In various embodiments, the gaming system disclosed herein includes a cascading symbol or tumbling reel game which retains, saves or stores zero, one or more of any symbols removed during the play of a primary cascading symbols game. In various embodiments, the gaming system disclosed herein includes a cascading symbol or tumbling reel game which sequentially layers a plurality of adjacent symbol display position grids at different depths.
US09786113B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating investigations of user behavior. In an example embodiment, the system includes a video camera configured to capture video of user activity, a video analytic module to perform real-time video processing of the captured video to generate non-video data from video, and a computer configured to receive the video and the non-video data from the video camera. The computer includes a video analytics module configured to analyze one of video and non-video data to identify occurrences of particular user behavior, and an investigation generation module configured to generate an investigation containing at least one video sequence of the particular user behavior. In some embodiments, the investigation is generated in near real time. The particular user behavior may be defined as an action, an inaction, a movement, a plurality of event occurrences, a temporal event and/or an externally-generated event.
US09786112B2
A paper sheet handling machine 100 comprises an upper unit 10 having a paper sheet take-in apparatus 120 adapted for taking therein paper sheets, one by one, from the exterior, an upper transport mechanism 201a adapted for transporting the paper sheets taken in by the paper sheet take-in apparatus 120, one by one, and a recognition unit 220 adapted for recognizing each paper sheet transported by the upper transport mechanism 201a; a lower unit 20 located below the upper unit 10 and having a lower transport mechanism 201b provided to receive the paper sheets transferred from the upper transport mechanism 201a, one by one, and then further transport the transferred paper sheets, and a plurality of stacking units 106, each adapted for stacking therein the paper sheets transported by the lower transport mechanism 201b and sorted based on results obtained by the recognition unit 220. In this case, at least a part of a bottom portion of the upper unit 10 is opened. Additionally, a partition member 30 is provided between the upper unit 10 and the lower unit 20.
US09786086B2
A status expression system and method operating the same are provided for presenting a state of the mobile phone by means of a character agent. A status expression system of the present invention includes a memory for storing a plurality of character quotients, information on at least one state transition model, and resources for presenting the character; a character controller for updating the character quotients according to events occurred in the mobile phone, determining a state by analyzing the character quotients and referring to the state transition model, and formatting the state using the resources assigned for the state of the character; and a display for presenting the character with the resources in the state.
US09786085B2
A rail manipulator indicates the possible range(s) of movement of a part of a computer-generated character in a computer animation system. The rail manipulator obtains a model of the computer-generated character. The model may be a skeleton structure of bones connected at joints. The interconnected bones may constrain the movements of one another. When an artist selects one of the bones for movement, the rail manipulator determines the range of movement of the selected bone. The determination may be based on the position and/or the ranges of movements of other bones in the skeleton structure. The range of movement is displayed on-screen to the artist, together with the computer-generated character. In this way, the rail manipulator directly communicates to the artist the degree to which a portion of the computer-generated character can be moved, in response to the artist's selection of the portion of the computer-generated character.
US09786074B2
An embodiment provides a timeline upon which a playhead indicator is moved or positioned. Changes to a displayed graph that are within a predetermined interval of the playhead indicator's time position are shown graphically on or near the graph. Actor icons are positioned on or near the displayed graph. The actor icons correspond to different entities (e.g., a person, group, organization, software agent, etc.) that has made a change to the graph. Action beams are displayed to show changes to the graph. As playback of the change events occurs, beams emanate from actor icons to items in the graph that are changed or otherwise operated upon. Various characteristics of the beams' use, appearance and behavior are described.
US09786073B2
One or more processors sort a plurality of geometric shapes using one or more size criteria. One or more processors determine whether the plurality of geometric shapes include at least one geometric shape that encapsulates or partially overlaps at least one other geometric shape. One or more processors assign a hierarchical order for the plurality of geometric shapes based, at least in part, on the one or more size criteria and one or more criteria of one or both encapsulation and partial overlap.
US09786071B2
One or more processors sort a plurality of geometric shapes using one or more size criteria. One or more processors determine whether the plurality of geometric shapes include at least one geometric shape that encapsulates or partially overlaps at least one other geometric shape. One or more processors assign a hierarchical order for the plurality of geometric shapes based, at least in part, on the one or more size criteria and one or more criteria of one or both encapsulation and partial overlap.
US09786059B2
An apparatus for providing object information based on an image sequence including a plurality of images is provided. The apparatus includes an object detector for conducting object detection on three or more images of the plurality of images of the image sequence to obtain the object information, wherein each image of the image sequence on which object detection is conducted, is an object-detected image of the image sequence, and wherein each image of the image sequence on which object detection is not conducted, is not an object-detected image of the image sequence. Moreover, the apparatus includes an object tracker for conducting object tracking on one or more images of the image sequence to obtain the object information.
US09786044B2
A scatterometer is used in a dark-field imaging mode to measure asymmetry-related parameters such as overlay. Measurements of small grating targets are made using identical optical paths, with the target in two orientations to obtain separate measurements of +1 and −1 diffraction orders. In this way, intensity scaling differences (tool asymmetry) are avoided. However, additive intensity defects due to stray radiation (ghosts) in the optical system cannot be avoided. Additive intensity issues strongly depend on the ratio between 0th and 1st order diffraction and are therefore strongly substrate (process) dependent. Calibration measurements are made on a few representative target gratings having biases. The calibration measurements are made, using not only different substrate rotations but also complementary apertures. Corrections are calculated and applied to correct asymmetry, to reduce error caused by stray radiation.
US09786041B2
A CT system and method thereof are discloses. The system includes: a fixed multi-plane multi-source X-ray generation device and a control system thereof that provide X-ray source used in luggage inspection; a single-energy, pseudo-dual-energy or spectral detector system and data transfer system that receive perspective data of X ray penetrating the luggage, and transfer the data to a computer for processing; a conveyor and a control system thereof that control a speed for moving the luggage forth and back, and perform tomogram scanning; and a host computer system that performs tomogram reconstruction and provides man-machine interaction. The system takes full advantage of characteristics, such as high speed and stability, brought by the distributed ray sources which replace the normal slip ring technology. The system also adopts the idea of inverse-geometry CT, and reduces detector area and cost by increasing the number of ray sources. With the reduction of detector area, cone-beam artifacts and cup-shape artifacts caused by scattering are also reduced, and influence of the oblique effect on registration of dual-energy data is suppressed.
US09786040B2
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and ultrasound two-dimensional cross-section image generation method
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a light source information setting unit setting light source data indicating a property of a light source irradiated to a cross section region of the object, an optical property setting unit setting a weight coefficient indicating an optical property of cross-section region data including intensity information on the cross section region to the light source, an illuminance slice data creation unit calculating illuminance at positions corresponding to coordinates of a plurality of the cross-section regions based on the light source data and the weight coefficient, and creating illuminance slice data of the plurality of the cross-section regions based on the calculated illuminance, and a composition unit compositing a two-dimensional cross-section image of the object from the plurality of illuminance slice data.
US09786037B2
A method for data processing and display is disclosed. The method may be implemented by a terminal device. The method may include: transmitting a data request to a server, the data request including at least data associated with a display area of a window; receiving trace data from the server according to the data request, the trace data including dynamic motion data of a target object within the display area; and processing the received trace data to render a trace image in the display area.
US09786034B1
A method of scaling image data, includes receiving image data at a processor in at least two channels, the image data having a first resolution for the a channel and a second, lower resolution for other channels, using known pixel values of the first resolution pixels to generate an interpolation function to be applied to second resolution pixels co-located with a subset of the first resolution pixels, and applying the interpolation function to the second resolution pixels to find the unknown pixel values.
US09786029B2
In response to detection of a selection of an accelerated frame rate operation associated with a video advertisement, a quantity of individual prioritized video frames of the video advertisement to render based upon a selected accelerated frame rate is determined. Accelerated frame rate rendering priority values assigned to the individual prioritized video frames of the video advertisement are identified. Based upon differences among the identified accelerated frame rate rendering priority values assigned to the individual prioritized video frames, a prioritized video frame subset of the individual prioritized video frames is determined. The prioritized video frame subset of the individual prioritized video frames is equal in number to the determined quantity of individual prioritized video frames of the video advertisement and is determined to yield a maximized cumulative set of the identified accelerated frame rate rendering priority values.
US09786028B2
In response to detection of a selection of an accelerated frame rate operation associated with a video advertisement, a quantity of individual prioritized video frames of the video advertisement to render based upon a selected accelerated frame rate is determined. Accelerated frame rate rendering priority values assigned to the individual prioritized video frames of the video advertisement are identified. Based upon differences among the identified accelerated frame rate rendering priority values assigned to the individual prioritized video frames, a prioritized video frame subset of the individual prioritized video frames is determined. The prioritized video frame subset of the individual prioritized video frames is equal in number to the determined quantity of individual prioritized video frames of the video advertisement and is determined to yield a maximized cumulative set of the identified accelerated frame rate rendering priority values.
US09786024B2
According to some aspects of the present disclosure a method for presenting a GUI for modifying medical data on a handheld medical device is disclosed. The method includes determining a correction bolus amount and a meal bolus amount for the patient. The method also includes presenting the GUI on a display of the medical device and presenting the correction bolus amount, the meal bolus amount and a total bolus amount in the GUI. The method also includes presenting a correction bolus amount modification field and a meal bolus amount field in the GUI. The correction bolus amount modification field and the meal bolus amount modification field allow the patient to provide input to modify the correction bolus amount and meal bolus amount, respectively. The method further includes receiving the input and generating an advice history record based on the input.
US09786020B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments for electric power grid and network registration and management of physical and financial settlement for participation of active grid elements in supply and/or curtailment of power, wherein Internet Protocol (IP)-based messages including IP packets are generated by transforming raw data content into settlement grade content. Settlement is provided for grid elements that participate in the electric power grid following initial registration of each grid element with the system, preferably through network-based communication between the grid elements and a coordinator, either in coordination with or outside of an IP-based communications network router. Messaging related to settlement is managed through a network by a Coordinator using IP messaging for communication with the grid elements, with the energy management system (EMS), and with the utilities, market participants, and/or grid operators.
US09786017B1
Sending electronic messages related to a tax return from a mobile communication device of an accountant or client. Computers having tax preparation programs that are utilized prepare tax returns are synchronized with a host computer. A browser executes on a mobile communication device and a web application on the second computer executes to display a client list. A client is selected, and the web application presents an interface including tax return data of the selected client on the mobile communication device. The interface includes an icon or object that when selected generates a message window that may be at least partially automatically populated. A message may be typed in the window and sent from the mobile communication device. For example, the accountant may send a self-addressed message to a computer utilized to prepare the tax return, or the client may send the accountant a message.
US09786016B2
An image is captured within an application transaction. Identifying information corresponding to the captured image is obtained and displayed for user confirmation. The identifying information is entered into an appropriate place within the transaction.
US09786014B2
Systems and methods for earnings alerts include using a history of earnings by a content provider to generate an earnings forecast model. The earnings forecast model predicts future earnings by the content provider. An earnings alert is generated and provided to a device associated with the content provider based on a determination that the current earnings of the provider differ from the predicted earnings by a threshold amount.
US09786005B1
A payment system can determine when a business need for a merchant is expected to occur for a particular time period. The payment system can also determine whether a merchant is eligible for a cash advance for a particular amount, along with a fee for the cash advance. Once a determination is made that the merchant is eligible for the cash advance, the payment system can send the merchant a notification describing the expected business need for the particular time period along with an offer for the cash advance. The merchant can accept the offer for the cash advance by sending an acceptance to the payment system. Upon accepting the offer, the merchant is provided the cash advance for the particular amount, for example, in the form of an electronic deposit in a financial account of the merchant.
US09786003B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to linking a prepaid account with a payment account used to fund the prepaid account. In some embodiments, during payment for a prepaid device, an authorization request message may include a prepaid account identifier associated with the prepaid account. In some embodiments, an activation request message may include a payment account identifier associated with the payment account. A server at the payment processing network may store an association between the prepaid account identifier and the payment account identifier in an account link database. In some embodiments of the invention, if the payment account is canceled, the payment processing network may use the account link database to cancel any associated prepaid accounts, and may transfer funds associated with corresponding prepaid accounts to an issuer associated with the payment account.
US09785998B1
Techniques for updating content created for a third party user are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for updating content comprises receiving information for an item associated with a third party user, requesting a search including information for a plurality of items offered for purchase, the search request being based on the received information for the at least one item, and updating content for the third party user with one of the items included in the list of items received in response to the search request. Information for the item associated with the third party user may be received from a list of items associated with the third party user and maintained by the third party user or from a content source associated with an entity other than the third party user.
US09785984B2
Systems and methods for facilitating a purchase over a network. A computer of a banking institution stores personal information from a buyer. The computer uses the personal information to assign and store an account identifier and alias information for the buyer. The computer uses the buyer's alias information and a seller's existing payment process to complete a purchases such that the true identity of the buyer is not revealed to the seller.
US09785975B2
A system for receiving data associated with a mobile content is configured to calculate an expected value of the mobile content based at least in part on the data received, and determine a bid amount for a sponsorship of the mobile content based at least in part on the expected value.
US09785974B1
An ad server provides an advertiser with computer code to include in advertisement (ad) instances. Upon interaction with one of the ad instances, the computer code determines if a mobile software application associated with an advertiser is installed on a mobile device. The ad server may also provide mobile application developers with a software development kit (SDK) for use in creating mobile applications capable of determining if a mobile software application associated with the advertiser is installed on a mobile device, retrieving usage information associated with the user's use of the mobile device, receiving ad instances for display to a user through the mobile software application, and communicating this information to the ad server. Based on the installation status and the usage information the ad server selects ad instances to serve to the user of the mobile device.
US09785969B1
Techniques are described for promoting content items in a page to load in a different order than the order in which they were initially designated to load in the page. A page may include critical content items designated to load earlier than non-critical content items. In instances where there is a delay due to latency in generating or retrieving the critical content items, one or more non-critical content items may be promoted to load earlier than initially designated. By promoting non-critical content items to load during the period in which the loading of the page may otherwise be stalled, overall page load times may be reduced. Content transport may employ a multi-stream networking protocol that multiplexes a plurality of streams, and promotion may include writing to a particular stream during the delay in availability of the critical content items.
US09785967B1
A cloud-based consumer data aggregation and segmented marketing communication system and process that use suppression and duplication algorithms are disclosed. The system includes a database that is accessible by user over the Internet. The system performs the process to track redemption and follow user defined rules for predefined messaging and promotions. Data is aggregated, cleansed, segmented, suppressed and distributed using pre-defined user rules.
US09785966B2
A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of the user is built based on the data. The portrait is then used to dynamically reconfigure web content.
US09785961B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing targeted marketing to goods and services provides and consumer resource management services to consumers. An example system and method for targeted marketing comprises collecting transaction data from point-of-sale (POS) terminals and using a consumer identifier in the transaction data to access stored information about the consumer. This information may be used to target offers and advertisement to the consumer. In an example system for consumer resource management, a consumer may configure a consumer account on the enterprise infrastructure via a web-site. The consumer may use the consumer account to purchase and configure gift cards that may be used for purchasing goods and services. A universal transaction identifier may be associated with the consumer account and used to purchase goods and services from more than one selected goods and services providers.
US09785960B2
Introduced herein is a method and system that enhances the number of real world meetings between online friends of social networking sites (SNS). The method and system is configured to work in perfect alignment with one or more SNS. The method and system provides an incentive for users who are connected on the SNS to meet in the real world. The incentive is provided through a dynamic meeting platform system that allows third party sponsors to work with SNS to reward users for real-world meetings. By increasing the frequency of meeting between the users, the method and system creates greater alignment between the online social life and conduct and the real-world social life and conduct, increasing the quality of life for the users. Further, such greater alignment helps expand the growth of SNS.
US09785955B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for optimization of yield for advertising inventory. A method includes, in a network of interconnected computers, sending a request for a file from a browser residing on a user system to a publisher server, receiving the requested file from the publisher server, the requested file including instructions for the browser to request a site file from a rules server, receiving the site file in the browser, the site file including rules for deciding whether an advertising impression is desired, rules for valuing the advertising impression, and browser executable code that applies and evaluates the rules, executing the browser executable code to evaluate the rules from the site file which determine if one or more signals should be attached to an advertisement request, and selecting an advertisement from a network ad server based on a signal received with the advertisement request from the browser.
US09785946B2
A computer-implemented method for updating merchant information regarding card-not-present recurring payment (CNP/RP) transactions is provided, wherein the method involves a recurring transaction initiated by a cardholder using payment card information stored by a merchant. The method includes querying a database coupled to a payment network to identify a candidate payment card having stale payment card data. The stale payment card data includes at least an existing expiration date that is within a predetermined period of time of a selected calendar date. The method also includes querying the database to identify at least one recent transaction involving the candidate payment card. The recent transaction includes payment card data having an updated expiration date. The method further includes notifying the merchant that the existing expiration date has been replaced with the updated expiration date.
US09785943B2
A method includes setting a risk management limit to be applied to authorized purchase transactions for a payment card account. The method further includes detecting that purchase transactions for the payment card account have approached the risk management limit and sending a message to the account holder to notify the account holder that the risk management limit is imminent. In addition, the method includes detecting that the account holder has requested re-setting of the risk management limit and then re-setting the risk management limit.
US09785940B2
Systems and methods enable the real-time authorization of payment transactions initiated by personal and mobile computing devices. In one embodiment, a financial account server associated with a payment recipient, or payee, is configured to receive a payment data envelope from a payee computing device. The payment data envelope can originate from a payer computing device and include transaction information obtained from an identity management service associated with the payer. The payment data envelope can further include information that allows for the authentication of the payee and payer identities as well as payment instructions. The payee financial account server processes the payment data envelope and transmits the envelope to a financial account server associated with the payer. The payer financial server authenticates the payer identification, authorizes the payment transaction, and transmits a transaction status message to the payee financial server, which in turn transmits the message to the payee computing device.
US09785939B2
The invention concerns a method for deactivating a payment module attachable to a communications terminal, comprising: a phase for deactivating comprising at least one step for erasing the main memory of said payment module with the exception of a non-volatile memory zone in which an encryption key k is stored, said encryption key k being available only when said main memory is empty; a phase for verifying comprising: a step for verifying that said main memory is empty, delivering a positive or negative result of verification; if said result of verification is positive: a step for computing a response to a challenge preliminarily received by said payment module from an entity distinct from said payment module, said computation being implemented by means of said encryption key k; a step for transmitting said response to said entity.
US09785937B2
A computer enabled system for facilitating electronic micropayments in which an accounting application receives a vendor submission a remote vendor server via a public communications network. This includes identifiers for the vendor, the customer and an item selected by the customer. The accounting application then checks the status of the customer's account. If it has sufficient funds, the transaction proceeds. The customer account is conditionally debited, and the vendor account conditionally credited with the transaction amount, including fees. A transaction confirmation is sent to the vendor application which then confers usage rights for the item to the customer. The accounting application periodically reconciles the vendor and customer accounts, deducts any service fees, and makes a single payment to each vendor. This single payment only incurs a single per-transaction credit-card company fee, thereby spreading it across multiple purchases and clients, making micro-transactions profitable.
US09785934B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for sending and receiving payments using an integrated payment and messaging system. In particular, the integrated payment and messaging system allows users to send and receive electronic payments as well as exchange messages. For example, one or more implementations involve facilitating same day push-to-debit payment transactions between a user and a co-user. To illustrate, one or more implementations involve sending a push-to-debit request to credit funds for the payment amount of the payment transaction to a debit card of a co-user, the push-to-debit request being formatted for same day processing.
US09785929B1
A method and system for providing synchronous display at a customer mobile device of a vendor point of sale register receipt in the process of being created is disclosed. The method may include, at a customer mobile wireless device, initiating a live register receipt application and authentication process with a live register receipt provider, receiving and forwarding unique vendor register identification information and forwarding that information to the live register receipt provider. In response the customer mobile device receives and displays line item data from the identified vendor register via the provider in real-time. The system may include a customer mobile device configured to implement the live register receipt functionality described and a live register receipt provider configured to communicate live register data from vendor registers and mobile devices.
US09785926B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for selectively increasing and decreasing the balances of gaming accounts and stored value accounts. Each of the gaming account and the stored value account are associated with a player. Instructions for balance transfers can be provided by the player to a remote computing device.
US09785923B2
A new electronic financial transaction (EFT) system is proposed, wherein the business logic of a transaction is defined at a location remote from a secure point of sale terminal, thus having a framework wherein the business logic can be easily customized or updated.
US09785922B2
Machine, methods, and computer program encoded on non-transitory memory for facilitating electronic inventory tracking and management of products through messaging over an existing financial services payment network are provided. An example includes an inventory management computer in communication with a merchant POS apparatus or terminal over an existing financial services payment network and configured to receive and process purchase transaction data associated with a product being purchased. The computer can also include, for example, electronic inventory management computer program configured to perform various operations including generating product identifiers, forming product look up tables to correlate the identifiers with the products, and providing inventory data to product providers.
US09785921B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for processing decoupled debit transactions. In one embodiment, a system is provided. The system can include a device with a camera and a graphical user interface, and the system can further include a server. The device can identify received user information for a first transaction provided by a user to the graphical user interface of the device. The camera can capture an image of a check for the first transaction. The device can generate a first transaction message comprising the user information and the image of the check. The device can send the first transaction message to the server. The device can identify an indication received from the server that the user is approved for enrollment in a decoupled debit program, and the device further identifies an identifier received from the server for a decoupled debit program account. The graphical user display can display the indication to the user.
US09785908B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for automatically determining appropriate delivery information for one or more items of an order or potential order is described. A variety of types of information can be considered when determining what delivery information is appropriate for one or more items, such as a type of the items, the particular items, relationships of the items to other items, information about the purchaser, and/or information about the recipient. In addition, the automatic determination of an appropriate address for an item being ordered or potentially ordered by a user can be made in a variety of ways, such as based on inferences from past behavior when ordering items, on inferences from information about the item and from available delivery information for the user, and/or on previous explicit indications from the user.
US09785883B2
Users receive content recommendations from a personalized, generalized recommendation service that aggregates and selects content of high personal relevance to each individual user from a large pool of both personal and public content. The received content is filtered and the content determined to be relevant is cached. When a user request for content is received, the cached content is rescored and the content determined to be most relevant based on satisfaction of a relevance threshold is selected and forwarded to the user. Feedback methodologies are also implemented so that a user's actions are taken into consideration in real time and can affect subsequent recommendations to the user.
US09785863B2
Systems and methods of an electronic device include an imaging device and a button. The electronic device also has circuitry configured to acquire a first fingerprint image captured by the imaging device in which the button is not engaged; extract first fingerprint features from the first fingerprint image; store the first fingerprint features as a registered fingerprint image; acquire a second fingerprint image captured by the imaging device in which the button is engaged; extract second fingerprint features from the second fingerprint image; compare the first fingerprint features of the registered fingerprint image and the second fingerprint features extracted from the second fingerprint image; and calculate and store an amount of distortion of the second fingerprint image based on a result of the comparing.
US09785861B2
A method for optimizing the position and size of a search window in a tracking system is disclosed. According to some embodiments of the present invention, the method may comprise: calculating a velocity of a tracked object based on comparison of at least two previously captured consecutive frames; calculating an expected position of the tracked object in a subsequent frame based on calculated velocity of the tracked object; determine possible positions of the tracked object in the subsequent frame, based on the last known position of the tracked object, status of the tracked object, the expected position and the acceleration of the tracked object; and optimizing the size and position of the search window within the subsequent frame so that the search window covers the expected position and at least one of the possible positions of said tracked object.
US09785848B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to an automated determination the stain quality and segmentation quality of a tissue sample. By way of example, separate image data is acquired of an unstained form of a biological specimen, the biological specimen stained with a nuclei marker and the biological specimen stained with a segmentation marker. A correlation map (Cr) from the separate image data and a ridgeness map (Pr) from the image data of the biological specimen stained with a segmentation marker are each determined. A staining quality score and segmentation quality score are then determined from the correlation map (Cr) and the ridgeness map (Pr).
US09785836B2
A mobile platform visually detects and/or tracks a target that includes a dynamically changing portion, or otherwise undesirable portion, using a feature dataset for the target that excludes the undesirable portion. The feature dataset is created by providing an image of the target and identifying the undesirable portion of the target. The identification of the undesirable portion may be automatic or by user selection. An image mask is generated for the undesirable portion. The image mask is used to exclude the undesirable portion in the creation of the feature dataset for the target. For example, the image mask may be overlaid on the image and features are extracted only from unmasked areas of the image of the target. Alternatively, features may be extracted from all areas of the image and the image mask used to remove features extracted from the undesirable portion.
US09785790B2
Protecting a computer security application by executing the computer security application on a computer in a first namespace associated with an operating system of the computer, and creating a second namespace associated with the operating system of the computer, where the second namespace is accessible to the computer security application, and where the first namespace is inaccessible from the second namespace.
US09785788B2
A system for controlling access within an enterprise to information associated with recipients of an electronic message campaign of the enterprise sent to a plurality of recipient devices wherein the enterprise includes hierarchically structured Business Units having an enterprise level Business Unit at the highest level and a plurality of second level Business Units and an enterprise system communicatively coupled to a network and including an enterprise level device communicatively coupled to a plurality of second level devices includes a server and an electronic message engine The server is configured to assign an enterprise account to the enterprise system and to allow the enterprise level device to communicate selected portions of the recipient list. The electronic message engine is configured to generate electronic messages within a message campaign for sending to recipients identified by each of the second level devices from the selected portions of the recipient list.
US09785783B2
A system and method for executing privileged code in a process are described. The method includes establishing, by an authorized library, a privileged function. The privileged function has a first privilege level used by a processor that is executing the privileged function, while preserving a different privilege level for a process invoking the privileged function. The method includes communicating, to a computer process, access information of the privileged function, to allow the computer process to invoke the privileged function. The method includes executing the privileged function for the computer process. Executing the privileged function includes setting a processor that is being used by the computer process to use the first privilege level associated with the privileged function, executing the privileged function with that processor at the first privilege level, then restoring that processor to a previous privilege level, and returning control of that processor to the computer process.
US09785779B1
A method and apparatus submitting information to be protected before permitting an outbound data transfer with the information is described. A DLP agent, incorporating a DLP submission tool, receives information of an outbound data transfer by the client computing system. The DLP agent can temporarily block the outbound data transfer and send a request to update a DLP policy to protect the information before permitting the outbound data transfer. The DLP agent subsequently receives receiving an indication that the DLP policy is updated to protect the information. After receiving the indication, the DLP agent permits the outbound data transfer.
US09785775B1
According to at least one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for managing malware for a computing device is described. In one embodiment, an attempt by a process to modify at least one file on the computing device may be identified. The identified process may be analyzed to estimate an age value associated with the identified process. The estimated age value of the identified process may be compared to an age value associated with the at least one file. The attempt to modify the at least one file may be prevented based at least in part on the comparison.
US09785771B1
Approaches for protecting a computing device against malicious code using an attack vector involving a USB device. A computing device prevents a USB device from communicating operational input to the computing device using a USB port residing on or coupled to the computing device unless consent data is stored on the computing device. Consent data is data that affirms consent provided by a user of the computing device to allow the USB device to communicate with the computing device using the USB port. Note that the lack of consent data stored on the computing device does not prohibit the USB device from identifying itself to the computing device. In this way, if the USB device comprises malicious code or has been designed in a malicious manner, the USB device will be unable to submit operational input to the computing device without the consent of the user.
US09785743B2
The invention relates to an online web-based medical database and collaboration tool that can be used by surgeons, hospitals, medical institutions, manufacturers and others to collect, store, analyze and harvest clinical and radiologic data. The clinical registry system includes a registry database and a registry processor in electrical communication with the registry database and performing operations on the registry database. The registry database stores patient data from a plurality of sites, a plurality of registry groups and an indicator for each of the plurality of sites identifying which of the plurality of registry groups each site is a member. The members of a registry group have access to aggregated data and comparative reports of all the registry group members in real-time. Each site may be a member of one registry group, multiple registry groups, or no registry groups.
US09785741B2
A method for providing a remote user with an experience in an environment, comprising building a three-dimensional (3D) model of the environment, capturing one or more video feeds of at least a portion of the environment using one or more cameras in the environment, mapping the one or more video feeds onto one or more planes in the 3D model, providing a view of the mapped one or more video feeds on the one or more planes in the 3D model through a display device viewed by the remote user, capturing a gestural input from the remote user, and applying the gestural input to the portion of the environment.
US09785737B2
A method, system, and computer program product to perform parallel multi-threaded common path pessimism removal in integrated circuit design include constructing, using a processor, a thread-specific graphical representation (TSGR) relating to each data node and clock node pair and performing processes in parallel for each TSGR. The processes include determining initial arrival times at the data node and the clock node, computing initial test slack based on the initial arrival times at the data node and the clock node, identifying fan-out nodes among the additional nodes, each fan-out node being an origin of at least two of the edges in the two or more paths to the clock node, generating one or more tags based the fan-out nodes, determining adjusted arrival times based on the one or more tags, and computing adjusted test slack based on the adjusted arrival times.
US09785736B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology relate to techniques of connectivity-aware reduction of layout data. With various implementations of the disclosed technology, circuit elements of interest are selected in a circuit design which includes netlist information and layout data. Based at least on pins for the circuit elements of interest, the circuit elements of interest, or both, nets of interest are determined. Cells of interest, comprising cells that are identified based at least on pins for the circuit elements of interest, the circuit elements of interest, or both, are then determined. Based on the nets of interest and the cells of interest, layout geometric elements are selected and may be analyzed for design verification. For electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection verification, the cells of interest may further comprise cells that include portions of power supply grids on top metal layers.
US09785735B1
A system and method perform global routing during integrated circuit fabrication. The method includes performing a design change in a portion of an integrated circuit design using a processor, determining whether the design change requires rerouting, and requesting a global routing lock based on determining that the design change requires the rerouting. The method also includes a router providing control of the global routing lock to one of two or more of the threads that request the global routing lock, and performing global routing for all of the two or more of the threads in parallel. A physical implementation of the integrated circuit design is obtained.
US09785727B1
Disclosed is a system and method of creating configurators for positioning three dimensional objects or “Parts” of any size and shape relative to various elements of an infinitely expandable “Matrix” along X, Y, and Z axes. The location and size of such Parts can be controlled by designating Anchor Points on each Part, and associating these Anchor Points to Nodes on the Matrix, Axes defined by Nodes on the Matrix, Planes defined by axes of the Matrix, and Cells bounded by Planes of the Matrix. Parts may also be positioned by relating Anchor Points to those of other Parts. Associative positioning can be adjusted through the use of Offset Values which can be either fixed numeric values, or the result of equations which take into account a variety of influencing factors.
US09785726B2
Embodiments relate to generating a retrieval condition for retrieving a target character string from texts by pattern matching. An aspect includes dividing a first text into words. Another aspect includes generating a converted character string by performing at least one of appending at least one character in at least either one of previous and subsequent positions of the target character string. Another aspect includes replacing at least one character of the target character string. Another aspect includes generating the retrieval condition for retrieval candidates in the words of the first text, the retrieval condition comprising determining that a retrieval candidate matches the target character string and does not match the converted character string based on a ratio of a part of the retrieval candidate which matches the converted character string and corresponds to the target character string is less than or equal to a reference frequency.
US09785723B2
Dynamic web page generation is optimized by reducing the processing overhead required to parse the web page HTML code for tokens and insert dynamic content. Using the invention, an HTML file for a dynamic web page need be read and parsed only once throughout the life of the server. A software object parses the HTML, decomposes the page into constituent pieces and saves them to data structures as byte streams, which are cached, along with the software object, rendering multiple disk accesses unnecessary when the page is reconstituted. For subsequent requests, the dynamic page is created from the cached version, which is shareable across users and across requests. The optimization reduces server resource usage for dynamic page generation to near zero. The invention is also applicable to other documents combining static and dynamic content that require composition tools for editing.
US09785720B2
Implementations an optimizing a browser rendering process that identifies content neutral web pages and renders such web pages without scripting. An example method includes generating a first rendering result of a web page with scripting turned on and generating a second rendering result of the web page with scripting turned off. The method also includes comparing the first rendering result with the second rendering result to determine whether the web page is content neutral and storing a URL for the web page in a list of content neutral URLs when the web page is content neutral. The method can further include receiving a request to render a web page identified by a URL, prior to rendering, determining that the URL is a content neutral URL, and rendering the web page with scripting turned off responsive to determining that the URL is a content neutral URL.
US09785719B2
Methods for generating synthetic data based on time dependent data with increased accuracy include decomposing a base dataset into a base dynamic component and at least one static component. Decomposing the base dataset includes applying a decomposition model to the base dataset. One or more embodiments generate a synthetic dynamic component based on the base dynamic component. One or more embodiments merge the synthetic dynamic component with the at least one static component to generate a synthetic dataset having at least some of the time dependent characteristics of the base dataset.
US09785706B2
A low power sound recognition sensor is configured to receive an analog signal that may contain a signature sound. Sparse sound parameter information is extracted from the analog signal. The extracted sparse sound parameter information is processed using a sound signature database stored in the sound recognition sensor to identify sounds or speech contained in the analog signal, wherein the sound signature database comprises a plurality of sound signatures each representing an entire word or multiword phrase.
US09785704B2
Techniques are described for automatically mining query dimensions from web pages resulting from execution of a search query. Lists of items such as words, terms, or phrases are extracted from the web pages based on the recognition of free text, metadata tag, or repeated region patterns within the web page text. Extracted item lists are weighted according to document matching and/or inverse document frequency, and item lists are clustered based on shared or similar items within the lists to generate query dimensions. The generated query dimensions, and the items within each query dimension, are ranked according to quality, and high-quality query dimensions are provided for display alongside top search results.
US09785688B2
A system, and computer program product for automated analysis and visualization of log data are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A subset of information to be visualized is selected from a set of information. Each information in the set comprises a result of a corresponding analysis technique applied to the log data. For an information in the subset of information, a tagged portion of the log data is analyzed according to the corresponding analysis technique to discern the information. The information corresponds to a tag used in conjunction with the tagged portion. For the information, a manner of visualizing the information is selected. A set of graphical visualizations comprising a corresponding graphical visualization for each information is generated, including a visualization in the selected manner of visualizing the information. The graphical visualizations in the set are combined such that a subset of graphical visualization is selectable for presentation.
US09785684B2
Mechanisms are provided for processing sources of content in a corpus of information associated with a domain. The mechanisms ingest a plurality of sources of content in the corpus of information associated with the domain and determine at least one temporal category for the domain based on identification of frequently occurring references to at least one of temporal terms or time spans specified in the plurality of sources of content in the corpus of information associated with the domain. The mechanisms store the at least one temporal category for the domain in association with the domain and process queries applied to the plurality of sources of content in the corpus of information associated with the domain based on the stored at least one temporal category for the domain.
US09785674B2
A method is provided for compressing results of a join query. A join order of a result set is determined from the join query, where the result set includes a plurality of tuples. A plurality of dictionary entries for the result set is received. A nested hierarchy of dictionaries is created based on the join order and the dictionary entries. A plurality of encoded tuples is received. The nested hierarchy of dictionaries is used by a processor to decode the plurality of encoded tuples so as to produce the plurality of tuples of the result set.
US09785664B2
Systems and methods are provided for enabling local storing of one or more portions of data file and recording changes to contents of the data file. In some embodiments, a first data file may be sent to a client system, along with a script to manage the first data file. Changes to the data file may be stored locally, and may then be sent to a remote server upon network reconnection.
US09785661B2
This document relates to trend response management. One example can detect a trending topic and identify content associated with the trending topic. The example can take an action relating to the content that decreases a trend-induced processing spike and/or enhances a user search experience associated with the trending topic.
US09785651B2
Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image.
US09785644B2
A method of deduplicating data is disclosed comprising mounting, by a deduplication appliance, network shared storage of a client machine, via a network, accessing data to be deduplicated on the network shared storage device, deduplicating the data, storing the deduplicated data on a second storage device, and replacing the data in the network shared storage device by at least one indicator of the location of the deduplicated data in the second storage device. A method is also disclosed for copying deduplicated data stored by a deduplication appliance, by a client machine, comprising receiving a request to copy data from a first location to a second location, by the client machine, by providing at least one second indicator to the third location on the deduplication appliance, at the second location, if the source and the destination are on the deduplication appliance. Systems are also disclosed.
US09785635B2
A document checking apparatus includes a keyword appearance position extracting unit that extracts keywords and the appearance positions of the keywords from a target document including a confidential document; a keyword pair extracting unit that treats each keyword of the appearance positions of the extracted keywords as a target and determines whether there is another extracted keyword within a predetermined range before and after the target keyword; a feature element matrix creating unit that generates, when it is determined that there is the another keyword, combination information obtained by combining the determination target keyword and the another keyword in association with anteroposterior information of the appearance positions of the keywords; and a computing unit that determines whether the number of combination information, among the plurality of combination information of the generated target document, identical to the combination information of the confidential document is not less than a predetermined value.
US09785633B2
According to one embodiment, a foreign language service assisting apparatus is provided with first and second acquisition units, a translation unit, a presentation unit and an accepting unit. The first acquisition unit acquires first information on a first article. The second acquisition unit acquires second information on second articles associated with the first article, and subsequent speech candidates expected to be spoken, based on the first information. The translation unit translates the first information, the second information, and the candidates. The presentation unit presents translation result. The accepting unit accepts selection associated with the first or second articles or the candidate.
US09785629B2
Methods and systems for automated language detection for domain names are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting a language of an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) comprises receiving, by an I/O interface, a string of characters for the IDN; receiving training data, including a plurality of multi-gram analyses for a set of languages; analyzing, by a processor, the string of characters based on the training data, wherein the analyzing includes extracting a set of multi-grams from the string of characters and comparing the extracted set of multi-grams with the training data; detecting the language of the IDN based on results of the analyzing. In some embodiments, the method further comprises comparing the detected language of the IDN with a user selected language and using the IDN to generate a domain name, if the comparing indicates that the detected language of the IDN is consistent with the user selected language.
US09785626B2
A stand alone low cost writing pad includes a rechargeable battery, a low capacity memory, a low power processor, a first pair of connectors and supports audio, video and digital ink capturing functionalities. The writing pad may be detached from and re-attached to a stand alone base unit using the first pair of connectors. The base unit includes another rechargeable battery, high capacity memory, high power processor, and a second pair of connectors. The base unit receives captured audio and digital ink from the writing pad via the communication pathway and the high power processor runs voice recognition and optical character recognition software on received data to generate second data. The second data is displayed on the writing pad and/or stored in the high capacity memory for future use.
US09785623B2
Some described embodiments relate to techniques for editing markup elements of a markup language document to emphasize a portion of the visible content elements of the markup language document. The techniques may be implemented in any suitable manner, including via scripting language code (e.g., JavaScript) that is incorporated into the markup language document but is not preconfigured with information regarding the markup language document or any other markup language document. The scripting language code may perform the editing automatically, and based on an automatic analysis of markup elements of the markup language document. Some embodiments may include determining the portion of the markup language document to be emphasized by identifying content of interest to a user, including by determining a set of related content through analyzing a structure of markup elements of the markup language document and/or layout of visible content elements of the markup language document.
US09785617B2
Some embodiments provide a method that efficiently designs a document. The method provides the user with a selection of templates, each with a default configuration for content. The method provides the user with a selection of page designs to add to a selected template. The method adds a selected page design to a document that is based on the selected template. Some embodiments provide methods for modifying default content of template documents with default text fields. When a user selects a default text field, the method of some embodiments selects the entire default text field for editing by the user. In some embodiments, the method highlights a text field selected by the user. Also, in some embodiments, the method deletes the content of the text field when the user provides new content for the selected field. In some embodiments, the new content is text, image, or another type of content.
US09785612B2
A method for determining a range of a vehicle, the vehicle having an electric motor to supply driving power and/or to recuperate braking energy, and a weight of the vehicle is determined on the basis of an acceleration and/or recuperation behavior as a function of a torque and/or a rotational speed of the electric motor, the range of the vehicle being determined on the basis of the ascertained vehicle weight.
US09785607B2
A receiver includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module that receives a test signal via a transmission channel and provides a time domain representation of the test signal as received by the receiver, and a processor that determines a time domain representation of an impedance of the transmission channel based on the time domain representation of the test signal.
US09785598B2
A universal serial bus (USB) hub includes a USB AFE circuit module, a hub core and an isolator circuit module interposed between the USB AFE circuit module and the hub core. Data communications between the hub core and the first USB AFE circuit module pass through the isolator circuit module. A method for communicating through a universal serial bus hub includes providing a USB AFE circuit module, providing a hub core, providing an isolator circuit module interposed between the USB AFE circuit module and the hub core, and directing communication from the USB AFE circuit module to the hub core through the isolator circuit module.
US09785594B2
A micro server is provided. The micro server includes a plurality of computer boards, at least one switch device, and a baseboard. The plurality of computer boards are for data processing. The switch device is electrically connected to the plurality of computer boards and is for data communication between the plurality of computer boards. The baseboard is for data communication and power supply. The communication between the plurality of computer boards is through the baseboard and the plurality of computer boards communicate with the switch device and the external network by Serial Rapid I/O (SRIO).
US09785592B2
An apparatus having a plurality of buffers, a first circuit and a second circuit is disclosed. The buffers are configured to store a plurality of frames to be transmitted in a plurality of respective lanes of a communication channel. The first circuit is configured to (i) generate a plurality of first groups from a first number of a plurality of samples, at least one of the first groups contains an initial portion of a given one of the samples, and (ii) generate a first of the frames by appending the first groups. The second circuit is configured to (i) receive a final portion of the given sample from the first circuit, (ii) generate a plurality of second groups from the final portion of the given sample and a second number of the samples and (iii) generate a second of the frames by appending the second groups.
US09785590B2
The invention pertains to automatically addressing devices on a network. The controller tests each address from a list of available addresses. If the control device receives a response the corresponding address is eliminated from the list of available addresses. The control device sends an arming signal which is received by all participating devices. The devices prepare for a triggering signal. When the trigger signal is received each device waits a random amount of time. During this time each device looks for communication on the bus, if communication is detected the device quits timing and remains unaddressed, if not it sends a signal to the control device to accept the address.
US09785582B2
A data processing architecture includes a processor which may access a memory and fetch a command recorded in the memory, transmit the fetched command to a subject configured to perform an operation corresponding to the fetched command through a network, and receive a result of performing the operation from the subject and record the result of performing the operation in the memory.
US09785578B2
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling access to a memory device. The apparatus has a pending access requests storage that is used to store access requests waiting to be issued to the memory device, and memory access control circuitry is then used to issue to the memory device access requests selected from the pending access requests storage. Access requests are received at an interface of the apparatus from at least one requesting device, and access request evaluation circuitry within the apparatus is arranged to apply criteria to determine, for a current access request, whether to accept that current access request or reject that current access request. The criteria applied takes account of at least one access timing characteristic of the memory device. The access request evaluation circuitry is responsive to determining that the current access request is to be accepted, to cause that current access request to be stored in the pending access requests storage. However, if instead the access request is rejected, it is prevented from being added to the pending access requests storage at that time, and instead a rejection indication is issued to the requesting device that issued that current access request. This provides a mechanism for significantly improving the performance of the memory device by providing more selectivity as to what access requests are accepted into the pending access requests storage.
US09785576B2
Systems and methods for employing hardware-assisted virtualization for implementing a secure video output path. An example processing system comprises: a memory; a shared interconnect; and a processing core communicatively coupled to the memory via the shared interconnect, the processing core to: initialize a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine; responsive to receiving a memory access transaction initiated by the first virtual machine to access a memory buffer, tag the memory access transaction with an identifier of the first virtual machine; and responsive to receiving a digital content decoder access transaction initiated by the second virtual machine, tag the digital decoder access transaction with an identifier of the second virtual machine.
US09785573B2
A system for providing data storage includes at least one virtual server comprising at least one virtual storage device; at least one physical server comprising at least one physical storage device; a data structure, stored on each of the at least one physical storage devices, the data structure comprising: at least one table of contents, the table of contents configured to map storage locations within the virtual storage device to node structures that provide pointers to corresponding storage locations within the physical storage device; a tree structure having a predetermined number of hierarchical levels, each level containing node structures, the node structures containing pointers that point to other node structures or to data locations on the physical storage device; and one or more core software modules.
US09785571B2
Provided are methods and systems for de-duplicating cache lines in physical memory by detecting cache line data patterns and building a link-list between multiple physical addresses and their common data value. In this manner, the methods and systems are applied to achieve de-duplication of an on-chip cache. A cache line filter includes one table that defines the most commonly duplicated content patterns and a second table that saves pattern numbers from the first table and the physical address for she duplicated cache line. Since a cache line duplicate can be detected during a write operation, each write can involve table lookup and comparison. If there is a hit in the table, only the address is saved instead of the entire data string.
US09785570B2
An embodiment includes a system, comprising: an Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory comprising a plurality of memory locations, each memory location corresponding to a device address of the ECC memory; a system management bus (SMB); a baseboard management controller (BMC) coupled to the ECC memory through the SMB; and an operating system comprising a driver module coupled to the BMC through the SMB, the driver module being configured to receive through the Memory device address information associated with the ECC memory and to convert the device address information into physical address information independent of an ECC memory controller.
US09785569B2
A method includes receiving a request to access a desired block of memory. The request includes an effective address that includes an effective segment identifier (ESID) and a linear address, the linear address comprising a most significant portion and a byte index. Locating an entry, in a buffer, the entry including the ESID of the effective address. Based on the entry including a radix page table pointer (RPTP), performing, using the RPTP to locate a translation table of a hierarchy of translation tables, using the located translation table to translate the most significant portion of the linear address to obtain an address of a block of memory, and based on the obtained address, performing the requested access to the desired block of memory.
US09785567B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to per-pipeline control for an operand cache. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a register file and multiple execution pipelines. In some embodiments, the apparatus also includes an operand cache that includes multiple entries that each include multiple portions that are each configured to store an operand for a corresponding execution pipeline. In some embodiments, the operand cache is configured, during operation of the apparatus, to store data in only a subset of the portions of an entry. In some embodiments, the apparatus is configured to store, for each entry in the operand cache, a per-entry validity value that indicates whether the entry is valid and per-portion state information that indicates whether data for each portion is valid and whether data for each portion is modified relative to data in a corresponding entry in the register file.
US09785565B2
Expandably wide operations are disclosed in which operands wider than the data path between a processor and memory are used in executing instructions. The expandably wide operands reduce the influence of the characteristics of the associated processor in the design of functional units performing calculations, including the width of the register file, the processor clock rate, the exception subsystem of the processor, and the sequence of operations in loading and use of the operand in a wide cache memory.
US09785564B2
A hybrid memory system includes a primary memory comprising a host memory space arranged as memory sectors corresponding to host logical block addresses (host LBAs). A secondary memory is implemented as a cache for the primary host memory. A hybrid controller is configured directly map the clusters of host LBAs to clusters of secondary memory. The secondary memory clusters correspond to a memory space of the cache. Mapping of the host LBA secondary memory clusters is fully associative such that any host LBA cluster can be mapped to any secondary memory cluster.
US09785561B2
An I/O enclosure module is provided with one or more I/O enclosures having a plurality of slots for receiving electronic devices. A host adapter is connected a first slot of the I/O enclosure module and is configured to connect a host to the I/O enclosure. A device adapter is connected to a second slot of the I/O enclosure module and is configured to connect a storage device to the I/O enclosure module. A flash cache is connected to a third slot of the I/O enclosure module and includes a flash-based memory configured to cache data associated with data requests handled through the I/O enclosure module. A primary processor complex manages data requests handled through the I/O enclosure module by communicating with the host adapter, device adapter, and flash cache to manage to the data requests.
US09785558B2
A mixed cache is indexed to main memory and page coloring is applied to map main memory to virtual memory. A nursery array and a mature array are indexed to virtual memory. An access to a virtual page from the mixed cache is recorded by determining an index and a tag of an array address based on a virtual address, following the index to corresponding rows in the nursery and the mature arrays, and determining if the tag in the array address matches any tag in the rows. When there is a match to a tag in the rows, an access count in a virtual page entry corresponding to the matched tags is incremented. When there is no match, a virtual page entry in the row in the nursery array is written with the tag in the array address and an access count in the entry is incremented.
US09785556B2
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for Cross-Die Interface (CDI) snoop and/or go (or completion) message ordering are described. In one embodiment, the order of a snoop message and a completion message are determined based at least on status of two bits. The snoop and completion messages are exchanged between a first integrated circuit die and a second integrated circuit die. The first integrated circuit die and the second integrated circuit die are coupled through a first interface and a second interface and the snoop message and the completion message are exchanged over at least one of the first interface and the second interface. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09785551B2
The present invention discloses a memory access method, a buffer scheduler, and a memory module, which can support multiple application scenarios without changing the memory module or a memory chip. The method includes: receiving an operation request message for memory access data, where the operation request message includes tag information of the memory access data, operation information of the memory access data, and a memory address of the memory access data; and performing, according to at least one of the tag information of the memory access data, a memory address of the memory access data, and the operation information of the memory access data, an operation on the tag of the memory access data and/or the memory access data stored in the memory module. The present invention is applicable to the computer field.
US09785550B1
A data storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory areas; and a controller configured to perform a reclaim operation for the plurality of memory areas, based on read counts of the plurality of memory areas, increase a reclaim count of the plurality of memory areas, and perform a wear leveling operation for the plurality of memory areas, based on the reclaim count.
US09785548B2
A hardware-assisted mechanism may improve the performance of memory reclamation operations that employ hazard pointers. The mechanism includes hazard lookaside buffers (HLBs), each implemented in hardware and locally accessible to one or more processor cores, and two new instructions. A special store instruction may write entries to local HLBs for pointers that have been or will be dereferenced but were not yet written to a shared hazard table (which requires memory barriers). Each entry may include a hazard pointer and a table address. A special test instruction may signal each HLB to determine whether it contains a particular pointer and, if so, to return a response. If the pointer does not reside in any HLB, the memory reclamation operation may search the hazard table for the pointer. If the pointer is found in an HLB or in the hazard table, the pointed-to memory location or memory block is not reclaimed.
US09785544B2
The present invention discloses a manager, a test agent installed on a personal mobile device and methods thereof. The manager comprises: a first network connection module configured to establish a connection with the mobile device through Internet, the mobile device being installed with a test agent for performing test operation on a mobile application on the mobile device; and a security module configured to communicate with the test agent through the first network connection module to make the test agent perform security control on the mobile device. According to the manager, mobile devices, and methods of the present invention, the cost such as maintenance cost of the data center and purchase cost of mobile devices can be reduced dramatically. It is not necessary to analyze market demands since mobile devices owned by the users of the mobile devices are the mobile devices that need to be tested by the tester.
US09785541B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided. At least one testing project to be performed is identified, and a diagram is generated from testing activities including parameters with multiple values which includes one or more test flows including the testing activities. The one or more test flows include a plurality of possible testing scenarios. Further, scenarios are extracted from the generated diagram, and a test list to be executed is generated utilizing the extracted scenarios where each test case in the test list retains a link to a corresponding testing activity in the generated diagram. Still yet, the test list is, and at least one report is generated based on the execution of the test list which shows the generated diagram and a result of the execution corresponding to a testing activity based on an associated retained link.
US09785534B1
Abandonment indicator data is used to customize the user experience of an interactive software system, by monitoring and obtaining data about whether a user is at risk of abandoning the interactive software system. The resulting abandonment indicator data is analyzed and used to dynamically modify the user's experience by selecting user experience components based on the analysis of the user's abandonment indicator data. In this way, different types of user experience components can be utilized to provide the user with an individualized user experience that is customized to the user. Different types of user experience components can be utilized to adjust the user experience to adapt to the individual user.
US09785528B2
System and method for using data tags to track and manage tasks to provide object-to-object services
The present invention relates to a method and system that use data tags to track tasks in applications to provide Object-to-Object (OTO) services. A first application data tag is issued by a data tag server as in an OTO service platform in response to an initiation of a first application by a first initiator. The first data tag specifies at least one first task for fulfilling a first service. The first application data tag is scanned by a first user terminal by a first participant. A first action data tag is issued by the data tag server. A first dynamically variable task data tag is issued by the data tag server to track the first task in the first action. The first dynamically variable task data tag is updated to record the completion of the first task in the first action when the first task is completed.
US09785527B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for emulating virtualization resources are disclosed. According to one method, the method occurs at a computing platform. The method includes receiving a message associated with a device under test (DUT) and in response to receiving the message, performing an action associated with at least one of an emulated hypervisor and an emulated virtual machine (VM).
US09785509B2
In one embodiment, a device receives a router advertisement message after a power outage event in a network. The device joins the network, in response to receiving the router advertisement message. The device sends a power restoration notification message via the network. The device selectively delays a disconnected node from joining the network.
US09785503B2
A distributed storage integrity system in a dispersed storage network includes a scanning agent and a control unit. The scanning agent identifies an encoded data slice that requires rebuilding, wherein the encoded data slice is one of a plurality of encoded data slices generated from a data segment using an error encoding dispersal function. The control unit retrieves at least a number T of encoded data slices needed to reconstruct the data segment based on the error encoding dispersal function. The control unit is operable to reconstruct the data segment from at least the number T of the encoded data slices and generate a rebuilt encoded data slice from the reconstructed data segment. The scanning agent is located in a storage unit and the control unit is located in the storage unit or in a storage integrity processing unit, a dispersed storage processing unit or a dispersed storage managing unit.
US09785500B1
A memory controller is operable in an error detection/correction mode in which N syndrome values apply to N data words of a data volume, respectively, but a single parity bit is shared across all N data words of the data volume.
US09785496B1
Improved processes for manufacturing semiconductor wafers, chips, or dies utilize in-line data obtained from non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”) of fill cells that contain structures configured to target/expose a variety of open-circuit, short-circuit, leakage, and/or excessive resistance failure modes. Such processes include evaluating one or more Designs of Experiments (“DOEs”), each comprised of multiple NCEM-enabled fill cells, in at least two variants, targeted to the same failure mode. Such DOEs include multiple means/steps for enabling non-contact (NC) detection of AACNT-TS via opens.
US09785495B1
A system stores data, such as sensor data or other operational data, on a plurality of storage volumes in a sequence so as to allow for interpolations or other approximations of the data using a subset of the storage volumes in response to a request for information regarding that data. For example, a plurality of devices connect to the system to provide operational data, which is then stored in a specified sequence on a specified set of volumes. In response to a request for operational information regarding some or all of the devices, the system reads at least one of the volumes, and approximates the values of the data over a specified period of time. In some embodiments, the data may be buffered prior to storage, and a jitter analyzer determines whether the incoming data is anomalous relative to a baseline, which may be determined using related data sets.
US09785488B1
A method for learning aspects of messages in an industrial control system is provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of messages. The method includes starting at a first message field, proceeding via recursion to each next message field, and identifying message values at that message field as constant when constant in messages in a group, as random when random in messages in a group, as length when expressive of a shared length of messages in a group, as opcode when correlated with a shared structure of messages in a group, and otherwise as parameter. The method includes subdividing message groups into subgroups according to the identified message values at that message field, with the recursion applied to each subgroup. A method and system for monitoring messages in an industrial control system is provided.
US09785483B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for controlling runtime access to application programming interfaces Embodiments of the invention allow library developers to more precisely and easily control which of their libraries' APIs can be called dynamically. Thus, their servicing and versioning burden can be more appropriately controlled. Further, application developers can control which such APIs to further exclude from dynamic calling scenarios, to minimize the runtime support overhead (e.g., preventing generation of metadata).
US09785475B2
Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a shared pool manager. The shared pool manager receives a set of scaling factors. The set of scaling factors corresponds to a workload. Using the set of scaling factor values and a set of workload resource data, a configuration is determined. The configuration is established to process the workload. Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a registry. The registry is structured to have a set of workload resource data and associated scaling factors. A set of scaling factor values is detected. The set of scaling factors corresponds to a workload. Based on both the set of workload resource data and the set of scaling factor values, a set of resource attributes is determined to configure the shared pool of configurable computing resources for the workload. The set of resource attributes is communicated.
US09785474B2
Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a shared pool manager. The shared pool manager receives a set of scaling factors. The set of scaling factors corresponds to a workload. Using the set of scaling factor values and a set of workload resource data, a configuration is determined. The configuration is established to process the workload. Disclosed aspects manage a shared pool of configurable computing resources associated with a registry. The registry is structured to have a set of workload resource data and associated scaling factors. A set of scaling factor values is detected. The set of scaling factors corresponds to a workload. Based on both the set of workload resource data and the set of scaling factor values, a set of resource attributes is determined to configure the shared pool of configurable computing resources for the workload. The set of resource attributes is communicated.
US09785473B2
Configurable per-task state counters for processing cores in multi-tasking processing systems are disclosed along with related methods. In part, the disclosed embodiments include a work scheduler and a plurality of processing cores. The work scheduler assigns tasks to the processing cores, and the processing cores concurrently process multiple assigned tasks using a plurality of processing states. Further, task state counters are provided for each assigned task, and these task state counters are incremented for each cycle that the task stays within selected processing states to generate per-task state count values for the assigned tasks. These per-task state count values are reported back to the work scheduler when processing for the task ends. The work scheduler can then use one or more of the per-task state count values to adjust how new tasks are assigned to the processing cores.
US09785472B2
Illustrated is a system and method that includes identifying a search space based upon available resources, the search space to be used to satisfy a resource request. The system and method also includes selecting from the search space an initial candidate set, each candidate of the candidate set representing a potential resource allocation to satisfy the resource request. The system and method further includes assigning a fitness score, based upon a predicted performance, to each member of the candidate set. The system and method also includes transforming the candidate set into a fittest candidate set, the fittest candidate set having a best predicted performance to satisfy the resource request.
US09785458B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system for and method of providing seamless software compatibility by using virtual machines to provide an improved, more seamless method of user interaction with one or more virtual machines (VMs) that are resident on a host computer system. Several embodiments of the present invention provide a means in the host environment for directly invoking one or more guest operating system (OS) applications or files and displaying them in the host environment, rather than in a separate VM window. Furthermore, each embodiment of the present invention allows the possibility of multiple applications on multiple OSs (i.e., legacy or modem OSs), respectively, to run simultaneously and with the appearance of running seamlessly in the host environment.
US09785454B2
A method is disclosed for simulating user load and evaluating performance and/or capacity of SBC or VDI datacenter infrastructure. The method runs workloads on a virtual desktop infrastructure for an increasing number of virtual users. When the average response time of the infrastructure to perform operations exceeds a predetermined threshold, the number of simulated users at that time may be considered the capacity of the infrastructure.
US09785436B2
An apparatus and method are described for performing efficient gather operations in a pipelined processor. For example, a processor according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: gather setup logic to execute one or more gather setup operations in anticipation of one or more gather operations, the gather setup operations to determine one or more addresses of vector data elements to be gathered by the gather operations; and gather logic to execute the one or more gather operations to gather the vector data elements using the one or more addresses determined by the gather setup operations.
US09785429B2
For efficient deployment of thin client applications to an end user, an apparatus for efficient deployment of thin client applications to an end user is disclosed. A method and computer program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus, in one embodiment, includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor, wherein the code identifies, on a server, a first file package for a thin client application, the first file corresponding to a current version of the thin client application, receives identifying information for a second file package stored on a local device, compares the first file package to the second file package, and determines a minimum set of updates needed to transform the second file package into a copy of the first file package, in response to the first file package differing from the second file package.
US09785416B2
Within a system comprising a processor and a memory, a method for, within integrated development environment (IDE), presenting a custom view in the IDE based on a variable selection. The method can include selecting a first instance of the first variable in a first portion of program code. Via the processor, the program code can be searched to identify at least a second instance of the first variable in at least a second portion of the program code. Further, via the processor, the custom view can be presented in the IDE to present at least the first portion of the program code and the second portion of the program code based on the identification of the first variable in the second portion of the program code.
US09785401B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, receiving from a first user a voice message comprising one or more commands, receiving location information associated with the first user, identifying edges and nodes in the social graph based on the location information, where each of the identified edges and nodes corresponds to at least one of the commands of the voice message, and generating new nodes or edges in the social graph based on the identified nodes or identified edges.
US09785398B2
Systems and methods for automatically adjusting volume of a media asset based on navigation distance
Systems and methods for automatically adjusting volume of a media asset are provided. A display of a content navigation page is generated. The content navigation page is associated with a media asset. A navigation distance from a current position in the content navigation page to the media asset within the content navigation page is determined. The navigation distance is cross-referenced with a database of volume levels associated with navigation distances to identify a volume level that is associated with the navigation distance. Audio of the media asset is caused to be presented at the identified volume level.
US09785397B1
An NFC-enabled digital apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a touch screen display and a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an NFC antenna and an NFC controller. In response to tagging between the NFC-enabled digital apparatus and the external NFC terminal, an NFC communication channel is established between the NFC enabled-digital apparatus and the external NFC terminal for data communication therebetween.
US09785394B2
An image processing system where an image processing apparatus that includes an image data transmitting function and a mobile terminal that includes an electronic mail transmitting function operate to link with each other, the image processing apparatus including: a startup instruction transmitting unit; an image data acquiring unit; a transmission destination designation information acquiring unit; and an image data transmitting unit, and the mobile terminal including: an electronic mail function starting unit that starts up the electronic mail transmitting function and causes a predetermined display unit to display address information; a transmission destination designation information transmitting unit that receives an operation of designating a transmission destination address among the address information and transmit the transmission destination designation information to the image processing apparatus; and an attached file output unit that outputs the image data as an attached file of an electronic mail.
US09785393B2
In a system in which communication between an information processing apparatus and a printing apparatus is possible, the information processing apparatus detects that communication with the printing apparatus has become possible and, in response to detection that such communication has become possible, generates print data based upon data that the information processing apparatus is displaying on a display unit connected to or built in the information processing apparatus, and transfers the generated print data to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus prints the data received from the information processing apparatus.
US09785392B2
In a case where a first information including an execution request of a specific function via a first type of interface is received, a function executing device may execute a change process for changing an interface for communicating with a terminal device from the first type of interface to a second type of interface in a case where a state of the function executing device is determined as a non-error state. The function executing device may not execute the change process in a case where the state of the function executing device is determined as an error state. The specific function may include a communication process for communicating object data with the terminal device. The function executing device may execute the specific function including the communication process via the second type of interface in a case where the change process is being executed.
US09785386B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an identification information receiving unit that receives identification information of an agent who was requested in advance from an applicant to proceed with an application procedure for processing a case instead, the application procedure requesting an approval by an approver; an authorizer information receiving unit that receives information about the applicant who requested in advance the agent of the received identification information to proceed with the application procedure instead; an image acquisition unit that acquires an image; and a transmission unit that transmits the acquired image as an image relating to the applicant based on a transmission instruction from the agent.
US09785385B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving print job data at a printing system, tracking resource objects in print job data while the print job data is rasterized to generate rasterized print data and updating a count of resource objects for print job data confirmed as printed.
US09785382B2
A memory system capable of running a variety of different read retry sequences includes a memory controller that has a boot ROM with stored code for executing a read retry sequence. A non-volatile memory device such as a NAND flash includes a read retry register and receives command instructions including a read retry instruction from the memory controller and in response provides read data. A second non-volatile memory that is external to the NAND flash has a read retry table describing read retry sequence items that include a command, a read retry register address, and read retry data for updating the read retry register.
US09785380B2
Disclosed is a method of driving a semiconductor memory device, which programs first page data and second page data in a selected page of a memory cell array, the method including: transmitting a first data buffer control signal to a data buffer so that a data buffer receives the first page data; transmitting a second data buffer control signal to the data buffer so that the data buffer receives the second page data; determining a program option of the first page data; and programming the first page data and the second page data in the selected page, in which the data buffer receives at least some elements of the second page data while the determining of the program option of the first page data is performed.
US09785372B2
A storage subsystem capable of satisfying conditions such as storage capacity and access performance requested by users and to enable expansion of storage drives that are not in RAID group (RG) units is provided at a low cost. The storage subsystem includes a first storage drive for storing data sent from a host computer, a second storage drive having a property that differs from the first storage drive for storing data sent from the host computer, and a processor for controlling the first storage drive and the second storage drive, wherein a processor receives RG configuration requirements from the host computer and determines whether an RG satisfying the RG configuration requirements can be configured, and if the processor determines that an RG can be configured, the first storage drive and the second storage drive are combined to configure the RG.
US09785364B2
A method is provided for increasing data storage reliability in a heterogeneous storage system including multiple storage devices of different types. The devices store respective data subsets of a dataset. The method includes accessing configuration parameters for the dataset including first and second amounts of the data subsets respectively stored on the multiple storage devices. The method further includes estimating an initial global reliability of the heterogeneous storage system for the dataset, based on the configuration parameters. The method also includes determining an increased global reliability of the storage system for the dataset, by estimating a global reliability as would be obtained by modifying at least some of the configuration parameters, whereby at least the first and second amounts of the data subsets respectively stored on the devices are modified. The method further includes reconfiguring the dataset stored across the heterogeneous storage system according to the modified configuration parameters.
US09785362B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for eliminating or mitigating the effects of the corruption of contents in an external flash memory, such as that which can occur during a power interruption. Embodiments of the invention include methods to log external flash memory program and erase operations redundantly to dedicated buffer partitions in the flash memory itself. The log information from external serial flash memory is used to erase the sector that was being programmed or erased when power was removed. According to certain aspects, the redundant storage of log information in embodiments ensures that if one version of the log information is corrupted, the other version can be used.
US09785354B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for selective write control in accordance with the present description. In one aspect, a write operation which is associated with a read operation, may be selectively discarded if write operations have been disabled and if the write operation is directed to update a designated write operation acceptance area such as metadata associated with the target data set, for example. As a result, the read operation may be permitted to proceed and will not fail because the associated write operation was discarded rather than attempting to commit the write operation to the designated write operation acceptance area, thereby avoiding an error condition for a storage unit such as a volume, in which write operations have been disabled. Accordingly, applications which seek to perform read operations may be permitted to access data stored on such a volume. Other aspects are described.
US09785352B2
An application located in one or more first memory regions is executed. The application has a separate modified portion, which is located in one or more second memory regions. A request is obtained to access one of a first memory region or a second memory region, the request including an address of a first type. Based on obtaining the request, the address is translated to another address. The other address is of a second type and indicates the first memory region or the second memory region. The translating is based on an attribute associated with the address, in which the attribute is used to select information from a plurality of information concurrently available for selection. The plurality of information provide multiple addresses of the second type, one of which is the other address. The other address is used to access the first memory region or the second memory region.
US09785351B2
A distributed storage network (DSN) includes a user device and a plurality of DSN memories, wherein each of the DSN memories includes a plurality of storage units. The user device includes at least one network interface to the plurality of DSN memories and at least one processing module that is operable to determine one of the plurality of DSN memories for storing a data object based on a comparison of one or more storage requirements of the data object and one or more DSN attributes of the plurality of DSN memories.
US09785346B2
A method for frame choosing in a computing system during a storage constraint condition is provided. The method includes calculating, with a processor, a use-grouped-threshold, comparing a number of available grouped frames to the calculated use-grouped-threshold, returning a decision to use a grouped frame in an event that the number of the available grouped frames exceeds the calculated use-grouped-threshold and returning a decision to use an above-the-bar frame in an event that the number of the available grouped frames is less than or equal to the calculated use-grouped-threshold.
US09785345B2
A system has a plurality of functional modules including a first functional module and one or more other functional modules. The first functional module includes an embedded memory element and is configurable in a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode. When the first functional module is in the first mode, access to the embedded memory element is limited to the first functional module. At least one of the one or more other functional modules is provided with access to the embedded memory element based at least in part on the first functional module being in the second mode.
US09785344B2
A portable electronic apparatus and a touch detecting method thereof are provided. In the method, a touch is detected by a touch screen of the portable electronic apparatus. Then, whether the touch is located in an edge area of the touch screen is determined. If it is determined that the touch is located in the edge area of the touch screen, the touch time during which the touch continues and no other touch is detected by the touch screen is accumulated, and whether the accumulated touch time exceeds a preset time is determined. If the accumulated touch time exceeds the preset time, related information of the touch is removed from an event triggered by the touch until the touch ends.
US09785343B2
An information processing apparatus including a display; a touch panel stacked on or integrally formed with the display; and a controller that receives an output from the touch panel indicating that first gesture input is detected that substantially encloses a region of the display, and controls the display to expand an image displayed by the display based on a size of the region.
US09785338B2
Described herein are systems and methods for enabling a multi-touch gesture recognition engine, where gesture recognition can be made based on touch or motion detection. In accordance with an embodiment the system include a hardware input list delivered from the hardware sensor(s), a touchobject list delivered from the application(s)/OS and logic to calculate and determine gestures based on mapping touchpoints from the sensor(s) with touchobjects from the application(s) in a time perspective. The engine can use a generic state machine in each gestureobject to keep track of the status of the gestureobject independently. Additional embodiments are also described herein.
US09785334B2
A method for editing a frame-based page, an electronic apparatus and a recording medium using the same are provided. In the method, an item-based page including items respectively representing applications is displayed on a touch screen. A touch operation performed on an item is detected by using the touch screen. The item is dragged according to the touch operation. Whether the item is dragged to an action area of the item-based page is determined. The item is turned into a new frame displaying a content of the application represented by the item after the item is determined to be dragged to the action area of the item-based page. The frame displays a content of the application represented by the item.
US09785332B1
A browser divides content pages into tiles for display on a user device, and updates the tiles that become “damaged” as the result of user interactions or other events. The browser may decide whether and/or when to update a damaged off-screen tile based partly or wholly on a predicted likelihood that the user will scroll to that tile or that the tile will otherwise become visible on the user device. This prediction may, for example, be based on one or more of the following: (1) the distance of the off-screen tile from the visible display area, (2) the past browsing/scrolling behaviors of the user and/or other users. The decision of whether or when to update the damaged off-screen tile may also be based on the cost (in terms of processing resources) of updating the tile, as may be estimated based on the processing resources used to initially generate the tile. In addition, the decision may be based on a measure of visual impact associated with deferring the update.
US09785331B2
A technique for controlling a touch screen device to select an element from a first list using a second list of numbers assigned to each element in the first list.When displayed next to each other, the first and second lists have different respective spacings between their elements. The spacing used in the second list is scaled so all the numbers therein can fit on the display. In operation, the display is touched at an initial touch point. Dragging the finger up the display will pull up the second list at the touch point, while simultaneously pulling up the first list next to it. However, since the spacing is different for each list, the first list can scroll faster and farther than the second list. The entire second list can fit on the display, but the first list scrolls beyond the display limits. The element corresponding to the number under the touch point is highlighted. Thereafter, releasing the touch point in the first list will select the highlighted element in the second list, which is actually elsewhere on the display from the touch point.
US09785327B1
Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling a perceived brightness of an electronic document. In one implementation, the electronic document may be displayed on a touch screen of a terminal. A graphical object may be displayed in front of the electronic document. The terminal may detect a gesture on the touch screen and control the perceived brightness of the electronic document by adjusting an opacity of the graphical object based on the gesture.
US09785314B2
Techniques to allow for ease of use of a photo browsing interface of a social networking system. In an embodiment, a designation of a first image for sharing is received from within a view. A first animation indicating that the first image has been designated for sharing is displayed. The displaying may comprise miniaturizing a copy of the first image. The miniaturizing may proceed from a first location within the view to a second location within the view. The first location may be associated with at least one of a center of the view and an option to designate the first image for sharing. The second location may be associated with a message compose option.
US09785305B2
The method for manipulating a cursor is performed at a portable multifunction device with one or more processors, memory, and a touch screen display. Initially, content of an electronic document is displayed on the display, where a cursor is displayed within the electronic document. Two substantially simultaneous touch inputs are then detected on the touch screen display, and preferably anywhere on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the two substantially simultaneous touch inputs, a portion of the content in the document closest to the cursor is selected, and the portion of the content is displayed as selected content.
US09785304B2
Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for generating a response to a user search. User input is received to create a household profile, wherein the household profile comprises information related to the members of the household. The user also provides a search for information in which the user may be interested. The household profiles may be utilized along with the search, and with other information, such as user profile information, account information, or dynamic contextual questions to provide search results or updated search results, and dynamic contextual information or updated dynamic contextual information for tailoring the search results to the user. The user may select which households, which individuals in the households, and/or information about the individuals to use in the search. As such, the search results for the user may be more tailored to the results in which the user is interested.
US09785298B2
The present invention provides a capacitive controller for detecting at least one detecting plate and at least one reference plate surrounding each detecting plate. All of the reference plates are electrically coupled to the same first wire, and each reference plate is electrically coupled to a second wire. When an electrical signal is provided to the first wire and each second wire, one or more detecting plates touched or approached can be detected simultaneously based on the signal difference between each second wire and the first wire.
US09785287B2
A touch-sensitive aparatus operates by light frustration (FTIR) and comprises a light transmissive panel (1) with a front surface (5) and a rear surface (6). Light emitters (2) are optically coupled to the panel (1) at entry ports along a periphery region of the panel (1), and light detectors (3) are optically coupled to the panel (1) at exit ports along the periphery region for detecting light transmitted inside the panel (1). At least one optical sheet (20) is provided on the rear surface (6) in the periphery region. In an outcoupling installation, the light detectors (3) are arranged at the respective optical sheet (20) to receive, on a respective light-sensitive surface (3A); light from the optical sheet (20), and each light detector (3) is arranged with the light-sensitive surface (3A) essentially perpendicular to the rear surface (6). In an incoupling installation, each light emitter (2) is arranged at the respective optical sheet (20) to emit diverging light with a main direction that is essentially parallel to the rear surface (6) such that a portion of the diverging light impinges on the optical sheet (20) so as to define a respective entry port.
US09785280B2
The present disclosure provides a touch driving circuit for providing driving signals to touch driving electrodes of a touch panel in a touch phase. The touch driving circuit includes a plurality of cascaded touch shift register units. The number of the touch shift register units is same as the number of columns of the touch driving electrodes. The touch driving circuit further includes a plurality of switching units corresponding to the plurality of touch shift register units. The switching unit includes a driving signal input terminal, a control terminal and a driving signal output terminal. When the touch shift register unit outputs a high level signal, the switching unit connects the driving signal input terminal and the driving signal output terminal. Correspondingly, the present disclosure further provides a display device and a driving method thereof.
US09785278B2
An erroneous operation is prevented in a display device detecting a touch operation for a display face and a part other than the display face. A display device (1) of the present invention includes: an operation acquiring unit (51) that acquires detection signals transmitted from detection electrodes arranged on a touch panel (14); a use form determining unit (55) that determines a holding form based on a touch position of the touch operation for an end face of the display device; and an insensitive area setting unit (58) that sets an insensitive area on the operation detecting member after the holding form is determined. The operation acquiring unit does not acquire detection signals transmitted from the detection electrodes included in the set insensitive area among the detection electrodes.
US09785277B2
According to one embodiment, the touch drive device includes a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a single direction, a detection electrode which extends in a direction crossing the direction in which the drive electrodes extend, and generates capacitances at intersections of the detection electrode and the drive electrodes, and a driver (DDI) which groups the drive electrodes into a plurality of drive electrode portions each including at least one drive electrode, and performs a touch scanning drive by supplying a touch drive signal (TSVCOM) having a pulse waveform for detection of a closely situated external object to a target drive electrode portion which is a selected one of the drive electrode portions. The number of the drive electrodes included in each of the drive electrode portions and the target drive electrode portion to which the touch drive signal (TSVCOM) is supplied can be designated.
US09785266B2
A method relates to the field of multimedia technologies, and in particular, to a remote control method and apparatus, which are used to implement remote control on a terminal, includes obtaining a presentation image, where the presentation image is an image used to present an operation performed on a terminal, detecting a presentation screen picture in the presentation image according to detection parameter information of the terminal, where the presentation screen picture is a screen picture of the terminal in the presentation image, determining a mapping relationship between a pixel on the presentation screen picture and a pixel on a display screen of the terminal according to parameter information of the presentation screen picture and screen parameter information of the terminal, and controlling the terminal according to information about an operation by a user on the presentation screen picture, and the mapping relationship.
US09785264B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a touch controller includes a touch frame processing component adapted to receive sensor signals containing information about a touch point on a touch screen. The touch frame processing component processes the sensor signals to generate touch information associated with each touch point. A touch coordinate processing component is coupled to receive touch information from the touch frame processing component and includes virtual area parameters that define a plurality of virtual areas on the touch screen. The touch coordinate processing component is operable to identify which one of the plurality of virtual areas contains the current touch point and to report or filter the current touch point as a function of the identified virtual area.
US09785263B2
A handheld stylus for use with a display device may include a handheld body, a tip movably coupled to the body, and at least one capacitive sensor configured to detect movements of the tip relative to the body. The at least one capacitive sensor may comprise at least one first conductive element secured to or integral with the body, and at least one second conductive element secured to or integral with the movable tip. The tip may be arranged such that the at least one first conductive element and the at least one second conductive element are spaced apart from each other. The at least one capacitive sensor may be configured to detect changes in respective distances between the at least one first conductive element and the at least one second conductive element caused by movements of the tip relative to the body.
US09785262B2
A method is provided to interface an active stylus with a sensor controller, wherein the sensor controller is coupled to a sensor configured to receive input from the active stylus. In the method the sensor controller defines data frames consisting of more than one time slot usable for receiving packets from the stylus. The active stylus transmits, in response to a request from the sensor controller, a signal including stylus capability information. The sensor controller determines, based on the stylus capability information, a downlink time slot allocation for use by the active stylus to transmit packets to the sensor controller. The sensor controller transmits the downlink time slot allocation to the active stylus.
US09785254B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing technologies. In particular, aspects of the disclosure relate to mobile computing device technologies, such as systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for improving orientation data. In some embodiments, a magnetic vector filter receives magnetometer data from a magnetometer and gyroscope data from a gyroscope and determines the magnetic vector using the magnetometer data and the gyroscope data in the magnetic vector filter. In other embodiments, a gravity vector filter receives accelerometer data and gyroscope data and determines the gravity vector using the accelerometer data and the gyroscope data in the gravity vector filter.
US09785251B2
Touch sensitive mechanical keyboards and methods of configuring the depressibility of one or more keys of a keyboard are provided. A touch sensitive mechanical keyboard can accept touch events performed on the surface of the keys. Additionally, the keyboard can accept key depressions as textual input. The keyboard can be placed in a gesture operation mode, which can lock the keys to prevent a user from inadvertently depressing a key while attempting to perform a touch event on the surface of the keys. The keyboard can also be placed in a key press mode, which can allow depression of the keys by a user.
US09785249B1
Apparatus, systems and methods configured for tracking head and eye movement are disclosed. In one example, an apparatus comprises an imaging sensor, a spatial orientation sensor and a computing device comprising a processor and a memory communicatively coupled with the processor. The imaging sensor is configured for capturing and recording images of an eye of a user when the user stares at a gaze point and rotates a head of the user about a first axis and about a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis. The spatial orientation sensor is coupled to the imaging sensor such that the imaging sensor has a fixed position and a fixed orientation relative to the spatial orientation sensor and is configured for generating outputs during the rotations of the head of the user, wherein each of the outputs corresponds to one of the images of the eye.
US09785246B2
A system and method for displaying images of internal anatomy includes an image processing device configured to provide high resolution images of the surgical field from low resolution scans during the procedure. The image processing device digitally manipulates a previously-obtained high resolution baseline image to produce many representative images based on permutations of movement of the baseline image. During the procedure a representative image is selected having an acceptable degree of correlation to the new low resolution image. The selected representative image and the new image are merged to provide a higher resolution image of the surgical field. The image processing device is also configured to provide interactive movement of the displayed image based on movement of the imaging device, and to permit placement of annotations on the displayed image to facilitate communication between the radiology technician and the surgeon.
US09785244B2
An image projection apparatus includes a projection unit configured to project an image onto a projection target; a recognition unit configured to recognize an instruction action for the image being projected by the projection unit; a storage control unit configured to store correspondence information in which multiple instruction actions are associated with image output controls, respectively, for each type of image in a storage device; a determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of the type of the image being projected by the projection unit, correspondence information for image output control; and a projection control unit configured to perform, on the basis of the correspondence information determined by the determination unit and the instruction action recognized by the recognition unit, image projection control corresponding to the image output control that is associated with the instruction action.
US09785237B2
An electronic device includes a tactile sensation providing unit 30 configured to provide a tactile sensation to a contact object being in contact with a panel 10 and a controller 50 configured to control the tactile sensation providing unit 30 based on an amount of change of data based on press to the panel 10.
US09785220B2
A power management technique utilizing a method for accurately and rapidly estimating the change in the statistical distribution of data at each block in a communication system leading to or originating from a memory that is experiencing voltage scaling induced errors is disclosed. An appropriate memory supply voltage that maximizes power savings is found by exploiting the available SNR slack while keeping system performance within a required margin.
US09785218B2
A power management controller tracks the idle state of a compute unit and compares the tracked idle state with a first threshold. If the tracked idle state is above the first threshold a power state of the compute unit is limited to a low power state so that the power state does not rise due to activity that occurs in low utilization scenarios. The tracked idle state is compared to a second threshold and if the tracked idle state is below the second threshold, indicating that the compute unit is not in a low utilization scenario, a limit on the power state is removed and the power state of the compute unit is allowed to rise.
US09785216B2
A power management apparatus and a power management method are provided. The method includes the following steps. Conduct a first current path during a first period. Provide a first voltage to an operation end when the first current path conducts and a microprocessor is disabled. The first voltage is used to selectively conduct a second path during the first period. Provide a second voltage to the microprocessor when the second current path conducts. The second voltage is used to turn on the microprocessor. Provide a third voltage to the operation end by the microprocessor when the microprocessor is turned on. The third voltage is used to keep the second current path conducted.
US09785213B2
Smart Appliances are defined that assist in reducing energy consumption or cost. The Smart Appliances communicate with Smart Energy sources via the power lines and in particular by injecting communications signals between the live plus neutral power lines on the one hand and the ground line on the other hand, the communications protocol allowing a power source to identify the electrical circuit to which an appliance is connected and thereby to route a selected type of power to the appliance on the correct electrical circuit for that appliance.An addressable electrical outlet is also disclosed as one form of Smart Appliance.
US09785209B2
Thermal management in a portable computing device differentiates between a temperature increase caused by a steady workload and a temperature increase caused by an instantaneous workload. If it is determined that a detected temperature increase is caused by a steady workload, then a configuration of thermal parameters is applied that optimizes thermal performance for a steady workload. If it is determined that a temperature increase is caused by an instantaneous workload increase, then a configuration of thermal parameters is applied that optimizes thermal performance for an instantaneous workload.
US09785205B2
Quick-release device carriers for computer chassis are described. In some embodiments, a carrier configured to couple and to decouple a device into or from a chassis may include: a front panel having a proximal edge, a distal edge opposite the proximal edge, and a handle nearest the proximal edge, where the proximal edge includes at least one protrusion; and a bracket slideable into the chassis, where the bracket includes a lateral portion and a rear portion, where the distal edge is coupled to the lateral portion via a hinge, where the rear portion includes an opening configured to accommodate an electronic connector between the device and the chassis, where the at least one protrusion is configured to latch onto at least one corresponding groove of a fixed portion of the chassis when the carrier is in a closed position, and where the fixed portion is parallel to the lateral portion.
US09785196B1
Aspects described herein generally relate to a capture connector an actuated locking device. The actuator mechanism includes a capture connector having a body and at least one contact element connectable to the body, wherein each contact element comprises a first contact surface extending in a first direction and a second contact surface extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The actuator mechanism further includes a shape memory wire extending in a third direction adjacent to the capture connector, and at least one termination component fixedly coupled to the shape memory wire. The shape memory wire has at least one of a first actuation state and a second actuation state, and in the first actuation state, the shape memory wire generates an actuator force in the third direction, which is normal or oblique to the first direction of the first contact surface.
US09785191B2
A system for docking a computer tablet with a docking station. The computer tablet has an asymmetrical edge that is adapted to rest in a cradle portion of the docking station. While resting in the docking station the computer tablet may be rotated to various angles and still maintain electrical connectivity to the docking station.
US09785188B1
A portable information handling system (IHS), including a housing having a main housing portion, a lid housing portion, and a hinge assembly rotatably coupling the main housing portion and the lid housing portion to rotate the lid housing portion through a plurality of angular positions relative to the main housing portion is disclosed. The plurality of positions include a closed position and a tablet position. The portable IHS further includes a lid magnet assembly in the lid housing portion including a point on the lid magnet assembly closest to the hinge assembly in the tablet position at a first position on a y-axis; and a main magnet assembly in the main housing portion including a point on the main magnet assembly closest to the hinge assembly in the tablet position at a second position on a y-axis, wherein the second position is approximately the same as the first position.
US09785181B2
The purpose of the invention is to provide a guideline for, when adding a new power cell to a power network, solving the problem of how to set an operation mode of a power conversion leg. Assuming that a power conversion leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) of a power cell (J) and a power conversion leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) of a power cell (K) are connected to each other and power is transferred from the power cell (J) to the power cell (K) when the utility grid breaks down, the leg operation modes of the leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) and leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) are set as follows:the power conversion leg (JRL) of the power router (JR) is set to a stand-alone mode; and the power conversion leg (KRL) of the power router (KR) is set to a designate power transmission/reception mode when the utility grid does not break down and to a master mode from the designate power transmission/reception mode when the utility grid breaks down.
US09785168B2
A power generation amount prediction apparatus includes a first detector, acquisition unit, database, and controller. The first detector detects a measured value of the power generation amount of a photovoltaic power generation device. The acquisition unit acquires a predicted value of the power generation amount by the photovoltaic power generation device at specific times. The database stores the measured value and the predicted value for each of the specific times for a plurality of days. The controller calculates a corrected predicted value for each of the specific times based on a maximum measured value, a maximum predicted value, and a predicted value newly received by the acquisition unit. The maximum measured value and the maximum predicted value are respectively the maximum value, for each of the specific times, of the measured value and of the predicted value for a predetermined number of days.
US09785166B2
On embodiment pertains to a method including determining if an amplitude of an error signal has entered steady state. If the amplitude of the error signal has not entered steady state, then amplify with a high gain the amplitude of the AC component of the error signal. If the amplitude of the error signal has entered steady state, then initiate a timer. Determining if the amplitude of the error signal has remained in steady state while the timer runs. If the amplitude of the error signal has remained in steady state while the timer runs, then amplify with a low gain the amplitude of the AC component of the error signal.
US09785159B2
A resonant power transfer system includes resonant circuitry (26) including an inductor coil (59) and a resonant capacitor (51) coupled to a first terminal (27) of the inductor coil, wherein the inductor coil and the resonant capacitor resonate to produce an excitation signal (IS) and a state variable signal (VCS1). Sub-sampling circuitry (30) samples first and second points of the state variable signal at a rate which is substantially less than the RF frequency of the state variable signal. Information recovery circuitry (32) produces a state variable parameter signal representing a parameter (A) of the state variable signal from information in the first and second sampled points. Control circuitry (38) produces a first control signal in response to the state variable parameter signal. Detection and optimization circuitry (41) produces a second control signal in response to the state variable parameter signal. Voltage regulation circuitry (45) produces a regulated supply voltage in response to the first control signal. Switching inverter circuitry produces the excitation signal in response to the regulated supply voltage and the second control signal.
US09785158B2
A circuit for setting a reference voltage is provided. The circuit includes a reference voltage information storage unit and a reference voltage input/output (I/O) control unit. The reference voltage information storage unit is configured to set a level of a reference voltage according to information stored in a first register or a second register if a training operation starts in a first set mode. The reference voltage I/O control unit is configured to set a level of the reference voltage according to first data or second data if the training operation starts in a second set mode.
US09785153B2
The present invention relates to methods of controlling the flight path of an aircraft to follow as closely as possible a predetermined four-dimensional flight path, such as when flying continuous descent approaches. A method of controlling an aircraft to follow a predetermined four-dimensional flight path is provided that comprises monitoring the actual along-track position and the actual vertical position of the aircraft relative to the corresponding desired positions on the predetermined flight path. The aircraft's elevators are used to correct deviations of the along-track position and the aircraft's throttle is used to correct deviations of the vertical position.
US09785143B2
A computer is provided that includes a lid having a display and a motion detector to detect motion or movement of a user.
US09785139B2
A working machine feed axis control device: disposes a velocity feedback loop and forms a cascade coupling on the inner side of a location feedback loop; comprises a velocity gain setting apparatus (30) which multiplies the output of the velocity feedback look by a first gain (kv), and a location gain setting apparatus (31) which multiplies the output of the location feedback loop by a second gain (kp); subtracts the output of the velocity gain setting apparatus (30) and the output of the location gain setting apparatus (31) from a torque instruction (τ); and outputs the remaining torque instruction (τ) to a subject to be controlled (27).
US09785138B2
A robot has an operation mode setting unit that sets an operation mode of the robot. The operation mode setting unit changes a correction factor multiplied by the maximum acceleration and the maximum deceleration of an arm and the servo gain of a servo circuit, and thereby selectively sets the operation mode to one of a first operation mode, a second operation mode in which the arm operates faster than in the first operation mode, and a third operation mode in which the arm vibrates less than in the first operation mode.
US09785133B2
Methods for collaboratively assisting a control room operator are disclosed. An example method disclosed includes receiving a notification associated with a person via a portable wireless device. The notification includes information regarding a process control variable in a process control environment. The example method further includes altering the notification by the person via the portable wireless device and transmitting the altered notification via the portable wireless device. The control room operator and other persons associated with the notification are to receive the altered notification.
US09785128B2
An information notification method in an information notification system, including: an acquiring step for acquiring today's required time which is required for traveling from a departure point to a destination included in behavior information; a determining step for determining today's departure time using the acquired today's required time and an arrival time included in the behavior information; a judging step for judging whether or not the determined today's departure time is earlier than a typical departure time included in the behavior information; a notifying step for notifying a notifying apparatus owned by the user of notification information for adjusting the behavior of the user, when judgment is made that the determined today's departure time is earlier than the typical departure time; and an output step for causing the notifying apparatus to output the notified notification information.
US09785125B2
A motor control device includes a first position detecting unit for detecting a position of a movable part, a second position detecting unit for detecting a position of a driven part, an error computing unit for computing an error between a first position detection value detected by the first position detecting unit and a second position detection value detected by the second position detecting unit, a memory unit for memorizing, as an initial error, an error computed when the movable part engages with the driven part, a compensation amount computing unit for computing a backlash compensation amount for compensating backlash, a compensation gain computing unit for computing a compensation gain based on the acceleration command, and a compensation amount computing unit for computing the backlash compensation amount using the compensation gain.
US09785122B2
An alarm clock is provided that has a housing, one or more charging ports, an audio transducer, an alarm control device, a display, and a controller. The charging ports are mounted in a surface of the housing and provide power from a power supply to an external device. The controller receives input signals from the alarm control device and sends output signals to the audio transducer and the display. When the controller receives input signals from the alarm control device, it responds by displaying and setting a desired alarm time on the display, and by arming an alarm function. While the alarm function is armed, if a current time matches the alarm time, the controller causes the audio transducer to emit an alarm sound. When the controller receives another input signal from the alarm control device, it responds by taking the alarm time off the display, disarming the alarm function, and, if the alarm sound is being emitted, quieting the alarm sound. The alarm function remains disarmed until the controller receives yet another input signal from the alarm control device, and in response rearms the alarm function.
US09785120B2
A world watch capable of automatically adjusting displayed information otherwise indicating time of day around the world upon occurrence of a daylight savings time event.
US09785113B2
An image forming apparatus includes an optical system unit and an attachment board. The optical system unit forms an electrostatic latent image by irradiating an image bearing member with light. The optical system unit is attached to the attachment board. The attachment board includes a mounting surface, a first recess portion, and a second recess portion. The optical system unit is mounted on the mounting surface. The first recess portion and the second recess portion are provided in the mounting surface to form air paths. The first recess portion is located below a lower surface of the optical system unit, extending in a first direction. The second recess portion is located below the lower surface of the optical system unit, extending in a direction different from the first direction and crossing the first recess portion.
US09785110B2
The present invention provides a developing cartridge, including a chip and conductive connecting pieces, provided on the developing cartridge, a cover of a printer is provided with chip contact heads, where one end of each of the conductive connecting pieces is connected to a chip terminal, and when the developing cartridge is inserted into the printer and the cover is closed, the other end of the conductive connecting piece contact with side surface of the chip contact head on the cover and squeezes the developing cartridge, preventing the developing cartridge from vibrating up and down during use.
US09785103B2
An image forming system including plural image forming apparatuses, being tandemly-arranged, and forming an image while assigning an area of a recording sheet, wherein each individual image forming apparatus including a display section which is configured to display various information and a control section which is configured to detect connecting positions of each individual image forming apparatus in the image forming system, and to control each individual display section to display a typical information based on detected results.
US09785095B2
A roller member includes an endless belt elastically deformable and configured to convey a sheet and a holding unit holding the endless belt. The holding unit includes a first holding portion being in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt, a second holding portion being in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the endless belt and movable with respect to the first holding portion, and an engage portion engaging with an engaged portion. The second holding portion is moved with respect to the first holding portion by resilient force of the endless belt in a state in which the second holding portion is in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the endless belt in response to a disengagement of the engage portion from the engaged portion.
US09785091B2
A developer container includes a developer storage chamber that stores developer and includes an opening, a sealing member that seals the opening, an unsealing member that opens the opening by rotating such that the sealing member, a part of which is attached to the unsealing member, is peeled away, a stirring member that is attached to the unsealing member; and a regulating portion that regulates rotation of the unsealing member by contacting the stirring member. The regulating portion is provided to regulate the rotation of the unsealing member when the developer container receives an external force, and allow the unsealing member to rotate such that the opening is opened when the unsealing member receives driving power.
US09785077B2
The present invention provides a toner having a toner particle that contains a binder resin and an organic silicon polymer, wherein the organic silicon polymer has a specific structure, the proportion of the specific structure to the number of a silicon atom in the organic silicon polymer contained in the toner particle is at least 5.0%, the toner particle contain a polyester resin of from at least 1.0% by mass to less than 80% by mass, and the polyester resin is a specific polymer.
US09785071B2
The toner comprising a toner particle having a core-shell structure that contains a core containing an amorphous resin A and a crystalline resin and a shell containing an amorphous resin B, wherein the amorphous resin A contains a styrene-acrylic resin, the content of the styrene-acrylic resin is at least 50% by mass based on the total mass of the amorphous resin A, a degree of compatibility A between the amorphous resin A and the crystalline resin is at least 50% and not more than 100%, and a degree of compatibility B between the amorphous resin B and the crystalline resin is at least 0% and not more than 40%.
US09785070B2
A magnetic carrier comprising: a magnetic material-dispersed resin carrier core material; and a resin coating layer on the surface of the magnetic material-dispersed resin carrier core material, wherein the magnetic material-dispersed resin carrier core material contains a core material particle containing a magnetic material and a binder resin, and a primer compound having an amino group, the resin coating layer contains a coating resin A, which is a polymer of monomers including at least a (meth)acrylic acid ester having an alicyclic hydrocarbon group, and the content of the primer compound in the magnetic material-dispersed resin carrier core material and the content of the resin coating layer are in specific range.
US09785062B2
In a positively chargeable single-layer electrophotographic photosensitive member, a photosensitive layer contains at least a hole transport material, and particles of a first resin. A compound represented by general formula (1) is contained as the hole transport material. In the general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 2 and no greater than 4. R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 4. Ar1 and Ar2 each represent, independently of each other, a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted aryl group having a carbon number of at least 6 and no greater than 20. At least one of Ar1 and Ar2 represents an optionally substituted aryl group having a carbon number of at least 6 and no greater than 20.
US09785057B2
A liquid immersion lithography apparatus includes a projection system including an optical member of which an incidence side has a convex lens shape, the projection system being configured to project an image through a liquid on a workpiece, and a liquid immersion member arranged below the optical member, the liquid immersion member having a plurality of openings through which the liquid is allowed to flow. A material of which the optical member is made is more resistant to the liquid than a material of which the liquid immersion member is made.
US09785039B2
A wavelength conversion member includes a substrate, a dichroic mirror layer, an SiO2 layer, a ZnO layer, and a phosphor layer, which are sequentially stacked from the substrate. The dichroic mirror layer reflects at least part of light incident from the above. The phosphor layer includes a plurality of phosphors and ZnO between the phosphors.
US09785035B2
In one embodiment of an enclosure device, a camera casing and light source casing are secured to a plate frame, and the enclosure device is configured to be mounted to an arm, such as a robotic welding arm. A shutter mounting arm may also be secured to the plate frame. A flap may be pivotally mounted to the distal end of the shutter mounting arm, such that the flap may be actuated between a first and second position by an actuator cooperatively engaged with the flap. The first position may be defined as to protect a camera lens positioned in the camera casing and a light source lens positioned in the light source casing. The second position may be defined as to not obscure a line-of-sight from either the light source and/or the camera to the work piece on the arm.
US09785033B2
A device for the generation of supercontinuum in infrared fiber with a pump light comprising a microchip laser operating with a wavelength of 1.0 μm or greater that can be wavelength shifted though a nonlinear element to a wavelength beyond the two-photon absorption of the infrared fiber and launched into infrared fiber whereby the spectrum is broadened in the infrared fiber through various nonlinear processes to generate a supercontinuum within the mid-IR from 2 to 14 μm.
US09785032B2
A display panel includes a display panel body, a first protective film, a second protective film, and a sealant. The display panel body has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first through hole that passes through the display panel body and connects the first surface and the second surface. The first protective film is arranged on the first surface and has a second through hole connected to the first through hole. The second protective film is arranged on the second surface. The sealant fills the first through hole, so that a sidewall of the display panel body which is exposed by the first through hole is sealed, and a material of the sealant is a curable material.
US09785025B2
A pixel structure is provided to increase a response speed of liquid crystal and includes a first thin-film transistor, a second thin-film transistor, an upper substrate, a lower substrate opposite to the upper substrate, pixel electrodes arranged on the lower substrate, a common electrode arranged on the upper substrate, and assisting electrodes arranged on the lower substrate. The assisting electrodes are arranged to be each sandwiched between every two pixel electrodes. The first thin-film transistor includes a first drain terminal, a first source terminal, and a first gate terminal. The second thin-film transistor includes a second drain terminal, a second source terminal, and a second gate terminal. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the second drain terminal. The assisting electrodes are electrically connected to the first drain terminal.
US09785023B2
The present invention provides an array substrate structure and a manufacturing method thereof, in which after a common electrode (91) is formed, a reduction resistant layer (82) is first formed on the common electrode (91) before deposition of a second insulation layer (83) in order to prevent the film quality of the common electrode (91) from being affected by a reductive atmosphere generated in a process of directly depositing the second insulation layer (83) on the common electrode (91) thereby reducing the influence on the transmittal of the common electrode (91) caused by the deposition of the second insulation layer (83) on the common electrode (91) and providing the common electrode (91) with increased transmittal and enhancing displaying performance.
US09785012B2
The present invention provides a high transmittance PSVA liquid crystal display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal display panel includes an upper substrate (1) on which a first common electrode (31), an insulation layer (32), and a second common electrode (33) are formed, a lower substrate (2) on which a pixel electrode (4) is formed, and a plurality of polymer projections (5) formed on surfaces of the second common electrode (33) and the pixel electrode (4) to align liquid crystal molecules (7). One of the first and second common electrodes (31, 33) is a patternized common electrode and the other is a planar common electrode. The pixel electrode (4) is a planar electrode. In a manufacturing process, a voltage is applied to the pixel electrode (4) and the patternized common electrode to cause the liquid crystal molecules (7) to tilt in various directions so as to form multiple domains in each of sub-pixels. In a use, a voltage is applied to the pixel electrode (4) and the planar common electrode to make the entire pixel area to simultaneously achieve the maximum transmittance.
US09785009B2
In a liquid crystal display device, a reflecting surface is attached to a portion, which overlaps with a periphery portion of a light guiding plate where the light incident section is position in a surface on the light guiding plate side in the dispersing sheet which is positioned farthest to the light guiding plate side among a plurality of optical sheets which are positioned between the light guiding plate and a liquid crystal panel. As a result, light which is emitted from the periphery portion of the light guiding plate is returned into the light guiding plate by being reflected by the reflecting surface, and after this, is emitted as illumination light from a light emitting surface while progressing within the light guiding plate.
US09785008B2
A display module includes a display panel; a backlight unit which is disposed behind the display panel; a bottom chassis to accommodate the backlight unit; and a reflective sheet which is disposed inside the bottom chassis and configured to reflect a light portion incident thereon toward the display panel. The backlight unit includes LEDs disposed apart from one another in 2D array, and the reflective sheet includes a sheet bottom portion corresponding to a front surface of the bottom chassis, a sheet inclined portion which is obliquely formed to face a rear surface of the display panel, and light adjustment portions which are provided on the sheet inclined portion and configured to adjust the light portion reflected by the sheet inclined portion. Each of the light adjustment portions corresponds to one of the LEDs disposed adjacent to the sheet inclined portion.
US09785006B2
An illumination unit of an embodiment of the present technology includes: an illumination optical system configured to generate illumination light; and a plurality of lenses configured to reduce a divergence angle of the illumination light. The illumination optical system includes: a light source (20) configured to apply light onto an end surface of one of a first substrate and a second substrate; and a light modulation layer (30) provided in a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The illumination optical system includes an electrode configured to generate an electric filed that generates, in the light modulation layer (30), a plurality of linear scattering regions (30B) in a three-dimensional mode, and to generate an electric field that generates, in the light modulation layer, a planar scattering region in a two-dimensional display mode. The lenses are arranged side by side in a direction in which the linear scattering regions extend, and are also arranged side by side in a direction intersecting with the direction in which the linear scattering regions extend.
US09785003B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device including a display module and an electronics module arranged in a common housing, wherein the common housing is completed by a front cover, wherein the display module is arranged directly adjacent to the front cover, wherein the electronics module includes a printed circuit board having multiple layers and a plurality of electronic components attached to the printed circuit board, wherein the electronics module is arranged adjacent to the display module and wherein the printed circuit board includes a first layer and a second layer delimiting the printed circuit board on opposing sides, wherein the first layer is an electromagnetic interference shielding layer and the first layer is arranged facing the display module.
US09784998B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a curved display by which a display module that has a tap for electrical connection is manufactured into the curved display, the method including: a step of sealing a circumference of the display module excluding a part of the tap which projects outward from the display module with a sealing material having acid resistance; a step of performing masking by using a masking member to surround either a pair of left and right sides or a pair of upper and lower sides facing each other in the sealed display module; a step of etching the display module, excluding the masked part of the masked display module, into a preset thickness such that the thickness of the display module is decreased; a step of removing the masking member from the display module that is etched in the etching step; and a step of bending the display module from which the masking member is removed into the curved surface.
US09784995B2
A device that includes a multi-segment ring modulator is provided. In particular, the device comprises: an optical waveguide; an optical ring modulator optically coupled to the optical waveguide; a first voltage control device along a first segment of the optical ring modulator; a second voltage control device along a second segment of the optical ring modulator; a first driver device configured to control the first voltage control device to a first voltage and a second voltage; and, a second driver device configured to control the second voltage control device to a third voltage and a fourth voltage. In particular implementations, a ratio of a length of the first segment to a length of the second segment can be one or more of about 2:1 and greater than 1:1, and non-linear driver devices can be used.
US09784987B2
The disclosure is directed to various apodization schemes for pupil imaging scatterometry. In some embodiments, the system includes an apodizer disposed within a pupil plane of the illumination path. In some embodiments, the system further includes an illumination scanner configured to scan a surface of the sample with at least a portion of apodized illumination. In some embodiments, the system includes an apodized pupil configured to provide a quadrupole illumination function. In some embodiments, the system further includes an apodized collection field stop. The various embodiments described herein may be combined to achieve certain advantages.
US09784984B2
There is provided an imaging apparatus including a first polarizing unit that polarizes light from an object, a lens system that condenses light from the first polarizing unit, and an imaging element array that has imaging elements arranged in a matrix of a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, has a second polarizing unit arranged on a light incident side, and converts the light condensed by the lens system into an electric signal.
US09784978B2
A head-mounted display includes a shell, a display generation unit, a processing unit, at least one pressure sensor, and a linkage mechanism. The display generation unit includes at least an optical engine and a mirror connected to the optical engine. The processing unit is electrically connected to the optical engine and the pressure sensor, and the pressure sensor detects an external force applied to the shell and outputs a pressure signal to the processing unit. The linkage mechanism is electrically connected to the processing unit and connected to the display generation unit. The processing unit actuates the linkage mechanism to cause the mirror of the display generation unit to move away from the user's face.
US09784971B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for rendering interactions between virtual and physical objects on a substantially transparent display are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying a user-interface on a substantially transparent display of a wearable computing device. The method further includes displaying a virtual object in the view region at a focal length along a first line of sight and detecting a physical object at a physical distance along a second line of sight. The method still further includes determining that a relationship between the focal length and the physical distance is such that the virtual object and the physical object appear substantially co-located in a user-view through the view region and, responsive to the determination, initiating a collision action between the virtual object and the physical object.
US09784963B2
A stereo comparator configured for use with a stereo endoscope for adjusting and aligning an optical assembly of the stereo endoscope, for example, in connection with the repair of the endoscope. The comparator includes a housing containing a plurality of optical components, namely, a first deflecting component, a second deflecting component, a third deflecting component and a beam splitter. The optical components are arranged so that the first deflecting component deflects a first beam from a right image channel of a stereo endoscope to the beam splitter, the second deflecting component deflects a second beam from a left image channel of the stereo endoscope to the third deflecting component, the third deflecting component deflects the second beam to the beam splitter and the beam splitter combines the first beam with the second beam to form a first combined beam that extends along an optical axis of the stereo endoscope.
US09784958B2
A spectral imaging device (12) includes an image sensor (28), a tunable light source (14), an optical assembly (17), and a control system (30). The optical assembly (17) includes a first refractive element (24A) and a second refractive element (24B) that are spaced apart from one another by a first separation distance. The refractive elements (24A) (24B) have an element optical thickness and a Fourier space component of the optical frequency dependent transmittance function. Further, the element optical thickness of each refractive element (24A) (24B) and the first separation distance are set such that the Fourier space components of the optical frequency dependent transmittance function of each refractive element (24A) (24B) fall outside a Fourier space measurement passband.
US09784949B1
The optical lens system for forming a subject image on a photoelectric conversion section of a solid image pickup element and an image pickup lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power and a convex surface on an object side thereof. The second lens has a negative refractive power with a concave surface on an image side thereof. The third lens has a refractive power with an aspheric surface on an object side thereof and a convex surface on an image side thereof. The fourth lens has a positive refractive power with a flat surface on an object side thereof and a convex surface on an image side thereof. The fifth lens has a negative refractive power with aspheric surfaces on an object side and an image side thereof respectively, wherein the fifth lens has at least one inflection point formed at at least one of the aspheric surfaces of the object side and the image side. An aperture stop is disposed at the object side of the first lens and at least one flat element is located between the fifth lens and an image plane.
US09784946B2
There is provided an optical system including: a first lens having negative refractive power and having a meniscus shape of which an object-side surface is convex; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power and having a meniscus shape of which an image-side surface is convex; and a fifth lens having negative refractive power and having a meniscus shape of which an object-side surface is convex, wherein the first to fifth lens are sequentially disposed from an object side, whereby an aberration improvement effect, a wide field of view and a high degree of resolution may be realized.
US09784937B2
A cable assembly with electrical conductors and fiber optic lines includes a hybrid cable, electrical tethers, a fiber optic tether, and a joining location thereof that includes a shielding unit establishing an electrical contact between shielding of the hybrid cable and shielding of the respective electrical tether cables. The shielding unit includes a central body of an conductive material surrounding the hybrid and tether cables at the joining location, where the central body is in electrical contact with the shielding of the hybrid cable and with the shielding of each electrical tether.
US09784926B2
A cable connection system (100, 200, 300) includes a coupling housing (110, 210, 310) defining at least a first port (112, 212, 312); a printed circuit board (120, 220, 320) coupled to the coupling housing; and a communications component (130, 230, 330, 360, 400, 500, 550) sized to be received at the first port of the coupling housing. The printed circuit board (120, 220, 320) includes a light source (125, 225, 325). At least an indication section (135, 235, 335, 365, 450, 515) of the communications component (130, 230, 330, 360, 400, 500, 550) includes (e.g., is formed from or is coated with) a light transmissible material. The indication section (135, 235, 335, 365, 450, 515) is aligned with the light source (125, 225, 325) when the communications component (130, 230, 330, 360) is received at the first port of the coupling housing so that light emitted from the light source (125, 225, 325) illuminates the indication section of the communications component (130, 230, 330, 360, 400, 500).
US09784917B2
Embodiments are directed to a coupler system having an interposer configured to couple optical signals. The interposer includes at least one optoelectronic component formed on a glass substrate. The interposer further includes at least one waveguide formed on the glass substrate and configured to couple the optical signals to or from the at least one optoelectronic component, wherein the at least one waveguide comprises a waveguide material having grain diameters greater than about one micron and an optical loss less than about one decibel per centimeter of optical propagation.
US09784914B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting a plurality of light signals is disclosed. The apparatus includes a splitter configured to split an incoming light signal into a plurality of light signals. Phase control units are included which modify the phase of the light signals. Waveguides are coupled to the phase control units. Each waveguide has a different propagation constant, that is different from adjacent waveguides and the difference between the propagation constants of any two adjacent waveguides is substantially larger than an effective coupling constant between said two adjacent waveguides. Coupling members couple the light signal in one of the plurality of waveguides to free space. The splitter may include output and/or input waveguides and a dispersion element splitting and/or combining: light.
US09784904B2
The present application discloses a display substrate including a base substrate; and a plurality of pixels on the base substrate. Each of the plurality of pixels in the display substrate includes a color generating layer on the base substrate; a first reflective layer surrounding at least one side of the color generating layer in plan view of the base substrate; and a second reflective layer having a light transmissive area and a light reflective area, the light transmissive area spaced apart from the first reflective layer in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate, the light reflective area configured to be spaced apart from the color generating layer in the direction perpendicular to the base substrate by an adjustable distance relative to the color generating layer. The first reflective layer is configured to reflect an incident light transmitted through the light transmissive area to the light reflective area, the light reflective area and the color generating layer are configured to direct the incident light reflected by the first reflective layer in a direction so that it may pass through the color generating layer.
US09784899B2
The present invention is characterized in that a light emitting part of LED 1 has a planar and point-symmetrical shape, a light emission angle distribution is a Lambert distribution and a light emission face is a scattering face; a hemispheric mirror 3 forms a reflection face 3a on the interior face, and has an aperture 3b at the center, while the reflection face 3a is disposed so as to oppose to LED 1; a normal line of LED 1 and an optical axis of the hemispheric mirror 3 are coincident with each other; an interval between LED 1 and the hemispheric mirror 3 is equal to or smaller than a curvature radius of the hemispheric mirror 3; a dimension of the aperture 3b of the hemispheric mirror 3 is substantially equal to a radiation dimension; and sin (tan−1 d LED/2t)≈NA object is established.
US09784896B2
A pattern structure includes a plurality of pattern structure units arranged substantially on a same plane, where each of the pattern structure units has a first surface and a second surface, which are opposite to each other, and a microstructure is defined on the first surface of each of the pattern structure units, and a flattening layer disposed on the second surface of each of the plurality of pattern structure units, where the flattening layer connects the pattern structure units with each other, and a vertical step difference exists between second surfaces of the pattern structure units.
US09784894B2
The present invention relates to an optically anisotropic sheet comprising a substrate and a liquid crystal cured layer laminated together, wherein the substrate has a surface roughness of 1.0 nm or less in a field of view of 1 μm2 and a water contact angle of 70° or more.
US09784891B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a display area and a transmission area; and an optical member on the display panel, and the optical member includes at least a light collecting portion, and a center of the light collecting portion and a center of the transmission area are on a substantially same axis.
US09784888B2
A titanium nitride-based metamaterial, and method for producing the same, is disclosed, consisting of ultrathin, smooth, and alternating layers of a plasmonic titanium nitride (TiN) material and a dielectric material, grown on a substrate to form a superlattice. The dielectric material is made of A1-xScxN, where ‘x’ ranges in value from 0.2 to 0.4. The layers of alternating material have sharp interfaces, and each layer can range from 1-20 nanometers in thickness. Metamaterials based on titanium TiN, a novel plasmonic building block, have many applications including, but not ‘limited to emission enhancers, computer security, etc. The use of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond, and light emitting diode (LED) efficiency enhancement is of particular interest.
US09784880B2
A method for making downhole electromagnetic logging while drilling measurements includes rotating an electromagnetic logging while drilling tool in a subterranean wellbore. The logging tool includes a first transmitter and a first receiver deployed on a first sub and a second transmitter and a second receiver deployed on a second sub. Rotating the logging tool causes the first and second subs to rotate at different rates. A plurality of electromagnetic voltage measurements are acquired from the first and second receivers while rotating. The acquired voltage measurements are processed to compute harmonic coefficients which are mathematically rotated to obtain rotated coefficients. Ratios of selected ones of the rotated coefficients are processed to compute gain compensated measurement quantities.
US09784879B2
A method for standoff detection and analysis of objects comprises sending a signal through an inspection area, from a transmitter to a receiver, wherein the signal travels through objects in its path. If the signal encounters an object, through which it must travel, the speed of signal distribution decreases and its amplitude drops. A processor then determines the amplitude of the signal and whether the amplitude is above a given threshold, and if the threshold is met, further determining the shift in length of the signal's optical path, determining the thickness of the object, calculating the dielectric permittivity constant, and comparing this constant to known values of different materials to determine a preselected group of materials, to which the object in the inspection area belongs, and whether the inspected object belongs to a preselected group of dangerous objects. A system for detecting and analyzing such materials is also disclosed.
US09784878B2
A foreign-object detecting device includes a first coil, a second coil arranged adjacent to the first coil and having the same winding direction as that of the first coil, and foreign-object detecting circuitry. The foreign-object detecting circuitry outputs a first detection signal to an outside or inside terminal of the first coil, outputs a second detection signal having an inverted phase to an outside or inside terminal of the second coil, causes one of the first and second detection signal to flow clockwise, causes the other detection signal to flow counterclockwise to generate a combined magnetic field across a center of the first and a center of the second coil, measures an amount of change in an impedance value of the first or second coils, and determines that a foreign object is present within the combined magnetic field, based on the amount of change.
US09784874B2
An apparatus for imaging a borehole wall includes an array of acoustic transducers and a controller. The controller scans a section of the borehole wall with first acoustic beams that are transmitted by a series of sets of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent first acoustic measurements that are spaced a first distance D1 apart along the borehole wall, each set having at least one transducer that is different from an adjacent set, (ii) steers a second acoustic beam along the section of the borehole wall using one set of acoustic transducers in the array to produce adjacent second acoustic measurements that are a second distance D2 apart along the borehole wall, and (iii) images the borehole wall using the first acoustic measurements and the second acoustic measurement to generate a borehole wall image, wherein at least one second acoustic measurement is between adjacent first acoustic measurements.
US09784872B2
Methods related to controlling a source array while performing a seismic survey to achieve an intended source signature. A current three dimensional arrangement of the individual seismic sources is compared with a target 3D arrangement. In view of the comparison, position of at least one of the individual seismic sources is adjusted so that the adjusted 3D arrangement of the individual seismic sources to substantially match the target 3D arrangement.
US09784868B2
Apparatus, computer instructions and method for deghosting seismic data related to a subsurface of a body of water. The method includes inputting data recorded by detectors that are towed by a vessel, the data being associated with waves travelling from the subsurface to the detectors; applying a migration procedure to the data to determine a first image of the subsurface; applying a mirror migration procedure to the data to determine a second image of the subsurface; joint deconvoluting the first image and the second image for deghosting a reflectivity of the subsurface; and generating a final image of the subsurface based on the deghosted reflectivity of the joint deconvoluting step.
US09784867B2
A method includes the steps of receiving a wavefield generated by reflections in a subsurface region and recorded by a plurality of seismic receivers and compensating the recorded wavefield for amplitude attenuation. The method further includes modelling a propagation of a source wavefield forward in time, from an initial time-state to a final time-state through an earth model that is representative of the subsurface region, wherein the modelling includes phase and amplitude effects of attenuation and modelling a propagation of the compensated recorded wavefield backward in time from a final time-state to an earlier time-state through the earth model, wherein the subsurface region has an absorption characteristic that dampens the recorded wavefield wherein the modelling includes phase and amplitude effects of attenuation.
US09784861B2
This disclosure is related to hydrophones, for example hydrophones that may be used in marine seismic surveying, permanent reservoir monitoring, downhole acoustic monitoring in a wellbore, and/or various other applications. Some embodiments of a hydrophone according to this disclosure are constructed such that a longitudinal stiffness of the hydrophone is greater than a circumferential stiffness of the hydrophone. In some embodiments, however, the longitudinal stiffness may be somewhat less than the circumferential stiffness. For example, the longitudinal stiffness may be greater than one half the circumferential stiffness in some cases.
US09784856B2
A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes the following. A connector coupling detector detects coupling between an external connector and a connector of the radiographic image capturing apparatus. A power supply detector detects an available state of external electric power. A controller controls a turned-on and a turned-off state of the radiographic image capturing apparatus. At a timing when the power supply detector detects a change from the available state to the unavailable state of the external electric power, the controller turns off the radiographic image capturing apparatus if the connector coupling detector detects the coupling between the external connector and the connector of the radiographic image capturing apparatus, or the controller maintains the turned-on state if the connector coupling detector detects the uncoupling between the external connector and the connector of the radiographic image capturing apparatus.
US09784852B1
A surgical guidance system offering different levels of imaging capability while maintaining the same hand-held convenient small size of light-weight intra-operative probes. The surgical guidance system includes a second detector, typically an imager, located behind the area of surgical interest to form a coincidence guidance system with the hand-held probe. This approach is focused on the detection of positron emitting biomarkers with gamma rays accompanying positron emissions from the radiolabeled nuclei.
US09784851B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus is disclosed that includes an x-ray detector. The x-ray detector includes a member configured to convert incident x-ray wavelength photons into emitted visible wavelength photons, a position for a material under test, an x-ray source, and a structure configured to perturb an x-ray energy spectrum, each lying on a common axis. The x-ray source is arranged to direct an x-ray energy spectrum along the common axis to impinge upon the member, the structure configured to perturb the x-ray energy spectrum, and positioned material under test. The structure lies between the x-ray source and the member to one side of the position for material under test intersecting the common axis, and the structure includes at least three adjacent regions, each region different to immediately adjacent regions and configured to perturb the x-ray energy spectrum differently.
US09784839B2
An automotive lighting device includes a housing and at least one optical sensor disposed in the housing. The at least one optical sensor is configured to emit an optical signal and generating a data signal in response to a received reflected optical signal.
US09784838B1
A scanning device includes a scanner, which includes a base and a gimbal, mounted within the base so as to rotate relative to the base about a first axis. A receive mirror is mounted within the gimbal so as to rotate about a second axis, perpendicular to the first axis. A detector is mounted on the gimbal so as to rotate with the gimbal about the first axis and receive light reflected from the receive mirror while the receive mirror rotates about the second axis. A collection lens is mounted on the gimbal so as to rotate with the gimbal about the first axis while collecting the light so as to focus the light onto the detector by reflection from the receive mirror while the receive mirror rotates about the second axis.
US09784834B2
An image sensing apparatus sensing a user input and an operating method of the image sensing apparatus are disclosed, in which the image sensing apparatus may include an optical source operating based on a burst mode including a turn-on cycle and a turn-off cycle, and an image sensor configured to receive a reflected light using a pixel array and output sensing data of a position of an object in a target area in the reflected light.
US09784830B2
A transponder, able to equip a cooperative target facing a Doppler radar, includes at least one receiving antenna able to receive a signal transmitted by said radar and a transmitting antenna able to retransmit a signal. The signal received by the receiving antenna is amplitude-modulated before being retransmitted by the transmitting antenna to produce a variation of the radar cross-section of the target, the variation triggering a frequency shift between the signal transmitted and the signal received by the radar comparable to a Doppler echo. The transponder applies notably to the field of radars, more particularly for collaborative systems also operating at low velocity or nil velocity. It applies for example to assisted take-off, landing and deck-landing of drones, in particular rotary-wing drones, as well as manned helicopters.
US09784828B2
A frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system that includes a transceiver coupled to an analog to digital converter (ADC), and a digital signal processor (DSP) coupled to the ADC. The transceiver is configured to transmit a plurality of FMCW chirps, receive a plurality of reflected FMCW chirps, and mix the reflected FMCW chirps with at least one of the FMCW chirps to generate a plurality of beat signals. The reflected FMCW chirps are the FMCW chirps after being reflected off of a target object. The ADC is configured to convert the beat signals into a plurality of digital chirps. The DSP is configured to receive the digital chirps and quantify a relative velocity of the target object as compared to a velocity of the FMCW radar system by removing an effect of a range to the target object from a two dimensional range Doppler processing signal.
US09784827B2
A method for suppressing the Jet Engine Modulation (JEM) clutter signal returns from compressor blades (26) in data sampled by a system for Foreign Object Debris (FOD) detection in the air intake (30) of a turbine assembly, the method comprising the steps of: (a) identifying in the data the start sample position and length in samples of a single complete shaft rotation; and (b) subtracting from a current rotation dataset the samples from a comparison rotation dataset corresponding to another complete single shaft rotation.
US09784822B2
A time-of-flight sensor device generates and analyzes a high-resolution depth map frame from a high-resolution image to determine a mode of operation for the time-of-flight sensor and an illuminator and to control the time-of-flight sensor and illuminator according to the mode of operation. A binned depth map frame can be created from a binned image from the time-of-flight sensor and combined with the high-resolution depth map frame to create a compensated depth map frame.
US09784817B2
In a visual light communication (VLC) or other light based positioning system, a mobile device can detect modulated light emitted by one or more localized artificial lighting devices to obtain an identification (ID) label or code of each lighting device, e.g. that is visible in an image captured by the mobile device camera. The mobile device uses the detected ID code for a lookup in a self-stored or remotely stored table that associates light-source-location information with ID codes, to obtain an estimate of mobile device position. To mitigate against hacking by a third party detecting the ID codes and observing locations to compile its own lookup table, the disclosed examples dynamically alter the assignments of particular ID codes to the lighting devices, while minimizing potential disruption of position determination service for mobile devices due to the changes to ID code assignments.
US09784813B2
A relay (20) receives a battery information acquisition time from each battery module (10) and calculates measurement time differential information Δt, that is, a time difference between the battery information acquisition time as a reference and the battery information acquisition time of another battery module (10) among the received battery information acquisition times, for each battery module (10). A measurement time correction unit (115) of each battery module (10) corrects a measurement time by the measurement time differential information Δt, using the measurement time differential information Δt received from the relay (20) to adjust the battery information acquisition time of each battery module (10) to the same time.
US09784810B2
In a method and apparatus to quickly determine regions of modified temperature in a sample volume by magnetic resonance tomography using a multi-echo sequence, one or more one-dimensional or two-dimensional images of regions of modified temperature are respectively determined.
US09784808B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit and a shield. The imaging unit is configured to perform magnetic resonance imaging of an object by transmitting a radio frequency signal from a radio frequency coil while magnetic fields are formed by a gradient coil and a superconducting magnet respectively. The shield is configured to form a gradient magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging with the gradient coil and to prevent ingress of heat into the superconducting magnet.
US09784806B2
Methods and devices which can use fractal radiofrequency coils to improve the use of magnetic resonant imaging over, for example, standard circular coils. The fractal coils can be Koch loops, and can reduce or eliminate mutual inductance between pairs of coils. Further, embodiments of the fractal radiofrequency coils can be used with higher T magnetic resonance imaging.
US09784805B2
The invention relates to a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging radio frequency-receiver (112; 216; 308; 404), the receiver (112; 216; 308; 404) being adapted to receive analog signals from at least one radio frequency receiver coil unit (106; 200; 202; 300; 400; 402), the radio frequency receiver (112; 216; 308; 404) comprising: an analog-digital converter (118; 226) to convert the analog pre-amplified magnetic resonance signal into a digital signal, means (120; 230) for digital down converting the digital signal and a first communication interface (130; 252) adapted for transmitting the down converted digital signal via a communication link (e.g. wireless, optical or wire-bound).
US09784789B2
Provided is a handler apparatus that conveys a device under test to a test socket, including: a socket for adjustment which, prior to fitting of a device holder holding the device under test to the test socket, fits the device holder; a socket-for-adjustment position detecting section that detects a relative position of the device under test with respect to the socket for adjustment, in a state in which the device holder fits the socket for adjustment; an actuator that adjusts a position of the device under test on the device holder, based on the detected relative position of the device under test; and a conveyer that conveys the device holder, in which a position of the device under test has been adjusted, to fit the test socket.
US09784777B2
The invention provides a method and system for precisely measuring AC power and detecting load impedance using a precise analog front-end, zero-crossing detectors, and a phase detection system capable of extracting precise phase information from the sensed voltage and current measurements. More particularly, the invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transmit circuit configured to generate a wireless field via an antenna for transferring charging power to a receiver device, for determining a phase difference between a first signal and a second signal. The apparatus further comprises a phase detection circuit to output a phase signal indicating a duration of a phase offset between a time-varying voltage and a time-varying current of the transmit circuit. The apparatus further comprises a capacitor configured to receive a variable current from a current source for the duration of the phase offset between the time-varying voltage and a time-varying current.
US09784773B2
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a system for monitoring a load center including a plurality of current sensors, a communication bus, a plurality of sensor circuits, a power module configured to be coupled to a load center input line and to receive input AC power from the input line, a collector, and a cable configured to be coupled between the power module and the collector, wherein the power module is further configured to provide power to the plurality of sensor circuits via the communication bus, provide power to the collector via the cable, measure at least one of voltage, frequency and phase of input AC power and provide signals related to the measured voltage, frequency or phase to the collector via the cable, receive current measurement signals from the plurality of sensor circuits and provide the received current measurement signals to the collector via the cable.
US09784763B1
Shielded probe systems are disclosed herein. The shielded probe systems are configured to test a device under test (DUT) and include an enclosure that defines an enclosure volume, a translation stage with a stage surface, a substrate-supporting stack extending from the stage surface, an electrically conductive shielding structure, an isolation structure, and a thermal shielding structure. The substrate-supporting stack includes an electrically conductive support surface and a temperature-controlled chuck. The electrically conductive shielding structure defines a shielded volume. The isolation structure electrically isolates the electrically conductive shielding structure from the enclosure and from the translation stage. The thermal shielding structure extends within the enclosure volume and at least partially between the enclosure and the substrate-supporting stack.
US09784760B2
A scanning probe microscope system. A sample stage is provided along with a microscope arranged to collect data with a probe carried by the microscope from a sample carried by the sample stage. A probe/sample exchange mechanism is arranged to exchange the probe carried by the microscope with a new probe, and is also arranged to exchange the sample carried by the sample stage with a new sample. The probe/sample exchange mechanism comprises a transport structure which can move relative to the microscope and the sample stage; a probe carrier carried by the transport structure and adapted to carry the probe or the new probe when the probe is exchanged with the new probe; a sample carrier carried by the transport structure, wherein the sample carrier is adapted differently from the probe carrier to carry the sample or the new sample when the sample is exchanged with the new sample; and a drive system arranged to move the transport structure relative to the microscope and the sample stage when the probe is exchanged with the new probe and the sample is exchanged with the new sample.
US09784759B2
A thermally insensitive open-loop hung mass accelerometer utilizes a transverse geometry to attach the body/flexures/proof mass so that thermal expansion effects due to thermal gradients across the accelerometer or bulk temperatures changes of one flexure relative to the other cause minimal or no axial displacement of the proof mass. In this geometry, multiple flexures may be stacked to achieve the required stiffness, thus reducing manufacturing costs and any tolerancing issues, without affecting thermal sensitivity. The accelerometer is suitably designed to exhibit a radial symmetry. The accelerometer is suitably designed to use low CTE materials for at least the proof mass and body and a low thermal expansion differential Eddy current sensor head.
US09784752B2
The invention describes antibodies that bind venlafaxine and O-desmethylvenlafaxine. The antibodies are derived from novel haptens and immunogens and are used in methods and kits to detect and quantify venlafaxine and O-desmethylvenlafaxine. The invention also describes novel detecting agents which can be used in the methods and kits of the invention.
US09784736B2
Disclosed herein is a biosensor for optical detection of Brownian relaxation dynamics of magnetic particles measured by light transmission. The magnetic particles can be functionalized with biological ligands for the detection of target analytes in a sample.
US09784735B2
Disclosed herein is a biosensor for optical detection of Brownian relaxation dynamics of magnetic particles measured by light transmission. The magnetic particles can be functionalized with biological ligands for the detection of target analytes in a sample. The setup may be implemented in a disc and optical pick-up head configuration.
US09784727B2
A method of assaying wound healing can include: growing cells on the matrix in the first flow channel; introducing an agent that removes the matrix from the junction; introducing a matrix material into the second flow channel so as to form the second matrix in the second flow channel and junction; and detecting cellular migration into the junction onto the second matrix. The agent that removes the matrix can include a biomolecule or chemical agent. The method can include removing cells in the matrix in the junction before introducing the matrix material into the second flow channel. A bioactive agent can be introduced into the junction to determine if it modulates cellular migration and/or clot formation into the intersection openings of tissue and vascular channels.
US09784726B2
A method of screening for a candidate compound for the treatment of a condition involving dysregulation of metabolism in a mammal, said method comprising bringing a compound into contact with at least one population of cells, comprising cells that express mTOR and Akt and that are capable of activating mTORC2 and Akt; determining mTORC2 activity and Akt activity in cells brought into contact with the compound, and identifying the candidate compound based on the determined mTORC2 activity and Akt activity. A kit for use in such a method of. A compound for use in a method of treatment of a condition involving dysregulation of metabolism in a mammal, and a method of treatment of such a condition.
US09784724B2
An apparatus for measuring a concentration of amyloid-beta within a sample includes signal generation circuitry and a detector. The signal generation circuitry generates a first signal having an applied first orbital angular momentum signature and applies the first signal to the sample. The detector receives the first signal after it passes through the sample and determines the concentration of the amyloid-beta within the sample based on a detected second orbital angular momentum signature within the first signal received from the sample. The detector provides an output of the determined concentration as an indication for determining an early onset of Alzheimer's.
US09784718B2
A detection system for identifying deterioration in a structure is provided that has acoustic sensors that receive acoustic emission waves. The acoustic emission wave detected by the acoustic sensor is identified as a hit. An analysis circuit is present that identifies an A state, a B state, and a C state. The B state has increased hit activity from the A state where a rate B is greater than a rate A by a factor of f1. The C state has increased hit activity from the B state where a rate C is greater than the rate A by a factor of f2. An alarm is activated when an amount of time that the C state is identified as being present reaches a value of TM, or alternatively when a threshold value based upon of the number of hits and time in the C state is reached.
US09784712B2
A miniaturized plasma source includes a stripline split-ring resonator. The split-ring resonator is sandwiched between two dielectric substrates and two metal ground planes. In order to make the plasma accessible from the outside of the ground planes, a hole is made through the gap between the ends of the split ring. The two ground planes act as an electromagnetic shield, protecting the split-ring resonator from electromagnetic interference due to changes in the electric or dielectric environment surrounding it. The miniaturized plasma source is particularly useful in optogalvanic spectroscopy applications.
US09784711B2
A disposable cartridge used in a digital microfluidics system has a bottom layer with first hydrophobic surface, a rigid cover plate with second hydrophobic surface, and a gap there-between. The bottom layer is a flexible film on an uppermost surface of a cartridge accommodation site of a system, attracted to and spread over the uppermost surface by an underpressure. A lower surface of the plate and the flexible bottom layer are sealed to each other. The assembled cartridge is removed from the cartridge accommodation site in one piece and potentially includes samples and processing fluids. The system has a base unit and a cartridge accommodation site with an electrode array of individual electrodes and a central control unit for controlling selection of individual electrodes and for providing these electrodes with individual voltage pulses for manipulating liquid droplets within the gap by electrowetting.
US09784705B2
A measuring electrode for chemical liquid in semiconductor process that measures a chemical liquid used for a semiconductor process comprises a first body having a first internal liquid chamber into which a first internal liquid is filled, and a flow tube for a part or all of which a responsive glass is used and that forms a flow channel where a chemical liquid as being a measuring object flows, wherein the flow tube is so arranged to penetrate the first body and the responsive glass makes contact with the first internal liquid in the first internal liquid chamber.
US09784704B2
The invention pertains to an apparatus and a method for determining a dielectric property of a first substance in a composition in a non-invasive manner. The composition includes at least the first substance to be measured and a second substance. The method uses and apparatus includes a capacitor for creating a field into which the composition can be introduced at least in part, where the capacitor is part of an oscillator circuit, and the oscillator circuit is coupled to a device for determining the resonance frequency of the oscillator circuit. The capacitor includes a layer of a non-conducting material such that the composition, when introduced at least in part into the field of the capacitor, does not come into an electrical contact with the electrodes of the capacitor.
US09784700B2
A fluorescent X-ray analyzer includes a sample stage, an X-ray source that irradiates a sample with primary X-rays, a detector that detects secondary X-rays generated from the sample, a position adjustment mechanism that adjusts relative positions of the sample stage and the primary X-rays, an observation mechanism that obtains an observation image of the sample, and a computer having a display unit and an input unit. The computer has a function of, in response to a pointer being moved from a central region of the observation screen to a certain position by dragging the input unit while maintaining a state in which an input element of the input unit is held, moving the sample stage in a movement direction and at a movement speed corresponding to a direction and a distance of the certain position relative to the central region.
US09784699B2
Quantitative X-ray analysis is carried out by making X-ray fluorescence measurements to determine the elemental composition of a sample and a correction measurement by measuring the transmitted intensity of X-rays at an energy E transmitted directly through the sample without deviation. An X-ray diffraction measurement is made in transmission by directing X-rays from an X-ray source at the energy E onto a sample at an incident angle ψ1 to the surface of the sample and measuring a measured intensity Id(θfl) of the diffracted X-rays at the energy E with an X-ray detector at an exit angle ψ2 corresponding to an X-ray diffraction peak of a predetermined component. A matrix corrected X-ray intensity is obtained using the measured X-ray intensity in the X-ray diffraction measurement, the correction measurement and the mass attenuation coefficient of the sample calculated from the elemental composition and the mass attenuation coefficients of the elements.
US09784698B2
In an X-ray detector operating in a rolling shutter read out mode, by precisely synchronizing sample rotation with the detector readout, the effects of timing skew on the image intensities and angular positions caused by the rolling shutter read out can be compensated by interpolation or calculation, thus allowing the data to be accurately integrated with conventional software. In one embodiment, the reflection intensities are interpolated with respect to time to recreate data that is synchronized to a predetermined time. This interpolated data can then be processed by any conventional integration routine to generate a 3D model of the sample. In another embodiment a 3D integration routine is specially adapted to allow the time-skewed data to be processed directly and generate a 3D model of the sample.
US09784696B2
The present invention pertains to a system and method for X-ray imaging wherein a targeted fluence at the detector for projection images can be achieved at a plurality of projection angles around the imaging subject by control of exposure times implemented during image acquisition. Exposure time for a second projection image may be determined by the fluence in a first projection image, and in a third projection image by the fluence in a second projection image, where projection images are acquired within two degrees of one another. An acquisition parameter calculation can be configured to calculate acquisition parameters, such as said exposure times, to achieve the targeted fluence in projection images and can be coupled to a rotation controller that implements the acquisition parameters by controlling a relative angle between the imaging subject and X-ray image acquisition device.
US09784680B2
The present invention relates to nanosystems comprising metal atomic quantum clusters (AQCs) of at least two different sizes encapsulated in a cavity with an inner diameter less than or equal to 10 nm for the use thereof as luminescent nanosystems, particularly for the use thereof as fluorescent nanosystems; as well as the method for obtaining and detecting them. The invention also relates to the use of said luminescent nanosystems as a fluorescent probe, biomarker or contrasting agent.
US09784678B2
There is provided an improved method for enhancing fluorescence images of an object, such as a biological tissue, by selectively eliminating or reducing unwanted fluorescence from fluorophores other than the fluorophore of interest. The method is based on the measurement of the lifetime of fluorophores while preserving information related to the fluorescence intensity of the fluorophore of interest.
US09784677B2
A vehicle window visible ray transmittance remote sensing system emits a plurality of laser beams to a driving vehicle, estimates transmittance of a window of the vehicle by acquiring a plurality of point data of a plurality of points from which a plurality of laser beams are reflected from a surface of the vehicle, and distinguishes a vehicle that deviates from a transmittance reference based on the estimated window transmittance.
US09784669B2
A nephelometric turbidimeter with a cylindrical turbidimeter vial. The cylindrical turbidimeter vial includes a transparent vial body and a circular optical shielding configured to optically block an inside from an outside of the turbidimeter vial. The vial body comprises a transparent and flat bottom inlet window, and a transparent vial cylinder body. The vial cylinder body comprises a circular outlet window. The optical shielding is arranged axially above the outlet window of the vial cylinder body, over a part of an axial length of the vial cylinder body, and axially adjacent to a non-shielded part of the vial cylinder body which serves as the outlet window.
US09784656B2
Methods and apparatus for measuring properties of a cantilevered member according to various aspects of the present technology may utilize a test stand comprising a chuck configured to secure a first end of a test member or shaft such that a second end of the test member is cantilevered outward from the chuck. A loading system may be configured to apply a force to the test member causing the test member to deflect in response to the load. An image capturing system is configured to acquire one or more images of the deflected test member and a data acquisition system may analyze the collected data and images to calculate one or more properties of the test member.
US09784652B2
Methods for dispensing a fluid sample on a substrate include obtaining an image of a sample applicator in proximity to the substrate, where the image includes a first image of the sample applicator and a second image of the sample applicator, determining a height of the sample applicator relative to a surface plane of the substrate based on a distance between common portions of the first and second images, and dispensing the fluid sample onto the substrate using the sample applicator, where the dispensing includes: translating the sample applicator, translating the substrate, or translating both the sample applicator and the substrate to effect a relative translation between the sample applicator and the substrate; and maintaining the sample applicator within 2 microns of a target height relative to the surface plane of the substrate during the translating.
US09784646B2
The present invention comprises methods and apparatus for inspecting a tread. Such methods include providing a tread having a top side and a bottom side, one of the top and bottom sides including a tread feature extending into the thickness of the tread. Such methods further include bending mechanically a transverse extent of the tread relative the tread thickness along a portion of the tread to be inspected about a bending member to form a bent portion of the tread, the portion of the tread to be inspected including the tread feature such that the step of bending expands the tread feature to further expose a depth of the tread feature within the thickness of the tread for inspection. Such further methods include constraining the tread on opposing sides of the portion of the tread to be inspected to maintain the bent portion of the tread in a bent arrangement.
US09784643B2
There are proposed an optical fiber property measuring device and an optical fiber property measuring method which can enhance spatial resolution more than before. In the present invention, in synchronization with frequency modulation applied to x-polarized light, intensity modulation is also applied to the x-polarized light by an intensity modulation means. This makes it possible to increase or decrease the intensity of the x-polarized light at a specific frequency, thereby allowing the effective length of a Brillouin dynamic grating formed by the x-polarized light to be adjusted. As a result, the shape of the reflection spectrum obtained when y-polarized light is reflecting by the Brillouin dynamic grating can also be adjusted optimally, which leads to enhancement of spatial resolution with the y-polarized light.
US09784639B2
A method for testing the sealing tightness of a specimen, containing a gas, in a film chamber made from flexible material. The film chamber is evacuated by a vacuum pump and the gas flow flowing out of the film chamber and generated by the vacuum pump is measured during the evacuation and is examined with respect to a possible leak of the specimen.
US09784634B2
A pressure sensor includes: a pressure sensor element; an adapter integrally attached to the pressure sensor element and defining therein a hole where a pressure of a fluid to be measured is introduced to the pressure sensor element; a fitting member having a housing recess housing the adapter and connectable to a connected member; and a pressing member pressing a valve of the connected member and defining a communicating path through which a flow path where the pressure of the fluid is introduced is in communication with the hole of the adapter. The fitting member is made of a synthetic resin. An O-ring is interposed between a circumferential surface of the adapter and the fitting member. The adapter is a synthetic resin member, and includes a contact portion brought into contact with the adapter and a pressing portion pressing the valve. The pressing member is welded to the fitting member.
US09784626B2
A pressure array sensor module, comprising an array electrode board, a plurality of pressure sensing elements, at least one first conductive structure and at least one second conductive structure is provided. The array electrode board comprises a substrate and an electrode array disposed on the substrate and having a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern. Each pressure sensing element is disposed at a sensing position on the array electrode board, and comprises a top electrode layer, a bottom electrode layer and at least one pressure sensing layer disposed between the top electrode layer and the bottom electrode layer. The top electrode layer has a first lead. The bottom electrode layer has a second lead. The first conductive structure electrically connects the first lead and the corresponding first electrode pattern. The second conductive structure electrically connects the second lead and the corresponding second electrode pattern.
US09784625B2
Various embodiments provide systems and methods for detecting defects in components of a fuel cell. Embodiment methods and systems for detecting a defect in an interconnect for a fuel cell system include thermally exciting the interconnect using optical radiation and/or inductive stimulation, detecting a thermal response of the interconnect, and based on the thermal response, determining the presence or absence of a defect in the interconnect, such as a lateral or through crack in the interconnect.
US09784624B2
In a portable electronic device, a temperature sensor is provided for sensing an ambient temperature of the portable electronic device. At least one other temperature sensor is provided for sensing a temperature inside the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device further comprises a set of components radiating heat in an active state in response to the consumption of electrical energy. A calibration module is adapted to conduct a calibration measurement during or in connection with an active state of at least a first component out of the set, and is adapted to determine a set of calibration parameters in response to the calibration measurement for adjusting the at least one sensed inside temperature. A compensator is provided for determining a compensated ambient temperature dependent on at least the sensed ambient temperature and the at least one adjusted sensed inside temperature.
US09784623B2
A bolometric detector of LWIR wavelengths, including: a substrate; a membrane suspended above the substrate by supporting elements; an absorbing element comprising several MIM structures each formed with a lower metal element, an upper metal element specific to each MIM structure and with a dielectric element positioned between the lower and upper metal elements; a thermometric element comprising at least one thermometric material; wherein: the membrane includes the upper metal element, the thermometric material and one portion of the dielectric element of each MIM structure, the upper metal elements of at least two MIM structure have different dimensions relatively to each other in the main plane of the membrane, and the dielectric element of each of the MIM structures includes at least one of the following materials having vibrational modes in the LWIR range: Al2O3, AlN, TiO2.
US09784621B2
A method of estimating background radiation in spectral data. The method may comprise, iteratively, fitting an analytical curve, such as a spline curve, to reference data, determining an allowable deviation of the reference data from the analytical curve and clipping data points of the reference data or the spectral data that are more than the allowable deviation above the analytical curve to provide the reference data for the next iteration until termination criterion is met. The reference data is initially based upon the spectral data. The method may comprise generating estimates of background radiation of the spectral data, each estimate based upon fitting a different order polynomial to the spectral data, and selecting an order of polynomial to use for estimating background radiation and/or one of the estimates of the background radiation. The method may further comprise estimating the noise in the spectral data from the reference data.
US09784620B2
A spectroscopy system includes an array of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) that emits an array of non-coincident laser beams. A lens array coupled to the QCL array substantially collimates the laser beams, which propagate along parallel optical axes towards a sample. The beams remain substantially collimated over the lens array's working distance, but may diverge when propagating over longer distances. The collimated, parallel beams may be directed to/through the sample, which may be within a sample cell, flow cell, multipass spectroscopic absorption cell, or other suitable holder. Alternatively, the beams may be focused to a point on, near, or within the target using a telescope or other suitable optical element(s). When focused, however, the beams remain non-coincident; they simply intersect at the focal point. The target transmits, reflects, and/or scatters this incident light to a detector, which transduces the detected radiation into an electrical signal representative of the target's absorption or emission spectrum.
US09784609B2
A device for measuring the filling level of a liquid in a container is provided, which uses an ultrasound sensor. The ultrasound sensor is associated with a damping cup with at least one antechamber, and the antechamber has at least one outer ring and one inner ring. The inner ring is arranged within the outer ring and the ceiling of the inner ring has different heights. The ceiling has a lowest point and a highest point. In the area of the ceiling the inner ring is provided with a venting connection with the outer ring. The venting connection between the inner ring and the outer ring is located at the highest point of the inner ring. The ceiling of the outer ring has different heights including a lowest point and a highest point. A vent hole is provided at the highest point of the outer ring.
US09784607B2
An electronic utility gas meter using MEMS thermal mass flow sensor to measure gas custody transfer data in city gas metering application is disclosed in the present invention. The meter is designed to have its mechanical connectors identical to those of the current diaphragm gas meters while the insertion metrology unit guided channel is placed coaxially in the main flow channel inside the meter body with gas flow conditioning apparatus. The mechanical installation of the electronic utility gas meter then can be fully compatible with the current mechanical utility gas meters, which allows a seamless replacement. The electronic utility gas meter provides gas metrology that significantly improves the accuracy of the city gas metering, and provides additional benefits for data safety, enhanced gas chemical safety, billing alternatives and full data management either locally or remotely.
US09784602B2
Methods and systems to measure a volumetric fluid flow rate through a fluid flow passage, such as an air handler of a HVAC system, are described. The method may include obtaining a flow rate measurement in a measuring section, and calculating a total flow rate based on a correlation between the obtained flow rate measurement and the total flow rate. The method may also include blocking a portion of the fluid flow passage so that when a minimal volumetric fluid flow rate is provided, the flow rate measurement obtained in the measuring section is at about a minimal sensitivity flow rate requirement.
US09784599B1
One aspect provides a modular infrastructure asset inspection robot, including: a plurality of modules for use in fluid conveyance infrastructure assets; each of the plurality of modules including at least one standardized electromechanical connection permitting a connection to be established with another of the plurality of modules; the plurality of modules being interchangeable and allowing reconfiguration of said modular infrastructure asset inspection robot to perform one or more of: two or more deployment methods for a first infrastructure asset type; and one deployment method for the first infrastructure asset type and a second infrastructure asset type. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09784597B2
A voltage supply apparatus includes: a primary cell; and a constant voltage supply unit. The constant voltage supply unit has set therein a voltage drop determination value, which is a threshold that is higher than a positional-data loss level and is lower than a second output voltage, which is a constant voltage at a steady voltage level that the constant voltage supply unit outputs when in a steady state. The constant voltage supply unit converts a first output voltage of the primary cell to the second output voltage and supplies it to the absolute-position detection apparatus until the first output voltage falls below the threshold. When the first output voltage falls below the threshold, the constant voltage supply unit converts the first output voltage to a third output voltage which is a voltage at the same level as the threshold, and supplies it to the absolute-position detection apparatus.
US09784587B1
A method includes applying a correlation rule defining a correlation relationship between a first and second object and determining, using a processor, whether a first motion vector of the first object is correlated at a threshold level of correlation with a second motion vector of the second object, the correlation relationship between the first and second objects identifying the threshold level of correlation between the first and second motion vectors. The method also includes, in response to determining that the first motion vector is not correlated at the threshold level with the second motion vector, determining a convergence point for the first and second objects in accordance with a policy. The method further includes transmitting instructions for arriving at the convergence point to the first and second objects.
US09784583B2
A system and method for reporting a status of an asset is described. In one embodiment, an asset status is determined based on configurable parameters to thereby enable accurate reporting of departures and arrivals of an asset.
US09784579B2
A measuring system comprising a fixed measurement unit (101), a data processing unit (130) and a mobile unit (120). The mobile unit comprises a planar base (111), a reflector (118), an elevation element (119) fixed to the base and the reflector, and attaching the reflector to a fixed position in respect of the base. The mobile unit comprises also mobility means (112) for moving the base along a surface (113) such that the spatial orientation of the base (114) substantially corresponds with the spatial orientation of the currently underlying part of the surface. In addition the mobile unit comprises tilt measuring means (123) for determining a deviation between the spatial orientation of the base and a plane perpendicular to the ambient gravitational force, and tilt elimination means for eliminating the effect of the determined deviation. Measurement results are thus more accurate.
US09784574B2
A flatness-measuring roll for detecting flatness defects of a metal strip extending and moving in a strip-travel direction has a roll body having a cylindrical outer surface and a central axis extending generally perpendicular to the strip-travel direction and about which the body is rotatable. A plurality of measuring bars axially spaced along the body, recessed in the body, and having outer faces flush with the body surface are each at least limitedly radially shiftable relative to the body. The bars are angularly elongated, each extend along a plane substantially perpendicular to the roll axis, and each have a constant width measured parallel to the roll axis over generally all of a respective total angular length. At least two respective force-measuring sensors are braced radially between each of the bars and the roll body.
US09784572B2
A measurement device for measuring the angular positions of a blade element of a rotorcraft, the blade element being arranged to be movable relative to a hub of a rotor in pivoting about at least one pivot axis. The invention also relates to a rotorcraft fitted with such a measurement device and to a corresponding measurement method.
US09784566B2
A dimensioning system can include stored data indicative of coordinate locations of each reference element in a reference image containing a pseudorandom pattern of elements. Data indicative of the coordinates of elements appearing in an acquired image of a three-dimensional space including an object can be compared to the stored data indicative of coordinate locations of each reference element. After the elements in the acquired image corresponding to the reference elements in the reference image are identified, a spatial correlation between the acquired image and the reference image can be determined. Such a numerical comparison of coordinate data reduces the computing resource requirements of graphical comparison technologies.
US09784565B2
A dimension measuring system and method are provided. Two track reference target (TRT) assemblies are positioned at spaced-apart locations on a railroad track's rails. Each of the TRT assemblies has two targets at fixed positions in a plane perpendicular to the rails. For each of the TRT assemblies, at least one of the two targets is positioned at a known and fixed height over one of the rails. A laser-based distance measuring device measures vector distances to the two targets associated with each of the TRT assemblies. The vector distances are processed in combination with the fixed positions to determine an elevation of each of the rails in the plane associated with each of the TRT assemblies.
US09784564B2
An optical measurement system includes an optical sensor assembly for measuring an object located beneath the optical sensor assembly. A deployment mechanism is pivotally connected relative to the optical sensor assembly that moves a secondary measurement aid, such as a touch sensor, between a deployed position and a retracted position. When in the retracted position, the secondary measurement aid does not inhibit movement of the optical sensor with respect to the object being measured.
US09784561B2
An optical imaging system includes an optical radiation source (410, 510), a frequency clock module outputting frequency clock signals (420), an optical interferometer (430), a data acquisition (DAQ) device (440) triggered by the frequency clock signals, and a computer (450) to perform multi-dimensional optical imaging of the samples. The frequency clock signals are processed by software or hardware to produce a record containing frequency-time relationship of the optical radiation source (410, 510) to externally clock the sampling process of the DAQ device (440). The system may employ over-sampling and various digital signal processing methods to improve image quality. The system further includes multiple stages of routers (1418, 1425) connecting the light source (1410) with a plurality of interferometers (1420a-1420n) and a DAQ system (1450) externally clocked by frequency clock signals to perform high-speed multi-channel optical imaging of samples.
US09784557B2
A hand tool device comprises a computing unit and at least one locating device configured to receive two orthogonal polarization directions of at least one reflected locating signal. The computing unit is configured to determine, from two received polarization directions of the reflected locating signal, an item of orientation information of a concealed, elongate object.
US09784553B2
An apparatus for checking dimensions and/or shape includes one or more feelers (7,8;9;67,68), three for preference, adapted to touch the surface of a mechanical part (2;61) to be checked, a transducer and/or display device (33;78) with a movable part (34;77), and a mechanical transmission assembly (20) to transmit to the movable part of the transducer and/or display device the displacements of the feeler/s. The mechanical transmission assembly includes a shaft (22) defining an axis (A) and a guiding element (30) adapted to house a guide portion (25) of the shaft. The shaft includes a resiliently deformable portion (26), that is preferably a reduced diameter portion having axial symmetry, in an intermediate position between the guide portion and an abutment portion (27).
US09784552B2
An embodiment of the invention is directed to an electronic caliper which combines positioning and measurement in one unit without the use of hydraulics for subsea use. In certain embodiments, several attachments can be affixed to accommodate a range of measurement tasks. In a preferred embodiment, one jaw is adjustable and the other, or opposing, jaw is fixed to a mounting structure. The jaws typically allow for the removal and replacement of other attachments. In another embodiment, the unit communicates to computer software for position control, precise indication and clamping for adjustment. In a preferred embodiment, computer software displays all feedback via laptop computer on surface. The caliper is maneuvered to a position proximate an object and used to measure a predetermined physical characteristic of the object. The measurement can be displayed using a computer with control software.
US09784551B1
The present invention is a tool for locating and marking center points on various objects configured with a geared carriage assembly having guide holes for insertion of posts and a counterpunch centered automatically when posts are inserted into an interior and/or exterior surface of an object such as a square, rectangular, polygon, circle or other circular shapes. The tool is particularly novel to quickly and accurately locate the center point from a hole, aperture, and/or a prick mark made in the surface of the object such as, for example, paper, sheet metal, etc.
US09784540B2
A projectile such as a paintball including a ball-shaped capsule and a round-shaped disc capable of facilitating accuracy of projectile travel direction is disclosed. The ball-shaped or substantial ball-shaped capsule, in one embodiment, having a head and a tail is able to store and deliver colored markers upon an impact between the projectile and an object. The round-shaped disc is positioned at a place so that allowing a portion of the round-shaped disc to extend above outer surface of the capsule. The disc is able to catch at least airflow when the projectile is launched. The round-shaped disc, in one example, uses the direction of the airflow to facilitate travel direction of the projectile.
US09784538B2
A high caliber target includes a target plate and a stand. The target plate may be mounted on and removed from the stand. In accordance with one embodiment, the target plate can be mounted and removed without tools. In accordance with one embodiment, the target plate is presented to the shooter without joints or edges which could promote ricochets back toward the shooter. In accordance with another embodiment, the target plate can pivot on impact relative to the stand.
US09784537B2
An entanglement obstacle for obstructing an area of a surface includes a mesh layer suspended over upright perimeter members via a perimeter cable and over upright central members via a central cable. The upright members are operatively attached to the surface. The perimeter cable is operatively attached to the perimeter members at a perimeter clearance above the surface to provide a trip impediment. The central cable is operatively attached to the central members at a central clearance above the surface to provide a step-over impediment. The central clearance is greater than the perimeter clearance. The mesh layer is operatively attached to the perimeter and central cables such that the mesh layer covers the obstructed area to provide an entanglement obstacle. The mesh layer is inclined from the central cable to each of first and second sides of the obstacle at an angle defined by the central perimeter clearances.
US09784536B2
An accessories mount, for weapons equipped with a tactical rail, comprises a quick-release clamp for a light and a pressure switch for actuating the light. This enables one light to be used on multiple weapons and to be readily mounted or de-mounted for charging the battery(ies) or using unattached to a firearm. The light may also be recharged while still clamped to the mount.
US09784533B2
Laser systems are provided. In one aspect a laser system has a battery unit and a transistor having a source and a drain in series with the laser and the battery unit with the laser with the transistor having a source, and a gate that allows sufficient current to flow to the laser to allow the laser to emit light when a voltage at the gate is at a higher level and that does not allow sufficient current to flow to allow the laser to emit light when a voltage at the gate is at a lower level. A microcontroller is operable in an active mode and a reduced power mode having an activation input connected to a switch, a reduced power input connected in parallel with the capacitor and an output connected to the gate. When the switch changes from a first state to a second state, the microcontroller enters an active mode generating a plurality of micro-pulses at the gate such that an active current is supplied that cause the laser to emit a continuous plurality of micro-pulses that when viewed by a human observer provide an apparently continuous laser pulse and when the microcontroller enters a power down mode, no micro-pulses are provided at the gate and a leakage current through the laser provides energy to maintain the processor in the power down mode of activation until the switch is again closed.
US09784531B1
A rifle carrying case secured to the front of a person, either by a harness with shoulder straps or by components to attach the case to the straps of the person's backpack, in a way that allows the person to travel hands free of the case and that allows the person to change the orientation of the case.
US09784530B1
A gun holster system includes a body having a front side and a back side forming an upper opening disposed therebetween and forming a lower opening at a lower surface of the body; a strap assembly integrally secured to the body; a first magnet disposed within a thickness of the fastener protrusion; and a second magnet disposed within a thickness of the housing. The strap assembly includes an elongated strap extending from the body; a fastener protrusion extending from a surface of the elongated strap; and a faster housing extending from an outer surface of the back side of the body.
US09784528B2
A special automatic out the front knife device transformed as a bayonet for rifles, shotguns and pistols. Particularly this knife product is related to rifle, pistol and shotgun applications where having a knife or bayonet readily available is desired. The device is to be used with a weapon such as a rifle, shotgun or pistol and is comprised of an out-the front, encased spring activated blade component and at least one manner or way for connecting the blade component to the weapon wherein the out-the front, encased spring activated blade component which can be removably secured to the rifle, shotgun or pistol for use as a bayonet.
US09784526B2
A stock for a firearm is disclosed. The stock has a length of pull (LOP) adjustment mechanism. The LOP adjustment mechanism is biased towards an engaged configuration and is movable to a disengaged configuration. A locating member protrudes into a stock mounting space and a first arm is in an engagement position when the LOP adjustment mechanism is in the engaged configuration. The locating member is translated such that the locating member does not protrude into the mounting space and the first arm is pivoted into a disengagement position when the LOP adjustment mechanism is in the disengaged configuration.
US09784515B2
A safety holster, trigger lock and utility lock including an electronically actuated locking mechanism configured to admit the weapon or object into the device, and to engage a feature of the weapon, thereby preventing the withdrawal of the weapon prior to release of the electronically actuated locking mechanism; a control system including a microcontroller unit adapted to actuate the electronically actuated locking mechanism upon receipt of a control signal where the device provides for insertion of the weapon into the holster body/trigger guard, with the locking mechanism which admits the weapon during insertion, and which engages the weapon feature for retention of the weapon in a locked state upon receiving a locking control signal from an external device until the locking mechanism is disengaged by receiving an unlocking control signal from the external device.
US09784514B1
An extractor for a firearm. The extractor includes an extractor body, an edge at a first end of the extractor body, a pivot at a second end of the extractor body, opposite the first end, and a locking portion. The extractor edge is configured to engage a bullet casing. The pivot is configured to permit the extractor to pivot about a first axis and to pivot about a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis when the extractor is installed within a firearm slide. The locking portion is configured to engage with a corresponding locking element in the firearm slide.
US09784512B1
Systems and methods herein relate to a safety magazine for blank ammunition or “blanks”. In one illustrative implementation, a specially-shaped follower is utilized to engage and advance the blank ammunition without jamming, i.e., when holding and feeding blank cartridges into the chamber of a firearm. In other implementations, integrated/unitary magazines including such a follower are disclosed, which also prevent jams otherwise common in the field of magazines converted to handle blank rounds of ammunition. According to such implementations, live ammunition or cartridges are prevented from being loaded into the magazine and a specialized follower that prevents the ammunition form jamming is provided.
US09784511B2
A magazine assembly having an elongated housing with a channel dimensioned to contain a plurality of stacked ammunitions between a first and second end of the housing. A spring loaded follower is mounted within the housing channel and is adapted to abut against one end of the stacked ammunition adjacent the second end of the housing and urge the stacked ammunition towards the first end of the housing. A tactile indicator assembly is mounted to the housing which cooperates with the follower to indicate the position of the follower between the ends of the housing and thus the amount of ammunition remaining in the magazine.
US09784509B2
An optimized heating and cooling system including a thermal mass, thermal energy transport conduits to deliver thermal energy to the thermal mass including one or more phase change materials (PCMs), at least one heat exchanger to exchange the thermal energy from a energy input into heat transfer fluid that is pumped through the thermal mass. The system also includes a controller in electronic communication with a temperature sensor, a throttle and a pump. A desired building temperature profile, a daily temperature forecast, the electricity rates, the thermal characteristics of the PCMs are entered into or obtained by the controller and the controller uses that information to optimize the energy use to avoid using the heating and cooling system during peak electricity demand time, or uses the rate structure to determine the operation sequence that results in the most efficient use of energy or least cost.
US09784508B2
A method of monitoring a heat exchanger arrangement is provided. The method includes detecting a rotational speed of a ram air fan configured to draw air through the heat exchanger arrangement. The method also includes detecting a power input from a motor to the ram air fan to maintain a commanded rotational speed of the ram air fan. The method further includes comparing the power input detected to a predetermined power limit for the commanded rotational speed. The method yet further includes decreasing the rotational speed of the ram air fan with a controller if the power input detected exceeds the predetermined power limit.
US09784507B2
An outdoor cooling unit for vehicular air conditioning apparatus includes: a casing including an outlet section, inlet sections having an inlet plane inclined; a first heat exchanger facing one of the inlet sections and a second heat exchanger facing an other of the inlet sections; at least one propeller fan below the outlet section to blow out air upwardly. An angle formed between the normal line to the inlet plane and the z axis is an acute angle. Each of the blades includes a blade chord center point on an inner peripheral end thereof and an other blade chord center point on an outer peripheral end thereof, positioned so that a line segment connecting therebetween has an inclination to the outlet section proportionally to closeness to outer periphery of the blade. A blade chord center line forms a curve being convex toward the outlet section across the entire area.
US09784491B2
Provided is a driving device for an automatic ice-making machine, the driving device including: a cam gear that rotates a tray; and an operating lever that organically operates along a cam plane for an ice-cube quantity detecting arm formed at the cam gear and allows the ice-cube quantity detecting arm to rotate downward into an ice-cube storage bin, wherein a cam groove for the ice-cube quantity detecting arm is formed in the cam plane for the ice-cube quantity detecting arm of the cam gear and allows the operating level to descend so that the ice-cube quantity detecting arm rotates downward into the ice-cube storage bin, and a protrusion is formed between the cam plane for the ice-cube quantity detecting arm and the cam groove for the ice-cube quantity detecting arm and allows the operating lever to ascend so that the ice-cube quantity detecting arm that rotates downward into the ice-cube storage bin rotates upward.
US09784489B2
An air conditioning and water producing system includes a heat pumping unit and a membrane contactor in thermal communication with the heat pumping unit. The membrane contactor is configured such that a first brine flow is cooled by the heat pumping unit and diluted at the membrane contactor. A distiller is in thermal communication with the heat pumping unit and the membrane contactor such that a second brine flow is heated by the heat pumping unit and conveyed through the distiller. Thermal interaction between the second brine flow and the first brine flow flowing through the distiller extracts water from the second brine flow.
US09784485B2
An air dehydration and heating device can include a first evaporator serpentine and a second evaporator serpentine in parallel and in series with at least one condenser serpentine; a first outside air intake damper for the first evaporator serpentine and a second outside air intake damper for the second evaporator serpentine; a fan motor to drive a fan; a drying air outlet duct to receive air moved by the fan, the air having passed through at least one of the first evaporator serpentine and the second evaporator serpentine and at least one of the at least one condenser serpentine; a return drying air intake damper in a return drying air intake duct; and a processor to control temperature and humidity of drying air in the drying air outlet duct.
US09784481B2
A heat-recovery-type refrigerating apparatus includes a compressor, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, and a plurality of usage-side heat exchangers, and refrigerant is sent from the usage-side heat exchanger functioning as a refrigerant radiator to the usage-side heat exchanger functioning as a refrigerant evaporator, whereby heat can be recovered between the usage-side heat exchangers. Here, a portion of the heat-source-side heat exchanger is configured as a precooling heat exchanger for always circulating high-pressure vapor refrigerant discharged from the compressor, and a refrigerant cooler for cooling an electrical equipment item is connected to a downstream side of the precooling heat exchanger.
US09784471B2
The present invention relates to a cartridge-type inline heater including: a heat exchanging unit including a body part in which a mounting part is formed in a longitudinal direction, and swirl parts coiled in a spiral along the longitudinal direction of the body part, and configured to induce a flowing-in working fluid to flow along the swirl parts; and a heater inserted in a longitudinal direction of the heat exchanging part to heat the working fluid which is in contact with the heat exchanging unit.Accordingly, the cartridge-type inline heater capable of heating the working fluid so as to have improved durability and uniform temperature distribution is provided.
US09784467B2
An electronic assembly may have a display, a display holder, and a printed circuit board (PCB). The display may have a front side for viewing the display, a back side, and side walls extending between the front side and the back side. The display holder may have a recess for receiving at least part of the display, where the display holder may extend adjacent part of the front side of the display and adjacent at least part of the side walls of the display. The PCB may be secured relative to the display holder and adjacent the back side of the display. The PCB may be in operative communication with the display. In some cases, a spacer may be situated between the back side of the display and the PCB.
US09784464B2
A heat load predictor predicts a change over time of a heat amount to be processed by air-conditioning equipment, an operation plan creator previously creates an operation plan of the air-conditioning equipment to reduce an evaluation index under a first restrictive condition that a total process heat load be maintained at a same level or within a range of a predetermined amount of difference and a room temperature be maintained within a predetermined comfortable temperature range, and an operation plan corrector corrects the operation plan during controlling the air-conditioning equipment based on the operation plan. If an actually measured temperature differs from a predicted temperature predicted by the operation plan creator at the time of creating the operation plan, the operation plan creator predicts a change over time of the temperature in the room, and corrects the operation plan to minimize the evaluation index under the first restrictive condition.
US09784463B2
An environmental control system includes at least one of a security monitoring system or a building automation control system. A thermostat is coupled to the at least one system, wherein the thermostat provides feedback as to output signals therefrom to evaluate functioning of the thermostat. The output signals would be coupled to a heating, ventilating and air conditioning system.
US09784457B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a transparent display panel; and an optical switching element arranged on the transparent display panel and configured to be switched into any of transmissive state, non-transmissive state, and reflective state, wherein the optical switching element includes a non-transmission layer formed to contact the transparent display panel and switched into transmissive state or non-transmissive state, and a reflection layer formed on one side of the non-transmission layer and switched into transmissive state or reflective state.
US09784455B2
A switching assembly of a gas stove includes a regulating valve, a knob, a stop board, and a restricting device. The regulating valve has a valve member and a regulating member, which is rotatable to regulate a gas flow through the valve member. The knob is connected to an end of a shaft which is connected to the regulating member with an opposite end thereof, and therefore the regulating member can be rotated by turning the knob. The stop board is located between the valve member and the knob, wherein the stop board has a curved slot, which has a first stop portion and a second stop portion. The restricting member is movable in the curved slot and is restricted by the first or the second stop portions. When the restricting member touches the first stop portion, the switching assembly allows larger gas flow to flow through.
US09784450B2
A glow plug including a substantially cylindrical housing extending in an axial direction; a rod-shaped heater unit having a front end protruding from the front end of the housing and movable in the axial direction; a connecting member connecting the heater unit to the housing within the housing and allowing the heater unit to move in the axial direction; and a pressure sensor that detects pressure received by the heater unit. The heater unit has a large-diameter portion at the rear end thereof and a small-diameter portion frontward of the large-diameter portion and having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the large-diameter portion. The connecting member connects the small-diameter portion of the heater unit to the housing within the housing.
US09784445B2
An external bed type double-fluidized bed system for preventing boiler contamination includes a fluidized bed combustion furnace, a cyclone separator, a coal ash distributor and a fluidized bed pyrolysis furnace. The fluidized bed combustion furnace is connected with the coal ash distributor, the coal ash distributor is connected with the coal ash inlet on a side wall of the fluidized bed combustion furnace through a return feeder with which the coal ash outlet of the fluidized bed pyrolysis furnace is also connected through an external bed, and the return feeder is connected with the fluidized bed combustion furnace. A fuel coal is pyrolyzed in the fluidized bed pyrolysis furnace at a temperature to volatize alkali chlorides into a pyrolysis gas, thereby reducing the content of the alkali chlorides contained in the coal in the fluidized bed combustion furnace and relieving the contamination to a convective heat-absorbing surface.
US09784443B2
Provided is a fire rated or resistant recessed lighting assembly including a metal housing inside of which a lighting unit is placed, the housing being fire resistant for 120 minutes when tested, according ASTM E119-12a without a protective fire resistant cover on outside of the housing. The fire resistant recessed lighting assembly can include a metal housing inside of which a light is placed and one or both of: i) an object made of a fire resistant material, such as an intumescent material, placed inside of the housing in between a trim and a closed end of the housing; and ii) an ring made of a fire resistant material, such as an intumescent material, placed outside of the housing, wherein in event of a fire, the intumescent material expands to slow spread of the fire.
US09784441B2
A compact LED light fixture includes an LED circuit board whose top surface mounts one or more LED's and an A.C. LED Driver circuit. An input circuit board is mounted on an underside of the mounting platform. Unconditioned A.C. power from electrical cables positioned in a wire way is conducted by an electrical connector to the top surface the LED circuit board, then across and down through the top surface of the LED circuit board to the input circuit board where the A.C. power is conditioned and then conducted back through the LED circuit board to the A.C. LED driver.
US09784426B2
Systems and methods are provided for connecting flat sheets formed from a variety of different materials to construct three-dimensional self-supporting structures having predetermined shapes and decorative and/or functional purposes. The flat sheets, which also may be referred to as individual components, may each include a plurality of prong sets and a plurality of slits whereby a prong set from an individual component may be inserted into a slit of another individual component to interlock and form a joint between the individual components. Each individual component may form one or more joints with the other individual components. The tension created in the joints may provide depth to the surface, which in turn may create structure.
US09784424B2
An automotive lamp includes: a first lamp unit that has a first projection lens whose vertical length is longer than the horizontal length thereof when viewed from the front of the lamp and that is used for forming a low beam light distribution pattern; and a second lamp unit that has a second projection lens whose horizontal length is longer than the vertical length thereof when viewed from the front of the lamp and that is used for forming a low beam light distribution pattern. The first lamp unit and the second lamp unit are arranged such that one end of the first projection lens and one end of the second projection lens are adjacent to each other.
US09784413B2
Method is for operating fluid-processing plant configured to generate and store pressurized fluid, and spaced apart from body of water. Method includes: (A) positioning variable-buoyancy assembly in body of water in such way that buoyancy force urges variable-buoyancy assembly to move toward surface of body of water; (B) positionally anchoring, at least in part, non-collapsible fluid-line assembly underground in such way that non-collapsible fluid-line assembly extends, at least in part, into body of water; (C) fluidly connecting, via non-collapsible fluid-line assembly, fluid-processing plant and variable-buoyancy assembly together in such way that non-collapsible fluid-line assembly conveys pressurized fluid between fluid-processing plant and variable-buoyancy assembly; and (D) transmitting an anchoring force, via non-collapsible fluid-line assembly, from ground to variable-buoyancy assembly in such way that anchoring force substantially counteracts buoyancy force acting on non-collapsible fluid-line assembly, and anchoring force substantially urges variable-buoyancy assembly to remain below surface of body of water.
US09784411B2
A system and method for unloading highly pressurized compressed natural gas from transport vessels by depressurizing the gas through flow lines linking a series of automated flow control valves that lower the gas pressure to a predetermined level, the valves being linked in series with and separated by heat exchangers in which the lower pressure gas flowing through the system is also reheated to a predetermined temperature by a heat exchange medium recirculation system in which the heat exchange medium is reheated by a heat source that can be internal to the system. The use of a minor portion of the depressurized and reheated gas as fuel gas to reheat the heat exchange medium is also disclosed. The subject system can be skid-mounted if desired.
US09784409B2
A device for filling a tank with a pressurized gas, in particular with pressurized hydrogen, comprising a pressurized-gas source and a circuit for transferring gas from the source to the tank, the transfer circuit including a member for expanding and cooling the gas in order to lower the pressure and temperature of the gas from the source to respective values determined with a view to filling the tank, characterized in that the gas-expansion and cooling member includes a refrigerator that expands the gas by means of a Stirling or Ericsson thermodynamic cycle, the refrigerator being selectively supplied with gas from the source, and in that at least a portion of the cooled and expanded gas supplied to the tank is extracted from the refrigerator.
US09784405B1
A device for rotation of an object disposed on a horizontal surface, about a vertical axis, includes a base for an object, for rotation about a vertical central axis of the base, at low rotational speeds without achieving the gyroscope principle. The base has a lower surface, at least one downwardly projecting, central pivot lug for rotation of the base thereupon and at least one lateral lug spaced radially from the central lug and having a height less than the central pivot lug. The base is configured and dimensioned to rotate when caused to spin while being continuously supported both by the central pivot lug and at least a portion of the lateral lug as it spins. The base is tilted from the vertical axis at a minor angle, with the difference in heights of the central lug and lateral bearing lugs ranging from 0.025 to 1.25 mm.
US09784404B2
A method of making a lightweight thermal shield that includes obtaining a mold having a shaped support screen with a molding surface configured to allow the passage of air and moisture therethrough, and with the mold being adapted for drawing a vacuum from behind the support screen. The method also includes applying a wet insulation material onto the molding surface of the support screen and drawing a vacuum to withdraw moisture through the support screen and consolidate a layer of insulation material on top the molding surface. The method further includes removing the consolidated layer of insulation material from off the molding surface, installing the consolidated layer of insulation material into an outer shell layer, and drying the consolidated layer of insulation material within the outer shell layer to form a lightweight core insulation layer.
US09784402B2
A method for continuous production of a thermally insulating mixture comprising silica particles and opacifier particles, in which a premixed stream comprising a carrier gas, silica particles and opacifier particles is introduced into a fine impact mill, ground and mixed therein, after which the solid is separated from the gas stream, wherein the fine impact mill is an air-stream mill comprising grinding tracks arranged one above the other on a rotatable shaft.
US09784395B2
A latching or release mechanism in which the insertion force can be different from the removal force. Furthermore, the said latching or release mechanism will automatically release upon applied removal force. The latching or release mechanism additionally can be readily adapted for use as a fluid coupler or as a pass-through latch.
US09784391B2
Illustrative Embodiments may provide for an apparatus and method for fitting a first tube to a second tube. The apparatus may have a first section and a second section. The first section and the second section may engage each other to form a spreine. Each section may engage a sleeve. The spreine may encircle the sleeve encircling the first tube. The spreine may include a slider that may receive a force that may move the spreine and the sleeve, engaged within the spreine, and fit the first tube to the second tube. Fitting the first tube to the second tube may include engaging the sleeve with a first O-ring that may encircle a first ferrule in the first tube, and the sleeve simultaneously engaging a second O-ring encircling a second ferrule in a second tube.
US09784389B2
A pipe joint contains a body having a fluid passage in the interior thereof, a tightening cap screw-engaged with an end of the body for connecting a tube thereto, and an indicator ring interposed between a stopper of the body and an end of the tightening cap. The indicator ring is equipped with a flat section and an inclined section, which is inclined with respect to the flat section, and is formed with a smaller diameter than an outer circumferential surface of the tightening cap. When the tightening cap is screw-rotated to thereby connect the tube, as a result of the inclined section being pressed and deformed by movement of the tightening cap, the inclined section projects radially outward with respect to the outer circumferential surface of the tightening cap, whereby a tightened condition is visually confirmed by the outer edge of the indicator ring.
US09784383B2
In an electric actuator, one end portion of a return spring is hooked to a first slit formed in a radially outer guide of an output gear, so that the return spring is twisted for a predetermined angle that is slightly smaller than an initial set angle. A tilted slit portion is formed at an opening of a second slit that is formed in a covering wall of a spring installation member to twist the return spring to a predetermined initial set angle. Thereby, simultaneously with assembling of a valve shaft to the output gear, the return spring is twisted for the initial set angle. Thus, an assembling work of the electric actuator can be simplified.
US09784378B1
A gate valve for positioning in the open upper end of a grain bin below the lid thereof which closes the open upper end of the grain bin. The gate valve permits grain to pass downwardly therethrough but which prevents warm moist air from the grain bin from passing upwardly therethrough into a grain spout or deadhead box.
US09784375B2
A pressure independent control valve contains a valve body with an inlet, an outlet and a flow channel coupling the inlet to the outlet. A hollow piston is arranged in a seat in the valve body, such that the hollow piston is configured to move. The hollow piston has an enclosure, such that the pressure independent control valve maintains different fluid pressures in the flow channel and inside the hollow piston. The pressure independent control valve contains a chamber and a biasing member to urge the hollow piston towards the chamber. The chamber is in fluid communication with the inlet and with the inside of the hollow piston, such that the valve applies substantially the same pressure inside the annular channel, at the inlet and inside the hollow piston.
US09784373B2
The invention relates to a shut-off device for valve systems of industrial plants, in particular of chemical and petrochemical plants, with a disc (12) to shut off an opening for a fluid flow and with a seal seat (13a). The invention is characterised in that the disc (12) is arranged between the seal seat and a pressing means (26) to subject the disc (12) to a pressing force and can be pressed by the pressing means (26) against the seal seat (13a), wherein the pressing means (26) has in a housing (10) a plurality of pistons (48) and a transmission element for transmitting the pressing force to the disc (12), the transmission element being arranged between the pistons (48) and the disc (12) and extending along the disc circumference, and wherein the pistons (48) are fluidically connected by a feed line (49) for hydraulic fluid.
US09784367B2
While a vehicle is traveling in a state where any one of gear positions of a mechanical stepped transmission unit is established, until an estimated input torque that is obtained from the equation of motion for an electrical differential unit changes, a hydraulic pressure of a non-engaged intended hydraulic friction engagement device is increased, and a pack end pressure is learned on the basis of the hydraulic pressure at that time. Therefore, irrespective of feedback control, or the like, over motor generators of the electrical differential unit, it is possible to appropriately learn the pack end pressure, so it is possible to appropriately execute hydraulic control over the hydraulic friction engagement devices, that is, engaging and releasing control, or the like, at the time of shifting, irrespective of individual differences of the portions, aging of friction materials, or the like.
US09784366B2
A fast valve actuation system for an automatic vehicle transmission includes a pair of spring-biased shift valves. Solenoids control the application of pressurized hydraulic fluid to the head of each of the shift valves. Each shift valve has at least one port that is coupled to a fluid chamber of a torque transferring mechanism of an automatic transmission. The position of each of the shift valves determines whether its ports are connected with fluid pressure. Fluid passages connect the head of each shift valve to the spring pocket of the other shift valve.
US09784347B2
An assembly for converting motion, the assembly comprising a first arm rotatable about a first fixed pivot; a second arm rotatable about a second fixed pivot, the second fixed pivot spaced apart from the first fixed pivot; a third arm pivotably connected to the second arm; a first connecting arm extending between the first arm and the third arm, the first connecting arm pivotably connected to the first arm spaced and pivotably connected to the third arm; and a second connecting arm extending between the first arm and the second arm, the second connecting arm pivotably connected to the first arm and pivotably connected to the second arm. The assembly finds use in supporting and moving components of a building. In one embodiment, the assembly finds use in deploying a solar panel array.
US09784334B2
A hydromount (2) includes: a housing (4) and a compensating diaphragm (6), which enclose a hydraulic volume (8), a partition wall (12), which partitions the hydraulic volume (8) into a working chamber (14) and into a compensating chamber (16). The partition wall (12) contains a transfer channel (18), via which the two chambers (14, 16) are connected to one another, and wherein the partition wall (12) has an opening, in which there is a diaphragm or membrane (20) of flexible, elastomeric material clamped between two components (22, 24), wherein the diaphragm (20) is clamped between the two components (22, 24) in such a way that, as a result of the clamping, a radial pretension is produced in the diaphragm (20).
US09784332B2
Disclosed herein is a novel gas permeable internal floating piston specifically designed for installation in the multiple stage air shock whereby the multiple stage air shock is covered in prior patent applications. The multiple stage air shock includes a mixture of oil and gas whereby the mixture provides the shock with emulsion dampening properties. The gas permeable internal floating piston operates by separating the oil from the gas thereby improving the dampening properties of the shock. The permeability of the internal floating piston is based on a membrane that allows the gas but not the oil to pass through the structure of the internal floating piston. The mechanism of the permeability is governed by the creation of a pressure differential across the structure of the internal floating piston, the creation effected with a spring. The membrane features a slow rate of permeation thereby ensuring that the internal floating piston moves in conjunction with the shaft during the operation of the shock.
US09784331B2
Method and apparatus for receiving of a cylindrical body and the use of the method and the apparatus
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving cylindrical bodies. In the method according to the invention, the receiving utilizes tight, self-restoring pressure elements, in which by adjusting the inflow and/or outflow of compressed air, the motion speed of the cylindrical body is decelerated. The apparatus according to the invention includes a pressure element within the elastic and tight material of which is installed self-restoring porous material. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the method and the apparatus for receiving a cylindrical body.
US09784328B2
A disk brake includes a brake caliper and two brake pads, which can be pressed onto a brake disk on both sides and which each have a pad carrier plate and a friction pad fastened thereto. A pad retaining clip, which is retained on the brake caliper and which spans an installation opening, is supported on the brake pads. The pad retaining clip is fastened to a form closure element of at least one brake pad so as to be secured against movement.
US09784311B2
A small-sized finite linear motion guide unit is provided in which there is provided a rack-and-pinion arrangement to prevent any discrepancy between retainer plates to make sure of relative sliding movement of guideways. A rack is composed of teeth portions and a pair of connecting bars to fasten the teeth thereon. The connecting bars are different in widthwise length to form asymmetrical shapes. The grooves for a rack made on the guideway includes a middle groove to get the rack to mate with the pinion, and sidewise grooves lying on both sides of the middle groove and having the connecting bars different in widthwise length to make an asymmetric shape.
US09784302B2
A cooking splatter guard is provided that includes a surface extending up from a top edge of a cooking implement at an angle. The angle formed between a plane defined by a top edge of the cooking implement and the surface is greater than 90 degrees. The surface forms a friction fit with the top edge of the cooking implement. A lip of the cooking implement formed by the top edge the cooking implement is a same size or slightly smaller than a bottom edge of the cooking splatter guard.
US09784296B2
A fastener including a chisel point that pre-bores a hole in a work piece to prevent damage to the work piece as the fastener advances. The fastener can include a head, a shaft and a chisel brake point formed at an end of the shaft. The chisel brake point can include first and second opposing inclined surfaces disposed at an angle of about 80° to about 150° relative to one another. A thread can begin adjacent the chisel brake point and form an extension of an inclined surface and/or a chisel edge. The chisel brake point can scrape material from a work piece while pre-boring a hole. The material can be transferred to the thread, and subsequently fed up the thread, out of the pre-bored hole. The chisel brake point can also selectively retard advancement of the fastener into the work piece. Methods of installing the fastener also are provided.
US09784291B2
A piston of a fluid pressure cylinder comprises a sealing ring interposed in a sealing ring accommodation groove, a piston ring that is interposed in a piston ring accommodation groove of the piston and comprises a fractured portion, and a backup ring that is attached to an outer peripheral surface of the piston and contacts the sealing ring and the piston ring. A groove for holding the backup ring is not required, and therefore a diameter of the piston can be reduced relative to the sealing ring. As a result, attachment of the sealing ring to the piston is simplified.
US09784275B2
The invention relates to a centrifugal pump for conveying a gaseous suspension, in particular a fiber pulp suspension, which has a pump impeller (12) with at least one opening (15) in the base plate and ribs (16) on the rear side, where a separator unit (17) is provided consisting of a separator housing (25) with a stationary disc (18) and a disc (22) that rotates together with the pump shaft (21), where the separator unit (17) is arranged in the pump housing adjoining the pump impeller (12) on its rear side when viewing the pump impeller (12) in axial direction and where the separator housing (25) has a gas collecting chamber (31) with a gas discharge pipe (28). It is characterized by the disc (22) that rotates together with the pump shaft (21) having a closed surface (23) without openings. As a result, pulp losses are reduced and the centrifugal pump achieves better stability when pumping a gaseous suspension, particularly a fiber pulp suspension.
US09784269B2
A hydraulic tool includes a stator and a rotor rotatably disposed within the stator. At least one of at least an inner portion of the stator and at least an outer portion of the rotor includes an insert comprising a hard material. A method of forming a hydraulic tool includes attaching at least one insert comprising a hard material to a surface of a stator or a surface of a rotor. A downhole motor or pump includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes at least one insert comprising a hard material disposed over at least a portion of an interior surface thereof and a matrix material at least partially surrounding the at least one insert. The rotor includes at least one insert disposed over at least a portion of an exterior surface thereof and a matrix material at least partially surrounding the at least one insert.
