US09835299B2
A hands free illumination assembly includes a harness that may be worn. A plurality of flashlights is provided and each of the flashlights is movably coupled to the harness. Thus, each of the flashlights may illuminate an area when the harness is worn. Each of the flashlights is positionable at a selected angle with respect to the harness. Each of the flashlights may direct light onto a selected area.
US09835292B2
A natural gas filling system may include a nozzle, a container including an internal manifold, wherein the manifold may be connected to a natural gas supply line, a first line may be operably connected to the manifold, wherein natural gas may be supplied to the nozzle, and a vent, wherein the vent is a second line may be operably connected to the nozzle that may release natural gas into the atmosphere.
US09835289B1
A display support for supporting objects may comprise at least two elongated support elements connected together and movable between a collapsed storage condition with a relatively reduced overall length and an extended use condition with a relatively increased overall length. At least two hooks may be mounted on the support elements with at least one of the hooks being mounted on each of the support elements such that the hooks are moved toward each other in the collapsed condition and away from each other in the use condition.
US09835285B1
A pivoting support assembly with a selective position locking capability may comprise a base, a first support arm movable with respect to the base, a first pivot joint pivotally mounting the first support arm to the base, and a first position locking assembly configured to lock a selected position of the first support arm with respect to the base. The first position locking assembly may comprise a first hydraulic motor mounted on the first pivot joint and having a fluid input and a fluid output with a fluid path defined therebetween such that fluid movement on the fluid path between the fluid input and the fluid output operates the first hydraulic motor. The first position locking assembly may comprise a first lock valve in communication with the first hydraulic motor and configured to selectively block fluid movement through the fluid path of the motor.
US09835283B2
A polymeric device for protection of the connecting pipe coupling contains a stepped bushing having a medium part with an increased diameter and two lateral parts with a smaller outside diameters, which is installed between end faces of pipes with a conic thread, and connected by means of a coupling and having sealing rings made of an elastomer, which are on parts of the bushing with the small diameter. The device has an additional stepped bushing, and the first stepped bushing has a constant outside diameter and two parts with small and large internal diameters, and the second stepped bushing has a constant internal diameter and two parts with small and large diameters.
US09835281B2
A spread faucet assembly, an installation kit, and an installation method are described herein. The spread faucet assembly has a spout assembly with a spout, a tailpiece, and at least one fluid inlet conduit. It also include at least one valve assembly having a shank, an fluid inlet conduit, a fluid outlet conduit and a valve cartridge, wherein the shank has an inner surface having a fluid receiving area in fluid communication with the valve cartridge and the fluid outlet conduit, the inner surface defines an opening in fluid communication with the valve cartridge and valve assembly fluid inlet conduit, and the valve cartridge is positioned in the opening. A connector is also included for coupling the at least one valve assembly fluid outlet conduit with the at least one spout assembly fluid inlet conduit. A self-turning nut assembly is also provided having a nut with an outer surface and a tightening sleeve having an outer surface with at least one outwardly extending projection for securing the nut to a fluid supply connection.
US09835277B2
A pipe coupling includes an annular seal disposed in an annular clamp housing, which has an opening for inserting therein a pipe and which includes clamp members and tightening elements operative to fasten and tighten the clamp members towards each other in a direction transverse to an axial length of the annular clamp housing so as to apply a radially-inward clamping force on the pipe. Grip elements are located about an inner perimeter of the opening. Each of the grip elements includes a static wedge, which is fixed to the annular clamp housing, and a movable wedge, which is covered by a grip member having gripping teeth, arranged to slide axially relative to the static wedge.
US09835274B2
A pipe adapter including an inner tube member, a fastener member, an outer sleeve member, a compressible sleeve member, and a fitting member. The fastener member may have threads on an inner diameter adapted to matingly engage a threaded portion of the inner tube member along a proximal section thereof. The outer sleeve member may girdle the inner tube member and connect to and extend outwardly from the fastener member. The compressible sleeve member may be configured as at least one ring positioned to overlie the outer tube member. The fitting member may connect to a distal section of the inner tube member. At least a portion of at least one of the fitting member and the compressible sleeve member may be positionable within a portion of a pipe. The compressible sleeve member may extend outwardly from a longitudinal axis of the inner tube member toward the pipe.
US09835270B2
A pipeline termination arrangement to be mounted to a pipeline end section to support a pipeline hub of the pipeline end section during and after a subsea connection of the pipeline hub to a spool piece hub fixed to a spool piece termination structure is provided. The pipeline termination arrangement includes a landing structure for supporting the spool piece termination structure; a connection porch fixed to the landing structure; and a support structure which is fixed to the pipeline end section and provided with a guide frame. The guide frame slidably supports the landing structure so as to allow the landing structure and the connection porch to slide along the guide frame from a first position, in which the connection porch is located in front of and at a distance from the pipeline hub, to a second position, in which the connection porch is in contact with the pipeline hub.
US09835269B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for suspending an object from an anchor point positioned, in use, above it, comprising: an elongate rod (200) having at least one waisted portion (220); a rod-engaging member (400); and a lock member (300), wherein the rod-engaging member (400) comprises: a substantially cylindrical main body (410) having a longitudinal slot (460) running along its entire length; a circumferential ridge (420) disposed around the cylindrical main body (410), arranged to engage with a complementary recess (130) provided in the object to be suspended; and a portion (430) comprising at least one elongate element having an inwardly facing projection (470), arranged to engage with the waisted portion (220) of the elongate rod (200).
US09835268B2
A marine pipeline installation system for laying an offshore pipeline and/or installing a subsea riser includes a pipeline launch tower, a pipeline guide provided at an elevated position for guiding said pipeline to the pipeline launch trajectory along said tower, one or more tensioners, an abandonment and recovery (A&R) system including at least one A&R cable and associated A&R winch and a sheave arrangement with one or more sheaves supported by the pipeline launch tower at an upper position thereof. An auxiliary trolley is provided which is adapted to support the weight of the launched pipeline and which is movable along a rail in the pipeline launch trajectory when the one or more tensioner frames are in the retracted non-operable position, from a position above the uppermost tensioner to a position below the lowermost tensioner, the rail being supported by the pipeline launch tower.
US09835265B2
A system for detection of degradation of a valve mechanism by measuring, for example, the time between powering an actuator and opening of the valve or the time between un-powering the actuator and closing of the valve. Time measurements may be compared with a predetermined threshold or previous measurements. An indication of a gradual degradation of the valve may be detected by an evaluation of a trend of measurements. Thus, a user may be notified of an impending failure before an actual failure of the valve. Diagnostic analysis may be of one or more items selected from a group consisting of combinations of time delays and distances of valve movement upon application and removal of power to the actuator, and one or more performance issues may be correlated for each of many combinations.
US09835261B2
A check valve comprises a valve housing defining a valve opening and a pair of posts arranged on opposed sides of the valve opening. A hinge pin is mounted between the posts. A pair of flapper elements are pivotally mounted to the hinge pin for rotation between a closed position in which they close the valve opening to prevent fluid flow through the opening, and an open position in which they permit fluid flow through the opening. The check valve further comprises a unitary element having at least one washer portion received on the hinge pin and at least one stop portion for forming a stop for engaging the flapper elements in their open position.
US09835258B2
A system, including a first flow control element configured to couple to a stem, and a second flow control element coupled to the first flow control element, wherein the first and second flow control elements are configured to expand relative to one another to create a seal in a closed position between a chamber and a flow path in a valve body, and wherein the first and second flow control elements are configured to enable fluid flow between the chamber and the flow path in an open position.
US09835257B2
A valve in which the flow control element includes a fixed disk and a rotatable disk, and a Venturi nozzle for measuring flow through the valve, arranged in a straight configuration.
US09835256B2
A valve includes a valve body, a valve seat, and a poppet assembled with the valve body. The poppet includes an axially extending poppet stem and a radially extending poppet sealing surface. The poppet is axially movable between a closed position and an open position. The poppet sealing surface is defined by a sealing member disposed on the poppet stem. The sealing member is laterally movable on the poppet stem. When the poppet is moved from the open position to the closed position, the sealing member is laterally moved to align the sealing surface with the seating surface.
US09835255B2
A relief valve can include a valve body, a valve member, a valve stem, and a magnetic member. The valve body can define a flow path that extends between a first port and a second port. The valve body can include a valve seat disposed between the first port and the second port. The valve member can be disposed between the valve seat and the second port of the valve body. The valve member can move along an actuation axis. The valve stem can be coupled to the valve member. The valve stem can extend from the valve member towards the first port. The magnetic member can be coupled to the valve member and can generate a magnetic force that urges the valve member to seal with the valve seat of the valve body.
US09835254B2
A sealed bearing assembly comprises a bellows to allow a shaft swing and move, and maintains the sealing under stringent conditions.
US09835251B2
A sealing strand for producing a seal by connection of the sealing thread with a strand seat that extends along a gap to be sealed, wherein the sealing strand has a tape region provided for bonding to the strand seat. During stretching of the sealing strand in the longitudinal direction of the strand, the tensile stress corresponding to the stretching in the tape region is at least partly compensated or capable of being compensated. This is achieved by the strand region being connected under compression with the remaining sealing strand.
US09835246B2
The present invention relates to a control plate as it is for instance used in pneumatic or hydraulic controls. An example of such a control plate is a transmission control plate with which automatic transmissions are controlled hydraulically.
US09835244B2
A planetary gear train for a wind power plant includes a planetary stage rotating in a gear train housing, a spur gear stage downstream of the planetary stage, a sun wheel shaft which is non-rotatably connected to a sun wheel of the planetary gear stage, and a hollow shaft which is coaxially surrounded by a spur gear of the spur gear stage and is non-rotatably connected to the spur gear. The sun wheel shaft and the hollow shaft are non-rotatably connected to each other by a toothed coupling, with an outer toothing of the sun wheel shaft meshing with an inner toothing of the hollow shaft. The planetary gear train includes oil-guide ducts which produce a connection between an oil inlet connected to the gear train housing, on the one hand, and the toothed coupling and the axial contact surface, on the other hand.
US09835242B2
A vehicle-use transmission includes a transmission case accommodating a transmission mechanism; and a power extraction case linked to a side wall of the transmission case and accommodating a gear type power extraction mechanism linked to a power extraction shaft of the transmission mechanism. The power extraction case includes: a gear accommodation chamber for accommodating the gear type power extraction mechanism; and an intermediate transmission chamber for establishing fluid communication between the gear accommodation chamber and the inside of the transmission case. The power extraction case is provided with an oil communication passage for establishing fluid communication between the inside of the transmission case and the gear accommodation chamber.
US09835239B2
A housing that includes a polymer, a reinforcing material, and a thermally conductive filler. A first housing component is defined by the polymer such that the reinforcing material and a thermally conductive filler are embedded within the polymer. The thermally conductive filler is configured such that heat can be passively conducted through the first housing component. The housing can be configured to be an aircraft gearbox housing.
US09835236B2
A linear actuator assembly (30) having an inner sleeve (100) which moves in a first direction or in an opposite second direction relative to a fixed outer sleeve (90) between a fully extended position and a fully retracted position. The linear actuator assembly (30) includes a stop mechanism (99, 112) limiting the movement of the inner sleeve (100) relative to the outer sleeve (90) in the extended position, the stop mechanism (99, 112) having a first portion (99) associated with said outer sleeve (90) and a second portion (112) associated with said inner sleeve (100) with the first (99) and second (112) portions abutting each other when said inner sleeve (100) is in the extended position to define a hard stop.
US09835229B2
A multi-stage transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft, an output shaft, first, second, third, and fourth planetary gear devices disposed between the input shaft and the output shaft to transmit rotary force, each of the first, second, third, and fourth planetary gear devices having three rotary elements, and at least six shifting elements connected to the rotary elements of the planetary gear devices.
US09835223B2
A bearing having at least two rubber bushings, each having a vertical axis of rotation, the rubber bushings being functionally connected in parallel.
US09835219B2
The invention relates to a vibration elimination system, comprising a shielding plate (2) for a motor component, at least one vibration elimination element (10) that is fastened to the shielding plate (2), wherein each vibration damping element (10) comprises a spring-mass system that is capable of vibration, the spring force and mass of which are dimensioned such that said spring-mass system is matched to a predetermined vibration frequency of the shielding plate (2).
US09835205B2
In an electromagnetic clutch, a rotor includes a cover portion that covers a radially outer end of an armature from a radially outer side. The cover portion, the radially outer end of the armature, and a wall of the rotor define a discharge passage that is formed into a ring shape centered on a rotating shaft and is open on a first end side in an axis line direction for discharging abrasion powder generated by friction between walls. The cover portion includes a tapered surface that is shaped such that an area in a cross sectional plane of the discharge passage which is orthogonal to an axis of the rotating shaft becomes larger toward the first end side in the axis line direction.
US09835202B2
The present invention provides a magnetic fluid sealed bearing having a stable sealing performance and allowing easy build-in of a magnetic sealing mechanism into the bearing. A magnetic fluid sealed bearing according to the present invention includes: an inner ring and an outer ring; a plurality of rolling members disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring; a ring-shaped polar plate mounted on an inner circumferential surface of the outer ring such that a gap is produced between the ring-shaped polar plate and an outer circumferential surface of the inner ring; a ring-shaped magnet attached to an axially inner side surface of the ring-shaped polar plate, the ring-shaped magnet forming magnetic circuits on both the outer ring side and the inner ring side; and an inner ring magnetic fluid retained in the magnetic circuit on the inner ring side for sealing the gap.
US09835199B2
A metal matrix self-lubricating composite and a manufacturing method therefor. The metal matrix self-lubricating composite comprises a metal matrix and a mixture layer compounded on a surface of the metal matrix, the mixed layer comprising a copper alloy and a self-lubricating material. The method for manufacturing the metal matrix self-lubricating composite comprises the following steps: a) sintering copper alloy powder on a surface of a metal matrix to form a copper alloy layer on the surface of the metal matrix; b) blade-coating or dip-coating a lubricating material on a surface of the copper alloy layer, and performing vacuumization to obtain a metal plate, and drying the metal plate; c) repeating step b) for multiple times; and d) sintering the metal plate obtained in step c) to obtain the metal matrix self-lubricating composite. In the present invention, a vacuumization mode is used and vacuumization operations are repeated, so that a dense mixture layer on which a self-lubricating material is dispersed on a copper alloy is formed, and the metal matrix self-lubricating composite has good lubricity and abrasion resistance.
US09835194B2
A steel wire for high-strength bolts is used for a non heat-treatment bolt with an excellent cold forgeability for which quenching and tempering steps have been omitted after bolt formation, and which has a tensile strength of 1200 MPa or more and an excellent delayed fracture resistance. The steel wire includes C, Si, Mn, P, S, Cr, Al, N, and B, at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, and Nb with the balance consisting of iron and inevitable impurities. The steel wire has a microstructure wherein ferrite and perlite have a total area rate of 98% or more, perlite lamellar spacing is 250 nm or less, and an area rate of the perlite is more than 40%, and 80% or less. The steel wire has a tensile strength of 1300 MPa or less.
US09835193B2
A threaded fastener system, incorporating a bolt and a nut assembly, wherein the bolt has a threaded lead entry point whose pitch and helix angle are of a higher magnitude than that of those on the body/shank of the bolt.
US09835186B2
A hydraulic flushing system comprises a hydraulic machine including a case drain, a gearbox having a cavity, and a flushing valve. The case drain is included in a hydraulic pump or a hydraulic motor. The flushing valve is fluidly connected to the case drain, fluidly connected to the cavity, and fluidly positioned between the case drain and the cavity. The flushing valve is configured to selectively allow hydraulic fluid to flow from the case drain to the cavity.
US09835180B2
An object of the invention is to achieve a travel speed known in the art during travelling operation, improve energy efficiency by reducing energy loss, and obtain favorable travel operability less susceptible to effects from variations in a travel load and changes in a pump delivery pressure when travelling operation is performed through operation of a travel lever over a half stroke range or less. A variable restrictor valve 80 is disposed in parallel with a flow sensing valve 50 of an engine speed sensing valve unit 13. A travel pilot pressure is adapted to act in an opening direction of the variable restrictor valve 80. The variable restrictor valve 80 is set to have a continuously increasing opening area from a full closure to a maximum with an increasing travel pilot pressure. Travel flow control valves 6d and 6e have an opening area that allows a predetermined flow rate QT required for traveling to be obtained even when a target LS differential pressure is decreased to a second specified value Pa3 when the travel lever is fully operated. In a first half of a spool stroke, the travel flow control valves 6d and 6e have an opening area approximate to an opening area of comparative example 1.
US09835179B2
A hydraulic valve arrangement (1) is provided comprising comprising a supply port arrangement having a high pressure port (2) and a low pressure port (4), a working port arrangement having two working ports (6, 7), a first valve (13) arranged between said high pressure port (2) and said working port arrangement (6, 7), a second valve (14) arranged between said low pressure port (4) and said working port arrangement (6, 7), a controller (19) for controlling said first valve (13) and said second valve (14), said controller (19) having an input connection (20) for receiving a signal of an operator input device, and a regenerative flow path which can be established by means of at least one of said first valve (13) and said second valve (14). The function of such a hydraulic valve arrangement should be enhanced. To this end said controller (19) said controller interrupts said regenerative flow path when a feed pressure at said working port arrangement (6, 7) exceeds a predetermined pressure level.
US09835173B2
An electric submersible well pump assembly includes a pump and an electrical motor filled with a dielectric lubricant. A capsule extends around a portion of the motor, defining a chamber between the capsule and the motor. A port through a side wall of the motor communicates the lubricant within the motor to the chamber. Thermoelectric devices are located within the chamber. Voltage supplied to the thermoelectric devices cools the lubricant.
US09835170B2
Provided is a vacuum pump in which the flexing of a rotating cylinder made of a fiber-reinforced resin can be reduced as much as possible to sufficiently reduce the gap between the rotating cylinder and a fixed cylinder, and exhaust performance can thereby be improved to great effect. A vacuum pump comprising a thread groove pump portion equipped with a fixed cylinder portion (2) having a spiraling thread groove portion (1) provided in an internal peripheral surface, and a rotating cylinder portion (3) placed inside the fixed cylinder portion (2), the thread groove pump portion exhausting through a spiraling exhaust flow channel due to the rotating cylinder portion (3) being caused to rotate, and the exhaust flow channel being formed from the thread groove portion (1) and an external peripheral surface of the rotating cylinder portion (3). The rotating cylinder portion (3) is configured by stacking a plurality of fiber-reinforced resin layers, and the outermost fiber-reinforced resin layer is thicker than the adjacent layer.
US09835160B2
A converterless motor-driven pump system includes an off-grid prime mover, an electric power generator driven by the off-grid prime mover to generate a power output, an electric submersible pump (ESP) system, and a system controller. The ESP system includes a motor coupled to the electric power generator to receive the power output, and a pump driven by the motor to pump a fluid. The system controller includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system controller to control the off-grid prime mover as a function of an operational parameter of the ESP system to maintain a desired operating point of the pump, and control the electric power generator to reduce the power output generated by the electric power generator while the desired operating point of the pump is maintained.
US09835156B2
A sealing arrangement (40) is provided for sealing an interface between a casing main body (12) and a casing end cover (16). A circumferential lip (42) on the casing main body (12) defines a first radially facing circumferential surface (46) and the end cover (16) has a circumferential lip (50) defining a second radially facing circumferential surface (52). The sealing arrangement (40) includes a first circumferentially extending groove (55) formed in one of the first and second circumferential surfaces (46,52) and a sealing member (56) disposed within the first groove (55) in sealing contact with the one of said first groove (55) and in sealing contact with the other one of the first and second circumferentially extending surfaces (46,52).
US09835149B2
Methods and apparatus to calibrate rod pump controllers are described. An example method includes obtaining initial values related to a pumping unit, determining parameters based on the initial values, the parameters including at least one of a leaked off load value, a residual friction value, and a buoyant rod weight value, and based on one or more of the initial values and the parameters, calculating one or more dimensions of a rod string, the one or more dimensions to be used to determine a pump card of the pumping unit.
US09835143B2
The invention is an ocean thermal energy conversion method and a system in which a motive fluid having predetermined characteristics is circulated in a closed loop between a cold source in cold deep ocean water and heat sources in warm surface water. The motive fluid is compressed between the cold source and a first primary warm water heat source resulting in the motive fluid being substantially totally vaporized at an outlet of the warm water heat source. The motive fluid is heated downstream from the primary heat source by a secondary heat source. The thermal energy of the heated motive fluid is recovered from a turbine and the motive fluid is condensed in the cold source.
US09835134B2
A method and corresponding arrangement are provided for determining pitch angle adjustment signals for adjusting a pitch angle of a rotor blade connected to a rotation shaft of a wind turbine. The method includes obtaining a first maximal speed signal indicative of a first desired maximal rotational speed of the rotation shaft. The method also includes deriving a first pitch angle adjustment signal based on the first maximal speed signal. The method further includes obtaining a second maximal speed signal indicative of a second desired maximal rotational speed of the rotation shaft different from the first desired maximal rotational speed of the rotation shaft. Further, the method includes deriving a second pitch angle adjustment signal based on the second maximal speed signal. The second pitch angle adjustment signal is different from the first pitch angle adjustment signal.
US09835121B2
A fuel-supply system has a fuel pump, a pressure controller, a signal output device and a power switch. The pressure controller adjusts the observed fuel pressure of the fuel and may electronically communicate with a motor driving the fuel pump to regulate the supply of fuel from a fuel tank of the fuel-supply system to an engine. In detail, the pressure controller performs feedback control of a voltage applied to the motor such that the pressure of a fuel pumped from the fuel pump approaches to have a first target and/or ideal fuel pressure value. Further, the signal output device outputs the first target fuel pressure value to the pressure controller. Activation of the power switch supplies power, from a power source, to the pressure controller, the motor and the signal output device. Further, the pressure controller may perform feedback control based on a second target fuel pressure value.
US09835120B2
A turbocompressor boost purge ejector tee includes a first passage formed into a housing along a common axis from a first direction, the first passage including an outlet in communication with an inlet area of the turbocompressor. A second passage is formed into the housing along the common axis from a second direction and includes a boost air inlet in communication with a turbocompressor high pressure internal outlet area and fluidly coupled to the first passage. The first and second passages of the housing defining a first flow path from the internal outlet area to the inlet area. An inlet port is associated with the housing and intersects the first passage, the housing defining a second flow path from the inlet port to the outlet, and the second flow path intersecting the first flow path upstream of the outlet. A nozzle is positioned in the second passage.
US09835117B2
Provided is a fuel reforming system that can convert gasoline into alcohol in a vehicle. Provided is a fuel reforming system (1) equipped with a reformer (15) having a reforming catalyst (152) that uses air to reform gasoline to produce alcohol, a mixer (14) which mixes gasoline and air and supplies the mixture to the reformer (15), and a condenser (16) which separates the gas produced in the reformer (15) into a gas phase and a condensed phase of which reformed fuel is the primary constituent; wherein the fuel reforming system (1) is characterized in that the reforming catalyst (152) is configured including a main catalyst for extracting hydrogen atoms from the hydrocarbons in the gasoline to produce alkyl radicals, and a catalytic promoter for reducing alkyl hydroperoxides produced from the alkyl radicals to produce alcohol.
US09835115B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating vacuum via an ejector arranged in a compressor recirculation flow path and an aspirator arranged in a throttle bypass path, where a suction port of the ejector is coupled with a canister purge valve having two outlet ports. In one example, the canister purge valve may include only a single flow restriction, the flow restriction arranged in a path coupling a fuel vapor purge system with the intake manifold when a solenoid of canister purge valve is open, such that a path coupling the fuel vapor purge system with the suction port of the ejector does not include any flow restrictions upstream of the suction port.
US09835109B2
Fuel in a fuel tank is supplied by a low-pressure pump to intake passage injectors mounted on an intake manifold via a low-pressure fuel supply pipe and a low-pressure fuel distribution pipe. A high-pressure pump is provided on the low-pressure fuel supply pipe. The pressure of the fuel is boosted by the high-pressure pump, and then is supplied to in-cylinder injectors via a high-pressure fuel distribution pipe. In an intake passage injection (MPI) mode, excitation of a solenoid is stopped and operation of an electromagnetic spill valve is stopped so as reduce vibration and noise caused by the seating of the electromagnetic spill valve in a valve seat.
US09835101B2
Embodiments for operating an engine with skip fire are provided. In one example, a method comprises during a skip fire mode or during a skip fire mode transition, port injecting a first fuel quantity to a cylinder of an engine, the first fuel quantity based on a first, predicted air charge amount for the cylinder and lean of a desired air-fuel ratio, and direct injecting a second fuel quantity to the cylinder, the second fuel quantity based on the first fuel quantity and a second, calculated air charge amount for the cylinder.
US09835097B1
A variable displacement controller for deactivating one or more cylinder assemblies of a vehicle engine can include a processor for performing various operations and the operations can include: receiving data indicative of a requested torque and vehicle speed, determining a torque variable timer threshold value based on the received data indicative of requested torque and vehicle speed, initiating a timer, comparing the timer value to the variable timer threshold value, and selectively activating/deactivating at least one of the engine cylinder assemblies based on the comparison between the timer value and the variable timer threshold value. At least one of the engine cylinder assemblies is activated if the timer value is less than the variable timer threshold value, and at least one of the engine cylinder assemblies is deactivated if the timer value is greater than or equal to the variable timer threshold value.
US09835096B2
Some embodiments are directed to a variable displacement controller for use with a vehicular engine. The controller can receive data indicative of ambient temperature and data indicative of at least one of engine speed and vehicle speed. The controller can determine engine torque value based on the engine speed, and determine a torque limit based on the ambient temperature and at least one of the determined engine torque value and the data indicative of vehicle speed. The controller can compare the engine torque value to the torque limit, and selectively activate/deactivate an engine cylinder based on the comparison between the engine torque value and the torque limit, such that the engine cylinder is deactivated if the engine torque value is less than the torque limit, and the engine cylinder is activated if the engine torque value is greater than or equal to the torque limit.
US09835094B2
Controlling an exhaust gas temperature of an engine. An electronic control unit receives a parameter setpoint command, monitors parameters of an engine using a plurality of sensors, receives measured engine states based on the monitored engine parameters from the plurality of sensors, generates measured engine state estimates and controlled engine state estimates using an engine observer model, determines an observer error based on a difference between the measured engine states and the measured engine state estimates, generates model corrections based on the observer error, generates a desired exhaust throttle valve position using an inverse engine model based on the parameter setpoint command, the controlled engine state estimates, and the model corrections, and adjusts a position of the exhaust throttle valve based on the desired exhaust throttle position.
US09835091B2
A system has a surface intended to separate two chambers within the system. The surface has an aperture for allowing passage of at least one communication conduit. A shroud is positioned on the surface at the aperture, and has at least two portions defining a central opening to allow the communication conduit to pass through the aperture and shroud. The two portions of shroud have mating clamp ears in contact with each other. Securement members tighten the clamp ears against each other to provide a seal at an end of the shroud remote from the surface.
US09835084B2
A method and system to arrange combustion air for a combustion engine or cooling air for an electric motor that are situated in warm indoor space. A started combustion engine or a combustion engine to be started or the air intake equipment of an electric motor has in immediate closeness at least one air intake box where there is connected or will be connected an air channel that reaches the outdoor space and then the outdoor air flows through the air channel to the air intake box and further to the engine air intake equipment. The aspects of the disclosed embodiments are used in the air intake of the lorries, trailer trucks and busses and also power tools and the cooling air of the electric motors.
US09835079B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine (1) provided with at least one working cylinder (3a-3d) each with an associated auxiliary cylinder (5a-5d), which engine (1) is operable in spark ignition and compression ignition modes. Each working cylinder (3a-3d) comprises a working piston (7a-7a) connected to a first crankshaft (9), and each auxiliary cylinder (5a-5d) comprises an auxiliary piston (10a-10d) connected to a second crankshaft (12). The first crankshaft (9) is connected to the second crankshaft (12) to drive the second crankshaft (12) at half the rotational speed of the first crankshaft (9). A device for controlling the phase angle is arranged between the first and second crankshafts. The method involves controlling the phase shift device in order to retain residual exhaust gas and increase the compression ratio. A current combustion phasing timing is determined, and the combustion phasing timing is corrected by increasing or decreasing the phase angle to achieve a desired combustion phasing timing.
US09835073B2
A method for checking the operability of a secondary-air system of an internal combustion engine includes measuring a first pressure between a first secondary-air pump and a first master secondary-air valve as well as a second master secondary-air valve, measuring a second pressure between a second secondary-air pump and a first slave secondary-air valve and a second slave secondary-air valve, controlling the first master secondary-air valve and the first slave secondary-air valve together, and controlling the second master secondary-air valve and the second slave secondary-air valve together. A secondary-air system includes a first control and a second control, wherein a first master secondary-air valve and a first slave secondary-air valve are controllable together by the first control and wherein a second master secondary-air valve and a second slave secondary-air valve are controllable together by the second control.
US09835070B2
A pressure-releasing breather hose 1 mounted on a urea water tank 2 is dividably constituted by a flexible joint portion 1a with an end capable of being fitted over a hose joint 3 on the tank 2, and a vertical portion 1b connected to the other end of the joint portion 1a and suspending downward along a side surface of the tank 2. The joint and vertical portions 1a and 1b are constituted by a rubber hose made of ethylene propylene diene terpolymer (EPDM) and a polyethylene pipe (resin pipe) made of high density polyethylene (HDPE), respectively.
US09835068B2
The present invention relates to a mixer device for distributing and evaporating a liquid introduced into a gas flow, in particular into an exhaust-gas flow, wherein the mixer device comprises at least one mixer vane (14a) which influences the flow direction of the gas flow. The mixer vane has a first vane (14a′) portion and a second vane portion (14a″) which are arranged in series in the flow direction of the gas flow, which vane portions are designed so that the first vane portion diverts the gas flow approaching the mixer device such that said gas flow has a first swirl component imparted thereto, and so that the second vane portion subsequently diverts the gas flow such that said gas flow has a second swirl component imparted thereto, wherein the first swirl component and the second swirl component oppose one another.
US09835066B2
A prechamber assembly includes a cylinder head including a coolant cavity, a prechamber body located within the cylinder head, the prechamber body including a nozzle, and an annular sleeve radially surrounding a portion of the prechamber body. The sleeve includes a plurality of coolant inlet holes. A portion of the prechamber body is radially spaced from the sleeve to form a coolant sleeve annulus extending along a length of the prechamber body above the coolant inlet holes. The coolant cavity and the coolant sleeve annulus are in fluid communication through the plurality of coolant inlet holes.
US09835062B2
A vehicle combustion noise-masking control method includes: receiving driving information of a vehicle; estimating a frequency of a combustion noise generated in the vehicle using the driving information; and outputting a masking sound when the frequency is equal to or larger than a predetermined frequency.
US09835050B2
A propulsion assembly having a heat exchanger and a system for supplying cold air including an air inlet in a stream of air, an air duct connecting the air inlet fluidly to the exchanger, and an air flow valve with a variable flow rate inside the duct, the valve including a hub having blades projecting radially from the hub forming a helix, each blade having a root mounted rotatably on the hub, the valve comprising an electric motor to drive the hub by a motor shaft, and structure for varying pitch angle of the blades, the extremity of each blade being flush with a wall of the duct, the valve controllable to a closed configuration where pitch angle of the blades is 0° and the valve prevents passage of air, an open configuration where pitch angle is 90°, and/or a charge configuration where pitch angle is between 0° and 90°.
US09835043B2
An air modulating system for a gas turbine engine includes a fixed plate with a fluid passage inlet, a floating plate with a first side adjacent to the fluid passage inlet, an actuated mount configured to move the floating plate relative to the fixed plate, and a linkage element for connecting the floating plate to the actuated mount. The linkage element includes a mounting flange configured to slidably engage the floating plate.
US09835028B2
The invention relates to a fluid sampling device comprising a sample chamber (01) including a lower piston (05), an upper piston (02) and an intermediate piston (28). Intermediate piston (28) is moved so as to guarantee a substantially constant volume for chamber (01) when closing the chamber.
US09835027B2
Systems and related methods to alter and optimize the placement of fracture initiation points through utilization of mineralogy.
US09835018B2
A system including a frac system with a rotary isobaric pressure exchanger configured to exchange pressures between a first fluid and a second fluid, and a lubrication system configured to lubricate the rotary isobaric pressure exchanger.
US09835016B2
In one aspect, a downhole device for use in a downhole environment is disclosed, including: a first material with a first degradation rate in the downhole environment and at least one cavity, wherein the at least one cavity contains a second material to degrade the first material at a second degradation rate when the second material is exposed to the downhole environment and the first material, the second degradation rate being higher than the first degradation rate. In certain embodiments, the second material is a solid second material. In certain embodiments, the second material is a gel second material. In certain embodiments the downhole device further includes a protective material to control exposure of the second material to the downhole environment.
US09835015B2
A wellbore perforating system and method with reliable and safer connections in a perforating gun assembly is disclosed. The system/method includes a gun string assembly (GSA) deployed in a wellbore with multiple perforating guns attached to plural switch subs. The perforating guns are pre-wired with a cable having multi conductors; the multi conductors are connected to electrical ring contacts on either end of the perforating guns. The switch subs are configured with electrical contacts that are attached to the electrical contacts of the perforating guns without the need for manual electrical connections and assembly in the field of operations. The system further includes detonating with a detonator that is positioned upstream of the perforating gun. The detonator is wired to a switch that is positioned downstream of the perforating gun.
US09835006B2
A wellbore plug isolation system and method for positioning plugs to isolate fracture zones in a horizontal, vertical, or deviated wellbore is disclosed. The system/method includes a wellbore casing laterally drilled into a hydrocarbon formation, a wellbore setting tool (WST) that sets a large inner diameter (ID) restriction sleeve member (RSM), and a restriction plug element (RPE). The WST is positioned along with the RSM at a desired wellbore location. After the WST sets and seals the RSM, a conforming seating surface (CSS) is formed in the RSM. The CSS is shaped to engage/receive RPE deployed into the wellbore casing. The engaged/seated RPE isolates heel ward and toe ward fluid communication of the RSM to create a fracture zone. The RPE's are removed or left behind prior to initiating well production without the need for a milling procedure. A large ID RSM diminishes flow constriction during oil production.
US09835002B2
A method and downhole apparatus including a downhole indexer for cyclically varying a configuration or operational mode of a downhole tool according to a predetermined sequence. The apparatus includes tubular body, an indexing member, and a balance piston. The indexing member is selectively moveable relative to the tubular body between a first axial position and a second axial position in response to a signal. The balance piston supports the indexing member at the second position.
US09834989B2
Improvements to the leg extension of an adjustable ladder leveler and, more generally, improvements to ladder legs. A shoe with a claw that folds to be parallel to the ladder leg and then slides upward with respect to the leg thereby becoming locked into position so that it cannot move away from being parallel so long as weight is applied on the ladder. If the shoe is on an extension, as the shoe slides up, it engages a safety bar that prevents release of the extension.
US09834982B2
A door, method of making a door, and stack of doors includes providing a door having front and back skins that have differing, but complementary profiles, one for the front side of the door and one for the back side of the door where each allows and fits onto the other, while still providing direct contact in the stile and rail zones of the door permitting conventional door layup practices.
US09834973B2
There is provided an opening and closing apparatus, including: a main body; an openable body pivoting between a closed position and an open position; a connecting part connecting an end of the main body and an end of the openable body; a rack provided in one of the main body and the openable body; and an arm, wherein a part, of a pitch line of the rack, which makes contact with a pitch circle of the pinion in a state that the openable body is positioned in the vicinity of the closed position is an inclined line which is inclined to approach the other of the main body and the openable body having no rack, as the inclined line is farther away from the connecting part with the openable body being in the closed position.
US09834968B2
A hinge for a door, such a glass shower door, including a back plate attachable to a surface, a hinge block extending from the back plate, a clamp rotatably coupled to the hinge block for receiving the glass shower door, and a hinge limiter attached to one of a front or a back exterior surface of the hinge block. The hinge limiter may have a length equal to or less than a length of the hinge block and a width less than a width of the hinge block. The clamp may include a stop plate on an interior surface, adjacent to a distal end of the hinge block, adapted to contact the hinge limiter upon rotation of the clamp.
US09834967B2
A hinge construction includes a hinge bracket that includes a hinge pin supporting plate and at least one opening extending through the hinge pin supporting plate. Also included in the hinge construction is a hinge pin that is held at the at least one opening. The hinge pin includes a hinge pin outer surface, a hinge pin bore extending through the entire length of the hinge pin and a hinge pin slot extending along the entire length of the hinge pin from the hinge pin outer surface to within the hinge pin bore. The at least one opening can be tapered, and the hinge pin outer surface can include a hinge pin outer surface first portion that also is tapered so as to be congruent with the at least one tapered opening. The hinge construction allows elements such as electrical wiring to be routed through the hinge construction.
US09834960B2
A rack to hold skateboards, longboards, scooters, motorcycle helmets, purses, umbrellas and other implements or accessories. The rack is adapted to be mounted on a wall or surface. The rack is formed of a lip extending from a rear support. The lip is formed of a series of rounded protrusions. Items to be held by the rack can be received over the protrusions. In one embodiment, each protrusion is angled at a predetermined angle from the front. This helps keep a received skateboard, scooter or other accessory at an appropriate angle such that the wheels or surface of the accessory will remain off an affixed wall to avoid damage to wall. The rack can also include a locking mechanism for locking adjacent protrusions. The rack is designed for safety by having rounded edges on all areas that protrude from the wall.
US09834958B2
A padlock having a key intended to unlock another lock. The other lock can be a padlock or some other locking structure. The key is inserted into a bore made in the body of the padlock, intended for one end of the shackle. To fit the key into the bore, its blade section is pivotable relative the shank of the key, and the blade section is adapted, in a first position of the blade section, to be at least partially received into the bore. The shank of the key can be received into the bore as well.
US09834956B2
A mechanism for selectively coupling a first moving part with a second moving part. The mechanism includes and engaging member that is movable between a detent position, a uncoupled position, and a coupled position in which the load transferring surface is within the aperture. A biasing member biases the engaging member into the detent position or coupled position. The engaging member overrides the biasing force and moves out of the detent position into the uncoupled position when first and second moving parts move relative to each other. When the engaging member is in the coupled position, the first and second moving parts are coupled for movement together. One embodiment of the invention is a child safety door handle rotating on a spindle. Other embodiments include water faucets, stove or burner controls, or any other rotatable or movable parts.
US09834952B1
Various embodiments of an awning assembly, specifically an angled gear motor are provided. Present embodiments provide a motor for an awning assembly, wherein the motor is positioned in the awning hardware. Specifically, the motor may be supported by the awning hardware. The awning assembly may also have an angled transmission connected to the motor. The transmission and motor provide rotating movement of the awning roller tube.
US09834942B2
A flooring material having a textile pad substructure with a density of greater than 10 pounds per cubic foot is provided. The textile pad has reinforcement and binding fibers. The binding fibers are thermoplastic and are used to bind the reinforcement fibers together. The pad is created by heating and compressing a fibrous textile batt so that it has a density of greater than 13 pounds per cubic foot.
US09834941B1
A thermal break system for securing wall panels to an existing wall includes a furring member connected between the existing wall and the wall panels, the furring member including at two foot walls adapted to be connected to the existing wall, at least one spacing wall having one end connected to the foot walls and extending in a direction transverse to the at least one foot wall and the existing wall, and a connection wall connected to an opposite end of the at least one spacing wall and extending in a direction transverse to the at least one spacing wall for connection either directly to adjacent wall panels or indirectly to adjacent wall panels through at least one intermediary member; and a thermal insulation cover positioned at least between the at least one foot wall and the existing wall.
US09834936B2
A gutter debris preclusion device for use with a gutter attached to a building, comprising a screen having a plurality of manipulations, which cause resting debris to be elevated off the surface of the screen. The elevated debris resultingly become more rapidly dried and more easily removed by the wind.
US09834929B2
This disclosure relates to using polyester films on building boards to enable improved surface coatings. The polyester film is preferably applied to a glass mat via an adhesive to form a laminate. This laminate is then bonded to the exterior surface of a gypsum board. The polyester film is advantageous because it allows for exterior surface coatings to be applied. In one embodiment, an exterior acrylic coating is applied to the polyester film. Boards constructed in accordance with this disclosure allow for exterior finishings to be achieved without the need for excessive finishing materials or steps.
US09834920B2
Embodiments include plastic floor drains or sinks. Embodiments also include plastic floor drain which comprises an approximately square receptor having an open top with a notch and a rim at the open top, an outlet at the bottom, and four sides. Each side has a shoulder located along the width of each side at approximately ⅓ the distance from the top to the bottom of the body. Embodiments also include a plastic floor drain which comprises an approximately square receptor having an open top with a notch and a rim at the open top, an outlet at the bottom, and four sides. Each side has a shoulder having a bottom side and located along the width of each side at approximately ⅓ the distance from the top to the bottom of the receptor. There are a multiplicity of seepage holes in the receptor arrayed along the top sides of the shoulders. A four-sided anchor flange is adhesively connected to the shoulder. A flashing clamp is attached by connectors to each side of the flashing clamp, each flashing clamp being capable of retaining a membrane between the anchor flange side and the flashing clamp.
US09834916B1
A disposable filter for a sink including a substantially inverted disposed conical filter having a rounded conical apex and a continuous horizontally disposed circular bottom rim. A circular top rim is continuously disposed on a top surface of the bottom rim of the filter. A concave-shaped indentation is continuously disposed through each of an exterior edge of the bottom rim and an outer surface of the top rim. A plurality of tabs is attached to the outer surface of the top rim. An adhesive layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the bottom rim of the filter. The filter is removably disposed atop an exterior surface of a sink, with an exterior edge of the indentation disposed around an exterior surface of a base of a faucet.
US09834915B2
The present invention is directed to a sink assembly that can separate particulate contaminants from a liquid in which they are suspended. The sink assembly includes a master trap and at least a first trap with a riser and valve assembly to collect particulates and prevent overflow from the master trap. The sink assembly provides a simple maintenance and cleaning solution.
US09834901B2
The present disclosure relates to a support device. The support device can include a hollow elongate member being in the form of a pile, a substantially fluid tight confined space within the hollow elongate member with at least a first seal at a distance above ground level, wherein a first fluid is arranged in the confined space, and at least one damping means is arranged in pressure connection with the first fluid in the confined space. Furthermore, the disclosure provides a method for the application of the support device.
US09834899B2
An arrangement on flowing bodies of water in the area of a transverse structure and/or water structure, in the form of a fish migration bypass (13) for transporting aquatic animals, in particular fish, between tail water (4) and head water (5), provided with a substantially vertical shaft (17). The water level in the shaft 17 is variable between the tail water and the head water level. A basket-like transport container (15), which can be moved in the shaft (17) and which is provided on the shaft for transport of aquatic animals, is equipped with floats (16), which are filled with air so that water rises/falls in the shaft (17) from the tail water (4) to the head water (5) and from the head water (5) to the tail water (4).
US09834897B2
A tool adapted to collect, lift, and move material has a lifting structure attached to a collection element and at least one handle attached to the lifting structure. The lifting structure may have two or three segments. Each segment may have rails spaced apart and substantially parallel to each other with at least one cross member disposed there-between. The segments are oriented relative to one another to reduce the amount of bending required to lift material in the collection element. Adjacent segments in the lifting structure may be pivotally attached to each other. This tool can be free standing when used as a dustpan.
US09834892B2
The pneumatic roadway energy recovery system generates power from the weight of vehicles, pedestrians and the like traveling on a roadway surface. The pneumatic roadway energy recovery system includes a plurality of pneumatic pumps in fluid communication with one another and that are arrayed beneath a roadway surface. The pneumatic pumps are in fluid communication with a storage tank. The vehicles, pedestrians and the like traveling on the roadway surface compress the plurality of pneumatic pumps as they pass over the pumps, generating pressurized air, which is received by and stored in the storage tank. Preferably, a turbine, such as a Pelton wheel or the like, is in fluid communication with the storage tank. Selective release of the pressurized air in the storage tank drives the turbine, which, in turn, is connected to an electrical generator for generating usable electrical power.
US09834889B2
A toner cleaning sheet includes at least one type of fiber selected from among different thermoplastic fibers formed of thermoplastic resin with a melting point of 265° C. or more and at least one type of fiber selected from among different cellulose fibers, wherein at least part of the aforementioned thermoplastic fiber is fusion-bonded to neighboring thermoplastic fiber filaments. The toner cleaning sheet can be produced by a method that includes at least one type of fiber selected from among different thermoplastic fibers formed of thermoplastic resin with a melting point of 265° C. or more and at least one type of fiber selected from among different cellulose fibers, the method including a bonding step in which at least part of the aforementioned thermoplastic fiber is fusion-bonded to neighboring thermoplastic fiber filaments.
US09834878B2
A needle bar case has a plurality of needle bars. As a main shaft is rotated by a main shaft motor (first drive source), the needle bars are driven in an up-down direction so that a sewing operation is carried out in a conventionally-known manner. Ascending/descending bars are supported on the needle bar case in corresponding relation to the needle bars, and each of the ascending/descending bars is driven in the up-down direction by a motor (second drive source). A cord guide member for guiding a cord material onto a workpiece is mounted to the lower end of any of the ascending/descending bars, in place of a conventional presser foot. Cord sewing or loop sewing of cord material can be performed selectively by changing an ascending/descending stroke of the ascending/descending bar. Thus, cord sewing and loop sewing of the chord material can be performed selectively with a simple construction.
US09834877B2
A sewing machine is provided, which has lower feed teeth which feed a sewing object by a lower feed drive mechanism having a lower drive shaft 92 as a drive source and upper feed teeth which are driven by an upper feed shaft that is coupled to and driven by the lower feed drive mechanism. The sewing machine is provided with an upper feed lower shaft 1 which is supported rotatably on a machine main body and is coupled to the lower feed drive mechanism, an upper feed coupling section which transmits movement of the upper feed lower shaft to the upper feed shaft, and a transmission control section which controls halting and restarting of transmission of movement of the upper feed lower shaft. The upper feed coupling section is held at a movement transmission halt position by operation of the transmission control section.
US09834864B2
A spinning nozzle which has a perforated part in which ejection holes have been arranged in a density as high as 600-1,200 holes/mm2. This process for producing a fibrous bundle comprises ejecting a spinning dope having a viscosity as measured at 50° C. of 30-200 P from the ejection holes of the spinning nozzle to produce a fibrous bundle. This fibrous bundle has a single-fiber fineness of 0.005-0.01 dtex. By the wet-process direct spinning, a mass of nanofibers which are stably uniform and continuous can be produced at a high efficiency.
US09834863B2
Bulk crystal of group III nitride having thickness greater than 1 mm with improved crystal quality, reduced lattice bowing and/or reduced crack density and methods of making. Bulk crystal has a seed crystal, a first crystalline portion grown on the first side of the seed crystal and a second crystalline portion grown on the second side of the seed crystal. Either or both crystalline portions have an electron concentration and/or an oxygen concentration similar to the seed crystal.The bulk crystal can have an additional seed crystal, with common faces (e.g. same polarity, same crystal plane) of seed crystals joined so that a first crystalline part grows on the first face of the first seed crystal and a second crystalline part grows on the first face of the second seed crystal. Each crystalline part's electron concentration and/or oxygen concentration may be similar to its corresponding seed crystal.
US09834852B2
The embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for electroplating one or more materials onto a substrate. In many cases the material is a metal and the substrate is a semiconductor wafer, though the embodiments are no so limited. Typically, the embodiments herein utilize a channeled plate positioned near the substrate, creating a cross flow manifold defined on the bottom by the channeled plate, on the top by the substrate, and on the sides by a cross flow confinement ring. During plating, fluid enters the cross flow manifold both upward through the channels in the channeled plate, and laterally through a cross flow side inlet positioned on one side of the cross flow confinement ring. The flow paths combine in the cross flow manifold and exit at the cross flow exit, which is positioned opposite the cross flow inlet. These combined flow paths result in improved plating uniformity.
US09834849B2
A method for preparing thin double-structured composite corrosion resistant and/or passivating coatings that consist of a thin metal oxide-hydroxide subcoating prepared by anodizing the metal substrate materials near-surface part and then provided with an atomic layer deposition (ALD) topmost nanocoating, of e.g. oxide, nitride, carbonate, carbide etc. or their mixes or laminates, or laminates with ceramic and metallic layers, or laminates with inorganic or organic polymers and ceramic layers.
US09834842B2
A method of making a fibrous part is provided. The method may comprise forming a porous structure with an annular geometry. A first entrance channel and a second entrance channel may be formed with the entrance channels defined by a surface of the preform. The entrance channels may also extend in a radial direction from an inner diameter of the annular porous structure partially across the surface. An exit channel may be formed between the entrance channels and defined by the surface. The exit channel may extend in a radial direction from an outer diameter of the annular porous structure partially across the surface.
US09834836B2
A high durability roller, a manufacturing method thereof and a power transmission device with the high durability roller are provided. The roller for a power transmission device that comprises a plurality of rollers in contact with each other directly or with lubricant between them, includes: a metal base having a Young's modulus of 220 GPa or less; and a coating that is formed on a surface of the metal base, includes hard particles and a metal component composed of at least either simple metal or alloy, and has a Young's modulus of 250 GPa or more. The power transmission device includes the roller. The method of manufacturing the roller includes: forming the coating on the surface of the metal base by thermal spraying using a thermal spray material that comprises the hard particles and the metal component composed of at least either simple metal or alloy.
US09834835B2
A coated substrate comprises: a metallic substrate; a bondcoat atop the substrate; and a ceramic barrier coat atop the bondcoat. The bondcoat has a combined content of one or more of molybdenum, chromium, and vanadium of at least 50 percent by weight.
US09834832B2
The present disclosure is directed and formulations and methods to provide alloys having relative high strength and ductility. The alloys may be provided in seamless tubular form and characterized by their particular alloy chemistries and identifiable crystalline grain size morphology. The alloys are such that they include boride pinning phases. In what is termed a Class 1 Steel the alloys indicate tensile strengths of 700 MPa to 1400 MPa and elongations of 10-70%. Class 2 Steel indicates tensile strengths of 800 MPa to 1800 MPa and elongations of 5-65%. Class 3 Steel indicates tensile strengths of 1000 MPa to 2000 MPa and elongations of 0.5-15%.
US09834819B2
The invention generally relates to methods for diagnosing autism spectrum disorders. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for diagnosing presence or increased risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder in a subject.
US09834815B2
The present teachings generally relate to methods and kits incorporating a discriminating positive control for determining whether a particular microorganism or group of microorganisms are present in a sample, for example but not limited to a food, environmental, agricultural, biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, or water sample. According to certain methods, at least part of a starting material, for example but not limited to, a food, environmental, agricultural, biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical, or water sample can be combined with a culture medium and incubated under conditions suitable for microbial growth followed by extracting microorganism and added control nucleic acids for analysis. The extracted nucleic acids are amplified and the amplified nucleic acids are detected, directly or indirectly, and the fidelity of the methods and the presence or absence of the corresponding microorganism is determined because the discriminating positive control provides both confirmatory results for the methods used but eliminates false positive results.
US09834814B2
This disclosure provides, among other things, a method for analyzing a planar cellular sample. In some embodiments, the method comprises: (a) indirectly or directly attaching nucleic acid tags to binding sites in a planar cellular sample; (b) contacting the planar cellular sample with a solid support comprising an array of spatially addressed features that comprise oligonucleotides, wherein each oligonucleotide comprises a molecular barcode that identifies the feature in which the oligonucleotides is present; (c) hybridizing the nucleic acid tags, or a copy of the same, with the oligonucleotides to produce duplexes; and (d) extending the oligonucleotides in the duplexes to produce extension products that each comprises (i) a molecular barcode and (ii) a copy of a nucleic acid tag. Other embodiments, e.g., kits and the like, are also described.
US09834811B2
Transposon nucleic acids comprising a transposon end sequence and a calibration sequence for DNA sequencing in the transposon end sequence. In one embodiment, the transposon end sequence is a Mu transposon end. A method for the generation of DNA fragmentation library based on a transposition reaction in the presence of a transposon end with the calibration sequence providing facilitated downstream handling of the produced DNA fragments, e.g., in the generation of sequencing templates.
US09834808B2
The present invention relates, in part, to methods and kits for rapidly determining antimicrobial susceptibility of microorganisms.
US09834804B2
The present invention provides an isolated fungal cell that is capable of producing one or more biomass-degrading enzymes and that exhibits increased or decreased expression or copy number of a polynucleotide encoding a PtaB-like protein. Also provided is a fermentation processes for producing one or more biomass-degrading enzymes comprising a fungal cells exhibiting increased or decreased expression or copy number of a polynucleotide encoding a PtaB-like protein. The biomass-degrading enzymes produced by the isolate fungal cell and fermentation processes of the present invention may be used in a process to produce soluble sugars from biomass.
US09834801B2
Provided are methods for synthesizing compounds, including chiral kynurenine compounds. The methods are suitable for large-scale manufacture and produce the chiral kynurenines compounds in high chemical purity and high chiral purity.
US09834772B2
This invention is about the selection and development of aptamers that specifically bound HSA and GHSA. HSA and GHSA are associated with diabetes mellitus. The length of selected aptamers are around 46-106 bases, in which aptamers against HSA are consisting of 46-106 bases and aptamers against GHSA are consisting of 49-71 bases. All selected aptamers against HSA and GHSA can be potentially applied for detection and monitoring of diabetes mellitus in combination with blood glucose and HbA1C level. They also can applied in the drug development and drug delivery system in the diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer disease. In addition, chemical or fluorescence labeled these aptamers can be used for study function and location of HSA and GHSA.
US09834765B2
Provided herein is a new class of nucleic acid tagging molecules which are essentially free of homopolymer stretches. The tagging molecules can tag a plurality of individual target molecules for detection with a high degree of accuracy. The tagging molecules can be used to tag at least 105 or 106 individual target molecules. The tagged individual target molecules can be subjected to high throughput sequence analysis.
US09834756B2
Methods of isolating cellular products, such as pancreatic islets, may be used in diabetes research and therapeutic transplantation. The methods may involve providing a donor tissue having desired cells and undesired cells, perfusing the donor tissue with a perfusion solution, developing edema during perfusion of the donor tissue to form a swelled tissue, and separating the desired cells from undesired cellular material to obtain a cellular product. The methods may also include disrupting the tissue, and separating the desired cells from undesired cellular material to obtain the cellular product. The methods may result in an increased yield of cellular product that retains sufficient functional integrity to be useful as a transplantation resource.
US09834750B2
The present invention departs from using traditional modes of cell-to-cell communication and concerns exerting influence on a first cell or cell population by bringing a second cell or cell population into proximity with the first cell population without the use of mediating diffusible factors. Cell to cell communications traditionally occur by way of a variety of mechanisms including, for example, by direct coupling through gap junctions using antigen presentation or using ligand receptor interactions.
US09834744B2
The use of a gel consisting of a colloidal solution comprising, preferably consisting of: 5% to 30% by weight, preferably 5% to 25% by weight, more preferably 8% to 20% by weight relative to the weight of the gel, of at least one inorganic viscosifying agent; a mineral base selected from among hydroxides of alkaline metals, hydroxides of alkaline-earth metals and the mixtures thereof, said mineral base being present in a proportion of 0.05 to 10 mol/L of gel, preferably in a proportion of 0.1 to 5 mol/L of gel; an oxidizing agent stable in a basic medium selected from among permanganates, persulfates, ozone, hypochlorites and the mixtures thereof, said oxidizing agent stable in a basic medium being present in a proportion of 0.05 to 5 mol/L of gel, preferably 0.1 to 2 mol/L of gel; 0.1% to 2% by weight relative to the weight of the gel, of at least one surfactant; and a solvent; the gel not containing any super-absorbent polymer, to remove a biofilm present on a surface of a solid substrate.
US09834743B2
This invention relates to isolating and removing mildew, harmful bacterial and pets urine out of handmade wool and silk rugs.The invention consist of three procedures that describes each step of work, chemicals mixture and timing used to achieve the this process.It saves handmade rugs from being discarded, it describes a new safe and healthy approach in cleaning handmade rugs.
US09834740B2
Photoactivators comprise a photoactive moiety and a hydrophilic moiety. The photoactivators preferably comprise less than about 35%, by weight of the photoactivator, of the photoactive moiety. The photoactivators can be activated to a photo-excited state by excitation with incident radiation of a wavelength between about 350 nm and 750 nm, preferably between about 350 nm and about 420 nm. The photoactivators further encompass those having certain chemical formulations.
US09834738B2
The present invention is directed to a novel fragrance compound of octahydro-4,7-methano-1H-indene-5-acetaldehyde.
US09834736B2
A lubricating oil composition for internal combustion engines of passenger and commercial four-wheeled vehicles is provided which can exhibit excellent fuel efficiency performance and wear resistance reliability. The lubricating oil composition includes a base oil and a complex polyester mixture. The base oil includes at least one of poly-α-olefin, an ester-based base oil, or a partially hydrogenated mineral oil. The complex polyester mixture includes a polyester obtained by condensing a polyhydric alcohol, a polycarboxylic acid, and a monohydric alcohol having an oxyalkylene group. The content of the complex polyester mixture is 0.01% by mass or more with respect to the total mass of the lubricating oil composition, the high-temperature shear viscosity (HTHS viscosity) at 150° C. is 1.0 mPa·s to 2.6 mPa·s, and the NOACK evaporation amount is 40% or less.
US09834721B2
A hydraulic fracturing fluid for use in oilfield applications, the hydraulic fracturing fluid includes a spherical bead-forming liquid composition, the spherical bead-forming liquid composition comprised of a primary liquid precursor and a secondary liquid precursor, the primary liquid precursor comprises a micellar forming surfactant, a bead-forming compound, and a non-solids bearing liquid solvent; and the secondary liquid precursor comprises one or more curing agents, and one or more co-curing agents.
US09834718B2
Some examples of producing water-based drilling fluids including ecofriendly lubricating additives are described. A raw material oil including fatty acids with a short chain alcohol is esterified in the presence of a catalyst to produce alkyl ester products and triglycerides. The alkyl ester products are washed and heated to remove any residual water or the short chain alcohol. A first quantity of the alkyl ester products is mixed with a second quantity of a water-based wellbore drilling fluid.
US09834717B1
The present invention relates to the well drilling field in petrochemical industry, and discloses a drilling fluid additive composition comprising a nano-plugging agent, a bionic wall bracing agent, a bionic shale inhibitor, an emulsifier, and an amphiphobic wettability reversal agent, wherein, the nano-plugging agent is modified silicon dioxide nano-particle, and its modifying group includes a modifying copolymer chain; the bionic wall bracing agent is carboxymethyl chitosan with a dopamine-derived group grafted on its main chain; the bionic shale inhibitor is composed of structural units of arginine and structural units of lysine; and the amphiphobic wettability reversal agent is a dual-cation fluorocarbon surfactant. The present invention further provides a pseudo oil-based drilling fluid suitable for horizontal shale gas wells containing the above composition. When the water-based drilling fluid contains the drilling fluid additive composition provided in the present invention, the water-based drilling fluid would have high temperature-resistance, high plugging and high inhibition performance, is environment friendly, especially have high density, and is especially suitable for horizontal shale gas well mining.
US09834700B2
The present invention includes a diblock copolymer system that self-assembles at very low molecular weights to form very small features. In one embodiment, one polymer in the block copolymer contains silicon, and the other polymer is a polylactide. In one embodiment, the block copolymer is synthesized by a combination of anionic and ring opening polymerization reactions. In one embodiment, the purpose of this block copolymer is to form nanoporous materials that can be used as etch masks in lithographic patterning.
US09834688B2
A water-based, carbon filler-dispersed coating formulation for forming a conductive coating film contains (1) a hydroxyalkyl chitosan as a resin binder, (2) a conductive carbon filler, and (3) a polybasic acid or its derivative in a water-based medium containing at least water as a polar solvent. In 100 parts by mass of the coating formulation, the hydroxyalkyl chitosan (1) is contained in a range of from 0.1 to 20 parts by mass, and the conductive carbon filler (2) is contained in a range of from 1 to 30 parts by mass. An electricity-imparting material, an electrode plate for an electricity storage device, a process for producing the electrode plate, and the electricity storage device are also disclosed.
US09834687B2
A nano-composite material for coating glass, as well as methods of its manufacture and use, are disclosed. The composite may be composed of a first metal oxide bridging a silicone oil moiety and an anionic surfactant moiety, and a second metal oxide bound to the silicone oil moiety. The composite may be fabricated by heating a first metal oxide and a second metal oxide with silicone oil, followed by the addition of a mixture of the surfactant and an oxidizing solution. The composite may be mixed with a suitable solvent and applied to a hot glass sheet. A glass coated with such a composite may transmit visible light, absorb some ultraviolet light, and reflect some near infrared light. The optical characteristics of the coated glass may be used to reduce heat in a glass-enclosed area by reducing the amount of infrared and ultraviolet light transmitted through the glass.
US09834681B2
β-Lactamase substrates and methods for using the substrates to detect β-lactamase and to diagnose tuberculosis.
US09834674B2
The present invention relates to an easily-plated PC/ABS alloy and its preparation method. The PC/ABS alloy includes following components: 30-70 parts by weight (pbw) of PC resin, 15-65 pbw of ABS resin, 5-10 pbw of PEO resin, 0.1-1 pbw of antioxidant, and 0.1-1 pbw of lubricant. For preparation, blending the PC resin, ABS resin, PEO resin, antioxidant and lubricant in a mixer; and putting a mixture in a twin-screw extruder for granulation, thus producing easily-plated PC/ABS alloy. The method is simple and practicable. PEO resin makes PC/ABS surface have the property of hydrophilicity, which makes the etching solution easier to wet the surface when under etching, so that the etching becomes much easier. The binding force of hydrophilic group on the surface of PEO to the metal is strong. The binding force of PC/ABS alloy material is improved due to the combination between the chemical bond and physical force.
US09834666B2
Provided is a polyolefin-based resin composition including a hydrogenated block copolymer (A) and a polyolefin-based resin (B), the hydrogenated block copolymer (A) being a hydrogenated product of a block copolymer including a polymer block (a) composed of a constitutional unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound and a polymer block (b) containing 1 to 100% by mass of a constitutional unit (b1) derived from farnesene and 99 to 0% by mass of a constitutional unit (b2) derived from a conjugated diene other than farnesene; a mass ratio of the polymer block (a) and the polymer block (b) [(a)/(b)] being 1/99 to 55/45; 50 mol % or more of carbon-carbon double bonds in the polymer block (b) being hydrogenated; and a mass ratio of the polyolefin-based resin (B) and the hydrogenated block copolymer (A) [{polyolefin-based resin (B)}/{hydrogenated block copolymer (A)}] being 1/99 to 99/1. The polyolefin-based resin composition is favorable in flexibility and molding processability, excellent in weather resistance and whitening resistance, and also excellent in rigidity.
US09834658B2
The present invention provides: a rubber composition obtained by mixing 30 to 80 parts by mass of carbon black, whose DBP absorption value and CTAB adsorption specific surface area satisfy the following relational formulas (I) and (II), into 100 parts by mass of a rubber component, wherein macrodispersion D(%) of the carbon black in the rubber composition is 1% or more and less than 10%, and the rubber composition has high performance and excellent processability such as roll workability and the like; and a rubber product such as a tire having reduced rolling resistance and excellent fatigue resistance and abrasion resistance. DBP absorption value(cm3/100 g)<3.0×(CTAB adsorption specific surface area(m2/g))−270 (I) DBP absorption value(cm3/100 g)<115 (II) CTAB adsorption specific surface area(m2/g)<230 (III).
US09834654B2
A method of making a foam comprising the following steps. A mixture is created comprising (i) a first reactant comprising triglyceride having acrylate functionality, (ii) a second reactant comprising diacrylate, and (iii) a blowing agent. The mixture is expanded to create a froth. The first and second reactants of the froth are reacted to create the foam.
US09834653B2
The invention relates to a method of producing monodisperse amidomethylated vinylaromatic bead polymers, to ion exchangers prepared from these monodisperse amidomethylated vinylaromatic bead polymers by alkaline hydrolysis, to the method of using said monodisperse amidomethylated vinylaromatic bead polymers in the manufacture of ion exchangers and chelating resins, and also to the method of using these ion exchangers in the removal of heavy metals and noble metals from aqueous solutions or gases.
US09834648B2
The present invention relates to a hardenable silicone composition including an irradiation-activated system for temporarily inhibiting the hydrosilylation reaction. Said system includes at least one inhibitor selected from among α-acetylenic alcohols, α-α′-acetylenic diesters, conjugated ene-yne compounds, α-acetylenic ketones, acrylonitriles, maleates, fumarates, the mixture thereof, at least one photoinitiator, and tris(trimethylsilyl)silane (TTMSS). The invention also relates to a method for preparing a silicone coating and hard elastomer materials provided comprising said silicone composition.
US09834645B2
Provided are a thermoplastic resin composition having high environmental stress crack resistance (ESCR) as well as excellent impact resistance and transparency and a thermoplastic resin molded article prepared therefrom. The thermoplastic resin composition includes a graft copolymer (A), in which a (meth)acrylic acid ester, a vinyl cyan-based compound, and an aromatic vinyl compound are graft polymerized with a conjugated diene-based rubber latex; and a copolymer (B) of a (meth)acrylic acid ester-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyan-based compound in a weight ratio of 35:65 to 70:30. A difference in refractive indices of the graft copolymer (A) and the copolymer (B) of the (meth)acrylic acid ester-aromatic vinyl compound-vinyl cyan-based compound is less than 0.003 when irradiated with light having a wavelength of 450 nm to 680 nm, and a melt index is 4.0 g/10 min or less when the melt index is measured in accordance with ASTM D1238.
US09834643B2
A continuous process for the manufacture of a polyamide, the process comprising the steps of: (i) flowing a stream A comprising a moltendicarboxylic acid, or a molten dicarboxylic acid-rich mixture comprising a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine, through a first stage and at least one more reaction stage of a vertical multistage reactor, wherein the first stage is at the top of the reactor; (ii) counter-currently flowing a stream B comprising a diamine as either a vapor or a diamine-rich liquid through at least one of the stages below the first reaction stage of said vertical multistage reactor; (iii) accumulating a liquid phase material P comprising polyamide at and/or below the final stage of said reactor; wherein said reactor is equipped with internal features suitable for effecting contact between counter-currently flowing streams A and B; and wherein the process further comprises controlling the viscosity of said liquid phase material P by directly controlling the chemical equilibrium of the polyamidation reaction or by controlling stream B so that the amounts of diamine and dicarboxylic acid introduced into the reactor during the process are stoichiometrically imbalanced. The invention further provides a vertical multistage reactor configured to implement said process.
US09834639B2
The present invention relates to a curing agent for moisture-curing compositions which includes at least one aqueous emulsion of at least one epoxy resin. Curing agents according to the invention are especially used for the accelerated curing of moisture-curing compositions which are based on polyurethane polymers that have isocyanate groups or of silane-functional polymers.
US09834634B2
An epoxy functional acrylic resin having a Tg of greater than 85° C. and a calculated solubility parameter from about 9.20 to about 9.30 (cal/cm3)1/2, powder coating compositions including the same and coated substrates coated with the powder coating composition is described. The resin includes, as copolymerized monomers, from about 10 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of one or more epoxy functional unsaturated monomers; from about 10 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of one or more hydrophobic acrylic monomers, and from greater than 50 wt. % to about 75 wt. % of at least one nonionic copolymer that is different from the hydrophobic acrylic monomers ii), each monomer wt. % based on the total weight of copolymerized monomers in the resin.
US09834629B1
A dispersion stabilizer for suspension polymerization is provided that includes a vinyl alcohol-based polymer (A), wherein a 0.1 mass % concentration aqueous solution of the polymer (A) has an absorbance (a1) of less than 0.25 at a wavelength of 280 nm, the aqueous solution has an absorbance (a2) of less than 0.030 at a wavelength of 320 nm, the polymer (A) has a degree of saponification of not less than 68 mol % and not more than 98 mol %, the polymer (A) has a viscosity-average degree of polymerization of more than 1500 and less than 4500, and the polymer (A) in powder form has a YI value of not less than 5. The dispersion stabilizer is capable of producing a vinyl-based resin that is excellent in polymerization stability, has a small particle size, and has an improved bulk density.
US09834627B2
Embodiments encompassing a series of compositions containing polymers of norbornadiene and maleic anhydride monomers which are useful in forming a variety of photopatternable structures are disclosed and claimed. The compositions are useful as permanent dielectric materials. More specifically, embodiments encompassing compositions containing a series of ter- and tetrapolymers of a variety of norbornadiene, maleic anhydride, maleimide and norbornene-type cycloolefinic monomers in which maleic anhydride is fully or partially hydrolyzed (i.e., ring opened and fully or partially esterified), and a photoactive compound are disclosed, which are useful in forming permanent dielectric materials having utility in a variety of electronic material applications, among various other uses.
US09834625B2
A coupling agent having at least two alkenylbenzene groups each covalently bonded with a nitrogen of an amine compound. The coupling agent can have the structure I: wherein Z is an amine; R1-R10 are each, independent of one another, H, an organic functional group or a terminal alkene, wherein at least one terminal alkene is on each benzene ring; m is an integer from 1 to 8.
US09834622B2
The present invention generally relates to alcohol-terminated polyisobutylene (PIB) compounds, and to a process for making such compounds. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to primary alcohol-terminated polyisobutylene compounds, and to a process for making such compounds. In still another embodiment, the present invention relates to polyisobutylene compounds that can be used to synthesize polyurethanes, to polyurethane compounds made via the use of such polyisobutylene compounds, and to processes for making such compounds. In yet another embodiment, the present invention relates to primary alcohol-terminated polyisobutylene compounds having two or more primary alcohol termini and to a process for making such compounds. In yet another embodiment, the present invention relates to primary terminated polyisobutylene compounds having two or more primary termini selected from amine groups or methacrylate groups.
US09834618B2
The present invention relates to water and solvent-free polymers, in particular water and solvent-free synthetic rubber products like non-halogenated and halogenated butyl rubber products as well as a process for the production thereof. The invention further relates to a device suitable to accomplish said process.
US09834617B2
The invention provides a method for immobilization of biological molecules such as nucleic acids, peptides and proteins onto the surface of a glass or plastic solid support.
US09834606B2
Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to Programmed Death-1 (PD1, Pdcd-1, or CD279) and inhibit PD1-mediated cellular signaling and activities in immune cells, antibodies binding to a set of amino acid residues required for its ligand binding, and uses of these antibodies to treat or diagnose cancer, infectious diseases or other pathological disorders modulated by PD1-mediated functions.
US09834601B2
The invention relates to antagonists of IL-17 isoforms and their uses in diagnosis and therapy, especially for the treatment or prevention of cancers or autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases.
US09834595B2
The present invention relates in part to amino acid sequences that are directed against and/or that can specifically bind to an envelope protein of a virus, as well as to compounds or constructs, and in particular proteins and polypeptides, that comprise or essentially consist of one or more such amino acid sequences.
US09834593B2
The present invention is based on the discovery of polyclonal IgG's ability to promote Schwann cell maturation, differentiation, and myelin production. Methods for treating non-idiopathic, demyelinating peripheral neuropathies in mammals, where the neuropathy is not immune-mediated or infection-mediated, through the administration of polyclonal IgG are provided. Types of demyelinating peripheral neuropathies treatable with the present invention include peripheral nerve trauma and toxin-induced peripheral neuropathies. Alternatively, a composition of polyclonal IgGs can be applied directly to a peripheral nerve cell to induce maturation, differentiation into a myelinating state, and myelin expression or promote cell survival.
US09834590B2
The present invention relates to a chimeric receptor capable of signaling both a primary and a co-stimulatory pathway, thus allowing activation of the co-stimulatory pathway without binding to the natural ligand. The cytoplasmic domain of the receptor contains a portion of the 4-1BB signaling domain. Embodiments of the invention relate to polynucleotides that encode the receptor, vectors and host cells encoding a chimeric receptor, particularly including T cells and natural killer (NK) cells and methods of use.
US09834581B2
A cell-penetrating peptide characterized in that it comprises an amino acid sequence consisting of XWXRLXXXXXX (SEQ ID No: 5), wherein X in position 1 is beta-A or S; X in positions 3, 9 and 10 are, independently from each other, W or F; X in position 6 is R if X in position 8 is S, and X in position 6 is S if X in position 8 is R; X in position 7 is L or none; X in position 11 is R or none, and wherein X in position 7 is L if X in position 11 is none.
US09834580B2
Short tri- and tetrapeptides according to the following Formula I Ar(CH2)mX1—X2—CO—X3—X4—X5-(Trp)n-NX6R are potent, selective agonists of melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R). Provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions including Formula I peptide agonists of MC1R and methods of treating skin diseases and disorders that include administering to an individual in need thereof a therapeutic amount of a Formula I peptide. The peptides, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods described herein are useful in the treatment of diseases and disorders that benefit from agonism of MCIR, including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, porphyria, polymorphous light eruption, vitiligo, and solar urticaria.
US09834579B2
Disclosed are two novel crystalline forms of S-acetyl glutathione (SAG) called Form A and Form B, obtained by crystallization of SAG from mixtures of water-acetone, water-ethanol or water acetone under controlled conditions. Forms A and B can be advantageously used as ingredients of pharmaceutical or nutraceutical formulations.
US09834577B2
The present invention provides a process for the preparation of gemcitabine-[phenyl(benzoxy-L-alaninyl)] phosphate of Formula I in high yield and purity.
US09834575B2
The present application relates to compositions and methods for treating a proliferative disorder by administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition of a dual kinase inhibitor metabolite. Catecholic butane metabolites can serve as dual kinase inhibitors for purposes of methods described herein.
US09834574B2
Crystalline 3-O-fucosyllactose, useful in a pharmaceutical composition and a nutritional formulation, is disclosed.
US09834573B2
Provided are crystalline forms of a compound having an inhibitory effect on sodium-dependent glucose cotransporter SGLT2. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing the crystalline compound, and methods of using the crystalline compound, independently or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for treating diseases and conditions which are affected by SGLT or SGLT2 inhibition.
US09834568B2
The present disclosure provides compounds that inhibit protein kinases, such as JAK, Axl, or Syk kinases, compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds to inhibit protein kinase and treat and/or prevent diseases associated with inappropriate kinase activity.
US09834567B1
A novel crystalline form is defined by diffraction angle 2θ° of X-ray powder diffraction pattern and characteristic peak of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The novel crystalline form of Cefamandole Nafate is prepared as follows: adding Cefamandole Nafate in solid state to an organic solvent to form a suspension with a concentration of 0.04˜0.3 g/ml, stirring the suspension at 40˜50° C. for a period of time, and then cooling to 5˜15° C. at certain cooling rate, continuing to stir for a period of time, then suction filtrating the obtained suspension, the resulting filer cake is Cefamandole Nafate as wet product, which is dried to constant weight to provide the novel crystalline form of Cefamandole Nafate as final product.
US09834566B2
The disclosure generally relates to compounds of formula I, including compositions and methods for treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The disclosure provides novel inhibitors of HIV integrase, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and methods for using these compounds in the treatment of HIV infection.
US09834565B2
The present disclosure relates to tricyclic heterocycles which are inhibitors of BET proteins such as BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, and BRD-t and are useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US09834556B2
The present invention is directed to a processes for the synthesis of 3-(3-(4-(1-aminocyclobutyl)phenyl)-5-phenyl-3H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridin-2-yl)pyridin-2-amine:
US09834555B2
The present invention provides the use of certain compounds to treat peripheral or central pain syndrome and other disorders associated with the T-type calcium ion channels.
US09834547B2
This disclosure relates to the field of molecules having pesticidal utility against pests in phyla Nematoda, Arthropoda, and/or Mollusca, processes to produce such molecules and intermediates used in such processes, compositions containing such molecules, and processes of using such molecules against such pests. These molecules may be used, for example, as nematicides, acaricides, insecticides, miticides, and/or molluscicides. This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”).
US09834539B2
The invention relates to inhibitors of mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase (mt-IDH) proteins with neomorphic activity useful in the treatment of cell-proliferation disorders and cancers, having the Formula: where A, U, W1, W2, W3, R1-R6, and R9 are described herein.
US09834527B2
The present invention relates to macrocydic urea derivatives of the formula I (I) in which R1, R2, R3, V and Y are as defined below. The compounds of the formula I are inhibitors of the enzyme TAFIa (activated thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor). The invention further relates to the process for the preparation of the compounds of formula I and to the use thereof as medicaments.
US09834524B2
The present invention relates to novel isoxazoles, a process for their preparation and their use in the preparation of technical textiles and PPE's (Personal Protective Equipments), namely in the preparation of UV-protective and anti-infective textiles and garments.
US09834523B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 1 wherein Q and Z are as defined in the disclosure comprising distilling water from a mixture comprising a compound of Formula 2, a compound of Formula 3, a base comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth metal hydroxides of Formula 4 wherein M is Ca, Sr or Ba, alkali metal carbonates of Formula 4a wherein M1 is Li, Na or K, 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene and 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene, and an aprotic solvent capable of forming a low-boiling azeotrope with water. Also disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 2 comprising (1) forming a reaction mixture comprising a Grignard reagent derived from contacting a compound of Formula 5 wherein X is Cl, Br or I with magnesium metal or an alkylmagnesium halide in the presence of an ethereal solvent, and then (2) contacting the reaction mixture with a compound of Formula 6 wherein Y is OR11 or NR12R13, and R11, R12 and R13 are as defined in the disclosure. Further disclosed is a method for preparing a compound of Formula 7 wherein Q and Z are as defined in the disclosure, using a compound of Formula 1 characterized by preparing the compound of Formula 1 by the method disclosed above or using a compound of Formula 1 prepared by the method disclosed above.
US09834521B2
This invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I): in which the variable groups are as identified herein, and to preparation and use of the compounds.
US09834518B2
The invention features compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating patients who have an EGFR-driven cancer of formula I: wherein the variables are as defined herein.
US09834517B2
A method for producing a halohydantoin compound according to the present invention includes the steps of: (a) providing, in a dryer, a composition containing (i) at least one component selected from the group consisting of water, an organic solvent, and elemental halogen and (ii) a halohydantoin compound; and (b) drying the composition under reduced pressure in the dryer, the reduced pressure being reduced to a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure while introducing an inert gas from an outside source into the dryer.
US09834512B2
Cyclopropane-containing vitamin D analogs of formulas I and IV are provided. Such compounds may be used in preparing pharmaceutical compositions and are useful in treating a variety of biological conditions.
US09834510B2
What is described is a compound of formula I wherein X is an ethene, or an unsubstituted or substituted arene or heteroarene; Y is a bond, an ethene, or an unsubstituted or substituted arene or heteroarene; Z is S or O; L is a linear or branched alkylene of 1 to 6 carbons; R1 and R2 are independently a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl of 1 to 18 carbons; R3 and R4 are independently a linear or branched alkyl of 1 to 6 carbons; n is 0 to 6; and m, p, q, and r are independently 1-18; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09834509B2
Disclosed are methods for preparing disulfide compounds through oxidative coupling of thiol compounds. Thiols are oxidized to the corresponding disulfide compound in high yield in presence of a base and a metal salt. The method uses low catalyst loadings and provides organic disulfide compounds with little to no byproducts.
US09834487B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel highly concentrated phosphoric or thiophosphoric triamide formulation with enhanced stability against crystallization or freezing under extended exposure to low temperature of 0° C. or below. It also provides a method to make and use such formulations.
US09834483B2
Syrup produced in a lignocellulosic biomass fermentation process is used as a binder for soil conditioning materials to make an agricultural composition that is easily handled and applied. The syrup binds powdery soil conditioning materials such as lime and gypsum to form pellets or granules.
US09834467B2
An apparatus (100) for making glass tubing (200) of a desired non-circular cross-sectional profile (cf FIG. 3) includes a mandrel (101) adapted for positioning proximate heat-softened tubing. The mandrel (101) has a nose (102) and a nozzle section (120) with a chosen profile that will define a final cross-sectional profile of the tubing. The nozzle section (120) has a feed chamber (140) for receiving a gas from a source (207) and a porous and/or foraminous circumferential surface (132,134) through which the gas can be discharged to an exterior of the mandrel. The gas discharges to the exterior of the mandrel, forming a film of pressurized gas in the gap (314, 318) between the porous circumferential surface (132,134) and the heat-softened tubing (200). A method of forming tubing having a non-circular cross-sectional profile using the apparatus is also provided. A glass sleeve made from the reshaped or formed tubing is also disclosed: a monolithic sleeve made of parallel, opposite, flat and smooth front and back covers for use in an electronic device (cf FIG. 13). Some glass-ceramic materials may also be suitable for the tubing, such as transparent beta spodumene.
US09834457B2
The invention relates to a method for solidifying a floating fat and oil in a food waste water, the method being capable of solidifying floating oil by uniformly mixing and aging the floating oil having a high content of water generated during the process of treating high concentration waste water generated during a food waste treatment process or generated from a food company, slaughterhouse and the like.
US09834454B2
A hydro-thermal exchange unit (HTEU) for desalinating feed water in accordance with a humidification-dehumidification includes feed water, fresh water and gas conduit circuits for transporting feed water, fresh water, and gas, respectively. The unit also includes an evaporator through which a portion of the feed water conduit and the gas conduit pass. The evaporator causes evaporation of a portion of the feed water to produce vapor that is transported through the gas conduit. The unit also includes a condenser through which a portion of the gas conduit and the fresh water conduit pass. The condenser has input and output ports for coupling the gas and fresh water conduit circuits. The condenser extracts moisture from the vapor transported therethrough by the gas conduit. The extracted moisture is discharged through the fresh water conduit. The unit also includes a heat exchanger through which a portion of the fresh water conduit and the feed water conduit pass to thereby extract residual heat from the fresh water such that the residual heat heats the feed water.
US09834451B2
Implementations of this disclosure are directed to systems, devices and methods for monitoring parameters associated with a body of liquid. In one embodiment, a device includes a container configured to be partially submerged in a liquid and includes sensors disposed within a submerged portion of the container to measure parameters associated with the liquid. An electronic component disposed within an unsubmerged portion of the container transmits information related to the parameters based upon which one or more actions related to treatment of the body of liquid are suggested.
US09834445B2
Disclosed are a porous graphene member having through-holes formed therein, a method for manufacturing the porous graphene member, and an apparatus for manufacturing the porous graphene member using the method. The method comprises: introducing a carbon source and a substitution reaction source into a deposition furnace; thermally decomposing the carbon source and the substitution reaction source simultaneously to generate carbon atoms and substitution atoms, respectively, wherein the carbon atoms are deposited on a substrate present within the deposition furnace to form a graphene film consisting of a monoatomic layer structure, and during the deposition of carbon atoms, the substitution atoms not only interfere with covalent bonds between the carbon atoms to cause crystal defects, but also substitute for parts of the carbon atoms to in situ form through-holes in the graphene, thereby creating the porous graphene member; and releasing the porous graphene member from the substrate.
US09834437B2
A method for manufacturing an MEMS torsional electrostatic actuator comprises: providing a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a first silicon layer, a buried oxide layer and a second silicon layer that are laminated sequentially; patterning the first silicon layer and exposing the buried oxide layer to form a rectangular upper electrode plate separated from a peripheral region, wherein the upper electrode plate and the peripheral region are connected by only using a cantilever beam, and forming, on the peripheral region, a recessed portion exposing the buried oxide layer; patterning the second silicon layer and exposing the buried oxide layer to form a back cavity, wherein the back cavity is located in a region of the second silicon layer corresponding to the upper electrode plate, covers 40% to 60% of the area of the region corresponding to the upper electrode plate, and is close to one end of the cantilever beam; exposing the second silicon layer, and suspending the upper electrode plate and the cantilever beam; and respectively forming an upper contact electrode and a lower contact electrode on the second silicon layer.
US09834432B2
Inertial sensor comprising a fixed part and at least one mass suspended from the fixed part and means of damping the displacement of the part suspended from the fixed part, said damping means being electromechanical damping means comprising at least one DC power supply source, one electrical resistor and one variable capacitor in series, said variable capacitor being formed partly by the suspended part and partly by the fixed part such that displacement of the suspended part causes a variation of the capacitance of the variable capacitor.
US09834424B2
The invention relates to a tapping device for at least one bag-in-carton package equipped with a tapping valve. The tapping device has a housing for receiving the bag-in-carton package and an actuating unit which corresponds with the tapping valve and which has a valve-receiving bearing and at least one actuating portion for actuating the tapping valve. The actuating portion is articulated on the valve-receiving bearing by a pivot pin, has an upwardly directed lever arm and is arranged completely within the housing. Upstream of a contact region which is situated above the pivot pin on the lever arm there is arranged an actuating portion which engages through the housing and acts on the lever arm in the contact region in order to actuate the tapping valve by way of the actuating portion and can be actuated manually from outside the housing. The invention further relates to the actuating unit and to a cassette for the tapping device.
US09834415B2
The invention relates to an elevator system (10) for a building under construction, comprising a vertical shaft (12), in which a temporary machine compartment (14) is retained, a driving device (18), which is arranged in the temporary machine compartment (14) and which is coupled by means of a supporting cable (21) to a car (23) that can be moved vertically up and down in the shaft (12), and a speed limiter (30), which interacts with a speed limiter cable (34) arranged in the shaft (12). According to the invention, in order to develop the elevator system in such a way that the speed limiter cable (34) can be extended in a simple manner when the temporary machine compartment (14) is moved without said action leading to permanently increased energy consumption of the elevator system (10), the speed limiter (30) is arranged on the car (23) or on a counterweight (25) connected to the car (23) by means of the supporting cable (21), and that the speed limiter cable (34) has a first and second cable section (32, 52), wherein the first cable section (32) is clamped in a stationary manner between a cable retainer (46) connected to the temporary machine compartment (14) in a stationary manner and a releasable clamping device (50) arranged in a lower shaft region (48) and the second cable section (52) is connected to the first cable section (32) in the lower shaft region (48) and is stored in a storage region.
US09834413B2
A device for synchronously actuating and locking elevator doors, which are situated essentially one behind the other in the passage direction—such as a car door and a shaft door; the device includes entraining skids that are fastened to a first door by means of an entraining skid support and whose spacing relative to one another can be changed in order to be able to couple the first door to the second door and move the two doors together and the device is coupled to a linear drive unit that moves the doors in the opening and closing directions, characterized in that the entraining skid support has a plurality of first openings that make it possible to mount at least one, preferably both, of the entraining skids on the entraining skid support in different functional positions.
US09834411B2
In one embodiment, there is a unique heavy lifting system capable of transporting vertically heavy loads from grade to any elevation required by the project.
US09834396B2
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a support member having a support surface configured to support sheets, a feed unit configured to feed the sheets stacked on the support surface in a feed direction, a guide member provided on the downstream side of the support member in the feed direction, and a separating member projecting from an inclined surface of the guide member toward the support surface. The inclined surface is curved such that a separating area where the separating member is provided comes closest to the side of the support surface. The support surface has a first support surface located on the immediate upstream side in the feed direction to correspond to the separating area, and second support surfaces arranged respectively on both sides of the first support surface in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction to be lowered than the first support surface.
US09834389B2
Methods and apparatus provide for sourcing a glass web, the glass web having a length and a width transverse to the length; continuously moving the glass web from the source to a destination in a transport direction along the length of the glass web; and cutting the glass web at a cutting zone into at least first and second glass ribbons as the glass web is moved from the source to the destination, the first glass ribbon having a first width and the second glass ribbon having a second width, where the first and second widths are not equal.
US09834383B2
A conveyor flight for a chain comprising at least two spaced apart links, and two side plates that connect the links, with each side plate including two spaced apart extension pins extending from the side plate. The flight comprises a metal support, and the metal support includes two spaced apart cylindrical portions adapted to receive the two spaced apart extension pins. The flight also includes a flexible casing surrounding the metal support.
US09834378B2
A system comprising a load port and a transfer module. In one embodiment, the load port includes a plate having a first opening and a second opening, a first workpiece access port, a second workpiece access port and at least one storage location. The storage location(s) may be located either beneath the second workpiece access port or above the first workpiece access port. The transfer mosule, which is located adjacent the load port, includes a load arm for moving the workpiece containers between the first workpiece access port, the second workpiece access port, any of the storage shelves and a material transport system.
US09834376B1
Closure component for securing a bag to a support in a container includes an annular portion including an upper wall, and inner and outer circumferential walls extending downward from an inner and outer edge region of the upper wall, respectively. A channel is defined on an underside of the annular portion by the inner, outer and upper walls. A pinch is on the inner or outer wall and includes a pair of slots extending upward from a lower edge of that wall and which are spaced apart from one another to enable a solid portion of that wall to temporarily flex outward relative to the channel. The upper wall includes an opening above each pinch. An optional extension portion extends radially outward from the outer wall and engages with attachment structure. The closure component is pivotable relative to the support via engagement of the extension portion with the attachment structure.
US09834375B2
A multipurpose refuse receptacle comprising an outer shell defining an inner chamber, a receiving assembly disposed within the inner chamber, and a door assembly. The door assembly is movable between an open position and a close position. The receptacle has a basket carrier and a basket, the basket being disposable within the basket carrier. Further, a hydraulic lift assembly is operably coupled to the basket carrier, the hydraulic lift assembly having a pump assembly. A mechanism is operably coupled to the pump assembly and the door assembly, the mechanism being movable in a first direction. Wherein, when the mechanism is moved in the first direction the door assembly moves to the open position. Further wherein, when the mechanism is moved in the first direction, hydraulic pressure is generated by the pump assembly.
US09834364B2
Disclosed is a storage tank for molten salts, preferably of the thermocline type. The tank is provided with an insulation on the inside, which is provided by molten salts captured and retained in an appropriate metal structure. The metal structure has openings allowing molten salts to flow into it, and may consist of metal supports that hold elements which allow retaining molten salts, such as a structured packing, metal boxes, or gutter wall.
US09834360B2
An implement for storage at a constant temperature has two housings (21 and 22) that accommodate heat storage agents. One heat storage agent (41) is irremovably accommodated in one housing (21), and a hook-and-loop fastener (30) for installation in a storage container is provided on the outer surface of the other housing (22).
US09834357B2
A packing device includes: a packing box with an internal space capable of storing a packing target object with a protection target part, and with a packing box inner surface that is at least one inner surface positioned to face the protection target part of the packing target object; and a holding material configured to, when stored in the internal space together with the packing target object, maintain a space between the protection target part and the packing box inner surface by coming into contact with the packing box inner surface and a contact surface of the packing target object facing the packing box inner surface, while staying out of contact with the protection target part of the packing target object.
US09834355B2
A packaging unit for hygiene articles is formed from a sheet having a folding axis dividing the sheet into first and second regions. One of the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion of the edge zone of the first region is provided with resealable adhesive, thus forming a first adhesive zone. The other of the inner edge portion and the outer edge portion is adhesive-free. The inner edge portion or the outer edge portion of the edge zone of the second region corresponding to the adhesive-carrying edge portion of the first region is adhesive-free, such that when the sheet is folded about the folding axis, the edge portions carrying resealable adhesive in the first region are brought in contact with the adhesive-free edge portions in the second region. A distance between the at least one first folding axis and the first adhesive zone is 1-20 mm.
US09834353B2
A reclosable flexible package is described that includes an inner film layer, an outer film layer laminated to the inner film layer, and reclose region defined in a portion of package film layers. The reclose region includes pressure sensitive adhesive disposed between the inner and outer film layers. A number of cut lines are provided in the outer film layer in the reclose region, such that the user, by manipulating the package film layers at the reclose region, can reveal the underlying layer of pressure sensitive adhesive. Once the pressure sensitive adhesive of the reclose region is exposed, the action of the user can serve to adhere the pressure sensitive adhesive to itself and/or other portions of the film, such that the package is cinched in the area of the reclose region and maintains the remnants of the package contents within the reclosed package for later use.
US09834343B2
A closure device for containers comprises a lid having a spout (4) with holes (4a), a valve body (9) attached to the lid (4) and operable on the spout (4). The valve body (9) comprises a cup-shaped element (10) having a blind bottom wall (10a) and a side wall (10b) that emerges from the bottom wall (10a) and delimits an upper opening, the side wall (10b) of the cup-shaped element (10) being made of a resilient material, and at least partially contacting a first sleeve (5) of the lid (2), which is in fluid communication with the spout (4). The side wall (10b) of the cup-shaped element (10) contacts the first sleeve (5) in a fluid-tight manner and moves away from the first sleeve (5) in response to a negative pressure introduced through the spout (4).
US09834335B1
An interlocking or mating container and container system are presented herein. In particular, the system includes a plurality of adjacently disposed (side-by-side, end-to-end and stacked) containers that are dimensioned to maximize the available space on a pallet, for example, a 463-L Pallet, HCU-6/E Pallet or other pallet. The containers include enlarged wheels, one or more support feet, and a handle assembly. The containers are configured to include a plurality of interlocking or mating portions such as one or more wheel assembly receiving portions, one or more foot receiving portions, outer extensions or engaging portions, and a handle engaging portion. The Interlocking or mating portions are configured to matingly engage or abut corresponding portions of an adjacent container and at least partially restrict movement there between.
US09834330B2
A labelling system includes a dispensing apparatus to present respective cut and opened sleeves of shrink-wrap label stock material for insertion of claws of crustaceans, and a heating apparatus to apply heat to the sleeves to shrink the sleeves around the claws. A related method includes inserting a claw of a crustacean into a sleeve of shrink-wrap label stock material, and applying heat to the sleeve to shrink the sleeve around the claw. Another method involves providing a dispensing apparatus to present respective cut and opened sleeves of shrink-wrap label stock material to receive claws of crustaceans, and providing a heating apparatus to apply heat to the sleeves to shrink the sleeves around the claws. A seafood product may include a crustacean having a claw, the claw carrying a shrink-wrap label.
US09834323B2
Systems and methods for high-speed non-destructive inspection of a half- or full-barrel-shaped workpiece, such as a barrel-shaped section of an aircraft fuselage. Such workpieces can be scanned externally using a mobile (e.g., translating) arch gantry system comprising a translatable arch frame disposed outside the fuselage section, a carriage that can travel along a curved track carried by the arch frame, a radially inward-extending telescopic arm having a proximal end fixedly coupled to the carriage, and an NDI sensor unit coupled to a distal end of the telescoping arm. The stiffeners of the fuselage sections can be scanned using a mobile scanner platform disposed inside the fuselage section, which platform comprises a radially outward-extending telescopic arm rotatably coupled to a mobile (e.g., holonomic or linear motion) platform and an NDI sensor unit coupled to a distal end of the telescoping arm. The scan data is matched with position data acquired using any one of a plurality of tracking systems to enable the display of NDI features/flaws on a three-dimensional representation of the workpiece.
US09834321B2
An apparatus for launching an aircraft secured to a balloon by a tether includes a support member and a launch arm connected to the support member and rotatable relative to the support member about an axis. At least one mechanism releasably connects the aircraft to the launch arm and has a first condition securing the aircraft to the launch arm when the aircraft has a first orientation relative to the launch arm. The release mechanism has a second condition automatically releasing the aircraft from the launch arm when the aircraft has a second orientation relative to the launch arm different from the first orientation.
US09834318B2
Systems and methods for lightning strike materials are disclosed. The material may include a carbon fiber tow. Carbon nanotubes may be grown on carbon fibers within the carbon fiber tow. The carbon nanotubes may cause the carbon fibers to separate, decreasing a carbon tow fiber volume fraction of the tow. The growth of the carbon nanotubes may be controlled to select a tow fiber volume fraction of the tow. The lightning strike material may transmit electricity to decrease damage to the composite structure in case of a lightning strike.
US09834309B2
An air supply system for passengers includes an air supply line with a plurality of laterally situated air outlets, an individual air panel with at least one air nozzle and an air inlet opening. The individual air panel can be variably positioned along the air supply line in such a way that the air inlet opening faces one of the air outlets. A plurality of magnetic valves is arranged at the air outlets of the air supply line. One of the magnetic valves may be magnetically actuated by the individual air panel, when the air inlet opening of the individual air panel faces said one magnetic valve, so that air can flow out of the air supply line through the air outlet and the air inlet opening to the air nozzle.
US09834307B2
Embodiments include one or more high altitude, long endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft capable of persistent station-keeping having one or more electromagnetic (IR/Visual/RF) sensor elements or suites for purposes of survey and/or signal gathering. Embodiments include one or more high altitude, long endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft capable of persistent station-keeping having a directable laser. Embodiments include a group of four or more high altitude, long endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft configured as GPS repeaters.
US09834306B2
An emergency unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a method for employing a UAV. The method includes storing a digital elevation model (DEM) and associated data including locations of communication networks, updating the locations of communication networks in the associated data via a wireless transceiver, and storing position information determined by a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver. The method includes detecting a predetermined condition using electronic sensors, determining whether the UAV is within a communications range of any communication network via the wireless transceiver, and determining a path to a communication network using the DEM and the associated data. The method also includes causing the UAV to become airborne and fly along the path, and transmitting a distress message via the wireless transceiver to the communication network, the distress message including position information corresponding to a location where the UAV detected the predetermined condition.
US09834293B2
A steering system for a marine vessel comprises a first propulsion unit, a second propulsion unit, and a third propulsion unit. There is a hydraulic actuator for imparting steering motion to the first propulsion unit and a hydraulic actuator for imparting steering motion to the second propulsion unit. A tie bar couples a tiller of the third propulsion unit to the hydraulic actuator of the first propulsion unit. A joystick is used to input user steering commands to the steering system. Movement of the joystick actuates the said hydraulic actuators to impart steering motion to the first propulsion unit and the second propulsion unit. The third propulsion unit is put in neutral when the joystick is used to input user steering commands.
US09834291B2
An outboard motor for a marine vessel application, and related methods of making and operating same, are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the outboard motor includes a horizontal-crankshaft engine in an upper portion of the outboard motor, positioned substantially positioned above a trimming axis of the outboard motor. In at least another embodiment, first, second and third transmission devices are employed to transmit rotational power from the engine to one or more propellers at a lower portion of the outboard motor. In at least a further embodiment, the outboard motor is made to include a rigid interior assembly formed by the engine, multiple transmission devices, and a further structural component. In further embodiments, the outboard motor includes numerous cooling, exhaust, and/or oil system components, as well as other transmission features.
US09834290B2
An unmanned, autonomous, ocean-going vessel including a primary hull and a rigid wing rotationally coupled with the primary hull that freely rotates about a rotational axis. At least one of the primary hull and the rigid wing includes at least one selectively floodable compartment configured to selectively flood to submerge the primary hull and at least a portion of the rigid wing. The vessel further includes at least one controller configured to maintain a desired heading. The vessel further includes a control surface element configured to aerodynamically control a wing angle of the rigid wing based on a force exerted by wind on the control surface element. The vessel further includes a rudder. The at least one controller is further configured to determine a rudder position and generate a signal to position the rudder. The vessel further includes a keel coupled with the primary hull.
US09834288B1
An apparatus includes first and second tanks each configured to receive and store a refrigerant under pressure. The apparatus also includes at least one generator configured to receive flows of the refrigerant between the tanks and to generate electrical power based on the flows of the refrigerant. The apparatus further includes first and second hydraulic drives associated with the first and second tanks, respectively. Each hydraulic drive includes a first piston within the associated tank, a channel fluidly coupled to the associated tank and configured to contain hydraulic fluid, and a second piston within the channel and configured to move within the channel in order to vary an amount of the hydraulic fluid within the associated tank and vary a position of the first piston within the associated tank. The channel of each hydraulic drive has a cross-sectional area that is less than a cross-sectional area of the associated tank.
US09834275B2
A folding bike designed such that when the bicycle is folded, the front and rear frame structural members bypass each other in a non-overlapping manner except at folding and fastening positions using an axis of rotation at or near the seat tube, wherein the folding bicycle maintains a rigid riding position using an innovative fastening mechanism positioned to fasten by actuation of a member located not above the uppermost surface of the front frame, and which may be equipped with primary and secondary retention wherein the secondary retention may automatically engage when the bike is unfolded to the operative riding position.
US09834273B2
A motorcycle includes an extended and lower frame arrangement, a front wheel coupled to the extended and lower frame arrangement via a front wheel extension member to frontwardly extend a distance between the extended and lower frame arrangement and the front wheel, a rear wheel coupled to the extended and lower frame arrangement via a widen hub assembly to rearwardly extend a distance between the extended and lower frame arrangement and the rear wheel, such that the front wheel and the rear wheel are shifted far from the extended and lowered frame arrangement to lengthen a distance between the front wheel and the rear wheel so as to further lower a center of gravity of the motorcycle.
US09834270B2
A kick scooter includes a frame having a head tube for supporting handlebars and a front fork, an elongated frame member extending along a length of the frame, the frame member having a first end attached to the head tube and a second end configured for attachment to a rear wheel, the frame member being angularly disposed relative to the head tube. The frame includes support member coupled to the frame member for adjustable movement along a length of the frame member, a knee pad is attached to the support member for supporting a rider's knee and shin. The support member is movable relative to the frame member for adjusting a position of the knee pad relative to the head tube and a riding surface. The kick scooter further includes front and rear wheels, and a handlebar attached to the frame.
US09834269B2
A traveling wind intake structure for a saddled vehicle, comprising a meter visor covering a meter from above; and a wind screen covering the meter visor from above, wherein an introduction portion for introducing a traveling wind rearward of the wind screen is formed between a lower end of the wind screen and a vehicle body, a gate-type louver member is provided between the wind screen and the meter visor, and is formed by a plate-shaped guide member for guiding rearward the traveling wind introduced through the introduction portion, and leg members extending downward from left and right end portions of the guide member in a vehicle width direction, and the leg members are each provided with a shaft portion extending along the vehicle width direction and supporting the louver member in a frontward and rearward swingable manner.
US09834256B2
A vehicle lower portion structure that includes: a suspension member that does not have a section that interconnects, in a vehicle width direction, a vehicle front-side end portion of a side rail placed on one vehicle width direction side and a vehicle front-side end portion of a side rail placed on the other vehicle width direction side; and a pair of right and left coupling portions that respectively interconnect the vehicle front-side end portion of the side rail placed on the one vehicle width direction side and a heat exchanger support lower member and interconnect the vehicle front-side end portion of the side rail placed on the other vehicle width direction side and the heat exchanger support lower member.
US09834252B2
A profile strip of a vehicle body is provided, wherein the profile strip is configured with at least one shell component made of fiber-reinforced plastic material and with at least one pultrusion component. The profile strip is subjected to bending in a bending direction and the pultrusion component is arranged alongside the shell component, as seen in the bending direction. The pultrusion component is configured with an outer shell and with at least one inner crosspiece, which is coupled to the inside of the outer shell. The at least one inner crosspiece extends in the bending direction and the at least one shell component has additional inner ribs, which extend likewise in the bending direction.
US09834243B1
A collapsible baby carriage includes a pair of middle pushing rod, a pair of upper pushing rod, a pair of T-rod, a pair of front wheel rod, a pair of bending-extension rod, a pair of side sliding rod, a pair of handle and a pair of seat side bending rod at two sides thereof. A top pushing rod, a seat bottom rod, a bottom connecting rod, a front wheel bottom rod and a rear wheel bottom rod are also between two sides of the baby carriage. The baby carriage includes a folding mechanism. The folding mechanism turns the upper pushing rod upward and the middle pushing rod and the front wheel rod downward. The flipping mechanism flips the seat side bending rods, the bending-extension rods, the front wheel rods, the front wheels, the handles, the T-rods and the rear wheels inward, forming a flat and rectangular body.
US09834242B2
A smart dolly includes a running mechanism and a body, the running mechanism comprises an equipment box and a rear axle housing, the equipment box is disposed on the rear axle housing, a battery, electric motor and control computer are provided in the equipment box, the battery and the electric motor are both electrically connected to the control computer, the equipment box has a charging plug thereon, the charging plug is electrically connected to the battery, the rear axle housing is provided with a differential clutch and an axle therein, the differential clutch and the axle form a transmission, the differential clutch is driven by the electric motor, the electric motor is provided with an electromagnetic braking device and a heat dissipation fan, and the external ends of the axle are connected to wheels; the body comprises an upper, middle and lower support rods.
US09834241B2
A removable deck for a convertible hand truck need not be removed when the hand truck is converted between upright and recumbent positions. The deck includes a pair of guide slots separating a pair of lateral flanges from a central handle. The slots and central handle are configured to receive the handle of a hand truck when the truck is converted to a four-wheeled cart. The deck perimeter includes an upstanding lip positioned inboard of the slots, flanges and central handle portion. Sets of retaining strap guides secure the panel to the hand truck and tie-down apertures are provided for securing cargo to the deck. The guide slots and center handle cooperate to retain the hand truck handle in place when the hand truck is in its four-wheeled position without use of additional fasteners to prevent disengagement.
US09834240B2
A travel cooler, includes a body comprising a base, sidewalls, and a lid connected together to define an interior, insulated containment space for holding cooler items. A lengthwise dimension of the cooler extends between opposite ends of the cooler, and the body defines recessed exterior surface slots extending along a lengthwise extent of the cooler. The cooler further includes a U-shaped handle having two legs connected by a handle portion. The cooler is transitionable between a first configuration, in which the legs of the U-shaped handle extend a substantial length from the body of the cooler, and a second configuration, in which the legs of the U-shaped handle are received within the recessed exterior surface slots extending along a lengthwise extent of the cooler, the handle portion extending in close proximity to an end of the body of the cooler.
US09834239B2
An Infant car seat stroller that is fully collapsible and can convert to a general use cart. The stroller is universal to accept most car seats and is able to convert to a cart for multiple uses.
US09834235B2
A control system is disclosed for use with a locomotive. The control system may have a component located onboard the locomotive, the component having a first state and a second state. The control system may also have an operator input device located onboard the locomotive and used to manually toggle operation of the component between the first and second states, and at least one sensor located onboard the locomotive and configured to generate a signal associated with a condition of the locomotive. The control system may also have an offboard controller located remotely from the locomotive and being configured to selectively override the operator input device and toggle operation of the component between the first and second states based on the signal.
US09834229B2
Arranged on a rail loading train for transporting long-welded rails is a fixing device for anchoring the rails. The fixing device is composed of a number of clamping devices, each provided for anchoring a single rail. The clamping devices are configured to be adjustable relative to the rail loading train in a longitudinal direction of the wagon by a displacement drive.
US09834228B2
A cradle drive system includes a cradle drive sled. The sled includes a pin configured to mechanically couple the sled to a cradle. The cradle is configured to hold a hardware load for movement along a factory rail. The sled also includes a power interface configured to provide torque to move a hardware load. The sled further includes processing circuitry configured to, in response to determining that the sled is mechanically coupled to the cradle, transfer the cradle and hardware load longitudinally along the factory rail.
US09834223B2
A system includes a processor programmed to receive a first data value from a first data collector as an input to operate a first vehicle. The processor is further programmed to determine to exclude the first data value as the input to operate the first vehicle. The computer is further programmed to receive a second data value from a second data collector as the input to operate the vehicle, the second data value being provided by a source remote to the first vehicle; and actuate a first vehicle component based in part on the second data value.
US09834219B2
A vehicle automatic driving control apparatus executes an automatic traveling control by performing setting on preset automatic-driving-required drive torque as target torque, and includes a traction-control-required drive torque setting unit that sets, when a preset operating condition of a traction control is satisfied, traction-control-required drive torque as the target torque to decrease drive torque and thereby suppress a drive wheel slip, an automatic-driving-required drive torque decreasing unit that gradually decreases, based on a preset amount, the automatic-driving-required drive torque when the traction control is operated, a torque comparing unit that compares the traction-control-required drive torque with the decreased automatic-driving-required drive torque, and an automatic-driving-required drive torque setting unit that completes the traction control and performs the setting again on the decreased automatic-driving-required drive torque as the automatic-driving-required drive torque for the automatic driving control, when the traction-control-required drive torque is determined as exceeding the decreased automatic-driving-required drive torque.
US09834218B2
A system and method for use in an automotive vehicle configured to determine an action to be taken as the automotive vehicle approaches a traffic signal. The system and method determines a distance to stop, and processes the state of the traffic signal, and the road surface condition to calculate the action to be taken so as to help the driver make decisions when approaching the traffic signal.
US09834217B2
Methods and systems for improving operation of a vehicle driveline that includes an engine and an automatic transmission with a torque converter are presented. In one non-limiting example, the engine may be stopped while a vehicle in which the engine operates is rolling. A transmission coupled to the engine may be shifted as the vehicle rolls so that vehicle response may be improved if a driver requests an increase of engine torque.
US09834215B2
A method of and system for detecting absolute acceleration along various axes relative to a desired movement vector while moving relative to a gravity source includes steps of determining a vertical acceleration, perpendicular to the desired movement vector and substantially anti-parallel to a gravitational acceleration due to the gravity source; determining a longitudinal acceleration, parallel to the desired movement vector and to output at vertical acceleration signal and a longitudinal acceleration signal; determining an inclination of the desired movement vector relative to the gravitational acceleration; and processing the vertical acceleration signal, the longitudinal acceleration signal, and the inclination signal to produce an absolute vertical acceleration signal and an absolute longitudinal acceleration signal.
US09834213B2
A lane keeping assist apparatus is disclosed which includes a lane detecting part; an information output device; an actuator that generates a force for changing an orientation of a vehicle; and a controller that performs a lane keeping assist control based on a positional relationship between the lane and the vehicle, wherein the lane keeping assist control includes an alert control and an intervention control via the actuator, the controller selectively operates in a first mode where the alert control and the intervention control are executable, a second mode where only the intervention control is suppressed or a third mode where the alert control and the intervention control are suppressed, and the controller, during operating in the first mode, performs a mode transition to the second mode when the abnormality determination results indicate an abnormal state concerning only the part related to the intervention control.
US09834208B2
A parking steering assistance system is provided that calculates and provides a parking guide line applied with a tire dynamic radius value. The system includes an obstacle recognition unit configured to recognize an obstacle adjacent to a vehicle after parking is completed. A distance calculating unit is configured to calculate distance information between the obstacle and the vehicle, and a parking controller is configured to control a tire dynamic radius correction which is applied when calculating a parking guide line by using the distance information between the obstacle and the vehicle.
US09834207B2
A system and method for selectively reducing or filtering data provided by one or more vehicle mounted sensors before using that data to detect, track and/or estimate a stationary object located along the side of a road, such as a guardrail or barrier. According to one example, the method reduces the amount of data by consolidating, classifying and pre-sorting data points from several forward looking radar sensors before using those data points to determine if a stationary roadside object is present. If the method determines that a stationary roadside object is present, then the reduced or filtered data points can be applied to a data fitting algorithm in order to estimate the size, shape and/or other parameters of the object. In one example, the output of the present method is provided to automated or autonomous driving systems.
US09834200B2
A vehicle has an engine (26), a power storage device (10), two motor/generators (M/G1, M/G2), a front grille with a shutter, an engine room, a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor, and a controller. The shutter changes the amount of air introduced from the front grille into the engine room. The first temperature sensor detects a temperature (Tw) of a coolant of the engine, and outputs the detected coolant temperature to the controller. The second temperature sensor detects an outside air temperature (Te), and outpots the detected outside air temperature to the controller. The controller starts the engine (26) when the coolant temperature is equal to or lower than a threshold value. When the coolant temperature is higher than the threshold value, and the vehicle starts traveling in a first mode with power from the power storage device (10), the controller drives the shutter such that the amount of the air is reduced when the coolant temperature (Tw) is higher than the outside air temperature (Te).
US09834199B2
A method and apparatus for controlling battery state of charge (SOC) in a hybrid electric vehicle are provided to enable the efficient use of energy, the maximization of energy recovery, and the improvement of fuel efficiency and operability without the improvement of capacity and performance of electrical equipment or a main battery in a hybrid electric vehicle. The apparatus includes a collecting device that collects information regarding the slope or the road type and information regarding the vehicle speed. A controller determines charge and discharge modes based on the driving information and determines a charging upper and lower limit SOC based on the road slope or road type information a road section on which the vehicle is traveling and the vehicle speed information in the road section. A charge or discharge command is output based on the charging upper limit SOC and the charging lower limit SOC.
US09834191B2
A relay valve (2) for a compressed air system, has a housing, which has a pressure medium inlet that can be connected to a pressure medium source, at least one pressure medium outlet that can be connected to a consuming unit, at least one control inlet, and at least one vent (32) leading to atmosphere. The relay valve (2) furthermore has a relay valve piston (14), which is arranged in the housing in such a way that the relay valve piston can be moved along a relay valve piston axis (16) and divides a control chamber (22) and a working chamber (26) from each other in the housing. The relay valve (2) has a damping volume (52), which is pneumatically connected to the control chamber (22), thereby advantageously enabling the oscillation capacity of the relay valve piston (14) to be reduced.
US09834179B2
A hydraulic interface configured to be installed between a windscreen washer liquid feed tube and a connector of a device for wiping a window of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The interface includes a body that defines at least one passage channel for the windscreen washer liquid, and at least one electric heating conductor that is disposed so as to heat said windscreen washer liquid, said body being configured to secure said conductor to said body by fitting together different parts of said body and/or by fitting to shapes made in one piece with said body.
US09834178B2
A windscreen wiper device for cleaning a windshield of a vehicle is provided. The windscreen wiper device includes a longitudinally extending wiper strip and at least one carrier element in engagement with the wiper strip for operatively supporting and biasing the wiper strip into a predetermined configuration. A base is non-removably coupled to the at least one carrier element and has an opening that extends therethrough to provide access to the at least one carrier element through the base. A connection device is removably secured directly to the at least one carrier element through the opening of the base for attachment with a wiper arm.
US09834176B2
Described is a wiper system for motor vehicle windows, more particularly motor vehicle windscreens, comprising at least one wiper (1, 2), at least one motor (5, 6) that drives the at least one wiper (1, 2), and a switching device (10) for directly controlling the motor (5, 6), wherein the switching device (10) has one or two switching elements (11, 15, 18, 19, 20) by means of which at least four switching states can be selected, and wherein selecting one of the switching states causes an operating mode of the at least one wiper (1, 2) to change.
US09834172B2
A vehicular pedestrian protecting airbag device that is capable of suppressing increases in weight and cost accompanying reinforcement measures, and capable of maintaining good pedestrian protection performance of an upper face of a hood. An automobile pedestrian protecting airbag device is installed at a vehicle lower side of a rear end section of a hood at a vehicle rear side of a protruded portion. A pedestrian protecting airbag and an inflator are installed inside a module case. The inflator is attached to a bottom wall of the protruded portion by inflator attachment brackets each formed with an excess length portion at an intermediate portion. Accordingly, when the inflators attempt to move toward the vehicle front side due to deployment reaction force of the pedestrian protecting airbag, the excess length portions are compressed and deform to enable the deployment reaction force to escape.
US09834170B1
A mounting assembly for an automotive radiator, a vehicle including such a mounting and a method of mitigating an impact between a vehicle and a pedestrian. The assembly includes a radiator support and one or more brackets. Each bracket is made up of a first end portion that is secured to the radiator support and a second end portion extending forward of the radiator support such that it can be attached to a load-bearing structure within a vehicle. The brackets each include at least one enhanced collapsible zone in order to promote energy absorption relative to energy transmission in situations where a vehicle experiences a front-end impact with a pedestrian or other object. In this way, the added energy absorption by the brackets reduces the amount of impact energy being transmitted to more rigid vehicular structures such as the radiator and its support; this increase in impact energy absorption in turn results in less energy being delivered to the pedestrian.
US09834168B2
An airbag includes a first panel having a perimeter, and a second panel connected to the first panel along the perimeter of the first panel. The first panel and the second panel define an inflation chamber between the first and second panels. The first panel has a tab extending from the perimeter of the first panel and transverse to the perimeter of the first panel. The tab is connected to the second panel. A vent on the tab is in communication with the inflation chamber.
US09834157B2
In a dimmable trim component for a vehicle interior, a trim article includes a reflective member having a photoreactive or an electro-optic coating disposed over the reflective member. The reflective member is configured to reflect ambient light. The coating is a bistable coating and is operable between a first light transmissive state and a second light transmissive state. When in the first light transmissive state, ambient light is transmitted to the reflective member for reflection by the reflective member through the coating. When in the second light transmissive state, a portion of the ambient light is absorbed by the coating and therefore, not reflected by the reflective member, such that the coating provides a dimming effect to the trim article in high ambient conditions.
US09834145B2
The invention relates to an actuator for a power fold mechanism of a rear view device for a vehicle, which is preferably for a motor vehicle. The actuator includes at least one actuator pin and at least one drive element arranged on the actuator pin to be rotatable at least partially around the actuator pin. At least one first shape memory alloy (SMA) element, in particular having the form of a SMA wire is connected to the at least one drive element. At least one retraction element is connected to the at least one first SMA element and biased by the retraction element.
US09834144B2
A vehicle head-up display arrangement is provided that may include a projection unit, a vehicle driver eye position estimation unit and a detecting unit arranged to detect traffic signs and their location in relation to the vehicle, and a processing unit arranged to determine a content of the traffic signs. The processing unit is further arranged to determine relevance of content of the traffic signs. The projection unit is arranged to project light onto one or more areas of the windshield in line with the estimated eye position of the vehicle driver and traffic signs determined to have content not being relevant, such that these traffic signs, at least partially, are covered from the estimated eye position of the vehicle driver.
US09834133B2
Provided is an electrical communication link between a tractor and a trailer, the trailer comprising one or more auxiliary electrical devices, the electrical communication link including a first transceiver coupled to the tractor and configured to receive a first signal from the tractor and to wirelessly transmit a control signal corresponding to the first signal, a second transceiver coupled to the trailer and configured to wirelessly receive the control signal and to transmit a second signal corresponding to the control signal to the one or more auxiliary devices.
US09834129B2
A buildable seal assembly (100) is used with a jacket (102) which is connected to a sidewall (14) and slide out room (12) of a conventional RV or similar mobile equipment or mobile living quarters (10). A right angled seal element (132) is coupled to the jacket (102) in a snap in configuration. The right angled seal element (132) is further coupled to a bulb (152) and a wiper component (146). The bulb (152) and wiper component (146) assist in providing a seal between the mobile living quarters (10) and the slide out room (12) when the room (12) is in a retracted, closed position or an extended, open position.
US09834123B2
A clip for a vehicle door assembly includes a base, a plurality of fingers forming an expandable opening, and an arm extending from the base for locating the clip within the door assembly. Each of the fingers includes an inward projecting tab at least partially defining the expandable opening such that a tip of a pin contacts the inward projecting tabs during insertion of the pin causing the plurality of fingers to expand outward to an expanded position allowing the pin to enter the expandable opening until the inward projecting tabs align with a groove formed in the pin adjacent the tip wherein the inward projecting tabs enter the groove allowing the plurality of fingers to return to a natural position and secure the pin in position. Inner and outer members of the door assembly secure the clip therebetween for receiving pins associated with movement of the door.
US09834116B2
System comprising a slide track for motor vehicle seat and a support intended for attachment thereto
System comprising a slide track for motor vehicle seat and a support. The slide track comprises a fixed rail and a movable rail which has an inner surface, an outer surface, and a through-window. The support comprises a body having a contact surface attached to the outer surface of the movable rail, and a tongue extending from the body to pass through the window of the movable rail and be attached to the inner surface of the movable rail. The tongue has a maximum extension into the hollow interior space E that is less than or equal to a thickness of the tongue.
US09834112B2
A vehicle may include a battery having positive and negative electrodes. The vehicle may also include a controller programmed to charge and discharge the battery according to a state of charge that is based on an effective surface lithium-ion concentration of one of the electrodes, and an effective surface lithium-ion concentration of the other of the electrodes derived from a center-to-surface lithium-ion concentration profile of the one of the electrodes. The effective surface lithium-ion concentration of the other of the electrodes may be derived via a relationship mapping the center-to-surface lithium-ion concentration profile of the one of the electrodes to the effective surface lithium-ion concentration of the other of the electrodes.
US09834108B2
A method and system of notifications for an electric vehicle are provided. A method of notification includes receiving, from an electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), a charge for a first vehicle. The method may further include scanning, by the first vehicle, an identifier of a second vehicle parked in tandem with the first vehicle. The method may also include sending, via the EVSE, by the first vehicle, a notification request including the identifier of the second vehicle.
US09834103B2
A vehicle emits a first signal when the vehicle moves after reception of electric power from an electric power transmission device by an electric power reception device is completed and when a preparatory condition for the vehicle to move is satisfied after reception of electric power from the electric power transmission device by the electric power reception device is completed. When a charging station receives the first signal, the charging station emits a second signal notifying that a state allows charging.
US09834101B2
While a drive battery (11) is charged, the output voltage of a DC-DC converter (20) is set to a first predetermined voltage (e.g. 14.4 V) at which thermal runaway does not occur even if the temperature of an auxiliary battery (19) is high and at which the auxiliary battery (19) can be charged even if the temperature thereof is low. During warm-up operation of the auxiliary battery (19), the output voltage of the DC-DC converter (20) is set to a second predetermined voltage (e.g. 14.3 V) lower than the first predetermined voltage. While the vehicle (10) is traveling, the output voltage of the DC-DC converter (20) is set to a third predetermined voltage (e.g. 14.2 V) lower than the second predetermined voltage. If lamps (17) are lit, the output voltage of the DC-DC converter (20) is set to a fourth predetermined voltage (e.g. 13.9 V).
US09834100B2
A charge/discharge system includes: first and second electric chargers that supplies electric power to a motor generator and charges electric power generated by a motor generator; an electric power converter; and a controller. The controller controls the electric power converter such that electric power charged in the first electric charger is supplied to the motor generator, electric power charged in the second electric charger is charged in the first electric charger when a charging capacity of the first electric charger is lower than a second predetermined value. The driving force of the motor generator is reduced depending on the charging capacity when the charging capacity of the first electric charger is lower than the first predetermined value.
US09834095B2
In an apparatus and method of automatically providing or withholding fluid from a power rail for a mass transit vehicle, during movement of a mass transit vehicle on a pathway in an uncovered (or exposed) area of the pathway, fluid, for example, anti-icing fluid, is caused to be provided to (or dispensed on) the power rail supplying power to the mass transit vehicle. During movement of the mass transit vehicle in a covered area of the pathway, the fluid is withheld from (or not dispensed on) the power rail. The changing from fluid being dispensed on the power rail to the fluid being withheld from the power rail, or vice versa, can be based on movement of the mass transit vehicle from the uncovered area of the pathway to the covered area of the pathway, or vice versa.
US09834085B2
An energy efficient vehicle and a disc-type dynamic motor thereof are disclosed. The vehicle comprises front wheels and rear wheels, and a gasoline engine is assembled in the vehicle for driving a generator producing power. The power is transported to a capacitor battery via a circuit control system and then to disc-type dynamic motors, which are assembled with the rear wheels, from the capacitor battery via two power lines respectively, whereby the disc-type dynamic motors directly to driving the vehicle travelling at high-speed and high torque via the wheels. Accordingly, the energy efficient vehicle does not include transmission devices, such as the clutch, the transmission, the power transmission shaft, and the differential. The power produced by the generator is directly provided to the disc-type dynamic motors to drive is the vehicle travelling and is enough to drive the disc-type dynamic motors, so the vehicle does not need to stop for charging.
US09834083B2
A drive train for a motor vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine which has a crankshaft and is designed to provide drive power for the motor vehicle. A clutch arrangement has an input member and at least one output member, the input member being connected to the crankshaft. A transmission arrangement implements a plurality of gear stages, the transmission arrangement having a transmission housing, at least one input shaft, and at least one output shaft. The output shaft is connectable to driven wheels of the motor vehicle. An electric machine is designed to provide drive power for the motor vehicle and is connected to a transmission shaft of the transmission arrangement. The transmission shaft has a shaft section which extends from the transmission housing and is connected to the electric machine via a traction drive mechanism.
US09834082B2
A hybrid drive module (110) which is constructed to transmit a torque from an input side (120) to an output side (130) includes a torsional vibration damper (180) which is coupled to the input side (120) and which works at least partially on the principle of power splitting, a disconnect clutch (280) which is coupled to the torsional vibration damper (180) and to the output side (130) and which is constructed to interrupt a torque flow from the input side (120) to the output side (130), and an electric drive component (320) which is coupled to the output side (130) and which is arranged so as to introduce a torque component provided by the electric drive component (320) into the torque flow downstream of the disconnect clutch (280).
US09834081B2
A power transmitting apparatus may include: an electric supplementary drive unit; a torque converting device having first, second, and third rotation elements, wherein the first rotation element is connected to the electric supplementary drive unit, the second rotation element is connected to an engine, and the third rotation element is operated as an output element; a first input shaft directly connected to the second rotation element, and a second input shaft directly connected to the third rotation element; a direct coupling device selectively connecting two rotation elements among the first, second, and third rotation elements, a first speed output unit having first and second synchronizer modules, and a second speed output unit having third and fourth synchronizer modules; and a reverse speed device having an idle gear and engaging to any one input gear on the first and second input shafts.
US09834080B2
A transmission structure of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) may include an engine connected to a front wheel of the hybrid vehicle, a planetary gear part connected to the engine, a first motor generator connected to the planetary gear part, an overdrive brake connected to the first motor generator, and a second motor generator connected to a rear wheel of the hybrid vehicle.
US09834069B2
A sun visor assembly is provided. The sun visor assembly includes a support, a visor body carried on the support and a mirror carried on the visor body. The visor body pivots about a first axis in a first plane and the mirror pivots about a second axis in a second plane where the first axis is substantially perpendicular to the second axis. Thus the mirror is effectively provided with two degrees of freedom allowing it to be more conveniently, efficiently and effectively adjusted.
US09834067B1
The vehicle sunshade is adapted for use as a sunshade within a vehicle. The vehicle sunshade is a retractable shade that is mounted in the vehicle where front windshield meets the roof of the vehicle. The shade contained on the retractable shade is adapted to fit around the rearview mirror mounted on the windshield of the vehicle and to extend laterally to partially block sunlight from passing through the front windows. The vehicle sunshade comprises a roller, a shade, a first clip, and a second clip.
US09834064B2
A vehicle ventilation module for allowing air to exhaust from the inside of a vehicle compartment, comprising a carrier element to be mounted to the vehicle, the carrier element comprising: at least one vent opening for allowing air to exhaust from the inside of a vehicle compartment when the vehicle ventilation module is mounted to the vehicle; at least one flap being pivotable about a swivel axis at the carrier element between a close position and an open position, wherein the vent opening is covered by the flap in the close position and is at least partially uncovered by the flap in the open position so that air may flow through the vent opening; and an actuating mechanism coupled to the flap for pivoting the flap about its swivel axis from the close position to the open position. The actuating mechanism is actuated to pivot the flap to the open position by a current applied to the actuating mechanism.
US09834051B1
A quick-attach mechanism for attaching an implement to the forward end and/or rearward end of a vehicle, such as a tractor used in a tractor-trailer combination, and the like. The quick-attach mechanism includes two laterally positioned female quick-attach sockets on the forward and/or rearward end of said vehicle. The quick-attach mechanisms can be formed into the chassis of the vehicle.
US09834048B1
A snow chain system that attaches to the frame of a semi-truck and/or trailer, or a large commercial construction vehicle. The system includes a removable chain box, a chain barrel, a chain spreader, flashlight driver notification, a drag brake, a box swivel, and tire clamp. The snow chain is rolled out of the chain box directly onto a tire tightly with minimal human involvement. It provides for installed a tight snow chain onto the tire when rollout of the snow chain to the tire is completed. After snow chain use, it rolls up manually back into the chain box and is ready for immediate service should another need arise. All necessary equipment is organized, helping the driver with safety concerns.
US09834045B2
A vehicle tire deformation device for determining the size of a deformed contact patch of a tire which contacts the ground, said device comprising a movement detector connected to an attachment body by means of a moveable indicator element wherein both the movement detector and the attachment body are attachable to an inside surface of the tire, and wherein the size of the deformed contact patch of the tire is determined by the detector sensing a change in angle of the moveable indicator element indicating the border between the deformed contact patch of the tire and a non deformed part of the tire which is not in contact with the ground.
US09834042B2
A method for determining the profile depth of a tread of a pneumatic vehicle tire wherein the tread has a wear indicator. The wear indicator has an incision extending in the radial direction of the tire. The incision has a length visible on the tread and the length becomes shorter as wear increases. The wear indicator has two reference marks at a distance from each other. The distance is configured to remain constant and visible throughout the tread wear. A photo of the incision and the reference marks is generated via an application program of a mobile phone having a camera and an image screen. A current profile depth is calculated from the distance of the reference marks and the length of the incision via the application program. The current profile depth and/or a remaining profile depth are displayed until a minimal profile depth is reached on the screen.
US09834039B2
Tire assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment a tire insert assembly includes an elastomeric tire insert constructed to be received within a tire, the tire having sidewalls and a tread portion. An upper crown surface of the tire insert and a lower surface of the tire define an outer chamber and the tire insert defines an inner chamber. The tire insert may be configured to support a substantial portion of the sidewall of the tire when the inner chamber is inflated.
US09834037B2
A releasable wheel assembly includes a bracket having a plurality of bosses, each boss including a hole that receives an axle. A pair of wheels are mounted on the axle and a pair of locking caps fit over respective ends of the axle, the locking caps each including a clip for engaging the axle at a circumferential groove to prevent movement of the locking cap along the axle. The wheel assembly can be mounted to a carry bag or other storage unit by mounting the bracket to the storage unit, where the wheels and axle can be easily removed from the bracket.
US09834036B2
A wheel connectable to a vehicle. The wheel includes a stationary member having an axis, a rotary member rotatable about the axis, and at least one support member positioned between the stationary member and the rotary member, thereby providing a normally fixed distance therebetween. The support member is adapted to retain the distance when stressed up to a threshold value and to recoverably alter the distance when stressed over the threshold value.
US09834029B2
Security documents often incorporate security devices to prevent or hinder counterfeiters. Disclosed herein are security devices that include a fluid or fluids within the devices. Such devices, and security documents that include them, afford new techniques to check whether a security document is a legitimate or counterfeit copy.
US09834028B2
The disclosure relates to the field of graphical elements and is directed to an optical effect layer (OEL), a device and a method for producing same. The disclosure provides an optical effect that is easy to detect as such and exhibits a viewing-angle dependent apparent motion of image features over an extended length if the viewing angle with respect to the OEL changes. An OEL includes a binder material being at least partially transparent and a plurality of particles dispersed within the layer. Each particle has a non-isotropic reflectivity and may be magnetic or magnetizable. The orientation of the particles forms an orientation pattern extending over a length within an extended surface of the OEL, such that the local average of an angle between (i) a straight line along an observed longest dimension within the corresponding cross-section shape, and (ii) said first direction x varies according to a function (θ) of a position (P) along said first direction.
US09834025B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device configured to include a pressure section and a heating section for heating an image receiving medium and to execute a fixing processing for fixing an image formed on the image receiving medium with a decolorable color material at a fixing temperature or an erasure processing for erasing an image at a decoloring temperature, a reading section configured to be arranged at the upstream side of the fixing device in the conveyance direction of the image receiving medium to read an identifier indicating whether or not the color material of the image formed on the image receiving medium can be decolorized, and a control section configured to control the execution of the erasure processing of the image on the image receiving medium with the fixing device according to a result of reading of the identifier with the reading section.
US09834022B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a thermal recording material which is excellent in all of the following characteristics: plasticizer resistance, image stability against moisture and heat, the resistance to background fogging under moisture and heat, and the retention of color developing ability. Provided is a thermal recording material having, on a paper support, a heat-sensitive recording layer containing a colorless or light-colored dye precursor and a developer which reacts with the dye precursor on heating and converts the dye precursor to its colored form, the paper support containing 0.25 to 1.0% by mass of a neutral rosin sizing agent relative to the pulp solid content in combination with calcium carbonate and aluminum sulfate, the developer having a phenylureido moiety in its molecule.
US09834017B2
A method of controlling an inkjet printer including the steps of reciprocating the printhead repeatedly across the print medium in a plurality of passes, repeatedly firing the nozzles during each printhead pass so that each pass results in printing of a print swath across the print medium, alternately disabling upper and lower portions of the one or more nozzle arrays from swath to swath so that the swaths are reduced in height and for each reduced-height swath, reducing print density at the leading and trailing edge portions of the reduced-height swath as compared to print density at a central portion of the reduced-height swath.
US09834015B2
A printing machine includes a printing unit which performs printing while transferring a sheet at a printing transfer speed, a circulation transfer unit which receives the sheet after simplex printing and transfers the sheet by reversing the sheet upside down, during duplex printing; and a paper refeed unit which refeeds, to the printing unit, the sheet transferred by the circulation transfer unit after simplex printing, wherein the circulation transfer unit includes a reversing unit which receives the sheet at the printing transfer speed, reverses the sheet upside down by switching back the sheet and accelerates the sheet up to a circulation transfer speed which is higher than the printing transfer speed when sheet transfer is restarted after temporal stop in the switching back, and a horizontal transfer unit which transfers the sheet switched back by the reversing unit, at the circulation transfer speed.
US09834012B2
Provided is an ink jet method including cooling an attachment body by a cooling device; ejecting an ultraviolet curable composition from an ejection head to the attachment body having a surface temperature of 45° C. or lower by the cooling device to be attached to the attachment body; and irradiating the ultraviolet curable composition attached to the attachment body with ultraviolet light and curing the ultraviolet curable composition, in which a viscosity of the ultraviolet curable composition attached to the attachment body when being subjected to the irradiating with the ultraviolet light at a surface temperature of the attachment body is 6 mPa·s or greater.
US09834011B2
A medium flattening method, when a medium is transported by being adhered to an adhesive layer which is on a surface of a transport belt, includes detecting a presence or absence of floating being generated in the medium on the transport belt using a sensor, executing a process for flattening to flatten the floating in the medium in the case where the floating exists, and transporting the medium, where the floating is eliminated using the process for the flattening, to a liquid discharge region of a liquid discharge section.
US09834009B2
A rotating handling carousel includes a transfer device arranged on the outer circumference of the handling carousel. The transfer device includes a carry-along element which receives and transports an article and a guide element. The guide element is arranged in such a way that the article transported by the carry-along element is guided into or out of a handling station, for which the guide element extends into an area of the handling station in such a way that the guide element does not collide with the handling device at the transfer position. A sensor detects whether a handling device or the article are not in the transfer position, and/or whether the article is located in the handling station at all, and, after such a determination, issues a collision signal based on a kind of the transfer device.
US09833983B2
A polarizing plate includes a first glass plate; a second glass plate facing the first glass plate; and a polarizing device between the first and second glass plates. An external surface of at least one of the first and second glass plates, which is not in contact with the polarizing device, has a root mean square surface roughness of about 1 nanometer or less.
US09833981B2
A vacuum bag sealing system may include a composite bagging sheet, and at least one interlocking strip connected to a surface of the composite bagging sheet, wherein the interlocking strip is configured to join a first section of the composite bagging sheet to a second section of the composite bagging sheet to form a sealed vacuum bag.
US09833973B2
A metal laminate comprising a metal layer and an insulating layer is provided. The insulating layer is disposed on the metal layer and directly contacts the metal layer. The insulating layer is made of a polyimide resin, and the polyimide resin is derived from at least two dianhydrides and at least two diamines. The dianhydride monomers are selected from the group consisting of p-phenylenebis (trimellitate anhydride), 4,4′-(hexafluoroisopropylidene)-diphthalic anhydride, 4,4′-(4,4′-isopropylidenediphenoxy)bis(phthalic anhydride) and the combination thereof. One of the diamine monomers is 2,2′-bis(trifluoromethyl)benzidine, and the other diamine monomers are selected from the group consisting of 2,2-bis[4-(4-aminophenoxy)phenyl, 1,3-bis(4-aminophenoxy)benzene, p-phenylenediamine, 4,4′-oxydianiline, 4,4′-methylenedianiline, 4,4′-diaminobenzanilide, 4,4′-diaminodiphenyl-sulfone, m-tolidine, 2,2-bis[4-(4-aminophenoxy)phenyl]hexafluoropropane and the combination thereof. A molar ratio of the dianhydride monomers to the diamine monomers is between 0.85 and 1.15.
US09833970B2
A marine vessel floor mat for attachment to the deck of a boat to provide enhanced cushioning to stand on. In one embodiment, the marine vessel floor mat comprises a cushion layer shaped to fit the dimensions of the bow of a conventional marine vessel or other target section of such a marine vessel with a non-slip layer shaped as the cushion layer, or with an additional front section, and/or additional rear section permanently attached to the top surface of the cushion layer. The cushion layer additionally includes a tapered edge on its top surface and a plurality of fastener strips for enabling removable attachment to the surface of the boat deck on its bottom surface.
US09833969B2
The invention concerns an article comprising layers of polylactic acid and a process of making the same. A layer is of foamed polylactic acid. A layer preferably comprises an impact modifier. The article can be used in the field of packaging.
US09833966B2
A web adhesive application device, adhesive application method, and the cardboard sheet manufacturing device are provided with: an adhesive liquid tank for storing an adhesive liquid; an adhesive application roll is configured for transferring the adhesive liquid to an adhesive application region adjusted according to a paper width of a bottom liner board to be glued together with a single face cardboard sheet; a doctor roller for adjusting the adhesive liquid to a set film thickness; scraping members in pressured contact with the surface of the adhesive application roll on the upstream side of the nip section with the doctor roller; and damming members in contact with the surface of the adhesive application roll on the upstream side of the nip section with the doctor roller in the rotation direction and on the downstream side of the scraping member contact positions in the rotation direction.
US09833960B2
A disposable drink-through dome lid for disposable drinking cups used in the sale of hot or cold beverages, the top of the lid elevated above the top of the beverage cup when in place. The lid's outer wall is elevated to form a drink ridge adapted to the user's lips for drinking through a generally oval-shaped drink-through orifice. Ideally, the drink-through orifice includes: a drink-through chamber having a drink flap capable of closing off a drink-through opening, thereby shielding against accidental spillage due to sloshing of the beverage while traveling; and a recessed orifice ridge on the interior side of the drink-through orifice, directs froth exiting the drink opening into a spill reservoir. A vent opening positioned near the lid's center and within a vent slot, collects and directs beverage exiting the vent into the spill reservoir.
US09833952B2
A three-dimensional printing apparatus that forms a three-dimensional object using cross-sectional shapes of the object includes a controller that is configured or programmed to include a dividing unit that divides a cross-sectional shape into a plurality of blocks, a shape determining unit that determines whether one of the blocks has a predetermined shape and defines the block having the predetermined shape as a characteristic block, a count determining unit that determines whether the proportion of the number of the characteristic blocks to the total number of the blocks is equal to or greater than a predetermined proportion, and a light application unit that sets the energy of light from a light source to a first energy or to a second energy being lower than the first energy depending on the proportion, when applying the light to a photocurable resin in a region corresponding to the characteristic blocks.
US09833947B2
An identification device (1) for a pneumatic spring (2) includes an RFID transponder (8), which is completely embedded into the elastomer matrix (13) of the flexible member (4). An electromagnetic field is generated by a read device (9), wherein the energy necessary for supplying the RFID transponder (8) is taken from the electromagnetic field generated by the read device (9). When the read device (9) is active, information can be exchanged between the RFID transponder (8) and the read device (9). The RFID transponder (8) operates completely without an internal energy supply. The RFID transponder (8) may also be configured as a read/write transponder including a memory chip, wherein data may be stored on the memory chip in a safe and permanent manner. By retrieving data from the RFID transponder (8), an identification of the pneumatic spring (2) is possible even without any internal power supply of the RFID transponder.
US09833939B2
A system for forming a container from a preform includes a first mold having a plurality of first portions that cooperate to define a first internal surface against which the preform is blown for forming a first form. The system also includes a second mold having a plurality of second portions that cooperate to define a second internal surface against which the first form is blown for forming a second form. Also, the system includes a mold servo motor that actuates the plurality of first portions relative to each other and/or actuates the plurality of second portions relative to each other. Furthermore, the system includes a controller that controls the mold servo motor for controlled actuation of the plurality of first portions and/or the plurality of second portions.
US09833923B2
A cut data generating device includes a control device which causes the generating device to acquire data indicating a pattern, to extract outlines of plural subpatterns contained in a design, to determine the number of layers associated with the number of sheets with respect to the extracted outlines, and to determine a sequence for stacking plural layers. The control device further causes the generating device to generate an integrated outline obtained by integrating the outline of first and second subpatterns contained in the extracted outlines, to specify the outline of the first subpattern on a first layer, to generate cut data for cutting the outline of the first subpattern from a first sheet associated with the first layer and for cutting the integrated outline from a second sheet associated with the second layer, and to output the generated cut data via the communication unit to the cutting apparatus.
US09833912B2
Folding knife embodiments are disclosed herein comprising a blade operable to pivot relative to a handle, between an open position and a closed position, about a pivot axis extending through a tang portion of the blade having at least one locking recess. The knife can have a locking mechanism comprising a rod that extends along the pivot axis through the tang portion and a locking member coupled to the rod which engages the at least one locking recess of the tang portion when the blade is in at least one of the open position or the closed position. The knife can further comprise a push button coupled to the rod, wherein depression of the push button is configured to eject the locking member from the locking recess in the blade, thereby unlocking the blade.
US09833898B2
In an apparatus for controlling the positioning of an object having a specified point, a first limiter establishes a movable range of the specified point of the object, and limits movement of the specified point of the object within the movable range. The movable range includes a line connecting the position of the specified point of the object and a target position for the specified point of the object. A second limiter limits change of a specified orientation of the object from increasing an angular difference between the specified orientation of the object a target orientation for the specified orientation of the object.
US09833889B2
A nail-driving gun trigger assembly includes a hand-grip, a trigger piece, a safety latch and a release button. The safety latch is mounted on the trigger piece and is movable relative to the trigger piece. The release button is mounted on the trigger piece and is movable relative to the trigger piece. The release button and the safety latch are co-movable with the trigger piece relative to the hand-grip. The trigger piece is stopped from moving by engagement between the safety latch and the hand-grip. The release button is in sliding contact with the safety latch for disengaging the safety latch from the hand-grip and for permitting movement of the trigger piece relative to the hand-grip.
US09833888B2
An installation tool for a two-stage clip is described. The tool includes a base element and a plunger element. The base element can include a plunger installation cavity and a clip receiving cavity. At least a portion of the plunger element can be retainably engaged in base element. The plunger element can be movable within the base element between a retracted position and an extended position. In the extended position, a portion of the plunger element can extend into the clip receiving cavity.
US09833879B1
A multi-stage hand-held sharpener. In some embodiments, the sharpener has a handle adapted to be gripped by a hand of a user, the handle extending along a longitudinal axis between opposing first and second ends. A primary sharpening stage is provided in the handle between the first and second ends, the primary sharpening stage having a first abrasive surface extending at a first angle to facilitate a primary sharpening operation by a user upon the tool. An abrasive rod extends from the first end of the handle in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The handle includes a substantially flat guide surface linearly extending from the first end toward the abrasive rod at a second angle, the abrasive rod and the guide surface forming a second sharpening stage adapted to facilitate a secondary sharpening operation by the user upon the tool.
US09833874B2
A plurality of spectra reflected from one or more substrates at a plurality of different positions on the one or more substrates are represented in the form of a first matrix, and the first matrix is decomposed into products of at least two component matrixes of a first set of component matrixes. The dimensions of each of the at least two component matrixes is reduced to produce a second set of component matrixes containing the at least two matrixes with reduced dimensions.
US09833873B2
The present invention provides a wheel deburring device, consisting of a frame, a motor, a guide rail, a swing plate, a cylinder, a servo electric cylinder and a hairbrush and the like. When in use, the device provided by the present invention can adjust the angle of the hairbrush according to the shape of the back cavity of the wheel spoke to adapt to hubs of any style, and the deburring effect is very ideal; and meanwhile, the device has the characteristics of high degree of automation, advanced process, safe and stable performance, etc.
US09833871B2
A sander especially suited for sanding curved surfaces. The sander has an elongate body and a grinding plate movably attached thereto. A power unit drives the grinding plate. At least two lever beams are attached to the elongate body. Each of the lever beams has two opposite ends. The grinding plate is attached to ends of lever beams using flexible connecting elements to allow the grinding plate to move relative to the sander body.
US09833866B2
An output part is provided to the left end of a clamp arm that is supported by a housing so as to be slidable in the vertical direction. At the left end of the housing, a first hole for spring fitting opens obliquely upward towards the output part. A through hole that links the upper surface and the lower surface of the clamp arm is disposed obliquely upward at a left-leaning part of the clamp arm. A second hole for spring fitting and a female screw hole are formed, in that order, upwards in the through hole. A return spring that is installed through the first hole and the second hole impels the output part upwards. A push bolt that is screwed into the female screw hole rom above compresses the return spring.
US09833864B2
A method for exchange of a filter assembly is described, wherein a contaminated filter assembly is exchanged for a refurbished filter assembly or a new filter assembly.
US09833863B2
A welding additive for electric arc welding and laser beam welding of mixed joins composed of austenitic and high-manganese-containing and ferritic steel, where the high-manganese-containing steel has a manganese content of at least 7-30% by weight includes the following alloy elements in % by weight: C 0.04-1.0; Mn 7-30; Si≦6; Al≦4; Mo≦2; Ti≦0.5; Zr 0.01-01; B 0.001-0.01; P<0.005; S<0.002; N<0.008; balance iron and unavoidable steel accompanying elements.
US09833859B2
An electric arc torch includes a torch base, and a cooling conduit having a conduit wall forming a central axial bore and having a plurality of longitudinal cooling channels spaced circumferentially around the bore. The cooling channels extend through the conduit wall from a first end portion to a second end portion of the conduit. The cooling channels include both a plurality of cooling liquid distribution channels and a plurality of cooling liquid return channels alternately arranged within the conduit wall. The conduit includes a circumferential cooling liquid manifold in fluid communication with each of the cooling liquid distribution channels, a circumferential return manifold in fluid communication with each of the cooling liquid return channels, and a circumferential recirculation manifold in fluid communication with each of the cooling liquid distribution and return channels such that the cooling liquid distribution and return channels are in fluid communication through the circumferential recirculation manifold.
US09833857B2
The invention relates to a monitoring module (1 . . . 1″) for monitoring an electric arc machining process, the module comprising a camera (2), a photo flash lamp (3) and a control system (4) that controls the photo flash lamp (3) and a control system (4) that controls the photo flash lamp (3) in such a way that it illuminates when the camera (2) records the image. According to the invention, the components (2, 3, 4) are arranged in a common housing (5).
US09833848B2
Actuator of a connecting-rod fracture splitting apparatus includes: a piston rod having one end portion extending through a lid of the cylinder and connected to a wedge; and a free piston slidably mounted on the piston rod and abuttable against the upper surface of the piston. By pressure fluid being supplied to act on the upper surface of the piston, the free piston imparts a preload to a hole of a big end section of the connecting rod. By pressure fluid being supplied to act on a region upward of the free piston, the free piston is driven downward to collide against the upper surface of the piston, so that divided mandrel members are moved apart from each other, via the piston rod and the wedge, to fracture a large end section of the connecting rod.
US09833847B2
A wire rope cutter includes a first handle and a second handle, a first cutting jaw and a second cutting jaw, a first pivot for pivotally connecting the first jaw and the first handle; and a second pivot for pivotally connecting the second jaw to the second handle. A third pivot pivotally connects the first handle to the second handle, and a fourth pivot pivotally connects the first jaw to the second jaw. The first jaw includes a web area having an elongated opening, and the second jaw includes a web area having an elongated opening. The third pivot is formed by a fastener extending through the elongated openings of the first jaw web area and the second jaw web area for pivotally connecting the handles together.
US09833839B2
Support structures are used in certain additive fabrication processes to permit fabrication of a greater range of object geometries. For additive fabrication processes with materials that are subsequently sintered into a final part, an interface layer is fabricated between the object and support in order to inhibit bonding between adjacent surfaces of the support structure and the object during sintering.
US09833836B2
Provided is a composition including a plurality of multi-metallic nanoparticles each consisting essentially of a core including at least one first metal (Me1) and a continuous shell including atoms of at least one second metal (Me2). Optionally, the continuous shell of Me2 atoms protects the Me1 atoms from oxidation at all temperatures less than 150° C.
US09833828B2
A hot-press deep-drawing forming apparatus includes a punch that constitutes a lower die and a die that constitutes an upper die. The punch has an inner-face forming surface that forms the inner face of a product, and a bent corner against which a scrap section S of a workpiece W abuts. The die has an outer-face forming surface that forms the outer surface of the product. A blank holder and a pre-forming die that clamp the scrap section are caused to move, together with the die, until the clamped scrap section abuts the bent corner. The movement of the blank holder and the pre-forming die is stopped after the scrap section has abutted the bent corner.
US09833827B2
A stamping device includes a stamping data generator configured to create stamping data to form a stamp image on a surface of a processing target, a positioning data generator configured to create positioning data to position the processing target, and a controller configured or programmed to control an operation of the processing tool. The controller includes a first controller configured or programmed to control the processing tool such that stamping is performed, based on the positioning data at a first stamping energy, on the processing target including a protective sheet attached thereto in a predetermined area including a stamping area where the stamp image is to be formed, and a second controller configured or programmed to control the processing tool such that stamping is performed, based on the stamping data at a second stamping energy equal to or different from the first stamping energy, on the processing tool in a state of having the protective sheet peeled off therefrom.
US09833821B2
A roll forming device for forming a variable thickness plate is disclosed. A roll forming device for forming a variable thickness plate according to one or a plurality of exemplary embodiments may include both-side stand frames that are disposed at a left side and a right side on a process base at a predetermined distance from each other and in which a sliding groove is formed at a center portion in an up and down direction, a lower forming roll unit in which a lower forming roll is fixed on a lower rotation shaft such that both end portions are rotatably disposed on a lower sliding block that is fixed to a lower portion of each sliding groove on the both-side stand frames, an upper forming roll unit in which an upper forming roll is fixed on an upper rotation shaft such that both end portions are rotatably disposed at an upper sliding block that is disposed on each sliding groove of the both-side stand frames to be slidably moved in an up and down direction at an upper portion of the lower forming roll unit, a forming roll gap adjustment unit that adjusts an initial gap between the lower forming roll and the upper forming roll, wherein a worm wheel and a worm gear are operated in an adjustment block of each upper portion of the both-side stand frames and an adjustment screw that is screw-engaged to a center of the worm wheel in an up and down direction adjusts an up-down direction position of the both-side upper sliding blocks, and a spring unit that is disposed between the adjustment screw and the upper sliding block within each sliding groove of the both-side stand frames, absorbs a forming reaction force that is applied to the upper forming roll according to a thickness variation of a plate that is to be formed, and simultaneously maintains a forming pressure of the upper forming roll within a predetermined range.
US09833819B2
A system for the storage of a radioactive waste product, wherein the radioactive waste product is located in a container and where one or more containers are stored in a bore hole drilled beneath a surface and having a bottom, wherein following placement of the one or more containers in the bore hole closer to the bottom, a fluid is added to the bore hole to a height above the upper most container, and wherein an upper cover is located above the upper most container and above the fluid to seal in the one or more containers and a non-permeable material is placed above the upper cover, a container storage area being formed within the bore hole beneath the upper cover.
US09833814B2
A method for producing a composite piezoelectric body includes: forming a composite piezoelectric body by filling a non-conductive polymer between a plurality of piezoelectric materials arranged in an array state at predetermined intervals, and polishing one surface of the composite piezoelectric body, from which surface at least the piezoelectric materials and the polymer are exposed, by using an abrasive film in which an abrasive particle is applied to a base film.
US09833812B2
There is provided a vibration generating device including: a housing having an internal space; a base member installed in the housing to be disposed in a central portion of the housing; a first plate installed on the base member; a first piezoelectric element installed on an upper surface of the first plate; a second piezoelectric element disposed to face the first piezoelectric element through a connection member; a second plate installed on the second piezoelectric element; and a vibration amplifying part installed on an upper surface of the second plate.
US09833808B1
A material dispensing pump includes a drip prevention system and method so as to avoid undesired dripping of the dispensed fluid. In one example, the fluid path is sealed. Positive pressure is applied to the fluid during a dispensing operation to present the fluid to the auger-style pump at a desired rate. Between dispensing operations, or when dispensing is completed, the fluid is placed in suspension, for example by applying a negative pressure, thereby preventing the fluid from being inadvertently released at the dispense tip. In addition, following a dispensing operation, the pump dispensing controller can be programmed to reverse the rotation of the feed screw, in order to draw the material in a reverse direction and to further suspend the fluid.
US09833803B2
An apparatus and system that efficiently and effectively delivers a sanitizing fluid to ducts in the form of a fog or mist is described. A canister that contains a liquid sanitizing solution is attached to a compressor and includes a straw that has an internal passageway that extends into the liquid and a venturi tube above the level of the liquid that connects with the internal passageway in the straw. The headspace above the liquid in the canister is pressurized, causing fluid to flow upwardly in the straw when a trigger is depressed, drawing fluid upwardly in part by the venturi. As the liquid passes the venturi the pressurized air that is flowing into the venturi causes the fluid to form a fine mist. The mist, under pressure from the compressor, is routed into a flexible delivery tube that has been previously positioned in a duct system. The terminal end of the tube has an atomizing ball attached thereto and the atomizing ball has a series of orifices through which the misted, atomized fluid is delivered. As fogged sanitizing solution flows through the orifices it is deposited on the interior surfaces of the duct. The delivery tube and the attached atomizing ball are withdrawn from the duct as the sanitizing fog is emitted from the ball. The fan in the HVAC system is not activated so there is no deliver of the sanitizer through registers and into the living space. The apparatus and method may be used to apply other fluids to other surfaces.
US09833796B2
A system is provided for rapidly cooling a pot or boiler. The system includes a cylindrical or semi-cylindrical tube operatively connected to the pot or boiler. The tube also includes a means for attaching a water source or hose. Finally, the tube may also include a series of holes or nozzles for directing a stream or spray of water towards the outer surface of the pot or boiler. The system may be built into the pot or boiler or may be a standalone, removable and adjustable system for use on multiple different pots or boilers.
US09833787B2
A folding hopper for a bulk material processing machine includes walls that are configured to pivot upwardly and downwardly and to interlock when raised to their uppermost use positions. Interlocking of the wall is achieved exclusively via interlocking hook shaped flanges fixed rigidly to end edges of the hopper walls.
US09833776B2
The present invention relates to a dispersion liquid of titanium oxide-tungsten oxide composite photocatalytic fine particles that is characterized by having two types of photocatalytic fine particles dispersed in an aqueous dispersion medium, the fine particles including i) fine particles of titanium oxide that contain a peroxotitanium component and a copper component and ii) fine particles of tungsten oxide. The present invention can provide a dispersion liquid and the like that can be used to conveniently manufacture a photocatalytic thin film that demonstrates photocatalytic activity even within visible light (400-800 nm) only, exhibits high antibacterial performance, is highly durable, and wherein the state of copper coordination is stable against exposure to heat and ultraviolet rays and is not easily modified. The dispersion liquid is a dispersion liquid of titanium oxide-tungsten oxide composite photocatalytic fine particles that contains copper-containing titanium oxide fine particles.
US09833768B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for purifying proteins from crude solutions.
US09833767B2
This invention relates to novel non-composite and composite superabsorbents, wherein the dry superabsorbents are xerogels, more particularly the bio-xerogels or the composites, particularly the biocomposites, more particularly the bionanocomposites and the method(s) of obtaining the same characterized by simultaneous in situ grafting and cross linking of ethylinically unsaturated monomers on to a single biopolymer of plant or animal origin, or on combination of different biopolymers or biopolymer(s) or/and clay(s), in a homogeneous polar phase, in the presence of initiator and crosslinker of chemical or non-chemical origin, at a temperature of 40 to 90° C., achieved by conventional or microwave heating, reaction time varying from instantaneous to 48 hours, involving use of alkali, either in situ or post reaction at room or elevated temperatures for achieving superior absorbency, in an inert or ambient reaction environment, to yield a neutral or near neutral product.
US09833753B2
A fluid-driven stirring apparatus includes a fluid introduction passageway, a fluid chamber connectable to the fluid introduction passageway, a container for accommodating liquid to be stirred, and a stirring assembly. The stirring assembly includes a driving impeller arranged in the fluid chamber, a stirring shaft fixedly connected with the driving impeller and extending through the fluid chamber into the container, and a stirring member arranged on the stirring shaft and adjacent to the bottom of the container. Thus, the fluid drives the driving impeller to rotate the stirring shaft, so that the stirring member can stir the liquid in the container.
US09833748B2
A fluid deionizer includes at least one graphene sheet perforated with apertures dimensioned to allow a flow of fluid and to disallow at least one particular type of ion contained in the flow of fluid. A purge valve is placed in an open position so as to collect the at least one particular type of ion disallowed by the graphene sheet so as to clean off the at least one graphene sheet. Another embodiment provides a deionizer with graphene sheets in cylindrical form. A separation apparatus is also provided in a cross-flow arrangement where a pressurized source directs a medium along a path substantially parallel to at least one sheet of graphene from an inlet to an outlet. The medium flows through the plural perforated apertures while a remaining portion of the medium and the disallowed components in the medium flow out the outlet.
US09833737B2
The present invention relates to methods of separating one or more components from a feed composition, methods of desorbing one or more components from an absorbent fluid, as well as systems and apparatus that can carry out the methods. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method of separating one or more components from a feed composition including contacting at least some of a first component of a feed composition including the first component with an absorbent fluid, to provide a contacted composition and a used absorbent fluid including at least some of the first component contacted with the absorbent fluid. In some embodiments the absorbent fluid can be an organosilicon fluid including an organosilicon including at least one of a hydroxy group, an ether group, an acrylate group, a methacrylate group, an acrylamide group, a methacrylamide group, and a polyether group. In some embodiments, during the contacting the feed composition can be contacted to a first side of a membrane while the absorbent fluid is contacted to a second side of the membrane. In some embodiments, the membrane can be a silicone membrane.
US09833733B2
An apparatus for conditioning of gases, particularly sealing gas, includes a separator unit (3), particularly for separating liquids and/or particles from the gas flowing through the apparatus, and a collecting container (1) for the trapped substances. The separator unit (3) has a cyclone separator (3).
US09833728B2
In one aspect there is provided a fluid treatment system for treating a contaminated fluid having a gaseous contaminant mixed or dissolved in the liquid portion thereof. The system comprises a generally enclosed and substantially airtight container defining an interior volume. The container comprises an inlet to receive the contaminated fluid, a gas outlet to discharge any gaseous contaminant and a liquid outlet to discharge any liquid that may be separated from said contaminated fluid. During operations, the container is sealed to maintain a seal between the interior volume and any outside environment, so as to prevent the escape of any liquids and gasses out of the interior volume, except as may be provided for via the inlet, the gas outlet or the liquid outlet. Also during operations, a continuous headspace is maintained between the at least one inlet and the at least one gas outlet.
US09833719B2
A robot 150 is placed on a touch panel. When touch sensor action sections 156a to 156c provided on a bottom face 150b of the robot act on a touch pad, an information processing device shows a face image in a rectangular area 16 of a display screen 14 of the touch panel. The rectangular area 16 corresponds to the bottom face of the robot. The face image is grabbed from the bottom face 150b of the robot 150 and appears in a face section 152. Further, the brightness of pixels in areas 18a and 18b of the display screen 14 is changed. The areas 18a and 18b correspond to optical sensors 160a and 160b provided on the bottom face 150b of the robot. The robot 150 detects the change in question, converting the change into a motion of an internal actuator, sound output, light emission, and so on in accordance with predetermined rules.
US09833703B2
A thermoelectric device (TED) is coupled to a portable game controller such that the TED can be used in coordination with video game events to heat or cool the game controller to add realism. Or, the TED can be used to transform heat from a player's body into electricity to charge the battery of the game controller.
US09833698B2
Techniques for providing an immersive storytelling experience using a plurality of storytelling devices. Each of the storytelling devices may be configured to perform one or more actions based on a current context of a story and in response to a stimulus event. The actions include at least one of an auditory and a visual effect. Embodiments also provide a controller device configured to manage a playback of the story, by adjusting the stimulus event and the effect of each of the plurality of storytelling devices, based on the current context of the story, thereby creating an interactive and immersive storytelling experience.
US09833697B2
Systems, electronic devices, and methods provide haptic sensations as a function of eye gaze. A system may include a detector configured to determine a direction of an eye gaze of a user of the system, a processor configured to generate signal representative of a haptic effect based on the direction of the eye gaze, and a haptic output device configured to receive the signal from the processor and output the haptic effect to the user. A method for providing a haptic effect to a user of a system may include determining a direction of an eye gaze of the user of the system, generating a haptic effect based on the direction of the eye gaze, and outputting the haptic effect to the user.
US09833695B2
In certain implementations, a presentation of a virtual counterpart of an action figure may be provided based on action figure state information obtained via wireless communication with the action figure. As an example, an action figure may be detected within a short wireless communication range of a computer system. A wireless connection between the computer system and the action figure may be established based on the detection. Action figure state information identifying a position of a moveable part of the action figure relative to another part of the action figure may be received at the computer system from the action figure via the wireless connection. The relative position may be related to a pose exhibited by the action figure. A virtual counterpart of the action figure may be presented based on the relative position such that the virtual counterpart exhibits the same pose as the action figure.
US09833682B1
Dropping a weight onto a weight lifting drop bag allows a weight lifter to drop a weight onto a floor with minimal damage to the floor, with minimal noise, and without any bouncing of the weight. The bag is a flexible enclosure filled with resilient pellets. The bag has a generally flat or slightly concave upper surface, a length of about two to eight feet, a width of about one and one-half to four feet, and a height of about two to twelve inches.
US09833659B1
An omnidirectional exercise platform includes a base member, a contact surface and three ball transfer units. The contact surface is carried by a top surface of the base member. The three ball transfer units are coupled to a bottom surface of the base member. The three ball transfer units are arranged having an equal angular offset therebetween providing stability to the exercise platform during use. The ball transfer units each comprise a hemispherical housing, a primary ball member and a plurality of secondary ball members disposed between an inner surface of the hemispherical housing and the primary ball member. The base member can include an upper body member and a lower body member. The pad member can be manufactured of a pliant material. Features of the pad member can identify a stability region of the exercise platform. The platform can have a convex arched top surface.
US09833643B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for providing controlled flow of inhalation-air from at least an air-reservoir to a mask. The apparatus includes a control unit and a switch unit. The control unit controls the level of the inhalation-air flowing from the air-reservoir to the mask. The control unit includes a housing to receive the inhalation-air from the air-reservoir, plurality of ducts protruding from the housing to connect with the air-reservoir and with the mask and a valve configured to control the flow of inhalation-air from the plurality of ducts. The switch unit positions a valve to selectively open and close the plurality of ducts for regulating the flow of inhalation-air from the air-reservoir to the housing.
US09833623B2
A method is described for decreasing activity of at least one sympathetic nerve, nerve fiber or neuron innervating at least one blood vessel in the pulmonary vasculature of a patient to ameliorate pulmonary hypertension. In one embodiment, the method may involve advancing an intravascular treatment device to a target location in a target blood vessel within the pulmonary vasculature of the patient and using the treatment device to decrease activity of at least one sympathetic nerve, nerve fiber or neuron innervating the target blood vessel at or near the target location to ameliorate pulmonary hypertension.
US09833622B2
An electrical stimulation system includes an implantable control module configured and arranged for implantation in a body of a patient. The implantable control module includes a processor that generates and delivers electrical stimulation pulses or pulse bursts at a pathological frequency or with a temporal separation between pulses or pulse bursts individually selected based on a pre-determined distribution function based on a pre-selected pathological frequency.
US09833621B2
Systems, devices and methods for modulation of sirtuins by neurostimulation. In particular, sirtuins may be modulated by stimulation of the vagus nerve. Further described herein generally are methods, systems and devices, for specifically modulating sirtuins, including sub-sets (types or localized regions) of sirtuins by vagus nerve stimulation (VNS).
US09833617B2
An insulated electrode system for delivering a plurality of tumor treating electromagnetic fields including an array of electrode elements for proximate location on a body of a patient. Each electrode element of the array having an insulation layer. Each electrode element being independently electrically accessible and configured to be dynamically assigned to emanate an electromagnetic field relative to at least one other of said electrode elements.
US09833616B2
An implantable medical device (IMD) can include implantable pulse generator (IPG) devices, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD), cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator devices, neurostimulators or combinations thereof. In one example, the IMD can include a body assembly, which can provide at least one electrical signal corresponding to a therapy. The IMD can also include a cardiac lead assembly, which can have a proximal portion and a distal portion. The proximal portion of the cardiac lead assembly can be in communication with the body assembly to receive the therapy and the distal portion can be adapted to be coupled to an anatomical structure to transmit the at least one electrical signal to the anatomical structure. The proximal portion of the cardiac lead assembly can have a first stiffness and the distal portion can have a second stiffness. The first stiffness can be greater than the second stiffness.
US09833603B2
A septum for a port is provided, the septum having a top wall and a side wall. The side wall can include a pressure-activated valve element for regulating the flow of fluid across the valve. The curvature of the side wall and the geometry of the sidewall and the housing can be tailored to bias the valve element to open at different pressures during infusion and aspiration. The side wall can also include an extended portion that can function as a suture wing for securing the port within a port pocket.
US09833590B2
A sterilization and humidification apparatus includes a heating chamber, a filter and a humidification chamber. The heating chamber heats a gas so as to sterilize the gas. The humidification chamber is adapted so that a liquid, which has been filtered by the filter, evaporates into the sterilized gas, thereby causing the sterilized gas to cool, and outputting a humidified gas at a desired temperature. The apparatus may include a bypass chamber to provide a path for the gas to bypass the humidification chamber. The apparatus may be adapted particularly for use in an incubator.
US09833587B2
A camera tube used in connection with a laryngeal mask cooperates with an intubation stylet. The camera tube is an elongate member having a length extending between opposite distal and proximal ends of the elongate member. The distal end of the camera tube has a camera. The camera tube has an exterior surface and an intubation stylet guide support surface extending radially outward from the exterior surface along a portion of the length adjacent to the distal end. The intubation stylet guide support surface is configured to cooperate with an intubation stylet guide support surface. The user may manipulate the proximal end of the camera tube to change the orientation of the intubation stylet with in the laryngeal mask while using the camera to visualize the patient's laryngeal opening. Once the intubation stylet is aligned with the patient's laryngeal opening, the intubation stylet may be advanced therethrough.
US09833575B2
A syringe assembly including a plunger rod having a first end, a second end, and a rod portion extending therebetween, wherein at least a portion of the rod portion is flexible is disclosed. The flexible portion of the rod portion allows a stopper to be moved between a first position and a second position within a syringe barrel while the overall length of the syringe assembly remains the same throughout the movement between the first position and the second position. In another embodiment, a syringe assembly including a restraining member adapted to communicate with the flexible portion of the rod portion such that movement of the first end of the plunger rod in a first direction actuates movement of the second end of the plunger rod in a second direction different than the first direction is disclosed.
US09833573B2
An apparatus includes a housing, a medicament container, an actuator, and a biasing member. The actuator is configured to move the medicament container within the housing when the actuator is moved from a first configuration to a second configuration. The actuator includes a gas container and a puncturer. When the actuator is in the first configuration, a portion of the puncturer is disposed apart from the gas container. When the actuator is in the second configuration, the portion of the puncturer is disposed within the gas container. The gas container has a longitudinal axis offset from a longitudinal axis of the medicament container. The biasing member is configured to bias the actuator toward the second configuration.
US09833572B2
The present disclosure provides a modular, connectable, dual chamber syringe system that can be used to mix, dispense and/or inject multiple materials sequentially or concurrently. The dual chamber syringe system may be prefilled in advance with different materials, e.g., multiple medicaments, and prepackaged, and is capable of being removed from the packaging and being used immediately, such as in a medical setting. In one illustrative embodiment, the dual chamber syringe system includes a design with the following arrangement of the main components: hypodermic needle—first container with female threaded end—male threaded cap—female threaded cap—second container with male threaded end—plunger. In a second illustrative embodiment, the dual chamber syringe system includes a design with the following arrangement of the main components: hypodermic needle—first container with female threaded end—membrane—membrane—second container with male threaded end—plunger.
US09833558B2
A valved container assembly which has a container for containing a fluid, the container extending in an axial direction and having an open front end and a valve disposed in the container. The valved container assembly is configured so that forward axial movement of the valve relative to the container is inhibited. A plunger element is disposed axially rearward of the valve and is axially moveable in the container. The plunger element is configured to increase the pressure of a fluid in a first volume of the container upon forward axial movement relative to the valve. The valve includes a channel bypassing the permanent seal, the channel having a first opening in fluid communication with the atmosphere outside of the valved container assembly and a second opening selectively sealed from the first volume by a resilient seal.
US09833557B2
A system is provided for separating a plasma-containing fluid into separated plasma and a concentrated fluid. The system cooperates with a fluid flow circuit including a fluid separation chamber and a plasma outlet line associated therewith for removing separated plasma from the fluid separation chamber. The system includes an optical sensor assembly to monitor the contents of the plasma outlet line and produce an output indicative of the concentration of free plasma hemoglobin in the plasma outlet line. A controller of the system calculates the amount of free plasma hemoglobin in at least a portion of the concentrated fluid based at least in part on the output of the optical sensor assembly. The controller may periodically calibrate the optical sensor assembly by determining an instrument-specific correlation between optic output and free hemoglobin concentration and comparing it to experimentally determined data to ensure continued reliability of the optical sensor assembly.
US09833556B2
A control system (23) is arranged to control the operation of an apparatus (200) for extracorporeal blood treatment. The apparatus (200) comprises an extracorporeal blood circuit (20) and a connection system (C) for connecting the blood circuit (20) to the vascular system of a patient. The blood circuit (20) comprises a blood processing device (6), and at least one pumping device (3). The control system is operable to switch between a pre-treatment mode and a blood treatment mode. The blood treatment mode involves operating the blood circuit (20) to pump blood from the vascular system via the connection system (C) through the blood processing device (6) and back to the vascular system via the connection system (C). The control system (23) is operable to obtain measurement data from at least one energy transfer sensor (40) arranged to sense a transfer of energy between the patient and the connection system (C) or between the patient and the blood circuit (20). The control system (23) is configured to, in the pre-treatment mode, process the measurement data for identification of a characteristic change indicating a connection of the blood circuit (20) to the vascular system of the patient, and, upon such identification, take dedicated action. The action may involve activating at least part of a patient protection system and/or enabling entry into the blood treatment mode. The control system may be included in an apparatus (200) for blood treatment, such as a dialysis machine.
US09833553B2
A hemodialysis machine comprising a dialysate flow path for delivering a flow of dialysate solution through a dialyser, the flow path including a flow balancer for achieving a balance in the dialysate solution flow volume observed between an inlet and an outlet of the dialyser over the course of a treatment, the flow balancer comprising a first flow balance pump having an inlet valve and an outlet valve and a second flow balance pump having an inlet valve and an outlet valve, wherein the flow path further includes a flow restrictor means downstream of the flow balance pumps to reduce the pressure difference across the valves in the dialysate flow path.
US09833542B2
Prosthetic knee implant or implant component is made with a magnesium oxide stabilized transformationally toughened zirconia.
US09833538B2
Adhesive compositions and patches, and associated systems, kits, and methods, are generally described. Certain of the adhesive compositions and patches can be used to treat tissues (e.g., in hemostatic or other tissue treatment applications), according to certain embodiments.
US09833536B1
A contact lens storage system that includes sterilized solution, at least one contract lens, a buffering agent, and a container. The sterilized solution and contact lens are physically separated from the buffering agent. Also described herein are related methods for neutralizing a sterilized contact lens solution, methods of inserting a contact lens onto an eye, and methods of disinfecting and neutralizing a contact lens.
US09833535B2
The present invention provides for a disinfecting radiation base for working in conjunction with a storage case for an ophthalmic lens. The disinfecting radiation base provides disinfecting radiation for disinfecting a surface of the storage case. The disinfecting radiation base may also include a processor and digital memory for automated functions associated with the base.
US09833529B2
Sterilization cassette systems, instrument retention systems for use with a sterilization cassette, and configurable instrument retention members are disclosed that are suitable at least for holding medical and/or dental instruments during sterilization in an autoclave.
US09833521B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a pharmaceutical formulation of lanthanide chelate in powder form, wherein the powder constitutes a mol/mol excess of free chelate of between 0.002 and 0.4%.
US09833516B2
The present invention relates to a liquid formulation of a combination of long-acting insulin and insulinotropic peptide, comprising insulin which is a physiologically active peptide, insulinotropic peptide, and albumin-free stabilizer, wherein the stabilizer comprises a buffer, a sugar alcohol, a non-ionic surfactant, and an isotonic agent; and a method for preparing the liquid formulation. The liquid formulation of the present invention does not contain a human serum albumin and potentially toxic factors to the body, and thus it has excellent storage stability for insulin conjugate and insulinotropic peptide conjugate at high concentration, without a risk of viral contamination.
US09833509B2
The subject matter described herein is directed to articles, compositions, systems, and methods of using and preparing bioceramic compositions and to the bioceramic compositions. A bioceramic composition of the disclosure radiates infrared energy or rays and can be used in the treatment of various conditions.
US09833505B1
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods useful for preventing and treating Zika virus infection. As described herein, the compositions and methods are based on development of immunogenic compositions that include virus-like particles (VLPs) which comprise one or more Moloney Murine leukemia virus (MMLV) core proteins and include one or more Zika epitopes, such as, for example, from Zika envelope glycoprotein E and the Zika structural protein NS1 including variants thereof.
US09833497B2
In the invention, the minimum inhibitory concentrations of human-originated EGF domain proteins against different Gram-negative bacteria are detected with the in vitro antibacterial activity. It has been shown that the human-originated EGF domain proteins have an obvious inhibitory effect on the Gram-negative bacteria, so as to develop a novel class of medicaments for treating Gram-negative bacteria infection. It has been demonstrated by silver staining that the human-originated EGF domain proteins have the effect on hydrolyzing and eliminating the endotoxin, which facilitates the development of a novel class of medicaments for treating endotoxemia. The amino acid sequences of the human-originated EGF domain proteins are the one described in SEQ ID NO: 1 in the sequence listing, or those having homology of over 50% to the amino acid sequence described in SEQ ID NO: 1.
US09833493B2
The present invention relates to a method for activating helper T cells, which includes the step of activating helper T cells by adding a WT1 peptide to antigen presenting cells, wherein the WT1 peptide has the ability to bind to an MHC class II molecule selected from HLA-DRB1*08:02 molecule, an HLA-DRB1*13:02 molecule, an HLA-DRB1*14:03 molecule, an HLA-DRB1*14:05 molecule, an HLA-DQB1*03:02 molecule, and an HLA-DQB1*04:01 molecule.
US09833488B2
The present invention relates to a topical composition and method of use, specifically an oil-in-water emulsion, comprised of sweet almond oil, lavender oil, rose oil, cinnamon bark oil, and coriander seed oil in a physiologically acceptable topical carrier. The composition is applied to a circumcised penis to enhance sensitivity, preferably twice daily for a time period of at least about two weeks. Thereafter a maintenance dose can be applied once a day to maintain a desired level of sensitivity.
US09833486B2
The present application relates to compositions comprising selenium (e.g., selenium enriched yeast) and methods of using the same to treat and inhibit obesity, diabetes and related conditions. In particular, the present application provides compositions comprising selenium enriched yeast (e.g., selenium enriched yeast comprising 2% or less inorganic selenium), and methods of using the same to enhance mitochondrial activity and function (e.g., in skeletal muscle and liver) in a subject (e.g., as a therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatment for diabetes, obesity and related conditions).
US09833477B2
Methods and compositions are provided to augment the conversion of mixed hematopoietic cell chimerism to complete donor cell chimerism following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT), where such transplantation may be utilized for treatment of cancer such as leukemia and lymphoma or for other conditions requiring reconstitution of the hematopoietic system, e.g. treatment of anemias, thalassemias, autoimmune conditions, and the like. The present invention improves on conventional DLI by utilizing a composition of substantially purified donor memory CD8+ T cells as DLI following allogeneic HCT, where the cells are administered at a suitable time following transplantation. The methods provide for a more complete donor chimerism, and have the further benefit of killing tumor cells without GVHD. The memory CD8+ T cells may include one or both of central and effector memory T cells, usually both.
US09833476B2
The invention is directed to T cells and other cells that express chimeric NK-p30 receptors (“chimeric NKp30 T cells”), methods of making and using chimeric NKp30 T cells, and methods of using these chimeric NKp30 T cells, isolated populations thereof, and compositions comprising the same. In another aspect, said chimeric NKp30 T cells are further designed to express a functional non-TCR receptor. The disclosure also pertains to methods of making said chimeric NKp30 T cells, and methods of reducing or ameliorating, or preventing or treating, diseases and disorders using said chimeric NKp30 T cells, populations thereof, or compositions comprising the same.
US09833473B2
Provided are the tolerogenic dendritic cells for treating a myocardial infarction and a method for preparing the same, and more particularly, the tolerogenic dendritic cells for treating a myocardial infarction, which can treat cardiac insufficiency that occurs by excessive remodeling of left ventricle in the heart muscle recovery process after an acute myocardial infarction, and a method for preparing the tolergenic dendritic cells. According to the present invention, the inflammatory reaction and the excessive remodeling of left ventricle in the heart muscle recovery process after a myocardial infarction can be inhibited, and thus, the incidence rate of cardiac insufficiency can be significantly reduced, thereby being effectively used for treating a myocardial infarction.
US09833469B2
Compositions are described that contain treated chitosan, modified chitosan and/or modified and treated chitosan for use in formulations for skin, hair and nails, and in compositions and methods of reducing topical agent-induced skin irritation and inflammation.
US09833467B2
Provided herein are methods of treating or preventing a bone disorder in a subject.
US09833466B2
Provided herein are combinations comprising an HDAC inhibitor and azacitidine for the treatment of leukemia in a subject in need thereof. Provided herein are combinations comprising an HDAC inhibitor and azacitidine for the treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia in a subject in need thereof. Also provided herein are methods for treating leukemia in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of the above combination or an HDAC inhibitor, as well as methods for treating acute myelogenous leukemia in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of the above combination or an HDAC inhibitor.
US09833459B2
The invention provides a fulvestrant composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable alcohol, polysorbate 80, an antioxidant, and castor oil, which is substantially or completely free of a non-aqueous ester solvent and which demonstrates excellent storage stability. The composition may be used to treat hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer in a subject.
US09833453B2
Described herein are compounds of Formula (I)-(III), pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided are particles (e.g., nanoparticles) comprising compounds of Formula (I)-(III) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that are mucus penetrating. Methods of using the compounds or pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating and/or preventing diseases are also provided.
US09833447B2
This invention relates to 4-{[4-({([4-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-1,2-benzisoxazol-3-yl]-oxy}methyl)piperidin-1-yl]methyl}tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-carboxylic acid for use in therapeutic treatment of the human body. In particular, it relates to the compound having selective 5-HT4 receptor agonism, which is useful for treating gastroparesis, or preventing or delaying the onset or the progression of gastroparesis.
US09833443B2
The present invention relates to the field of methods for providing pharmaceutical compositions comprising poorly water-soluble drugs. In particular the present invention relates to compositions comprising stable, amorphous hybrid nanoparticles, comprising at least one protein kinase inhibitor and at least one polymeric stabilizing and matrix-forming component, useful in pharmaceutical compositions and in therapy.
US09833433B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for compositions including an antimicrobial agent, pharmaceutical compositions including the composition or pharmaceutical composition, methods of treating a condition or disease, methods of treatment using compositions or pharmaceutical compositions, and the like.
US09833429B2
Ingenol angelate is a potent anticancer agent, and can be stabilized by dissolving it in an aprotic solvent in the presence of an acidic buffer.
US09833427B2
The present invention provides a creatine ester anti-inflammatory compound which may be received by animals and then metabolized into a biologically active form of creatine. The biologically active creatine inhibits the production of chemical mediators, released during an inflammatory response, which are important components in the inflammatory response and the inflammation and pain resulting from physical or chemical trauma to cells and tissue.
US09833416B2
Compositions for inhibiting oligonucleotide activity in vitro or in vivo to a cell that are formulated with at least one oligonucleotide encapsulated in a lipid nanoparticle, methods of making, and methods of using the same are disclosed.
US09833415B2
With externally applied magnetic fields, we will push and concentrate in vivo diamagnetic Bismuth particles or unipolar magnetic particles as a confined locus, cause the locus to move to a tumor, shape it to the tumor, then use near IR to heat the particles so to destroy the tumor by thermal ablation or hyperthermia treatment. We will then cause the locus to move to other tumors, and repeat the process, so to destroy all tumors and cure the cancer.
US09833408B1
An orally administrable chewing gum formulation is provided comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable gum base and particles of a pharmaceutical agent ranging in site from about 50 to about 2000 μm, wherein the formulation comprises about 0.5-30% by wt of the pharmaceutical agent particles. A liquid formulation comprising particles of a pharmaceutical agent is also provided.
US09833407B2
The present invention provides a nasal vaccine for Streptococcus pneumoniae, and a production method therefor. This nasal vaccine formulation for primates includes a complex of PspA, i.e. the vaccine antigen, and a nanogel in which hydrophobic cholesterol is added, as side chains, to pullulan having amino groups. Furthermore, the present invention provides a production method for the nasal vaccine formulation for primates.
US09833395B2
Sustainable, free-flowing, cold-dispersible pearlescent concentrates are made without using any controversial or known toxic substance is disclosed herein. The pearlizing concentrates of the instant invention are free of alkyl sulphates/alkyl ether sulphates, alkanol amides, alkylamidopropyl betaines, and esters of ethylene glycol. The pearly concentrates of the present invention employ ‘super-mild’ surfactants to disperse vegetable plant derived 1,3-proane diol stearates. Also, these concentrates are preserved without any controversial antimicrobials such as parabens, isothiazolinones and formaldehyde releasers.
US09833386B2
A method of smoothing teeth is disclosed that is based on surprising evidence achieved by practicing a method involving application of calcium powder or calcium containing composition to teeth, and maintaining it in contact with the teeth by application of an edible adherent wax containing material, that serves to maintain contact between the teeth and the calcium powder or calcium containing composition for at least one hour.
US09833374B2
A training apparatus includes a fixed frame, a training rod, a motor, rotation information detection sensor, tilt angle and position difference calculation units, determination, motor drive and position difference eliminating units. The training rod is supported by the fixed frame in a manner capable of being tilted by a motor about at least an X-axis or a Y-axis so as to hold the limb. The tilt angle calculation unit calculates a tilt angle of the training rod. The position difference calculation unit calculates a position difference. The determination unit obtains the position difference every time when a second time period elapses. If the position difference generated in the second time period is a first threshold or lower, the motor drive unit drives the motor so that the position difference is accumulated and maintained. The position difference eliminating unit resets the position difference at a predetermined timing.
US09833372B2
Caskets, cap panel assemblies for a casket, and methods for manufacturing cap panel assemblies are described. A casket may include a casket shell, at least one casket cap pivotally mounted on the casket shell, and a cap panel assembly mounted in the at least one casket cap. The cap panel assembly may include a cap panel, a puffing member attached to each edge of the cap panel, a cap panel insert positioned in-line with the cap panel, and a plurality of resilient members positioned on a front face of the cap panel insert. The plurality of resilient members may be tensioned, for example, to hold keepsakes, memorabilia, or other types of objects on or in the cap panel insert. The cap panel insert can include a mounting bracket or a screw and wire assembly for mounting the cap panel insert on a wall.
US09833368B2
A spring assist system for use with a person support apparatus is described herein. The spring assist system comprises a spring which applies a spring force on a head support deck section to aid in motion from a first position at a higher inclination to a second position at a lower inclination with respect to a supporting frame member. The spring assist system is configured to exclusively apply spring force between the first position and the second position.
US09833363B2
A sealing drape may be suitable for use with a reduced-pressure treatment system for treating a tissue site. The sealing drape may have an interior surface adapted for positioning adjacent to a peripheral surface of the tissue site. The sealing drape may include a sealing material and an absorbent material. The sealing material may be hydrophobic and substantially free of hydrophilic components. Further, the sealing material may be positioned between the interior surface of the sealing drape and the absorbent material. The sealing drape may be used with a manifold for positioning at the tissue site, a reduced-pressure interface, and a reduced-pressure source. Methods of manufacture and treatment are also disclosed.
US09833362B2
The invention relates to a bandage set suitable for use in the treatment of wound cavities, especially for use in the treatment of wound cavities by means of negative pressure, comprising i) a first bandage material as wound contact layer, comprising a flexible, perforated film (11, 21, 31) having a first and a second side, the perforations (15) present in the film being provided in such a way that the perforation edges (16) protrude from the second side of the film (11, 21, 31), with three-dimensional structures being present on the second side of the film (11, 21, 31), and the first side being intended for contacting with a wound base (3), more particularly the internal surface of a wound tube, ii) a separately provided second bandage material for introduction into a wound cavity, comprising a porous polymer foam (12, 22, 32), the polymer foam (12, 22, 32) being an open-cell polymer foam which comprises struts (14) on or close to its surface and/or which comprises, on its surface, hollow spaces (13) open toward the surface, and the struts (14) and/or hollow spaces (13) forming three-dimensional structures, characterized in that the first bandage material has a surface area sufficient to envelop at least 75% of the surface of the second bandage material, and the structures present on the second side of the first bandage material can form an adhesive connection with the structures present on the surface of the second bandage material, the second side of the film (11, 21, 31) being intended for partial or complete envelopment of the surface of the polymer foam (12, 22, 32) immediately before the wound treatment, and so, after introduction of the composite composed of first and second bandage material into a wound cavity, movement of the first bandage material with respect to the second bandage material can be avoided as far as possible during the therapy and/or simultaneous removal of the first bandage material and the second bandage material is facilitated owing to the adhesive connection between the first bandage material and the second bandage material.
US09833359B2
A tympanostomy tube delivery device comprises a drive assembly and a force limiting shaft assembly. The shaft assembly comprises a cannula and a piercer operable to translate relative to the cannula so as to pierce the tympanic membrane of a patient. The piercer is mechanically coupled with the drive assembly such that actuation of the drive assembly causes translation of the piercer relative to the cannula. The piercer is mechanically coupled with the drive assembly by a clutch. The clutch is resiliently biased to couple the piercer with the drive assembly. The clutch is configured to uncouple the piercer from the drive assembly in response to a threshold force being imposed upon the piercer so as to inhibit translation of piercer relative to the cannula.
US09833352B2
This document provides methods and materials related to ostomy devices. For example, ostomy bags or pouches that can be used to collect discharge from a temporary or permanent ostomy opening are provided.
US09833345B2
The present embodiments provide a stent for use in a medical procedure that comprises a series of proximal apices disposed at a proximal end of the stent and a series of distal apices disposed at a distal end of the stent. In a first embodiment, a first proximal apex comprises a bore for receiving a trigger wire, and a second proximal apex, disposed adjacent to the first proximal apex, comprises at least one barb. In an alternative embodiment, a first proximal apex comprises a first bore and a second, adjacent proximal apex comprises a second bore, such that a single trigger wire may be disposed through the first and second bores to restrain the first and second proximal apices during delivery.
US09833339B2
An insert press that has a threaded shaft with a distal end is disclosed. An insert driver is disposed at the distal end of the threaded shaft. The insert press also includes a press housing that provides a bore through which the threaded shaft extends. The bore is transformable from a first condition in which the threaded shaft is threadably translatable in the bore to a second condition in which the threaded shaft is non-threadably translatable in the bore.
US09833335B2
The invention relates to an implant for the transforaminal intracorporeal fusion of lumbar vertebral column segments. At least some sections of the surface areas that are in direct contact with the spinal column are provided with an anti-dislocation mechanism (1) while an attachment part (4) for a positioning instrument (10) is provided in or on the implant and holes (6) or hollow spaces are disposed in the implant for filling purposes. According to one embodiment of the invention, the attachment part is configured as a revolute joint. In a further embodiment, the implant member has the shape of a sickle, the curvature of which is oriented ventrally and the interior of which is oriented dorsally. The attachment part is located at one end of the sickle while the opposite end of the sickle has a beak-type, tapering shape (5). At least one filling hole is provided between the sickle walls.
US09833333B2
The present invention provides an intervertebral implant for implantation in a treated area of an intervertebral space between vertebral bodies of a spine. The implant includes a spacer portion having an inferior and superior surface, wherein the inferior and superior surfaces each have a contact area capable of engaging with anatomy in the treated area, and the inferior and superior surfaces define a through-hole extending through the spacer body. The present invention further provides screw holes extending from a side portion to the inferior and superior surfaces of the spacer portion and a plate portion rigidly coupled to the spacer portion through a coupling means, wherein the plate portion contains screws holes for receiving screws. A screw back out prevention mechanism adapted on the plate portion and prevents the back out of screws from the screw holes.
US09833329B2
An implant assembly smoothly causes a folded implant to indwell a living body, and which can smoothly expand the implant without causing the implant to be displaced from a predetermined indwelling position when a filling material is injected. The implant assembly has the implant that is configured to be transformable from a folded and contracted state to an expanded state by the introduced filling material, and in which at least a portion of a surface thereof is covered with a covering material m whose friction coefficient increases by coming into contact with a body fluid, and guiding means for preventing the implant and the body fluid of the living body from coming into contact with each other inside the living body, and for guiding the implant to move to the indwelling position inside the living body.
US09833325B2
Disclosed herein are prosthesis, surgical tools, and methods to preserve one or more ligaments of the knee by cutting a least a portion of natural bone during joint surgery, with a portion of the natural bone retained along with the natural attachment of an associated soft tissue structure. The natural bone portion with the associated soft tissue may be re-secured to relevant anatomy during or after knee surgery, which may include retention by features of a tibial prosthesis.
US09833324B2
A human knee prosthetic implant having a tibia component forming first and second medial concave surfaces and first and second lateral concave surfaces, and a femur component forming first and second medial convex surfaces and first and second lateral convex surfaces. The tibia and femur surfaces are formed to provide contact interaction in full extension, a mid flexion range and in a state of full flexion of the knee prosthetic implant.
US09833318B2
The present invention includes a device and method for a self-expanding framework device adapted to facilitate the deployment of an extra-cardiac device. The device includes a deployment tube and a self-expanding wire framework having a structure that results in the self-expanding wire framework circumferential flaring motion and bending outwardly to advance around the heart.
US09833317B2
Catheter devices provide for rolling movement between the inner and outer catheter tubes with a roller assembly in a radial gap between the inner and outer catheter tubes. Devices of the invention are particularly useful in minimally invasive implantations, such as the implantation of a vascular implant. A particular application is interventional catheter-assisted aortic valve implantation.
US09833311B2
This invention describes Ophthalmic Devices with media inserts that have nanostructured Metasurface elements upon or within them. In some embodiments passive ophthalmic devices of various kinds may be formed. Methods and devices for active ophthalmic devices based on Metasurface structures may also be formed.
US09833309B2
A vascular implant, comprising a sheet comprising thin film nickel titanium (NiTi), wherein the sheet has at least one super-hydrophilic surface having a water contact angle of less than approximately 5 degrees. The sheet is configured to have a compacted form having a first internal diameter and a deployed form having a second internal diameter larger than the first internal diameter. The sheet may be delivered into a blood vessel in the compacted form and expanded to its deployed form at a treatment location within the blood vessel, wherein the stent is configured to expand onto an internal surface of the blood vessel and exert a radial force on said internal surface.
US09833305B2
An intravascular filter assembly has an expanded state for capturing thrombi in a patient's blood vessel, a first a collapsed state for removal from the patient's blood vessel in a first direction and a second collapsed state for removal from the patient's blood vessel in a second direction. A plurality of first struts extends from a first axial side of a fixed hub, and a plurality of second struts extends from the opposite axial side of the fixed hub. An axially movable hub has a first position radially surrounding the tubular body, a second position axially spaced apart from the fixed hub along the first struts, and a third position axially spaced apart from the fixed hub along the second struts. The first struts are collapsed when the movable hub is in the second position, and the second struts are collapsed when the movable hub is in the third position.
US09833301B2
Disclosed is a method of generating and modifying a virtual model of a set of teeth, where the method provides that a restoration can be inserted into a physical model of the set of teeth manufactured from the virtual model of the set of teeth.
US09833281B2
An active electrode probe for an enhanced control surgery system is disclosed. The probe has a flexible conductor for delivering electrosurgical energy during an electrosurgical procedure, and is adapted for connection to an electrosurgical generator. The probe also has a flexible electrical insulation substantially surrounding the conductor. The probe also has a flexible conductive shield substantially enclosing the electrical insulation, the flexible conductive shield electrically connected to a reference potential, whereby any current which flows in the flexible conductive shield from the conductor is conducted to the reference potential. The flexible conductive shield is formed from a conductive wire.
US09833279B2
A twin-cannula fat tissue aspiration instrument system equipped with a hand-supportable fat aspiration instrument having a twin irrigating-type or tumescent-type electro-cauterizing cannula assembly with an inner cannula coupled to a cannula drive mechanism and having an inner aspiration aperture that is reciprocated within an outer cannula having an outer aspiration aperture and being connected to the front portion of the hand-supportable housing, so that said inner cannula reciprocates within said outer cannula when the cannula drive mechanism drives the inner cannula. An irrigation channel is formed along the outer cannula, and in fluid communication with an irrigation aperture formed at the distal portion of the outer cannula and proximate to the outer aspiration aperture. Also, electrodes are disposed about the outer aspiration aperture for delivering RF signals aspirated fat tissue being aspirated through the outer and inner aspiration apertures so as to electro-cauterize said aspirated fat tissue during irrigation operations.
US09833278B2
A medical treatment apparatus includes a heat transfer portion, a heating chip, a temperature measurement unit and a control unit. The heat transfer portion comes into contact with a living tissue and transfers heat to the living tissue. The heating chip includes a heating region, is joined to the heat transfer portion, and heats the heat transfer portion by inputting energy to the heating region. The temperature measurement unit acquires a temperature of the heating region. The control unit controls a temperature of the heat transfer portion to a target temperature by controlling the temperature of the heating region to a temperature differing from the target temperature by an offset value which changes in accordance with an amount of the energy.
US09833276B2
Headache treatment methods are described and include providing, an energy delivery device; locating a secondary or higher-order branch of a postganglionic nerve that provides innervation for a patient's head, by identifying a target region of the patient's head that includes the nerve branch; positioning, within the target region, a portion of the energy delivery device; and applying, from the positioned portion of the energy delivery device to the target region, an amount of energy effective to result in a stimulation activity of the nerve branch; and, after observing the stimulated nerve branch activity, delivering, from the energy delivery device to the nerve branch, energy in an amount effective to reduce a headache severity in the patient.
US09833271B2
The present invention provides a drug eluting surgical screw and a method for manufacturing a drug eluting surgical screw. The drug eluting surgical screw may include a shaft having a threaded portion, a head having a drive recess disposed at a proximal end of the shaft, the drive recess having a reservoir region and a driver engagement region, and at least one or more drug eluting components disposed within the reservoir region of the drive recess in a manner that does not substantially impair a connection between a driver and the surgical screw when the driver is operably disposed within the driver engagement region, each of the at least one or more drug eluting components including a carrier matrix and a therapeutic agent, the therapeutic agent being at least 20 wt % of the drug eluting component prior to any implantation of the drug eluting surgical screw.
US09833262B2
A spinal correction implant comprises a body extending between a first end and a second end. The body has a curvature. A first longitudinal element is connected with the first end. A ratchet is disposed with the body. A second longitudinal element is connected to the ratchet and is incrementally movable relative to the body. Systems and methods are disclosed.
US09833260B2
A specialized obturator that has a curved configuration designed specifically for entry through the anterior joint and out the back of the knee in the ideal position for a posterior portal. The curved obturator is shaped to avoid intact knee ligaments and femoral condyles. The obturator is provided with an eyelet located at the tip and may be employed with a cannula similar to a PassPort™ Button cannula, but with one or more sutures placed through the “neck” behind the collar. A standard “inside-out” cannula may be used as well, but dimensioned for the specialized obturator.
US09833259B2
A surgical access port or trocar is provided. The trocar has a trocar seal housing and a trocar cannula with an optical obturator insertable through the trocar seal housing and the trocar cannula. The trocar is configured to access a body cavity, to maintain positive pressure and to prevent loss of surgical insufflation gas used in laparoscopic procedures. The trocar seal housing can be releasably attached to the trocar cannula. The trocar seal housing may also have a shield and/or alignment channel that provide protection or assist in operation of instrument and zero seals housed in the trocar seal housing.
US09833255B2
In the context of bone surgery and in particular arthroscopic surgery, there is frequently a need for the application of “percussive force” to the distal end component(s) of a surgical device, i.e., repetitive percutient or striking force analogous to that of a hammer driving a nail. Disclosed herein are mechanisms and methods for automating and/or controlling the application of such a percussive force so as to avoid the present need in the art for a “third hand”. The present invention addresses the significant and long felt need by providing a powered percussive driver device that may be controlled directly by the primary surgeon.
US09833248B2
Methods and devices for harvesting cancellous bone are disclosed. The bone-harvesting device may include a cannula and a bone receptacle in communication with the cannula, wherein the cannula including a cutting surface positioned at or adjacent the distal end, the cutting surface being oriented at an angle, the angle being greater than 90 degrees relative to the longitudinal axis of the cannula, and the harvested bone is adapted to move from a position adjacent to the cutting surface through the cannula into the bone receptacle. The cutting surface of the cannula may be positioned at or adjacent the distal end, and positioned at least in part radially outward of the outer face of the cannula. The cannula may include a cutting surface positioned at or adjacent the distal end and an occluding geometry that partially occludes the distal end of the cannula adjacent the cutting surface. In addition, a suction port may be provided in communication with the bone receptacle.
US09833242B2
A two-part tissue thickness compensator assembly can include a first tissue thickness compensator configured to be positioned relative to an anvil of a surgical stapler, a second tissue thickness compensator configured to be positioned relative to a staple cartridge of the surgical stapler, and a hinge connecting the first tissue thickness compensator to the second tissue thickness compensator. The first and/or second tissue thickness compensators may include additional engagement features, such as a raised ridge that engages a slot in the anvil and/or the staple cartridge. In certain embodiments, the first and/or second tissue thickness compensators may include an encasement that contains a suitable biologic agent. An end effector assembly may be provided for attachment to a surgical instrument that includes, for example, a staple cartridge, an anvil, a first tissue thickness compensator positioned on the anvil, and a second tissue thickness compensator positioned on the staple cartridge.
US09833240B2
A system for closing an aperture in a biological tissue includes at least one clip connected to at least one frame arm and for releasably retaining a surgical implant to the frame arm. The clip includes at least one locking structure for engaging a lock bar. A portion of the lock bar selectively engages or contacts the locking structure of the at least one clip to lock the at least one clip in a closed position by inhibiting rotation of the at least one clip when the lock bar is in a locked position. The lock bar allows the at least one clip to rotate to an open position when the lock bar is in an unlocked position. Methods for utilizing the system are also disclosed.
US09833233B2
A suturing device is disclosed. The suturing device includes an end effector assembly disposed on a distal end of the suturing device. The end effector assembly includes at least one guide tube housing at least one elongated member, a guide rack, and an anchor configured for disposal in a tubular tissue circumferentially offset from the guide rack. The anchor includes at least one guide tube attached to a suture having a first end and a second end. The at least one elongated member is deployed to puncture tubular tissue and mate with the at least one aperture of the anchor such that extraction of the at least one elongated member simultaneously draws out the suture through the punctured tubular tissue.
US09833232B2
A suture needle driving instrument comprises a shaft and an end effector. The end effector is located at the distal end of the shaft and includes a pair of needle grasping arms. Each grasping arm extends along a respective arm axis. The grasping arms are operable to drive a suture needle along a rotational path about an axis, such as one of the arm axes, that is offset from the central longitudinal axis of the shaft. The rotational path may be perpendicular to the axis of the shaft. A needle driven by the end effector may have an arc radius that is greater than the radius of the shaft. At least one of the needle grasping arms may include a dogleg feature positioning a distal portion of the grasping arm outside the radius of the shaft. The instrument may be used through a trocar during minimally invasive surgery.
US09833230B2
Assemblies for securing a fractured or weakened bone within a subject's body are provided. The assembly includes a frame having an adjustable flexible member construct thereon. The adjustable flexible member construct is disposed in the frame such that the adjustable flexible member and the frame encircle the fractured or weakened bone.
US09833225B2
Biocompatible wound closure devices including an elongate body and a plug member are useful for wound repair.
US09833220B2
The present invention provides an ultrasound system, which comprises: a signal acquiring unit to transmit an ultrasound signal to an object and acquire an echo signal reflected from the object; a signal processing unit to control TGC (Time Gain Compensation) and LGC (Lateral Gain Compensation) of the echo signal; a TGC/LGC setup unit adapted to set TGC and LGC values based on TGC and LGC curves inputted by a user; and an image producing unit adapted to produce an ultrasound image of the object based on the echo signal. The signal processing unit is further adapted to control the TGC and the LGC of the echo signal based on the TGC and LGC values set by the TGC/LGC setup unit.
US09833219B2
Volume scanning along different planes is provided using angling of the elements. Rather than orthogonal dicing of the slab, kerfs are formed at non-parallel and non-perpendicular angles to the azimuth axis of the array or longitudinal axis of the slab. Apertures formed from selected groups of the angled elements and/or parts of angled elements may be used to steer along planes that extend at an angle of 5 degrees or more away from the azimuth or longitudinal axis. By walking the aperture, different parallel planes are scanned with a one-dimensional array of elements.
US09833209B2
The present invention relates to the adjustment of movable X-ray imaging systems for aligning an object of interest and an X-ray imaging arrangement and comprises an X-ray imaging arrangement with a source and detector, at least one camera, a data processor; and a display, wherein the display is configured to display a graphical representation of at least one reference point in a first image at least partly overlaid with an actual image provided by the at least one camera to guide an alignment movement of the X-ray source and/or the X-ray detector and an object in relation to each other after an intermediate displacement.
US09833203B2
The invention relates to a compression device (1) for assisting x-ray examination of an object. The compression device (1) comprises a support plate (3) adapted to receive thereon the object to be examined; a compression plate (4); and a displacement device (5) arranged to interact with the support plate (3) and the compression plate (4) to allow modification of the spacing (A) between the support plate (3) and the compression plate (4) to compress the object there between. A plurality of pressure sensors (13) are distributed across the support plate (3) and/or the compression plate (4) for sensing local pressure distribution across the compression area of the compressed object. The displacement device (1) is arranged to set and adapt the spacing (A) between the support plate (3) and the compression plate (4) angularly and linearly as a result of the sensed local pressure distribution across the compression area.
US09833200B2
Various examples of methods and systems are provided for vibrational frequency detection (e.g., noncontact vital sign detection) using digitally assisted low intermediate frequency (IF) architectures. In one example, a transceiver system is configured to transmit a modulated signal generated by modulating a local oscillator (LO) signal with an IF carrier; generate an IF signal by down converting a received signal comprising backscatter with the LO signal; and simultaneously sample the IF carrier and the IF signal. A vibration frequency can be determined by demodulating the sampled IF signal with the sampled IF carrier. In another example, a method includes generating and transmitting a modulated signal; receiving backscatter of the modulated signal; generating an IF signal by down converting the received signal with the LO signal; simultaneously sampling the IF carrier and the IF signal; and determining a vibration frequency by demodulating the sampled IF signal with the sampled IF carrier.
US09833198B2
Implementations for obtaining objective measurements related to a patient's dental condition and reporting a patient's dental health based on these objective measurements are described herein. One or more of implementations can be used to provide an objective standard by which a patient's dental health can be evaluated. In some implementations, one or more numerical scores can be generated for a patient, where each score describes a different aspect of the patient's dental health. In some cases, a single dental health score can be generated to represent the patient's overall dental health. In some cases, dentists can use these implementations to improve the consistency and impartiality of their medical opinions, and to communicate more efficiently and effectively with others (e.g., other dentists, administrators, and patients).
US09833190B2
A system, device and method are presented for utilizing stretchable active integrated circuits with inflatable bodies. The invention allows for such operative features to come into direct contact with body structures, such as the inner wall of a lumen. Such direct contact increases accuracy of measurement and delivery of therapy.
US09833186B2
A system and method for automatic reading skin for an allergy to a substance, includes a consumer electronics device that acquires images of skin; a consumable member having a surface divided into elementary areas, each elementary area with a different possible allergenic substance; and a palette that, when applied against each elementary area brings the depositing part into contact with the skin thereby depositing the corresponding possible allergenic substance on or under the skin, where an image processing operation of the image of the skin taken by the consumer electronics device localizes the location that each depositing part has deposited the possible allergenic substance during the application and provides information in relation with a sensitivity of the skin, as indicated by a visible reaction, to the possible allergenic substance at each localized location.
US09833184B2
The invention provides a method for automatically identifying emotional states of a person in real-time based on physiological responses by exposing a person to a stimulus, measuring the person's physiological response to the stimulus, and comparing the measured physiological response to a known baseline physiological. The deviation of the measured physiological response from the baseline physiological response is determinative of the emotional state.
US09833179B2
A blood component is accurately analyzed by appropriately extracting a blood-vessel transmitted light component. In a blood component analyzing apparatus, a sensor section has a light-emitting section that irradiates light from a predetermined irradiation position situated over a blood vessel and a light-receiving section including a first photodetector that receives light at a first light-receiving position that is different from the irradiation position and is situated over the blood vessel and a second photodetector that receives light at a second light-receiving position that is not situated over the blood vessel. A spectrum synthesizing section synthesizes a first light-reception result at the first light-receiving position and a second light-reception result at the second light-receiving position by performing a predetermined synthesis process based on a positional relationship among the irradiation position, first light-receiving position, and second light-receiving position. A blood component analyzing section analyzes a blood component using the synthesis result.
US09833178B2
A method and an apparatus for measuring glucose level in the body fluid of a subject, typically blood glucose level, by measuring impedance of a body tissue, with two pairs of electrodes, two electrodes for injecting current into a body tissue and two electrodes for detecting the ensuing voltage of the body tissue. The body tissue is typically a sub-dermal or sub-cutaneous tissue. The measured impedance of the body tissue is used to correlate with directly determined glucose levels to determine the glucose level from the measured impedance. It is thus possible to determine body fluid glucose levels in a reliable and reproducible manner.
US09833165B2
Cardiac ablation is monitored to detect hemopericardium by iteratively acquiring magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data that includes the pericardium, measuring the pericardium by analyzing the sets of MRI data, making a determination that a measurement of the pericardium in consecutive sets of MRI data differ, and responsively to the determination reporting a change in configuration of the pericardium.
US09833163B2
This invention detects tissue injury by measuring decreased skin conductance as shown by research. Two electrical probes on the device are placed onto a subject's skin. The device sends an electrical microcurrent from one probe, through the subject's skin, to the other probe. A gauge measures the microcurrent in microamps, and a speaker emits a tone with pitch and volume proportional to the percentage of maximum conductance. Per research, the skin conductance will decrease significantly over a site of tissue injury, such as an average of around 70% over a sprained ankle. Also, force gauges measure the force applied to the electrical probes for consistency of measurement. Cotton pads are placed at the tips of the electrical probes for hygiene.
US09833161B2
Cardiac catheterization is performed with a catheter having a basket-shaped assembly at its distal end. A plurality of spline electrodes are disposed on the splines of the assembly. The assembly is configurable in an expanded arrangement wherein the splines bow radially outwardly and in a collapsed arrangement, wherein the splines are arranged generally along the longitudinal axis of the catheter body. A far-field electrode is disposed in the interior of the assembly. An intracardiac electrogram and a far-field electrogram are obtained with at least one of the spline electrodes and the far-field electrode, respectively. The far-field component is removed from the intracardiac electrogram using the far-field electrogram.
US09833152B2
A non-invasive, optical-based physiological monitoring system is disclosed. In an embodiment, the non-invasive, optical-based physiological monitoring system comprises an emitter configured to emit light into a tissue site of a living patient; a detector configured to detect the emitted light after attenuation by the tissue site and output a sensor signal responsive to the detected light; and a processor configured determine, based on the sensor signal, a first physiological parameter indicative of a level of pain of the patient.
US09833148B2
Systems and methods for photoacoustic imaging are provided. Photoacoustic signals are excited from a body and the excited photoacoustic signals are detected with a low coherence interferometer system serving as a photoacoustic detector. Cross-sectional images of the body are then reconstructed by the system from the detected photoacoustic signals.
US09833147B2
A mammography device is disclosed. The mammography device includes a container configured to surround the breast and a plurality of optical fibers attached to be directed inward in the container and configured to perform radiation and detection of light. The container has a base member having an opening, a plurality of annular members continuously disposed to come in communication with the opening, and a bottom member disposed inside the annular member spaced the farthest distance from the base member. The annular members and the bottom member are configured to relatively displace the adjacent annular member on the side of the base member or the base member in a communication direction. Some of the plurality of optical fibers is attached to the plurality of annular members.
US09833146B2
A surgical system configured for treating tissue is provided. The surgical system includes a laser source and a laser scalpel. The laser scalpel is adapted to couple to the laser source and is operable in two modes of operation, a first mode of operation to analyze tissue of interest and a second mode of operation to treat tissue of interest. The laser scalpel includes a housing having first and second fiber optic cables extending therethrough. Each of the first and second fiber optic cables operable under the first mode of operation to collect information pertaining to at least one optical property of tissue of interest and at least one of the first and second fiber optic cables also operable under the second mode of operation to treat the tissue of interest.
US09833138B2
A medical diagnostic device and method, the device including: (a) an alternating current source, adapted to produce an alternating current; (b) an electrode arrangement having at least first and second electrodes, separated by an electrically insulating region, the arrangement having an at least semi-rigid region that fixes the electrodes in a spaced-apart manner, the arrangement adapted to contact the soft tissue on the inner surface of the eyelid; and (c) a processor, associated with the electrode arrangement, said electrodes electrically connected to the alternating current source; wherein, when the electrode arrangement is provided with the alternating current, and is disposed against the soft tissue, the soft tissue electrically bridges between the electrodes to form an electrical circuit, wherein an electrical signal is produced by the alternating current electrically passing between the electrodes via the soft tissue; wherein the processor is adapted to receive in-vivo based electrical information originating from the electrical signal, via the circuit, and to produce an output relating to, or derived from, the moisture parameter, based on the in-vivo electrical information; and wherein the processor is designed and configured to compute the moisture parameter in the soft tissue, at least partially based on the in-vivo electrical information, and based on an empirical correlation between the in-vivo electrical information and the moisture parameter.
US09833131B2
A steerable device, such as a steerable catheter, may include a control handle and an insertion shaft extending outwardly therefrom. In use, the insertion shaft is navigated to an area of interest for examination and/or treatment thereof. The steerable device may include a steering system that controls the deflection angle of the distal end of the insertion shaft in two or more non-planar directions for navigating the insertion shaft to the area of interest. The steering system may also include a locking mechanism for arresting or partially arresting the movement of the distal end of the insertion shaft in a first direction independent of arresting or partially arresting the movement of the distal end in a second non-planar direction.
US09833128B2
A stopcock for a channel that guides a flux medium in a medical endoscope, the stopcock having a housing accommodating a plug rotatable about an axis in a conical seat penetrated by the channel, wherein the housing has a bearing collar adjacent to the conical seat in the direction of the axis, in which bearing collar a handle body is mounted to be rotatable about the axis, the handle body supporting a handle outside the housing and rotationally coupled to the plug displaceable in direction of the axis and resiliently supported relative thereto, wherein the handle body has a radially elastic detent device engaging a circumferential inner groove of the bearing collar to be locking in direction of the axis, wherein the plug is arranged and configured bring the detent device out of engagement with the bearing collar upon displacement in direction of the axis into an unlocked position.
US09833123B2
A dishwasher appliance and a method for mounting a slide rail within a dishwasher appliance are provided. A rack assembly of the dishwasher appliance includes a bracket with a post. A slide rail is mounted to the bracket, and the slide rail and the bracket are positioned within a wash chamber of the dishwasher appliance. The post extends through the tub, and a sleeve is positioned opposite the bracket on the tub and engages the post. The sleeve hinders retraction of the post through the tub.
US09833115B2
A vacuum cleaner nozzle having a rotatable member arranged around a longitudinal axis for picking up particles from a surface to be cleaned, and a cleaning arrangement for removing articles entangled on the rotatable member. The cleaning arrangement has at least one support surface provided on at least one radially projecting member of the rotatable member, and at least one cleaning member movable between a resting position in which the cleaning member is arranged at a distance from the support surface and at least one cleaning position in the vicinity of the rotatable member. In the cleaning position, the cleaning member co-operates with at least one segment of the support surface to remove any entangled articles from the rotatable member as the rotatable member rotates. The at least one support surface comprises a number of segments arranged at an individual respective radius in relation to the longitudinal axis.
US09833112B2
A system to enable lateral shower curtain movement including: a first open channel frame, where the first open channel frame attaches to a first sidewall of a shower stall; a second open channel frame, where the second channel frame respectively attach to a second sidewall of the shower stall and said second sidewall opposes the first sidewall; openings in each open channel frame, where the openings enable the insertion of an end of a shower rod; and a means to adhere each channel frame to each side wall. The means to adhere may include at least one of a double-sided tape, glue or mounting brackets. Preferably, each channel frame extends the entire length of each respective sidewall.
US09833111B2
A vertical corner joint for joining a first shower wall panel having a J-shaped channel integrally formed on an edge thereof and second shower wall panel having a resilient, elongate wedge member attached to the back side and along an edge thereof. The edge with the wedge is inserted into the channel of the first panel, thus compressing the wedge and forming a tight corner joint or seam. A multi-piece shower enclosure may include one or more such joints. A four-piece enclosure may include a shower base or bathtub, a back wall with channels on both vertical edges, and two side walls, each with an edge with a wedge for insertion into a respective channel. The channel may form a nailing flange. A sealing strip may be included between the front side of the second panel and the short side of the channel.
US09833109B2
A machine prepares semi-frozen food products and/or beverages from pre-prepared (e.g. frozen) cups. A user chooses the desired frozen cup, inserts it into the machine, chooses how they would like it prepared from a range of thickness options, and the machine then opens a sealed chamber door and inserts the product upward into the chamber and prepares the product by blending it in the cup. Upon removal of the product and resealing of the chamber door, the cleaning mechanisms provide thorough cleaning of all food contact surfaces and the chamber interior. Automatic high temperature steam sanitation takes place in the chamber if the machine is not used for an extended period of time, thus greatly reflected or eliminating the need for manual cleansing and sanitation by an attendant and ensuring healthy food preparation in all times.
US09833104B2
A brewing device includes a frame that has an insertion area for inserting a capsule towards a brewing position. Further, the brewing device includes a brewing chamber that has a first portion and a second portion. The first and second portions of the brewing chamber are slidingly arranged in a sliding area of the frame. The first portion and the second portion both slide with respect to each other and with respect to the frame between a closed position and an open position. Ducts supply a brewing fluid to the chamber and outlet a brewed product from the brewing chamber. A pair of opposed guiding channels are provided for inserting, from a top of the insertion area, the capsule in the brewing position which is fixed with respect to the frame, and at least one member is provided for supporting the capsule in the brewing position.
US09833097B2
In one embodiment, a controller determines a particular compartment of a smart postal box in which a package is to be delivered. The controller associates the particular compartment with an authorized entity. The controller provides the authorized entity access to the particular compartment by aligning rolling doors of the smart postal box with the particular compartment.
US09833089B2
The present invention relates to a weaning clip and, more particularly, to a weaning clip which can be used not only by infants or handicapped people, but also by people from all walks of life, which is mounted on a bottle containing mineral water or any other type of drink instead of a cap and enables the user to drink the content inside the bottle with their mouth contacting the bottle or to take in the content using a straw, and which comprises an adapter that can be mounted regardless of the diameter of the bottle entrance.
US09833081B2
Mattresses including a polymeric contact sensor configured to provide real-time dynamic contact information, which can then be used to report sleep quality, body position and/or pressure distributions to the user. The polymeric contact sensors could also be used to control parameters of the mattress and/or foundation with adjustable firmness for a given position and/or body shape/type/size. The polymeric contact sensor includes a plurality of flexible strips formed of a polymeric material and a conductive filler, wherein the polymeric contact sensor is in electrical communication with a data acquisition terminal, wherein the polymeric contact sensor is disposed on or within the upholstery layer, or on or within the quilt layer, or on a top surface of the innercore unit.
US09833078B2
An inversion chair and the method of treatment are provided to assist a user in the treatment and prevention of migraine headaches by increasing and altering the blood flow within the head. The inversion chair includes a frame having a first and a second side connected to each other by a fixed backrest. The sides of the frame have L-shaped configurations comprising upstanding side and base sections that are connected by a curved member. A rotatable seat is positioned between the sides of the frame. The chair is adapted to transition between a standard sitting position to an inverted position. The chair comprises an upper user support bar and a lower leg support bar for maintaining a user within the chair during inverted use. The support bar is removable and used to either secure the lap of the individual when inverted, or support the chair when in an upright state.
US09833075B2
An adjustable chair comprises chair support, backrest, a backrest support mechanism including at least one backrest arm pivotally connected to the support, and a seat having front and rear regions and a seat surface. The chair includes first and second seat support mechanisms with the first mechanism adjustably connecting the front region of the seat and the second mechanism adjustably connecting the rear region. The second seat support mechanism includes at least one seat arm having front and rear arm extensions and connected to the support for pivotal movement about a horizontal axis. The rear arm extension is pivotally connected to the rear region of the seat. A toggle arrangement is pivotally mounted on the chair support and engages the front end section of the at least one seat arm and front end section of the at least one backrest arm.
US09833072B1
A rack and drawer system includes a tray having at least one glider mechanism and at least one rotation mechanism coupled to the side of the tray, wherein the at least one glider mechanism is operable to allow the tray to move back and forth along a glider mechanism axis, and wherein the tray is operable to rotate about the at least one rotation mechanism. In another embodiment, the rack system further includes at least one hinge mechanism coupled to a first end of the at least one glider mechanism, wherein the at least one hinge mechanism is operable to allow the tray to pivotally move relative to a pivot point.
US09833061B2
A dental hygiene device such as an interdental brush includes a handle, a brush head having bristles extending therefrom, and a neck portion extending between the brush head and the handle. The neck portion of the dental hygiene device is configured to provide two modes of operation, a first cleaning mode of operation wherein the brush head contacts the teeth at a first pressure for a given application pressure, and a second cleaning mode of operation wherein the brush head contacts the teeth at a second pressure, greater than the first pressure, for the same given application pressure.
US09833057B2
A container for holding and delivering liquids is disclosed. A method of making the same is disclosed. The container can have a molded container top, a molded container bottom, a flexible film reservoir, and a handle extending from the container top to the container bottom. The reservoir can be laterally exposed around the entire circumference of the reservoir along a part of the longitudinal length of the reservoir. A thermally insulated reservoir system is disclosed. The reservoir system can have a bag having a multi-layered bag wall. The bag wall can have a first layer sealed to a second layer. The volume defined between the first layer and the second layer can be partially or completely filled with a fluid insulator, such as air or saline solution. The volume defined between the first layer and the second layer can also or alternately be partially or completely filled with a solid insulator, such as a matted fiber layer.
US09833044B2
An article of footwear may include an upper, a sole, and a removable cleat member. The sole may include at least one base member disposed in the sole, the base member including a fastener receiving portion, the fastener receiving portion may include at least one female thread. The cleat member may include a cleat body having a ground-engaging end and an opposite fastening end. A fastening portion is configured to extend from the fastening end of the cleat body. The fastening portion may engage with the fastener receiving portion of the base member, the fastening portion including a post and the thread including a draft angle. The thread of the cleat member may be configured to engage with the female thread of the base member.
US09833041B2
Textile Components, such as upper members for articles of footwear, include: (a) a first portion having a first edge, wherein the first edge includes a first portion of material engaged with a first seam support material via a first thermoplastic material; (b) a second portion having a second edge, wherein the second edge includes a second portion of material engaged with a second seam support material via a second thermoplastic material; and (c) structure to engage the first and second edges in an abutting edge joint (such as a zig-zag stitch). The resulting textile components may be lightweight and breathable (e.g., due to use of lightweight upper fabric), having a comfortable fit (e.g., due to the abutting edge joint), while still providing a strong, stable, and durable construction (e.g., due to the presence of the seam support member(s)).
US09833036B2
A skate having a skate boot with a non-lasted boot shell, the shell having a first non-lasted three-dimensional sub-shell and a second non-lasted three-dimensional sub-shell, the second sub-shell being interior to and adjoining the first sub-shell, the first sub-shell comprising a first material having a first density and the second sub-shell comprising a second material having a second density, the second density being less than the first density, the shell being shaped so as to have a heel portion, an ankle portion, a lateral portion, a medial portion, and a sole portion; and a ground-engaging assembly disposed on an underside of the skate. Additional sub-shells are possible. Methods of manufacturing the skate boot shell, including molding and build-up, are also disclosed.
US09833034B2
Electrically conductive vulcanized epoxidized natural rubber [ENR]-carbon black blends can be produced by using either internal mechanical mixing method or open milling method. These two methods are commercially friendly due to their practicability and high production rate. The addition of vulcanization system, either sulfur or peroxide type does not affect the electrical properties of the vulcanized blends. All vulcanized blends prepared in this innovation show useful electrical properties with electrical volume resistances as low as the order of 101 ohms. All these vulcanized blends also exhibit good mechanical properties with tensile strengths up to 26.0 MPa and Dunlop rebound resiliencies of 14.0% (i.e. high damping property). The black color level of all these vulcanized blends is adjustable. As a result of good electrical and mechanical properties (especially high damping property), they have good potential to be used for antistatic footwear manufacturing and application.
US09833033B2
A football helmet with shell, faceguard, padding and comfort liner system, has replaceable nose bumpers for connecting a top center of the faceguard to the shell, button and keyhole connectors connecting the liner to an inner surface of the padding and T-nut connectors for connecting the padding to an inner surface of the shell. Front portions of the comfort liner have harder foam cushions than other portions of the liner to improve impact absorption. Selected areas of the padding system contain pads with inner and outer molded thermoplastic urethane parts of different durometer, each including a sheet with plural alternating hollow protrusions. The faceguard has an upper bar with raised ends above a lower edge of the front portion of the shell that form a face opening and on either side of the nose bumper.
US09833017B2
Smoking articles including filter elements formed from two or more fibrous inputs with different physical properties are provided. The two or more fibrous inputs are provided in the form of staple fibers, which are at least partially entangled with each other to form a mixed fiber sliver. The mixed fiber sliver includes a first plurality of cellulose acetate staple fibers blended with a second plurality of staple fibers comprising a polymeric material different from the first plurality of staple fibers, such as staple fibers of a degradable polymeric material. The entangled fibers of the mixed fiber sliver may be sufficiently separated from one another such that blooming operations typically required in filter element production may not be necessary prior to incorporating the mixed fiber sliver into a filter element. Related methods, apparatuses and mixed fiber products are also provided by the disclosure.
US09833010B2
A unit (1) for dosing a confectionery mass includes a base body (2), a dosing chamber (26) for containing a confectionery mass and a rotary piston (3) being reversingly driven to alternatingly fill the dosing chamber (26) with confectionery mass and to remove confectionery mass from the dosing chamber (26). The rotary piston (3) has a filling cycle for filling the dosing chamber (26) with confectionery mass during which it is rotatingly driven in a first direction of rotation (28). The rotary piston (3) has a removing cycle for removing the confectionery mass from the dosing chamber (26) during which it is rotatingly driven in a second direction of rotation (29) being opposite to the first direction of rotation (28). The filling cycle and the removing cycle form one complete working cycle.
US09833000B2
Provided are liquid compositions comprising inactive biopesticide precursors comprising a glucosinolate concentrate, a plant material comprising a myrosinase enzyme complex, and a water soluble polyol. Further provided are methods of making and using such compositions.
US09832996B2
Disclosed herein are methods for modulating (e.g., inhibiting) emergence and growth of monocotyledonous or dicotyledonous plants (e.g., weeds and grasses) using sarmentine and/or a sarmentine analog and a second herbicide. The application of sarmentine and/or a sarmentine analog with a second herbicide to a plant and/or its growth substrate results in a synergistic pre- and/or post-emergence herbicidal activity against the plant. The present method also provides compositions comprising sarmentine and/or a sarmentine analog, in combination with a second herbicide.
US09832993B2
A method for forming a composition that includes mixing an antimicrobially active botanical oil (e.g., thymol, carvacrol, etc.) and a modified starch polymer within a melt blending device (e.g., extruder) is provided. Unlike the problems associated with proteins, the use of starch polymers allows for a greater degree of flexibility in the processing conditions and is still able to achieve good properties in the resulting composition. The present inventors have also discovered that a plasticizer may be employed to facilitate melt processing of the starch, as well as to enhance the ability of the botanical oil to flow into the internal structure of the starch where it can be retained in a stable manner. The composition is also typically generally free of solvents. In this manner, the starch will not generally disperse before use and prematurely release the botanical oil. Due to the water sensitivity of the modified starch, however, it may be subsequently dispersed by moisture when it is desired to release the botanical oil.
US09832987B2
A controlled droplet application (CDA) nozzle has a CDA nozzle cone having a first axis of rotation in a first position and, after adjustment, a second axis of rotation in a second position orthogonal to the first. A rotationally adjustable directional shroud surrounds at least a portion of the cone, the directional shroud blocking at least a portion of a lip of the cone regardless of whether the cone is positioned in the first or second axis of rotation.
US09832980B2
A selectively bendable remote access gripping tool, includes a jaw portion having a pair of jaws or nets movable relative to each other between clamped and opened positions thereof, a handle portion spaced apart from the jaw portion by a bendable central portion that has a hollow, corrugated member that is bendable, and a cord extending through the hollow bendable member that connects the jaw portion and the handle portion.
US09832972B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and associated method for tagging insects and arthropods. According to an exemplary embodiment of this disclosure, an electrosprayer is provided including a nozzle cartridge, a spray chamber removably attached to the nozzle cartridge and a power supply operatively connected to the nozzle cartridge and a grounding plate within the spray chamber to electrically charge droplets expelled from the nozzle which coat one or more insects contained in the spray chamber.
US09832966B2
A new and distinct clonal line of oregano named KI-Ov1750 and characterized by elevated levels of carvacrol and vigorous growth.
US09832958B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01064122. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01064122. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01064122 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01064122 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09832955B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01058718. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01058718. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01058718 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01058718 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09832954B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01058711. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01058711. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01058711 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01058711 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09832951B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH862828. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH862828, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH862828 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH862828.
US09832948B2
A novel maize variety designated X05H226 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05H226 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05H226 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X05H226, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05H226. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05H226.
US09832943B2
The present invention relates to cultivated plant of the species Solanum lycopersicum comprising a acs2 allele having one or more mutations, said mutations resulting in production of a mutant acs2 protein having loss-of-function acs2 protein or reduced function compared to wild type Acs2 protein.
US09832936B2
Electric scissors (1A, 1B) is provided with: a first blade (2A, 2B); a second blade (3A, 3B); a toggle link mechanism (7A, 7B) including a first link (71A, 71B), a second link (72A, 72B), and a drive shaft (70A, 70B); and a drive section (5, 6). One end of the first link (71A, 71B) is rotatably connected to a transmission portion (21A, 21B) of the first blade (2A, 2B). One end of the second link (72A, 72B) is rotatably connected to a transmission portion (31A, 31B) of the second blade (3A, 3B). The other end of the first link (71A, 71B) is rotatably connected to the other end of the second link (72A, 72B) through the drive shaft (70A, 70B). The drive section (5, 6) is configured to open/close the first blade (2A, 2B) and the second blade (3A, 3B) by displacing the drive shaft (70A, 70B) in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the drive shaft (70A, 70B).
US09832934B2
An edging unit comprises a structure having opposed top and bottom surfaces, opposed first and second side surfaces extending between the opposed top and bottom surfaces, and opposed first and second end surfaces extending between the opposed top and bottom surfaces and between the first and second side surfaces. The top surface comprises at least one pair of opposed segments. Each pair of segments includes first and second segments respectively opposing one another with respect to a center of the edging unit. The first segment defines a first upward or downward slope between the first side surface and the second side surface and the second segment defines a second upward or downward slope between the first side surface and the second side surface generally opposite in direction to the first slope.
US09832927B2
A sensor for measuring a thickness of a layer of a grain/residue mixture as the layer is transported through a cleaning arrangement of a combine harvester. The sensor is mounted on a support surface of a grain pan or a sieve of the cleaning arrangement and comprises a tower-shaped support structure with sensor elements attached to the structure and forming a vertical stack of sensor elements, so that a number of sensor elements is submerged in the layer and a number of sensor elements extends above the layer. The sensor elements are configured to measure an electrical property that changes as a function of immediate surroundings of the sensor elements. The sensor elements are configured to be read out independently from each other.
US09839170B2
A non-splicing feeder for which new carrier tape can be set safely is provided. The feeder includes a third sprocket rotatably provided on the insertion section of a main body, a fourth sprocket rotatably provided upstream from the third sprocket in the conveyance direction; third engaging protrusions which engage with engaging holes which are formed at a fixed angle on the outer circumference of a first sprocket, and fourth engaging protrusions which engage with engaging holes which are formed at only a portion of the outer circumference of the fourth sprocket.
US09839164B2
A direct-interface liquid-cooled (DL) Rack Information Handling System (RIHS) includes liquid cooled (LC) nodes each comprising a chassis received in a respective chassis-receiving bay of a rack and containing heat-generating functional components. Each LC node is configured with a system of conduits to receive direct injection of cooling liquid to regulate the ambient temperature of the node and provide cooling to the functional components inside the node by removing heat generated by the heat-generating functional components. A cooling subsystem has a liquid rail formed by more than one node-to-node, Modular Liquid Distribution (MLD) conduits, each including first and second terminal connections attached on opposite ends of a central conduit that can be rack-unit dimensioned. The MLD conduits seal to and enable fluid transfer between a port of a selected LC node and a port of an adjacent LC node.
US09839161B2
A thermal ducting rail receives a rack device in a rack chassis. The thermal ducting rail includes air flow guiding elements that enable cooling air from a front face of the rack chassis to be directed to an external side of the thermal ducting rail and from the external side to a rear face of the rack chassis. The thermal ducting rail enables rack devices equipped with side-to-side cooling to receive cooling air in a rack chassis with front-to-back cooling, without extending beyond a unit height occupied by the rack device.
US09839159B1
A pattern for heat transfer material for a thermal transfer interface having a high aspect ratio. Two thermal interface elements (e.g., a die and a cover) meet to form a thermal interface with a high aspect ratio (i.e., the ratio of length to width is above a threshold such as 9:5). The pattern includes two star-shaped patterns aligned side-by-side in the lengthwise (longer dimension) direction. Each star pattern includes spokes emanating from a local central point. The pattern optionally includes a central cross shape that includes a vertical line extending between the two longer edges and a horizontal thickened section in which horizontally aligned spokes are thickened. When pressed between two thermal interface elements, this pattern performs better (e.g., covers more area) than a more traditional pattern, thereby improving heat transfer ability.
US09839158B2
A cold plate device and method for cooling electronic systems is provided including a generally flat thermally conductive body having a cooling channel within the thermally conductive body. A first cooling fluid travels through the cooling channel to remove heat from the conductive body. A vapor compression cycle system is coupled to the thermally conductive body such that the first cooling fluid removes heat from a second cooling fluid in a portion of the vapor compression cycle system.
US09839155B2
A thermal ducting system for electronic equipment in an electronic equipment enclosure is provided. The thermal ducting system includes a top duct, a bottom duct spaced apart from the top duct, a side duct extending from the top duct to the bottom duct and along an intake side of the electronic equipment, and at least one baffle positioned in the side duct.
US09839154B2
A multi-component inverter rack formed from sheet metal is disclosed. Some of the sheet metal derived parts used to form the multi-component inverter rack can be interchangeable. The multi-component inverter rack can include attachment points for an inverter, a load center and other supporting electrical components.
US09839152B2
A control panel designed to be placed in a vertical plane, the control panel comprising the layered assembly of a flat base, of an elastomer sheet mounted against the base, the sheet being provided with openings and optionally with domes, and of a decorative fascia. The control panel is in addition provided with a means for protection against liquids made in one piece with the sheet, the protection means comprising elements projecting from the main surface of the sheet, the said elements being so arranged that when the control panel is in the substantially vertical plane and the liquid penetrates between the sheet and the decorative fascia, the liquid is guided along a determined course and re-emerges from the panel having avoided critical zones leading in particular to detectors.
US09839149B2
A fixing bracket is used to fix a plurality of storage devices in a housing. Each of the storage devices has a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite and respectively having plurality of fixing holes. The fixing bracket includes a frame body and two pivotal members. The frame body has an opening and an accommodating space. The frame body includes a plurality of first fixing pins in the accommodating space. The storage devices can be accommodated in the accommodating space. Each of the first fixing pins is for being inserted into the corresponding fixing hole on the first sidewall. The pivotal members are pivotally connected to the frame body. Each of the pivotal members includes a plurality of second fixing pins. When the pivotal members cover parts of the opening, each of the second fixing pins is for being inserted into the corresponding fixing hole on the second sidewall.
US09839148B2
There are disclosed a display device including a display module configured to display a screen, a case configured to mount the display module therein, a mount plate coupled to a back surface of the case, with a lower portion comprising an arch-shaped handle having a predetermined curvature, and a mount fixer fixed to a wall, the mount fixer comprising a seating portion having the same curvature as the handle, such that an installation angle can be changed to make the display device leveled even after the mount device is installed so as to relieve difficulty in leveling the display device when it is mounted to the wall.
US09839147B2
A magnetic stand for a tablet device is disclosed. The magnetic stand is configured to rigidly hold a portion of the tablet device in place and to shield the magnetic field from adversely affecting nearby devices susceptible to strong magnetic fields. The shielding portion of the magnetic stand allows for significant increases in magnetic field strength when compared to similarly configured, unshielded products.
US09839145B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device according to the present invention includes a display panel, a module cover coupled to the rear side of the display panel, and a housing coupled to the rear side of the module cover, wherein the housing comprises a driving unit configured to push at least part of the module cover such that the display panel is in at least one of a first state in which the display panel is flat and a second state in which the display panel is curved, wherein the driving unit comprises a motor assembly, at least one link having one side coupled to the motor assembly and the other side coupled to the module cover, and a guide coming into contact with at least one side of the at least one link to enable the at least one link to be pushed up and pulled down according to direction of a driving force transferred from the motor assembly.
US09839142B2
A soldering device and method of soldering are disclosed. The device may include at least one soldering pallet assembly. The pallet assembly may be subjected to a first atmosphere configured within the soldering pallet assembly and a second atmosphere configured external to the pallet assembly, the second atmosphere is an ambient atmosphere. At least one solder element may be positioned within the first atmosphere, and the solder element may be configured to attach an electrical component to an integrated circuit chip that is positioned within the pallet assembly.
US09839135B2
A method of producing electronic components each including a substrate-type terminal and a device connected to the substrate-type terminal including a substrate body with first and second principal surfaces opposite to each other and an electrode configured to be connected to the device on the first principal surface, wherein the device is disposed on the first principal surface, includes forming grooves in a substrate from one of the first and second principal surfaces of the substrate such that the substrate is divided into the substrate-type terminals, the grooves each having a depth less than a thickness of the substrate, cutting the substrate from another principal surface opposite to the principal surface of the substrate body such that the grooves penetrate through the substrate in a thickness direction thereof, and mounting the device on each of the first principal surfaces.
US09839134B2
A flexible integrated circuit that includes a first dielectric layer having a first section at one polarity and a second section at an opposing polarity, wherein the first section and the second section are separated by dielectric material within first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer having a first side wall that is electrically connected to the first section and a second side wall that is electrically connected to the second section; and a third dielectric layer having a base that is electrically connected to the first side wall and the second side wall, wherein the second dielectric layer is between the first dielectric layer and the third dielectric layer, wherein the base, the first and second side walls and the first and second sections form an antenna that is configured to send or receive wireless signals.
US09839127B2
A system on package SoP module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having a first side and an opposing second side, a first IC attached to the first side, a second IC attached to the second side. The PCB also provides electrical paths for connecting the first IC and the second IC. Conductors by which the second IC is attached to the PCB also allow for electrical testing of the first IC when the SoP is in a system level state.
US09839126B2
There are provided a printed circuit board including: an insulation layer in which a via hole is formed; vias formed in the via hole; first circuit patterns formed below the insulation layer and electrically connected to the vias; and second circuit patterns formed on the insulation layer to be bonded to the vias; wherein the via has a diameter smaller than that of the via hole, and a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board.
US09839124B2
Provided is a copper foil provided with a carrier in which the laser hole-opening properties of the ultrathin copper layer are good and which is suitable for producing a high-density integrated circuit substrate. A copper foil provided with a carrier having, in order, a carrier, an intermediate layer, and an ultrathin copper layer, wherein the specular gloss at 60° in an MD direction of the intermediate layer side surface of the ultrathin copper layer is 140 or less.
US09839121B2
A dynamic random access memory includes a main body, a light-emitting portion and a transmission port, the main body has a substrate and a first coating layer, the substrate has a light-transmittable portion and a first face, the first coating layer is coated on the first face, the first coating layer has an emergent light-transmittable portion corresponding to the light-transmittable portion, and the substrate is provided with a memory module. The light-emitting portion is embedded in the substrate. The transmission port is disposed on the substrate and electrically connected with the memory module. The electronic device includes the dynamic random access memory and further includes a shell portion. The shell portion is covered on two opposite lateral faces of the dynamic random access memory, and the shell portion further has a second light-transmittable portion corresponding to the emergent light-transmittable portion.
US09839113B2
Systems and methods for that utilize a compressed coherent high intensity X-ray pulse to drive acceleration of particles in a solid medium laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA).
US09839109B1
Methods and apparatus for plasma processing are provided herein. The method for controlling current ratio in a substrate processing chamber may include (a) providing a first RF signal to a first RF coil and a second RF coil at a first current ratio set point and a first current operating mode, (b) determining a first dynamic control limit for the first current ratio set point based on a value of the first current ratio set point and the first current operating mode, (c) measuring an amount of current supplied to each of the first and second coils, (d) determining the actual current ratio based on the measured amounts of current supplied to each of the first and second coils, (e) determining whether the actual current ratio determined is within the dynamic control limits, and (f) repeating steps (b)-(e) until the actual current ratio determined is within the dynamic control limits.
US09839108B2
The invention includes various electronic devices for avoiding or minimizing XRF analyzer user fatigue. In one embodiment, the XRF analyzer can include a finger tap switch for activating the XRF analysis. In another embodiment, the XRF analyzer can include a hand sensor and a finger tap switch, activation of both required to activate the XRF analysis. In another embodiment, the XRF analyzer can include a microphone capable of receiving a verbal command from a user and a finger tap switch, both receipt of the verbal command and activation of the finger tap switch required to activate the XRF analysis. Additional benefits of some embodiments include improving XRF analysis safety and avoiding XRF analyzer theft.
US09839106B2
The invention includes a flat-panel-display (FPD) manufacturing machine which utilizes x-rays for electrostatic dissipation of a bottom side of a FPD when lifting the FPD off of a table during manufacture of the FPD. The invention also includes a method of electrostatic dissipation of a bottom side of an FPD.
US09839096B2
A flexible display panel and a display apparatus including the flexible display panel are disclosed. The flexible display panel includes an encapsulated panel, a first protective film on one side of the encapsulated panel, and a second protective film on another side of the encapsulated panel. The encapsulated panel includes a flexible panel and a flexible encapsulation member on the flexible panel. The flexible panel includes a first region on a first plane and that includes a display region, and a second region on a second plane that is bent with respect to the first plane and that includes a non-display region. The flexible encapsulation member encapsulates the display region. The display apparatus also includes a support unit for maintaining a shape of the flexible panel.
US09839095B2
A pixel driving circuit includes a light-emitting working unit, a driving unit, a data signal input, a initial voltage input, a driving power input and a plurality of control level inputs. The driving unit includes a voltage storage element and a driving element. The driving element includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a control terminal. One end of the voltage storage element is connected to the control terminal of the driving element. The first electrode of the driving element forms a first input port of the input port of the driving unit. The pixel circuit is capable of improving the display effect and improving the display life of AM-OLED.
US09839090B2
A correlated color temperature control system (1) for a LED lighting system (2) having at least two LED sources (3, 4) with different correlated color temperatures. The LED lighting system (2) has a combined correlated color temperature resulting from the combination of the different correlated color temperatures of the at least two LED sources (3, 4), and a combined luminous flux resulting from the combination of the luminous fluxes of the at least two LED sources (3, 4), with each LED source being supplied with a supply current. The correlated color temperature control system (1) comprises a controller (5) to independently control one or both of the duty cycle and amplitude of each supply current, the duty cycle or amplitude of each supply current being varied by the controller in a non-linear relationship with the duty cycle or amplitude of at least one other of the supply currents, to generate a desired combined correlated color temperature for the LED lighting system (2) at a desired combined luminous flux for the LED lighting system (3, 4). An associated method is also provided.
US09839084B2
In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems feature lightsheets including multiple illumination units or modules electrically interconnected such that unremoved illumination units or modules remain energized upon removal of at least a portion of one or more illumination units or modules.
US09839083B2
A dimmable solid state lighting apparatus can include a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) segments including a first LED segment that can have a targeted spectral power distribution for light emitted from the apparatus that is different than spectral power distributions for other LED segments included in the plurality of LED segments. An LED segment selection circuit can be configured to selectively control current through the plurality of LED segments to shift the light emitted by the apparatus to the targeted spectral power distribution responsive to dimming input.
US09839078B2
A driving circuit includes a control circuit and a boost converter circuit. The control circuit receives a sense voltage associated with a direct-current (DC) source voltage, and generates a control signal with a duty cycle that varies with the sense voltage in a monotonically increasing manner. The boost converter circuit receives the DC source voltage and the control signal, thereby providing a driving current for driving light emission of a light emitting component. The driving current has a magnitude positively correlated to the duty cycle of the control signal.
US09839076B2
A cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber with cooking chamber wall, a microwave heat source configured to heat food, and a support device configured to hold a food-supporting member. The cooking chamber wall includes an opening and a lead-through device, and the lead-through device includes a through-hole configured to receive a fastening element of the support device. A tubular guide portion is formed at the through-hole of the lead-through device, and the tubular guide portion includes a safety portion configured to shield against microwave radiation and such that no part of the fastening element is located within the safety portion when the fastening element is in an installed condition in the lead-through device.
US09839072B2
A heat generating element includes at least one PTC element, contact sheets flatly lying against the PTC element on either side, a housing which forms at least one opening for receiving the at least one PTC element and which has a terminal side at which contact tongues allocated to the contact sheets are exposed. The device also has a wedge element with a broader and a narrower end face which are connected to each other via first and second wedge surfaces, the first wedge surface extending in parallel to one of the contact sheets and lying against it with a slide plate being inserted, and the second wedge surface being exposed at the outer side of the housing. A heat generating element less susceptible to damages during assembly has a slide plate connected to the housing.
US09839068B2
Embodiments provide an information transmission method, a base station, user equipment, and a system, which relate to the field of information transmission. The method includes: determining a characteristic parameter of user equipment; determining, according to a correspondence between a characteristic parameter and a resource configuration, a resource configuration corresponding to the characteristic parameter of the user equipment, and using the resource configuration corresponding to the characteristic parameter of the user equipment as a first resource configuration, where the first resource configuration includes one or more types of the following sub-configurations: a spreading resource configuration, a random access preamble format configuration, a narrowband resource configuration, and a frequency hopping pattern configuration; and determining a resource according to the first resource configuration, and performing information transmission with the user equipment by using the resource. In this way, unnecessary resource use and power expenditure are avoided, thereby economizing on resources.
US09839061B2
The disclosure relates in some aspects to the establishment, discovery, and creation of virtual wireless communication networks. A device can create a virtual wireless communication network with a serving mobile network operator (MNO), e.g., via a service provider, and provide information regarding connectivity to the virtual wireless communication network. Provided information can include, without limitation, restricted access to content and uploaded specific content. The disclosure also relates in some aspects to enabling a network to configure access and policing entities to support a virtual wireless communication network.
