US09940714B2
According to an embodiment, an image analyzing device includes a first acquirer, a constructor, a first calculator, a second calculator, and a third calculator. The first acquirer is configured to acquire image information on a joint of a subject and bones connected to the joint. The constructor is configured to construct a three-dimensional shape of the bones and the joint, and relation characteristics between a load and deformation in the bones and the joint from the image information. The first calculator is configured to calculate a positional relation between the bones connected to the joint. The second calculator is configured to calculate acting force of a muscle acting on the bones connected to the joint based on the positional relation. The third calculator is configured to calculate first stress acting on the joint based on the three-dimensional shape, the relation characteristics, and the acting force.
US09940701B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating depth image dequantization at computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a digital image of an object, the digital image including pixels having associated pixel values contaminated by noise, and side information pertaining to confidence of a value acquired in each pixel. The method may further include measuring characteristics of noise in each pixel of the digital image, and a plurality of weights relating to one or more of the pixel values, the side information, and the noise characteristics. The method may further include computing a smart filter based on a combination of the plurality of weights, applying the smart filter to filter the digital image by reducing the noise in the digital image, and outputting the filtered digital image.
US09940699B2
A projection conversion coefficient acquirer of an image processing apparatus acquires the same number of projection conversion coefficients, which are coefficients for doing projection conversion of an image, as the number of a plurality of reference points at differing positions in the image. A post-projection-conversion image acquirer does projection conversion on the image through each of the projection conversion coefficients, of which there are the same number as the number of the plurality of reference points acquired by the projection conversion coefficient acquirer, and acquires a plurality of post-projection-conversion images from the image, the number of the post-projection-conversion images being the same as the number of reference points. A weighted averager finds a weighted average for each of the coordinates of pixels comprising the plurality of post-projection-conversion images, using a plurality of weightings determined in accordance with distance from the plurality of reference points in the image. A weighted average image acquirer acquires a weighted average image in which the plurality of post-projection-conversion images have undergone weighted averaging by the weighted averager.
US09940697B2
Systems and methods for capturing and/or processing of panoramic imaging content using spatial redundancy-based mapping. Panoramic imaging content may be processed using a processing pipeline that may operate on a portion of the image. Images may be transformed prior to processing. Image transformation may introduce distortion and/or data redundancy. Image partitioning for the pipeline processing may be configured based on spatial redundancy associated with the transformation. Windowing operation may include partitioning an image using non-rectangular and/or non-equal windows.
US09940683B2
An embodiment of a risk-management method includes determining a risk that a subject treated for a condition will be retreated within a time period, and calculating, in response to a determined risk, a fee for taking an action if the subject is retreated within the time period. For example, such an embodiment may aid in managing a risk of a liability that may be incurred if a subject treated for a condition is retreated for the condition, for a complication arising from the condition or from the treatment of the condition, or for another reason, within a specified retreatment time period.
US09940681B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for a predictive approach to contract management. In one embodiment, acceptable contract parameters are predicted based, at least in part on historic data and specified thresholds of identified contract parameters. Predicting acceptable contract parameters can help reduce negotiation cycles.
US09940672B2
A system for generating data from social media messages for the real-time evaluation of publicly traded assets includes an ingest component for ingesting the social media messages and a filter module eliminating expressions not considered useful language from social media messages and configuring input social media message into useful formats to form filtered social media messages. The system also includes a language processor processing the filtered social media messages based upon lexical databases to form filter and processed social media messages. The system further includes a sentiment calculator applying rules to the filtered and processed social media messages so as to compute a representation of sentiment values associated with the social media messages. A graphical user interface displaying the sentiment values is also provided.
US09940670B2
Systems 100, 1000, methods, and machine-interpretable programming or other instruction products for the management of data transmission by multiple networked computing resources 106, 1106. In particular, the disclosure relates to the synchronization of related requests for transmitting data using distributed network resources.
US09940669B2
The disclosure extends to computer-implemented personal financial management tools, methods and systems for providing financial transaction data to users and attracting origination customers to a financial institution within a financial business computing environment. The disclosure also extends to a flexible Open Origination that allows any type of mobile, internet, online, personal financial management software, finance tool, or other useful function, device or software, that a bank or financial institution provides to account holders, and offers that same functionality to all users, regardless of their account status. Non-account holders can download and utilize the Banking Software in question in order to enjoy its features, and to become familiar with the experience of doing business with the bank or financial institution that provides the software. This method, system and software allows any user, regardless of where his/her accounts are located, to use the financial software and benefit from its functionality.
US09940648B2
Systems and methods for advertising, and, more particularly, systems and methods for managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe. A method for managing ephemeral locations in a virtual universe (VU) includes causing a computer infrastructure to: render an ephemeral location upon a triggering in the VU; teleport a VU user avatar to the ephemeral location; permit the user avatar to interact in the ephemeral location; teleport the user avatar out of the ephemeral location; and un-render the ephemeral location.
US09940639B2
Methods and apparatus for implementing forward looking optimizing promotions by administering, in large numbers and iteratively, test promotions formulated using highly granular test variables and automatically incorporating constraints on segmented subpopulations. The responses from individuals in the subpopulations are received and analyzed. The analysis result is employed to subsequently formulate a general public promotion.
US09940634B1
A content consumption monitor (CCM) generates intent data that identifies topics of real-time interest to users. The CCM uses the intent data to direct information to more interested audiences and reduce the information noise/overload that may prevent users from viewing information. This targeted information may increase user conversion rates for seminars, advertising, documents downloads, or any other activity associated with published information. In one example, the CCM generates the intent data from third party content. Using a wide variety of third party content enables the CCM to better identify current user interests. The CCM may aggregate the intent data for different demographics, such as for companies, job positions, age, gender, or geographic locations.
US09940630B2
The present disclosure includes a system, method, and article of manufacture for aggregating a consumer profile, identifying tailored content (e.g., in response to a trigger event and/or based upon a consumer profile), and/or tailoring a digital destination. For example, the systems may receive direct data indicating an interest in receiving specific content, aggregate that data into a consumer profile, compare the consumer profile to content, and/or identify tailored content based upon the comparison. Further, the systems may communicate the tailored content to a web client associated with a consumer, receive a transaction request from a web client, and/or receive bids associated with tailored content. In addition, these systems may prioritize tailored content comprising a plurality of tailored offers and/or forecast a budget for an upcoming experience.
US09940621B2
A method and computer readable medium for conducting a transaction, comprising receiving a verification value and a portion of a dynamic data element, determining candidate dynamic data elements using the portion of the dynamic data element, calculating candidate verification values using candidate dynamic data elements, and determining if the received verification value matches any of the candidate verification values, wherein the transaction is thereafter authenticated if a candidate verification value matches a candidate verification value.
US09940619B2
A system for and methods of processing non-traditional payment transactions on a traditional payment network is disclosed. More specifically, a payments system includes one or more payment program managers (PPMs), which are the providers of alternative payment products, in combination with one or more payment program processors (PPPs), which serve as processors for the PPMs. The PPMs and PPPs operate on a payment network, such as a traditional payment network. The payments system includes the utilization of traditional bank identification numbers (BINS) in order to process non-traditional transactions on a traditional payment network. Surrogate numbers are issued on BIN ranges to the non-traditional transactions in order to process them on the traditional payment network. Additionally, the payments system includes pricing structures that are associated with alternative payment products. These pricing structures are implemented and processed on the payment network, alongside the pricing structures of traditional payment products.
US09940614B2
Syncing two separate authentication channels to the same account or data using a token or the like is performed. Two authentication channels could be an online login and a mobile device login. Login for one channel creates a unique authentication code. When login from the second channel is desired, the login information is passed to the first channel device to obtain the appropriate authentication code. Then login at a service layer and data access are accomplished.
US09940610B1
Technologies are described herein for a payments portal. A payments portal can be configured to support payments by generating and embedding widgets in webpages hosted by merchant sites associated with a marketplace. The widgets can provide specific payment functionality for users, thereby providing consistent payment experiences across merchant sites without updating the merchant sites. The widgets can be dynamic or static. Interactions with the widgets can cause a browser displaying the widgets to access data hosted by the payments portal and/or other systems, devices or services in communication with the payments portal.
US09940609B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive transaction information related to a point of sale deposit from a client device, and generate a pending deposit transaction based on the transaction information. The one or more processors may be further configured to execute the software instructions to receive a first transaction token from the client device, receive a second transaction token from a third-party device, match the first transaction token to the second transaction token, and complete the pending deposit transaction based on the match.
US09940608B2
A system and method for processing person-to-person transactions using EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) networks in real time is provided. The system may include an adaptive payment server including one or more processors configured to receive first identification information and second identification information from a sender communication device. The adaptive payment server may receive third identification information from a receiver communication device. The adaptive payment server may determine a sender account based on the first identification information. The adaptive payment server may determine a receiver account based on the third identification information. The adaptive payment server may process a person-to-person transaction based on the sender account and the receiver account via an EFT network.
US09940603B1
A processor identifies that at least one value of a primary shortage metric triggers an exception to a rule. The processor retrieves a list of items that have a non-zero value for the primary shortage metric and retrieves at least one secondary shortage metric value for each item in the list of items. The processor then generates report data for a report that includes at least one item in the list of items and the values of the first and second shortage metrics for the item.
US09940601B2
A system may obtain courier location information associated with a package to be delivered, by a courier, to a delivery location associated with a customer. The courier location information may indicate that the customer is not available at the delivery location. The system may obtain delivery location information associated with the delivery location. The system may determine that the courier location information matches the delivery location information. The system may provide, to a customer device associated with the customer, a delivery notification based on determining that the courier location information matches the delivery location information. The system may receive a customer signature based on providing the delivery notification. The customer signature may be associated with the customer. The system may provide the customer signature. The customer signature being provided to inform the courier to deliver the package while the customer is not available at the delivery location.
US09940599B2
Systems and methods for generating solution recommendations for power plant operation can be provided by certain embodiments of the disclosure. In one embodiment, a system may include a processor configured to collect power plant operational data from power plant components. The power plant operational data may be analyzed to identify cost factors for the power plant components. Based at least in part on the power plant operational data and the cost factors, upgrade opportunities for the power plant components may be determined. Financial values may be calculated for the upgrade opportunities. Based at least in part on the financial values, recommendations may be generated using a product interaction database and provided as an electronic output to a user.
US09940596B1
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses provide a system for establishing base stations and allocating service vehicles to the base stations in order to provide roadside assistance. The system may include computing devices associated with customer vehicles and service vehicles as well as network computing devices. The system may receive a service request from a customer regarding a disabled vehicle. The system may then identify an appropriate service vehicle to assist the customer and assign the service request to the identified service vehicle. The system may select the appropriate service vehicle based on a location of the disabled vehicle. In an example, the system may choose a service vehicle from a base station closest to or within the shortest driving time to the disabled vehicle. By setting-up base stations in advance of service requests, service vehicles may reach disabled vehicles within a predetermined period of time.
US09940592B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for generating, processing and distributing leads, the system comprising a leads processing engine for receiving customer requests, creating leads based upon the customer requests, determining a best available agent or agents for each lead from a pool of available agents based upon one or more selected factors, and offering or sending each lead to the best available agent or agents.
US09940591B2
A third-party provider may integrate services with a customized enterprise-software tenancy via a tenant service context determined using an uncustomized data model and a tenant-customized data model from the enterprise-software provider. A difference map is generated for the tenant-customized data model with respect to the uncustomized data model, and is used to determine a mapped integrated-service data model, which facilitates integrating services with those of the enterprise-software provider. The mapped integrated-service data model is merged with the tenant-customized data model to obtain the tenant service context for the tenant. When a user provides an instruction to interact with the multi-tenant enterprise-software provider, the tenant service context is used to determine an action based on an interpretation of the instruction, and the enterprise-software provider is commanded to perform the action.
US09940582B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to technical support management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for intelligent problem tracking to optimize technical support. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for intelligent problem tracking can include receiving recorded information of tracked end user behavior collected in an end user computing system while the end user addresses a problem in the end user computing system, determining a level of technical sophistication of the user based upon the recorded information, selecting a technical support level corresponding to the determined level of technical sophistication of the user, and transmitting a resolution to the problem in a message to the end user computing system commensurate with the selected technical support level.
US09940568B2
A transaction card is provided. The transaction card includes a card frame having a card inlay and a card housing. The transaction card also includes a magnetic stripe disposed inside the card frame between the card inlay and the card housing.
US09940563B2
A computerized system for preserving and managing an audit trail associated with printing of a sensitive document, the system including: a printing device disposed on a local area network; a network-connected appliance disposed on the local area network and communicatively coupled to the printing device, the network-connected appliance configured to receive a request from a client system for printing of the sensitive document, to log information related to the received printing request and to release the sensitive document to the printing device for printing; and a server disposed outside of the local area network and configured to receive from the network-connected appliance the logged information related to the printing request and to aggregate and store the logged information on a storage device for subsequent search and retrieval. The computerized system additionally implements the enforcement side of improper document handling and enables identifications of the user(s) who mishandled the specific document(s).
US09940558B1
A system for formatting and printing wallet cards having the form factor of a standard ISO credit card or debit card, the printing format being calculated according to the aspect ratio and pixel density of mobile handheld devices that are capable of communicating with a printer wherein the handheld device preferably has an internal program that converts the pixilated display screen to a select content portion of the physical ISO card area wherein the remaining card area resulting from the mismatch of the aspect ratios of the display screen and the physical card form is programmed to contain data, graphics, coding, or if desired, left blank as part of the card margin.
US09940554B2
Data analysis and management methods and systems for social networks are provided. First, specific data is received from a specific registered user of a social network system via a network. The specific data is processed with a data analysis procedure to obtain at least one contact information based on the specific data. Then, a connection with at least one target user who has not registered on the social network system is established according to the contact information.
US09940552B1
A linear function describing a framework for identifying an object of class k in an image sample x may be described by: wk*x+bk, where bk is the bias term. The higher the value obtained for a particular classifier, the better the match or strength of identity. A method is disclosed for classifier and/or content padding to convert dot-products to distances, applying a hashing and/or nearest neighbor technique on the resulting padded vectors, and preprocessing that may improve the hash entropy. A vector for an image, an audio, and/or a video may be received. One or more classifier vectors may be obtained. A padded image, video, and/or audio vector and classifier vector may be generated. A dot product may be approximated and a hashing and/or nearest neighbor technique may be performed on the approximated dot product to identify at least one class (or object) present in the image, video, and/or audio.
US09940547B2
Disclosed herein is an intelligent agent to analyze a media object. The agent comprises a trained model comprising a number of state layers for storing a history of actions taken by the agent in each of a number of previous iterations performed by the agent in analyzing a media object. The stored state may be used by the agent in a current iteration to determine whether or not to make, or abstain from making, a prediction from output generated by the model, identify another portion of the media object to analyze, end analysis. Output from the agent's model may comprise a semantic vector that can be mapped to a semantic vector space to identify a number of labels for a media object.
US09940544B2
In embodiments of event image curation, a computing device includes memory that stores a collection of digital images associated with a type of event, such as a digital photo album of digital photos associated with the event, or a video of image frames and the video is associated with the event. A curation application implements a convolutional neural network, which receives the digital images and a designation of the type of event. The convolutional neural network can then determine an importance rating of each digital image within the collection of the digital images based on the type of the event. The importance rating of a digital image is representative of an importance of the digital image to a person in context of the type of the event. The convolutional neural network generates an output of representative digital images from the collection based on the importance rating of each digital image.
US09940539B2
An object recognition apparatus and method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary apparatus may determine an image feature vector of a first image by applying a convolution network to the first image. The convolution network may extract features from image learning sets that include the first image and a sample segmentation map of the first image. The exemplary apparatus may determine a segmentation map of the first image by applying a deconvolution network to the determined image feature vector. The exemplary apparatus may determine a weight of the convolution network and a weight of the deconvolution network based on the sample segmentation map and the first segmentation map. The exemplary apparatus may determine a second segmentation map of a second image through the convolution network using the determined weight of the convolution network and through the deconvolution network using the determined weight of the deconvolution network.
US09940530B2
Described herein is an onboard vehicle system capable of gathering driver behavior to be provided to a service provider computer. In some embodiments, the onboard vehicle system includes one or more input sensors, such as camera devices, configured to capture image information surrounding the onboard system. Upon detecting another vehicle within the image information, the onboard system may determine a vehicle identifier and determine, based on the vehicle's movements, that the vehicle is exhibiting anomalous behavior. Upon detecting anomalous behavior of a vehicle within its vicinity, the onboard system may transmit an indication of the anomalous behavior and a vehicle identifier to the service provider computer to be stored in a database. In some embodiments, the information provided to the service provider computer may be accessed by one or more users over a public network.
US09940527B2
A driving assist system for a vehicle and a method thereof includes a broadband camera which photographs the surrounding area of the vehicle to create an image including four channels of light information having different wavelengths. The broadband image data and the position of the vehicle are matched so that a road and an obstacle are easily recognized using a minimal number of cameras while driving the vehicle. Recognition performance of a drivable area is significantly improved, navigation for the vehicle is easily measured, and the biometric recognizing abilities of a driver monitoring camera is improved, thereby improving the convenience of a driver by the improvement of a the performance of a driving assist device.
US09940523B2
A computing device with processor(s) and memory has a video monitoring user interface for displaying a video feed on a display of a client system. When events are detected in the video feed, an events feed is displayed in the video monitoring user interface to present the detected events. For each detected event, the events feed includes a visual representation of the video feed that was recorded at the time of the respective event, an event characteristic indicator indicating a characteristic of the respective event, and a time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred. Then, in response to detecting the user selection of one of the events included in the events feed, the computing device records the recorded video feed that was recorded during the selected event is recorded, and displays the requested recorded video feed on the video monitoring user interface.
US09940522B2
There is provided a system including a non-transitory memory storing an executable code and a hardware processor executing the executable code to receive a plurality of training contents depicting a plurality of activities, extract training object data from the plurality of training contents including a first training object data corresponding to a first activity, extract training scene data from the plurality of training contents including a first training scene data corresponding to the first activity, determine that a probability of the first activity is maximized when the first training object data and the first training scene data both exist in a sample media content.
US09940521B2
Embodiments include systems of and methods for an electronic device having a camera configured to capture image data, a display configured to display the captured image data and content corresponding to an application of the electronic device, and a motion sensor configured to detect motion of the electronic device. The electronic device also includes circuitry configured to activate the camera when motion is detected by the motion sensor, and control the display to display at least a portion of the captured image data at a size proportional to an amount of motion as detected by an output of the motion sensor.
US09940510B2
Examples disclosed herein provide for the sharing of digital content stored on a device via an image that is representative of the digital content. The device, in response to selection of digital content stored on the device, extracts frames from the digital content that are representative of the digital content. In response to selection of one of the frames, the device captures digitally handwritten customizations made to the selected frame to create a customized image. The device extracts features at least from the handwritten customizations made to the selected frame to identify the customized image. The device uploads the digital content, the customized image, and the extracted features to a remote database.
US09940508B2
Enables integration of sensor data with other information on servers such as social media sites to detect, confirm and/or publish events. Sensors may measure values such as motion, temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, elevation, light, sound, or heart rate, etc. Sensor data and event tags may be utilized to curate text, images, video, sound and post the results to social networks, for example in a dedicated feed. Event tags generated by the system may represent for example activity types, players, performance levels, or scoring results. The system may analyze social media postings to confirm or augment event tags. Users may filter and analyze saved events based on the assigned tags. The system may create highlight and fail reels filtered by metrics and by tags. Recommendations may be provided to a user based on analysis of sensor data and other information; recommendations may include for example recommended friends, purchases, or activities.
US09940506B2
A system and method for generating a descriptor for a face is provided. The descriptor is operable to generate information about a given region in a face image to enable face recognition. The descriptor provided herein is a low dimension relative to many existing descriptors providing similar face recognition accuracy. In another aspect, a system and method for face recognition is provided.
US09940505B2
A method for use with a stream of images defining a video. The method includes the steps of periodically conducting a face finding operation on an image in the stream. In respect to the last image in the stream preceding the image in which one or more faces was found, a tracker based upon wavelet decomposition is used to find a face for each face found in the last image for which no counterpart was found in the image.
US09940501B2
Method and system for processing fingerprint sensing signals and fingerprint identification terminal
The present invention relates to the field of fingerprint identification technologies, and provides a method and a system for processing fingerprint sensing signals, and a fingerprint identification terminal. The method includes a frequency mixing step by mixing a collected high frequency fingerprint sensing signal with a first high frequency signal to obtain a low frequency signal; and an amplification step by amplifying the low frequency signal. By using the character that capacitance impedance is inversely proportional to signal frequency, the present invention shifts a fingerprint sensing signal with a high frequency into a signal with a low frequency through frequency spectrum shifting and performs signal amplification on the signal with a low frequency, which can overcome the difficulty in amplifying the high frequency fingerprint sensing signal and thus improves the signal-to-noise ratio SNR.
US09940497B2
Systems and methods for minimizing laser persistence are provided. In one implementation, a timing circuit for controlling a barcode reader is provided. The timing circuit comprises a shutter control circuit configured to control an electronic shutter function of an image sensor and a laser control circuit configured to control the activation of a reference laser. When activated, the reference laser directs a laser beam to an approximate position of a field of view of the image sensor. The activation of the reference laser includes a delay to minimize laser persistence on an image captured by the image sensor.
US09940492B2
An apparatus is adapted to be coupled to a component of a system associated with a wellhead. The apparatus includes a band adapted to be coupled to the component; a buckle coupled to the band and located proximate to a first end of the band; a holder coupled to the band, wherein the holder is positioned, or is adapted to be positioned, proximate to the first end; an electronic identifying device attached to the holder and adapted to identify the component; and an identifying component coupled to the band. The identifying component visually conveys information about at least one of: the electronic identifying device, and the component to which the band is adapted to be coupled. In one embodiment, the system associated with the wellhead is a system for pumping fluid to the wellhead. The electronic identifying device is, or includes, an RFID chip.
US09940486B2
A trusted guard module stores one or more identifiers, each identifier uniquely identifying a respective electronic component of one or more electronic components in a circuit, wherein each electronic component is previously programmed with its respective identifier. In one embodiment, the one or more electronic components are in communication with the guard module via a test data channel. A query is sent from the guard module to one of the components via the test data channel, requesting that the queried component provide its respective identifier to the guard module. The guard module then receives a response from the queried component via the test data channel. The guard module compares the response to the stored identifier for the queried component. If the response fails to correspond to the stored identifier for the queried component, the guard module asserts an alarm condition.
US09940483B2
This disclosure provides for implementing a firmware security interface within a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for communicating between secure and non-secure environments executable within the FPGA. A security monitor is implemented within the programmable logic of the FPGA as a soft core processor and the firmware security interface modifies one or more functions of the security monitor. The modifications to the security monitor include establishing a timer “heartbeat” within the FPGA to ensure that the FPGA invokes a secure environment and raising an alarm should the FPGA fail to invoke such environment.
US09940473B2
An information processing device of the present invention includes: a cluster information acquisition unit which acquires information indicating a cluster which is a set of records in an anonymized state in which at least a portion of attribute values of set-valued attributes, which can include one value or a plurality of values included in the records, is removed from the cluster which is a set of records including an attribute value so that the cluster satisfies a predetermined anonymity; and a set-valued attribute refinement unit which discloses at least a portion of attribute values from among removed attribute values of the set-valued attributes of records included in the cluster acquired by the cluster acquisition, and divides the cluster into clusters which satisfy the predetermined anonymity based on the disclosed attribute values.
US09940464B2
Methods for creating a hybrid string representation include determining string components from input string information that may be represented concretely by comparing the one or more components to a set of known concretizations using a processor. The set of known concretizations includes string configurations that cannot be interfered with by an attacker. All string components that could not be represented concretely are abstracted. A hybrid string representation is created that includes at least one concrete string component and at least one abstracted string component.
US09940448B2
An unlock processing method for a terminal, includes: receiving an input unlocking instruction from a user; determining whether the user belongs to a preset user group according to the unlocking instruction; and acquiring and storing information regarding the user, if it is determined that the user does not belong to the preset user group.
US09940447B2
Plural modes of operation, each associated with a class attribute, may be established on a mobile device. The present application discloses a method of handling an application launch request, a computing device for carrying out the method and a computer readable medium for adapting a processor to carry out the method. The method includes receiving a launch request identifying an application that is to be launched, acquiring an identity for the application, acquiring a class for the application, labeling the application with the identity and the class and launching the application.
US09940439B2
A medicine identification and sorting system is disclosed, which includes an image capturing system for creating a digital image of at least a portion of a target medicine, and an image processing system for comparing said created target medicine image with reference medicine images in a reference medicine image database to identify and/or then sort the medicine from a mixture of medicines.
US09940435B2
In the present invention, a monitoring device for providing information on data obtained from sensors operably connected to the device includes a central processing unit configured to receive incoming data signals from a sensor concerning a physiological parameter and to compare the incoming data signals to predetermined alarm criteria for the physiological parameter to determine an alarm condition. The device also includes a display operably connected to the central processing unit and having a display screen with a display area configured to visually represent the incoming data signals concerning the physiological parameter relating to a determined alarm condition on a portion of the display area in a visually distinct manner from a remainder of the display area to visually illustrate an escalation effect.
US09940428B2
This application discloses a computing system implementing one or more tools or mechanism configured to capture a hierarchy of a circuit design layout generated by a downstream tool. The hierarchy can include multiple cells that identify corresponding portions of the circuit design layout. The tools or mechanism can be further configured to modify the circuit design layout based, at least in part, on the captured hierarchy, which alters the portions of the circuit design layout identified by the cells separately from other portions of the circuit design layout.
US09940412B2
A method and apparatus for generating an array layout template. In one embodiment the method comprises scanning, using an installation application on a mobile device comprising at least one processor, a tag coupled to a splice box that is coupled to a trunk cable in a solar installation; and generating, via the installation application and based on information obtained by scanning the tag, a template that shows a physical layout of the splice box and a plurality of solar array components that are coupled to the trunk cable.
US09940404B2
A three dimensional (3D) client application for web browsing is described. The 3D client is able to interpret 3D structure definitions and display 3D environments associated with various sets of websites. Each 3D environment is defined using a set of connecting grids. Each connecting grid defines spatial relationships among sets of websites associated with zones of the connecting grid. Each zone includes a set of 3D structures and is associated with a set of surrounding zones. As a user moves throughout the 3D environment, additional zones may be included in the 3D environment while some zones may be removed such that the user experiences a continuous expansive environment. A user is able to interact with multiple sets of websites included within the set of surrounding zones.
US09940403B2
A client-based computer system configured to communicate with a remote server through a network and to provide access to content or services provided by the server is provided. The system includes a processor, a storage device, a client-side cache dedicated to a set of resources specified by a configuration, and a caching manager to automatically manage the cache as directed by the configuration. The client-side cache is directed by the configuration to transparently intercept a request for one of the resources from a client application to the server, and to automatically determine when to send the request to and provide a response from the server over the network to appear to the client application as though the client application sent the request to and received the response from the server.
US09940394B1
The Messaging Search and Management Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“MSM”) transforms message, ranking request inputs via MSM components into work graphs, ML structure input data, ML structure, ranking response outputs. A work graph generation request that includes group level access control data may be obtained. A set of metadata access control carrying messages, a set of users, a set of channels, and a set of topics with access control data corresponding to the group level access control data may be determined. A user priority score for each of the other users, a channel priority score for each of the channels, and a topic priority score for each of the topics, from the perspective of each user, may be calculated. A work graph data structure may be generated that includes, for each user, data regarding the calculated user priority scores, channel priority scores, and topic priority scores.
US09940393B2
A method comprises receiving a first user communication, accessing a directory entry associated with the user, accessing, by a processor, a database stored in a memory that includes content designated as private that is associated with the user in the directory, determining with the processor whether the first user communication includes content designated as private that is associated with the user, generating a second user communication by removing the content designated as private that is associated with the user from the first user communication, and sending the second user communication to an electronic personal assistant.
US09940389B2
Systems and methods for generating issue networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of generating an issue network from a document corpus includes searching, using a computer, the document corpus for a set of documents discussing a starting issue, wherein the starting issue is one of a plurality of normalized issues defined by the document corpus. The method further includes determining a set of normalized issues discussed by the set of documents discussing the starting issue, wherein the set of normalized issues also includes the starting issue, and determining instances of co-occurrences of individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues within individual cases of the set of documents. The method also includes linking individual normalized issues of the set of normalized issues based on their co-occurrences within the set of documents, wherein the linked individual normalized issues at least in part define the issue network.
US09940388B2
There is provided an information processing device including an event cluster creation unit configured to create an event cluster including, among a plurality of types of content, reference content serving as a reference and related content, the related content having a different type from the reference content and indicating the same event as the reference content, and a meta information appending unit configured to create meta information about the event on the basis of the event cluster and append the meta information to the event cluster.
US09940383B2
An aspect of the present invention is a computer executable method for characterizing, e.g. for diagnostic purposes, utilizing a reference database, a query sample tissue based on the gene expression data of the tissue. The method is characterized in that it comprises the steps of calculating an expression match score (EM-score) indicating the likelihood of having the gene expression level observed in the query sample in each of the tissue categories of the reference database, calculating for the genes of the sample tissue, using e.g. the EM-score, tissue specificity score (TS-score), that expresses how uniquely a gene identifies the query sample as belonging to a certain tissue category, calculating, utilizing e.g. the TS-score, overall similarity of the sample tissue in relation to a tissue category of the reference database, and storing at least some resulting characterization data to a memory device or outputting the data to an output device of a computer. An arrangement and a computer program product are also disclosed.
US09940376B2
A method for enabling querying independently of a computerized system about objects thereof, comprising providing a computer linked to the computerized system with replications of entries of an index of the computerized system that comprise data derived from contents of the objects, where said entries correspond to a subset of objects that are identified as related objects, thereby enabling the computer, based on the provided replications, to query locally and independently of the computerized system about the related objects according to contents thereof, and an apparatus for performing the same.
US09940375B2
Systems and methods for interest-driven business intelligence systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. In one embodiment, an interest-driven distributed data server system includes a processor, an interest-driven distributed data server application, aggregate data storage, and a data source directory, wherein the interest-driven distributed data server application configures the processor to obtain reporting data requirements, determine at least one data dimension using the reporting data requirements, identify at least one data source identified that can provide data associated with the data dimension, generate data source job data, transmit the data source job data to at least one data source, and receive job response data, store the received job response data in the aggregate data storage, build reporting data based on the reporting data requirements, and transmit the reporting data.
US09940367B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for scoring candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query determined to be a question query that seeks an answer response and data identifying resources determined to be responsive to the query; for a subset of the resources: receiving candidate answer passages; determining, for each candidate answer passage, a query term match score that is a measure of similarity of the query terms to the candidate answer passage; determining, for each candidate answer passage, an answer term match score that is a measure of similarity of answer terms to the candidate answer passage; determining, for each candidate answer passage, a query dependent score based on the query term match score and the answer term match score; and generating an answer score that is a based on the query dependent score.
US09940360B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for stream optimized data processing. An embodiment operates by receive a stream of data in a streaming data format. A query associated both with the stream of data and one or more records of a database is determined. It is determined whether the one or more records of the database are stored in a local cache. Those records not stored in the local cache are retrieved from the database and converted into the streaming data format. A query response, including references to each of the one or more records stored in the local cache in the streaming data format, is provided for execution of the query.
US09940357B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for formulating global statistics for parallel databases. In general, embodiments of the invention merge (combine) information in multiple compute node level histograms to create a global histogram for a table that is distributed across a number of compute nodes. Merging can include aligning histogram step boundaries across the compute node histograms. Merging can include aggregating histogram step-level information, such as, for example, equality rows and average range rows (or alternately equality rows, range rows, and distinct range rows), across the compute node histograms into a single global step. Merging can account for distinct values that do not appear at one or more compute nodes as well as distinct values that are counted at multiple compute nodes. A resulting global histogram can be coalesced to reduce the step count.
US09940343B2
A method of converting data to tree data is provided. A first node memory structure that includes a first value indicator, a first counter value, and a first observation indicator is initialized for a first variable. The first value indicator is initialized with a first value of the first variable selected from first observation data, and the first observation indicator is initialized with a first indicator that indicates the first observation data. The first value of the first variable is compared to a second value of the first variable. The first counter value included in the first node memory structure is incremented when the first value of the first variable matches the second value of the first variable. Corresponding values of second observation data are compared to the identified values from first observation data when the first value of the first variable matches the second value of the first variable. A next observation is read from the data when the identified values match the corresponding values. The tree data is output after a last observation of the data is processed.
US09940337B2
Examples perform predictive probabilistic deduplication of storage, such as virtualized or physical disks. Incoming input/output (I/O) commands include data, which is written to storage and tracked in a key-value store. The key-value store includes a hash of the data as the key, and a reference counter and the address of the data as the value. When a certain percentage of sampled incoming data is found to be duplicate, it is predicted that the I/O commands have become not unique (e.g., duplicate). Based on the prediction, subsequent incoming data is not written to storage, and instead the reference counter associated with the hash of the data is incremented. In this manner, predictions on the uniqueness of future data is made based on previous data, and extraneous writes and deletions from the chunk store are avoided.
US09940334B2
An image forming apparatus can prevent deletion of necessary data, when partially deleting a bundle development area, wherein the image forming apparatus holds information for identifying a file to be treated as a deletion target exception when an application is deleted, specifying an application to be a deletion target from among a plurality of kinds of applications, and deleting a file related to the specified application, such that in deletion, the file, serving as the deletion target exception, identified based on the held information, is not deleted.
US09940332B1
Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for expanding a storage pool-backed file system. A file system expansion trigger is detected. First reserved space in the storage pool is reserved. A LUN size attribute associated with a LUN underlying the file system is increased. A file system size attribute associated with the file system is increased. First data to write to the file system is received. In response to receiving the first data, an expansion result is determined, wherein the expansion result indicates whether to expand the LUN and the file system. If the expansion result indicates to expand the LUN and the file system, a first portion of the first reserved space is provisioned and formatted. The first data is written to the file system.
US09940329B2
A system, method and computer-readable storage devices for providing a climate data persistence service. A system configured to provide the service can include a climate data server that performs data and metadata storage and management functions for climate data objects, a compute-storage platform that provides the resources needed to support a climate data server, provisioning software that allows climate data server instances to be deployed as virtual climate data servers in a cloud computing environment, and a service interface, wherein persistence service capabilities are invoked by software applications running on a client device. The climate data objects can be in various formats, such as International Organization for Standards (ISO) Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model Submission Information Packages, Archive Information Packages, and Dissemination Information Packages. The climate data server can enable scalable, federated storage, management, discovery, and access, and can be tailored for particular use cases.
US09940325B2
Methods and systems for computer-aided translation include receiving a document having one or more sentences to be translated; generating a suggestion pool of possible translations for each sentence in the document; providing a best suggestion from the suggestion pool to a user for a sentence being translated; updating the suggestion pool based on the user's input of a translation prefix; and providing an updated best suggestion from the updated suggestion pool to the user for the sentence being translated.
US09940317B2
A system provides on a computer display screen, a graphical image of an initial parsing as generated by a computerized algorithm. Individual clauses are encased in expandable containers that a user can shift and resize on the screen using a mouse or other cursor control device to thereby improve the initial parsing.
US09940315B2
In a method for managing modifications to elements of a website, receiving one or more modifications to an element of a first webpage, wherein the first webpage is a member of a website. The method further includes determining one or more webpages that include one or more instances of the modified element of the first webpage, wherein the determined one or more webpages are members of the website. The method further includes mapping a location for each of the one or more instances of the modified element within a respective webpage of the determined one or more webpages. The method further includes rendering at least a portion of the determined one or more webpages, wherein the rendered portion of the determined one or more webpages includes the location of the corresponding instance of the modified element.
US09940312B1
Systems and methods for transferring a web content display from one container to another container are disclosed. A request to transfer a first web content display hosted in a first container having a first document object model (DOM) tree to a second container having a second DOM tree is received. The first web content display has a state comprising a plurality of state components. A second web content display hosted in the second container is created. If a first state component is dependent on a property of the first DOM tree associated with a host of the first web content display: the first state component is adjusted in the second web content display according to a corresponding property of the second DOM tree.
US09940300B2
A board portal system provides the ability to manage multiple boards, where each of the boards may be a separate legal entity. The board portal may provide the ability to establish links between the multiple boards and create parent-child relationships with subsidiary boards. With the board portal, users can create content and make it viewable and accessible across multiple boards that related through a parent-child relationship. At the same time, the board portal maintains a requisite level of separation between the related boards in the portal using encryption and/or other separation techniques. As a result, the board portal facilitates flexible workflow patterns and communication processes based on the proper hierarchical structure that exists between the parent organization and its subsidiaries.
US09940299B2
A device includes a transmitter coupled to a node, where the node is to couple to a wired link. The transmitter has a plurality of modes of operation including a calibration mode in which a range of communication data rates over the wired link is determined in accordance with a voltage margin corresponding to the wired link at a predetermined error rate. The range of communication data rates includes a maximum data rate, which can be a non-integer multiple of an initial data rate.
US09940297B2
A method for manipulating the bus communication of an electronic control device is provided, wherein the bus communication includes a bus hardware-independent first communication layer and a bus hardware-dependent second communication layer. The first communication layer encodes at least one piece of information in a first protocol data unit and transmits it to the second communication layer and/or the first communication layer receives the first protocol data unit from the second communication layer and decodes the first information from the first protocol data unit. The second communication layer generates bus hardware-dependent bus information from the first protocol data unit or from an additional protocol data unit derived from the first protocol data unit for transmission via the bus and/or the second communication layer generates the first protocol data unit or an additional protocol data unit, from which the first protocol data unit can be derived.
US09940290B2
Read-copy update (RCU) grace period initialization and CPU hotplugging are synchronized without a sleeplock. Periodic RCU grace period initialization includes, for each node of a combining tree, copying a first bitmask indicating online/offline status of a set of CPUs to a second bitmask indicating RCU quiescent state status of the CPUs. Periodic CPU hotplug operations include indicating CPU online/offline status to leaf nodes associated with the CPUs. This status is indicated without manipulating any bits in the first bitmask of the leaf nodes. Prior to each RCU grace period initialization, RCU grace period pre-initialization is performed at each leaf node. The RCU grace period pre-initialization includes (1) updating the first bitmask to account for the CPU hotplug operations, and (2) if this results in the first bitmask transitioning between fully cleared and not-fully cleared states, the state change is conditionally propagated to a higher level node.
US09940288B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for use with a serializer/deserializer comprising. The method may include operatively connecting one or more lane modules of an integrated circuit (IC) to form one or more links. The method may further include associating a FIFO reset generator with each of the one or more lane modules and receiving a signal from the FIFO reset generator at a synchronization FIFO. The method may also include aligning, at the synchronization FIFO, one or more enqueue pointers and dequeue pointers.
US09940280B1
An electronic assembly perform data storage operations on behalf of a set of storage processors (SPs). The electronic assembly includes an enclosure, and a set of peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) switches which installs within the enclosure. The set of PCIe switches is constructed and arranged to connect to the set of SPs while the set of SPs is external to the enclosure. The electronic assembly further includes a set of data storage devices which installs within the enclosure. The set of data storage devices is constructed and arranged to persistently store data on behalf of the set of SPs via PCIe-based communications through the set of PCIe switches.
US09940275B2
An information handling system includes an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) master device and an I2C slave device coupled to the I2C master device via an I2C bus. The I2C slave device is configured with a pre-set I2C address and includes seeding data that is unique to the I2C slave device. The I2C master device receives the seeding data and addresses the I2C slave device at an I2C slave address instead of at the pre-set I2C address, wherein the I2C slave address is based upon the seeding data.
US09940274B2
According to one embodiment, an interface of a memory system includes a circuit configured to adjust output resistance for data output. When the circuit has received a command in a second state, the circuit adjusts output resistance during a first period. The first period is a period from when the interface completes reception of the command to when the interface starts transmission of data read from the memory. The second state is a state in which power consumption is lower than that in a first state in which operation is caused by a command.
US09940267B2
A processing device includes a target processor instruction memory to store a plurality of target processor instructions that include a plurality of global memory access instructions. The processing device further includes a compiler to communicate with the target processor instruction memory, the compiler including: a global variable candidate detection module to identify a global memory access instruction within a set of code regions that use a set of global variable candidates to access a global memory, and a memory access optimization module to modify the global memory access instruction, wherein the modified global memory access instruction utilizes an unused base pointer register of a set of unused base pointer register candidates within the set of code regions, a global variable from the set of global variable candidates to be used as a base address, and an offset relative to the base address to access the global memory.
US09940265B2
A computing system including a memory that is shared by a plurality of components of the computing system in order to exchange data between the plurality of components; and a controller configured to control the plurality of components to encrypt the data and to record the encrypted data in the memory.
US09940264B2
A mechanism for simultaneous multithreading is provided. Responsive to performing a store instruction for a given thread of threads on a processor core and responsive to the core having ownership of a cache line in a cache, an entry of the store instruction is placed in a given store queue belonging to the given thread. The entry for the store instruction has a starting memory address and an ending memory address on the cache line. The starting memory addresses through ending memory addresses of load queues of the threads are compared on a byte-per-byte basis against the starting through ending memory address of the store instruction. Responsive to one memory address byte in the starting through ending memory addresses in the load queues overlapping with a memory address byte in the starting through ending memory address of the store instruction, the threads having the one memory address byte is flushed.
US09940259B2
Embodiments relate to a virtualized storage environment with one or more virtual machines operating on a host and sharing host resources. Each virtual machine has a virtual disk in communication with a persistent storage device. The virtual machine(s) may be misaligned with the persistent storage device so that a virtual block address does not correspond with a persistent storage block address. A relationship between the virtual disk(s) and the persistent storage device is established, and more specifically, an alignment delta between the devices is established. The delta is employed to translate the virtual address to the persistent address so that the virtual and persistent storage blocks are aligned to satisfy a read or write operation.
US09940253B2
A method and controller for implementing storage adapter enhanced write cache management, and a design structure on which the subject controller circuit resides are provided. The controller includes a hardware write cache engine implementing hardware acceleration for storage write cache management. The hardware write cache engine performs destage operations from storage write cache with minimal firmware involvement to enhance performance.
US09940252B2
A method and controller for implementing storage adapter enhanced write cache management, and a design structure on which the subject controller circuit resides are provided. The controller includes a hardware write cache engine implementing hardware acceleration for storage write cache management. The hardware write cache engine performs reads with partial read hits from storage write cache with no firmware involvement for greatly enhancing performance.
US09940249B2
A method and controller for implementing storage adapter enhanced write cache management, and a design structure on which the subject controller circuit resides are provided. The controller includes a hardware write cache engine implementing hardware acceleration for storage write cache management. The hardware write cache engine performs hardware manipulation of CLs (Cache Lines), a hash table, and per array LRU queues.
US09940246B1
In one embodiment, a set-associative cache memory has a plurality of congruence classes each including multiple entries for storing cache lines of data. The cache memory includes a bank of counters, which includes a respective one of a plurality of counters for each cache line stored in the plurality of congruence classes. The cache memory selects victim cache lines for eviction from the cache memory by reference to counter values of counters within the bank of counters. A dynamic distribution of counter values of counters within the bank of counters is determined. In response, an amount counter values of counters within the bank of counters are adjusted on a cache miss is adjusted based on the dynamic distribution of the counter values.
US09940245B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for caching in storage clients. In some embodiments, a storage client for accessing a storage service from a computer program may be provided. A cache may be integrated within the storage client for reducing a number of accesses to the storage service. An application may be used the cache to reduce accesses to the storage service, wherein the application is implemented by a computer program. In response to the storage service being unresponsive or responding too slowly, the application may use the cache to allow the application to continue without communicating with the storage service.
US09940231B2
An approach for erasing data being stored in a data storage apparatus is provided, which may be provided e.g. as an apparatus, as a method, as a system or as a computer program. A sequence of uncompressible data is obtained fulfilling predetermined criteria, which includes a statistical measure indicative of compressibility or uncompressibility of the sequence of uncompressible data meeting a predetermined criterion, wherein the sequence of uncompressible data is divided into one or more blocks of uncompressible data, the sum of the sizes of the one or more blocks of uncompressible data being larger than or equal to the storage capacity of the data storage apparatus. The one or more blocks of uncompressible data is provided to the data storage apparatus for storage therein to overwrite the data currently stored in the data storage apparatus.
US09940230B2
Compression and decompression of data at high speed in solid state storage is described, including accessing a compressed data comprising a plurality of blocks of the compressed data, decompressing each of the plurality of blocks in a first stage of decompression to produce a plurality of partially decompressed blocks, and reconstructing an original data from the partially decompressed blocks in a second stage of decompression.
US09940225B2
A test system for providing automatic testing of an application on a plurality of devices, the system including an input/output device for communicating with the plurality of devices, a processor and a memory that stores instructions which cause the processor to install an application on a device, monitor the device as it performs a series of steps, and record the results of the series of steps in a log.
US09940222B2
Automated requirements-based test case generation method includes constructing in a model-based development tool a software architecture model automatically derived from architectural information of a software design model, allocating requirement models into blocks/operators of the software architecture model, and generating component level requirements-based test cases from the software architecture. The component level requirements-based test case generation method includes receiving a software architecture along with allocated requirement models represented in hierarchical data flow diagram, selecting one of the software components, building an intermediate test model based on the selected component by automatically attaching at least one of test objectives or constraints to the corresponding software architecture model blocks/operators based on the selected test strategy, and generating human and machine readable test cases with the test generator for further automatic conversion to test executable and test review artifacts. A system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for implementing the method are also disclosed.
US09940214B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of measurements, each measurement associated with a different parameter, calculating an index based on the measurements, and generating a visual index display indicating the index, the visual index display comprising a first portion and a second portion, each portion configured for selection by a user. A first set of measurements is displayed when the first portion is selected and a second set of measurements is displayed when the second portion is selected. The first set of measurements is a subset of the second set of measurements. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US09940211B2
A resource system comprises a plurality of resource elements and a resource controller connected to the resource elements and operating the resource elements according to a predefined set of operational goals. A method of operating the resource system comprises the steps of identifying error recovery procedures that could be executed by the resource elements, categorizing each identified error recovery procedure in relation to the predefined set of operational goals, detecting that an error recovery procedure is to be performed on a specific resource element, deploying one or more actions in relation to the resource elements according to the categorization of the detected error recovery procedure, and performing the detected error recovery procedure on the specific resource element.
US09940208B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a reverse installation file for network restoration. A set of managed machines, such as personal computers or servers, can be managed by a network management engine communicating with the machines via a secure channel. The network management engine can scan the managed network for kickstart, or provisioning answer files, that were used to install software to network nodes at a prior time. The network management engine can access the original kickstart file, and update that file to reflect a current state of the associated machine by inserting user-supplied updates, storage configuration updates, security credentials, and/or other data. Upon a crash or other malfunction of the associated machine, the network management platform can access the reverse kickstart file and generate a restoration of that node to a current state from the reverse kickstart data.
US09940202B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that enable a computer system comprising networked computers to self-heal from a boot failure of one of the computers. In some embodiments, upon detecting a first computer having a memory and a physical boot device failing to successfully load a boot image, a second computer defines a virtual boot device in communication with the first computer and the second computer and having a boot image for the first computer. Subsequent to defining the virtual boot device, the second computer can configure the first computer to boot from the virtual boot device.
US09940201B2
A disk array includes a buffer to temporarily store data (data X) from a host, a redundant first and second disk having a mirror configuration, and an auxiliary disk. A controller controls reading and writing of data X in response to a request. The controller is configured to: (a) copy to the auxiliary disk, data X stored in the buffer for rebuilding, in parallel with reading and writing data X, when the second disk fails; (b) log copied disk locations of data X copied in (a); (c) return a response to the host after completion; (d) reference a redundancy management table before copying in (a) to determine whether data X stored in the buffer has been copied; and (e) bypass copying in (a) and return to the host a response when current data X has been copied in (d).
US09940188B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for prioritizing delivery of messages across multiple communication systems. Aspects include that a conflict resolution system is configured to identify a plurality of processes. The conflict resolution system is further configured to generate a plurality of conflict rules corresponding to the plurality of processes. Based on the at least one selected process, the conflict resolution system can identify a conflict corresponding to at least one selected process of the plurality of processes in a conflict medium. In the exemplary embodiment, the conflict resolution system, applies at least one selected conflict rule of the plurality of conflict rules corresponding to the conflict, the at least one selected process, and the conflict medium. Based on the at least one selected conflict rule, the conflict resolution system modifies the at least one selected process.
US09940186B2
A memory controller includes a transaction interface arranged to be coupled to a transaction interconnect to receive a write transaction comprising write data, a mode controller arranged to obtain context information and to select a data protection scheme out of a plurality of data protection schemes based on the obtained context information, at least one data protection module to apply the selected data protection scheme by generating one or more protection code sequences from at least the write data in accordance with the selected data protection scheme, and a physical memory interface coupled to at least one memory device to store the write data and the one or more protection code sequences in the at least one memory device.
US09940184B2
In an anomaly detecting method by using multi-dimensional time series sensor signals including, generating anomaly model by using data of a learning period including neither that period nor any exclusion candidate period, calculating anomaly measurements on the basis of the distance from the normal model and, making a period containing the maximum anomaly measurement value but no exclusion candidate period, learning exclusion periods and anomaly determining thresholds are determined as learned data on the basis of the result in each round, generates anomaly model data in a learning period except learning-exclusion periods regarding acquired data or data in a designated evaluation period, an anomaly measurement at each time point is calculated on the basis of the distance from the normal model, and data at each time point is determined to be anomaly or normal by comparing the anomaly measurements with anomaly determining thresholds.
US09940178B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for integrating a transactional middleware platform with a centralized audit framework for a SOA middleware platform. An audit provider in the centralized audit framework can be provided as a plug-in module to the transactional middleware platform, and registered as an internal audit service therein. The internal audit service can be advertised on an audit server, and can process audit requests from within the transactional middleware platform. One or more configuration files can be provided to the audit provider, for use in generating audit data for audit events occurring in one or more components in the transactional middleware platform. The audit provider itself can be configured to represent an audit aware component within the centralized audit framework, thereby utilizing a plurality of functionalities available in the centralized audit framework, including saving the audit data in a central data store.
US09940173B2
A system includes a plurality of computers configured to process a computer program in parallel by executing a plurality of processes, respectively, in parallel, each process of the plurality of processes including at least one thread, and each of the plurality of computers including a first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory and configured to execute the plurality of processes, respectively, and a management device configured to control the plurality of computers, the control device including a second memory, and a second processor coupled to the second memory, and based on parallelization rate, memory busy rate, operation number difference and processing time difference, execute an adjusting of a number of the threads included in at least one process of the plurality of processes.
US09940159B1
Systems and methods for facilitating hibernation mode transitions for virtual machines. An example method comprises: responsive to determining that an active user session exists in a virtual machine operating in a hibernation state on a host computer system, disabling modifications of a hardware configuration parameter of the virtual machine; responsive to determining that the active user session has terminated, enabling modifications of the hardware configuration parameter of the virtual machine; and responsive to determining the hardware configuration parameter of the virtual machine has been modified, causing the virtual machine to discard, upon awakening, a previously saved memory state.
US09940156B2
An amount of a hardware resource is assigned to a virtual machine (VM) to be run on a computing device including the hardware resource. The VM is caused to run on the computing device, and usage of the hardware resource by the VM is monitor. In response to determining that the usage of the hardware resource by the VM is less than a threshold, the amount of the hardware resource assigned to the VM is decreased.
US09940154B2
One or more techniques and/or devices are provided for storage virtual machine relocation (e.g., ownership change) between storage clusters. For example, operational statistics of a first storage cluster and a second storage cluster may be evaluated to identify a set of load balancing metrics. Ownership of one or more storage aggregates and/or one or more storage virtual machines may be changed (e.g., permanently changed for load balancing purposes or temporarily changed for disaster recovery purposes) between the first storage cluster and the second storage cluster utilizing zero-copy ownership change operations based upon the set of load balancing metrics. For example, if the first storage cluster is experiencing a relatively heavier load of client I/O operations and the second storage cluster has available resources, ownership of a storage aggregate and a storage virtual machine may be switched from the first storage cluster to the second storage cluster for load balancing.
US09940143B2
Systems and methods for using Peripheral Component Interconnect Express Vendor-Defined Message (PCIe-VDM) and Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) transport for network communications are described. In some embodiments, an IHS may include: a host processor; a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) coupled to the host processor; a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) coupled to the host processor; and a memory coupled to the BMC, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the BMC to: receive a message over a network while the host processor is powered off, wherein the message originates from a remote IHS and targets the BMC; and in response to a pass-through data transfer rate available to the BMC not meeting a threshold value: power on the host processor; request that the BIOS boot up; and perform a communication with the remote IHS via a PCIe bus using a PCIe-VDM supported by the host processor.
US09940140B2
The invention relates to a method of resetting a processor, the method comprising the receiving of a reset signal indicating that one or more parts of said processor need to be reset, and forwarding of said reset signal to said parts to be reset. The forwarding of the reset signal is delayed for a period of time for at least one of the parts to be reset. The clock frequency of at least one of the parts to be reset is gradually decreased during said period of time. In this way the total activity of the processor device is gradually decreased so as to avoid an on-chip voltage overshoot, which could cause a total reset of all the parts of the processor.
US09940130B2
A method of one aspect may include receiving a rotate instruction. The rotate instruction may indicate a source operand and a rotate amount. A result may be stored in a destination operand indicated by the rotate instruction. The result may have the source operand rotated by the rotate amount. Execution of the rotate instruction may complete without reading a carry flag.
US09940124B2
The system includes a terminal machine and a service provider machine. The terminal machine is modified using an update server machine. The terminal machine includes a terminal application for displaying a prompt in a first sequence of prompts and accepting a user data entry in a first series of data entries. The service provider machine includes a provider application for receiving the user data entry. The update server machine sends a dialogue module including a first and second set of updated code to the terminal machine and the service provider machine, respectively. The dialogue module does not modify computer-executable instructions saved on the terminal or service provider machines. The first and second set of updated code adapts the terminal application and provider application, respectively, to use a second sequence of prompts and a second sequence of data entries.
US09940113B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to techniques for managing processing of data in computing systems. One embodiment provides a method which includes receiving a set of inputs to apply to at least a first big data definition. Each big data definition encapsulates information specified in the set of inputs into a set of reusable software components. The method also includes generating, based on the reusable software components, a first executable code component for the at least first big data definition. The method further includes deploying the first executable code component to an executing application without interrupting services provided by the executing application to which the first executable code component is deployed.
US09940110B2
Embodiments disclose a method, computer program product, and system for optimizing computer functions. The embodiment may create a control flow graph from a computer function. The control flow graph may contain an entry block, an exit block, and basic blocks located between the entry block and the exit block. The embodiment may classify each of the basic blocks as an original heavy basic block or an original light basic block. The embodiment may classify the original heavy block, the exit block and each of the basic blocks that are located between each original heavy block and the exit block as a determined heavy block. The embodiment may create light computer functions and heavy computer functions from the computer function. Each heavy computer function contains the basic blocks classified as determined heavy. The light computer functions contains the remaining basic blocks, the exit block and calls to the heavy computer functions.
US09940109B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems for proactive resource allocation and configuration are disclosed. An exemplary method first compiles and links a profile instrumented application with a compiler comprising a profile guided optimization feature that inserts calls to a profiler runtime. The profile instrumented application is executed on a target device using one or more workload datasets representative of probable workloads. During execution, based on recognition of the inserted calls, an instrumentation-based profile dataset is generated in association with each of the one or more workload datasets. Next, the profile instrumented application is recompiled and relinked based on the instrumentation-based profile datasets to create a set of profile guided optimizations to the source code, thereby resulting in an optimized application. The optimized application may be executed and monitored to generate a revised profile dataset useful for providing instructions to the target device for optimal workload allocation and resource configuration.
US09940106B2
There is provided a method and system for generating a program. The method includes detecting a number of steps for performing a task on a computing device and detecting an example relating to each of the steps, wherein the example includes input data and corresponding output data relating to the step. The method also includes, for each example, determining a rule that transforms the input data to the corresponding output data based on cues including textual features within the input data and the corresponding output data. The method further includes generating a program for performing the task based on the rules.
US09940097B1
A registered synchronous FIFO has a tail register, internal registers, and a head register. The FIFO cannot be pushed if it is full and cannot be popped if it is empty, but otherwise can be pushed and/or popped. Within the FIFO, the internal signal fanout of incoming data circuitry and push control circuitry and is minimized and remains essentially constant regardless of the number of registers of the FIFO. The output delay of the output data also is essentially constant regardless of the number of registers of the FIFO. An incoming data value can only be written into the head or tail. If a data value is in the tail and one of the internal registers is empty, and if no push or pop is to be performed in a clock cycle, then nevertheless the data value in the tail is moved into the empty internal register in the cycle.
US09940096B2
To perform information output suitable for the state of a user. A mobile terminal 1 includes an input unit 17, an output unit 18, a response generation unit 53, a position monitoring unit 52, and an output control unit 54. The input unit 17 receives voice input. The output unit 18 displays information, or outputs information by a method other than screen display. The position monitoring unit 52 detects the position of the mobile terminal 1 at the time of the voice input to the input unit 17. The output control unit 54 controls the output unit 18 to display a response to the voice input generated by the response generation unit 53 in the case where, at the time of the output of the response, the position monitoring unit 52 detects the position at the time of the voice input to the input unit 17, and controls the output unit 18 to output the response to the voice input in the case where, at the time of the output of the response, the position monitoring unit 52 detects a position other than the position at the time of the voice input to the input unit 17.
US09940092B2
Embodiments are provided for causing a playback device to pre-cache audio content in a playback queue. An example implementation involves a playback device detecting by a sensor on the playback device, movement in relation to the playback device. In response to detecting the movement, the playback device identifies a particular media item in a playback queue associated with the playback device. Prior to receiving a user command to play the media item, the playback device stores at least a portion of the particular media item in memory on the playback device.
US09940091B2
An example implementation may involve a first playback device rendering audio content. The example implementation may also involve the first playback device detecting that a second playback device has been connected to a playback system. After detecting that the second playback device has been connected to the playback system, the first playback device may determine a playback responsibility associated with the second playback device. The determined playback responsibility may include a grouping with the first playback device. After determining the playback responsibility associated with the second playback device, the first playback device may direct the second playback device to render the audio content.
US09940083B2
An information processing system includes: a terminal; and a file server. The terminal includes: a first communication unit configured to receive data from the file server; a display unit configured to display the data; and an editing unit configured to add an image associated with workflow processing, to the data. The first communication unit is further configured to transmit the data to which the image is added, to the file server. The file server includes: a second communication unit configured to transmit the data to the terminal and receive the data to which the image is added, from the terminal; and an executing unit configured to execute the workflow processing associated with the image.
US09940078B2
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to perform printing with a decolorable material, a communication unit configured to receive print data and security setting data for the print data from an external device, and a control unit configured to determine a security level of the print data based on the security setting data received by the communication unit and control the printing unit to print or not print the print data based on the security level.
US09940070B2
Systems and methods for balancing maintenance and programming host data across multiple maintenance source blocks in a non-volatile memory are disclosed. A memory system may include non-volatile memory and a controller configured to execute one or more of the steps of selecting a fixed plurality of maintenance source blocks for executing a balance cycle of maintenance and host writes across the selected fixed plurality of maintenance source blocks. The method interleaves moving of valid data from source blocks with host data writes to achieve a balance of free space generation and consumption for the balance cycle, while periodically reevaluating an overall interleave ratio and/or substituting other previously programmed blocks for one of the previously selected plurality during the balance cycle.
US09940066B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for snapshot management in a storage infrastructure. A computer accesses a first snapshot captured in a first layer of the storage infrastructure. The computer accesses a second snapshot captured in a second layer of the storage infrastructure. The computer produces a determination that the first snapshot in the first layer of the storage infrastructure is one or more of: inconsistent with the second snapshot in the second layer of the storage infrastructure and a duplicate of the second snapshot in the second layer of the storage infrastructure. The computer removes the first snapshot in the first layer of storage infrastructure responsive to the determination.
US09940047B1
A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed, which include injecting shadow input/outputs (shadow IOs) into a system, removing the shadow IOs from the system, storing the shadow IOs, and analyzing the stored shadow IOs to determine application specific behavioral information about the system.
US09940044B2
A method, apparatus or software is disclosed for transferring storage replication system configurations between heterogonous storage systems.
US09940040B2
Systems and methods suitable for assisting data storage on a solid-state mass storage device by furthering interaction between a host and the solid-state mass storage device. The method includes providing data in a target block from a solid-state mass storage device to a host computer system, analyzing the data to identify valid and invalid data of the data in the target block with the host computer system, removing the invalid data, reformatting the valid data into a new data structure with the host computer system, writing the new data structure to the mass storage device, and marking the data in the target block as invalid.
US09940038B2
Technologies for an operating system identifying SSD and CSSD devices based on a corresponding descriptor, and for optimizing operating system functionalities with respect to the SSD/CSSD device. Optimizations include disabling non-SSD/CSSD functionalities, such as HDD defragmentation, and by enabling SSD/CSSD specific functionalities, such as write optimization storage functionalities.
US09940024B1
Determining cumulative workload skew is described. Measurements for one or more logical devices are determined. The set of measurements include, for each of N storage tiers, a workload measurement identifying workload directed to the single tier, and a capacity measurement identifying an amount of data stored in the single tier. N points may be determined using the measurements. Each point corresponds to a different storage tier and has a first coordinate identifying a cumulative percentage of data portions stored in the storage tier and all other tiers having a higher performance ranking than the one storage tier, and a second coordinate denoting an aggregated percentage of total workload directed to the foregoing cumulative percentage of data portions. A curve representing a cumulative workload skew may be determined using these N points and a point of origin.
US09940016B2
An apparatus includes a keyboard engine that operates a keyboard that accepts shape-writing input and radial entry input. A keyboard input module obtains input data from at least one input sensor of the keyboard. An intention disambiguation engine enables simultaneous use of the shape-writing input and the radial entry input acceptance for a user of the keyboard.
US09940008B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a system and a method of managing an online social network having a plurality of neighborhoods. The system may receive a location from a user, and select, based on the location, a neighborhood from the plurality of neighborhoods. The system may further assign the user to the selected neighborhood and grant the user access to communications by users assigned to the selected neighborhood. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises creating and storing in computer data storage neighborhood data defining a plurality of geographical neighborhoods based upon a plurality of vertices or boundaries; using a computer, for each particular neighborhood among the plurality of neighborhoods, determining one or more nearby neighborhoods is associated with a geographical area proximate to the particular neighborhood; using the computer, receiving from a second computer that is associated with a user account, activation input specifying selections of one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account, wherein the activation input specifies fewer than all the one or more nearby neighborhoods; updating a database coupled to the computer to associate the selections of one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account; using the computer, receiving a request from the second computer to perform any of displaying a map page that includes the nearby neighborhoods, displaying a feed of messages, and creating a new message; using the computer, in response to the request, performing causing the displaying the map page that includes the nearby neighborhoods, causing displaying the feed of messages, or the creating the new message based upon only the selections of the one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account.
US09940006B2
Systems and methods for user interfaces for use on a computing device of a real-time collaborative computing system. A collaborative application runs on the computing device and displays information and data regarding the collaboration system and also receives user input via the user interface. The display interface arrangement may vary based on a type of collaborative session. Graphical user interfaces include a user interface based on a magnetic force model.
US09940004B2
Methods and apparatuses for predicting characteristics of coffee using only a portable communications device having data processing capabilities and an embedded camera. Images of a comminuted substance are captured by the camera, with particle characteristics being quantified and entered into a data processor of the portable communications device. This information is combined with archived data such as known characteristics of ground coffee. The combined information is processed to predict the final characteristics of the brewed coffee. Predicted final characteristics may be displayed on a display of the portable communications device.
US09940000B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computing device including a memory, a display device and a controller. The controller is programmed to provide to a first server a request for User Interface (UI) device configurations, provide to the first server configuration criteria associated with the request, receive configuration data associated with target UI device configurations from the first server, present a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on the display device based on the configuration data where the GUI displays selections for each of the target UI device configurations, provide a selection from among the selections of the target UI device configurations, and receive provisioning information from the first server that allows for implementing the selection of the target UI device configuration. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09939998B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which various kinds of informations and/or functions for at least one content can be provided through a plurality of partitioned regions generated by partitioning a region of a display object for the at least one content into a plurality of the partitioned regions. The present invention may include creating a display object corresponding to an upper content in a manner of having an inner space partitioned into a plurality of regions and displaying the created display object on a touchscreen, wherein different lower contents subordinate to the upper content are displayed on a plurality of the regions, respectively.
US09939997B2
Transitioning browser tabs from one contextual environment to another contextual environment may be provided. A user interface having a set of tabs may be presented. A context may be defined for the set of tabs and stored. One or more of the tabs in the set may be changed and a new context defined for the changed tabs and stored. A plurality of such additional contexts may be defined and stored. The set of tabs may be adjusted based on a selected browser tab context.
US09939995B2
Previewing content included in an enterprise database associated with an enterprise system is disclosed. A first indication is received for an overlay object associated with an object from the enterprise database that is being displayed. an action list is dynamically determined associated with the object being displayed using a first method to retrieve actions from the enterprise system that are associated with the object being displayed. The action list is provided to the overlay object. Content associated with the object is dynamically determined using a second method to retrieve content from the enterprise system. The content is provided to the overlay object. The overlay object is displayed to preview the content included in the enterprise database and to provide the action list.
US09939994B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for flagging, tracking, and managing collaborative content to facilitate addressing flagged items, including providing a user interface configured to receive a flag from a user for portions of content in a collaborative effort system, the content comprising one or more log elements and the flag indicating a flagged user, applying the flag to an indicated content to form a flagged content responsive to an input by the user, displaying the flagged content such that the flagged content is visible to the flagged user, receiving an entry by the flagged user indicating the flagged content, and removing the flag from the indicated content.
US09939986B2
A screen transfer control system includes a business device performing a business process, a mobile terminal, and a screen transfer control device converting a business screen of the business device to image data and sending the image data to the mobile terminal, the screen transfer control device converting the business screen to the image data on the basis of the drawing command, detecting a change in the cursor shape on the basis of cursor information included in the drawing command, and sending change information, when a change in the cursor shape is detected, to the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal displaying the image data from the screen transfer control device, determining whether the cursor shape is changed on the basis of the change information, and starting up a software keyboard when a screen touch that made the change in the cursor shape continues for a predetermined time.
US09939967B2
A position detection method that includes calculating a distance between 2 contact points in a first direction by measuring a potential of a first electrode in a state where a power supply voltage is applied to the first electrode and a second electrode is grounded, calculating a distance between 2 contact points in a second direction by measuring a potential of a third electrode in a state where a power supply voltage is applied to the third electrode and a fourth electrode is grounded, and correcting the distance between the 2 contact points in the first direction obtained by the potential of the first electrode in accordance with the distance between the 2 contact points in the second direction obtained by the potential of the third electrode.
US09939966B2
A processing system for an input device includes a sensor module coupled to sensor electrodes. The sensor module includes sensor circuitry and configured to acquire first capacitive measurements when the input device is in a first state, and acquire second capacitive measurements when the input device is in a second state. The second state has an increased ground as compared to the first state. The processing system further includes a determination module configured to determine positional information for an input object based on the first capacitive measurements and the second capacitive measurements.
US09939948B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which an external terminal can be controlled easily and intuitively. The present invention includes a touchscreen, a wireless communication unit configured to transceive data with an external terminal, a sensing unit configured to detect a rotation of the mobile terminal, a user input unit configured to receive an input of a gesture command from a user, and a controller controlling the external terminal in 1st operating mode based on the received input of the gesture command, the controller controlling the touchscreen to output at least one control button for controlling the external terminal in 2nd operating mode, the controller switching the 1st operating mode and the 2nd operating mode to each other based on the detected rotation.
US09939943B2
A client can return a display state of an object to the past. When a point body moves on a screen, a projector draws an object of a line representing a moving trajectory. The projector generates object data representing the object and transmits the generated object data to tablet terminals. The object data contains order information representing generation order of the object. The tablet terminals display the object represented by the transmitted object data on a touch panel. When performing an operation for returning the display, the tablet terminals return the display by object unit based on the order information contained in the object data.
US09939940B2
The present disclosure relates to a field of displaying technology, and describes an in-cell touch screen and a method for driving the same. The in-cell touch screen comprises: a substrate; an electrode layer, formed on the substrate; and a touch driving module, wherein multiple rows of electrodes are formed on the electrode layer, and each row of electrodes is configured to drive at least one row of pixel units; the touch driving module comprises a plurality of signal lines corresponding to electrodes in one-to-one correspondence; and during a time period for displaying an image, when the image is to be displayed by the pixel units corresponding to a row of electrodes, the touch driving module is configured to input display driving signals to the row of electrodes and input touch driving signals to the other rows of electrodes simultaneously.
US09939934B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to external user interfaces used in connection with head worn computers (HWC). Embodiments relate to an external user interface that has a physical form intended to be hand held. The hand held user interface may be in the form similar to that of a writing instrument, such as a pen. In embodiments, the hand held user interface includes technologies relating to writing surface tip pressure monitoring, lens configurations setting a predetermined imaging distance, user interface software mode selection, quick software application launching, and other interface technologies.
US09939928B2
The disclosure herein is directed to a computer mouse device, comprising: a) a base comprising a mouse device portion, front mouse pad portion, a left mouse pad portion, a right mouse pad portion, a wrist portion, one more wrist portion mounts, one or more rib mounts, a top surface and a bottom surface; b) an optical computer mouse cage comprising one or more ribs connected to the front mouse pad portion, the left mouse pad portion and/or the right mouse pad portion and traversing to the wrist portion of the base, wherein the ribs have a curved contour for accommodating an optical computer mouse positioned at the mouse pad portion grasped by a user's hand; and c) at least one wrist clamp or wrist strap connected to a left side and a right side of the wrist portion.
US09939923B2
Examples of the disclosure determine the current context of a user or a wearable device of the user. User input is received to select one or more of context-dependent events from a plurality of past, current and future events. In some examples, one or more events from the plurality of past, current and future events and a part of the current context are captured by sensors available on the wearable device. Responsive to receiving the user input, one or more of the plurality of events are selected based on the determined current context and a direction of the user input. At least one of the selected one or more of the plurality of events is displayed on the wearable device of the user.
US09939919B2
An input device includes: a key (8); and an elastic supporting member (11) supporting the key (8) in such a manner as to allow the key (8) to move in a pressing direction of the key (8), the elastic supporting member (11) including: a post section (12) protruding below a level of a bottom face of the key (8) from an edge (8a) of the key (8); and an elastic arm section (13) connected to a tip end of the post section (12) and extending along the edge (8a) of the key (8).
US09939915B2
An operation device and a method for operating functions of a vehicle involve a gesture detection device allowing detection of gestures carried out by a person in an interior of the vehicle for operating the functions. The gesture detection device has a multitude of operation zones in the interior, each zone being allocated to one of the functions and being selectable for operating the respective function by a gesture allocated to the respective operation zone.
US09939914B2
Systems and methods for combining three-dimensional tracking of a user's movements with a three-dimensional user interface display is described. A tracking module processes depth data of a user performing movements, for example, movements of the user's hands and fingers. The tracked movements are used to animate a representation of the hand and fingers, and the animated representation is displayed to the user using three-dimensional display. Also displayed are one or more virtual objects with which the user can interact. In some embodiments, the interaction of the user with the virtual objects controls an electronic device.
US09939909B2
A hand region is detected in a captured image, and for each part of the background area, a light source presence degree indicating the probability that a light source is present is determined according to the luminance or color of that part; on the basis of the light source presence degree, a region in which the captured image is affected by a light source is estimated, and if the captured image includes a region estimated to be affected by a light source, whether or not a dropout has occurred in the hand region in the captured image is decided; on the basis of the result of this decision, an action is determined. Gesture determinations can be made correctly even when the hand region in the captured image is affected by a light source at the time of gesture manipulation input.
US09939900B2
One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a first haptic output device configured to receive a first haptic signal and output a first haptic effect to a deformable surface and a second haptic output device configured to receive a second haptic signal and output a second haptic effect to the deformable surface. The illustrative system further includes a processor coupled to the first haptic output device and the second haptic output device, the processor configured to: determine an event, determine a first haptic effect and a second haptic effect based at least in part on the event, transmit a first haptic signal associated with the first haptic effect to the first haptic output device, and transmit a second haptic signal associated with the second haptic effect to the second haptic output device.
US09939899B2
This disclosure relates to detecting hand gesture input using an electronic device, such as a wearable device strapped to a wrist. The device can have multiple photodiodes, each sensing light at a different position on a surface of the device that faces skin of a user. Examples of the disclosure detect hand gestures by recognizing patterns in sensor data that are characteristic of each hand gesture, as the tissue expands and contracts and anatomical features in the tissue move during the gesture.
US09939891B2
An earpiece for use in voice dictation includes a speaker disposed within the earpiece housing, a microphone, and a processor disposed within the earpiece housing and operatively connected to the microphone and the speaker, wherein the processor is adapted to capture a voice stream from the microphone. The earpiece may further include a wireless transceiver disposed within the earpiece housing, the wireless transceiver operatively connected to the processor. The earpiece is configured to be controlled by a user through a plurality of different user interfaces to perform voice dictation.
US09939866B2
Systems, operations, management and monitoring of controlling and managing power source performance by providing an operating power source device and providing one or more sensors to monitor operation of the power source device. Operational data of the power source device is collected via the one or more sensors and stored to both a local and remote database. The collected operational data is analyzed to detect and identify any operational errors of the power source device, as well as obtaining external and/or internal operating conditions of the operating power source device. Any identified operational errors of the power source device are corrected for using at least the external and/or internal operating conditions.
US09939864B1
The embodiments described herein include a transmitter that transmits a power transmission signal (e.g., radio frequency (RF) signal waves) to create a three-dimensional pocket of energy. At least one receiver can be connected to or integrated into electronic devices and receive power from the pocket of energy. A wireless power network may include a plurality of wireless power transmitters each with an embedded wireless power transmitter manager, including a wireless power manager application. The wireless power network may include a plurality of client devices with wireless power receivers. Wireless power receivers may include a power receiver application configured to communicate with the wireless power manager application. The wireless power manager application may include a device database where information about the wireless power network may be stored.
US09939860B2
An electronic device according to the invention includes a second electronic device and a first electronic device removably connected with the second electronic device; the electronic device includes a first heat dissipation channel in the first electronic device and a second heat dissipation channel in the second electronic device. In a disconnected state, the heat dissipation airflow flows through the first heat dissipation channel to perform heat dissipation of the first electronic device. In a connected state, the first air inlet of the first heat dissipation channel communicates with the second air outlet of the second heat dissipation channel, and the heat dissipation airflow may enter into the first heat dissipation channel via the second heat dissipation channel so as to perform heat dissipation of the first electronic device by the second heat dissipation channel and the first heat dissipation channel.
US09939856B1
A supporting frame includes at least one supporting element, a base and a light-permeable pillar. The supporting element has a first through-hole. A cam is disposed in the supporting element and has a second through-hole and a turning portion. The second through-hole is disposed corresponding to the first through-hole. The base extends to form a sleeve. The light-permeable pillar passes through the first through-hole and the second through-hole and is inserted into the sleeve. The supporting element is capable of sliding along the light-permeable pillar. The turning portion is configured for pushing against an inner wall of the supporting element for fixing the supporting element on the light-permeable pillar.
US09939850B2
A cover for a portable electronic device is disclosed. The cover can include at least one electrical component. For example, in one embodiment, an electrical component can be embedded in the cover. When the cover is placed on or mated with the portable electronic device, the electrical component embedded in the cover is able to interact with electrical circuitry of the portable electronic device. Advantageously, the cover can not only provide a protective and/or ornamental covering for the portable electronic device but can also augment the electrical capabilities of the portable electronic device.
US09939847B2
A foldable display device includes a flexible display panel, a case supporting the flexible display panel, a bonding member fixing the flexible display panel to the case. The case includes a hinge portion, and supports respectively coupled to the hinge portion at opposing sides of the hinge portion. The flexible display panel includes a bendable area corresponding to the hinge portion, and planar areas respectively at opposing sides of the bendable area and corresponding to the supports of the case. The bonding member is between a support of the case and the corresponding planar area of the flexible display panel, and is displaceable with respect to the support along one of a thickness direction and a width direction of the flexible display panel when the flexible display panel is folded.
US09939836B2
An internal voltage generation circuit includes a first control signal generation unit suitable for generating a first control signal activated to a level of a second external voltage when a first external voltage is activated, a second control signal generation unit suitable for generating a second control signal that equals the higher of the second external voltage and an internal voltage, and a voltage generation unit suitable for generating the internal voltage by performing a charge pumping operation based on the second external voltage and an oscillation signal while blocking a current flowing through a generation node from which the internal voltage is generated, based on the first and second control signals.
US09939829B2
Low-noise current source, configured to be supplied by at least one DC main supply (Vss) and to deliver an output current (IL), the source comprising one or more current generator modules (G1, G2, . . . GN) operating in parallel each one of which is configured to deliver a respective output current (Ii), whereby the output current (IL) of the source is equal to the sum of the output currents (Ii) of said one or more current generator modules (G1, G2, . . . GN), each current generator module (G1; G2; . . . GN) comprising a regulator component (Q1), configured to deliver the output current (Ii) of the current generator module (G1; G2; . . . GN), a sensing resistor (Rs) connected in series to the regulator component (Q1), and an error amplifier stage (IC1), configured to compare a reference voltage (Vref) with a voltage drop (Vs) across the sensing resistor (Rs), whereby the error amplifier stage (IC1) is configured to amplify an error signal equal to a difference between the between voltage (Vref) and voltage across the sensing resistor (Rs), the error amplifier stage (IC1) being configured to output the amplified error signal that is configured to control the regulator component (Q1), the current source being characterized in that each current generator module (G1; G2; . . . GN) further comprises a first shunt type regulator (Z1, I1), configured to be connected to said at least one DC main supply (Vss), that is further configured to generate a dedicated supply voltage supplying the error amplifier stage (IC1), whereby the error amplifier stage (IC1) is configured to be supplied in a floating manner with respect to said at least one DC main supply (Vss).
US09939822B2
In one embodiment, a remote monitoring system for a fluid applicator system is disclosed. The fluid applicator system is disposed to heat and pump spray fluid, and to transmit reports including sensed temperatures, pressures, and other operational parameters of the fluid applicator system via a wireless network. The remote monitoring system comprises a data storage server, and an end user interface. The data storage server is configured to receive and archive the reports. The end user interface is configured to provide a graphical user interface based on the reports. The graphical user interface illustrates a status of the fluid handling system, sensed and commanded temperatures of the fluid handling system, sensed and commanded pressures of the fluid handling system, and usage statistics of the fluid handling system.
US09939815B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and responding to stop signs. An object detected in a vehicle's environment having location coordinates may be identified as a stop sign and, it may be determined whether the location coordinates of the identified stop sign correspond to a location of a stop sign in detailed map information. Then, whether the identified stop sign applies to the vehicle may be determined based on the detailed map information or on a number of factors. Then, if the identified stop sign is determined to apply to the vehicle, responses of the vehicle to the stop sign may be determined, and, the vehicle may be controlled based on the determined responses.
US09939814B1
A method for autonomous map generation by a robot comprising: instructing the robot to traverse a route within an environment in which the robot is deployed; while following the route, causing the robot to collect sensor data to identify features in the environment and to generate an initial map of areas in environment that have been traversed; upon completion of the route, autonomously generating a map of valid areas of the environment by moving throughout the environment while collecting sensor data; while autonomously generating the map, determining that a particular area is potentially invalid by detecting features that are previously unknown to the robot; generating and providing an electronic message to an operator of the robot comprising sensor data of the particular area and a prompt requesting information indicating whether the particular area is valid or invalid; upon receiving a response from the operator, continuing autonomously generating the map according to the response wherein if the particular area is valid, collecting sensor data from the particular area and, if the particular area is invalid, proceeding to an unmapped, valid area of the environment; determining that there are no remaining unmapped, valid areas of the environment, ending autonomously generating the map.
US09939810B1
Unmanned vehicles can be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may be used to survey a property in response to or in anticipation of damage to the property. For example, an unmanned vehicle may analyze information about the property and based on the information provide graphics and information associated with the surveying of the property.
US09939807B2
A frame design and a sheathing design for a design model may be produced by the systems and methods described herein. A processor in communication with a database may receive a design model comprising building specifications. The processor may define a panel in the design model and generate the frame design and the sheathing design for the panel.
US09939803B2
Manufacturing of a shoe or a portion of a shoe is enhanced by executing various shoe-manufacturing processes in an automated fashion. For example, information describing a shoe part may be determined, such as an identification, an orientation, a color, a surface topography, an alignment, a size, etc. Based on the information describing the shoe part, automated shoe-manufacturing apparatuses may be instructed to apply various shoe-manufacturing processes to the shoe part.
US09939788B2
A smart watch and method for controlling the same are disclosed, by which both a physical watch function and a mobile terminal function are provided. The present application includes a case, at least one physical hand situated in the case, the at least one physical hand configured to display a current time, a display unit situated below the hand in the case, the display unit configured to display various informations, and a movement configured to rotate the hand, the movement connected to the hand through the display unit in the case.
US09939779B2
A discharge tray is arranged above a space in which a toner bottle is stored, and a sheet having passed a fixing unit is discharged onto the discharge tray. A cooling fan cools the sheet on which a toner image has been fixed in the fixing unit before the sheet is discharged onto the discharge tray. A duct introduces outer air from an exterior to the cooling fan. A tray-side hole portion is formed in a portion of the discharge tray. Further, a duct-side hole portion is formed in a portion of the duct, and the duct communicates with the space in which the toner bottle is stored through the tray-side hole portion and the duct-side hole portion.
US09939764B2
A fixing belt includes a base layer, an elastic layer made of an elastic material, and a release layer. The elastic layer includes a first elastic layer disposed on a side of the base layer, and a second elastic layer disposed on a side of the release layer. The second elastic layer has a lower hardness than that of the first elastic layer. A Universal hardness of the second elastic layer is 3 to 7 N/mm2. A thickness ratio of the second elastic layer to the elastic layer is 5 to 15%.
US09939763B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a fixing apparatus comprises a belt which is equipped with a conductive layer; an induction current generator which faces the belt and heats the conductive layer through an electromagnetic induction system; a magnetic material which faces the induction current generator across the belt; a measurement section which measures a state of the magnetic material; and a controller which controls a frequency applied to the induction current generator based on a measurement result of the measurement section in a case in which at least a print request is not received.
US09939758B2
A developing device includes a developer container to contain developer including toner and magnetic carrier, the developer container; a developer bearer to carry, by rotation, the developer to a developing range facing a latent image bearer; a communication opening in a wall defining the developer container; a toner conveyance passage connected to the communication opening; and a cylindrical magnet having a magnetic pole arrangement parallel to an axis of the cylindrical magnet. The cylindrical magnet is disposed to enclose a space overlapping with the communication opening on a cross section perpendicular to the axis of the cylindrical magnet.
US09939755B2
An image forming apparatus including: a setting unit configured to set light intensity correction data stored in a storage unit according to an exposure position while a light beam is being scanned on a photosensitive member at a first scan speed; and a light intensity controller configured to control a light intensity based on the correction data set by the setting unit, wherein the setting unit calculates a light intensity correction data corresponding to a position between a plurality of positions based on the stored correction data, set the correction data according to the exposure position while the light beam is being scanned at a second scan speed lower than the first scan speed; and fixes a switching period for switching the correction data according to the exposure position while the light beam is being scanned on an image forming area of the photosensitive member regardless of the scan speed.
US09939750B2
A charging member includes a support, a conductive elastic layer disposed on the support, and a surface layer disposed on the conductive elastic layer. Domains with current values of 2.5 pA or more have an average size of about 300 nm or less in a binary image created using a current value of 2.5 pA as a threshold from current measured by contacting a conical probe having a tip diameter of 20 nm with an outer surface of the surface layer and applying a voltage of 3 V between the conical probe and the support while moving the conical probe.
US09939743B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer disposed on the conductive substrate and containing a binder resin, metal oxide particles, and an electron-accepting compound having an anthraquinone structure; and a photosensitive layer disposed on the undercoat layer, wherein the reflectance RL of the undercoat layer for light having a wavelength ranging approximately from 470 nm to 510 nm is approximately from 2% to 5%.
US09939742B2
A lithographic apparatus includes a sensor, such as an alignment sensor including a self-referencing interferometer, configured to determine the position of an alignment target including a periodic structure. An illumination optical system focuses radiation of different colors and polarizations into a spot which scans the structure. Multiple position-dependent signals are detected and processed to obtain multiple candidate position measurements. Asymmetry of the structure is calculated by comparing the multiple position-dependent signals. The asymmetry measurement is used to improve accuracy of the position read by the sensor. Additional information on asymmetry may be obtained by an asymmetry sensor receiving a share of positive and negative orders of radiation diffracted by the periodic structure to produce a measurement of asymmetry in the periodic structure.
US09939741B2
The present invention provides a lithography apparatus including a sensor configured to detect each of an image of a first mark on a first surface of a substrate and a second mark on a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a processor configured to perform processing of deciding a measurement focus position at which the sensor can detect both the image of the first mark and the image of the second mark based on first mark detection information obtained in a focus state of the optical system in which the sensor can detect the image of the first mark, and second mark detection information obtained in a focus state in which the sensor can detect the image of the second mark.
US09939721B2
An optical device includes a first plate having a first transparent region defining an exit face of the device, and a second plate having a second transparent region defining an entrance face of the device. At least one lens is formed over at least one of the first and second transparent regions. First and second planar reflectors are spaced apart and fixed between the first and second plates in mutually-parallel orientations diagonal to the first and second plates, thereby defining an optical path through the device from the entrance face, reflecting from the first and second reflectors, through the exit face and passing through the at least one refractive surface.
US09939720B2
Damage due to heat in a case where a projection lens having lower heat resistance performance is used is avoided.A control section controls a light source drive section in such a way that the output from a light source is allowed to be increased up to a first value in a case where a projection lens is a first projection lens and controls the light source drive section in such a way that the output from the light source is allowed to be increased up to a second value different from the first value in a case where the projection lens is a second projection lens having heat resistance performance different from that of the first projection lens.
US09939718B2
A light source apparatus includes a polarization conversion element, a fluorescent substance and a light source element. The polarization conversion element has a p/s-polarizing beam splitter film to separate polarization components of incident light into p-polarization component and s-polarization component. The fluorescent substance emits visible light as the incident light that is incident on the p/s-polarizing beam splitter film, which visible light is generated by that the fluorescent substance is excited by excitation light, and has a wavelength of longer wavelength region than a wavelength of the excitation light. The light source element emits a laser beam having a predetermined wavelength as the excitation light to irradiate the fluorescent substance with the excitation light so that a laser beam having a polarization plane between the polarization plane of p-polarized light and the polarization plane of s-polarized light exiting from the fluorescent substance is emitted as the incident light.
US09939691B2
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first substrate; a gate line formed on the first substrate; an insulating layer formed on the gate line; and a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode that are formed on the insulating layer. Each of the first subpixel electrode and the second, subpixel electrode includes a first subregion and a second subregion. At least one of the first subregion and the second subregion includes a vertical stem, a horizontal stem extending from a middle of the vertical stem, and a plurality of minute branches laterally extending in a diagonal direction from the horizontal stem. The plurality of minute branches laterally extending from the horizontal stem are alternately branched with reference to the horizontal stem.
US09939689B2
A design method for a curved display panel and a curved display device are is provided. The curved display panel comprises a curved thin film transistor array substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a curved color filter substrate, and a spacer assembly. The spacer assembly is used to maintain a predetermined distance between the curved thin film transistor array substrate and the curved color filter substrate. A display defect caused by an uneven cell thickness of the curved display panel is avoided.
US09939688B2
A liquid crystal display panel is provided, including: an array substrate; a color filter substrate opposite the array substrate, and a common electrode layer disposed on a side surface of the color filter substrate facing the array substrate of the color filter substrate; and a plurality of photo spacers disposed between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The common electrode layer of the color filter substrate has a plurality of openings, and one end of each of the photo spacers is located on a corresponding opening.
US09939684B2
Manufacturing method of display substrate, manufacturing method of display panel, and display device
The present disclosure discloses a manufacturing method of a display substrate, a manufacturing method of a display panel and a display device. The manufacturing method of a display substrate comprises: performing an pre-irradiation on the display substrate with ultraviolet light after completion of alignment of an alignment layer of the display substrate, such that electrons in a metal layer of the display substrate receive energy under this irradiation of the ultraviolet light and thereby transfer, and are distributed uniformly in the alignment layer of the display area of the display substrate. A uniform distribution of charges in the whole display area would not result in the deficiency of non-uniform brightness at the edge of the display area.
US09939672B2
An electronic device may have a housing in which components are mounted that produce heat. The heat producing components may be light-emitting diodes mounted on a flexible printed circuit in a display backlight, may be integrated circuits, or may be other devices that generate heat during operation. A heat spreading layer such as a layer of graphite may be attached to the backlight unit or other structures in the electronic device using adhesive. The adhesive may be patterned to form an unbonded area between at least some of the backlight unit or other structures to which the heat spreading layer is being attached and the heat spreading layer. The heat spreading layer may be mounted adjacent to a housing structure such as a metal midplate member that is attached to housing walls in the housing.
US09939670B2
The present invention relates to a display device capable of more stably forming a horizontal electric field. A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a microcavity having a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, and an upper surface extending between the first side and the second side; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and positioned along the first side; a common electrode extending along the second side; a roof layer covering the pixel electrode, the common electrode, and the upper surface of the microcavity; and a liquid crystal layer disposed in the microcavity.
US09939664B2
A system may include a composite structure and a light source. The composite structure may include a matrix having a matrix refractive index, a plurality of fibers embedded in the matrix, and a light-reactive material in the matrix. The light source may be capable of emitting light of an activation wavelength that induces a reaction in the light-reactive material causing a change in the matrix refractive index.
US09939662B2
The present invention provides an electrochromic nanocomposite film. In an exemplary embodiment, the electrochromic nanocomposite film, includes (1) a solid matrix of oxide based material and (2) transparent conducting oxide (TCO) nanostructures embedded in the matrix. In a further embodiment, the electrochromic nanocomposite film farther includes a substrate upon which the matrix is deposited. The present invention also provides a method of preparing an electrochromic nanocomposite film.
US09939645B2
The invention relates to the field of displaying. The embodiments of the invention provide an electronic glasses apparatus, a control method thereof and a display system. In the case that a user is watching images displayed on a display apparatus through the electronic glasses apparatus, he/she would get a more excited and realistic experience when a dazzling image such as the Sun or explosion appears. The control method includes: receiving a synchronous video signal transmitted form a display apparatus which is apart from the electronic glasses apparatus by a preset distance; according to the synchronous video signal, acquiring parameters of a first area in a frame of an image displayed on the display apparatus when the display apparatus uses the synchronous video signal to display images, wherein the grey scale in the first area is greater than or equal to a preset grey scale; and according to the parameters of the first area, driving pixel cells of a second area in the electronic glasses apparatus to emit lights simultaneously, wherein the second area corresponds to the first area. The invention also discloses manufacturing of a display system which includes the electronic glasses apparatus.
US09939643B2
Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. The system may comprise an image-generating source to provide one or more frames of image data in a time-sequential manner, a light modulator configured to transmit light associated with the one or more frames of image data, a substrate to direct image information to a user's eye, wherein the substrate houses a plurality of reflectors, a first reflector of the plurality of reflectors to reflect transmitted light associated with a first frame of image data at a first angle to the user's eye, and a second reflector to reflect transmitted light associated with a second frame of the image data at a second angle to the user's eye.
US09939641B1
A combiner head-up display (HUD) system includes a combiner mirror and a combiner holder supporting the combiner mirror. The combiner holder includes first and second holder arms. The HUD system also includes a combiner HUD body supporting a first knob. The combiner HUD system includes an elevation link connecting the first knob and the first holder arm. A rotation of the first knob causes the combiner mirror to move from a stowed position to a display position or from a display position to a stowed position. A second knob is supported by the combiner HUD body and is disposed substantially opposite the first knob. A threaded rod connects the second knob and the second holder arm. When the combiner mirror is in the display position, a rotation of the second knob causes the combiner mirror to adjust a display angle between the fore-aft axis and the combiner mirror.
US09939631B2
A multiple cavity laser system includes: a controller configured to operate the system as well as a plurality of laser cavities, each of the laser cavities having an output end wherein, when activated by the controller, an output laser beam is emitted from the output end of each of the laser cavities. The output laser beams when activated are directed, either directly or indirectly, to a rotating mirror. The rotating mirror is operatively connected to the controller and a servo motor. The servo motor, under direction of the controller, redirects the output laser beams along a common optical axis and the output laser beams of the plurality of laser cavities are combined along the common optical axis.
US09939626B2
An optical microscopic apparatus for creating a super-resolution image of an organism or biological matter, the optical microscopic apparatus includes a light source configured to provide visible light including evanescent waves, a hyper-lens unit including a front surface on which a specimen is placed, the hyper-lens unit including a multi-layered structure to convert at least part of the evanescent waves incident on the front surface into propagating waves, an objective lens for collecting visible light emitted from a rear surface of the hyper-lens unit, and an image capturing unit to capture visible light emitted from the objective lens and to create an image of the specimen.
US09939623B2
Microscope system for, and methods of, imaging a sample including biological cells. In an exemplary method, light transmitted through the sample may be detected for a first set of focal positions to collect a first stack of images. Values of a focus metric may be calculated for the first stack of images. A candidate focal position may be determined based on the values. Photoluminescence may be detected from the sample for a second set of focal positions to collect a second stack of images. The second set of focal positions may define a smaller range than the first set of focal positions. At least one focal position of the second set of focal positions may be based on the candidate focal position. In other words, the candidate focal position may serve as a guide for finding a suitable photoluminescence focal position.
US09939621B2
A zoom lens comprises a first lens group having negative refractive power; a second lens group having positive refractive power; a third lens group having negative refractive power and a fourth lens group having positive refractive power. Upon varying magnification, distances between the first lens group and the second lens group, between the second lens group and the third lens group and between the third lens group and the fourth lens group vary. The second lens group includes a front lens group, an aperture stop, and a rear lens group. Each of the front lens group and the rear lens group includes at least one negative lens. At least a part of the lenses in the second lens group is moved as a group to have a component in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis.
US09939612B2
A wide-angle lens comprises sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis a first lens, a second lens, a stop and a third lens. The first lens is a biconcave lens and with negative refractive power. The second lens is a convex-concave lens with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the object side and concave surface facing the image side. The third lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The wide-angle lens satisfies the following condition: 2.9
US09939608B2
This disclosure provides a voice coil motor, including a magnet holder, a magnet set, a lens holder, a lens set, an upper and lower elastic piece and a circuit board. The magnet set has four magnets mounted on four sides of the magnet holder, each of the magnets having opposing N/S and S/N magnetic poles. The lens set is disposed in the lens holder. The upper and lower elastic pieces are mounted above and below the lens holder, respectively. Four focusing coil loops are disposed between the lens holder and magnet set, and correspond to the four magnets of the magnet set. Four optical image stabilization coil loops are disposed on the circuit board and correspond to the four magnets of the magnet set, respectively. The focusing coil loops and optical image stabilization coil loops share the magnet set. Therefore, the voice coil motor has a size reduced.
US09939607B2
A lens barrel for imaging a subject; and a lens frame which holds the lens. The lens frame includes a body structure opened at a tip and an end; and a lens base which fixes the lens and is adhered to a tip opening of the body; the lens base includes: a tip base including an opening which exposes a tip side lens optical surface and an inner side which supports the lens; and a circle or arc sidewall extending axially from the tip base; the inner surface of the sidewall is formed along an outer circumference surface of the lens; the inner side surface and the outer circumference are adhered to each other; and a portion of the upper surface of the sidewall is provided toward an end side separated from the far end of the lens to be exposed inside the body.
US09939605B2
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for submicron alignment in wafer optics. One disclosed method of alignment between wafers to produce an integrated lens stack employs a beam splitter (that is, a 50% transparent mirror) that reflects the alignment mark of the top wafer when the microscope objective is focused on the alignment mark of the bottom wafer. Another disclosed method of alignment between wafers to produce an integrated lens stack implements complementary patterns that can produce a Moiré effect when misaligned in order to aid in visually determining proper alignment between the wafers. In some embodiments, the methods can be combined to increase precision.
US09939602B2
A mounting system for suspending an enclosure from an aerial strand at a location near a pole is disclosed. The mounting system includes a hanger arrangement configured to clamp to the aerial strand with the enclosure hung below the aerial strand at a location where a center of gravity of the enclosure is laterally offset from the aerial strand such that a weight of the enclosure generates torque about the aerial strand. The mounting system includes a rod for securement to the hanger arrangement and to the pole for transferring the torque generated by the weight of the enclosure from the hanger arrangement to the pole such that the enclosure is prevented from rotating about the aerial strand toward a position where the center of gravity of the enclosure is located directly beneath the aerial strand.
US09939600B2
A payout spool for a cable includes a base, a spool, and a disconnect/reconnect device. The cable extends between a first and a second end. The payout spool pays out the cable when the first end of the cable is pulled away from the payout spool. The base includes a terminal for transmitting and/or receiving a signal to and/or from the cable. The spool is rotatably mounted to the base about an axis. The spool is adapted to unwrap the cable about a wrapping area of the spool when the spool is rotated about the axis. The disconnect/reconnect device may be adapted to disconnect the second end of the cable from the terminal when the payout spool pays out the cable and reconnect the same when the payout spool is not paying out the cable.
US09939597B2
A standardized hot-pluggable transceiving unit comprising a housing, a board and a chipset. The housing has specific standardized dimensions and is adapted to being inserted into a chassis of a hosting unit. The board and chipset are in the housing. The board comprises at least two electro-mechanical components. The chipset also comprises at least two electro-mechanical components. Each electro-mechanical component of the chipset collaborates with a corresponding electro-mechanical component of the board for simultaneously providing a mechanical anchor and an electrical connection between the chipset and the board. The chipset further comprises a programmable processing component for processing a signal transmitted by the board via the electrical connection between the board and the chipset. For instance, the programmable processing component of the chipset comprises a coding module for encoding or decoding data having a first form into data having a second form.
US09939580B2
Embodiments include an optical apparatus and associated method of assembling. The optical apparatus comprises a substrate defining a first surface and a channel formed relative thereto, the substrate including one or more waveguides extending to a sidewall partly defining the channel, a plurality of first electrical contacts formed on the first surface. The optical apparatus further comprises a carrier member defining a second surface and at least a third surface, the second surface coupled with the first surface of the substrate. The optical apparatus further at least one optical component coupled with the second surface and at least partly disposed within the channel, wherein the at least one optical component is optically coupled with the one or more waveguides and electrically connected with the first electrical contacts via a plurality of second electrical contacts at the third surface of the carrier member.
US09939579B2
Monolithic optical structures include a plurality of layer with each layer having an isolated optical pathway confined within a portion of the layer. The monolithic optical structure can be used as an optical fiber preform. Alternatively or additionally, the monolithic optical structure can include integrated optical circuits within one or more layers of the structure. Monolithic optical structures can be formed by performing multiple passes of a substrate through a flowing particle stream. The deposited particles form an optical material following consolidation. Flexible optical fibers include a plurality of independent light channels extending along the length of the optical fiber. The fibers can be pulled from an appropriate preform.
US09939568B2
The present invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter and an application of the same. The photosensitive resin composition includes an alkali-soluble resin (A), a compound (B) having an ethylenically unsaturated group, a photoinitiator (C), an organic solvent (D) and a pigment (E). The alkali-soluble resin (A) includes a first alkali-soluble resin (A-1) having the structure represented by formula (1). The aforementioned photosensitive resin composition is advantageously applied for the color filer with better contrast.
US09939558B2
A method for modifying the refractive index of an optical polymeric material. The method comprises continuously irradiating predetermined regions of an optical, polymeric material with femtosecond laser pulses to form a gradient index refractive structure within the material. The optical polymeric material can include a photosensitizer to increase the photoefficiency of the two-photo process resulting in the formation of the observed refractive structures. An optical device includes an optical, polymeric lens material having an anterior surface and posterior surface and an optical axis intersecting the surfaces and at least one laser-modified, GRIN layer disposed between the anterior surface and the posterior surface and arranged along a first axis 45° to 90° to the optical axis. The at least one laser-modified GRIN layer comprises a plurality of adjacent refractive segments characterized by a variation in index of refraction across at least one of at least a portion of the adjacent segments and along each segment.
US09939556B2
A method for producing a reflection-reducing layer system on a substrate and a reflection-reducing layer system are disclosed. According to an embodiment the method includes depositing a refractive index gradient layer on the substrate by co-evaporation of an inorganic material and an organic material, wherein the refractive index gradient layer has a refractive index which decreases in a growth direction, depositing an organic layer above the refractive index gradient layer, and producing a nanostructure in the organic layer by a plasma etching process.
US09939554B2
An optical compensation film is disclosed herein, which is made by uniaxially or biaxially stretching of a multilayer film including a first polymer film having a refractive index profile satisfying the equations of (nx+ny)/2≥nz and |nx−ny|<0.005 and a second polymer film having a refractive index profile satisfying the equations of (nx+ny)/2
US09939533B2
A system and method for the measurement of radiation emitted from an in-vivo administered radioactive analyte. Gamma radiation sensors may be used to determine the proper or improper administration of a radioactive analyte in some cases, the system employs a sensor having a scintillation material to convert gamma radiation to visible light, which enables embodiments of the sensor to be ex vivo. A light detector converts the visible light to an electrical signal. This signal is amplified and is processed to measure the captured radiation. Temperature of the sensor may be recorded along with this radiation measurement for temperature compensation of ex vivo embodiments. The sensor enables collection of sufficient data to support separate application to predictive models, background comparisons, or change analysis.
US09939530B2
A time of flight detector includes an electromagnetic radiation emitter configured to emit a beam of radiation. A first optical element receives the beam of radiation and generates a collimated beam of radiation. A second optical element defines a narrow imaging field of view sufficient to capture reflected electromagnetic radiation from the collimated beam. An electromagnetic radiation sensor then senses the captured reflected electromagnetic radiation from the collimated beam in the narrow imaging field of view. Further narrowing of the imaging field of view is accomplished by selective enabling a sub-array of photosensitive elements with the electromagnetic radiation sensor.
US09939526B2
An enhanced vision method uses or an enhanced vision system includes an onboard weather radar system configured to improve angular resolution and/or resolution in range. The onboard weather radar system generates image data representative of the external scene topography of a runway environment associated with radar returns received by the onboard weather radar system. The radar returns are in an X-band or a C-band. The enhanced vision system also includes a display in communication with the onboard weather radar system and is configured to display an image associated with the image data that is generated by the onboard weather radar system. The enhanced vision system can also be used as an enhanced flight vision system.
US09939524B2
Systems and methods for measuring velocity with a radar altimeter are provided. In at least one embodiment a method for measuring velocity magnitude of a platform in relation to a surface comprises transmitting a radar beam, wherein the radar beam is aimed toward a surface; receiving a plurality of reflected signals, wherein the plurality of reflected signals correspond to portions of the transmitted radar beam that are reflected by a plurality of portions of the surface; and applying Doppler filtering to the plurality of signals to form at least one Doppler beam. The method also comprises identifying range measurements within each Doppler beam in the at least one Doppler beam; and calculating the velocity magnitude based on the range measurements of the at least one Doppler beam.
US09939516B2
A method comprises using a first directional transceiver (14A) to determine a first angle (α1) between a first vector (V1) from the first directional transceiver to a second directional transceiver (14B) and a second vector (V2) from the first directional transceiver to a third directional transceiver (14C), using the second directional transceiver to determine a second angle (α2) between a third vector (V3) from the second directional transceiver to the first directional transceiver and a fourth vector (V4) from the second directional transceiver to the third directional transceiver, calculating a location, relative to a local coordinate system, of the third directional transceiver using the first and second angles and locations in the local coordinate system of the first and second directional transceivers, the local coordinate system being defined relative to the locations of the first, second, and third directional transceivers, and calculating an orientation relative to the local coordinate system of the first directional transceiver using directions of the first and second vectors relative to the first directional transceiver and the locations in the local coordinate system of the first, second and third directional transceivers.
US09939514B2
A method comprising receiving probe data indicative of a set of navigational signal measurements that is matched to a link segment, determining a set of measurement errors such that each measurement error of the set of measurement errors is a difference between a location indicated by the link segment and a location indicated by a navigational signal measurement of the set of navigational signal measurements, determining at least one statistical attribute of the set of measurement errors, and storing an indication of the statistical attribute in map information associated with the link segment is disclosed.
US09939508B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition part and a display processing part. The image acquisition part is configured to acquire plural series, each having frames of medical image data corresponding to at least one of slice positions and time phases. The display processing part is configured to perform display processing to display image data in a region of interest of at least one frame of first medical image data belonging to a first series out of the plural series. The image data in the region of interest are overlapped with a region of at least one frame of second medical image data belonging to another series. The region of the at least one frame of the second medical image data is different from a region corresponding to the region the interest.
US09939500B2
A head-up display and eye-tracker system, suitable for use with a patient in an MRI tube during an MRI procedure. An electronic display assembly includes an outer display tube housing for housing an electronic display device for generating images, the outer tube housing fabricated of an electrically conductive, non-ferrous material. An eye-tracker camera assembly includes an outer camera tube housing for housing an electronic camera sensor, the outer tube camera housing fabricated of an electrically conductive, non-ferrous material. An eyepiece assembly includes an outer housing. A beam splitter assembly includes a beam splitter block having a receptacle holding a beam splitter, the block formed of an electrically conductive, non-ferrous material. The beam splitter reflects light from the display onto the patient's eye, and allows light reflected from the patient's eye to pass to the camera sensor. In another embodiment as a display system, the eye-tracker camera assembly is omitted.
US09939499B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a static magnetic field magnet, a gradient coil, a bore tube and a sealed space forming unit. The gradient coil is formed to be approximately cylindrical, arranged in a cylinder of the static magnetic field magnet, and adds a gradient magnetic field to the static magnetic field. The bore tube is formed to be approximately cylindrical and arranged in the cylinder of the gradient coil. The sealed space forming unit forms a sealed space enclosing the gradient coil between an inner circumferential side of the static magnetic field magnet and an outer circumferential side of the bore tube. At least a part of at least one of the side ends of the gradient coil does not make contact with the sealed space.
US09939479B2
A method of determining a noise figure (NF) response of a device under test (DUT) comprises determining a frequency response of a noise receiver over a first frequency range, measuring a gain of the DUT over a second frequency range encompassing the first frequency range, measuring output-noise power of the DUT over the second frequency range, determining an estimated gain of the DUT based on the frequency response of the noise receiver and the gain of the DUT over the first frequency range, and determining the NF response of the DUT over the second frequency range based on the estimated gain and the output-noise power.
US09939470B2
An analog measurement data detection system according to the present invention includes: a reference voltage generation circuit configured to generate and output a reference voltage; an analog/digital converter configured to compare an analog signal with the reference voltage outputted from the reference voltage generation circuit, and based on a differential voltage between the analog signal and the reference voltage, generate and output a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal. The reference voltage generation circuit is configured to cause the reference voltage to have such a temperature characteristic as to compensate for temperature characteristics of at least the analog/digital converter and the reference voltage generation circuit.
US09939466B2
A non-contact current sensor includes a spin valve structure (2), an electrical unit (4) that applies a varying current to the spin valve structure (2), and a resistance reading unit that electrically reads out a resistance value of the spin valve structure (2). When a current-induced magnetic field is detected, a coercive force of a free layer (14) is configured to be larger than the current-induced magnetic field as a detection target, and the electrical unit (4) allows the magnetization directions of a pinned layer (12) and the free layer (14) to transition between a mutually parallel state and a mutually anti-parallel state by applying the current to the spin valve structure (2). The resistance reading unit (5) detects a threshold value corresponding to the transition.
US09939464B2
The present invention relates to current measurement apparatus 100. The current measurement apparatus 100 comprises a measurement arrangement 110, 114 which is configured to be disposed in relation to a load 108 which draws a current signal, the measurement arrangement being operative when so disposed to measure the load drawn current signal. The current measurement apparatus 100 also comprises a signal source 112 which is operative to apply a reference input signal to the measurement arrangement 110, 114 whereby an output signal from the measurement arrangement comprises a load output signal corresponding to the load drawn current signal and a reference output signal corresponding to the reference input signal. The current measurement apparatus 100 further comprises processing apparatus 116 which is operative to receive the output signal and to make a determination in dependence on the reference output signal and the load output signal, the determination being in respect of at least one of the load drawn current signal and electrical power consumed by the load.
US09939463B2
A test circuit includes a pull-up device, a pull-down device, a switch circuit and a voltage-setting unit. The pull-up device is used to receive a first control signal and coupled to a first end of the device-under-test. The pull-down device is used to receive a second control signal and coupled to the first end of the device-under-test. The switch unit is controlled by a switch signal, used to receive a testing signal and coupled to a second end of the device-under-test. The voltage-setting unit is controlled by a third control signal, used to pull the second end of the device-under-test to a predetermined voltage.
US09939462B2
A probe (1) for measuring biomolecules by means of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is proposed, having a distal end (2) and a proximal end (3), wherein the probe (1) has the following structure in a cross-section oriented transversely to its longitudinal extent: a base layer (4) of an insulating material, on a first side of the base layer (4) at least one layer (5, 6) of a conducting material, on a second side of the base layer (4), which is remote from the first side of the base layer (4), at least one layer (8) of a conducting material, and on the side of the layers of conducting material that is remote from the base layer (4), on the outside, in each case an outer layer (15) of an insulating material, wherein further the at least one layer (5, 6) of a conducting material on the first side of the base layer (4) is formed into an annular conductor structure (9) in the region of the distal end (2) of the probe, wherein the annular conductor structure (9) is followed proximally by at least one elongate conductor (10) which is in the form of a feed line for the annular conductor structure and extends to the proximal end (3) of the probe (1), and wherein the at least one layer (8) of a conducting material on the second side of the base layer (4) covers the predominant part of the base surface of the base layer (4), wherein the layer (8) of a conducting material on the second side of the base layer (4) has in the region of the distal end (2) of the probe (1) a polygonal hole (13) which is arranged concentrically to the annular conductor structure (9).
US09939461B2
An object of the application is to provide a head-integrated for an atomic force microscope capable of realizing minimization of a weight and a volume and improvement of structural stability by optimizing a head structure of the atomic force microscope. Another object of the application is to provide a head-integrated atomic force microscope capable of being utilized for imaging a large-area sample by enabling high-rate head scan due to dynamic characteristics improved by mounting the integrated-head described above. Still another object of the application is to provide a composite microscope including a head-integrated atomic force microscope, capable of performing high-rate position search and imaging and performing precise observation of a three-dimensional shape up to an atomic image level in a region of interest by combining the head-integrated atomic force microscope having the improved dynamic characteristics as described above and an electron microscope or an optical microscope with each other.
US09939459B2
A system for testing a pitot probe heating element includes first and second probes, measuring signals selected from a first signal representing a differential electric current between supply and return wires of the heating element, a second signal representing a residual voltage with respect to ground in the heating element, and a third signal representing ambient electric fields with respect to ground in the heating element; a signal acquisition component that selectively and sequentially applies a test voltage to the heating element to generate the selected signals and receives the selected signals measured by the first and second probes; a signal processing component that receives the selected ones of the first, second, and third signals, processes them, and extracts measurements from the data to generate results indicative of a condition of the heating element; a device control component that generates a display; and a display component.
US09939455B2
A laboratory sample distribution system and to a laboratory automation system comprising a printed circuit board arrangement and a coil are presented. The printed circuit board arrangement and the coil are configured such that assembly and maintenance of the laboratory automation system are greatly simplified.
US09939453B2
Embodiments of the present invention encompass automated systems and methods for analyzing immature platelet parameters in an individual based on a biological sample obtained from blood of the individual. Exemplary techniques involve correlating aspects of direct current (DC) impedance, radiofrequency (RF) conductivity, and/or light measurement data obtained from the biological sample with an evaluation of immature platelet conditions in the individual.
US09939451B2
The present invention relates to a biomarker composition for detecting white matter stroke, the biomarker composition containing a toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), and a medical use using the TLR2. The TLR2 can be used as a biomarker for white matter stroke by defending against ischemic demyelination and oligodendrocyte death, and when targeting the TLR2, ischemic white matter stroke can be treated or prevented.
US09939450B2
This invention relates to a method of predicting progression of an inflammatory condition in a subject, which involves providing a medium comprising hyaluronan or a fragment thereof; contacting the medium with a fluid sample from a subject with an inflammatory condition, where the fluid sample comprises proteins or proteoglycans and a transfer agent; incubating the fluid sample with the medium under conditions effective for the transfer agent in the fluid sample to mediate transfer of heavy chains from the proteins or proteoglycans to the hyaluronan or a fragment thereof to form a complex; detecting, using an antibody, occurrence levels of the complex; and comparing occurrence levels of the complex from said detecting to a reference standard to predict progression of an inflammatory condition in the subject. Also disclosed are methods of tailoring treatment of an inflammatory condition and quantifying local inflammatory activity in a body fluid.
US09939441B2
Provided herein are methods, nucleic acids and kits for detecting a cell proliferative disorder. Also provided herein are genomic sequences of RASSF′-2, the methylation patterns of which have utility for the improved detection of cell proliferative disorders, thereby enabling the improved diagnosis and treatment of patients.
US09939439B2
The invention concerns a microfluidic system (1) comprising: at least one channel (2) for the flow of fluid having an inlet (4), an outlet (5) and a longitudinal axis (7) extending between the inlet (4) and the outlet (5), said channel (2) comprising a capture zone (3), and the cross section of the channel (2) orthogonal to the longitudinal axis (7) of the channel (2) increasing in size in the capture zone (3), from the inlet (4) towards the outlet (5) of the channel (2); and means (6) for applying a magnetic field having a decreasing intensity in the capture zone (3) of the channel (2), from the inlet (4) towards the outlet (5) of the channel. The invention also concerns a method for treating a sample that can be implemented with this system.
US09939430B2
The present invention relates to a method, including a diagnostic method, for characterising platelets. More particularly, the invention relates to methods for characterising platelets by immobilising platelets on a substrate for detection and subsequent characterisation, and to devices on which such a method may be practiced. The method comprises the steps of:—a. contacting a substrate that includes a plurality of discrete platelet-binding zones having a surface area of 7850 μm2 orless with a fluid composition comprising platelets; and b. detecting platelets bound to the platelet-binding zones and thereby characterising platelets.
US09939427B2
Proposed is a method for evaluating the scent performance of perfumes or perfume mixtures, wherein at least one odorants is brought into contact with an olfactory receptor selected from the group consisting of OR1B1, OR2L8, OR4X2, OR4C16, OR5L1, OR8B4, OR8D2, OR10A6, OR10C1, OR12D2, OR524, OR4E2, OR4P4, OR4K2, OR4C3, OR5I1, OR10Q1 and measuring the response of the receptor.
US09939407B2
A method and device for separating ions according to their ion mobility are disclosed. An ion guide is provided having a plurality of electrodes arranged to form an ion guiding path that extends in a closed loop. RF voltages are supplied to at least some of the electrodes in order to confine ions within said ion guiding path. A DC voltage gradient is maintained along at least a portion of a longitudinal axis of said ion guide, wherein the voltage gradient urges ions along the ion guide such that the ions separate according to their ion mobility as the ions pass along the ion guide. As time progresses the portion of the ion guide along which the DC voltage gradient is maintained is moved along the ion guide. An ion exit region is provided which moves around said ion guide such that ions exit said ion guide at different locations at different times. The present invention allows ions to exit the ion guide after the ions have been separated and without having to wait until the ions reach a fixed exit point, by which time the ions may re-merge with other ions.
US09939404B2
A CO sensor includes a solid electrolyte substrate, a sensing electrode, and a reference electrode, and outputs electromotive forces in accordance with CO concentrations. The sensing electrode and the reference electrode are provided on the same surface of the solid electrolyte substrate. The sensing electrode contains a metal oxide such as Bi2O3 that generates a positive electromotive force response when coming into contact with CO. The reference electrode contains a metal oxide such as CeO2 that generates a negative electromotive force response when coming into contact with CO.
US09939381B1
The invention relates to multi-photon excitation microscopy, and in particular to a path planning module and calibration module for three mirror adaptive sampling system configured to automatically generate an optimized RGG mirror scanning path by scanning a Field of View, identifying multiple region of interest targets, and analyzing the targets to generate an optimized path. The invention also relates to methods for maintaining a high frame rate during wide field of view sampling.
US09939380B2
A detection device for simultaneous in-situ measurement of dissolved oxygen at different submerged plant leaf-water interface levels. The detection device includes a dissolved oxygen micro-optrode host. A plurality of detection probes are externally connected to the dissolved oxygen micro-optrode host and can extend out probes. The detection device includes a leaf clamp having an upper clamping head, a lower clamping head, a hinged shaft and a clamping handle. Each of the upper and lower clamping head includes a plurality of water passing cavities penetrating through the back and the front thereof. Each of the upper and lower clamping head includes a plurality of slots horizontally extending inwardly of the corresponding clamping head. The detection device includes a plurality of insertion pieces having a probe groove. The detection probe is locatable in the respective probe groove for fixation. The insertion pieces are insertable and fixable in the slots.
US09939378B2
A system and method for the detection of bacteria on a sample, utilizes spectroscopic analysis of the sample and the fluorescent properties of bacteria or other substance(s) or matter associated with the bacteria to identify the presence of bacteria on the sample. A detector analyses light emitted from the sample in response to illumination. The detector 5 is arranged to analyze the emission spectra across two wavebands, a first waveband containing the wavelengths associated with the fluorescent properties of the bacterial species or other substance or matter to be detected, and a second waveband excluding these wavelengths but also having an overlapping region with the first waveband.
US09939364B2
A type of testing equipment for detecting the failure process of thermal barrier coating in a simulated working environment; it belongs to the field of simulated special working environment equipment. Testing equipment includes testing platform equipped with static or dynamic specimen holding apparatus, simulated module of working environment, real-time detection module, control panel. This invention is capable of simulating a high temperature, erosive, corrosive working environment for thermal barrier coated turbine blade of aero-engines; simulate high speed spinning working environment for thermal coated blade, simulate static working environment for guiding blade; perform real-time testing of temperature field, 3-D displacement field, crack initiation and expansion, surface oxidation, etc. This invention has achieved complete integration of high temperature, erosive, corrosive working environment for thermal barrier coating and complete integration static or dynamic working environment, complete integration of simulated working environment and real-time testing, thus providing a crucial testing platform and reference data to properly understand the failure mechanism of thermal barrier coated blade and to improve relevant designs; strong applicability.
US09939363B2
A method and device for optically detecting particles, including: (a) a cell wall of rectangular cross-section is fitted on a longitudinal surface and adjoining transverse surface with an L-shaped heating and cooling element; (b) the center of the transverse surface of the cell wall opposite the transverse surface which forms the support of the cell wall is irradiated by an irradiation device and is observed at right angles to the optical axis of the irradiation device; (c) the focus of the irradiation device and the observation device can be moved by a motor to any point in the three-dimensional inner region defined by the cell wall; (d) the surface of the cell wall opposite the optical glass window through which the radiation from the irradiation device enters comprises another optical glass window; (e) the temperature of the surface of the cell wall is monitored by two thermistors.
US09939357B2
A cartridge for holding and dispensing streaking applicators for an automated streaking apparatus having a cartridge holder, the cartridge including: a case with a dispensing end, a longitudinal axis and an elongate slot generally parallel to the longitudinal axis, the dispensing end including an applicator dispensing position where one applicator can be at least partially accessible from outside the case; and an applicator support member constrained within the case for longitudinal movement therein and being able to carry a stack of applicators; the elongate slot being capable of operatively receiving a biasing member when the cartridge is in the cartridge holder to urge the support member towards the dispensing end and an applicator into the dispensing position.
US09939352B2
A method and system are provided for detecting the concentration of an analyte in a fluid sample. The method and system involve analysis of a volatilized, ionized fluid sample using a mass spectrometer or other ionic analyte detection device that provides a signal proportional in intensity to the quantity of ionized analyte detected. The improvement involves replacement of a necessary non-analyte component in the fluid sample with a substitute component that serves the same purpose as the original component but is either more volatile than the original component and/or the analyte or undergoes a reaction to provide lower molecular weight reaction products, and results in an increased intensity in signal and signal-to-noise ratio. Acoustic fluid ejection is a preferred method of generating nanoliter-sized droplets of fluid sample that are then volatilized, ionized, and analyzed. Also provided are zwitterionic compounds suitable as the substitute components that when ionized and heated decompose to provide carbonic dioxide, a nitrogenous species such as ammonia, an amine, or nitrogen gas, and a volatile aromatic compound.
US09939350B2
A device for exposing sample bodies to a fluid. The sample bodies have an active surface section that defines a measuring plane. The device includes a container, a sample body holder, and an agitating element. The container, which extends along a longitudinal axis, has an inlet, an outlet, a closed side wall, which extends along the longitudinal axis, and first and second end faces that extend transverse to the longitudinal axis. The sample body holder extends transverse to the longitudinal axis and holds at least one sample body so that its measuring plane extends perpendicular to the longitudinal axis in a first sample plane its active surface section faces away from the first end face. The agitating element driven in a rotating manner in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and is arranged on the side facing away from the first end face of the first sample plane.
US09939347B2
Disclosed embodiments include a distributed nondestructive inspection method and system for slickline cable structural defect and mechanical strength degradation inspection. One method may include transmitting a light pulse along an optical fiber embedded in a slickline cable. A reflected light signal is received from the optical fiber in response to the local strain induced refractive index variation. Defects and mechanical strength degradation may be determined by time-dependent time-domain and frequency-domain data analyses of the dynamic strain signals and power spectral density variation as a function of time and cable location.
US09939344B2
Technologies for detecting leaks in a fluid distribution system are described herein. Historical leak detection information is received from a sensor in the fluid distribution system and collected in a database. A baseline is determined from the historical leak information. Current leak detection information is then received from the sensor and the probability of a leak in the fluid distribution system is determined based on a difference between the current leak detection information and the baseline.
US09939343B2
Systems and methods of detecting and identifying a leak from a container or building. Acoustic pressure and velocity are measured. Acoustic properties are acquired from the measured values. The acoustic properties are converted to infiltration/leakage information. Nearfield Acoustic Holography (NAH) may be one method to detect the leakages from a container by locating the noise sources.
US09939338B2
A pressure sensing device may include a body configured to distribute a load applied between first and second parts positioned one against the other, and a pressure sensor carried by the body. The pressure sensor may include a support body, and an IC die mounted with the support body and defining a cavity. The IC die may include pressure sensing circuitry responsive to bending associated with the cavity, and an IC interface coupled to the pressure sensing circuitry.
US09939333B2
The invention comprises systems and methods for evaluating changes in the operational efficiency of an HVAC system over time. The climate control system obtains temperature measurements from at least a first location conditioned by the climate system, and status of said HVAC system. One or more processors receives measurements of outside temperatures from at least one source other than said HVAC system and compares said temperature measurements from said first location with expected temperature measurements. The expected temperature measurements are based at least in part upon past temperature measurements.
US09939330B2
A semiconductor device that may include at least one temperature sensing circuit is disclosed. The temperature sensing circuits may be used to control various operating parameters to improve the operation of the semiconductor device over a wide temperature range. In this way, operating specifications of a semiconductor device at worst case temperatures may be met without compromising performance at other operating temperatures. The temperature sensing circuit may provide a plurality of temperature ranges for setting the operational parameters. Each temperature range can include a temperature range upper limit value and a temperature range lower limit value and adjacent temperature ranges may overlap. The temperature ranges may be set in accordance with a count value that can incrementally change in response to the at least one temperature sensing circuit.
US09939326B2
A system for determining when an electrical contact or other component reaches a predetermined temperature. In operation, a trace material is dispersed into a surrounding environment (e.g., head space within a compartment above insulating oil), where the trace material is detected. A barrier may be ruptured or broken by temperature-induced gas pressure, or pierced by a spring-loaded member that is located within the same section that contains the trace material, and devices may be provided for moving the trace material through the foil barrier as the barrier is ruptured. The barrier may be opened solely by internal gas pressure. According to another embodiment, improved fail-safe operation may be achieved by providing a spring-loaded member and configuring the barrier to be ruptured by the pressure of the detectable gas material before the barrier is ruptured by the spring-loaded member.
US09939325B2
A thermal sensor comprises a converter circuit, a counting circuit, and a ratio calculator. The converter circuit is configured to convert a temperature-independent signal into a first frequency signal, and to convert a temperature-dependent signal into a second frequency signal. The counting circuit is configured to receive at least one of the first frequency signal and the second frequency signal, to count a predetermined number of pulses of the first frequency signal, and to count a number of pulses of the second frequency signal for a time period corresponding to the counting of the predetermined number of pulses of the first frequency signal. The ratio calculator is configured to calculate a ratio based on the predetermined number of pulses of the first frequency signal and the counted number of pulses of the second frequency signal.
US09939321B2
A hyperspectral optical element for monolithic detectors is provided. In one embodiment, for example a hyperspectral optical element includes a faceplate layer adapted to be mounted on top of a monolithic detector. The faceplate layer comprises a reflective inner surface. A notched layer includes a plurality of notched surfaces and is mounted to the faceplate layer. The notched surfaces oppose the reflective inner surface of the faceplate and define a plurality of variable depth cavities between the reflective inner surface of the faceplate layer and the plurality of notched surfaces of the notched layer. The faceplate layer and the notched layer are substantially transparent to a received signal and the plurality of variable depth cavities provides resonant cavities for one or more wavelengths of the received signal.
US09939315B2
A sensor with integrated mechanical transducing and temperature monitoring capability is provided. The sensor includes housing containing a transducer, a temperature sensor with associated bias, a summing circuit, and a two-wire cable connector. The transducer is operable to output a dynamic transducer waveform that corresponds to dynamic mechanical perturbations sensed by the transducer. The temperature sensor is operable to output a quasi-static temperature waveform that corresponds to temperatures sensed by the temperature sensor. The summing circuit is operable to combine the transducer waveform and the temperature waveform into a composite modulated voltage bias output signal or a modulated current bias output signal. The two-wire cable connector is accessible on an outside of the housing and is connectable to a two wire cable that delivers power to the sensor from a power source and delivers the composite output signal from the sensor to a remote data acquisition circuit.
US09939304B2
A measuring spoon device includes a rear shaft with a tapered end portion, elongated apertures, guide grooves, a rear connector section; a divider section with apertures; slidable spoon assemblies with push members, including finger button protrusions, and measuring spoons, including spoon portions and spoon stems; and a front cylindrical section; such that the measuring spoons can be retracted for storage inside the front cylindrical section, and can be extracted for use in measuring a plurality of seasonings.
US09939289B1
A method and system may provide speed limit data to users driving in vehicles. A user's client device such as a smart-phone, smart watch, or tablet computer, may provide visual, audible, and/or haptic alerts to the user when the user exceeds a posted speed limit by more than a threshold amount. For example, when the user exceeds the posted speed limit by more than the threshold amount, the user's smart-phone may play a beeping sound and may announce the posted speed limit to the user. A map of a geographic area including the user's travelled route may also be displayed, with annotated areas along the route where the user exceeded the posted speed limit. The map may also include an indication of a proportion of a duration or distance of the route in which the user travelled above the posted speed limit.
US09939286B2
A method and an apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a controller to process a travel assistance request for communication through a satellite and terrestrial mobile communication network. Data related to multiple assistance providers can be received in response to the request. At least one criterion can be processed for the assistance providers based on, for example, historical trip data. The assistance providers can be graphically represented for user selection based on the criterion. Data related to a selected assistance provider can be displayed, including navigation data to and/or from the assistance provider. In another embodiment, the travel assistance request can be communicated to a service center through the network. The service center can communicate data related to an assistance provider, including navigation data to and/or from the assistance provider. A rating of the assistance provider can be communicated to a specified community-of-interest through the network.
US09939285B2
A navigation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: map display means that displays a map on the basis of map data in a database that stores the map data, facility type information about the type of the facility and facility information about the facility; route guidance means that searches for a guide route from the current position of a navigation apparatus to a specified destination on the basis of the map data and performs route guidance; selection means that searches the database for a facility to be displayed on the map on the basis of selection conditions defined by the facility type information, the travelling direction of the navigation apparatus and a distance from the guide route to the facility; and display control means that controls the map display means so that the map display means displays the obtained facility along with its facility information on the map.
US09939283B2
When an instruction to start a setting operation for a destination is provided by a user during a period in which a navigation server is not available for a mobile device while a navigation function, which uses the navigation server providing distribution function of map data and route search function, of the mobile device is being utilized in a navigation device, the navigation function provided in the navigation device itself is activated and is caused to perform destination setting operation.
US09939282B2
A computer generates a navigation profile corresponding to a user by identifying one or more user preferences within an associated social media network. The computer receives a user input identifying a starting location and a destination, from which the computer identifies one or more potential routes between the starting location and destination. The computer generates one or more route profiles corresponding to the one or more potential routes detailing one or more characteristics associated with each of the potential routes. The computer then compares the navigation profile associated with the user to the route profiles associated with the one or more potential routes and, based on the comparison, determines an optimal route of the one or more potential routes.
US09939278B2
Disclosed are a method, system, and recording medium for connecting a public transportation route service and a map service. A map providing method includes providing a mode switching function at a first service that provides a public transportation map and a second service that provides a road map, and switching a service mode to the public transportation map or the road map through interconnection between the first service and the second service in response to executing the mode switching function.
US09939245B1
A gauge for checking tolerances of a bent tube includes a gauge block having a channel in which the tube is placed for checking. Viewing windows in the side of the gauge block permit the bottom of the tube to be viewed within the channel. The viewing windows are sized to match a preselected tolerance.
US09939238B1
A projectile incorporates one or more spoiler-tabbed spinning disks to effect flow around the projectile and thus impart steering forces and/or moments. The spoiler tabs may be deployed only during steering phases of travel thus minimizing the drag penalty associated with steering systems. The disks are driven by motors and informed and controlled by sensors and electronic control systems. The spoiler tabs protrude through the surface of the projectile only for certain angles of spin of the spinning disk. For spin-stabilized projectiles, the disks spin at substantially the same rate as the projectile, but the disks may function in fin-stabilized projectiles as well. Any number of such spinning flow effector disks may be incorporated in a projectile, with the manner of functional coordination differing slightly for even and odd numbers of disks.
US09939234B1
A real-life target is hit with a virtual bullet or projectile using GPS-enabled or otherwise location aware devices which report their location. Real world information is taken into account, such as the terrain, elevation, weather, and line of sight, to determine if the virtual bullet hits the real-life target. Virtual information is also taken into account, such as which weapon is selected and what its distance and accuracy are. Further, information about the shooter is taken into account, such as his/her accuracy, how tired he/she is (based on recent travel distance and velocity), and how steady the GPS-enabled device is being held. Thus, a simulation which mirrors reality is made, allowing people to play a more realistic type of a virtual action with each other.
US09939229B2
A gun scope is provided having a battery compartment. The battery compartment may be configured to house one or more batteries to provide electronic power to one or more electronic components associated with the gun scope. The battery compartment is associated with a rotatable component, such as a magnifying ring, and configured to rotate with the rotatable component about an axis. In one embodiment, the battery component may be integrally formed with the rotatable component. In another embodiment, the battery component may be formed as a separate component and coupled with the rotatable component. The battery compartment extends radially outward from the rotatable component and provides a lever for rotation of the rotatable component about its axis of rotation.
US09939226B2
This application is directed to a firearm that is functional, but is not fully functional as it is incapable of discharging ammunition, e.g., causing ammunition to ignite and discharge a bullet. Related methods, techniques, and approaches are also discussed. In embodiments, the firearm is functional, but not fully functional and it is impractical and/or irreversible to alter the firearm to make it fully functional through replacement of interchangeable parts that correspond to that particular firearm model. In embodiments, the firearm is also identifiable as being less than fully functional, e.g., it is incapable of discharging ammunition.
US09939223B1
A barrel has a barrel body that extends a barrel length and a bore extending through the barrel body. The bore has a cartridge chamber section and a rifled section with a bore diameter. A cartridge shell fits within the cartridge chamber section and the projectile extends from the cartridge chamber section into the rifled section. The cartridge shell with the projectile has a shell length within the bore, the barrel length is less than twice the shell length. The rifled section has rifling grooves between rifling lands, and each of the rifling lands has a land width. The groove diameter is greater than the land diameter by an amount that is more than one half of the land width. The barrel body has an extractor assembly with an arm retractably extending from a cavity. The arm can rotate in the cavity when extended and does not rotate when retracted.
US09939221B2
A trigger activated arm may use engagement of an integrated gun bolt cam with an integrated trigger cam to reposition the trigger as the gun bolt reciprocates. The gun bolt trigger engagement may be used to reset the trigger.
US09939218B2
The present invention is an automatic firearm magazine loader that has an elevated hopper system, a loading system, and a mechanism for compressing a firearm magazine comprising a spring mechanism. The firearm magazine is compressible upon compression of the spring mechanism. The loading system facilitates the loading of a firearm ammunition into the firearm magazine upon the compression of the firearm magazine, and the compression of the firearm magazine is motor driven. The device is an automatic firearm magazine loader for a designated number of rounds of ammunition. The design consists of a user interface used to select the preferred number of rounds of ammunition to load, a hopper system which feeds individual rounds of ammunition in a set orientation, and a loading system which loads the individual rounds of ammunition into a firearm magazine.
US09939215B2
An automated cleaning system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an X-Y positioning system configured to position a lance guide relative to an element to be cleaned. The X-Y positioning system is remotely operated. The system further includes a lance in communication with the lance guide, a drive system configured to drive the lance relative to the element to be cleaned, and a reel configured to manage a slack in the lance.
US09939214B2
Provided is an inexpensive scrape-off type heat exchanger that is simple in construction, eliminating the need for using a pump for forcibly feeding the process fluid. With the scrape-off type heat exchanger (1), when a suction delivery element (30) which is rotated, while making a reciprocating motion, being closely contacted with an inner wall (200) of the heat transfer tube (20), is traveled from the process fluid inlet part (21) side toward a process fluid outlet part (22), the process fluid is sucked from a process fluid inlet part (21) into the inside of the heat transfer tube (20), and at the same time, the process fluid, which has already been sucked in, passed through the suction delivery element (30), and discharged to the process fluid outlet part (22) side, through the check valves 310, 320, is forced out to the process fluid outlet part (22). In the inside of the heat transfer tube (20), the process fluid is subjected to heat exchange with a heating/cooling medium which flows in between the jacket tube 10 and the heat transfer tube (20). The process fluid attached to the inner wall (200) of the heat transfer tube (20) is scraped off while the scraping part (33) being rotated.
US09939205B2
A heat dissipater having capillary component includes: a heat spreader including a shell member having at least one through hole and a first capillary structure disposed in the shell member; a heat pipe, received in the through hole and including a pipe member and a second capillary structure disposed in the pipe member. The pipe member includes an opening formed in the shell member; and a capillary component, accommodated in the shell member and including a block member extended with a protruding part and arranged adjacent to the first capillary structure. The protruding part is received in the opening and arranged adjacent to the second capillary structure. Accordingly, the heat pipe and the heat spreader can be combined for operation, and an internal working fluid can flow between the heat pipe and the heat spreader.
US09939197B2
Feeding a slurry comprising inert solids, liquid hydrocarbons, liquid water and sometimes dissolves solids to a unit having a casing defining a thermal extraction chamber heated both directly and indirectly in which first and second intermeshing screws rotate, the screws in close tolerance with each other and with inside casing surfaces. The casing and screws define a tortuous flow path in which the slurry and a vaporous composition evolved therefrom flow. The intermeshing screws push the slurry toward a discharge end of the chamber at a first velocity while reducing pressure and increasing temperature in the chamber, while rotating the screws to create turbulent vacuum thermal conditions in the chamber to physically transform some or all of the slurry into the vaporous composition. The vaporous composition traverses the tortuous flow path with a second velocity at least 1.5 times the first velocity, optionally forming a heated, substantially dry, composition comprising the inert solids.
US09939195B2
A process and an apparatus are disclosed for a compact processing assembly to recover ethane, ethylene, and heavier hydrocarbon components from a hydrocarbon gas stream. The gas stream is cooled and divided into first and second streams. The first stream is further cooled, expanded to lower pressure, and supplied as a feed between two absorbing means. The second stream is expanded to lower pressure and supplied as a bottom feed to the lower absorbing means. A distillation liquid stream from the bottom of the lower absorbing means is heated in a heat and mass transfer means to strip out its volatile components. A distillation vapor stream from the top of the heat and mass transfer means is cooled by a distillation vapor stream from the top of the upper absorbing means, thereby forming a condensed stream that is supplied as a top feed to the upper absorbing means.
US09939187B2
A refrigerator comprises: a cabinet including a refrigerator compartment, and a freezer compartment provided; a refrigerator compartment door rotationally connected to the front side of the cabinet to open/close the refrigerator compartment; an ice bank which is provided to the ice compartment and stores ice; an icemaker which comprises an upper tray forming a hemispherical upper cell, a lower tray forming a hemispherical lower cell, and a rotating shaft for rotating the lower tray, and which is provided in the freezer compartment; and an ice transfer device for transferring the ice collected in the ice collector to the ice bank along the ice transfer duct, wherein the ice transfer device can include: a transfer cable; a pusher connected to an end of the transfer cable; and a transfer case for accommodating the transfer cable which is wound.
US09939185B2
A refrigeration system includes a compressor, a condenser, a receiver, an expansion device, and an evaporator in fluid communication with one another. An electronic condenser pressure control valve is in fluid communication with an outlet of the condenser and operative to control a condition at the outlet of the condenser. A controller is operatively coupled to the electronic condenser pressure control valve, the controller including logic configured to operate the electronic condenser pressure control valve to dynamically float the discharge pressure at the condenser outlet based on at least one of one or more system conditions or one or more ambient condition.
US09939183B2
A device to mount plural number of condenser sections, including respective condenser sections of an inflow conduit flowing into coolant therein, an outflow conduit flowing out of coolant therefrom, a connection tube communicating between the inflow conduit and the outflow conduit, and plural number of condenser tubes for connecting the inflow conduit and the outflow conduit and fins attached to the condenser tube. The plural number of the condenser sections are mounted every inflow conduits and every outflow conduits directing to the same direction, leeward side positioned outflow conduits of the condenser sections and windward side positioned inflow conduits of the condenser sections being connecting the connection tube, with series connection, thereby coolant within the condenser tubes of the plural number of the condenser sections flows in the same direction.
US09939182B2
A liquefier for a heat pump includes a liquefier space, a compressor motor and a motor fixture for holding the stationary motor part, wherein the motor further has a motor shaft and a compressor wheel connected to the motor shaft. The motor fixture is formed so that the stationary motor part is held so that it is in contact with liquefied working fluid when liquefied working fluid is filled in the liquefier space. Furthermore, the compressor wheel extends into a region of the heat pump in which a channel for gaseous working fluid to be compressed passes.
US09939177B2
The present invention relates to apparatus and methods to provide a control system for the purpose of redirecting light from a source onto a target. The present invention appreciates that the optical properties of light that is both modified and/or distributed, e.g. by diffraction, diffusion, or some other process, and also redirected by a heliostat, can be a function of how the light redirecting element is aimed. This means that the aim of the light redirecting element can be precisely determined once the aim of the modified and/or distributed light is known. Advantageously, the characteristics of modified and/or distributed light indicative of how that light is aimed can be determined from locations outside the zone of concentrated illumination in which sensors are at undue risk. This, in turn, means that modified and/or distributed light characteristics can be detected at a safe location, and this information can then be used to help precisely aim the light redirecting element onto the desired target, such as a receiver in a CSP system. The aim of the modified and/or distributed light is thus an accurate proxy for the light beam to be aimed at the receiver.
US09939169B2
In exemplary embodiments, methods for operating driving controls for communicating motors are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes controlling a transmit circuit of the driving control to generate an expected transmit signal for sending to the communicating motor, and detecting, using a transmit sense circuit in the driving control, the actual resulting signal generated by the transmit circuit signal before the actual resulting signal leaves the driving control and is transmitted to the communicating motor. The method also includes analyzing the detected signal to verify whether the transmit circuit in the driving control is working properly, by comparing the expected transmit signal to the detected actual resulting signal. Exemplary methods are also disclosed of analyzing receive circuits of driving controls to verify whether the receive circuits are working properly.
US09939167B2
A user interface for an HVAC controller includes an electronic display and a proximity sensor for sensing a position of a user relative to the electronic display. A display controller is operably coupled to the electronic display and the proximity sensor and is configured to display one or more display elements on the electronic display. In some embodiments, a location of one or more of the display elements on the electronic display may be based, at least in part, on the position of the user sensed by the proximity sensor. In some embodiments, a size of one or more of the display elements on the electronic display may be based, at least in part, on the position of the user sensed by the proximity sensor.
US09939162B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) boiler controller is described herein. One HVAC boiler controller includes a memory and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive a weather forecast for an area in which the boiler of the HVAC system is located, receive a current outdoor temperature, determine a set point of the boiler based, at least in part, on the received weather forecast and the received current outdoor temperature, and adjust the set point of the boiler to the determined set point.
US09939159B2
A cooking appliance includes a cavity to define a cooking chamber, a door to open and close the cooking chamber, a partition plate to partition the cavity into a first chamber and a second chamber, the partition plate facing the door in the closed state, wherein the door closes the first chamber, a burner provided in the second chamber to burn gas, thereby generating flame, and a fan provided in the second chamber to allow heated air to flow.
US09939157B2
A fuel nozzle apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes: a first pilot fuel injector disposed on a centerline axis of the fuel nozzle which defines a direction of air flow through the fuel nozzle, the first pilot fuel injector being of a pressure atomizing type; an annular second pilot fuel injector at least partially surrounding the first pilot fuel injector, the second pilot fuel injector being of an air blast type and having a fuel outlet disposed axially downstream and radially outboard of the first pilot fuel injector; an annular venturi surrounding the first and second pilot fuel injectors, the venturi including a throat of minimum diameter; an array of inner swirl vanes extending between the first pilot fuel injector and the second pilot fuel injector; and an array of outer swirl vanes extending between the second pilot fuel injector and the venturi.
US09939148B2
An emergency lighting apparatus comprises an elongate substrate adapted to pivot and hang from a door knob like a lever and define a handhold in a first end and support a motion sensor and a light array at a second end. The emergency lighting apparatus also includes a motion detecting lighting device comprising the motion sensor and the light array. A method is disclosed for hanging the elongate substrate on the door knob via the handhold for egress lighting and removing the elongate substrate from the door knob for use as a flashlight via the handhold.
US09939144B2
A light emitting module includes a module body, a light source unit, a plurality of heat dissipation fins, an air hole formed through the module body for allowing air to flow therethrough, an air guide unit formed at an edge of the air hole such that the air guide unit communicates with the air hole to guide air, and an optical cover covering the light source unit. The optical cover has a cover hole at a location corresponding to the air hole. The optical cover includes an inner partition wall located around a periphery of the cover hole and extending into the module body at the periphery of the air hole. The optical cover also includes an outer partition wall located at a periphery of the optical cover and defining a closed space in which the light source unit is located, the outer partition wall extending into the module body.
US09939143B2
An integrated ceiling device (80, 120) includes an electronics assembly (56) and a mechanical arrangement (20). The mechanical arrangement includes a housing (22), a heat dissipating structure (24), and support arms (26). The housing is configured to retain the electronics assembly. The heat dissipating structure includes a lamp seat (50) for receiving a light source (54), and a central opening (34) surrounded by fins (36). The support arms extend between and interconnect the housing with the heat dissipating structure. The housing is positioned within the central opening and is spaced apart from the fins of the heat dissipating structure to enable a free flow of air in an air gap (42) between the housing (22) and the structure (24). The electronics assembly may include a plurality of elements (160, 162, 164, 166) retained in the housing which are spaced apart from the heat dissipating structure.
US09939139B2
A method and system for a passive headset with dynamically controlled LEDs, where the method comprises, in a passive headset comprising speakers, light emitting diodes (LEDs), and LED driver circuitry: receiving an electrical signal that includes an audio signal and an LED control signal, filtering out the LED control signal from the received electrical signal and communicating a resulting output audio signal to the speakers, filtering out the audio signal from the received electrical signal and communicating a resulting output LED control signal to the LED driver circuitry, generating a bias voltage for each of the one or more LEDs utilizing the LED driver circuitry and the output LED control signal, and configuring a light output of the LED utilizing the generated bias voltage. The amplifier may include a mixer that sums an audio signal with a control signal.
US09939130B2
A marker system includes: a first marker; and a second marker; wherein the first marker and the second marker are configured to emit light from one or more light sources coupled to the first marker and the second marker; and wherein the first marker and the second marker are configured to emit the light for detection by a camera. A method performed using a marker system includes: generating light using one or more light sources; emitting the light at a plurality of markers that are coupled to the light sources; and detecting the light emitted from the plurality of markers using a camera; wherein the act of detecting comprises using one or more filters to reduce ambient light to a level that corresponds with a noise level of the camera while allowing light emitted from the markers to be imaged by the camera.
US09939125B2
An LED module is formed using a method of mounting secondary lens arrays over light-emitting diode arrays on a printed circuit board. In the LED module, a lens array assembly is mounted to a printed circuit board. The lens array assembly comprises a silicone free form lens array which is mounted in a lens holder by aligning markings on the lens holder with markings on the free form lens array. The lens array assembly is correctly positioned, in an x-y plane, on the printed circuit board by the engagement of positioning pins formed on a surface of the free form lens array with corresponding recesses formed in the printed circuit board and is retained in the correct position by clips integrally formed with the lens holder. The positioning pins are shaped to allow for thermal changes due to the operating temperature range of the LED module.
US09939119B2
An accent lamp (10) having a solid state light source (4), such as LEDs, is attachable to a rear surface of an automotive headlamp (40) opposite the light-generating capsule (44). Accent lamp (10) has first retaining member (20), such as a clamp, formed above printed circuit board (8) on which LED (4) is mounted. Headlamp base (60) defines light passageway (45), formed as a light guide (42), extending from outermost peripheral surface (63) to an upper surface (61) on which lamp capsule (44) is retained. Accent lamp (10) is readily detachably mounted to headlamp (40), preferably by resilient first and second retaining members (20, 24), and, when mounted, can be biased to promote optical coupling of light source (4) to light guide (42).
US09939116B2
An LED illumination device capable of disassembling, assembling and combining modules and slidably adjusting locations of modules, and corresponding control method for LED modules. The illumination device comprises a housing and LED modules. At least one slideway is arranged in the housing. The LED modules are removably arranged in any location in any slideways, the device can quickly realize multiple illumination solutions of changing luminance and illuminant colors, so that the LED illumination device can be conveniently applied to various operating environments and can be freely converted in the solutions of applying to various operating environments. Moreover, the control method for the LED modules can implement flexible and varied control on each LED module via an electrode orbit so that the LED illumination device can realize multiple preset illumination solutions, thereby achieving a landscape illumination effect.
US09939113B2
A method of forming a drag reducing polymer formulation. The method begins by forming a drag reducing polymer. A hydrocarbon additive is then incorporated with the drag reducing polymer to form a drag reducing polymer formulation. The drag reducing polymer formulation is then used as a drag reducer in hydrocarbon pipelines.
US09939110B2
A method of transporting natural gas by liquefaction of natural gas at ambient temperature, achieved by mixing the natural gas at high pressure with a hydrocarbon that is a stable liquid at ambient temperature and ambient pressure. The hydrocarbon liquid may be crude oil or a distillate of crude oil. The method includes: liquefaction: mixing the natural gas with the hydrocarbon liquid at an ambient temperature and a high pressure to generate a liquid mixture, which contains the natural gas dissolved in the hydrocarbon liquid; shipping: transporting the liquid mixture using a marine tanker, during which the liquid mixture is maintained at ambient temperature and the high pressure; and regasification: at the destination, releasing a gas from the liquid mixture by lowering the pressure of the liquid mixture. The hydrocarbon liquid may be used multiple times.
US09939106B2
A portable terminal holder includes a supporting part, a plug, and a holding part. The supporting part includes a bottom part and a back part, where the back part bends and extends from an edge of the bottom part, the bottom part is configured to bear a frame of a portable terminal, and the back part is configured to bear a back of the portable terminal. The plug bends and extends from the bottom part, the plug and the back part extend in a same direction relative to the bottom part, a spacing is provided between the plug and the back part, the plug is configured to be inserted into a socket provided on the frame of the portable terminal, and the plug and the supporting part jointly position the portable terminal.
US09939105B1
Embodiments of overhead mounting systems are described herein. Various embodiments may include a channel, one or more covers, and one or more cover spacers. The channel may include a channel base, at least two channel walls, and at least two channel ends. The channel walls may be connected perpendicularly to the channel base such that the channel is u-shaped. The channel walls may each comprise a plurality of channel wall openings. The covers may include a cover base, at least two cover walls, and at least two cover ends. The cover walls may each include one or more inward protrusions. The cover ends may be concaved along the cover base such that a cover base length is less than a cover wall length. The cover ends may be concaved along one or more of the cover walls.
US09939092B2
A clamp with a clamp band and a mounting element which is connected to the clamp band. In a clamp band of the above-described type, this object is met by connecting the mounting element to the clamp band with a clinch connection. The clinch connection may have a polygonal cross-section. The clamp band and the mounting element may be formed of different materials at least in areas where they contact each other.
US09939091B2
A pipe clamp includes a first jaw pivotally connected to a second jaw, each jaw having a connection flange at each of its ends, in which the flanges at the pivoting end of the jaws are provided with a first locking mechanism and the flanges of the jaws distal from the pivoting end provided with second and third locking mechanisms. The second and third locking mechanisms are shaped such that, when they are in place, the combined width of the second and third locking mechanisms is less than twice the width of their widest crossways section in the same plane when not in place.
US09939088B2
A flexible pipe body configured for offshore use or a flexible pipe precursor, and a method of preparing a flexible pipe are disclosed. The pipe body or precursor includes a sacrificial layer which is, at least partially, removable on contact with a solvent medium such as an aqueous solvent, in particular water.
US09939082B2
A solenoid valve has a housing defining a first axis and second axis, a solenoid which produces a magnetic field along the first axis, a valve shaft movable between a first position and a second position along the second axis, and a manifold mounted to the housing. The valve shaft is biased toward the first position by a spring and mechanical forces sufficient to overcome the force of the spring are transferred from the solenoid to the shaft by a lever to displace the shaft to its second position. A poppet seal affixed to the shaft, which interacts with a portion of the housing to close an outlet port in the housing, and a spool seal, also affixed to the shaft which interacts with a wall of the manifold defining an exhaust port to route fluid to the desired port. An electronic circuit controls delivery of current to the solenoid to shift and hold the shaft in the second position.
US09939080B2
A system, including a flow control system, including a valve, a first cylinder including a piston coupled to the valve, wherein the piston moves axially within the first cylinder to transition the valve between open and closed positions, a magnetorheological (MR) fluid within the first cylinder configured to axially move the piston, and an MR fluid device configured to magnetize the MR fluid to control axial movement of the piston.
US09939078B2
Shut-off valve for liquid or gaseous media including a valve housing having at least one passage opening connecting an inlet opening to an outlet opening, a valve seat arranged on the valve housing and surrounding the passage hole and can be closed by a valve closing element lying directly in contact, which are arranged in a control chamber formed in the valve housing between the inlet opening and the outlet opening, a drive, which can be connected to the valve housing and which actuates the valve closing element to open or close the passage hole, and a restoring element, which acts against a closing or opening motion of the valve closing element, wherein the drive has at least one setting element of a shape-memory alloy to actuate the opening or closing motion of the valve closing element, and the drive is separated from the control chamber by a sealing element.
US09939076B2
Valve actuators include a control system and at least one human-machine interface device. Human-machine interface devices include at least one wireless input device operable by a user and at least one sensor configured to sense a force applied to the at least one wireless input device by the user. Valve systems may include such valve actuators. Methods of operating a control system of a valve actuator include sensing a force applied to at least one wireless input device and wirelessly transmitting an electronic signal in response to the applied force.
US09939074B2
Secured debug of an integrated circuit having a test operation mode and a secure mission operation mode. The integrated circuit has a processing unit, a test interface through which the test operation mode is controllable, an on-chip memory which is accessible in the test operation mode and in the secure mission operation mode, and one or more protected resources inaccessible in the test operation mode. The processing unit is configured, in the test operation mode, to receive an authenticated object through the test interface, and store the received authenticated object in the on-chip memory. The processing unit is moreover configured, upon reset into the secure mission operation mode, to execute a boot procedure to determine that the authenticated object is available in the on-chip memory, authenticate the authenticated object, and—upon successful authentication—render the more protected resources accessible to a debug host external to the integrated circuit.
US09939070B2
A ball valve (1) has a blocking element (3) movably guided in a fluid passage of a valve housing (2) and movable by an actuating device (4) from a pass-through position connecting at least two connecting points (5) to one another in the valve housing (2) into a blocking position interrupting this connection, and vice versa. A sealing device has at least one sealing ring which, together with its central opening, comprises the fluid passage (6) and seals the fluid passage along at least one sealing gap. The ring profile of the sealing ring has a ring opening that interrupts this profile such that the sealing ring changes from an initial shape to an installation and different shape that seals the sealing gap with a predefinable pretension having an increased sealing force effect.
US09939068B2
Fluid control apparatus having flow restrictors are described herein. An example actuator includes an actuator housing having an actuator to define a first chamber of the actuator housing and a second chamber of the actuator housing. A loading fluid pathway is formed in the actuator housing to fluidly couple a loading fluid and the first chamber. A restrictor is positioned within the loading fluid pathway to regulate a flow rate of the loading fluid that is to flow from an inlet port of the loading fluid pathway to the first chamber.
US09939067B2
A mechanical seal comprising an elastomeric modified O-ring in combination backup rings typically made of a low friction material such as Teflon with matching surfaces to modified O-ring surface to provide low dynamic friction and meantime prevent seal extrusion due to high pressures and temperatures.
US09939054B2
An embodiment is an electromechanical door latch system including a latch device configured for motion between a latched position and an unlatched position. A manually actuated mechanical apparatus is coupled to the latch device and configured to move the latch device to the unlatched position in response to force applied by a user to a component of the mechanical apparatus. An electromechanical actuator system moves the latch device to an actuator unlatched position in response to an electrical signal from an access control device. The electromechanical actuator system includes a control module, a motor, and a ball screw drive including a ball screw or threaded nut, with one coupled to the motor shaft and the other configured for connection to a latch mechanism, and at least one recirculating ball circuit including ball bearings for transferring torque from the motor to the ball screw drive.
US09939053B2
A robot arm capable of being driven with a small force while having an enhanced rigidity includes a joint unit formed by stacking a plurality of link modules up against each other, and at least one driving device allowing the joint unit to pivot along at least one axis, wherein the driving device includes a cable disposed to pass through the plurality of link modules a plurality of times, a plurality of multi-turn pulleys configured to change a path of the cable when the cable passes therethrough, such that the cable passes through the plurality of link modules, and a driving unit configured to pull or push the cable such that the joint unit pivots.
US09939049B2
A speed change device is provided, including: an outer ring part, an interior thereof including at least one outer gear; a spindle, coaxially pivoted to the outer ring part with the at least one outer gear, having a central axis, an outer circumference of the spindle having a plurality of cam assembling portions; a plurality of cam parts, respectively disassemblably assembled to the plurality of cam assembling portions, synchronizingly rotating with the spindle, at least two of the plurality of cam parts having a phase difference of angle which is larger than zero degree; a plurality of inner gears, being rigid, respectively sleeved on the plurality of cam parts and being non-rotatable with the plurality of the cam parts, respectively meshed with the at least one outer gear.
US09939047B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is provided. Nine or more forward speeds and one or more reverse speed are achieved by a planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle including an input shaft, an output shaft, four planetary gear sets respectively having three rotational elements, and six control elements to selectively connect the rotational elements and a transmission housing.
US09939042B1
A device for isolating vibration and motion which may be used to dampen or isolate vibrations and motion from heating, ventilation, air conditioning, mechanical and/or electro-mechanical equipment to reduce or eliminate the deleterious effects of vibration, movement and excessive noise created by the equipment. The device includes one or more pairs of vertical limiters, one or more springs, a pair of and at least two flanges. The frame members are each in a fixed relation to at least one vertical limiter which has a slot therein wherein the vertical limiters each have a respective engagement portion/cross beam which is partially passed through the opposing vertical limiters slot such that the vertical limiter pair allows the flanges each to move in toward or away from each other, but wherein the vertical limiters function as to prevent twisting or sliding of the flanges with respect to each other. The spring assemblies and vertical limiters receive and diminish the undesirable phenomena created by the equipment or other sources of vibrations or motion.
US09939037B2
A leaf spring frame member (50) comprises: a plurality of leaf spring product parts (11A) each of which includes an outer frame part (11a), an inner frame part (11b) and spring parts (11c); and a support frame (51) which is arranged around the leaf spring product parts (11A) and supports the leaf spring product parts (11A). Each of the leaf spring product parts (11A) and the support frame (51) are connected to each other by connection parts (52). A breaking region (53), which is breakable, is formed in the connection part (52). An outer edge (53a) of the breaking region (53) is situated on the inside of an outer edge (11h) of the leaf spring product part (11A).
US09939022B2
A bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a first component with respect to a second component includes at least one bearing including a bearing ring, at least one further component, and at least one lubricant branch structure configured to carry a lubricant to the bearing and to the further component, wherein the lubricant branch structure is at least partially disposed in the bearing ring or the lubricant branch structure is at least partially disposed in a distributor piece directly abutting the bearing ring.
US09939020B2
A bearing ring of a rolling-element bearing includes a raceway for rolling elements and at least one flange for guiding the rolling elements, the flange merging into a bearing ring shoulder and extending to a height above the raceway. A free space such as a recess is formed between the bearing ring shoulder and the flange such that the flange is freestanding over its entire height.
US09939018B2
A rolling bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of rolling elements disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, and a plurality of cage segments separating circumferentially adjacent ones of the plurality of rolling elements. Each of the cage segments has an axial bridge portion and side plates at axially opposite ends of the bridge portion, each of the side plates having a convex end and a concave end circumferentially spaced from the convex end. The convex end of a first one of the side plates contacts the concave end of a second one of the side plates.
US09938999B2
A fastener for a vehicle lamp assembly has an adjustable stud and grommet. Positioning grooves on the stud interact with positioning fingers on the grommet in a ratcheting fashion to allow more accurate alignment of the lamp assembly prior to securing the lamp assembly to a vehicle.
US09938996B2
A button retention mechanism that removably retains a button within a device while allowing easy replacement of a depressible or switchable button. The mechanism includes a retention member coupled to the button on a first end and removably coupled to a body at an opposing second end through a snap-fit or interference-fit. Such a structure allows for insertion and removal of the button without disassembling the device, and provides structural stability of the button.
US09938994B2
There is provided a dissolver tube to generate a pressure change to a fluid to change a physical property of the fluid, the tube comprising: a hollow tubular outer body; an inlet cap coupled to the body at an inlet thereof; an outlet cap coupled to the body at an outlet thereof; and a plurality of mesh screens arranged between the inlet cap and outlet cap, wherein each mesh screen has a plurality of micro-holes formed therethrough, each micro-hole having a Venturi structure, thereby to momentarily continuously contract, relax, and shear the fluid passing through the tube.
US09938993B2
A hydraulic intensifier comprising a reciprocating differential piston arrangement and a controller configured to control the supply of low pressure hydraulic fluid to the intensifier is provided. The controller comprises at least one solenoid operated pilot valve and electronic operator configured to operate the pilot valve.
US09938991B2
A turbocharger and a method are disclosed. The turbocharger includes a casing having an inlet end and an outlet end. A flow passage within the casing may have a substantially continuous inner surface and may be configured to pass inlet air from the inlet end to the outlet end. A compressor wheel may be located in the casing and may have at least one main blade and may be configured to rotate within the casing to compress the inlet air. A flow disrupting feature on the casing may be configured to disrupt the continuity of the inner surface and may be located at a leading edge of the at least one main blade. The flow disrupting feature may be closed to upstream communication with the flow passage except via the flow passage.
US09938988B2
An exhaust turbocharger comprises a turbine having a turbine wheel and a compressor having a compressor wheel. The turbine wheel and the compressor wheel are connected by a shaft rotatably mounted in a bearing housing. A means for axially securing the shaft and the turbine wheel connected thereto is provided between the compressor wheel and the turbine wheel. The means limits an axial movement of the shaft and of the turbine wheel connected thereto in the direction of the turbine in the event of the compressor wheel bursting. The means comprises a component which is screwed onto the shaft during mounting and is fixed in the axial direction in the housing.
US09938985B2
An article of manufacture having a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in a scalable TABLE 1, wherein the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z by a number, and wherein X and Y are coordinates which, when connected by continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z height, the airfoil profile sections at each Z height being joined with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US09938980B2
A method for measuring air mass flow into a compressor section of a gas turbine engine is provided. Air is introduced into a chamber upstream from an inlet of the compressor section. The chamber includes filter packages with at least some of the filter packages including a flow sensor and a filter structure, the filter structure filtering the air. The flow sensors measure the velocity of the air flowing through the corresponding filter package. A controller uses the air flow sensor signal data to characterize a two dimensional flow field through the chamber. Additionally, a plurality of temperature, humidity, and static pressure sensors are disposed throughout the filter packages. The controller uses the temperature, humidity, and static pressure sensor signal data to characterize a two dimensional density field through the chamber. The controller combines the flow field with the density field to calculate a two dimensional air mass flow field.
US09938973B2
A vehicle hydraulic supply apparatus with an oil passage component member that includes a first surface being in contact with a first rotor that is a pump rotor of the mechanical oil pump, a second surface facing in a direction opposite to a direction in which the first surface faces and being in contact with a second rotor that is a pump rotor of the electric oil pump, and a suction oil passage and a discharge oil passage of the mechanical oil pump which are located between the first surface and the second surface, and a suction oil passage and a discharge oil passage of the electric oil pump which are located between the first surface and the second surface.
US09938971B2
A device for producing a fluid jet suitable for hygienic requirements in mechanical wound cleaning, including removal of biological tissue, may include a drive casing with a drive and a pump module with a pump casing which can be detachably joined. The drive casing may include a positive-locking element and the pump casing may include a positive-locking counter-element. The positive-locking element may interact with the positive-locking counter-element so that the pump casing is imposed a pivotal motion relative to the drive casing until reaching a final position. In final position the pump casing may be connected to the drive casing and a drive element may be connected to an associated drive counter-element. Drive element and drive counter-element may be arranged eccentric to a pivot axis of the pivotal motion and may be formed so a positive-locking connection arises between the drive element and drive counter-element due to the pivotal motion.
US09938967B2
A compressor may include a crankcase, a crankshaft, a piston, a discharge valve and a suction plenum. The crankcase defines a discharge plenum receiving working fluid at a first pressure. The crankshaft is disposed within the discharge plenum. The piston is drivingly connected to the crankshaft and reciprocatingly received in a cylinder. The piston and cylinder cooperate to define a compression chamber therebetween. The discharge valve may control fluid flow through a discharge passage between the compression chamber and the discharge plenum. The suction plenum may receive working fluid at a second pressure that is less than the first pressure. The suction plenum may provide working fluid at the second pressure to the compression chamber.
US09938963B2
An apparatus and method is provided for generating net energy by converting the natural pressure of atmospheric air into kinetic energy, which is then converted to mechanical energy by a turbine, which can then be converted to electric energy through a generator. The method relies on natural physical phenomena such as Entrainment, Inducement and the Venturi Effect to increase the mass and velocity of air flowing through an enclosed chamber without increasing the amount of energy consumed to increase the air flow mass and velocity. A turbine-generator apparatus connected to the chamber is driven by the air flow to generate electric power which is greater than the power consumed to generate the initial air flow. Power is generated through extraction of kinetic energy from natural atmospheric air pressure energy.
US09938951B1
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media are disclosed for deterrence of ignition of a vehicle engine ignition when a fuel nozzle is in a fuel intake area. An example vehicle includes a fuel intake area, a camera, and a processor. The example processor, in response to an ignition switch being in an on-position, is to detect, via the camera, whether a fuel nozzle is in the fuel intake area. The example processor is to deter ignition of a vehicle engine when the fuel nozzle is in the fuel intake area.
US09938943B2
The invention relates to a device for dispensing a liquid additive into a fuel circulation circuit (2) for an internal combustion engine, in particular for an engine equipping a vehicle, said device comprising: a tank (26) containing the additive, an enclosure (24) communicating with the fuel circulation circuit (2) and inside which the tank (26) containing the additive is inserted, means for injecting additive connected to the tank (26) and the fuel circulation circuit (2) and making it possible to dispense the additive in the fuel circulation circuit (2), and control means for controlling the injection means.
US09938938B2
The invention relates to a double distributor for distributing the intake fluid of an internal combustion engine and controlling the temperature thereof, comprising a body (1) in which first and second channels for circulating said intake fluid are arranged, first (10) and second (20) shutters being positioned in said channels in order to distribute the flow passing through said channels, said distributor also including a motor (9) for actuating said shutters and kinematics simultaneously actuating the first and second shutters according to a movement law in response to an actuation of said motor, said kinematics comprising an inactive position in which said shutters are positioned when no force is supplied by said actuator motor, characterized in that said kinematics are configured such that said shutters can strictly follow said movement law when actuated by the motor from said inactive position without returning to said position.
US09938936B2
Disclosed is an EGR cooler. The EGR cooler includes: a laminated tube core formed by laminating a plurality of gas channels side by side, wherein a fin structure for improving heat transfer is inserted into the gas channels and opposite ends of the gas channels are open; a body shell including a body part, in which the laminated tube core is accommodated, and a pair of end tank parts integrally provided at opposite ends of the body part; coolant pipes connected to the body shell so as to supply coolant to a periphery of the laminated tube core and to discharge the coolant to an outside; and a pair of flanges respectively fittingly coupled to the pair of end tank parts.
US09938934B2
An fresh air/exhaust gas compact mixer and method for mixing fresh air with exhaust gases, is provided. The mixer includes a main body, an air inlet for receiving fresh air fluidly connected to an air intake passage within the main body, an exhaust gas inlet for receiving exhaust fluidly connected to an exhaust gas passage within the main body. The mixer also includes a bifurcation within the air intake passage for directing the flow of air through the passage, wherein the bifurcation decreases a cross section of the air intake passage downstream from the air inlet, thereby increasing the air velocity exiting the air intake passage. The narrowed cross section creates a localized vacuum, encouraging an increased flow of exhaust gas through the mixer, and creating superior mixing of the fresh air with the exhaust gases prior to exiting the mixer.
US09938932B2
A carburetor includes a body with an air intake path, a fuel pump and a fuel pressure regulator. The fuel pump and fuel pressure regulator are positioned on the same side of the body. A fuel pump and metering chamber diaphragm is sandwiched between the body of the carburetor and a pump body and cover. The diaphragm separates a pump chamber from a pulse chamber of the fuel pump and separates a fuel chamber from an air chamber in the fuel pressure regulator. Inlet and outlet flapper valves are part of the diaphragm or a separate flapper valve member positioned between the body and the diaphragm.
US09938930B2
A composite wear pad for being coupled to a slider block of a convergent nozzle of a gas turbine engine includes a high heat capacity composite having a resin and a plurality of carbon fibers bonded together by the resin. The composite wear pad also includes a first rod coupled to the high heat capacity composite at a first axial end of the composite wear pad such that a first end thickness. The composite wear pad also includes a second rod coupled to the high heat capacity composite at a second axial end of the composite wear pad such that the first axial end and the second axial end of the composite wear pad each have an end thickness that is greater than a middle thickness of the composite wear pad.
US09938924B2
A control device for a fuel injection valve includes a drive circuit that controls open/close operation of the fuel injection valve by passing an exciting current through a solenoid of the fuel injection valve and an ECU that reduces a peak current value as a fuel pressure in a delivery pipe at timing of a start of energization of the fuel injection valve decreases. The ECU reduces the peak current value as an amount of fuel discharged from a high-pressure fuel pump to the delivery pipe reduces.
US09938911B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, in particular a passenger car having a turbocharger with a compressor and a turbine. The method includes determining a change quantity of a gas flow quantity of a gas flow through the internal combustion engine and regulating the compressor based on this change quantity.
US09938905B2
A method of controlling a supply of a fuel to a combustor of a gas turbine having a compressor upstream of the combustor is provided. The method includes: supplying the fuel to the combustor; obtaining a property value of at least one physical property (PT8, PT7, Tinlet, THBOV) of air used for burning the fuel in the combustor; estimating a heat input (HIengmodel) of the fuel supplied to the combustor based on the property value; measuring a Caloric Value (LCVmea) of the fuel upstream of the combustor; adjusting the estimated heat input (HIengmodel) based on the measured Caloric Value (LCVmea); and controlling a fuel valve regulating the supply of the fuel to the combustor based on the adjusted estimated heat input (HIexpected) and a demanded heat input (FFDEM).
US09938902B2
A turbomachine including: a combustion chamber, with a fuel injection device in the combustion chamber; a supply mechanism supplying fuel to the fuel injection device; a mechanism determining instantaneous variation of fuel flow rate of the supply mechanism; and a regulation mechanism regulating the fuel flow rate of the injection device according to the instantaneous variation of the fuel flow rate of the supply mechanism determined by the determination mechanism.
US09938899B2
A hot gas path component includes a substrate having an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface of the substrate defines at least one interior space. At least a portion of the outer surface of the substrate includes a recess formed therein. The recess includes a bottom surface and a groove extending at least partially along the bottom surface of the recess. A cover is disposed within the recess and covers at least a portion of the groove. The groove is configured to channel a cooling fluid therethrough to cool the cover.
US09938897B2
An air intake structure for a turbojet engine nacelle includes an inner panel to be attached to a fan casing, and an external panel capable of a translational movement in a longitudinal direction of the nacelle. The external panel incorporates a portion of an air inlet lip able to provide a junction between the inner panel and the external panel, and each of the air inlet lip portion and the inner panel is equipped, at least in the region of a joining end, with an acoustic attenuation structure. In particular, at least one of the joining ends is equipped with a radial buffer able to come into contact with a corresponding joining flange exhibited by the other joining end when the external panel is in a closed position.
US09938879B2
Disclosed is an outboard motor including an exhaust manifold having a first passage that is provided with a plurality of first openings connected to a plurality of exhaust ports and extends vertically, and a second passage that is arranged under the first passage and has a second opening provided in a lower end portion and connected to a third passage formed in the engine holder. The first and second passages of the exhaust manifold are formed integrally, and the exhaust manifold is formed separately from the cylinder head and the cylinder block and is detachably installed.
US09938875B2
Apparatuses and methods for urea dosing of an exhaust after treatment system are disclosed. Exemplary apparatuses include a chamber configured to receive pressurized gas at a first inlet, receive urea solution at a second inlet and provide a combined flow of pressurized gas and urea to an outlet, flow passage extending from the first inlet to a seating surface, and a valve member configured to move between an open position in which the valve member is spaced apart from the seating surface and a closed position in which the valve member contacts the seating surface. As the valve member moves from the open position to the closed position, the valve member contacts the seating surface at a first location and wipes an area of the seating surface extending from the first location in a direction toward the flow passage.
US09938874B2
An airflow control system for a combined cycle power generation system according to an embodiment includes: a compressor component of a gas turbine system for generating an excess flow of air; a mixing area for receiving an exhaust gas stream produced by the gas turbine system; and an air extraction system for extracting at least a portion of the excess flow of air generated by the compressor component of the gas turbine system to provide bypass air, and for diverting the bypass air into the mixing area to reduce a temperature of the exhaust gas stream; wherein the reduced temperature exhaust gas stream is provided to a heat recovery steam generator.
US09938872B2
Sound-attenuating mufflers and muffler inserts, and systems and methods for fabricating such muffler inserts. Continuous fiberglass roving is fed to a pneumatic jet head which fluffs the roving and presents the fluffed roving to a delivery wand at the exit end of the jet head. A jet head/wand assembly is moved along a three-dimensional path such that the wand delivery tip travels along a predetermined three-dimensional path inside a mold thereby depositing the continuous, fluffed fiberglass strands in the mold along the predetermined path. A terminal end portion of a liquid resin conduit is mounted to the fiberglass-dispensing wand, as part of the delivery tip, and drip-feeds liquid resin onto the fiberglass as the fiberglass is being deposited in the mold. The undulating, up and down movement of the delivery tip produces a wave-like undulating pattern in the appearance of the rovings in the resulting molded product.
US09938869B2
A high pressure charge air feed arrangement for an internal combustion engine is provided. The arrangement includes an intake having a high pressure output, a rocker cover having an intake runner defining a high pressure charge flow path, and a gas and oil separator having a flow accelerator with input and output sides. The high pressure output of the intake is attached to one end of the path and the accelerator is attached to the other end. The path is connected between the input and output sides of the accelerator. The separator includes upper and lower plenums divided by a wall having an oil and gas diffuser. The input side is connected to the lower plenum and the output side is connected to a crankcase oil return line. The flow accelerator may be any type of fluid accelerator, including, but not limited to, a venturi pump and a jet pump.
US09938867B2
A cartridge for replenishing a vehicle fluid, a fluid reservoir system comprising same and a holder, a holder, a vehicle engine comprising the fluid reservoir system and a vehicle comprising said engine in which, the cartridge comprises: a housing comprising a first part and a second part; a fluid reservoir in the housing; a port arranged on the first part of the housing to couple the reservoir in fluidic communication with a fluid system of the vehicle; wherein the second part of the housing is configured to rotate with respect to the first part of the housing to secure the cartridge with respect to the fluid system to hold the reservoir in fluidic communication, via the port, with the fluid system of the vehicle, wherein the second part of the housing is configured such that rotating the second part of the housing does not rotate the port.
US09938865B2
A system for selectively deactivating engine valves of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The system employs switching rocker assemblies between the valves of the engine and rotating cam lobes. The disclosed design is able to operate using a single cam lobe per valve. The rocker assembly employs a first arm pivotally attached to a second arm at one end. The first arm engages the valve and the second arm has a roller bearing that engages the cam lobe. A latch causes the first and second arm to move in unison following the cam surface when latched. When unlatched, the second arm follows and moves according to the rotating cam surface, but the first arm does not follow and does not actuate the valve, thereby deactivating the cylinder.
US09938854B2
A gas turbine engine includes an array of airfoils. Each airfoil includes a first circumferentially extreme position. The first circumferentially extreme positions of the airfoils are circumferentially spaced apart from one another a pitch. Each airfoil includes a second circumferentially extreme position circumferentially spaced from the first circumferentially extreme position in an angular spacing that is at least one half the pitch.
US09938846B2
A turbine shroud for a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of shroud segments arranged around a central axis. Each shroud segment includes a carrier component, a blade track component, and a retainer component that couples the blade track component to the carrier component. The turbine shroud further includes a plurality of circumferential seals that seal circumferential interfaces between the shroud segments.
US09938836B2
One aspect of the disclosure provides for a turbine airfoil. The turbine airfoil may include a trailing edge having: a set of cooling channels having a first cooling channel fluidly connected to a second cooling channel; a first section having a first pin bank cooling arrangement, the first section fluidly connected to the first cooling channel; and a second section having a second pin bank cooling arrangement, the second section fluidly connected to the second cooling channel and being radially inward of the first section.
US09938834B2
Bladed Gas Turbine Engine (GTE) rotors including deposited transition rings are provided, as are embodiments of methods for manufacturing bladed GTE rotors. In one embodiment, the method includes providing an outer blade ring having an inner circumferential surface defining a central opening, and depositing a deposited transition ring on the inner circumferential surface of the outer blade ring. The outer blade ring can be a full bladed ring or an annular grouping of individually-fabricated bladed pieces. After deposition of the transition ring, a hub disk is inserted into the central opening such that the transition ring extends around an outer circumferential surface of the hub disk. The transition ring is then bonded to the outer circumferential surface of the hub disk utilizing, for example, a hot isostatic pressing technique to join the transition ring and the outer blade ring thereto.
US09938820B2
A downhole gas detection tool includes a housing; a first test module that includes a first fluid test chamber operable to fluidly couple to an annulus of a wellbore to receive a first portion of a wellbore fluid, the first test module further including an acoustic fluid sensor to measure a fluid acoustic velocity and attenuation of the first portion of the wellbore fluid received in the first fluid test chamber, and a fluid resistivity sensor to measure a fluid resistivity of the first portion of the wellbore fluid received in the first fluid test chamber; and a second test module including a second fluid test chamber operable to fluidly couple to the annulus of the wellbore to receive a second portion of the wellbore fluid, and a pressure-temperature (PT) sensor to measure at least one of a pressure or a temperature of the second portion of the wellbore fluid.
US09938804B2
A pump jack assembly has a horsehead mounted to rock on a frame; a polished rod connected to the horsehead; and a hydraulic motor connected to rock the horsehead. The pump jack assembly may have a crank assembly connected between the hydraulic motor and the horsehead, the crank assembly having one or more counterweights; a hydraulic pump; a fluid supply line and a fluid return line between the hydraulic pump and hydraulic motor; and a hydraulic brake on the fluid return line. A method of providing a pump jack assembly includes replacing a non hydraulic pump jack motor, connected to rock the horsehead, with a hydraulic motor.
US09938800B2
Methods and systems for determining acidizing fluid injection rates for stimulation of a subterranean formation arc provided. In one embodiment, methods comprise: selecting a first injection rate for injecting an acidizing fluid into a subterranean formation; calculating a first objective function based on the first injection rate; selecting a second injection rate for injecting the acidizing fluid into the subterranean formation; calculating a second objective function based on the second injection rate; comparing the second objective function with the first objective function to determine whether the second objective function is indicative of more effective stimulation, less effective stimulation, or the same stimulation as the first objective function; and selecting a design rate for injecting the acidizing fluid into the subterranean formation.
US09938790B2
The present invention discloses a petroleum instrument hoisting system and a hoisting head, which is used for hoisting a petroleum instrument. The hoisting head includes: a lifting part, for connecting a lifting rope; an insertion rod, which is located under the lifting part and used for protruding into a stair-shaped hoisting hole, and is set with a notch on both sides thereof; a insertion head, which is connected with the insertion rod via a connecting rod, wherein the insertion rod is set with a slide opening that is in sliding fit with the connecting rod, and the lateral surface of one end of the insertion rod that is adjacent to the connecting rod is a conical surface; a coniform extension spring, which is sleeved on the insertion rod and the connecting rod, wherein one end thereof with a large cross-sectional area is sleeved on the insertion rod, and the other end thereof with a small cross-sectional area is sleeved on the connecting rod and is fixed relative to the connecting rod; two clamping pieces, which are respectively hinged in two notches, and the clamping face thereof can be in hooking fit with a hooking face in the horizontal plane; two pulling ropes, which are respectively connected with the other end of the corresponding clamping piece, and the orientations of the other ends, which are connected with the pulling ropes, of the two clamping pieces are opposite to each other. By the above solution, the hoisting of a petroleum instrument can be solved.
US09938788B2
A wellbore dart or pill is provided with a lock such that upon reaching a corresponding key, dogs are extended radially outward to engage with a tool within the wellbore. Typically the dart will include a lock section having a number of pins wherein each pin must be depressed a proper amount where the amount includes not being depressed to allow a tumbler within the dart to move either rotationally or axially walking a dog in an outward condition.
US09938787B2
An improved c-ring slip retention system and method for extraction of the c-ring slip are provided. The c-ring slip retention system may use an axially movable support sleeve with a support ring for securing the c-ring slip against a retention lip of the liner hanger body. The disclosed retention system prevents the c-ring slip from being prematurely extracted from a liner hanger body while the liner hanger is lowered through a borehole. The c-ring slip retention system may also include anti-rotation features that prevent the c-ring slip from rotating relative to the liner hanger body. A single actuation of the support sleeve in an axial direction may unlock the c-ring slip from the retention lip, disengage the anti-rotation features, compress the c-ring slip out of the keyed profile, and extract the c-ring slip from the liner hanger body.
US09938786B2
An indexing tool is incorporated into a tubular string. The indexing tool is intended to function as a variable travel stop so that on initial landing other tools associated with the string will not extend to an operating position for tools that would otherwise operate on contact with relative movement. The indexing device can prevent a shifting device from engaging a valve operator when the index device initially lands on a support either during normal operation or in an emergency such as when shear rams have cut the string to allow it to fall so that a blowout preventer can be operated to engage opposed rams. In such an emergency the barrier valve operator will not be actuated and the string is later fished with the barrier valve closed. A pickup and set down force then allows the barrier valve to open when desired.
US09938784B2
Methods control systems for viscosity and density control may include a frequency loop shaping filter for shaping the frequency response in real-time for a multiple inputs multiple outputs (MIMO) system. For example, a method may include drilling a wellbore while circulating a drilling mud through a viscosity and density control system that includes one of: a mechanical separation system, a dilution system, a chemical additive regulation system, and any combination thereof; applying a frequency loop shaping filter to a desired mud viscosity and a desired mud density to produce control signals: a first control signal for the mechanical separation system, a second control signal for the dilution system, a third control signal for the chemical additive regulation system, and any combination thereof; and applying the control signals to the corresponding systems to alter the drilling mud to have a controlled viscosity value and a controlled density value.
US09938774B2
A non-rotational drill bit for a down-the-hole drill hammer is provided that includes a head and a shank extending from the head. The head includes a plurality of axisymmetric cutting members about its working face. The drill bit also includes a porting system that includes a central through hole, an air inlet port, an exhaust outlet port and a central exhaust port for exhausting air from an interior of the drill hammer and for clearing drilling debris from the face of the drill bit.
US09938772B2
The disclosure provides a system and process for drilling a subterranean wellbore. An embodiment includes a bottom-hole assembly for a downhole mud motor that incorporates an information sub, such as a measurement-while-drilling or logging-while-drilling tool, at a location below, or down-hole from, the mud motor. The assembly also includes a micronized bit-to-bend length, or a length between a forward end of the assembly's bearing mandrel and a fixed bend in the assembly's housing, of less than or equal to forty inches. The combination of the forward-located information sub and micronized bit-to-bend length allow the driller to rely on real-time data relating to conditions adjacent to the drill bit/bottom of the wellbore and take that real-time drilling data into account in steering the bit along a planned wellbore trajectory. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09938771B2
An initiator nanoconstituent comprises a nanoparticle covalently bonded to a group having a free radical. The nanoparticle may be bonded to the group via an ether group or an amide group. The initiator nanoconstituent may be formed in situ, in a mixture comprising an elastomer material to be crosslinked. The initiator nanoconstituent is formed from an organic nanoconstituent compound that includes the nanoparticle and an organic group that does not include a free radical at the time the mixture is formed. At least one chemical bond of the organic nanoconstituent compound may be ruptured, in situ, to form the initiator nanoconstituent, which may then bond with polymer molecules of the elastomer material and form a crosslinked elastomer material. Downhole tools or components thereof may include such crosslinked elastomer material.
US09938765B2
Automated shade systems comprise motorized window coverings, sensors, and controllers that use algorithms to control operation of the automated shade control system. These algorithms may include information such as: 3-D models of a building and surrounding structures, shadow information, reflectance information, lighting and radiation information, ASHRAE clear sky algorithms, log information related to manual overrides, occupant preference information, motion information, real-time sky conditions, solar radiation on a building, a total foot-candle load on a structure, brightness overrides, actual and/or calculated BTU load, time-of-year information, and microclimate analysis. Modeled brightness information may be utilized to control shades.
US09938759B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a control device of a vehicle opening-closing member that includes a vehicle state determination unit that determines a traveling state of the vehicle based on a signal indicating a traveling state of a vehicle; an open/close state determination unit that determines an opening/opened state of the opening-closing member based on a signal indicating an opening/opened state of an opening-closing member provided to the vehicle; and a control unit that outputs a control signal for stopping an opening motion of the opening-closing member when it is determined by the vehicle state determination unit that the vehicle is in a state of traveling and when it is determined by the open/close state determination unit that the vehicle opening-closing member is in an opening/opened state.
US09938756B2
A door brace (10) comprising: an engagement member (12) comprising a bottom flange (14) comprising one face comprising a textured surface (14a) to engage with a door (34); an angled leg (20) comprising a first section (22) hingedly connected at one end to the wall and a second section (23) extending from the first section at a first angle, the leg being movable between a stowed position and an extended position in which the first section makes a second angle, larger than the first angle, to the wall; an engagement foot (26) pivotably mounted on a mounting element (24) having an adjustable length; and a hinge stop configured to prevent the leg moving beyond a maximum extended position. Wherein, in an extended position, the second section of the leg extends at a third angle to the wall equal to the difference between the second and first angles and the engagement foot causes a clamping force to be applied to the door.
US09938753B1
A check strap assembly for a pickup truck tailgate may include a truck bed, a tailgate, and opposing side panels. The tailgate is mounted to the truck bed for pivotal movement. The opposing side panels are secured to the truck bed to partially define a truck box when the tailgate is in a closed position. The check strap assembly includes a member extending from a D-pillar of the truck box to the tailgate and a lock mechanism having a component with an overhang to prevent access to a fastener securing the member to the D-pillar or the tailgate. The D-pillar may include a flange defining an aperture and the member may be a rod having a first end sized for extending through the aperture and a second end with a striker for engagement with a latch mechanism of the tailgate.
US09938751B2
A tamper resistant lock. A lock has a lock housing with housing indentation. A cylinder is rotatably housed within the housing. A locking pin is connected to the cylinder and is inserted into the housing indentation when the lock is in a locked position and the locking pin is clear of the housing indentation when the lock is in an unlocked position. An anti-tampering mechanism is positioned between the housing and the cylinder. The anti-tampering mechanism receives a user's key and also includes a relative motion hole. A key extension portion is rotatably inserted inside the anti-tampering mechanism body and includes a relative motion indentation. The key extension portion is keyed to the cylinder. A lock ball is inserted into the relative motion hole and the relative motion indention, thereby preventing relative motion between the anti-tampering mechanism body and the key extension portion. A flexible band is wrapped around the anti-tampering mechanism body and covers the lock ball and holds the lock ball in place in the relative motion hole and relative motion indentation. The flexibility of the flexible band is sufficient to permit the lock ball to leave the relative motion indentation while simultaneously retaining the lock ball in the relative motion hole if the anti-tampering mechanism body is rotated while the locking pin is inserted into the housing indentation, thereby permitting relative motion between the anti-tampering mechanism body and the key extension portion. In a preferred embodiment the tamper resistant lock is a padlock.
US09938747B2
A fence includes first elongated tubular members, each one of which is configured to extend vertically from ends of the first elongated tubular members positionable proximate to a support surface (e.g., the ground). The fence also includes second elongated tubular members extending between the first elongated tubular members, each of which is configured to extend parallel to the support surface. The fence further includes receivers defined by apertures formed in the first elongated tubular members, each of which extends outwardly from respective first elongated tubular members so that each one of the second elongated tubular members can be fixedly attached to corresponding ones of the first elongated tubular members. In some embodiments, one or more of the first elongated tubular members and/or the second elongated tubular members can have a circular cross-section. The second elongated tubular members can be fixedly attached the first elongated tubular members with and/or without welding.
US09938739B2
A self-contained swimming pool for containment of water and generation of water currents therein for exercise, therapy and/or rehabilitation of a user comprising a rigid frame exteriorly located in relation to an inner water containment area. A set of water return channels in communication with the inner water containment area. A propulsion system in communication with the set of water return channels and the inner water containment area. A hydraulic system for driving the propulsion system using a hydraulic fluid to produce a current in the inner water containment area allowing positioning of a user in the current for exercise, therapy and or rehabilitation therein and wherein the hydraulic system is self-contained and mounted external of the rigid frame.
US09938729B2
A system including at least one duct comprising a first portion defining a plurality of receiving members formed along a sidewall of the first portion and a second portion including an engaging member extending from a sidewall of the second portion, said engaging member being configured to selectively engage one receiving member of the plurality of receiving members to secure the first and second portions together with an opening of an adjustable size therebetween, and a connector to attach to an end of the duct, the connector having a first connector portion with an exterior surface defining a hole, a second connector portion including a housing defining a hole, and a fastener configured to pass through the hole in the exterior surface and the hole in the housing to secure the first and second connector portions together with an opening of an adjustable size therebetween corresponding to a respective size of the at least one duct.
US09938727B2
A floor panel includes male and female coupling means that are formed by at least one proximal groove that opens onto a lower face or upper face, respectively, of the panel and by a distal flexible tongue that extends from the end of the edge of the panel towards the lower face or upper face, respectively. The tongue has a proximal wall inclined at an angle with respect to a vertical plane towards the bottom and the outside of the panel and towards the top and the outside of the panel, respectively. The tongue of at least one of the male coupling means or female coupling means has a distal wall that includes, at least, a protrusion or a notch that is able to engage with a notch or a protrusion formed in or on a proximal wall of the proximal groove of the corresponding female coupling means or male coupling means so as to form an end stop, avoiding vertical movement of a panel with respect to an adjacent panel. The flexible tongue of the female coupling means comprises a chamfered part that forms an angle of between 2° and 20° with respect to the main plane of the panel.
US09938723B2
There is described a canopy system comprising two or more parallel elongated rods, one or more canopy pieces having two parallel edges, two or more elongated bars connected to each of the two or more parallel elongated rods and attached to each of the two parallel edges of the one or more canopy pieces, and at least one connection mechanism attached to each of the elongated rods having a connector that is capable of being suspended from a support. The elongated rods may include at least one lower cavity having two channels each configured to detachably and slidably receive each of the elongated bars. The lower cavity may have a groove that is configured to detachably and slidably receive an accessory. The elongated rods each may include at least one upper cavity configured to detachably and slidably receive each connection mechanism and a second accessory.
US09938722B1
A gutter cover has a lip for attachment to a structure below the roof. An upper cover extends away from the lip at an angle between 90 and 180 degrees relative to the lip. A folded section extends towards the attachment lip at an angle between 0 and 180 degrees relative to the upper cover. A covering section extends substantially parallel with, and spaced apart from, said folded section and has a number of apertures therein configured to allow water to pass into the gutter. Exemplary embodiments may utilize a filtering mesh positioned in the space between the folded section and the covering section.
US09938718B1
An arched island ceiling system comprising a pair of arcuate frame members, metal panels, and clips for supporting the panels on the frame members, the frame members having a generally rectangular cross-section, the clips having a saddle configuration including a seat and legs depending from opposite sides of the seat and being proportioned to straddle the frame member, lower ends of the legs having feet engageable with the underside of inwardly extending flanges of sides of the metal panels.
US09938716B2
A roof for a building comprises a ridge beam for defining an upper edge of the roof, and a first eaves beam for defining a lower edge of the roof. The roof further comprises a first panel connectable to both the ridge beam and the eaves beam, being capable of spanning the distance therebetween and extending over at least a first portion of the area of the roof. In addition, the roof comprises one or more retention structures positionable relative to the first panel and one of said beams and configured to clamp said panel against the other of said beams.
US09938715B2
An illustrative embodiment of a tile and support structure may include a plurality of tiles, which may be generally rectangular in shape, engaged with one or more support structures. The tile may be formed with four edges, wherein two opposing edges may be formed with grooves therein and the other two opposing edges may be formed with protrusions thereon. The support structure may be formed with a generally vertical spine having two rails extending outward from a distal end thereof. The support structure may also include two generally horizontally extending flanges, which may be formed with a trough therein. The trough may include a plurality of apertures formed therein. One side of the trough may be defined by a lip.
US09938714B2
A device for compensating for the natural shrinkage of building materials includes a hinged expander mounted on an elongate base plate. The base plate includes a plurality of spaced apart teeth on each longitudinal end that define a notch between each pair of adjacent spaced teeth. The hinged expander included two leafs that are joined at an apex in a hinged relationship. Each leaf has an outer edge configured for receipt within a notch in the base plate. Apex is biased in a direction away from the base plate. The teeth prevent outward movement of the leaf edges while permitting inward movement. The base plate is securely fastened to a first building member. A fastener is longitudinally fixed relative to a second building member and the apex of the hinged expander but not fixed longitudinally relative to the base plate and first building member.
US09938705B2
This invention pertains to an internally exhausted toilet bowl which employs basic principles of fluid flow to provide reliable, more efficient, and more effective removal of noxious toilet odors while reducing energy consumption when compared to current art. This is accomplished during all conditions of normal operation. In case of toilet overflow or condensate buildup, the impact on the vent exhaust path from these upset conditions can be resolved easily, and normal operation can be restored without damage to any components. Additionally, this invention includes maintenance features that would provide means for back flushing the annulus vent line and orifices if clogging ever were to occur.
US09938702B2
A water tank-less toilet flushing system includes a toilet bowl and a control system which includes a flush valve located higher than a top surface of the toilet bowl and a check valve operatively linked to the flush valve. When the flush valve is opened, the check valve is closed due to a water pressure for enabling the water to flush the toilet bowl. When the flush valve is closed, the check valve is opened for communicating an interior of the flush valve with an ambient atmosphere to prevent water in the toilet bowl to be backflow to the flush valve.
US09938697B1
A water generation system for improvement of water shortage environments is provided as a water generation system that is constructed as a surface pavement in a water shortage area and generally includes a sand layer, which is covered with a moisture locking cloth, a grading layer laid on the moisture locking cloth, and a water pervious layer arranged on the grading layer. The water pervious layer includes a plurality of hollow water penetration tubes vertically arranged above the grading layer. The water penetration tubes each have a tubular wall in which through apertures are formed. The water penetration tube has an outer circumference over which a tubular sleeve having an opening facing downward is fit such that an interlayer space is formed between the tubular sleeve and the tubular wall of the water penetration tube.
US09938690B2
Provided is a working machine capable of accurately detecting a contaminant in grease contained in a slewing mechanism. The working machine includes a lower travelling body, an upper slewing body, and the slewing mechanism. The slewing mechanism includes: a ring gear fixed to the lower travelling body and having inner teeth; a pinion disposed on the upper slewing body and rotated in mesh with the inner teeth of the ring gear; and a grease bath disposed along an inner circumference of the ring gear for storing grease. The upper slewing body includes a sensor for detecting a contaminant having a potential for contaminating and deteriorating the grease, and a sensor supporting member supporting the sensor at a position that allows the sensor to revolve while being immersed in the grease in the grease bath.
US09938685B2
A foundation system for a tower, such as a wind turbine, includes a central hub assembly, a plurality of post-tensioned concrete beams, and an anchoring system associated with each beam. In use the foundation system is arranged so that the bottom surfaces of the concrete beams bear on soil and the anchoring is disposed within the soil. The beams can be inverted bulb-T beams having post-tensioning cables inserted there-through and cooperating with an oppositely disposed related beam. The central hub assembly can include a plurality of stacked disk elements or steel frame elements that are post-tensioned together to form a single hub structure.
US09938681B1
A floating oil containment boom is comprised of boom sections connected end to end. Each boom section is of a tubular member or pipe section. The pipe or tubular member is buoyant, either closed at its ends and/or filled with foam or other buoyant material. Plates extend above and below the tubular member or pipe section for each section of boom. A specially configured connecter joins each boom section to the other, the connecter extending above and below the pipe or tubular member. An elastomeric block forms an interface between connectors on each boom section while simultaneously sealing the area between boom sections to flow of oil.
US09938669B2
A regulator moldboard and grader blade assembly includes a moldboard having at least one transversely extending pin, the pin having a notch with a surface inclined toward the moldboard. At least one grader blade has at least one mounting opening having a flared surface complementary to the notch so that the blade is hangable on the pin so that the notch draws the blade against the moldboard as a fastener tightens the blade to the moldboard.
US09938660B2
A paper manufacturing apparatus that can manufacture paper with good mechanical strength and/or water resistance in a dry process.A paper manufacturing apparatus according to the invention has a defibrating unit that defibrates feedstock in air; a mixing unit that mixes an additive containing resin with defibrated material that was defibrated; and a heat unit that heats a mixture into which the defibrated material and the additive were mixed.
US09938655B2
A laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed. A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a drawer retractably provided in the cabinet and defining an introduction port, a tub body provided in the drawer, the tub body defining a space for receiving washing water and having an open upper surface, a drum rotatably provided in the tub body, the drum defining a space for receiving laundry and having an open upper surface, a tub cover defining a tub introduction port that provides a passage from the introduction port to the drum, the tub cover being coupled to the upper surface of the tub body, a door rotatably hinged to the tub cover and configured to open and close the tub introduction port, and a sealing unit that is configured to provide a seal between the door and the tub introduction port.
US09938653B2
A laundry treating appliance for treating a laundry load according to at least one cycle of operation including a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber in which a laundry load is received for treatment, a motor rotatably driving the drum in response to a motor control signal, and a controller outputting a motor control signal to rotate the drum according to a speed profile having at least a constant speed phase, where the drum is rotated at a constant speed, and an acceleration phase, where the drum is accelerated to the constant speed and a method of operating a laundry treating appliance to determine an inertia of the laundry load.
US09938636B2
A single crystal production apparatus wherein the chamber has a top plate part, a bottom plate part and a barrel part, the barrel part is in a hollow cylindrical shape and made of quartz glass and connects the top plate part with the bottom plate part, an openable/closable reflective member is provided on the outer circumference of the barrel part, and the reflective member is divided in the circumferential direction and reflects heat and light radiated from the inside of the chamber.
US09938627B2
A gas permeable or breathable electrode and method of manufacture thereof. In one example there is an electrolytic cell having an electrode comprising a porous material, wherein gas produced at the electrode diffuses out of the cell via the porous material. In operation the gas is produced at the at least one electrode without substantial bubble formation. In another example there is an electrode having a porous conducting material with a hydrophobic layer or coating applied to a side of the porous conducting material. A catalyst may be applied to another side. The gas permeable or breathable electrode can be used in an electrolytic cell, electrochemical cell, battery and/or fuel cell. Gas produced at the electrode diffuses out of a cell via at least part of the electrode, separating the gas from the reaction at the electrode.
US09938624B2
One embodiment includes a method for enhancing bond strength between a powder deposit and a substrate. Powder is deposited on the substrate. Powder is shot peened with peening media that is harder than both the powder and the substrate to produce bond strength between the powder and the substrate that is at least twice bond strength between the powder and the substrate without shot peening.
US09938620B2
A gas supply mechanism of supplying a raw material gas obtained from a raw material of a solid state or a liquid state into a chamber configured to perform a film forming process on a workpiece is disclosed. The gas supply mechanism includes a gas supply controller configured to control a flow rate of a carrier gas by means of a flow rate controller, and to enable the carrier gas to flow while closing a material gas supply/shut-off valve to thereby increase internal pressures of a raw material container and a raw material gas supply pipe to be a high-pressure condition and then control the raw material gas supply/shut-off valve to be opened.
US09938611B2
The invention discloses a high strength nodular cast iron pole and a preparation technology thereof. The preparation technology is characterized by comprising the following steps: (1) preparation before pole casting, to be specific, preparation of raw materials, smelting of iron, adding of alloying elements and nodulizing; (2) a pole casting procedure, to be specific, casting and inoculation treatment; and (3) heat treatment. The invention also provides the high strength nodular cast iron pole prepared by adopting the preparation technology, comprising multiple tower poles which are sequentially connected in an inserted manner, wherein each tower pole is a cone-frustum hollow column which has the conicity of 1000:11-26; the top end of the high strength nodular cast iron pole is equipped with a tower cap. The high strength nodular cast iron pole has the advantages of high bearing capacity, thin wall thickness, light weight, low manufacturing cost and the like.
US09938604B2
Provided is a method for producing pellets by which, when nickel oxide ore is being pelletized and smelted to produce ferronickel, which is an iron-nickel alloy, it is possible to allow the smelting reaction to proceed effectively. A method for producing pellets according to the present invention is for producing pellets which are used in producing iron-nickel alloy and which are produced by mixing raw materials including nickel oxide ore and agglomerating the resulting mixture, wherein the method comprises: a mixing step S11 for mixing at least nickel oxide ore, a carbonaceous reducing agent, and iron oxide to generate a mixture; and a pellet formation step S12 for agglomerating the resulting mixture and forming pellets. In the mixing step S11, the mixture is generated such that the total weight of nickel and iron accounts for 30 wt % or more of the total weight of the pellets formed.
US09938602B2
A method of producing a metal pipe which can suppress quenching defects is provided. In the method, a bend of the metal pipe is straightened by a straightening machine 10. Next, both pipe end portions of the metal pipe whose bend has been straightened are cut off by a pipe cutting apparatus 20. Next, a plurality of the metal pipes whose both pipe end portions have been cut off are aligned in the axial direction thereof to be conveyed to a quenching apparatus 30, and the metal pipes are quenched by being cooled after being heated by induction heating.
US09938594B2
A process for producing reducing gas for use in the production of direct reduced iron (DRI) and fuel gas for use in a steel mill, including: compressing a coke oven gas (COG) stream in a compressor; passing the compressed coke oven gas stream through an activated charcoal bed to remove tars from the compressed coke oven gas stream; separating a hydrogen-rich gas stream from the compressed cleaned coke oven gas stream using a pressure swing absorption unit; providing the hydrogen-rich gas stream to a direct reduction shaft furnace as reducing gas; and providing a remaining gas stream from the pressure swing absorption unit to a steel mill as fuel gas. Both once-through and recycle options are presented. Optionally, basic oxygen furnace gas (BOFG) is added to the reducing gas.
US09938593B2
A method is provided for operating a blast furnace by blowing at least a solid reducing material and a combustible gas into the furnace through tuyeres with a lance inserted into a blowpipe, wherein a tube-bundle type lance obtained by bundling a plurality of blowing tubes is used and when only a solid reducing material or two kinds of a solid reducing material and a combustible gas or three kinds of a solid reducing material, a combustible gas and a gaseous reducing material is simultaneously blown into an inside of the blast furnace through a tube for blowing the solid reducing material, a tube for blowing the combustible gas and a tube for blowing the gaseous reducing material in the tube-bundle type lance, two or more tube-bundle type lances are inserted into the blowpipe to approximate their front ends to each other and blowing is performed so that the respective blowout streams interfere with each other in the blowpipe.
US09938592B1
A liquid smoke tanning method uses liquid smoke as a tanning agent for tanning an animal skin, such as a hide or fur. The liquid smoke is used a natural source of aldehydes, which are commonly used in the tanning process and known to introduce toxicity into the animal skin. After the skin is prepared and cleaned for tanning, it is tanned in a liquid smoke solution, which may also include alum in an alternative embodiment. The liquid smoke is efficacious for crosslinking collagen proteins in the animal skin during the tanning process. The liquid smoke provides substantially the same collagen crosslinking capacity of aldehydes such as glutaraldehyde, formaldehyde, or glyoxol. The liquid smoke is, however, organic and does not contain the level of toxins found in chemically produced aldehydes. After the tanning, the skin is dried through known means for production as an organic, nontoxic leather.
US09938589B2
Provided herein are compositions, methods, and kits for detecting human Pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2). In certain embodiments, provided herein are HPgV-2 specific nucleic acid probes and primers, and methods for detecting HPgV-2 nucleic acid. In other embodiments, provided herein are HPgV-2 immunogenic composition compositions, methods of treating a subject with immunogenic HPgV-2 peptides, and methods of detecting HPgV-2 subject antibodies in a sample.
US09938588B2
Methods and compositions for detection of enterovirus D in a sample, particularly detection of enterovirus D68, are provided. The methods include contacting a sample with at least one primer (such as a forward primer and/or a reverse primer) capable of specifically amplifying an EV-D68 viral protein 1 (VP1) nucleic acid or a portion thereof and/or a detectably labeled probe capable of specifically hybridizing to an EV-D68 VP1 nucleic acid, under conditions sufficient for specific amplification of the EV-D68 VP1 nucleic acid by the at least one primer and/or under conditions sufficient for specific hybridization of the probe to the EV-D68 nucleic acid. The amplification of the EV-D68 VP1 nucleic acid and/or the hybridization of the probe to the EV-D68 VP1 nucleic acid is detected, thereby identifying presence of EV-D68 in the sample.
US09938582B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis, research and therapy, including but not limited to, cancer markers. In particular, the present invention relates to recurrent gene fusions as diagnostic markers and clinical targets for prostate cancer.
US09938579B2
Methods are provided for monitoring a subject having a graft for an acute rejection (AR) response, e.g., to predict, to diagnose, and/or to characterize an AR response. In practicing the subject methods, the expression level of at least one gene in a sample from the subject, e.g., a blood or biopsy sample, is evaluated, e.g., at the nucleic acid and/or protein level, to monitor the subject. Also provided are compositions, systems, kits and computer program products that find use in practicing the subject methods.
US09938576B1
The present invention provides methods and materials useful for determining metabolizer status. Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach using a genotyping panel and integration of genotypes of CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 to assess CYP3A metabolizer status, applicable to all CYP3A substrates, including approximately 40% of all drugs. Algorithms for CYP3A metabolizer status are described. Where the contribution ratios of CYP3A4 and CYP3A5 to overall drug levels or drug effects are known, the algorithm can be used to calculate optimal dosing. Where the contributory ratios to overall drug effects are not available, the contributory ratios can be calculated with use of the genotypes for use in drug development. Embodiments of the present invention can be used in optimizing drug treatments, selecting dose, designing therapeutics, and predicting efficacy.
US09938571B2
Manufacturing methods and compositions are described for production of self-contained microfluidic cartridge devices with on-board reagents for molecular biological testing. Sensitive reagents are stored in dry form without lyophilization or freezing, and reconstituted at the point of use with either a biological sample or a sample eluate at the point of use. Manufacturing methods include sheet and roll fabrication processes where the reagents are printed in place and sealed within individual microfluidic cartridges before gel vitrification.
US09938544B2
The technology relates in part to biological methods for producing a fatty dicarboxylic acid and engineered microorganisms capable of such production.
US09938536B2
Methods and materials for modulating aluminum tolerance in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding aluminum tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased tolerance to aluminum and methods of increasing plant yield in soil containing elevated levels of aluminum.
US09938535B2
Recombinant DNA molecules and constructs useful for modulating gene expression in plants, including molecules derived from Medicago truncatula sequences, are provided. Transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising recombinant DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable DNA molecules are further provided, as are methods of their use.
US09938531B2
The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of a RRM2 gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA or nucleic acid molecules or vectors encoding the same together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by the expression of a RRM2 gene using said pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of RRM2 in a cell.
US09938527B2
The present disclosure relates to an LNA oligonucleotide consisting of a sequence selected from the group consisting of 5′-(Tx)GxGxcsasasgscsastscscsTxGxT-3′ and 5′-(Gx)TxTxascstsgscscststscsTxTxA-3′, wherein capital letters designate a beta-D-oxy-LNA nucleotide analog, small letters designate a 2-deoxynucleotide, underline designates either a beta-D-oxy-LNA nucleotide analog or a 2-deoxynucleotide, subscript “s” designates a phosphorothioate link between neighboring nucleotides/LNA nucleotide analogs, and subscript “x” designates either a phosphorothioate link or a phosphorodiester link between neighboring nucleotides/LNA nucleotide analogs, and wherein the sequence is optionally extended by up to five 2-deoxynucleotide units. The LNA oligonucleotides are useful for modulating the expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1a (HIF-1a), e.g. in the treatment of cancer diseases, inhibiting angiogenesis, inducing apoptosis, preventing cellular proliferation, or treating an angiogenic disease, e.g. diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration (ARMD), psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory diseases.
US09938518B2
Devices are provided for inhibiting the electrical activity of an excitable cell through the application of a pulse of light which includes a substrate and a photoreactive film both of non-conducting material and laid directly on one another, in which the photoreactive film includes a layer of semiconductor polymer material and has an interface surface which can be placed in contact with an excitable cell and an electrolyte solution. After absorbing light, when placed in contact with the excitable cell and the electrolyte solution, the photoreactive film produces a potential difference across this interface surface which is capable of giving rise to hyperpolarization of the membrane of the excitable cell. Methods of inhibiting the electrical activity of excitable cells using such devices are also provided.
US09938517B2
The invention provides small enzyme-containing granules having an inorganic salt core and an enzyme-containing layer coated over the core, and methods for producing such granules. The majority of the enzyme granules are less than 300 μm in diameter. The granules are suitable for incorporation into compositions such as cleaning, textile processing, and animal feed compositions.
US09938516B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for a mutein aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that preferentially charges a tRNA with a non-natural amino acid. Also provided are methods for incorporating the non-natural amino acid, para-methylazido-L-phenylalanine into a protein and further conjugating a biologically active adduct to the para-methylazido-L-phenylalanine.
US09938513B2
The present invention relates to methods of increasing the activity of a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, comprising: adding a soluble activating divalent metal cation to a composition comprising the polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, wherein the presence of the soluble activating divalent metal cation and the polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity increases degradation or conversion of a cellulose-containing material by a cellulolytic enzyme composition compared to the polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity without the soluble activating divalent metal cation. The present invention also relates to compositions, methods for degrading or converting a cellulose-containing material, and methods for producing a fermentation product.
US09938512B2
The present invention relates to an isolated polynucleotide comprising an open reading frame encoding a polypeptide having alpha-amylase activity, the polypeptide selected from the group consisting of: a) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 70% identity with amino acids 22 to 450 of SEQ ID NO: 4; b) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence which has at least 70% identity with the polypeptide encoded by the amylase encoding part of the polynucleotide inserted into a plasmid present in the E. coli host deposited under the Budapest Treaty with DSMZ under accession number DSM 15334; c) a polypeptide encoded by a polynucleotide comprising a nucleotide sequence which has at least 70% identity with the sequence shown from position 68 to 1417 in SEQ ID NO: 3; and d) a fragment of (a), (b) or (c) that has alpha-amylase activity.
US09938507B2
The present invention provides methods of propagating rhinovirus C (RV-C) in a host cell; a host cell comprising an effective amount of a heterologous CDHR3 receptor such that the host cell can support propagation of rhinovirus C; and kits comprising at least one host cell previously unable to support rhinovirus C growth, wherein the host cell comprises a heterologous CDHR3 receptor and a sample of rhinovirus C. Methods of use are also provided.
US09938500B2
Methods of generating and expanding human hemangio-colony forming cells in vitro and methods of expanding and using such cells are disclosed. The methods permit the production of large numbers of hemangio-colony forming cells as well as derivative cells, such as hematopoietic and endothelial cells. The cells obtained by the methods disclosed may be used for a variety of research, clinical, and therapeutic applications.
US09938493B2
A method for producing a single-use cell culture container at least partially made of polymer material, wherein the cell culture container is treated with gamma radiation for sterilization, characterized in that the cell culture container is treated with inert gas and/or a defined amount of oxygen before the irradiation in order to prevent the occurrence of an “extended lag phase”.
US09938490B2
Systems and methods for formulating, tabletizing, and utilizing cleaning tablets, particularly with respect to tube cleaning operations.
US09938486B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of recombinant fatty acid synthesis, particularly in transgenic plants. The application describes genes involved in fatty acid synthesis and provides methods and vectors for the manipulation of fatty acid composition of plant oils. In particular, the invention provides constructs for achieving the integration of multiple heterologous genes involved in fatty acid synthesis into the plant genome, such that the resulting plants produce altered levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Also described are methods for enhancing the expression of fatty acid biosynthesis enzymes by co-expressing a silencing suppressor within the plant storage organ.
US09938476B2
An improved process for deacidizing a gaseous mixture with reduced overall energy costs is described. The process involves contacting the gaseous mixture with at least one of a vaporizing compound, a vaporized compound, a vaporizing solution of compound and a vaporized solution of compound, and forming a liquid or solid reaction product that can be easily separated from the gaseous mixture.
US09938471B2
A process for taking non-treated re-refined vacuum gas oil and pretreating the product before the product is hydrotreated and used for fuel oil blends.
US09938470B2
A multi-component scavenging system containing at least one ester and at least one electron-deficient organic compound, together with or without one or more optional components such as an aldehyde having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms, a ketone having from 4 to 20 carbon atoms, an ether, a solvent, an alkali metal salt of an alkyl or dialkyl phenol, an epoxide, an alkyl anhydride, and mixtures thereof, may be used to scavenge contaminants from hydrocarbon and/or aqueous streams. The contaminants scavenged or otherwise removed may include, but are not necessarily limited to, ammonia, primary amines, secondary or tertiary amines, H2S, mercaptans, sulfide cyanides, and combinations thereof.
US09938464B2
The instant invention relates to mesogenic media comprising one or more compounds of formula G wherein the parameters are as specified in the text, preferably to mesogenic media showing a blue phase, preferably stabilised by a polymer, and their use in electro-optical light modulation elements and their respective use in displays, as well as to such devices.
US09938458B2
A method is for the production of a scintillator fiber. In an embodiment, the method includes provisioning a suspension of a binder dissolved in a solvent and a scintillator material; and pressing the suspension into a precipitation bath in which the binder is insoluble.
US09938451B2
A method for degrading a downhole article includes exposing the downhole article to a composition comprising a corrosive agent selected from an ester, aminocarboxylic acid, or a combination thereof. The method also includes contacting the downhole article with the corrosive agent to degrade the downhole article. Additionally, a composition for degrading a downhole article includes water, salt, and a corrosive agent selected from a reducing sugar, ester, aminocarboxylic acid, or a combination thereof.
US09938447B2
Spacer fluids that are stable at temperatures up to at least 260° C. comprise water, polystyrene sulfonate and a mixture of particulate materials. The particulate materials may be chosen such that the mixture has at least a trimodal particle-size distribution. The fluids may further comprise inorganic clays, mutual solvents and surfactants.
US09938446B2
A wellbore fluid and method of use including grafted block copolymer, wherein the grafted block copolymer comprises at least one poly(vinylaromatic) segment and at least one elastomeric segment. The elastomeric segment can be a polymer from conjugated diene monomers having 4-6 carbons atoms per molecule. The poly(vinylaromatic) segment can be a monovinyl aromatic polysegment. The block copolymers can be a hydrogenated poly(styrene-b-isoprene) (SEP), a hydrogenated poly(styrene-b-butadiene) (SEB), a hydrogenated poly(styrene-b-isoprene/butadiene) (SEEP), a hydrogenated poly(styrene-b-isoprene-b-styrene) (SEPS), a hydrogenated poly(styrene-b-butadiene-b-styrene) (SEBS), or a hydrogenated poly(styrene-b-isoprene/butadiene-b-styrene) (SEEPS).
US09938443B2
A magnesium oxide material includes a magnesium oxide powder treated with a halogen compound and a silane coupling agent. A method of producing a magnesium oxide material includes a step including preparing a magnesium oxide powder, a halogen compound treatment step including subjecting the magnesium oxide powder to a surface treatment with a halogen compound, and a silane coupling agent treatment step including subjecting the magnesium oxide powder to a surface treatment with a silane coupling agent.
US09938418B2
The present invention is generally directed to treated silica particulates for use in ink-jet media coatings, comprising silica particulates being surface-activated by a surface activating agent; the surface active agent including an aluminum chloride hydrate, and where the silica particulates are also reagent-modified by an organosilane reagent; the organosilane reagent including an amine-containing silane.
US09938414B2
The present invention provides a nano phosphatic hybrid geopolymeric corrosion resistant coating material. The tailored precursor of corrosion resistant coating material is obtained by a process involving, together dry grinding of raw materials fly ash, sodium hydroxide, rice husk, tri calcium phosphate and cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide optionally with sodium silicate, in solid powder form. The developed coating material obtained by adding water to tailored precursor contains nano sized phosphatic compounds of Cancrisilite (sodium aluminum carbonate silicate hydrate), quartz, mullite, heamatite, sodium aluminum silicate, Herschelite (sodium aluminum silicate hydrate), Sucrose, α D-Glucose, Native cellulose, and phenol, responsible for providing improved corrosion resistant properties and adhesion to the mild steel substrates. The geo-polymeric coating material is used as an anti-corrosive, heat resistant coating material on various materials e.g. mild steel substrates.
US09938412B2
This invention relates to bis-azo colorants for use as bluing agents, laundry care compositions comprising bis-azo colorants that may serve as bluing agents, processes for making such bluing agents and laundry care compositions and methods of using the same. The bluing agents are generally comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. These bluing agents are advantageous in providing a whitening effect to fabrics, while not building up over time and causing undesirable blue discoloration to the treated fabrics.
US09938404B2
Disclosed are a resin composition for coating a plastic glazing to provide superior scratch resistance and weather resistance and satisfactory compatibility with polycarbonate glass, and a plastic glazing coated with the same. In particular, the resin composition may be suitable for a glazing, for example, a panorama sunroof of a vehicle and the like. In addition, disclosed is a method of economically manufacturing the plastic glazing and the method comprises integrally molding a substrate comprising the resin composition of the present invention, polycarbonate and the like through double injection or double extrusion.
US09938400B2
Thermoplastic polyolefins (TPOs) and/or thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) are blended with low molecular weight propylene-dominated copolymers to provide polymeric compositions with an improved balance between processability and toughness. The compositions have improved processability by facilitating the ease with which a TPO or TPV, usually difficult to melt process, can be processed at high line speeds, which in turn improves the formation of the composition into articles.
US09938398B2
The invention relates to vulcanizable rubber compositions comprising at least the following components: a) at least one functionalized polymer, b) at least one modified polybutadiene having a proportion of cis-1,4 units of >95% by weight and a proportion of 1,2-vinyl content of <1% by weight, the polybutadiene having been modified by means of sulphur chlorides after the polymerization, c) at least one silica, d) at least one further filler, e) at least one vulcanizing agent, f) at least one oil and g) optionally at least one further rubber additive.
US09938397B2
Polymeric compositions comprising as-received organic waste materials comprising an antioxidant component for enhanced thermal stability.
US09938394B2
The present invention relates to the use of a fatty acid (meth)acrylic acid salt in a golf ball layer. The fatty acid (meth)acrylic acid salt may be added to one or more portions of a golf ball including a core, intermediate, or cover layer. For example, in one embodiment, the fatty acid (meth)acrylic acid salt may be blended with a polybutadiene rubber material. In another embodiment, the fatty acid (meth)acrylic acid salt of the present invention may be blended with an ionomer. In some embodiments, the fatty acid (meth)acrylic acid salt may be blended with a formulation including both a polybutadiene rubber component and an ionomer.
US09938392B2
A resin composition includes a cellulose ester resin having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 75,000; sulfuric acid; and at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Group 1 elements and Group 2 elements, wherein a ratio of the sum of the content [M1] of the Group 1 element and the content [M2] of the Group 2 element to the total amount of all the elements according to fluorescent X-ray spectroscopy is 0.052% by weight, and a molar ratio of the content [M1] of the Group 1 element, the content [M2] of the Group 2 element, and the content [S] of sulfur atoms (S) according to fluorescent X-ray spectroscopy satisfies a relationship of Expression 1: ([M1]/2)+[M2]≥1.5×[S].
US09938387B2
The present invention relates to a wiper rubber (10) for a windshield wiper, comprising a wiper rubber substructure (1) with a wiper lip section (2) and a reinforcement section (4), the wiper rubber substructure (1) being uncoated and being formed from ethylene-propylene-diene rubber and/or ethylene-propylene rubber. In order to improve the wear resistance, wiping characteristics and wiping quality of the wiper rubber (10), the surface of the wiper rubber substructure (1) at least in a partial region (2c, 2c′) of the wiper lip section (2) has been treated with ultraviolet radiation. The present invention further relates to a process for producing a wiper rubber, to a correspondingly produced wiper rubber and to a windshield wiper equipped therewith.
US09938383B2
A method for preparing a “preblend” of nano-structured carbon, such as nanotubes, fullerenes, or graphene, and a particulate solid, such as polymer beads, carbon black, graphitic particles or glassy carbon involving wet-mixing and followed by optional drying to remove the liquid medium. The preblend may be in the form of a core-shell powder material with the nano-structured carbon as the shell on the particulate solid core. The preblend may provide particularly improved dispersion of single-wall nanotubes in ethylene-α-olefin elastomer compositions, resulting in improved reinforcement from the nanotubes. The improved elastomer compositions may show simultaneous improvement in both modulus and in elongation at break. The elastomer compositions may be formed into useful rubber articles.
US09938378B2
The invention provides a non-particulate cross-linked poly-ϵ-lysine polymer. The poly-ϵ-lysine and cross linker are linked by amide bonds and may the cross linker has at least two functional groups capable of reacting with an alpha carbon amine of poly-ϵ-lysine. The polymer is suitably insoluble in water and other solvents and is provided in macro form for example a sheet, article or fiber. The macro form polymer is useful in a wide range of applications including wound treatment, as a medical diagnostic comprising a particulate support and a functional material bound or retained by the support and solid phase synthesis of peptides, oligonucleotides, oligosaccharides, immobilization of species, cell culturing and in chromatographic separation.
US09938375B2
The invention relates to a reactor in the form of a VK tube (VK: simplified continuous), for the polymerisation of polyamides, the reactor being subdivided into an upper and lower reactor region, which are controllable independently of each other. Likewise, the invention relates to a method for the production of polyamides in which such a reactor is used.
US09938372B2
Methods and formulations for distortional thermosets are disclosed that display enhanced composite mechanical performances and robust sorption resistance. The composition includes an epoxy resin of formula (I): and a diamine curing agent. The resultant distortional thermoset compositions possess superior out-life requirements and advantageous reaction kinetics for preparing prepreg compositions and materials.
US09938368B2
A method for a polymeric or nanocomposite material. The method includes assembling a multiphase hard-soft structure, where the structure includes a hard micro- or nano-phase, and a soft micro- or nano-phase that includes a polymeric scaffold. In the method, the polymeric scaffold includes dynamically interacting motifs and has a glass transition temperature (Tg) lower than the intended operating temperature of the material.
US09938367B2
Biodegradable, cross-linked polymer particle embolics and methods of making the same are described. The particle embolics can be used as embolization agents.
US09938363B2
The invention relates to methods for isolating and obtaining polychloroprene solids, wherein an aqueous polychloroprene dispersion is brought in contact with steam containing coagulant, whereby the polychloroprene solid coagulates.
US09938347B2
This disclosure provides dimeric, pentameric, and hexameric Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) superfamily receptor protein binding molecules and methods of using such binding molecules to direct apoptosis-mediated killing of TNF receptor-expressing cells.
US09938343B2
For determining the presence and amount of human interleukin 3 (IL-3) in a sample, the present invention provides a diagnostic method, wherein an anti-IL-3-antibody, fragment or construct thereof is added to said sample under conditions which allow for binding said antibody, fragment or construct thereof to IL-3 and detecting the amount of antibody bound IL-3 in said sample, wherein the anti-IL-3-antibody is clone 13. Further subject matter of the present invention are the novel antibody clone 13, a nucleic acid encoding said antibody and a hybridoma cell line which produces antibody clone 13. A diagnostic assay kit contains all necessary reagents and materials for performing such assay, preferably an ELISA assay and especially preferably contains antibody clones 13 and 11.
US09938339B2
The present invention provides antibodies that bind to angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) and methods of using same. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the antibodies are fully human antibodies that bind to human Ang-2. The antibodies of the invention are useful, inter alia, for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with one or more Ang-2 biological activities including angiogenesis.
US09938333B2
Modified human leptin polypeptides and uses thereof are provided.
US09938332B2
The present invention provides a peptide-type compound which induces secretion of growth hormone and which has the activity of increasing the intracellular calcium ion concentration, wherein at least one amino acid is replaced by a modified amino acid and/or a non-amino acid compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09938330B2
The present invention provides devices and methods to separate and concentrate target protein species at a microliter scale and to generate reagents to those variants with exquisite selectivity for specific protein isoforms using only picograms of target material.
US09938318B2
The present invention relates to a method or process for the manufacture of a virus and prion save native fibrinogen concentrate of high purity and low amounts of fibrinopeptide A and fibronectin.
US09938316B2
The present invention relates to digoxin and digitoxin derivatives that are selective inhibitors of the α2 isoform of Na,K-ATPase, and that reduce intra-ocular pressure. The invention further relates to uses of these derivatives for treating disorders associated with elevated intraocular pressure, such as glaucomas, and/or as cardiotonic agents.
US09938314B2
Described herein are 5-position modified cytosine nucleotides and nucleosides as well as phosphoramidites and triphosphates derivatives thereof. Further provided are methods of making and using the same, and compositions and uses of the modified nucleosides as part of a nucleic acid molecule (e.g., aptamer).
US09938313B2
The invention concerns maltitol crystals, characterized in that they have a rectangular parallelepipedal shape and have a length to width dimensional ratio in the range 1.8 to 5.3, preferably 3±0.7, and a process for producing them.
US09938308B2
Electrolyte solutions for flow batteries and other electrochemical systems can contain an active material capable of transferring more than one electron per oxidation-reduction cycle. Such active materials can include coordination compounds containing a metal center and at least one redox non-innocent ligand. Accordingly, flow batteries can include a first half-cell having a first electrolyte solution therein, where the first electrolyte solution contains a coordination compound having at least one redox non-innocent ligand coordinated to a metal center. Particular redox non-innocent ligands can include those bearing a quinone functional group, such as substituted catecholates bearing a quinone functional group. Some active materials can include compositions containing a coordination compound having at least one redox non-innocent ligand coordinated to a metal center, where the at least one redox non-innocent ligand is a substituted catecholate or a salt thereof bearing a quinone functional group.
US09938306B2
Novel fluoroalkysilanes of the following formula are described; Rf—O—CHFCF2—O—(CH2)n—Si(R)xX3−x, wherein Rf is a perfluoroalkyl group, optionally substituted by one or more in-chain -Q-, —S— or —NRf1-heteroatoms, where Rf1 is a -perfluoroalkyl; X is a hydrolysable group; R is a C1C4 alkyl group; n is at least 3; and x is 1 to 3.
US09938297B2
The present invention relates to a novel process for the synthesis of everolimus of formula (I): and intermediates thereof.
US09938290B2
Compounds of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: W is O, N—H, N—(C1-C10 alkyl) or S; each X is independently CH or N; R1 is a 5 to 7-membered saturated or unsaturated, optionally substituted heterocycle containing at least 1 heteroatom selected from N or O; R2 is (LQ)mY; and each R3 is independently H, C1-C10 alkyl, aryl or heteroaryl, are surprisingly found to be inhibitors of PI3K-p110δ, and therefore have utility in therapy.
US09938282B2
Novel intermediates are disclosed as intermediates for preparation of a Sitagliptin. A novel synthetic method to prepare Sitagliptin using the said intermediates is also disclosed.
US09938275B2
Imidazo-quinoline, -pyridine, and -naphthyridine ring systems (particularly quinolines, tetrahydroquinolines, pyridines, [1,5]naphthyridines, [1,5]tetrahydronaphthyridines) substituted at the 1-position with a cyclic substituent, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, methods of making these compounds, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed.
US09938261B2
Provided herein are heterocyclic compounds for treatment of CSF1R, FLT3, KIT, and/or PDGFRβ kinase mediated diseases. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
US09938244B2
The invention relates to a process for manufacturing the compound of formula I wherein R is H, (C1-C6)alkyl or benzyl, or a salt thereof, said process comprising the reaction of the compound of formula I-1 wherein X is Br, Cl or F, or a salt thereof, with the compound of formula I-2 wherein R is H, (C1-C6)alkyl or benzyl, or a salt thereof, in the presence of a base, and, when X is Br or Cl, in the presence of tetra-n-butyl ammonium fluoride hydrate or cesium fluoride. The invention further relates to the compound of formula I-1 and uses thereof.
US09938242B2
A method for producing a compound (3), which comprises allowing a compound (1) to react with hydrogen gas in an inert solvent, in the presence of a specific chiral ligand and a ruthenium catalyst, or in the presence of an asymmetric transition metal complex catalyst previously generated from the chiral ligand and the ruthenium catalyst.
US09938239B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing silodosin with high optical purity up to 99.9% enantiomeric excess (e.e.) or above. The process makes use of a method step, in which the enantiomers contained in a racemic mixture of a compound represented by the general formula V: wherein * denotes the asymmetric center, R1 is a protecting group, and R2 is cyano or carbamoyl, are separated.
US09938235B2
The invention generally relates to compounds of formula (I) with neural protective effect, and preparation and uses thereof. The compounds have multiple mechanisms or functions, for example, inhibition of monoamine oxidase and cholinesterase, scavenging of free radicals, and protection of cells such as nerve cells. The compounds can be used for manufacture of medicaments of cell protection, for prevention and/or treatment of monoamine oxidase, cholinesterase and free radicals related diseases, for example, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and stroke, and free-radical related diseases such as heart disease, myocardial ischemia, diabetes and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
US09938230B2
Esters or salts of 2-hydroxy-4-propyleyclohepta-2,4,6-trienone, and applications thereof in preparation of animal antibacterial agents and growth promoters used in feed. The esters or salts of 2-hydroxy-4-propylcyclohepta-2,4,6-trienone has a structural formula as shown in formula 1 or 2: in formula 1, R1 represents heptadecyl; and in formula 2, L is sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper or manganese. The esters or salts of 2-hydroxy-4-propyleyclohepta-2,4,6-trienone, as shown in formula 1 or 2, have high stability and safety, and good antibacterial and growth promotion effects, which make them preferable to be used as animal antibacterial agents and growth promoters in feed, and have a very good application prospect in the cultivation industry.
US09938228B2
This invention relates to methods for the synthesis of spiro[2.5]octane-5,7-dione and spiro[3.5]nonane-6,8-dione which are useful as intermediates in the manufacture of pharmaceutically active ingredients.
US09938226B2
Alkyl alkanoates, e.g., methyl propionate, are made by a gas phase process comprising the step of contacting under carbonylation conditions an alkene (e.g., ethylene), carbon monoxide, an alkanol (e.g., methanol), and a solid sulfide-based metal catalyst (e.g., iron sulfide). The alkyl alkanoate can be converted in a second step to an alkyl ester of an aliphatic carboxylic acid, e.g., methyl methacrylate, through condensation with an aldehyde, e.g., formaldehyde.
US09938212B2
Disclosed is an integrated manufacturing process to co-produce (E) 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, (E) 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoro-propane starting from a single starting feed material or a mixture of unsaturated hydrochlorocarbon feed materials comprising 1,1,1,3-tetrachloropropene and/or 1,1,3,3-tetrachloropropene. The process includes a combined liquid or vapor phase reaction/purification operation which directly produces (E) 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro-propene (1233zd (E)) from these feed materials, which may also include 240fa. In the second liquid phase fluorination reactor 1233zd (E) is contacted with HF in the presence of catalyst to produce 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane (245fa) with high conversion and selectivity. A third reactor is used for dehydrofluorination of 245fa to produce (E) 1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (1234ze (E)) by contacting in the liquid phase with a caustic solution or in the vapor phase using a dehydrofluorination catalyst. This operation may be followed by one or more purification processes to recover the 1234ze (E) product.
US09938209B2
This invention provides a method for producing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene or 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, which is a precursor of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, in two or three reaction steps, using at least one chlorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane, 2,3-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoropropane, and 1,1,2,3-tetrachloropropene as a starting material, the reaction products of at least two of the steps being supplied to the same distillation apparatus to subject the products to a separation operation simultaneously. With this method, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene or 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane, which is a precursor of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, can be efficiently produced with reduced energy and equipment costs in an economically advantageous manner.
US09938204B2
Reaction mixtures for silvlating arene substrates and methods of using such reaction mixtures to silyiate the arene substrates are provided. Exemplary reaction mixtures include the arene substrate, a liganded metal catalyst, a hydrogen acceptor and an organic solvent. The reaction conditions allow for diverse substituents on the arene substrate.
US09938199B1
A foam concrete has constituents that include a cement, a sand, a coarse aggregate having a density in a range of 1400-1600 kg/m3, a water, and a foam solution. The foam solution includes a foaming agent and a foaming water. The foam concrete has a compressive strength of at least 20 MPa, a thermal conductivity of less than 0.40 W/mK and a maximum dry weight of 2000 kg/m3.
US09938198B2
Integrated ceramic matrix composite components for use in gas turbine engines are disclosed along with methods for making the same. The methods include coinfiltrating a greenbody assembly with ceramic matrix to produce an integrated component.
US09938189B2
The invention provides novel pervious composite materials that possess excellent physical and performance characteristics of conventional pervious concretes, and methods of production and uses thereof. These composite materials can be readily produced from widely available, low cost raw materials by a process suitable for large-scale production with improved energy consumption, desirable carbon footprint and minimal environmental impact.
US09938188B2
To produce cement clinker by baking of raw meal in a kiln, use is conventionally made of a raw meal preheater in which the heat of the flue gas emerging from the kiln is transferred to the raw meal. In order to remove impurities which accumulate in circulation between the kiln and the raw meal preheater, a part of the flue gas is extracted from the kiln, bypassing the raw meal preheater. The heat generated during the baking of cement clinker can be used particularly efficiently if the flue gases extracted and diverted past the raw meal preheater are used in a boiler to generate hot steam which can subsequently be expanded in a turbine.
US09938186B2
Strengthened glass articles having laser etched features, electronic devices, and methods of fabricating etched features in strengthened glass articles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a strengthened glass article includes a first strengthened surface layer and a second strengthened surface layer under a compressive stress and extending from a first surface and a second surface, respectively, of the strengthened glass article to a depth of layer, and a central region between the first strengthened surface layer and the second strengthened surface layer that is under tensile stress. The strengthened glass article further includes at least one etched feature formed by laser ablation within the first surface or the second surface having a depth that is less than the depth of layer and a surface roughness that is greater than a surface roughness of the first surface or second surface outside of the at least one etched feature.
US09938178B2
According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a glass article having a three-dimensional shape includes heating a glass article blank to a temperature above a setting temperature and coupling the glass article blank to an open-faced mold. The open-faced mold includes a molding region that has a three-dimensional shape that generally corresponds to the shape of the glass article and has an anisothermal temperature profile within the molding region. The method further includes maintaining an anisothermal temperature profile along the glass article blank and cooling the glass article blank while the glass article blank is coupled to the molding region of the open-faced mold to set the shape of the glass article.
US09938177B2
Apparatus for producing a glass ribbon includes a convection cooling device including at least one vacuum source configured to promote convection cooling of the glass ribbon by forcing a cooling fluid to flow along the glass ribbon. In further examples, methods of producing glass ribbon include the step of creating a vacuum to promote convection cooling of the glass ribbon by forcing a cooling fluid to flow along the glass ribbon.
US09938175B2
The present invention relates to a bio-assisted method for treatment of spent caustic by treating with haloalkaliphilic consortium of bacteria capable of reducing or transforming sulphides, thiols, mercaptants and other sulphur containing compounds, phenols, hydrocarbons, naphthenic acids and their derivatives in spent caustic.
US09938171B2
A base product fluid is produced by adding anhydrous liquid ammonia and a first portion of sulfuric acid to water in a process line to form a mixed fluid. The mixed fluid may be cooled and a second portion of sulfuric acid may be added to the mixed fluid to form the base product fluid. The base product fluid may include a molecular compound that is a chelating compound. The molecular compound may have the formula: ((NH4)2SO4)a.(H2SO4)b.(H2O)c.(NH4HSO4)x. In the formula, a may be between 1 and 5, b may be between 1 and 5, c may be between 1 and 5, and x may be between 1 and 10.
US09938169B2
A method and an apparatus for treating a fluid are disclosed. The apparatus includes a cylindrical chamber of non-magnetic material for holding a volume of fluid to be treated. The fluid contains a quantity of magnetic particles, preferably nanoparticles, having desired properties for treating the fluid. The apparatus includes a magnetic field generator for creating a non-static magnetic field within the chamber, thereby to induce motion in the magnetic particles within the chamber in use. The chamber has an inlet through which fluid to be treated can be introduced, and an outlet through which treated fluid can be removed from the chamber. Sets of windings are disposed concentrically about the chamber and arranged to create a rotating magnetic field within the chamber. Preferably the rotating magnetic field rotates in the opposite sense to swirling rotation of the fluid in the chamber. This enhances contact between the nano-particles and the fluid to be treated.
US09938168B2
The apparatus for water treatment using in-situ activation of a manganese dioxide catalyst includes: a reaction bath configured to give a space where aqueous organic contaminants are removed by means of reaction with permanganate (MnO4−) generated by electrochemical oxidation of manganese oxide (MnO2); a plurality of manganese dioxide catalysts provided at the reaction bath and electrochemically oxidized into permanganate (MnO4−) by a voltage applied thereto; and a power supply device configured to apply power to the manganese dioxide catalyst so that the manganese dioxide (MnO2) is electrochemically oxidized into permanganate (MnO4−).
US09938160B2
Liquid filtration apparatus, comprising a filter cartridge adapted to mount within a dispensing apparatus, the apparatus comprising a lever operated cam mechanism for locking and unlocking the cartridge into and out of place.
US09938157B2
Provided is a method of encapsulating a metal in a zeolite. The method comprises inserting a metal precursor into a parent zeolite, and then converting the parent zeolite to a zeolite having a higher framework density than the parent zeolite. The conversion is achieved without the need of an organic structure directing agent.
US09938154B2
A precipitated silica production process that includes a precipitation reaction between a silicate and an acid is described, in which the acid used in at least one of the steps of the process is a concentrated acid.
US09938150B2
The present invention relates to a preparation method of graphene oxide based on anthracite. The method consists of the following steps. a. Preparation of ultra-clean anthracite powder; b. Pretreatment of ultra-clean anthracite powder; c. Preparation of anthracite oxide dispersion; d. Preparation of graphene oxide colloid solution; e. Preparation of graphene oxide. The invention also relates to a preparation method of graphene using graphene oxide obtained by method mentioned before. The method consists of the following steps. f. Preparation of graphene oxide-dispersant solution; g. Reduction of graphene oxide; h. Obtaining graphene by suction filtration and drying process. Based on the preparation of anthracite, the invention could reduce production costs effectively comparing to traditional preparation methods of graphene and graphene oxide, and make the reaction more fast and complete, facilitating the achievement of large scale industrial production.
US09938144B2
The invention relates to a process for producing synthesis gas, in which carbon and hydrogen are obtained from hydrocarbon by thermal decomposition. At least a portion of the carbon obtained by the thermal decomposition is reacted, and at least a portion of the hydrogen obtained is reacted with carbon dioxide by a reverse water-gas shift reaction to give carbon monoxide and water. Carbon obtained by the thermal hydrocarbon decomposition is used as fuel in a power plant operation wherein the carbon is combusted to produce electrical power, and carbon dioxide formed in the combustion of the carbon is used in the reverse water-gas shift reaction.
US09938137B2
Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) structures, methods of manufacture and design structures are disclosed. The method includes forming a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) beam structure by venting both tungsten material and silicon material above and below the MEMS beam to form an upper cavity above the MEMS beam and a lower cavity structure below the MEMS beam.
US09938129B2
A plastic keg includes a liner including a neck portion and a body portion. A lid having an opening is disposed at least partially over the liner. A retainer is secured to the neck portion of the liner and aligned with the opening in the lid, the retainer including external threads. A locking ring having internal threads is secured to the external threads of the retainer. The internal threads of the locking ring and the external threads of the retainer include a ratcheting mechanism permitting attachment of the locking ring to the retainer and inhibiting removal of the locking ring from the retainer, the locking ring contacting the lid. A beer keg valve assembly includes a port having a head portion having a convex upper surface and at least one leg extending downwardly from a lower surface. The leg includes a stop surface projecting radially outward further than the head portion. A piston defines an opening. A spring biases the port against a periphery of the opening defined by the piston to seal the convex upper surface of the head portion over the opening.
US09938119B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for retrofitting a pedestal crane, the method comprising removing an existing motor generator controller for a motor in the pedestal crane; and replacing the motor generator controller with a digital controller.
US09938115B2
A system and method for providing a protective extra low voltage power supply in an elevator system (2) is disclosed. The power supply system (10) may include a switch mode power supply (12) configured to provide an output voltage, a first voltage monitor (18) and a second voltage monitor (20). Each of the first voltage monitor (18) and the second voltage monitor (20) may be configured to receive the output voltage and determine an over-voltage condition at the switch mode power supply (12).
US09938109B2
A method for producing a sealing tape roll of flexible, compressed foam with at least one barrier layer extending in a radial direction thereof, the at least one barrier layer arranged axially between two layers of foam, comprises assembling and bonding of at least one first foam strip, which is provided on at least one of its side surfaces with a film strip, an adhesive tape strip, or an adhesive liquid medium, to at least one second foam strip in such a way that a foam-barrier layer web is obtained, in which at least one barrier layer originating from the film strip, the adhesive tape strip, or the adhesive liquid medium is arranged between adjacent foam strips. The foam-barrier layer web is then wound up into a sealing tape roll.
US09938107B2
A medium discharge device includes a discharge roller pair that is provided with a discharge driving roller and a discharge driven roller which drivably rotates in contact with the discharge driving roller, and a medium receiving tray which receives the medium that is fed and discharged by the discharge roller pair, in which the medium receiving tray includes a guide member which guides such that a tip end of the medium which is discharged from the discharge roller pair enters the medium mounting surface at a predetermined angle, and the guide member is provided to be elastically displaceable in an advancing and retreating direction with respect to the medium mounting surface of the medium receiving tray and is displaced in a direction coming close to the medium mounting surface according to raising of a pressing load due to the medium that is discharged to the medium receiving tray.
US09938102B2
A sheet conveying apparatus including: a locking member having an abutment surface abutting a sheet to correct skew feed of the sheet; a holding member configured to hold the locking member to rotate from a waiting position when the locking member is pushed by the sheet; a roller pair configured to nip the sheet abutting the abutment surface; a first urging portion configured to urge the holding member to the waiting position; a movable support portion configured to support the locking member in a manner that the locking member is located a retracted position where the locking member contacts a surface of the sheet and allows the sheet to pass; and a second urging portion configured to urge the locking member to a position where the abutment surface abuts a succeeding sheet.
US09938100B2
A system and method of detecting the presence of metallic objects in media to be conveyed in a medium transport system is disclosed. One or more metal detectors are included in the medium transport system to detect the presence of metal in the medium being transported. Signals from the metal detectors are sent to a system processor, which analyzes the signals, and produces proximity, duration, and/or intensity values therefrom. One or more microphones may also be included which detect the sound created as the medium is being transported. The processor computes sound values from the microphone signals, and analyzes the computed sound values along with the proximity, duration, and/or intensity values in order determine if the conveyance of the medium along the transport path should be stopped due to the presence of metal in the media or a jam occurring within the medium transport path.
US09938098B2
A roller drive transmission device includes a drive input gear, a drive transmission gear, a roller unit and a ratchet mechanism. When a rotational drive force is input to the drive input gear and the drive transmission gear is slid to a first position, the drive input gear, the drive transmission gear and the roller unit are integrally rotated in a first rotational direction. When the input of the rotational drive force to the drive input gear is cut off and the roller unit is rotated, following a sheet, the drive transmission gear is slid to a second position and the roller unit and the drive transmission gear are decoupled. The ratchet mechanism includes a load adjustment mechanism configured to make a rotational load in the first rotational direction of the drive transmission gear arranged at the second position larger than a movement load in an axial direction.
