US09045719B1
The invention relates to compositions and methods of treatment employing compositions including a cationic polyelectrolyte, without any anionic polyelectrolytes, so that no polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) is formed. In addition to not forming PECs, and being free of anionic water-soluble polymers (i.e., an anionic polyelectrolyte polymer that could form a PEC with the cationic polyelectrolyte), the composition is also free of random copolymers, block copolymers, coacervates, precipitates, and silicone copolymers. The composition may be a concentrate, to be diluted prior to use to treat a surface.
US09045712B2
In alternative embodiments, the invention provides phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) enzymes, nucleic acids encoding them, antibodies that bind specifically to them, and methods for making and using them. Industrial methods and products comprising use of these phospholipases are also provided. In certain embodiments, provided herein are methods for hydration of non hydratable phospholipids (NHPs) within a lipid matrix. The methods enable migration of NHPs to an oil-water interface thereby allowing the NHPs to be reacted and/or removed from the lipids. In certain embodiments, provided is a method for removing NHPs, hydratable phospholipids, and lecithins from vegetable oils to produce a degummed oil or fat product that can be used for food production and/or non-food applications. In certain embodiments, provided herein are methods for hydration of NHPs followed by enzymatic treatment and removal of various phospholipids and lecithins. The methods provided herein can be practiced on either crude or water-degummed oils.
US09045704B2
A gasification reactor for producing crude gas, containing CO or H2, by gasification of ash-containing fuel with oxygen-containing gas, at temperatures above the melting temperature of the ash, has a reaction chamber formed by a membrane wall through which coolant flows, within a pressure container, is provided, with a narrowing transition channel into a gas cooling chamber, and spin-reducing, cooled bulkheads in the transition channel. The, wall that carries the bulkheads makes a transition, below the bulkheads, into a cylinder wall that is reduced in diameter, by way of a step having a corrugated surface. The cylinder wall, which is reduced in diameter, is enclosed by a further cylindrical wall, which is enlarged in diameter, which wall forms a second slag drip edge at its end, in the direction of gravity. The further cylindrical wall is disposed to be adjustable in its vertical position, with reference to the first drip edge.
US09045702B2
A process for production of a lubricating base oil whereby a lubricating base oil is obtained by a first step in which a stock oil containing normal paraffins of C20 or more is subjected to isomerization reaction so that the content of the normal paraffins of C20 or more is 6-20 wt % based on the total weight of hydrocarbons of C20 or more in the obtained reaction product, a second step in which a lube-oil fraction containing hydrocarbons of C20 or more is separated from the reaction product of the first step, and a third step in which the lube-oil fraction obtained in the second step is separated into a dewaxed oil and a wax by a solvent dewaxing treatment.
US09045701B2
The invention describes a method of treating feeds from renewable sources comprising: a hydrotreatment stage a) comprising at least two catalytic zones in which the entry stream comprising said feed mixed with at least a part of a hydrotreated liquid effluent from stage b) is introduced into the first catalytic zone at a temperature comprised between 150 and 260° C., and the effluent from the first catalytic zone is then introduced, mixed with at least a part of a hydrotreated liquid effluent from stage b) and preheated, into the following catalytic zone or zones at a temperature comprised between 260 and 320° C., a stage b) of separation of the effluent from the hydrotreatment stage a) permitting the separation of a gaseous effluent and of a hydrotreated liquid effluent of which at least a part is recycled upstream from each catalytic zone of stage a).
US09045698B2
Methods for processing algal oils are provided. In an embodiment, a method for removing a contaminant from an oil includes contacting the oil with a base to form an intermediate solution. Further, the method includes contacting the intermediate solution with an acid to form an acidic solution. The method separates the acidic solution into an oil portion and an aqueous waste portion including the contaminant.
US09045696B2
Solid carboniferous fuels contain varying quantities of moisture, mercury, chlorine, nitrogen, sulfur, heavy metals and other materials that attain vapor pressure at elevated temperatures. The cost effective removal of these degrading and sometimes hazardous materials is important to the further use of the fuel for combustion via chemical looping to prevent contamination of the oxygen carrier medium. The solid fuel is cut, shredded, ground or sieved to appropriate size, and heated in a chamber that can exclude oxygen and air thus preventing ignition. The unwanted materials are driven in the gaseous state and extracted for recycling or safe disposal. The solid fuel cleaned of pollutants exits the chamber and is cooled below ignition temperature prior to contact with oxygen. The solid fuel thus purified is more appropriate for combustion via chemical looping.
US09045690B2
A silicate luminescent material and the production method thereof are provided. The chemical formula of the silicate luminescent material is Re4-xTbxMgSi3O13, wherein Re is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, Gd, La, Lu and Sc, and 0.05≦≦x≦1. The silicate luminescent material has a short afterglow of 2.13 ms, and it can emit strong green light under the vacuum ultraviolet excitation. Additionally, the silicate luminescent material has stable physical and chemical properties. The production method for producing the silicate luminescent material is simple and cost-efficient.
US09045685B2
A molded part having a predetermined shape is provided. The molded part may be formed by casting a liquid crystalline polymer composition into a mold cavity at a relatively low shear rate. Due to the use of a relatively low shear rate, the polymer composition does not generally undergo extensive shear orientation, which can allow the resulting part to be further processed using standard finishing techniques. The ability to use relatively low shear rates during casting is achieved in the present invention through the use of an aromatic amide oligomer. More particularly, the present inventors have discovered that the aromatic amide oligomer can serve as a flow aid by altering intermolecular polymer chain interactions, thereby lowering the overall viscosity of the polymer matrix to “ultralow” levels without having a significant impact on the mechanical properties.
US09045683B2
The present invention relates to polymerizable compounds, to processes and intermediates for the preparation thereof, and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in liquid-crystal (LC) media and LC displays, especially in LC displays of the PS (“polymer sustained”) or PSA (“polymer sustained alignment”) type.
US09045681B2
According to the present invention there is provided a carrier formulation adapted to operatively support a preservative or preservative mixture within a material for treating wood, said carrier formulation comprising water and one or more water-miscible, water-soluble or water-emulsifiable compounds wherein said carrier formulation provides for preservative penetration and substantial preservative retention within the treated wood; and wherein the treated wood requires relatively little post-treatment drying. The carrier formulation provides for substantially complete or envelope penetration of the preservative within the treated wood.
US09045679B2
A composition including an inorganic core and a europium and yttrium oxide or gadolinium shell uniformly covering the inorganic core at a thickness greater than or equal to 300 nm is described. A phosphor including the composition is also described. In addition a process of forming the composition by: forming a suspension including the inorganic core with pH of 8 to 11; adding a solution including a europium salt and yttrium or gadolinium salt to the suspension and maintaining the pH of the reaction medium at a constant value; and separating the formed solid and calcining the same to a temperature of at most 1000° C. is described.
US09045677B1
A composition including HCl, urea, complex substituted keto-amine-hydrochloride, an alcohol, an ethoxylate, and a ketone is provided in a method for solubilizing calcium carbonate in an aqueous suspension or dispersion of calcium carbonate.
US09045672B2
The present invention is a composition comprising: a) one or more isocyanate functional prepolymers; b) one or more compounds containing a cycloaliphatic tertiary amine; c) one or more compounds containing a peroxide group; and d) one or more acrylate containing components. The system can be used in the form of a two part adhesive or in the form of a one part adhesive and an activator adapted to be applied to the surface of one or more of the substrates to which the adhesive is to be bonded.
US09045670B2
The present invention realizes a display device or input device having excellent ultraviolet protection property for the touch panel, display element or the like, while retaining optical characteristics, even when a small amount of or no optical film is used. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the present invention has a total light transmittance of 85% or more, a light transmittance at a wavelength of 380 nm of 5% or less, and a haze of 3% or less. The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet preferably includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer containing an acrylic polymer and a triazine-based ultraviolet absorber.
US09045666B2
A water-dispersible polyurethane polymer useful in coating applications preferably includes a backbone having urethane linkages and at least one cycloaliphatic group having a closed aliphatic ring structure. Ethylenically unsaturated groups are preferably provided on the polyurethane polymer.
US09045657B2
A viscoelastic ink for direct writing of hydrogel structures includes a long chain polymer and a photopolymerizable moiety, which may be a photopolymerizable monomer or a photopolymerizable group attached to the long chain polymer. The ink may also include a crosslinking agent, a photoinitiator, and water. The long chain polymer is present at a concentration greater than a critical overlap concentration c* of the long chain polymer in the ink.
US09045651B2
Disclosed herein is an article comprising a substrate; a polymer disposed upon the substrate; the polymer having a number average molecular weight of about 2,000 to about 5,000 grams per mole; where each polymer is separated from a neighboring polymer by an average distance of 2.5 Angstroms to 5,000 Angstroms. Disclosed herein is a method comprising disposing upon a substrate a polymer; the polymer having a number average molecular weight of 2,000 to about 5,000 grams per mole.
US09045647B2
A surface treatment composition comprises a polyfluoropolyether silane. The polyfluoropolyether silane and the surface treatment composition are produced by reacting a perfluoropolyether-containing compound and a hydrosilane in the presence of a hydrosilylation catalyst and an isomer reducing agent.
US09045646B2
The present invention relates to an insulating composition for a substrate including a soluble liquid crystal thermosetting oligomer, a metal alkoxide, a graphene oxide, and a short fiber, and an insulating material and a substrate using the same. The insulating composition in accordance with the present invention can effectively reduce the coefficient of thermal expansion by the addition of the metal alkoxide and the graphene oxide. Therefore, it is possible to provide a substrate material with greatly increased strength and rigidity by the addition of the short fiber as well as to manufacture a substrate with improved thermal stability by using the insulating composition in accordance with the present invention as an insulating material of the substrate to minimize dimensional deformation due to heat.
US09045643B2
A bright pigment of the present invention includes a scaly inorganic base 10, a silver-containing coating 11 that covers the inorganic base 10 and contains silver or a silver alloy, and a yellowing-suppressing coating 2 that covers the inorganic base 10 from outside of the silver-containing coating 11 and contains a metal compound functioning as an oxidizing agent. The metal compound is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of a hydroxide of metal, an oxide hydrate of metal, and a salt of an oxide hydrate of metal, and the metal is at least one selected from the group consisting of tungsten, molybdenum, bismuth, vanadium, or cerium.
US09045640B2
Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a polyphenylene ether sulfone and a resorcinol based silicone aryl polyester carbonate copolymer wherein greater than or equal to 50 mol % of copolymer repeating units are ester units derived from resorcinol, based on the total molar amount of all repeating units in the polymer and wherein the blend has less than 1 weight percent polycarbonate, based on the total weight of the composition, has FAR 25.853 peak heat release of less than 60 KW/m2 and time to peak heat release of greater than or equal to 120 seconds.
US09045639B2
A curable composition comprises the following: (A) a polymer having at least two silicon-bonded alkenyl groups and having an average unit formula (I′): (R12SiO2/2)a1(R23SiO1/2)b1(CH2CH2)e1; (B) a branched organopolysiloxane having at least one silicon-bonded alkenyl group and having a siloxane unit of formula R4SiO3/2; (C) an organopolysiloxane having an average unit formula (II) being capped with H: (R52SiO2/2)f(R63SiO1/2)g(R7SiO3/2)h(SiO4/2)i(CH2CH2)j; and (D) a catalyst, wherein R1, R2 and R4 to R7 and a1, b1, e1 and f to j are as defined in the specification.
US09045633B1
A thermoplastic polycarbonate resin composition may include about 50 to about 70 wt % of a polycarbonate resin; about 5 to about 20 wt % of a vinyl cyanide compound-conjugated diene-vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon copolymer; about 10 to about 30 wt % of a polyester resin; about 3 to about 15 wt % of a maleimide-based copolymer; about 2 to about 10 wt % of an impact modifier; and about 0.1 to about 1.0 wt % of a nucleating agent, wherein the polycarbonate resin has a melt index of about 2 to about 20 g/10 min (300° C., 2.16 kg). The thermoplastic polycarbonate resin composition has excellent chemical resistance and mechanical properties.
US09045628B2
The invention provides a process to form an ethylene-based polymer composition, the process comprising at least the following: Step 1: polymerizing a first ethylene-based polymer in the presence of at least one molecular catalyst and a hydrocarbon chain transfer agent, and at a polymerization pressure of at least 14,000 psi; Step 2: polymerizing a second ethylene-based polymer.
US09045621B2
A liquid crystalline polyester composition containing at least 100 parts by weight of liquid crystalline polyester (A) and 10 to 100 parts by weight of talc (B). The talc (B) has a ratio (a1/a2) of oil absorption (a1) ml/100 g to specific surface area (a2) m2/g in a range of 14.0 to 26.0 (ml·g)/(100 g·m2) and has a number-average particle diameter of 10 to 30 μm.
US09045606B2
The present invention is directed toward a method for making a polymer that has nanostructures incorporated into the matrix of the polymer. The method of the present invention involves mixing a precursor solution for the polymer with a precursor for the nanostructures to form a mixture. Nanostructures are formed in the mixture from the precursor of the nanostructures, such that the nanostructures are surrounded by the precursor solution for the polymer. The polymer is formed from the precursor solution of the polymer, which results in the nanostructures being incorporated into the matrix of the polymer.
US09045605B2
A method of producing a low-dust, fire retardant cellulose fiber material useful in producing insulation and other such products is provided. A liquid, comprising a solvent and at least one fire-retarding material soluble in that solvent, is applied to a cellulose source material, and the liquid is allowed to permeate into the cellulose source material. The liquid permeated material is dried to remove the solvent while the fire-retardant material remains in the cellulose source material. The dried fire-retardant cellulose source material is reduced in size and then de-dusted to produce a low to no dust, fire-retardant cellulose fiber material that has functionally equivalent fire-retardant properties as the dried fire-retardant cellulose source material before de-dusting.
US09045600B2
Molded articles of pure keratin protein, keratin copolymers or crosslinked keratin proteins are produced from a wetted protein powder by application of compression and optionally heat. Stabile materials can be molded or machined.
US09045595B2
A process for recovering polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from cellular biomass of bacteria, said biomass being obtained by fermentation and in the form of a cellular biomass slurry in aqueous suspension, comprising the steps of: submitting the slurry to operations of injection of PHA solvent, agitation and heating, in order to form a suspension comprising PHA solvent with the dissolved PHA, water and insoluble residues; recuperating the solvent enriched with PHA; rapidly cooling the solution of PHA solvent to precipitate the dissolved PHA; micro-filtrating the suspension of PHA precipitated in the solvent, in order to separate a paste concentrated with precipitated PHA; washing with water, heating and agitating the concentrated PHA paste, to promote evaporation of the solvent and to obtain a suspension containing PHA granules; agitating and shearing the PHA granules and depleting the residual solvent; and separating the purified PHA particles from the suspension.
US09045593B1
The present invention is directed to a series of silicone containing polymers that contain photostabilizers that act as photo stabilizers for Ultra Violet radiation. The polymers of the present invention are multi functional sun screening additives that allow in addition to photostabilizing the active sunscreen agent found in sunscreens, additionally provide high levels of UV protection in a cosmetically elegant base. The photostabilizing compositions are derived from a tricarboxylic triazine compound.
US09045592B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of polyether carbonate polyols from one or more alkylene oxides, carbon dioxide and optionally from one or more H-functional starter substances in the presence of at least one double metal cyanide catalyst, wherein the double metal cyanide catalyst comprises an unsaturated alcohol as a complexing ligand.
US09045589B2
The present invention relates to a drawn PET fiber that can provide a cap ply cord and the like showing more improved modulus and good dimensional stability, a PET tire cord, and a tire including the same. The drawn PET fiber may be a fiber including 90 mol % or more of PET, of which the crystallinity is 53% or more, the amorphous orientation factor (AOF) is 0.15 or less, and the birefringence index is 0.14 to 0.16, after heat-treating the same at 230° C. for 1 minute under the initial load of 20 g/1000 d.
US09045582B2
Cross-linked rubbery polyurethane-ether polymeric membranes are made from cross-linked rubbery polyurethane-ether polymers that are synthesized from a diisocyanate-terminated polyether and a tetrol with four hydroxyl functional groups. The hydroxyl groups on the tetrol react with the isocyanate groups on the diisocyanate-terminated polyether to form urethane bonds. The cross-linked rubbery polyurethane-ether polymeric membrane selectively permeate condensable vapors such as C3 to C35 hydrocarbons, aromatics, water vapor, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide and rejects methane and ethane. The cross-linked rubbery polyurethane-ether polymeric membrane have high permeance for condensable vapors, high selectivity for condensable vapors over methane and ethane, and high resistance to liquid chemicals.
US09045580B2
A foam-molded polyurethane foam for a seat pad, particularly for a vehicle, that reduces both shakiness and stress relaxation is provided. The polyurethane foam contains a foaming liquid containing (A) a polyol, (B) a polyisocyanate, (C) water and (D) a catalyst. The polyol (A) contains from 40 to 50% by mass of (a-1) a polyether polyol having a molar ratio of repeating units derived from ethylene oxide and propylene oxide of from 5/95 to 25/75 and a number average molecular weight of from 6,000 to 8,000, and from 5 to 15% by mass of (a-2) a polyether polyol having a molar ratio of repeating units derived from ethylene oxide and propylene oxide of from 0/100 to 20/80 and a number average molecular weight of from 600 to 2,000. The amount of water (C) is 2.0 parts by mass or more per 100 parts by mass of the polyol (A).
US09045579B2
The invention provides a class of wedge-type block copolymers having a plurality of chemically different blocks, at least a portion of which incorporates a wedge group-containing block providing useful properties. For example, use of one or more wedge group-containing blocks in some block copolymers of the invention significantly inhibits chain entanglement and, thus, the present block copolymers materials provide a class of polymer materials capable of efficient molecular self-assembly to generate a range of structures, such as periodic nanostructures and microstructures. Materials of the present invention include copolymers having one or more wedge group-containing blocks, and optionally for some applications copolymers also incorporating one or more polymer side group-containing blocks. The present invention also provides useful methods of making and using wedge-type block copolymers.
US09045574B2
It is an object to provide a lubricating oil composition having low-temperature properties and fuel efficiency at high temperatures which are superior to those of conventional lubricating oil compositions, and to provide a viscosity modifier for lubricating oils and an additive composition for lubricating oils which are used for obtaining said composition. The viscosity modifier for lubricating oils of the present invention comprises a propylene copolymer (A) which has a density of 875 kg/m3 or less and which comprises 60 mole % or more of structural unit derived from propylene.
US09045571B2
A method for manufacturing polyethylene or an ethylene copolymer, including a step of free radical polymerization or copolymerization of the ethylene at an initiation temperature varying from 150° C. to 200° C., at a pressure varying from 500 to 3000 bar, in the presence of a peroxidic polymerization initiator selected from among the peroxide compounds of formula (I) in which R1 and R8 are, separately, a C2-C6 alkyl group; R2, R3, R6 and R7 are, separately, a C1-C5 alkyl group; and R4 and R5 are, separately, a C1-C6 alkyl group.
US09045566B2
A method for the manufacture of an agarose separation gel: The method is characterized in comprising the steps of: i) providing a solution of agar, and ii) one, two or more substeps (ii.A, ii.B, ii.C etc) which each comprises desulphating thereby transforming agar to agarose having a degree of substitution of sulphate groups that is at most 75% of the degree of substitution of sulphate groups in native agar, iii) gelling the dissolved agar prior to step (ii) and/or securing so that the desulphated agar is in gel form at least after one or more of the substeps of step (ii), and imperatively after step (ii). An agarose separation gel that exhibits a. a plurality of methoxy groups each of which are at the same position as in native agar and with a degree of substitution in the range of 1-100% of the degree of substitution of native agar, and b. sulphate groups with a degree of substitution which is <75% of the degree of substitution for sulphate groups in native agar.
US09045558B2
Modified, furin resistant human TSLP polypeptides and polynucleotides encoding the modified human TSLP polypeptides are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions, B and T cell activation agents, assays and methods of use are also described.
US09045554B2
This document relates to methods and materials for using nucleic acid and amino acid sequence variants of ribonucleic acid binding motif protein 20 (RBM20). For example, methods and materials for using nucleic acid sequence variants and/or their corresponding amino acid variants of RBM20 that are associated with dilated cardiomyopathy to identify mammals (e.g., humans) at risk of having dilated cardiomyopathy that is likely to progress to heart failure are provided.
US09045549B2
The invention provides methods for modifying lignin, cellulose, xylan, and hemicellulose content in plants, and for achieving ectopic lignification and, for instance, secondary cell wall synthesis in pith cells, by altered regulation of a WRKY transcription factor. Nucleic acid constructs for altered WRKY-TF expression are described. Transgenic plants are provided that comprise modified pith cell walls, and lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose content. Plants described herein may be used, for example, as improved biofuel feedstock and as highly digestible forage crops.
US09045546B2
The present invention provides molecules that bind to TMEM16A (“TMEM16A binding molecules”), particularly human or humanized antibodies and antibody drug conjugates that bind to human TMEM16A and modulate its functions. Epitopes of TMEM16A and molecules that bind these epitopes are also provided herein.
US09045543B2
The present invention discloses a humanized anti-CD20 antibody, which comprises a heavy chain comprising a polypeptide according to one of SEQ ID NO: 15, SEQ ID NO: 16, or SEQ ID NO: 36; and a light chain comprising apolypeptide according to one of SEQ ID NO: 34, SEQ ID NO: 35, or SEQ ID NO: 37. Comparing to murine-derived antibodies and human-mouse chimeric antibodies, said humanized anti-CD20 antibody maintains or improves high binding activity of the variable regions, meanwhile reduces the immunogenicity of chimeric antibodies, consequently achieves the effect of reducing medicine side effects and improving clinical treatment. The antibody disclosed by the present invention is efficiently expressed in animal cells, can be used for industrial production. It could be used in treating B cell lymphoma, leukaemia, or B cell-associated autoimmune disease with a wide application prospect.
US09045538B2
The present invention relates to a single chain variable fragment (scFv 9O12.2) directed against human glycoprotein VI, constituted of the VH and VL domains of 9 O12.2.2 monoclonal antibody linked via a (Gly4Ser)3 peptide and followed by a “c-myc” flag, represented by SEQ ID NO:1. The invention also concerns functional variants of said scFv 9O12.2 fragment with identical heavy and light chains complementary determining regions 1, 2 and 3, and preferably humanized functional variants such as the humanized scFv fragments represented by SEQ ID NO:28 or SEQ ID NO:47. The invention also relates to nucleic acids encoding such a scFv fragment, expression vectors and host cells to produce such a scFv fragment, as well as therapeutic uses of such a scFv fragment.
US09045537B2
The present invention relates neutralizing epitopes of IL-17A and IL-17F and antibodies which bind those epitopes. The present invention also relates to the therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing them.
US09045535B2
The present invention relates to a ligand, which specifically binds to human tumor necrosis factor type 1 receptor (huTNFR1). The ligand includes one or more amino acid sequences of human origin capable of reducing the immunogenic response of the ligand in humans and one or more amino acid sequences capable of selectively binding to huTNFR1. The present invention also relates to a nucleic acid sequence encoding the ligand and to a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of disorders related to huTNFR1.
US09045530B2
The invention provides a composition for the inoculation in a plant of agrobacteria transfected by expression vectors, in order to produce in said plant a protein of interest or a derivative of said protein, by deletion or by mutation, characterized in that it comprises agrobacteria transfected by at least one expression vector, comprising a nucleotide sequence insert that codes for said protein or a derivative of said protein, and agrobacteria transfected by a plurality of expression vectors, each comprising at least one nucleotide sequence insert that codes for proteins having a silencing suppressor effect.
US09045527B2
Methods for targeting a protein by providing an inhibitor covalently linked to a rhodium(II) complex, introducing the inhibitor to the target protein and allowing the inhibitor and protein to interact. The rhodium(II) complex covalently linked to the inhibitor binds the target protein both inorganically and organically and forms stabilizing secondary contacts between the rhodium(II) complex and the protein.
US09045525B2
A primary object of the present invention is to develop a compound that specifically inhibits the production of Aβ protein and serves as an active ingredient of a drug to treat and/or prevent Alzheimer's disease.This object can be achieved by a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence represented by any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 13, 14, and 22, that binds to the N-terminal region of βCTF; a γ-secretase activity inhibitor containing the polypeptide; β-secretase activity inhibitor; Aβ protein production inhibitor; and an agent for treating and/or preventing Alzheimer's disease.
US09045520B2
A process for preparing phosphoramidate prodrugs or cyclic phosphate prodrugs of nucleoside derivatives, which is a compound, its stereoisomers, salts (acid or basic addition salts), hydrates, solvates, or crystalline forms thereof.
US09045515B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the purification of tiacumicin B. Specifically, the invention relates to a simplified, optimised process for the purification of tiacumicin B from a fermentation broth, using chromatography techniques. In particular, the invention relates to a method for purifying tiacumicin B which comprises subjecting a liquid containing tiacumicin B to at least one hydrophobic interaction chromatography step.The process according to the invention is simpler than the processes according to the prior art, and can easily be used on a large scale for commercial production.
US09045510B2
There is provided a novel iridium complex having a small half-width of an emission spectrum and an organic light-emitting device that contains the iridium complex. There is provided a novel iridium complex that has a phenyl ring and an imidazole ring as ligands and that has a basic skeleton in which the phenyl ring is bonded to a triazine ring.
US09045502B2
Methods of isolating (4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenyl)boronates and methods of using the same
Methods of isolating a 4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenylboronate include adding carbon dioxide gas or carbon dioxide solid (dry ice) to a solution comprising a 4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenylboronate, an inert organic solvent, and at least one lithium salt to react the at least one lithium salt with the carbon dioxide gas or carbon dioxide solid (dry ice) and form a mixture comprising the 4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenylboronate, the inert organic solvent, and a precipitated solid. The precipitated solid may be removed from the mixture. Methods of using 4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenylboronates to produce methyl-4-amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenyl)pyridine-2-carboxylates are also disclosed. A 4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenylboronate produced by one of the methods of isolating a 4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenylboronate is also disclosed, wherein the 4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-substituted-phenylboronate may be obtained at a yield of greater than or equal to about 90%.
US09045501B2
Novel 5-HT3 receptor modulators are disclosed. These compounds are used in the treatment of various disorders, including chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, post-operative nausea and vomiting, and irritable bowel syndrome. Methods of making these compounds are also described in the present invention.
US09045496B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Ar, R1, R2, R3, G1, G2, and m are defined in the specification. This disclosure also relates to materials and methods for preparing compounds of Formula 1, to pharmaceutical compositions which contain them, and to their use for treating inflammatory disorders, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other conditions associated with PI3Kδ.
US09045495B2
Disclosed herein are prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors that can stabilize hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α), as well as hypoxia inducible factor-2 (HIF-2). Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more of the disclosed compounds. Yet further disclosed are methods for stimulating the cellular immune response in a mammal such as increasing phagocytosis, for example, prolonging the life of phagocytes, inter alia, kerotyiocytes, neutrophils. As such the disclosed compounds provide methods for treating diseases that relate to the body's immune response.
US09045494B2
A compound is provided that is useful for, among other things, preparing water-soluble polymer derivatives bearing a terminal N-succinimidyl ester.
US09045489B2
The present invention provides tricyclic compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, solvates, or hydrates thereof, having antimitotic activity, anti-multidrug resistance activity, for example P-glycoprotein inhibition, and antitumor activity, and which inhibit paclitaxel sensitive and resistant tumor cells. Also provided are methods of utilizing these compounds for treating tumor cells and inhibiting mitosis of cancerous cells.
US09045477B2
The present invention relates to azole bicyclic heteroaryl compounds. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of treating cancer by administering these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions to subjects in need thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for research or other non-therapeutic purposes.
US09045471B2
A phosphorescent compound is represented by following Formula:
US09045469B2
Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Antagonists and methods of using them are provided.
US09045464B2
The present invention provides a quinolone compound represented by General Formula (1) or a salt thereof, wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; R2 represents a hydrogen atom, etc.; R3 represents a phenyl group optionally being substituted with one or more substituents, etc.; R4 represents a halogen atom; R5 represents a hydrogen atom or halogen atom; R6 represents a hydrogen atom; and R7 represents a hydroxyl group, etc. The quinolone compound have a functional improvement effect, which suppresses progression of neurological dysfunction by inhibiting the chronic progression of Parkinson's disease or protecting dopamine neurons from the disease etiology, thereby prolonging the period before first administration begins.
US09045459B2
The present invention relates to phenalkylamine derivatives of the formula (I) or (II) or a physiologically tolerated salt thereof. The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such phenalkylamine derivatives, and the use of such phenalkylamine derivatives for therapeutic purposes. The phenalkylamine derivatives are GlyT1 inhibitors.
US09045458B2
The present invention provides compounds and methods for the treatment of LFA-1 mediated diseases. In particular, LFA-1 antagonists are described herein and these antagonists are used in the treatment of LFA-1 mediated diseases. One aspect of the invention provides for diagnosis of an LFA-1 mediated disease and administration of a LFA-1 antagonist, after the patient is diagnosed with a LFA-1 mediated disease. In some embodiments, the LFA-1 mediated diseases treated are dry eye disorders. Also provided herein are methods for identifying compounds which are LFA-1 antagonists.
US09045452B2
The present invention relates to a method of treatment and/or prophylaxis of a microbial infection, comprising the step of administering an effective amount of a compound of formula (I), in which X and Y are either the same or different and selected from a heteroatom; is a double or single bond depending on the heteroatoms X and Y; R1 to R5 are either the same or different and selected from hydrogen or a non-deleterious substituent; and R6 and R7 are either the same or different and selected from hydrogen and a non-deleterious substituent or one of R6 and R7 are absent when there is a double bond present, pharmaceutically acceptable salts or derivatives, pro-drugs, tautomers and/or isomers thereof. The present invention also relates to a method for protecting a subject from radiation damage, a method of cancer radiotherapy and use as an antimicrobial or radioprotective agent of the compound of formula (I) defined above. Some of the compounds of formula (I) are novel and are also described in the present invention, together with pharmaceutical or veterinary compositions containing them.
US09045447B2
A method is disclosed for making an unsaturated glycitan ester by reacting intramolecular condensates of glycitols having four or more carbons with a metathesis-derived unsaturated fatty acid in the presence of an alkaline catalyst and under conditions sufficient to form the aforesaid unsaturated glycitan fatty ester. A composition is also disclosed comprising a compound of the following structure: wherein R1 is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl or (CH2)1-9—COOR5; wherein R5 is wherein R2, R3 and R4 are hydrogen, or —(O)C—(CH2)m—CH═CH—R1 or —(CH2CH2O)nH or mixtures thereof; wherein m is 1 to 9; and wherein n is 1 to 100.
US09045443B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having the formula: where R1, R2, R3, R7, R8, Z, X, b, and c are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds are nitric oxide donors and have neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds.
US09045438B2
Pharmaceutical compositions of the active substances glimepiride with metformin or its salts such as hydrochloride, succinate, furmarate, etc. are useful to control blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes. To prove the effectiveness of the combination, clinical studies were conducted that demonstrated the existence of not only an additive effect, but also a synergistic effect of the two drugs compared with monotherapy using only one of the drugs used in combination. In consequence, the combination may be used as an effective and safe therapy to control blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes, using different proportions of the active substances in combinations suitable for the needs of different patients.
US09045437B2
Provided is a compound of the formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or stereoisomer thereof: wherein Ar represents R5, R7, R8, R2′, R3′, R4′, R5′, R6′, R7′, R8′ independently represent H, OH, F, Cl, Br methoxyl group, NH2 group or NMe2 group; X represents NH, O or S; R6 is selected from the group consisting of: piperidinyl group, morpholino group, methoxyl group, and dimethylamine group. The present invention also provides a composition comprising the compound of formula I. The compound and the composition in accordance with the present invention are effective on treating or alleviating a disease or disorder, such as malignant glioma.
US09045434B1
A compound and method for treating myocilin glaucoma using a selective Grp94 inhibitor is presented. Clearance of mutant myocilin can be promoted by selectively targeting the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone Grp94 using siRNA knockdown or small molecule inhibitors. Grp94 contributes to the intracellular accumulation of mutant myocilin. Tailored treatments aimed at disrupting the Grp94/mutant myocilin interaction can be used as a new therapeutic strategy for myocilin glaucoma. The inventors developed a compound having a general backbone structure of geldanamycin (GDA) and radicicol (RDC) in which a more hydrophobic surrogate of the quinone in GDA is linked to the resorcinol in RDC through a cis-amide bioisostere.
US09045430B2
A compound of the formula (A) wherein the radicals R1 are independently of one another methyl, ethyl or n-propyl, and X is C2-C8alkylene or C2-C8alkylene interrupted by sulfur, is useful for stabilizing an organic material against degradation induced by light, heat or oxidation.
US09045416B2
The present invention generally relates to protein signalling. In particular, compounds that inhibit the Wnt protein signalling pathway are disclosed. Such compounds may be used in the treatment of Wnt protein signalling-related diseases and conditions such as cancer, degenerative diseases, type II diabetes and osteopetrosis.
US09045415B2
Peptides and compounds are provided that function as EWS-FLI1 protein inhibitors. The peptides and compounds have utility in the treatment of Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors. Also provided are methods of preparing the compounds and assays for identifying inhibitors of EWS-FLI1 protein.
US09045414B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) or (Ia) which are ligands binding to the HDM2 protein, inducing apoptosis and inhibiting proliferation, and having therapeutic utility in cancer therapy and prevention. Compounds of formula (I) or (Ia) can be used as therapeutics for treating stroke, myocardial infarction, ischemia, multi-organ failure, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's Disease, injury from ischemic events and heart valvular degenerative disease. Moreover, compounds of formula (I) or (Ia) can be used to decrease the side effects from cytotoxic cancer agents, radiation and to treat viral infections.
US09045413B2
A process for producing vinyl acetate in which a secondary reactant stream is obtained from a predehydrating column and reacted in a sidecar reactor to further increase conversion of ethylene, acetic acid, and molecular oxygen and increase production of vinyl acetate.
US09045410B2
The invention relates to a catalyst comprising nickel and a solid silica support, to a process for preparing such a catalyst and to a process for the hydrogenation of an unsaturated fatty material. According to the invention there is provided a catalyst comprising nickel on a solid silica support, wherein said catalyst has a specific pore volume of at least 0.4 ml/g and a TPR peak maximum within the range of 360-420° C.
US09045409B2
A new process for the production of purified terephthalic acid (PTA) is disclosed to keep terephthalic acid (TA) in dissolved state during the process of oxidation reaction, to obtain intermediate product crude terephthalic acid (CTA) not containing the two impurities of 4-carboxyl benzaldehyde (4-CBA) and p-methyl benzoic acid (PT acid), so that it can eliminate the “purified” production process, and reduce the consumptions of raw materials, acetic acid, fuel and power, and water, thereby saving production costs.
US09045408B2
A process for oxidizing an alkyl-aromatic compound is described. The process includes oxidizing the alkyl-aromatic compound to produce a first oxidation product; contacting at least a portion of the first oxidation product, a solvent comprising an ionic liquid, a bromine source, a catalyst, and an oxidizing agent to produce a second product comprising a mother liquor and at least one of an aromatic alcohol, an aromatic aldehyde, an aromatic ketone, and an aromatic carboxylic acid; and adding at least a portion of the mother liquor in the contacting step.
US09045405B2
Compounds of structure (I): including stereoisomers, tautomers and salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, X, Y and Z are as defined herein. Such compounds are useful for the preparation of diarylpropane compounds. Methods for the preparation of compounds of structure (I) are also disclosed, as are methods employing compounds of structure (I) for the preparation of diarylpropanes.
US09045403B2
This invention relates to geranylgeranyl acetone (GGA) derivatives and the use of GGA, its isomers, and GGA derivatives in methods for inhibiting neural death, increasing neural activity, increasing axon growth and cell viability, and increasing the survival rate of subjects administered the GGA or GGA derivatives.
US09045402B2
The present invention relates to a process of preparing tocotrienol quinones. It has been found that this process allows the formation of the R-isomer in a high yield in a very efficient and economically interesting way. Said process is particularly useful when implemented in an industrial process. Furthermore, it has been found that this process allows using isomer mixtures as they result from traditional industrial synthesis.
US09045400B2
A fluorinated bis(acyl-containing compound and a fluorinated polyester formed from the fluorinated diacyl are described. More particularly, the fluorinated diacyl has an aromatic ring bonded to two acyl groups plus at least one third group that contains a perfluoroalkylsulfonamido group. The fluorinated polyesters formed from the fluorinated diacyl-containing compound can be used to provide a low energy surface with a relatively low refractive index compared to many other polyesters.
US09045391B2
Adiponitrile is made by reacting 3-pentenenitrile with hydrogen cyanide. The 3-pentenenitrile is made by reacting 1,3-butadiene with hydrogen cyanide. The catalyst for the reaction of 1,3-butadiene with hydrogen cyanide to make 3-pentenenitrile is recycled. At least a portion of the recycled catalyst is purified by an extraction process, which separates catalyst degradation products and reaction byproduct from the catalyst.
US09045389B2
The present invention is directed to biphenyl derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment and/or prevention of disorders and conditions ameliorated by antagonizing one or more glucagon receptors, including for example metabolic diseases such as Type II diabetes mellitus and obesity.
US09045387B2
The disclosure provides methods for the use of open metal frameworks to catalyze coupling reactions.
US09045380B1
A novel composition containing a bi-tetrazole having a primary tetrazole ring substituted or connected to a second tetrazole ring by an aliphatic bridge such as an ethyl or ethylene bridge. The composition may be contained within a gas generator as a gas generating composition when combined with an oxidizer such as phase stabilized ammonium nitrate. The gas generator may be contained within a gas generating system such as an airbag inflator or seat belt assembly, or more broadly within a vehicle occupant protection system.
US09045374B2
A composition having nanoparticles of silicon carbide and a carbonaceous matrix or silicon matrix. The composition is not in the form of a powder. A composition having silicon and an organic compound having a char yield of at least 60% by weight or a thermoset made from the organic compound. A method of combining silicon and the organic compound and heating to form silicon carbide or silicon nitride nanoparticles.
US09045359B2
A reverse osmosis negative-ion water dispenser comprising a polypropylene filter element, a granular active carbon filter element and a compressed active carbon filter element inside a housing; a low pressure switch, a booster pump, an inlet solenoid valve, an RO filter bottle, an RO membrane and two water outlets for concentrated water and pure water respectively are also provided, wherein the water outlet for concentrated water is connected with a flush solenoid valve and a waste water proportioner assembly, the water outlet for pure water is connected with a storage tank through a high pressure switch and a float switch; the storage tank is provided with a high-low level three-line water level switch and connected to a combined hot and cold exchange tank. A negative-ion generating device comprising a solenoid valve, a fast heating equipment and a negative-ion filter device is provided to generate negative-ion.
US09045355B2
An apparatus for recovering nutrients from digestate comprises one or more solid-liquid separation steps, and dryer, an ammonia stripping device, and an evaporator. In a process, digestate is separated into a solids portion and a liquid portion. Ammonia is stripped from the liquid portion and converted into an ammonium solution or salt which may be used as, or blended with, a fertilizer product. At least part of the remaining liquid portion is concentrated to produce brine. The brine is mixed with the solids portion. The mixture is dried and may be used as, or blended with, a fertilizer product.
US09045352B2
A system for the management of fluid, such as saline solution for medical procedures, is provided. The system generally includes a water purification station and a portable fluid station, which is dockable to the water purification station. The portable fluid station is capable of combining purified water from the water purification station with a concentrate in powder or liquid form to create a usable solution. A method of using such a system is also provided.
US09045351B2
A desalination and minerals extraction process includes a desalination facility fluidly coupled to a minerals extraction facility. The desalination facility includes a nanofiltration membrane section producing a first tailings stream and a reverse osmosis membrane section producing a second tailings stream and a desalinated water outlet stream from an inlet feed stream. The extraction facility produces at least one mineral compound, an extraction tailings stream, and a second desalinated water outlet stream. At least one of the first tailings stream and the second tailings stream is fed into the extraction facility. In certain exemplary embodiments, a natural gas combined cycle power unit supplies power to at least one of the desalination facility and the extraction facility. In certain exemplary embodiments, the extraction tailings stream is recycled into the desalination facility and there are no extraction tailings streams or desalination tailings streams discharged into the environment.
US09045347B2
A novel polycrystalline stoichiometric fine SiC fiber substantially free of impurities is produced using a novel pre-ceramic polymer. The pre-ceramic polymer is prepared by reacting a mixture of chlorodisilane, boron trichloride, and a vinyl chlorodisilane with an excess of hexamethyldisilazane to form the pre-ceramic polymer resin, which may then be melt-spun, cured, pyrolyzed and heat-treated to obtain the finished SiC fiber. The manufacturing process for the production of the fine SiC ceramic fiber allows for flexibility with respect to cross-linking, in that low-cost thermal treatments may replace more complex methods, while obtaining fibers with improved materials properties as compared to currently available SiC fibers.
US09045338B2
The present invention is for extremely pure solutions of chlorine dioxide, methods for making such solutions and to compositions and methods for storing, shipping and using such solutions. Generally, the chlorine dioxide solutions of the invention are aqueous solutions containing about 2500 ppm or less of total impurities. The chlorine dioxide solution can be prepare by passing dilute highly pure chlorine gas through a bed of substantially solid sodium chlorite and contacting the resulting chlorine dioxide gas with a liquid.
US09045336B2
There is provided a method for producing synthesis gas without CO2 emissions. In the method for producing synthesis gas by reforming a hydrocarbon gas, a reforming reaction is caused by supplying a light hydrocarbon gas containing steam and/or carbon dioxide added thereto to a catalyst-filled tube side of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger-type reformer and circulating a heating medium, such as a molten salt, heated by a heat source such as solar heat or nuclear heat in a shell side of the shell-and-tube heat exchanger-type reformer. Carbon dioxide is removed from a produced gas discharged from the tube side and is supplied to the upstream side of the tube side and recycled.
US09045334B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing a tank for storing hydrogen in metal hydride powder are disclosed. The tank can include a closed enclosure divided into closed cells. Each of the cells can contain metal hydride powder. Each of the cells can also be manufactured successively by assembling the cells in order to form an open cavity or alveolar cell. One or more bulk pieces of a material capable of forming a metal hydride can be placed in the cavity. The cell can be closed with the bulk pieces by closing the cavity. After cells are closed, hydrogen can be introduced into the tank for transforming the bulk pieces into metal hydride powder.
US09045327B2
A dispenser is provided having a nozzle that can direct light down a stream of liquid exiting therefrom. The nozzle includes one or more features to promote a substantially laminar flow of liquid therethrough. This construction can allow the light to travel farther down the stream of liquid exiting the nozzle than in e.g., non-laminar flow. Such light transmission can allow the user to more accurately view the dispenser and liquid flow when filling a container with liquid.
US09045325B2
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. 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.
US09045323B2
A process for dispensing a beverage into a cup comprising the steps of: providing a dispensing structure; providing a transportation mechanism linked with the dispensing structure; providing a staging structure linked with the transportation structure; providing a control system linked with the dispensing structure, staging structure and the transportation mechanism; providing a sensor mechanism linked with the control system, the sensor mechanism providing signals indicating the position of a cup; providing a cup identification system having an interactive display connected to the control system; picking a cup from a storage device and positioning it within a dispensing structure; dispensing ice and a beverage at separate locations within the dispensing structure; transporting the filled beverage to a staging structure; positioning the filled cup in the staging structure; removing the filled cup from the staging structure for sale to a customer wherein the cup identification system and the display outputs visual characteristics indicating the position and characteristics of a cup at every stage of the process.
US09045309B2
First retention member 40 and second retention member 42 are disposed so as to be separately arrayed along a direction orthogonal to a drawing direction, in which the first retention member 40 and the second retention member 42 are drawn from paper sheet storing unit. Upper opening of paper sheet storing bag 50 is sealed when the first retention member 40 moves toward and abuts on the second retention member 42. The first retention member 40 and the second retention member 42 is drawable to outside from the paper sheet storing unit only when the first retention member 40 and the second retention member 42 abut each other.
US09045308B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes an overlap conveying unit that conveys two or more sheets in an overlapping manner; a stacking unit that stacks therein the sheets conveyed in the overlapping manner; an aligning unit that includes a rotating body and a regulating member and is configured to bring the rotating body into contact with a topmost sheet among the stacked sheets, so as to make the sheet abut the regulating member and align ends of the sheets; and a controller that controls the overlap conveying unit. The controller is configured to determine, according to sheet information, whether to make the topmost sheet overlap in a condition of projecting from the other sheets.
US09045303B2
A mandrel cupping assembly for releasably engaging unsupported ends of a plurality of mandrels is disclosed. The mandrel cupping assembly comprises a cupping arm turret having a cupping arm turret central axis, a mandrel cup cooperatively associated with each mandrel of the plurality of mandrels, and a first actuator.
US09045301B2
An image recording apparatus, including: a supply tray; a supply roller; a manual tray; a recording device; a motor; a supply driving power transmitter which transmits a reverse driving power of the motor to the supply roller; a conveyance driving power transmitter; a switcher switchable between a first state in which a driving power of the motor is transmitted to the supply driving power transmitter and a second state in which the driving power is not transmitted to the supply driving power transmitter; and a controller configured to, when an image is to be recorded on a sheet placed on the manual tray and when the switcher is in the first state, switches the switcher to the second state and rotates the motor reversely to rotate a conveyor roller in a second rotational direction reverse to a first rotational direction for conveying a sheet in a conveying direction.
US09045299B2
A print media feed system in a inkjet printer, the system has a media feed roll, a star wheel mounted opposing the roll, an adjustable biaser coupled to the star wheel, and a controller coupled to the biaser. The controller varies a magnitude, a direction or a magnitude and direction of a biasing force applied to the star wheel by the biaser. In one form, the biaser comprises a motor driven cam that varies the angular position of a pivotable lever having a star wheel rotatably attached on one end. In another form, a rack and pinion gear assembly is used to vary the biasing force with a star wheel rotatably attached to the rack. In a further form, a solenoid is used to vary the basing force applied to the lever or applied to a star wheel rotatably attached to the end of the shaft of a solenoid.
US09045298B2
A paper feeding apparatus includes a pickup roller, a knock-up plate to accommodate recording media thereon and capable of moving to a pickup position and a release position, a forward roller to transfer a recording medium picked up by the pickup roller, a retard roller capable of moving to a contact position and to a separation position, a first control unit to move the knock-up plate to the pickup position and the release position, and a second control unit to move the knock-up plate to the contact position and the separation position, wherein the first control unit and the second control unit are driven by a single driving motor.
US09045282B2
A vertically movable work platform is suspended and supported by a plurality of suspension wires fed out from one or more of winding rotating bodies which is rotated such that the vertically movable work platform is vertically moved by the rotation of the one or more of winding rotating bodies. A support for receiving and supporting the lowering vertically movable work platform at a work height, and a stopper for preventing the rotation of the winding rotating body in a direction which tends to lower the vertically movable work platform when the vertically movable work platform reaches the work height are provided.
US09045280B2
A collapsible cargo container is disclosed wherein end walls are pivoted into the container when empty and locked against the roof, and then side walls buckle via hinges into a folded configuration. The folded configuration is achieved easily with a modified spreader without the need to otherwise disassemble or deconstruct the container, leaving no loose parts or tools. The cargo container preferably constructed with an improved light weight panel that facilitates loading of the container while improving strength and reducing weight.
US09045276B2
A floating anchor curb system includes a floating cover for spreading over a body of water and one or more floating anchor curbs over which the floating cover is placed. Each of the floating anchor curbs includes one or more hollow chambers partially fillable with a ballast liquid to form a ballast.
US09045275B2
A container assembly comprising first and second compartments. The first compartment includes a base web having a formed portion and a flat portion, a lidding material joined to the flat portion and a frangible seal positioned between the base web and the lidding material. The second compartment includes first and second barriers that are sealed to one another at peripheral edges. The first barrier has an aperture through which the formed portion of the base web extends. An upper surface of the flat portion of the base web is joined to an interior surface of the first barrier, thereby encapsulating the frangible seal within the second compartment. When the frangible seal is broken, a passageway is provided for transferring material from the first compartment into the second compartment for mixing with a second material. The second compartment may then be opened to dispense the mixture.
US09045270B2
An electric caulking gun may include a main body portion including a cartridge setting portion to which a cartridge containing a caulking material can be set, an electric motor disposed within the main body portion, and a push rod configured to be pressed against the cartridge for dispensing the caulking material from the cartridge. The push rod may be coupled to the electric motor so as to advance and retract along a moving path. The electric motor may extend in a right and left direction across a vertical plane including the moving path of the push rod.
US09045268B2
A collapsible container has a front face and a collapsible backing, wherein the container volume decreases as product is removed, and the collapsible backing collapses by vacuum as the container volume decreases. The front face may be flexible and thus susceptible to losing its original shape as the container volume decreases, but is nevertheless designed to retain its shape by having a frame around at least a portion of its perimeter. The front face may instead be adapted to retain its shape as the collapsible backing collapses upon a decrease in the container volume. The collapsible container is of particular beneficial use in a dispenser housing having a sight window in a front wall thereof, the sight window being aligned with the front face of the collapsible container.
US09045264B2
The invention relates to a container (1) having a cover (2) which is connected to the container (1) by at least two hinge arrangements (3) so that it can be opened and closed about a pivot axis (a) relative to the container (1). For permanent attachment of the cover to the container each hinge arrangement (3) comprises: a hinge gudgeon (4) disposed on the cover (2) with a casing section (5) formed in some sections in a dish shape on which a web (6) extending in the direction of the pivot axis (a) is formed; and a slot (7) introduced into the upper edge region of the container (1) and extending in the direction of the pivot axis (a) for receiving the casing section (5) formed in some sections in a dish shape, wherein the extent (b) of the casing section (5) together with the web (6) measured in the direction of the pivot axis (a) is greater than the extent (c) of the slot (7) measured in the direction of the pivot axis (a).
US09045258B2
Disclosed is a pack. The pack includes a pack body in which fluid is receivable, a plug affixed to an inner surface of the pack body, a portion of the plug being configured to protrude outward from the pack body, the plug having a discharge opening perforated therein, a lid located at one side of the plug to close the discharge opening, and an elastic member located at one side of the plug to impart elasticity to the lid in a direction of closing the discharge opening.
US09045253B2
A pallet-dolly device convertible between a pallet and a dolly has a deck to which a set of dolly wheels are attached at a fixed height below the deck. A set of movable pallet skids are mechanically interlinked with the deck by a bistable skid displacement mechanism which assumes a first state biasing the pallet skids upwards towards a skid raised position and a second state in which the bistable skid displacement mechanism biases the pallet skids downwards towards a skid lowered position. Also described are embodiments allowing conversion from dolly to pallet by directly pressing downwards on a skid, and provision of a braked-dolly state through downward pressure of the skid against the ground and/or a skid-actuated wheel brake.
US09045246B2
To provide a container usable as a deep bottom- and shallow bottom-type container by changing between deep bottom- and shallow bottom-type container configurations by folding along prescribed ruled lines, forming a protruding part on the circumferential wall surface and forming undistorted smooth surfaces; and to provide a manufacturing method thereof. This container usable as a deep bottom- and shallow bottom-type container in which a deep bottom-type container configuration can be changed into a shallow bottom-type container configuration, wherein said deep-bottom type container is obtained by folding, along prescribed ruled lines, a single blank having a part with prescribed ruled lines and corresponding to the bottom surface, a part sectioned into compact triangles and quadrilaterals and corresponding to a partition surface, and a part corresponding to an inner folded surface, and said deep-bottom type container comprises a protruding part formed without distortion on the circumferential wall surface; and a manufacturing method thereof.
US09045244B2
An apparatus for distributing moisture and staining the web of a plurality of tobacco sachets. The apparatus includes a turret wheel assembly comprising a rotatable turret wheel having a plurality of cups for receiving containers for tobacco sachets, a sensor for verifying the presence a container within a cup of the rotatable turret wheel, a hydraulic injector for injecting water into a container having a plurality of tobacco sachets, means for tamping tobacco sachets, and means for agitating and stirring the plurality of tobacco sachets to lift and stir tobacco sachets from the bottom of the container. A method of distributing moisture and staining the web of a plurality of tobacco sachets is also provided.
US09045243B2
An apparatus for stacking sheet material that may include a trim section and a stacking section, the stacking section being downstream the trim section for receiving the blanks of sheet material, forming bundles each having a plurality of blanks, and transferring the bundles downstream. The apparatus may further include a plurality of longitudinal positioning systems for independently longitudinally positioning a plurality of components in at least one of upstream or downstream directions so as to create an operator access space. In some embodiments, the apparatus may further include an incline conveyor section downstream the trim section and upstream the stacking section, and the trim section may have a takeaway conveyor for conveying the plurality of blanks of sheet material to the incline conveyor. In certain embodiments, the plurality of longitudinal positioning systems can individually longitudinally position at least two of the takeaway conveyor, the incline conveyor, or the stacking apparatus.
US09045242B2
A first part, a second part, and a seal ring are fastened together to form a pressure structure configured for a spacecraft structure of a spacecraft, wherein the first part and the second part are each formed from a single workpiece.
US09045241B2
A method for reducing the angular momentum of a spacecraft comprises a propulsion device able to generate a torque along a Z axis corresponding to an axis of maximum inertia or minimum inertia of the spacecraft, an X axis and a Y axis forming with Z an orthogonal frame; an angular momentum accumulating device, able to generate an angular momentum and a torque along the three axes; and a set of sensors able to measure the angular velocities and estimate the angular momentum of the spacecraft. The method comprises a first step of aligning the angular momentum of the spacecraft along the Z axis, consisting in slaving the angular momentum of the angular momentum accumulating device to the angular velocity of the spacecraft, and a second step of reducing the angular momentum of the spacecraft using a torque generated by the propulsion device.
US09045240B2
A flight control method and device for correcting a reference trajectory based on a distance from a current position to a target position in a spacecraft in flight. A CPU included in the spacecraft generates a reference trajectory which is a trajectory for allowing the spacecraft in flight to arrive at the target position on a celestial body with the atmosphere, and which is identified based on velocity or energy of the spacecraft and on drag acceleration of the spacecraft. The CPU calculates a ratio between the range that is a distance from the current position based on the reference trajectory to the target position, and the real range that is a real distance from a current position to the target position, and corrects the reference trajectory by calculating the drag acceleration in the reference trajectory using the calculated ratio.
US09045237B2
A system for use in monitoring, measuring, computing and displaying the volumes of internal gas within a telescopic aircraft landing gear strut. Pressure sensors and temperature sensors and motion sensors are mounted in relation to each of the landing gear struts to monitor, measure and record the impact movement and rates of internal landing gear strut fluids; experienced by landing gear struts, as the aircraft landing gear initially come into contact with the ground. The computer of this system measures the compression experienced by each landing gear strut and determines if the landing gear strut is improperly serviced with either excess or deficient volumes of nitrogen gas. Additional features include automating the inspections required to aircraft landing gear, prior to flight, during flight and during landing events.
US09045236B2
A device for exciting a landing gear of an aircraft while it is on the ground. The device includes an oblong bracing foot, a movable support on which the oblong foot is mounted and an arrangement for setting the gear into vibration.
US09045234B2
Methods and apparatus to harvest renewable energy are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method to harvest renewable energy includes providing an aircraft suitable for untethered flight in an open airspace and an airborne kinetic energy conversion system attached to the airframe, the airborne kinetic energy conversion system comprising a turbine, a generator connected to the turbine, and electrical storage means connected to the generator; flying the aircraft; gaining excess kinetic energy; and converting excess kinetic energy into electricity using the kinetic energy conversion system.
US09045232B1
A base structure of the system with a pair of center containers each of rectangular form with a square width and height and an elongated length attached along an elongated side of each. A side container may be attached to each side of the center containers. A semicircular shaped inlet port is formed in a top wall of each of the center containers to form a circular inlet port. A vertical duct of cylindrical form may be attached over the inlet port and have a lower portion of constant diameter cross-section and an upper portion diverging outwardly. A fan placed in each center container to cause an air flow toward a center of each center container to be channeled upwardly to exit through the inlet port for air to flow through the vertical duct to exit the open top end. A recirculating air structure may be formed with additional containers.
US09045229B2
A sealing system (38) for use in an aircraft facility to be sealed from the environment comprises a closing element (40) which can be connected to a housing (42) of the aircraft facility in order to seal an opening (44) formed in the housing (42) of the aircraft facility. Furthermore, the sealing system (38) comprises a receiving device (46), and a sealing element (48) received in the receiving device (46). A transfer device (54) is adapted to transfer the sealing element (48) between an inactive state, in which the sealing element (48) is shaped and/or positioned such that it cannot be brought into sealing contact with a sealing surface (64), and an active state, in which the sealing element (48) is shaped and/or positioned such that it can be brought into sealing contact with the sealing surface (64).
US09045221B2
Guidance for an aircraft correcting a trajectory deviation due to wind computes a roll command during trajectory alignment according to imposed alignment passing through a determined point, via a current angular divergence between a line through the point and aircraft and direction of alignment and of a current estimated ground speed of the aircraft with respect to a frame of reference. The current estimated ground speed is computed via a current air speed and stored wind speed. The stored wind speed is obtained via at least one wind speed computed via a first value of a first speed equal to the speed of the said aircraft with respect to a frame of reference originating from a satellite navigation system and a second value of a second speed equal to the air speed. The first and second value are simultaneously accounted earlier than or at the instant at the alignment phase.
US09045219B2
A user input device for a vehicular electrical system is provided. The user input device includes a handle sized and shaped to be gripped by a human hand and a gimbal assembly within the handle. The gimbal assembly includes a first gimbal component, a second gimbal component coupled to the first gimbal component such that the second gimbal component is rotatable relative to the first gimbal component about a first axis, and a third gimbal component coupled to the second gimbal component such that the third gimbal component is rotatable relative to the second gimbal component about a second axis.
US09045215B2
A motorized mechanism for actuating motion within a housing of a window shade arrangement having first and second window shades for controlling the amount of light admitted through a window. The motorized mechanism comprises a first rail assembly movable in the housing and connected to a first end of the first window shade and a first end of the second window shade, a second rail assembly movable in the housing and connected to a second end of the second window shade, a second end of the first window shade being fixed to the housing, said first and second window shades being adapted to be extended and compressed relative to the window in accordance with motion within the housing of at least one of said first and second rail assemblies. A first cable is looped between a motor-driven first pulley and a second pulley along a first path. A second cable is looped between a motor-driven third pulley and a fourth pulley along a second path. Corresponding ends at one side of said first and second rail assemblies are in said first path, with only one of said first and second rail assemblies being connected to the first cable, and corresponding ends at the other side of said first and second rail assemblies being in said second path, with only the other one of said first and second rail assemblies being connected to the second cable.
US09045213B1
Example embodiments may facilitate altitude control by a balloon in a balloon network in a manner that also can generate power. An example method involves regulating buoyancy of the balloon by solar heating atmospheric air drawn into the balloon through a first opening of an envelope of the balloon and venting heated air in the balloon out through a second opening of the envelope. Atmospheric air heated within the envelope could supply the balloon's buoyancy. The method may further involve capturing a portion of energy of the heated air as it is venting out of the balloon through the second opening, converting a portion of the captured energy into electrical energy, and storing the electrical energy. The balloon could also be configured with a heat engine for converting heat energy into mechanical and/or electrical energy.
US09045207B2
Disclosed is an inflator assembly. The assembly operates by puncturing a diaphragm of an associated container to thereby releasing a volume of pressurized gas. The pressurized gas, in turn, is used to inflate an article, such as a life raft. The inflator assembly is adapted to be either manually or automatically actuated. The various details of the present disclosure, and the manner in which they interrelate, are described in greater detail hereinafter.
US09045195B2
An expandable and contractible pan protects a bottom portion of an expandable and contractible floor of a boat. The pan includes a panel of flexible material tensionable to fill a space between a first hull and a second hull of the boat in an expanded state of the floor. In a contracted state of the floor, the panel of flexible material relaxes to fit between the hulls of the boat. A deflector is mountable on a front portion of the boat. The deflector covers a front edge of the panel of flexible material, thereby obscuring entry to a top surface of the panel of flexible material.
US09045191B2
A frame structure of a saddle type vehicle that can easily secure the bending strength of welded portions by a structure that seat rails are welded to rear portions of pivot frames, etc. is provided.Elongated holes 71A extending along an axis L of a front portion 15F of the seat rail is provided to a side surface of the pivot frame 14, and the pivot frame 14 and the front portion 15F of the seat rail are welded to each other at the peripheral edge of the elongated hole 71A.
US09045187B2
A saddle-ride type vehicle that does not require dismounting of a handhold regardless of the presence or absence of a carrier member. A stay member includes an outer portion situated beyond a seat in the outward direction of the vehicle body. A recess dented upwardly is formed in an underside of the outer portion. Because the recess is formed in the underside of the outer portion, a pillion passenger can grasp the recess after a carrier member has been dismounted from the stay member. In short, the recess serves as a handhold. The stay member remains attached to a seat rail either when the carrier member is mounted or dismounted. This eliminates the need to detach the handhold regardless of the presence or absence of the carrier member.
US09045185B2
A two-way interactive light control device includes a plurality of lamps. Each lamp includes a microcomputer processor, a controlling code setting unit, a controlled code setting unit, a signal transmitting and receiving unit, a light drive unit and light emitting diodes. When the device is started, it can receive a wireless signal automatically and decode to identify whether the lamp is the same product. If there is no same lamp around, the device will set itself as the controller to keep searching the same lamps and to drive the light emitting diodes to twinkle. When the device receives a signal from the same lamps, the same lamps will be the controlled with their light emitting diodes to twinkle synchronously. Thus, when many same lamps meet, they can provide safe and warning effects.
US09045178B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a load transporting apparatus that is capable of being steered while transporting a load across a base surface. In particular, the load transporting apparatus includes a roller track configured to support movement of a roller assembly, and a support foot that is connected to the roller track with a pin connector. During load transport, the support foot can be maintained in a substantially similar position relative to a frame structure supporting the load even when the transport movement is not in a parallel direction to the orientation of the support foot.
US09045174B2
Mud flap hanger is disclosed which includes a post member that is configured to allow attachment of the hanger to a vehicle and a hanger arm extending from the post member having a flexible core of a composite material, for example, a fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) and that is clad with a substantially inelastic polymer. Preferably, the hanger arm is formed with a cross-section shape of a polygon so that clips for hanging the mud flap from the arm may be conformed to that polygonal shape.
US09045173B2
A front-end structure of a motor vehicle includes a transverse member and two crash boxes. In addition a transverse reinforcement member is arranged according to the invention, wherein the transverse reinforcement member is supported via coupling beams on a subframe.
US09045169B2
A reinforcement part for a roof side member of a motor vehicle is provided. The reinforcement part is configured in one piece and includes a first cross section, a second cross section, and a third cross section. The first cross section steadily merges into the second cross section and the second cross section steadily merges into the third cross section. The first cross section, the second cross section and the third cross section vary in vehicle longitudinal direction. The first cross section, the second cross section and the third cross section have a steady contour on a circumference of the reinforcement part and are of a closed configuration.
US09045166B2
A vehicle frame includes a pillar having inner and outer members and an interior surface defining a cavity. A first reinforcement is disposed in the cavity and welded to the interior surface. A second reinforcement includes first and second edges and a channel extending therebetween. The first and second edges are welded to the first reinforcement and the channel is positioned distal from the first reinforcement proximate a deflection area of the pillar.
US09045163B2
A universal chassis apparatus for an automotive vehicle includes a battery and/or fuel storage compartment in a rigid backbone structure. In another aspect, a vehicle chassis that incorporates the engine structure, transaxle structure and a backbone structure provided as a unitary structure onto which other components of a vehicle, such as suspension, steering, body and crash absorbers may be attached. The backbone structure is a closed tubular structure in which a relatively rigid drive shaft can be supported for rotational power delivery between the engine and the transaxle.
US09045151B2
This invention is related to an economic and practical method of using barcode systems for the management of railroad tracks. The systems consist of barcodes and device(s) which can optically read and decode the barcodes. The barcodes are permanently installed on one or both rails of a railroad track at predetermined locations along the track. The barcodes include coded contents such as track location coordinates and other railroad property information along the track. By using these novel track barcode systems, sections of problematic tracks could be accurately located either manually or automatically for repeatable monitoring, repairing or replacement purposes.
US09045129B2
An engine control system for changing engine speed on an agricultural vehicle. The system includes a vehicle control unit for controlling an engine and a transmission mounted within the vehicle, and a tire control unit for detecting the pressure of at least one tire and wherein the engine speed is automatically changed upon detection of an adjustment of the tire pressure.
US09045109B2
A gasbag for a pedestrian protection system, when in the inflated state encompasses a first, oblong central section and end sections angled away from the ends of the first central section. At least one first and one second membrane with differing permeability values are distributed over the sections in such a way that an average permeability of the end sections is lower than an average permeability of the first central section.
US09045108B1
An airbag apparatus includes an inflatable curtain airbag, an inflator to provide inflation gas to deploy the inflatable curtain airbag, and reinforcement material. The inflator is coupled to an end of the inflatable curtain airbag at an inflator outlet. The reinforcement material is attached to a portion of an outer surface of the inflatable curtain airbag. Upon deployment of the inflatable curtain airbag, the reinforcement material is disposed between the portion of the outer surface of the inflatable curtain airbag and an external object in a vicinity of the inflator outlet to reinforce the inflatable curtain airbag from an edge of the external object.
US09045096B2
Described are portable electronics device coupling assemblies including a cradle configured to electronically couple and releasably engage a portable electronics device, and an adaptor configured to electronically couple and releasably engage the cradle to a passenger seat. Other examples may include a passenger seat having an electronics port configured to electronically couple to the portable electronics device, and a receptacle coupled to the electronics port and configured to releasably engage the portable electronics device. As examples, the portable electronics device may be a tablet computer, a cell phone, a smart phone, a handheld video game system, a personal digital assistant, a palmtop computer, a DVD player, data or audio-video media, or a multi-media enabled device.
US09045094B2
A harness retaining device is disclosed for retaining a harness and causing the harness together with a connection element for an electric/electronic circuit to be supported with respect to a portion of a frame of a vehicle seat. The harness retaining device includes a support arm having first and second end portions, the first end portion of the support arm being engagingly connectable with the connection element, an anchor-like clip provided on the first end portion of the support arm, and a locking member provided on the second end portion of the support arm for fastening the harness. When the first end portion of the support arm is connected to the connection element and the anchor-like clip is fitted through the portion of the seat frame, the connection element and the harness are supported with respect to the portion of the frame of the vehicle seat through the support arm.
US09045089B1
A glove compartment for a vehicle includes a carrier that is unitarily formed of a polymeric material. The carrier includes a distinct upper compartment, a distinct lower compartment, and a distinct intermediate compartment that is between the upper compartment and the lower compartment. A first door is mounted on the carrier and is moveable between open and closed positions with respect to the lower and intermediate compartments. A second door is mounted on the carrier and is movable between open and closed positions with respect to the upper compartment. The second door can include first and second hinge arms that extend outwards from a door panel. The hinge arms are received through first and second openings in the upper compartment and are pivotally supported on first and second hinge mounts that are situated outside of the upper compartment.
US09045083B2
An integrated assembly for a vehicle includes a release switch and at least one secondary electrical module positioned in the assembly such that, when the assembly is mounted to a vehicle, a centerline of the secondary electrical module is positioned substantially on a centerline of the vehicle and a portion of the release switch is positioned substantially on the vehicle centerline. An assembly consistent with the present disclosure may include a single switch providing multiple functions or multiple switches each providing a separate function.
US09045076B2
Vehicle lighting device that comprises at least two light-emitting strips, wherein the light-emitting strips can each be controlled selectively and are allocated to different functions.
US09045072B2
A vacuum loader truck that includes a storage tank that can be loaded and unloaded with debris. The vacuum loader truck includes a debris level sensor that generates a sensing beam to detect the level of debris within the storage tank. The level of debris within the storage tank is determined by a control module and displayed. The debris level sensor may be an ultrasonic sensor that generates a sensing beam that is reflected off of the top surface of the debris within the storage tank. The control module determines the height of the debris within the storage tank based upon the time delay between the generation of the sensing signal and the reflected signal. The control system further includes a particle sensor to determine whether particles are entrained in the airflow from the storage tank. A pair of pressure sensors are located on opposite sides of an air filter to sense the differential pressure across the air filter. Based upon the signals from the debris level sensor, the pressure sensors and the particle sensor, the control module can control the operation of the vacuum loader truck.
US09045054B2
A battery system includes a battery, a DC voltage intermediate circuit connected to the battery, an inverter connected to the DC voltage intermediate circuit and an electric motor connected to the inverter. The DC voltage intermediate circuit includes a capacitor, and the battery includes a battery module line having a plurality of battery modules which are connected in series, and a control unit. Each battery module includes a coupling unit and at least one battery cell which is connected between a first input and a second input of the coupling unit. The coupling unit is configured to connect the at least one battery cell between a first terminal of the battery module and a second terminal of the battery module in response to a first control signal, and to connect the first terminal to the second terminal in response to a second control signal.
US09045048B2
A charging control apparatus (1) that controls charging of a plurality of vehicles connected via a power line is provided with an electrical storage section (41) that stores power supplied from a power source, a communication section that receives information relating to supply power from the plurality of vehicles, a power amount calculation section (43) that calculates a supply power amount for the plurality of vehicles based on the information, and a control section that, if the supply power amount exceeds a second threshold value combining a remaining charge amount of the electrical storage section (41) and a contractual power amount, controls supply power for the plurality of vehicles so as to become smaller than the second threshold value.
US09045044B2
A battery charge/discharge control device which performs battery charge/discharge control in a working machine with a battery capable of storing electric energy generated by a generator motor coupled to an engine and driving the generator motor or at least one of other electric actuators by the stored electric energy and a controller which controls a distribution of the electric energy among the battery, the generator motor, and the electric actuator, wherein the controller performs the charge/discharge control in which the electric energy of the battery is discharged when the engine is driven and recharging to the battery is permitted on a condition that a state in which an engine speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined engine speed is maintained for a predetermined time after the battery is completely discharged.
US09045037B2
A ventilation assembly has a support structure, an electric motor and a fan connected to the motor. The fan has a cup-like hub with an annular side wall and a bottom wall and which define internally a housing in which the motor extends. The hub further has a plurality of internal vanes for the ventilation of the motor, that extend from the side wall of the hub. The support structure has at least one arcuate formation which is coaxial with the axis of the fan and which extends axially inside the hub of the fan, in a partially interpenetrated relationship with the side wall of the hub to form a labyrinth-like radial path between external and internal regions with respect to the hub.
US09045036B2
A cap attaching structure includes a cylindrical member and a cap member. The cylindrical member has an end plate, a side wall to be inserted into the cylindrical member, and an engagement claw piece in which a proximal end portion is connected to an inserting side end portion of the side wall, while a distal end portion extends towards the end plate via a slit. On an outer circumference of the engagement claw piece, a claw portion adapted to be brought into engagement with an engagement hole of the cylindrical member is provided. The distal end portion of the engagement claw piece is disposed in a cutout portion in the end plate.
US09045033B2
A sprung vibration damping for suppressing sprung vibration which is generated to a vehicle by an input from a road surface to wheels provided with the vehicle by controlling a torque of a motor, and the sprung vibration damping is subjected to a restriction including a prohibition in response to a state of battery, which supplies power to the motor, such as a voltage and a temperature of the battery or a state of a control, which affects the power of the battery, such as a charge/discharge amount feedback control and the like.
US09045032B2
A drive train of a motor vehicle has a front axle (10) and a rear axle (13). An internal combustion engine (16) is positioned behind the front axle (10) and in front of the rear axle (13) in a mid-engine arrangement. A transmission (17) enables the internal combustion engine to drive the rear axle (13). An electric drive (18) is associated with the front axle (10) and has at least two electric machines that can drive the front axle (10). A further electric drive (18) is associated with the rear axle (13) and can drive the rear axle (13) in addition to or alternatively to the internal combustion engine (16).
US09045026B2
A spring assist mechanism is disclosed for aiding manual deployment of a collapsible soft top that has a frame incorporating a back bow that includes spaced side struts joined at upper ends by a crossbar. The spring assist mechanism includes a bracket securable to the body of the vehicle on one side thereof. A pivot pin extends from the bracket to a distal end and a pivot plate is rotatably supported on the pivot pin. An attachment feature is fixed to the pivot plate displaced from the pivot pin and the pivot plate forms an attachment arm configured to be fixed to a lower end of one of the side struts. The pivot plate thus facilitates pivotal movement of the side strut and back bow between a generally vertical deployed configuration and a generally horizontal stowed configuration. A biasing member, which can be a coil spring, has a first end fixed relative to the bracket and a second end coupled to the attachment feature. The biasing member is configured to urge the pivot plate and an attached side strut and back bow toward the deployed configuration thereby aiding manual deployment of the soft top. Spring assist mechanisms may be disclosed on both sides of the vehicle if desired.
US09045022B2
A system and method for attaching an enclosure to a golf cart includes a flange member extending outwardly from a golf cart and a mounting strip having a tab portion attached to a golf cart enclosure panel. The mounting strip also includes a body portion having a u-shaped channel which is dimensioned and adapted to be press-fit onto an outer edge of the flange member thereby securing the enclosure panel to the golf cart.
US09045015B2
A laterally tiltable, multitrack vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes a vehicle body and three wheels. The first and second wheels are assigned to a common axle to form a first wheel pair. A first cylinder unit supports the first wheel of the wheel pair on the vehicle body and a second cylinder unit supports the second wheel of the wheel pair on the vehicle body. Each cylinder unit includes a first cylinder and a second cylinder connected in series. Each first cylinder has a first diameter and each second cylinder has a second diameter larger than the first diameter. The first and second cylinder units are fluidly connected to each other. Fluid is transferable between cylinder units between a first cylinder of the one cylinder unit and a second cylinder of the other cylinder unit.
US09045012B2
A system is provided for automatically adjusting the air pressure of a tire based on variations in loading to improve tread wear. For a particular loading of the tire, the system provides for the determination of a preferred air pressure setting designed to minimize tread wear. This preferred air pressure, Pp, is determined from an analysis of the longitudinal stresses that occur within the contact patch of the tread.
US09045010B2
A motorcycle tire comprises a tread portion having a tread width between tread edges. The tread portion is provided with a crown oblique groove disposed within a center region of the tread portion is defined as having 30% of the tread width. The center region having a radius of curvature of from 0.60 to 0.75 times the tread width in a meridian section of the tire, and the center region has a land ratio in a range of from 0.75 to 0.95. The crown oblique groove extends continuously or discontinuously in the tire circumferential direction, across the tire equator a plurality of times, and the crown oblique groove is inclined at angles of not more than 20 degrees with respect to the tire circumferential direction.
US09045009B2
A set of pneumatic tires that are mounted on a vehicle such as a compact or subcompact car, and to an arrangement of mounting the pneumatic tires on the vehicle, which enable omitting of tire rotation without adversely affecting productivity and performances of the tires. Dimensions, shaping and contour as well as tread pattern of the tires for the drive wheel are identical or substantially identical with those for the non-drive wheels. And, wear resistance of the tires for the non-drive wheels is lower than that for the drive wheels due to discrepancy in rubber compositions for forming tire treads between the tires for drive and non-drive wheels. The wear resistance may be defined as a mileage per 1 mm wear in depth direction of grooves on the tire tread around its center line.
US09045008B2
Circumferential recesses have: first blocks protruding outward in the tire tread width direction, the first blocks having radial outer end sections and radial inner front end sections; and second blocks protruding outward in the tire tread width direction, the second blocks having radial inner end sections and radial outer front end sections. The radial inner front end sections of the first blocks and the radial outer front end sections of the second blocks are separated from each other in the tire circumferential direction or in the tire radial direction.
US09045005B2
A tire assembly includes a tire having a pneumatic cavity, first and second sidewalls, a sidewall groove, an air passageway, and a pressure regulator mounted to an inner surface of the pneumatic tire cavity. The pressure regulator controls air pressure within the pneumatic tire cavity. The first and second sidewalls extend respectively from first and second tire bead regions to a tire tread region. The first sidewall has at least one bending region operatively bending when circumferentially within a rolling tire footprint. The sidewall groove defining groove sidewalls positioned within the bending region of the first tire sidewall. The groove and air passageway deform segment by segment between a non-deformed state and a deformed, constricted state in response to the bending of the first sidewall bending region circumferentially within the rolling tire footprint.
US09044997B2
An interior portion of a container (e.g., a lid portion, a base portion, etc.) includes one or more walls of a body of material (e.g., in a hexagonal configuration, a spiral configuration, a concentric circular configuration, etc.) that define one or more reservoirs. The one or more reservoirs are open to receive fluid composition therein (e.g., when the lid is positioned to close the container).
US09044995B2
An interactive whiteboard system that can be put on a desk or a floor surface is implemented. A reflection frame-equipped sheet in accordance with the present invention has a flexible sheet, and a retroreflective frame(s) that is/are fixed to given one side or given two opposite sides of the sheet.
US09044980B2
A platen gap adjustment mechanism includes a carriage guide shaft, a carriage drive unit and a main carriage. The carriage guide shaft is configured to extend perpendicularly to a media conveyance direction that passes over a platen. The carriage drive unit is supported on the carriage guide shaft and pivotable around an axis of the carriage guide shaft. The main carriage is supported on the carriage drive unit, pivotable around a parallel axis that is parallel to the axis of the carriage guide shaft, and configured to carry a printhead for printing on a print medium conveyed along the media conveyance path past the platen. The main carriage is moveable toward and away from the platen according to a thickness of the print medium while being slidable in sliding contact with the print medium conveyed over the platen to maintain a constant gap between the printhead and the print medium.
US09044976B2
A platen unit includes a supporting member that is grounded and is made of a metal, a platen supporting member that is provided on the supporting member, includes an inner space, is formed of a conductive resin, and includes a first contact point, a platen that is provided on the platen supporting member, is formed of a conductive resin, and includes a second contact point which contacts the first contact point, and a seal member that is provided between the platen supporting member and the platen.
US09044973B2
A sheet conveying apparatus coveys a sheet while nipping the sheet between a conveyance roller and a pinch roller. The pinch roller includes a first roller portion and a second roller portion adjacent to each other in a rotational axial direction thereof. The pinch roller further includes a mechanism configured to change a difference between a pressing force that the first roller portion applies to the conveyance roller and a pressing force that the second roller portion applies to the conveyance roller.
US09044967B2
The invention relates to a making apparatus for making an object comprising—a marking head (20) having a plurality of receiving spaces (24) for individual marking devices (40) and—a driving mechanism for providing a relative movement of the object (8) relative to the marking head (20) in an advance direction (16), wherein—the receiving spaces (24) are arranged in a plurality of rows (30) and columns (32), such that an array (22) of receiving spaces (24) with a rectangular pattern of the receiving spaces (24) is formed, and—the array (22) of receiving spaces (24) is tilted with regard to the advance direction (16)—the marking head (20) comprises a receiving plate (28) having a plurality of receiving holes (26) formed as through-holes therein, the receiving holes (26) forming the receiving spaces (24) for the individual marking devices (40),—the marking devices (40) each include a ferrule (42) which is insertable into a receiving hole (26) of the receiving plate (28), and—the receiving holes (26) are formed to tightly and removably hold the individual ferrules (42) therein.
US09044966B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing wall covering with relief, such as for example wallpaper, in a continuous process in a less expensive way (in the case of limited print runs) and with fewer limitations with regard to the size of the repeat of the pattern, comprising: step a providing a base; step b applying a heat-expandable material to this base in a continuous process using an analogue printing technique; step c applying one or more liquids, which influence the expansion of the expandable material, in a desired pattern in a continuous process using a digital printing technique; step d heating the base with the expandable material which has been applied thereto and the one or more liquids applied thereto to a temperature at which the expandable material expands.
US09044965B2
A digital camera includes an image capture assembly; a print media transport assembly; a pagewidth ink jet printhead; a roll of print media; an internal chassis serving as a frame on which the image capture assembly, the print media transport assembly, and the printhead are directly supported; and an external casing completely encasing therewithin the internal chassis. The external casing is openable, and the internal chassis together with the assemblies and printhead supported thereon are removable from the external casing. The internal chassis is provided as an integral frame configured with pre-molded fittings adapted to receive and support the assemblies and printhead.
US09044961B2
The invention relates to a dot matrix printer (10) which comprises a printing unit (12) for printing a printing material and a feed area (20) for feeding the printing material to the printing unit (12). In the feed area (20) a gap (26) is formed through which the printing material is transported. In a print mode, the printing unit (12) prints the printing material, whereas in a feed mode the printing material can be fed from the feed area (20) to the printing unit (12) and the printing material is not printed. Further, the dot matrix printer (10) comprises a closing unit (32) which at least partially closes the gap (26) in the print mode.
US09044960B2
A method for operating an inkjet printer to identify inoperable inkjets includes ejecting ink drops of a first color onto an image receiving surface to impose a control pattern on a document zone in addition to an ink image generated in the document zone. A density of the control pattern in the document zone changes at a rate that is at or less than a predetermined threshold. The method includes generating scanned image data of a portion of the control pattern on the image receiving surface and identifying a performance parameter corresponding to inkjets and printheads in the printer.
US09044954B1
A continuous ink jet printer including an ink tank for holding ink, an ink nozzle in fluid communication with the ink tank for ejecting ink droplets, and a gutter for receiving, through an ink-receiving inlet thereof, ink droplets which are not used for printing. A gutter flow path starts at the ink-receiving inlet for ink that has entered the gutter through the ink-receiving inlet, and provides fluid communication to the ink tank. A return line is in fluid communication with the gutter for conveying air to enter the gutter flow path. A makeup tank is in vapor communication with the ink tank to allow air to be conveyed from the ink tank to the makeup tank. A condenser is in fluid communication with the makeup reservoir and the return line for condensing solvent.
US09044952B2
A process of detecting a defective recording element and a process of correcting the defective recording element are performed with appropriate processing loads. When the detection process and the correction processes are performed with small loads, for example, at a time of recording, a resolution used for reading an inspection pattern is set lower than that set in a case where the processes can be performed with small loads, for example, at down time before recording. The reading resolution to be set may be determined by an apparatus in accordance with a processing load or may be arbitrarily determined by a user.
US09044947B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet printing apparatus which can prevent possible stripe-like density unevenness in a joint in a print head constructed by joining a plurality of chips together even if the print head is inclined to the regular position of the print head. The present invention uses a print head having the nozzle arrays being shifted in a direction in which the nozzles are arranged, so as to have overlapping portions in a direction orthogonal to the nozzle arranging direction. The present invention controls an ink ejecting operation of the nozzles in the overlapping portions between the plurality of nozzle arrays on the basis of an angle between the nozzle array arranging direction and a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the print head moves relative to the print medium.
US09044945B2
An inkjet nozzle device includes a main chamber having a floor, a roof and a perimeter wall extending between the floor and the roof. The main chamber includes: a firing chamber having a nozzle aperture defined in the roof and an actuator for ejection of ink through the nozzle aperture; an antechamber for supplying ink to the firing chamber, the antechamber having a main chamber inlet defined in the floor; and a baffle structure partitioning the main chamber to define the firing chamber and the antechamber, the baffle structure extending between the floor and the roof. The firing chamber and the antechamber have a common plane of symmetry.
US09044943B2
An inkjet printhead includes an oleophobic membrane arranged at a location that allows the oleophobic membrane to simultaneously vent air from an ink flow channel of the printhead and to retain ink within the ink flow channel. The oleophobic membrane includes a metal structure having a nanostructured surface and low-surface energy coating disposed on the metal structure.
US09044939B2
In one example, a liquid dispensing device includes a printhead assembly having a liquid port through which liquid may move between a removable liquid container and the printhead assembly and an air port through which air may flow to and from the container. A pressure source is operatively connected to the air port to pressurize the container to push liquid from the container through the liquid port into the printhead assembly. A vent is operatively connected to the air port to vent the pressurized container to draw froth from the printhead assembly through the liquid port into the container. In another example, a method for priming a printhead assembly includes pushing liquid from a container into the printhead assembly through a liquid port and then pulling froth from the printhead assembly into the container through the liquid port.
US09044909B2
A method and system (1) for retreading a tire (2), whereby the worn tread is removed from the tire (2); a green-rubber cushion (8) is wound about a carcass (6) of the tire (2); a tread strip (9) is wound about the carcass (6) and on top of the green-rubber cushion (8); and the carcass (6), complete with the green-rubber cushion (8) and the tread strip (9), is cured; prior to winding the green-rubber cushion (8) about the carcass (6), the lateral surface (7) of the carcass (6) is heated.
US09044908B2
The device for assembling a green blank form of the crown of a tire comprises: a support having a shape that exhibits symmetry of revolution (4), —members (8) for shaping the green tire, and for each member, means (20, 35) for removable attachment to the support, comprising at least one bolt (20) and able to fix the member to the support as soon as the member (8) is in a reception position on the support. The bolt (20) has a face able to collaborate with at least one face of the member or of the support in order to place the member in the reception position, the faces being arranged so that the face of the member or of the support cannot move the bolt. The members, when they are in the reception position, are juxtaposed to form a reception surface for components that form the crown of the tire.
US09044907B2
There is provided a method of making an optical polymer waveguide having an arbitrary refractive index profile, the method including: a) providing a first input optical beam having a first beam intensity profile and a second input optical beam having a second beam intensity profile; b) combining the first and second input optical beams to form an output optical beam having an output beam intensity profile; and c) forming the optical waveguide on a substrate by: exposing the optical materials of the waveguide to the output optical beam; and curing the optical materials using said output optical beam.
US09044906B2
A method and forming tool produce a multi-dimensionally profiled preform from a multidirectional fiber composite material. A tensioning frame envelops top and bottom tool components and fixes the fiber composite material so it is allowed to be subsequently fed-in under frictional engagement. In order to compensate for excess material in regions where a shaping gap has a weaker profile, the tool components have forming elements arranged in the edge trimming zone of the preform and defining between them a drawing-through gap for the material. The drawing-through gap becomes increasingly the shape of a bead in synchronism with the tool components closing movement, and/or the tensioning surface of the tensioning frame is vertically adjusted relative to a tool component inlet surface in the forming phase such that a drawing edge for the material is formed in the tensioning surface.
US09044901B2
A profile assembly for use on a belt comprises a base configured to be attached to the belt, wherein the base comprises a lower portion configured to be in physical communication with a surface of the belt, and an upper portion comprising aperture channel therein, and a lip disposed adjacent to the channel on a side of the upper portion; and a removable profile configured to matingly engage the base, wherein the profile comprises an outer portion configured to be in physical communication with an object to be conveyed, and an inner portion configured to be inserted into the upper portion, wherein the inner portion comprises a protrusion extending from a first surface of the inner portion, the protrusion configured to extend through the aperture and snap fit with the lip.
US09044899B2
A solution of polymer uniformly dissolved into a solvent is prepared in a solution preparing step. The solvent contains good and poor solvent components for the polymer. The solution is discharged from a coating die to a support to be a coating film thereon in a primary body forming step. A water drop generating step and a fluidity decreasing step are performed in parallel with each other while wet air is applied to the coating film. Water drops are generated on a surface of the coating film in the water drop generating step. The good solvent component is evaporated from the coating film to decrease fluidity of the solution for forming the coating film in the fluidity decreasing step. In the water drop evaporating step, dry air is applied to the coating film. The solvent and the water drops are evaporated from the coating film to obtain the porous film.
US09044897B2
The present specification discloses porous materials, methods of forming such porous materials, materials and devices comprising such porous materials, and methods of making such materials and devices.
US09044894B2
A method of controlling a slot die comprises, while continuing to pass the extrudate through the fluid flow path and out the applicator slot, changing the position of the actuators with the controller to either increase the cross-directional thickness of the fluid flow path adjacent each of the actuators or substantially close the fluid flow path adjacent the actuators, and after changing the cross-directional thickness of the fluid flow path adjacent each of the actuators, while continuing to pass the extrudate through the fluid flow path and out the applicator slot, repositioning each of the actuators with the controller according to the set of discrete settings to resume operating the slot die with the actuators positioned according to the set of discrete settings.
US09044889B2
Method for producing a vessel (2) by blowing in a mould (11) from a preform (3) made of plastic material, comprising the operations consisting in: introducing the preform (3) into the mould; at a predetermined moment, called pre-blowing cue (tP), controlling the opening of an electrovalve (22) for establishing a communication between the inside of the preform (3) and a source (20) of gas at a predetermined pre-blowing pressure; measuring the pressure (P) inside the preform (3); detecting the so-called real moment (tA), of the beginning of the pre-blowing, at which the (P) in the preform (3) starts to increase; comparing this moment (tA) with a theoretical pre-blowing beginning moment; if the real moment (tA) of the beginning of the pre-blowing follows the theoretical pre-blowing beginning moment, advance the pre-blowing cue (tP); if the real moment (tA) of the beginning of the pre-blowing precedes the theoretical pre-blowing beginning moment, delay the pre-blowing cue (tP).
US09044879B2
The aim is to regulate thickness on the optical axis in the production of wafer lenses. Disclosed is a wafer lens production method that is equipped with a dispensing process for dropping resin onto a molding die (64), an imprinting process for pressing either the molding die (64) or a glass substrate (2) toward the other, and a releasing process for releasing the glass substrate (2) from the molding die (64), and that repeats the processing from the dispensing process to the releasing process as a single cycle and successively forms resin lenses (4) on the glass substrate 2); wherein the height (A) of the non-lens area (6) surrounding the lenses (4) and the heights (B and C) of the glass substrate (2) are measured between the releasing process of a first cycle and the dispensing process of a second cycle, and the position of the molding die (64) is corrected for imprinting processes of the second cycle, on the basis of the heights (A-C).
US09044876B2
The invention relates to a light, single-layer derived timber product board which is distinguished by having a bulk density of below 500 kg/m3 and consisting of a mixture of crushed and sliced chips. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for the production of such a light, single-layer derived timber product board.
US09044874B2
A working component for mating with multiple shaft ends includes a body portion and a clamping portion which is connected to the body portion and suitable for mounting the working component to the shaft ends. The body portion has a work piece processing area for acting on the work piece to be processed and the clamping portion has a mounting hole with a longitudinal axis Y. The clamping portion includes a support portion and a mating portion which is provided with a plurality of projections which extend in a radial direction vertical to the longitudinal axis Y and which are distributed alternately.
US09044873B2
Various embodiments of fluid-jet systems are described herein. In one embodiment, a fluid-jet system includes a table and two bridges that are each longitudinally movable along the table. Each bridge carries a fluid-jet cutting head latitudinally movable along the bridge. The fluid-jet system also includes a first controller operably coupled to the first bridge and the first fluid-jet cutting head. The first controller controls the first bridge and the first fluid-jet cutting head. The fluid-jet system also includes a second controller operably coupled to the second bridge and the second fluid-jet cutting head. The second controller controls the second bridge and the second fluid-jet cutting head independently of the control of the first bridge and the first fluid-jet cutting head by the first controller.
US09044872B2
A sheet interleaver is provided for a slicing machine that includes a slicing plane for slicing an elongated food product and a sheet of web material beneath the elongated product. The interleaver includes a supply of web material, a drawing station, and a feed station. A tensioning station is disposed between the supply of web material and the drawing station to maintain the tension of the web material at a pre-determined tension. A web accumulation station is between the drawing station and the feed station to provide a slackened length of web material within an acceptable range of slack between the drawing station and the feed station. The supply of web material is disposed on a spool which rotates about a cylindrical shaft. The cylindrical shaft has a braking mechanism which protrudes from the shaft to generate a frictional force against the spool.
US09044871B2
An adjustable working area cutting machine includes a worktable, a cutting unit, a movable guide rail unit, a fence unit, and a locking unit installed on one of the worktable and the movable guide rail unit. The worktable includes a first rail. The movable guide rail unit includes a channel bar coupled to the first rail, and a second rail. The locking unit is fixed to the other of the worktable and the movable guide rail unit. The fence unit includes a fence arranged to be located on the top side of the worktable, and a slide coupled to the second rail. By moving the movable guide rail unit relative to the worktable, the working area of the cutting machine is relatively extended. To cut a large size workpiece, the position of the movable guide rail unit is adjusted relative to the worktable to extend the working area.
US09044857B2
A control system that guides a robot or articulated device with a laser distance meter for 3D motion, or guides a robot or articulated device with a computer pointing device (such as a mouse) for 2D or 3D motion. User needs to point to a desired physical location of the end point, and then the difficult work of finding the right joint angles to get there is done by a computer. System works like hand eye coordination. The hand goes wherever the eye is pointed so long as the eye is pointed within the reachable boundary of the jointed arm or articulated device.
US09044856B2
A robot apparatus includes a plurality of arm sections; a grasping-easiness calculation section configured to calculate an index value of grasping easiness quantitatively evaluating easiness of assuming a grasping posture for grasping an object or assuming a transition posture leading to the grasping posture for each of the plurality of arm sections; and an arm-section selection section configured to select an arm section to be used for actually grasping the object on the basis of the index value of the grasping easiness calculated for each of the arm sections.
US09044852B2
A device for cleaning debris from a target surface. The device has a sole plate with permanent cleaning material, such as bristles, and a removable/replaceable pad. The device also has a replaceable, on-board supply of cleaning solution. The pad/cleaning solution may be replaced when depleted and replaced with a new pad/cleaning solution or may simply be replaced with a new pad/cleaning solution when that pad/cleaning solution is more suitable for a particular cleaning task.
US09044850B2
A power tool includes a motor having an outwardly extending rotor that defines a drive axis, a housing surrounding the motor, and a gearcase that includes a drive train coupled to the rotor and configured to drive a tool output. The gearcase includes a proximal end and an opposite distal end that is exposed to the outside of the tool forward of the housing. The gearcase includes respective locking elements spaced around the periphery of the gearcase proximal end. A motor mount includes spaced apart locking elements that are configured to engage with respective gearcase locking elements. The proximal end portion of the gearcase is adapted to make contact with the motor mount between the locking elements and then rotate such that the gearcase locking elements engage the motor mount locking elements.
US09044848B2
An impact tool includes a motor, a rotating shaft rotationally driven by the motor, a swinging member that swings in an axial direction of a tool bit by rotation of the rotating shaft, a tool driving mechanism connected to an end region of the swinging member in a direction transverse to the axis of the rotating shaft. The tool driving mechanism is moved rectilinearly in the axial direction of the tool bit by swinging movement of the swinging member thereby rectilinearly driving the tool bit. A vibration reducing member reduces vibration caused in the axial direction of the tool bit during operation of the tool bit. The vibration reducing member is disposed on an opposite side of a rectilinear working axis of the tool bit from the rotating shaft and connected to a connecting part between the swinging member and the tool driving mechanism so as to be driven.
US09044841B2
A method of forming an abrasive article includes directing a beam of electromagnetic radiation at a starting location on an abrasive preform comprising a bonding layer and abrasive grains within the bonding layer, and increasing the power of the beam of electromagnetic radiation to a scanning power while directed at the starting location. The method further includes changing the position of the beam relative to the abrasive preform from the starting location to a second location on the abrasive preform.
US09044840B2
The present invention relates to a sheet for mounting a workpiece and a method for making the same. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a sheet body having a top surface, a bottom surface, at least one side surface and a plurality of pores, wherein some of the pores open at the side surface; and (b) sealing or narrowing the pores that open at the side surface. Since the pores that open at the side surface are sealed or narrowed, the slurry is prevented from entering into the interior of the sheet body. Therefore, the infiltration distance reaches a predetermined value slowly, thereby increasing the effective life of the sheet.
US09044839B2
The described embodiment relates generally to the development of a finishing process for a device housing. The device housing can be formed of a thermoplastic, or a metal such as aluminum or stainless steel. A method and an apparatus are described for accurately measuring the amount of material removed during a finishing process. More particularly embodiments described within this application disclose a method of accurately measuring material removal during a finishing process across a curved or spline shaped surface by drilling an array of pockets along a surface of the device housing, where the drilled pockets can be used to measure material removal rates with a high degree of accuracy.
US09044833B2
The invention relates to a rotor (1) of a turbomachine, in particular of an exhaust gas turbocharger, with a rotor wheel (2) which has a wheel back (3), and with a rotor shaft (4) which has an intermediate piece (5), via which the rotor shaft (4) is connected rigidly to the rotor wheel (2), the intermediate piece (5) being provided with a disk-shaped balancing plate (5A), the outside diameter (DA) of which is larger than the largest diameter (D4C) of the rotor shaft (4) and which is fixed to the wheel back (3) of the rotor wheel (2).
US09044831B2
A method of joining using a supporting electrode 4 having a cooling circuit and a pressure electrode 8 movably arranged above the supporting electrode, using a steel material causing martensitic transformation for one of or both of a first member 20 having an opening portion and a second member 24, engaging the second member with the opening portion of the first member, starting conduction from a power supply to the supporting electrode and the pressure electrode, allowing an insertion portion of the second member to enter the opening portion of the first member by a pressure force of the pressure electrode, causing the second member and an inner wall portion of the opening portion to be subjected to solid-phase diffusion joining, rapidly cooling the both members by thermal conduction of the supporting electrode after the joining, and quenching a joined portion and generating compressive residual stress by the rapid cooling.
US09044830B2
A method for forming cavity in substrate includes setting start position on closed loop line having circumference L for substrate, consecutively irradiating laser from laser device upon board for the substrate such that holes are formed, and moving the device in loop from the start position along the line such that penetrating hole is formed through the board. The start position of first loop is set as base position, the moving includes shifting the start position by distance d after each loop and controlling such that the moving satisfies p=Σdi, m≅L/p and M=m×n, where i=1 to n, n represents number of loops, p represents pitch of the holes, m represents number of the holes in loop, Σdi is distance from the base position for the start position after i-th loop, and M is number of the holes by the loops.
US09044829B2
Scribing operations with reduced substrate heating can be provided by applying multiple optical pulses to a substrate within a time interval that is less than a material recombination time. Typically a series of pulses of durations of 5-200 ps with pulse energies of less than about 0.002 mJ can be applied at rates of about 1 MHz to about 30 MHz. Beam area and beam scanning are configured to provide substantial overlap so that material can be removed by cold ablation.
US09044816B2
A solder paste including a metal component consisting of a first metal powder and a second metal powder having a melting point higher than that of the first metal, and a flux component. The first metal is Sn or an alloy containing Sn, and the second metal is a metal or alloy which forms an intermetallic compound having a melting point of 310° C. or higher with the first metal and has a lattice constant difference, i.e. a difference in between the lattice constant of the intermetallic compound and the lattice constant of the second metal component, of 50% or greater.
US09044810B2
A rare earth magnet is prepared by disposing a R1-T-B sintered body comprising a R12T14B compound as a major phase in contact with an R2-M alloy powder and effecting heat treatment for causing R2 element to diffuse into the sintered body. The alloy powder is obtained by quenching a melt containing R2 and M. R1 and R2 are rare earth elements, T is Fe and/or Co, M is selected from B, C, P, Al, Si, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ag, In, Sn, Sb, Hf, Ta, W, Pt, Au, Pb, and Bi.
US09044809B2
A method for producing aqueous compatible semiconductor nanoparticles includes binding pre-modified ligands to nanoparticles without the need for further post-binding modification to render the nanoparticles aqueous compatible. Nanoparticles modified in this way may exhibit enhanced fluorescence and stability compared to aqueous compatible nanoparticles produced by methods requiring post-binding modification processes.
US09044803B1
A flaring tool includes a tubular first holding member. A collet well extends into the first holding member. A collet has a primary end positioned in the collet well. A second holding member is coupled to the first holding member. A collet channel extends into the second holding member. The collet well aligns with the collet channel when the second holding member is coupled to the first holding member. The collet has a secondary end that is positioned in the collet channel. A punch channel extends into the second holding member. The punch channel is aligned with the collet. A punch is insertable into the punch channel. The first holding member and the collet receive the line through the first holding member and the collet. The punch compresses the end of the line between the punch and the collet so the end of the line is flared.
US09044802B2
A method and apparatus for a testing facility for simulating downhole conditions is provided. The testing facility may include a test bench for expanding tubular members having one or more threaded connections. The test bench may also be operable to simulate the expansion of a tubular connection downhole and to produce expanded tubular connection test samples.
US09044799B2
A device for winding an elongate member into a coil includes at least one first body portion adapted to rotate about a first axis; at least one fixing device for fixing a portion of an elongate member to the at least one first body portion; and at least one force applicator for applying a force to the elongate member. The force includes first and second force components acting in perpendicular first and second directions respectively, in order to restrict movement of the elongate member in directions parallel with the first and said second directions. The first force component acts towards the first body portion to which the elongate member is fixed.
US09044798B2
A method of manufacturing a downhole conduit segment is disclosed. The method includes: extruding a material as a tubular shape to form a body of the conduit segment having an interior bore extending through a length of the segment, the body including an exterior surface and an interior surface defined by the interior bore, the material being an extrudable material sufficient to withstand conditions in a downhole environment; and extruding at least one passageway extending along the length of the body and disposed at least partially between the exterior surface and the interior surface, the at least one passageway having a shape configured to restrict lateral movement of a conductor disposed therein.
US09044788B2
A blowing target structure includes an opening portion that (a) is an inlet into which the air flow from a blower pipe that has an elongated shape in one direction, (b) is elongated in the same direction as the one direction of an outlet of the blower pipe, (c) has a member that is provided at least on one end side in a lateral direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the opening portion to set an air permeability of a member side region of the opening portion to a value smaller than an air permeability of a region other than the member side region of the opening portion.
US09044781B2
Methods of dispensing a small amount of liquid onto a work piece includes in some embodiments known providing a microscopic channel for the liquid to flow from the nanodispenser. In some embodiments, dispensing the liquid includes dispensing the liquid using a nanodispenser have at least one slit extending to the tip. Some methods include controlling the rate of evaporation or the rate of liquid flow to establish an equilibrium producing a bubble of a desired size.
US09044779B2
A method for the application of at least two different powder coating layers to a substrate comprising the steps of application of a first powder coating layer followed by the application of a second powder coating layer, without any substantial curing of the first powder coating layer prior to the application of the second powder coating layer, followed by the simultaneous curing of the first powder coating layer and the second powder coating layer, wherein the first powder coating layer is applied to the substrate using a corona charging system and the second powder coating layer is applied to the substrate using a tribo charging system, or the first powder coating layer is applied to the substrate using a tribo charging system and the second powder coating layer is applied to the substrate using a corona charging system and the first powder coating layer and second powder coating layer have an opposite electrostatic polarity.
US09044771B2
An improved pump is provided that is capable of achieving excellent back suction function by using a depression head, without compromising the ease of depression operations of the head due to the additional function. The pump includes a depression head and an annular piston. The depression head is urged upward and is relatively displaceable with respect to the stem. When depressed, a lever member of the depression head operates to open a discharge opening. An annular piston opens a discharge valve, in an uppermost displacement position and closes the discharge valve in a lowermost displacement position. Back suction is caused due to a negative pressure state occurring in the stem until the discharge valve seat is closed by the annular piston during upward displacement of the stem.
US09044767B2
An outflow switch mechanism of a multi-function shower head includes an inner body, a button, a return spring, a valve shaft, a water division plate, a support press spring and a cover. The inner body has a valve chamber therein. A valve path for accommodating the valve shaft is between a seat and a chamber. The lower portion of the valve path is formed with an enlarged seat having longitudinal sliding grooves. The lower portion of the valve shaft extends into the enlarged seat. The bottom of a projecting rib formed between the sliding grooves has a gradient guide surface. The water division plate is formed with tooth blocks corresponding to the sliding grooves. The top of the tooth blocks has a gradient surface facing the gradient guide surface of the projecting rib. A magnet is fixed on the water division plate. A magnet is also provided on the cover.
US09044762B2
A screw type centrifugal liquid separation machine having a continuous decanter and using pressurized air to promote solids transport is provided. The machine has an outer bowl and a conveyor, which are coaxial. A back drive assembly is provided to maintain a difference in speed between the bowl and conveyor so that the conveyor has a mechanical sweeping action within a separation region of the machine. Air is introduced into the machine through the back drive assembly, and is injected into the heavy phase discharge path. In one location, the air acts as a turbulence inducer that at least partially re-suspends grits within the heavy phase material. The air is also injected through lift injectors radially spaced about the solids baffle to provide a uniform solid phase driving force. A flow control is also provided for controlling the discharge rate of the heavy phase material through a discharge port.
US09044760B2
A safety system prevents cutting machine operators from being accidentally carried through the infeed chute into the machine's cutting mechanism. An operator wears a safety device on his wrist and/or ankle and a sensor array mounts on opposing sides of the cutting machine's infeed chute. The sensor array elements are wound in opposite directions and connect in series opposing. The magnetic field of the safety device induces a current in the sensor array as it moves in the proximity of the sensor array. The safety system generates a signal which is proportional to the sum of the induced currents. When the signal exceeds a threshold, the safety system shuts off power to the feed mechanism and/or the cutting blades of the cutting machine, preventing injury to the operator.
US09044758B2
Disclosed is a manufacturing method for a fine powder exhibiting improved solubility, little impurity contamination, and a high recovery rate. Material to be ground and a grinding medium are suspended and stirred in a liquefied inert gas dispersion medium such as dried ice, and the material to be ground is made into a sub-micron or nano-sized fine powder. A uniform fine powder can be obtained when the material to be ground is a mixture having two or more components. Impurity contamination can be reduced by using granular dry ice as the grinding medium.
US09044751B2
A gene analysis device including an illumination optical system radiating exciting light onto a sample solution; a microfluidic device for forming a bio-reaction space of the sample solution and including at least one micro-chamber in which a reflection pattern is formed; and a detection optical system for detecting a fluorescence signal generated by a bio-reaction in the micro-chamber and comprising a photodetector.
US09044733B2
The invention provides a novel apparatus and method for preparing a solution of a shear sensitive material.
US09044726B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacture of diamond, the method including the steps of providing a first coating of solvent metal or solvent metal alloy on a diamond seed to create a coated diamond seed, situating the coated diamond seed adjacent a catalyst system comprising a solvent metal and/or a source of carbon, and subjecting the coated diamond seed and catalyst system to increased temperature wherein the melting point of the first coating is at least 20 deg C. below that of the catalyst system. The invention further relates to a compact comprising a plurality of diamond seeds wherein at least one seed includes a first coating comprising a solvent metal and/or solvent metal based alloy, the compact further comprising a catalyst system comprising a solvent metal and/or a source of carbon wherein the melting point of the first coating is at least 20 deg C. below that of the catalyst system.
US09044722B2
A tissue filling, repair, sealing, or bonding substance comprising at least three components, at least two of which upon coming into fluid communication with each other react and change the chemical, structural or other properties of the substance so as to bond to adjacent native or implanted tissue. The composition is further defined as comprising a first component of a curable substance, a second component of a suitable curing agent, and a third component of an encapsulant capable of forming a barrier between the first two components and physically arranged to form an encapsulated dispersion of the form interior phase (linking agent), exterior phase (encapsulant), and continuous phase (curable substance). The encapsulant is further defined as having limited solubility in the curable substance and the curing agent and having a melting temperature between 10° C.-50° C.
US09044720B2
The invention relates to a composition containing a particulate solid, an organic medium, and a (meth)acrylic polymer. The invention further relates to novel compounds, and the use of the (meth)acrylic polymer as a dispersant, typically a pigment dispersant.
US09044717B2
A centrifugal device capable of adjusting a temperature of a material. The centrifugal device applies centrifugal force on a contained material contained within a container by spinning the container while rotating the container. The centrifugal device includes: a rotating body rotating around a predetermined rotation axis line; a container holder that holds the container and is attached in a rotatable manner to the rotating body in a position that is a predetermined distance away from the rotation axis line of the rotating body; a compartment body that compartmentalizes a space including an area in which the rotating body rotates; one or a plurality of projection bodies that project from an inner surface of the compartment body towards the area in which the rotating body rotates; and a temperature adjustor that adjusts the temperature of the compartment body.
US09044715B2
The invention provides support-free palladium membranes and methods of making these membranes. Single-gas testing of the unsupported foils produced hydrogen permeabilities equivalent to thicker membranes produced by cold-rolling. Defect-free films as thin as 7.2 microns can be fabricated, with ideal H2/N2 selectivities as high as 40,000. Homogeneous membrane compositions may also be produced using these methods.
US09044707B2
In a method of operating a microwave plasma abatement apparatus comprising a microwave generator, and a gas chamber for receiving microwave energy from the microwave generator and within which a plasma is generated using the microwave energy, the amount of microwave energy that is not absorbed within the gas chamber is monitored, and the power of the microwave energy generated by the microwave generator is adjusted in dependence on the monitored microwave energy.
US09044699B2
A filtration system is disclosed comprising a filter manifold and a filter cartridge. The filter manifold comprises a bracket, a valve, a manifold feed port, a manifold filtrate port, and a handle. The valve is held by the bracket and comprises a fixed portion attached to the bracket and a rotary portion. The handle is operatively connected to the rotary portion and comprises a cartridge lifter having one of a camming ramp or a camming lug lifter engagement feature. The handle is rotatable to a service position and a disengaged position, wherein the manifold feed port is blocked by the valve when the handle is in the disengaged position. The filter cartridge comprises a cartridge feed port, a cartridge filtrate port, and an external cartridge surface having one of a camming lug or a camming ramp for engaging the lifter engagement feature.
US09044691B2
A method and apparatus for dehydration of glycol uses two galvanic electrodes submerged in a water-glycol mixture. Semiconductor switches are used to supply pulses from a direct current source and to control the polarization and current flow time in such a way as to produce an average current of zero and a switching frequency commensurate with electro-hydrodynamic frequency of the electrode and liquid system. By applying sufficiently low frequency of switching, stirring of glycol and removal of gas products from the electrodes is achieved. The glycol container has at least one submerged electrode module equipped with at least two galvanic electrodes. Each electrode is connected through pairs of high power electronic switches which cycle alternatively between the positive and negative terminals of a direct current power supply.
US09044690B2
A building system includes connectors for quickly and easily interconnecting building system parts. An expansion connector engages the apertures of two parts and expands to connect the parts. The expansion connector includes a base, an expansion element extending from a first side of the base and a receptacle extending from a second side of the base. A pin is configured to be inserted through the receptacle and the base and into engagement with the expansion element to force the expansion element into an expanded position. An alignment post may extend from the first side of the base to orient the connector relative to the parts and strengthen the connection. A thumbscrew connector includes at least one flange to engage an aperture of at least one part and includes a threaded receptacle for receiving a thumbscrew which secures the connector to the part or parts.
US09044689B2
A case for a portable electronic device includes a cavity and one or more studded surfaces. The cavity can receive at least a portion of the portable electronic device such that the portable electronic device is removable from the cavity through an opening in the cavity. The studded surfaces can be coupled with one or more building elements.
US09044685B2
A water attraction, involving a flowing body of water, for performing board-riding maneuvers is described. A water attraction according to the present invention includes an activity section adjacent a safety chute; opposing sidewalls adjacent to a safety chute; a water delivery section creating water flow towards a safety chute; a water recovery section; and a rideable surface area. The rideable surface area further includes irregularly shaped surfaces with varying angles and elevations to increase difficulty and creativity in board-riding maneuvers.
US09044684B2
There is provided a system and method for determining a gender and age of a player of a game. There is a method comprising capturing an image of at least one player, and determining the gender and age of the player based on the image. In this manner, the game may be customized to he more relevant or attractive to the player's gender and/or age group.
US09044681B2
A system, method, and processor-readable media for providing interactive, television-based gaming service, comprising a server cluster including processor electronics configured to send and receive messages and to execute a game, a first set-top box coupled to a first headend managed by a first television service provider, the first set-top box executing a first game client for enabling a first user to play the game executed by the server cluster, a second set-top box coupled to a second headend managed by a second television service provider, the second set-top box executing a second game client for enabling a second user to play the game executed by the server cluster, wherein the server cluster is coupled to the first and second headends via a public network and further configured to enable the first user to play the game with or against the second user.
US09044677B2
A network-connected system serving digital games includes a game server having a first software application executing from a non-transitory physical medium coupled to the server, the server serving a digital game to individual ones of network-connected digital appliances, and distributed client software applications executing from non-transitory physical mediums coupled to the network-connected digital appliances. The client software applications monitor local processing capability for real-time processing of served objects and effects, communicate capability information to the game server, and the game server serves objects and effects compatible with a higher level of processing capability or objects and effects compatible with a lower level of processing capability depending on the capability information communicated.
US09044674B2
There is provided a system and method for determining a gender and age of a player of a game. There is a method comprising capturing an image of at least one player, and determining the gender and age of the player based on the image. In this manner, the game may be customized to be more relevant or attractive to the player's gender and/or age group.
US09044673B1
Systems and methods for providing a tutorial for a video game are provided. The tutorial is characterized by a hierarchical data structure having a plurality of nodes connected by edges. Each node represents a video game stage and provides oral instructions on how to progress to another node. An edge represents head movements necessary to move to another node. At a computing device a current node is identified and the oral instructions associated with the node are provided. User head movements are sensed by a movement measuring component of the computing device and the current node and sensed user head movements are compared to edges associated with the current node. When a match is found, advancement to the node identified by the matching edge occurs. However, advancement is forgone when the user head movements do not match the head movements of any of the edges associated with the current node.
US09044663B2
The present invention is based on the combination of a snowboard with a 3-dimensional sole which wholly or partly has a tripartite sliding surface in the portion between the transition to the tip(s) and the binding fastening(s), in addition to which the board is equipped with an additional special 3-dimensional geometry in the tip(s), in order to continue the existing uplift in the lateral sliding surface (5), thereby ensuring better uplift and thus better glide and greater speed in loose snow, a combination which provides quite unique riding characteristics. The tip of the snowboard is designed in such a manner that it presses the snow under the board more efficiently, lifting it further up from the snow than an ordinary tip. When riding straight ahead, this is best accomplished by using what is called here a skate plate, with an almost straight portion in the tip, providing an extended tip at a moderate angle to the surface and thereby extremely careful treatment of the snow while keeping the tip above the snow. When turning, an improved uplift in the tip is achieved by successively increasing the angle between the central sole surface (2) and the lateral sole surface (6) in the tip from the end of the sliding surface a few cm forwards in the tip, with the result that during edging the lateral sole surface lies substantially flatter against the snow further forward in the tip than at the transition to the tip, thereby more efficiently pressing the snow under the snowboard and not to the side, thus causing the board to also glide better during turning.
US09044662B2
A golf club head is provided having a club body having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, and a heel portion. The club head also having a central portion connected with the front portion. A frame is connected with the central portion configured to provide a lightweight crown portion being located above an offset plane.
US09044658B2
A reinforced hockey stick blade and a related method of manufacture are provided. The hockey stick blade can include a core element defining one or more longitudinal channels bounded by an upper core portion, a lower core portion, and a bridge portion interconnecting the upper and lower core portions. The hockey stick blade can additionally include a plurality of fiber-reinforced plies substantially encapsulating the core element and a reinforcing material received within the one or more longitudinal channels. The reinforcing material can extend longitudinally from a first channel end portion to a second channel end portion, and can include woven or unidirectional fiber-reinforced plies. The reinforcing material can additionally extend transversely across the channel to form a blade structure having increased blade strength and durability over existing composite hockey stick blades.
US09044654B2
An improved putter comprising concentrations of mass near a heel and a toe and a wide profile is provided. The golf putter generally comprises a golf putter head comprising a face, an upper surface, a sole, a rear surface, and sides and a shaft. A heel-side comprises a heel-side forward scalloped portion and a toe-side comprises a toe-side forward scalloped portion. The heel-side and toe-side forward scalloped portions each extend upward from the sole. The heel-side further comprises a heel-side angular scalloped portion and the toe-side further comprises a toe-side angular scalloped portion. The heel-side angular scalloped portion extends at an angle from the rear surface towards a forward heel corner, said the toe-side angular scalloped portion extends at an angle from the rear surface towards a forward toe corner. A rear surface comprises a central scalloped portion. The head may be transparent and comprise a sight member.
US09044650B2
A golf ball painting system and method comprising: providing at least one golf ball, the cover having an outer surface comprising a surface area Sa; masking a portion P1 of surface area Sa with at least one masking part MA1, portion P1 having a surface area Sb that is less than surface area Sa; applying paint having a color C1 onto an unmasked portion P2 of surface area Sa, portion P2 having a surface area Sc that is less than surface area Sa and such that Sc+Sb+Sn=Sa wherein n is the number of masking parts; masking surface area Sc with a masking part MA2; removing MA1 from Sb; painting Sb a color C2 wherein C2 is different than C1; forming a painted golf ball having an overall color appearance of at least two different colors.
US09044631B2
The present invention is an apparatus and method for climbing, and more particularly but not by way of limitation an apparatus and method for ascending and descending a rope, for use by individuals with disabilities. The method and apparatus generally includes a combination of devices and a combination of steps which enables an individual climber to ascend and descend a rope while benefiting from the mechanical advantage of a rope assembly.
US09044628B2
A fire suppression system includes a volume reduction system having a seal member. The seal member is selectively deployable between a first position and a second position to seal an opening in a confined space.
US09044624B2
The present invention provides a sunscreen composition containing (a) a surfactant, (b) water, (c) an oil component, and (d) a water- and/or oil-soluble ultraviolet absorbent, that is in a bicontinuous microemulsion phase at 25° C. The transparent bicontinuous microemulsion spreads well when applied to the skin, to give a uniform and well-absorbed film.
US09044623B2
Personal care compositions comprising a polymer-bound UV absorber are described that provide enhanced properties, including customizable UV spectrum protection, broad-spectrum UV spectrum protection, water resistance, and labile UV stabilization. The polymer comprises anhydride functionality, such as maleic anhydride or a derivative thereof, and the UV absorber contains at least one hydroxyl, primary amine, or secondary amine group.The personal care compositions may be used to treat and/or protect against burns, cancers, erythema, lentigo (“liver spots”), keratotic lesions, wrinkles, and cellular changes of the skin; and/or color changes, embrittlement, lack of luster, tangles, split ends, and/or unmanageability of the hair.
US09044622B2
Inverse emulsions made by inverse emulsion polymerization have a disperse aqueous phase comprising a solution or dispersion of at least one water soluble polymer, particularly a polymer that forms a viscous solution or dispersion in water, and a continuous oil phase which is or includes an ester oil including an alkoxylated alcohol group. The inclusion of ester oil including an alkoxylated alcohol group provides these oils in emulsions, particularly personal care emulsions made by inversion of the inverse emulsions on dilution with water.
US09044619B2
A valvuloplasty system comprises a balloon adapted to be placed adjacent leaflets of a valve. The balloon is inflatable with a liquid. The system further includes a shock wave generator within the balloon that produces shock waves. The shock waves propagate through the liquid and impinge upon the valve to decalcify and open the valve.
US09044617B2
By incorporating magnetic field-inducing position determination coils (PDCs) in an external charger, it is possible to determine the position of an implantable device by actively inducing magnetic fields using the PDCs and sensing the reflected magnetic field from the implant. In one embodiment, the PDCs are driven by an AC power source with a frequency equal to the charging coil. In another embodiment, the PDCs are driven by an AC power source at a frequency different from that of the charging coil. By comparing the relative reflected magnetic field strengths at each of the PDCs, the position of the implant relative to the external charger can be determined. Audio and/or visual feedback can then be communicated to the patient to allow the patient to improve the alignment of the charger.
US09044614B2
A successive approximation ADC made of a low voltage configurable differential amplifier and low voltage logic circuits which can convert a high voltage analog input to a digital equivalent. The differential amplifier can be configured as either an op amp or a comparator depending upon the mode of operation. An input capacitor C1 is switchably coupled to an electrode selected for voltage sampling. A switched capacitor array C2 is coupled across the differential amplifier input and output. A SAR coupled to the switched capacitor array provides a digital output corresponding to the sampled analog voltage. During a sampling interval and a charge transfer interval, the differential amplifier is configured as an op amp. During the transfer interval, the voltage on the input capacitor multiplied by the ratio C1/C2 is transferred to the switched capacitor array. During an analog to digital conversion interval, the ADC converts the analog voltage to an equivalent digital output.
US09044609B2
Devices, systems and methods are described by which the blood pressure, nervous system activity, and neurohormonal activity may be selectively and controllably reduced by activating baroreceptors. A baroreceptor activation device is positioned near a baroreceptor, preferably a baroreceptor located in the carotid sinus. A control system may be used to modulate the baroreceptor activation device. The control system may utilize an algorithm defining a stimulus regimen which promotes long term efficacy and reduces power requirements/consumption. The baroreceptor activation device may utilize electrodes to activate the baroreceptors. The electrodes may be adapted for connection to the carotid arteries at or near the carotid sinus, and may be designed to minimize extraneous tissue stimulation.
US09044605B2
A charge collection electrode is formed of a plurality of groups each of which is made up of a plurality of adjoining wire electrodes. Further, all the wire electrodes are connected to channels of a signal processing device by the same number of lines as the wire electrodes belonging to one group so that each detection signal outputted from one wire electrode selected from each group is inputted through the same line and so that no two adjoining channels are physically continuous in regard to a certain set of consecutive measurement channels. The signal processing device determines group information indicating to which group the wire electrodes that sent the inputted detection signals belong and outputs a processing signal including the group information to a beam monitor controller. The beam monitor controller determines the position and the beam width of the charged particle beam that passed through the wire electrodes.
US09044602B2
A method and apparatus for radiation treatment planning are described. The method includes receiving a plurality of radiation treatment-planning parameters, and sequentially optimizing the plurality of radiation treatment-planning parameters.
US09044601B2
A method for estimating a radiation dose and distribution for a target volume is provided. The method includes receiving a simulated dose array (606) describing a plurality of simulated dose values for a plurality of voxels in the target volume, generating an energy deposition coefficient function for the plurality of voxels (608), and obtaining a raw fluence array based at least on the simulated dose array and the energy deposition coefficient function (612). The method also includes generating an adjusted fluence array (613) based on the raw fluence array and at least one adjustment criteria, and generating an adjusted dose array (622) for the target volume based on the adjusted fluence array and the energy deposition coefficient function.
US09044600B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for charged particle tomographic imaging using a tomography system. The tomography imaging system is optionally simultaneously operational with a charged particle cancer therapy system using common elements, allows tomographic imaging with rotation of the patient, is operational on a patient in an upright, semi-upright, and/or horizontal position, is simultaneously operational with X-ray imaging, and/or allows use of adaptive charged particle cancer therapy. The common tomography and cancer therapy apparatus elements are operational in a multi-axis and/or multi-field raster beam mode.
US09044590B2
Polymer materials make useful materials as electrode array bodies for neural stimulation. They are particularly useful for retinal stimulation to create artificial vision. Regardless of which polymer is used, the basic construction method is the same. A layer of polymer is laid down. A layer of metal is applied to the polymer and patterned to create electrodes and leads for those electrodes. A second layer of polymer is applied over the metal layer and patterned to leave openings for the electrodes, or openings are created later by means such as laser ablation. Hence the array and its supply cable are formed of a single body.
US09044578B2
An agent delivery catheter and method configured to deliver an agent to an inner surface of a patient's body lumen wall by forming a funnel shaped agent containment chamber around at least one portion of the inner surface of the body lumen wall, while minimizing ischemic conditions during the procedure.
US09044574B2
A catheter includes a first opening portion positioned at a distal end; a first curved portion positioned proximally of the first opening portion, and is curved in a first direction; a second curved portion positioned proximally of the first curved portion, and is curved in a second direction; an intermediate portion provided between the first curved portion and the second curved portion; and a second opening portion formed in the intermediate portion. In a transverse sectional view of the intermediate portion, the first direction and the second direction are directions directed towards a first side of the intermediate portion. In addition, in the transverse sectional view of the intermediate portion, the second opening portion opens in a third direction directed towards a second side of the intermediate portion that is opposite to the first side.
US09044570B2
Methods and devices for the stabilization of heart tissue to treat congestive heart failure using a therapeutic composition are discussed. The therapeutic composition can comprise an elastin stabilization agent, a collagen stabilization agent, or a combination thereof and be applied to the pericardium, to the outer surface of the myocardium, or a combination thereof using a catheter type of device with an attached reservoir. Controlled placement and release of the therapeutic composition can be achieved using a delivery vehicle to formulate the composition.
US09044569B2
A dressing (2) and an apparatus (1) comprising the dressing, for cleansing the wounds (5) in which an irrigant fluid from a reservoir (12) connected to a conformable would dressing and would exudate from the dressing are moved by a device (18) (which may be a single pump or two pumps) for moving fluid through a flow Path (6, 7, 9, 10) which passes through the dressing with a means for providing simultaneous aspiration and irrigation of the wound, to provide a desired balance of fluid at a controlled nominal flow rate that removes materials deleterious to wound healing, while distributing materials that are beneficial in promoting would healing over the would bed.
US09044566B2
There is disclosed a portable life support system with a component for removal of at least one selected gas. In an embodiment, the system includes a supported liquid membrane having a first side and a second side in opposition to one another, the first side configured for disposition toward an astronaut and the second side configured for disposition toward a vacuum atmosphere. The system further includes an ionic liquid disposed between the first side and the second side of the supported liquid membrane, the ionic liquid configured for removal of at least one selected gas from a region housing the astronaut adjacent the first side of the supported liquid membrane to the vacuum atmosphere adjacent the second side of the supported liquid membrane. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09044562B2
A patient interface for patient ventilation comprises a frame portion and a head strap system. The frame portion is for surrounding oral and nasal regions of a patient. The head strap system is configured for coupling from a left lateral portion of the patient interface, around a posterior skull of a patient, and to a right lateral portion of the frame portion such that in response to donning of the patient interface, the head strap system supplies a securing force to secure the frame portion in a position over nasal and oral cavities of the patient, the head strap is also configured to retain a head-shape when not in use to enable intuitive donning on the patient.
US09044559B2
An apparatus for supplying gas, includes a ventilator having a motor, a rotor having vanes and a volute, a conduit for cooling the motor, and a soundproofing housing containing the ventilator and the conduit. The conduit has a shape similar to the wall of the motor and the volute, thus providing a flow path around the motor and the volute. The conduit also includes two housing portions, one of which includes a set of walls, forming a portion of the soundproofing housing and the conduit, and the other also includes a set of walls, forming the matching portion of the soundproofing housing and the conduit. The portions of the soundproofing housing and the conduit on the same portion of the housing are integral with one another, the two portions being suitable for being assembled together around the ventilator such as jointly to form the conduit and the soundproofing housing.
US09044552B2
A needle device includes a body, a needle shield movable relative to the body, a needle at least partially arranged in the body, and a safety system that at least one of causes the needle shield to move to an extended position when activated by a user, releasably retains the needle shield in a retracted position after the user moves the needle shield to the retracted position, prevents a user from triggering the device, locks the needle shield in a fully extended position, prevents the needle shield from being retained in a retracted position after a user moves the needle shield towards the retracted position, non-releasably retains the needle shield in a fully extended position after being activated by a user, and utilizes two separate re-use prevent mechanisms. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US09044547B2
A device and a method for preparing adipose tissue for transplantation from lobular fat extracted, for instance by liposuction, the fat including a fluid component that have an oily component, a blood component and/or sterile solutions, and a solid component including cell fragments, cells and one or more cell macroagglomerates of heterogeneous size, wherein the device includes at least one washing and separating container having a washing chamber, the container has an inlet and an outlet for the liposuctioned material to enter the washing chamber through the inlet and for at least part of the material to exit the washing chamber through the outlet, the washing chamber including stirring means for forming an emulsion of fluid components.
US09044541B2
A medical device is disclosed comprising a diaphragm having at least one slit valve disposed therein, and a valve housing configured to secure the diaphragm at a peripheral portion of the diaphragm, wherein a central portion of the diaphragm is positioned relative to the peripheral portion of the diaphragm such that compressive forces acting on the peripheral portion of the diaphragm create moment forces which bias the slit valve in a closed position. A method is disclosed for using the device in connection with a catheter for regulation of fluids to and from a patient.
US09044535B2
A pump drive unit has an openable housing that accommodates a disposable impeller unit which is pre-connected with tubing, while maintaining the tight tolerances and close spacing. A levitation system (magnets and sensors), drive motor and drive magnets, and control electronics are all re-usable and housed within relatively permanent structures. In one embodiment, a hinged top separates the levitating magnets to allow the impeller unit to be captured and retained with positional accuracy and in close proximity to the desired locations when the hinged top is closed. The top may be separated into sections covering unequal arcs to coincide with the organization of the magnetic subcomponents in the upper drive unit housing.
US09044531B2
A biocompatible material may be configured into any number of implantable medical devices including a vascular closure device. The vascular closure device includes a fibrous structure formed from at least one randomly oriented fiber, the randomly oriented fiber comprising at least one polymer, and at least one agent, in therapeutic dosage, incorporated into at least one of the fibrous structure and the at least one randomly oriented fiber.
US09044528B2
An article comprising: a substrate; and over at least part of a surface of said substrate an outer coating of hydroxyapatite and an intermediate bonding layer bonded to said substrate and to said outer coating, wherein a mechanical interlock is present between said substrate and said outer coating.
US09044517B2
This invention provides novel reagents for cyanating polysaccharides in aqueous or part aqueous solutions so that they may be covalently linked to proteins either directly or through a spacer. These reagents include 1-cyano-4-pyrrolidinopyridinium tetrafluoroborate (CPPT), 1-cyano-imidazole (1-CI), 1-cyanobenzotriazole (1-CBT), or 2-cyanopyridazine-3(2H)one (2-CPO), or a functional derivative or modification thereof. The examples illustrate the use of these reagents with a variety of polysaccharides and proteins showing that the methods are generally applicable.
US09044515B2
The present invention is related to compositions which can undergo targeted degradation under certain physiological reducing conditions. The compositions may, for example, be hydrogels in which maleimide-functionalized low molecular weight heparin is cross-linked with various thiol-functionalized polyethylene glycol multi-arm star polymers. Both the gelation and degradation of the hydrogels can be modified by careful selection of the thiol. For example, hydrogels prepared from aryl thiol-maleimide adducts can undergo a retro Michael addition-type reaction, leading to degradation of the composition and release of the bioactive molecule.
US09044514B2
The present invention provides a conjugate having a peptide with from about 10 to about 100 amino acids, wherein the peptide adopts a helical structure. The conjugate also includes a first polymer covalently linked to the peptide, and a hydrophobic moiety covalently linked to the N-terminus of the peptide, wherein the hydrophobic moiety comprises a second polymer or a lipid moiety. The present invention also provides helix bundles form by self-assembling the conjugates, and particles formed by self-assembling the helix bundles. Methods of preparing the helix bundles and particles are also provided.
US09044512B2
The instant invention provides for novel cationic lipids that can be used in combination with other lipid components such as cholesterol and PEG-lipids to form lipid nanoparticles with oligonucleotides. It is an object of the instant invention to provide a cationic lipid scaffold that is more efficacious than traditional cationic lipids. The present invention employs amino alcohols to enhance the efficiency of in vivo delivery of siRNA.
US09044511B2
The invention provides a peptide comprising or consisting of FSY and variants thereof, particularly comprising of consisting of the sequence FTY, nucleic acids encoding said peptides and pharmaceutical and nutraceutical compositions comprising said peptide(s) and/or nucleic acids. Also provided is the use of such a peptide in therapy and in vitro methods of ACE-inhibition.
US09044508B2
Provided is concentrated aqueous azithromycin formulation from about from about 2%-20%, and a method of making a concentrated aqueous azithromycin formulation which includes preparing and sterilizing a first solution comprising a strong base to form a sterilized solution, dissolving the azithromycin in an aqueous solution comprising an acid consisting essentially of a strong acid, and adding the aqueous solution comprising the strong acid to the sterilized solution comprising the strong base. The strong acid has a pKa less than about −1.74 and the method is carried out without addition or use of a weak acid.
US09044503B2
Methods for treatment and/or prevention of Alzheimer's disease comprising inactivating peripheral AP in serum to a reduce A(3 in the brain. Methods comprise expression of amyloid peptide inactivating enzyme on bone marrow cells; and coupling of amyloid peptide inactivating enzyme to hematopoietic cells.
US09044493B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of an Adiponectin (ADIPOQ), in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of an Adiponectin (ADIPOQ). The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of Adiponectins (ADIPOQ)s.
US09044490B2
A Cichorium intybus root hydrolyzate including oligofructosans and its use as active ingredient designed for use in a composition with cutaneous application, for acting as a substitute for vitamin D on skin cells, and for making it possible to preserve and/or to repair the cutaneous barrier function. Also cosmetic compositions including this active ingredient and to a cosmetic skin-care process.
US09044489B2
The present invention relates to medicinal compositions containing a honey having non peroxide antibacterial activity and wherein the composition comprises from about 19% to about 80% water by weight. The use of these compositions in the treatment of eye, respiratory and ear conditions is also disclosed.
US09044484B2
The present invention is directed to the provision of multi-dose, ophthalmic compositions. The compositions possess sufficient antimicrobial activity to satisfy USP preservative efficacy requirements, as well as similar preservative standards (e.g., EP and JP). The compositions include at two different polyols in conjunction with borate and a low concentration of benzalkonium chloride.
US09044475B2
The invention features sublingual formulations of apomorphine that is a mucoadhesive polymer film or a strip having a first portion including an acid addition salt of apomorphine and a second portion including a pH neutralizing agent, and methods of treating Parkinson's disease, sexual dysfunction, and depressive disorders by administering sublingually the film or strip.
US09044467B2
A method for assisting an anti-cancer drug comprising administrating an effective amount of Antrodia camphorata fermentation solution to improve life quality of patient suffering from cancers after chemotherapy is provided.
US09044464B2
The present disclosure provides NO-releasing guanidine-coxib anti-cancer agents, having the structure of Formula (I): wherein R1, R11, Z and L are as defined in the detailed description; pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one of the compounds of Formula (I); and methods useful for healing wounds, preventing and treating cancer, or treating actinic keratosis, cystic fibrosis, acne, or a disease mediated by arginine deficiency using a compound of Formula (I).
US09044461B2
The present invention provides the amino acid and polynucleotide sequences of the transcobalamin receptor, as well as modulators of the transcobalamin receptor. Accordingly, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders associated with cobalamin deficiency, including compositions and methods that promote cobalamin uptake. In addition, the present invention provides compositions and methods for the detection, treatment, and prevention of diseases associated with deregulated cell growth, including, e.g., cancer and autoimmune disorders, including compositions and methods that inhibit cobalamin uptake.
US09044459B2
Disclosed are methods for treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Alzheimer's Disease Parkinson's Disease, Myasthenia Gravis, Multifocal Motor Neuropathy, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Kennedy's Disease, and Spinocerebellar Ataxia.
US09044456B2
Improved compositions comprising a cross-linkable protein or polypeptide, and a non-toxic material which induces cross-linking of the cross-linkable protein. The compositions are optionally and preferably prepared in a non-phosphate buffer solvent. Optionally and preferably, the cross-linkable protein includes gelatin and any gelatin variant or variant protein as described herein. Optionally and preferably, the non-toxic material comprises transglutaminase (TG), which may optionally comprise any type of calcium dependent or independent transglutaminase, which may for example optionally be a microbial transglutaminase (mTG).
US09044455B2
Described are purified extracellular matrix materials isolated from the abdominal wall of animals and including the subserous fascia layer of the abdominal wall. Such medical materials can find use in treating damaged tissue and in certain aspects in providing tissue support for the repair of hernias. Related methods of manufacture and use are also described.
US09044452B2
A method for treating a joint affected by pain that involves injecting an agent that includes resiniferatoxin (RTX) dissolved in a physiologically suitable solvent locally into the intracapsular region or the bursa of the joint affected by pain.
US09044451B2
This disclosure relates generally to the treatment of lysosomal storage disorders. Specifically, the disclosure relates to a novel use of delta tocopherol in the treatment of diseases and conditions related to lysosomal storage disorders. Included in the present disclosure is a method for the modulation of cholesterol recycling. Further, the disclosure relates to conditions such as Niemann-Pick type C disease, Farber disease, Niemann-Pick type A disease, Wolman disease and Tay Sachs disease. Further included in the present disclosure is a method for treating lysosomal storage disorders comprising the administration of delta tocopherol. Further included in the present disclosure is a method for treating lysosomal storage disorders comprising the administration of delta tocopherol in combination with cyclodextrin to a patient in need thereof.
US09044436B2
The invention generally relates to compositions and methods of treatment and/or prevention of angiogenesis-related eye diseases using low doses of rhodostomin variants, and in particular, low doses of a fusion protein comprising a rhodostomin variant, wherein the rhodostomin variant is conjugated with a variant of Human Serum Albumin (HSA) where the cysteine residue at position 34 of the HSA amino acid sequence has been replaced with serine.
US09044434B2
Disclosed herein are methods of increasing epithelial cell proliferation (such as intestinal epithelial cell proliferation) by contacting epithelial cells with one or more CBPs. In some examples, the methods include administering the CBP to a subject, such as a subject in need of increased epithelial cell proliferation. Also disclosed herein are methods of identifying a subject having or at risk of developing hyperproliferation of epithelial cells (such as intestinal epithelial cells). Further disclosed are methods of decreasing epithelial cell proliferation by decreasing expression and/or activity of a CBP and methods of identifying inhibitors of epithelial cell proliferation and/or CBP activity.
US09044432B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for cancer detection and treatment. Compounds that inhibit PRMT5 are contemplated, as are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of at least one PRMT5 inhibitor. In some embodiments pharmaceutical compositions further comprising at least one HDAC inhibitor are contemplated. Methods of treating disorders in a mammal by inhibiting PRMT5 by administering to a mammal, a therapeutically effective amount of a PRMT5 inhibitor are also disclosed.
US09044431B2
A cell type that is a complete match of the transplant recipient appears as an optimal scenario to open treatment options to a large patient population with minimal complications. The use of autologous bone marrow or umbilical cord blood has been proposed as a good source of stem cells for cell therapy. Menstrual blood is found to be another important source of stem cells. Assays of cultured menstrual blood reveal that they express embryonic like-stem cell phenotypic markers and neuronal phenotypic markers under appropriate conditioned media. Oxygen glucose deprivation stroke models show that OGD-exposed primary rat neurons, co-cultured with menstrual blood-derived stem cells or exposed to the media from cultured menstrual blood, exhibited significantly reduced cell death. Transplantation of menstrual blood-derived stem cells, either intracerebrally or intravenously, after experimentally induced ischemic stroke in adult rats also significantly reduced behavioral and histological impairments compared to vehicle-infused rats.
US09044418B2
Treating mental illness by administering synthetic isotope-modified lithium compounds: (i) with the lithium-6 isotope making up at least 95% of the total number of lithium atoms in the compound to treat depression and other mental conditions with reduced alertness levels, (ii) with the lithium-7 isotope making up at least 95% of the total number of lithium atoms in the compound to treat mania and bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses which respond to lithium compounds with natural isotope abundance levels, (iii) with the lithium-6 isotope ranging from 10% to 95% of the total number of lithium atoms in the compound individually tailored to treat patients with a broad variety of mental disorders, including those in (i) and (ii) above.
US09044404B2
A method for the modification of melanin distribution, and the composition thereof to modify melanin distribution are disclosed. A method for the reduction of melanin distribution, and the composition thereof to reduce melanin distribution are disclosed. A representative composition comprises 4-ethoxybenzaldehyde and one or more additional active agents as well as a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient. Carriers and excipients may be formulated for topical administration. Compositions may also be formulated for transdermal administration. The compositions may be used for the prevention and treatment of pigmentation disorders, by way of non-limited example, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation and others. The compositions may be used for lightening skin.
US09044396B2
The present invention is directed to nanoparticulate compositions comprising megestrol. The megestrol particles of the composition have an effective average particle size of less than about 2000 nm.
US09044392B2
Non-natural oligomers have recently shown promise as functional analogues of lung surfactant proteins Band C (SP-B and SP-C), two helical and amphiphilic proteins that are clitical for normal respiration. The generation of non-natural mimics of SP-B and SP-C has previously been restlicted to step-by-step, sequence-specific synthesis, which results in discrete oligomers that are intended to manifest specific structural attributes. Presented herein an alternative approach to SP-R mimicry that is based on sequence-random copolymers containing cationic and lipophilic subunits. These materials, members of the nylon-3 family, arc prepared by ling-opening polymelization of 13-lactams. The best of the nylon-3 polymers display promising in vitro surfactant activities in a mixed lipid film. Pulsating bubble surfactometry data indicate that films containing the most surface-active polymers attain adsorptive and dynamic-cycling properties that surpass those of discrete peptides intended to mimic SP-B.
US09044375B2
A device that stimulates bone tissue formation capable of generating vibrations with different frequency components at the same time and that can be applied locally to different parts of the patient's body, wherein such device comprises a vibration generator capable of generating vibrations with different frequencies and variable fastener to attach to different parts of the body.
US09044366B2
This disclosure concerns an adjustable bed with a deck-on-deck appearance. A concealing assembly is attached to the center frame of an articulating bed, wherein the concealing assembly is situated below the mattress platform and conceals the base frame as the center frame moves along the base frame when the bed articulates. In other embodiments, such as for non-wall hugger beds where the center frame is stationary, a concealing assembly may still be used but will also be stationary.
US09044359B2
A disposable absorbent article is provided having an absorbent core located in a chassis and including absorbent particulate polymer material defining at least one cavity for improved isolation of fecal matter or other body exudates. The absorbent core may be substantially cellulose free. Methods for making such an absorbent core and corresponding disposable absorbent article are also disclosed.
US09044352B2
A medical device includes a polymer scaffold crimped to a catheter having an expansion balloon. The scaffold is crimped to the catheter by a multi-step process for increasing scaffold-catheter yield following a crimping sequence. Damage reduction during a crimping sequence includes modifying blades of a crimper, adopting a multi-step crimping sequence, and inflating a supporting balloon to support the scaffold during crimping.
US09044350B2
The invention is direction to an alignment apparatus comprising a central sheath, an alignment sheath, and at least one stent. The central sheath and the alignment sheath each have a wall and a distal end where the wall of the alignment sheath is engaged to the wall of the central sheath. The wall of the central sheath defines a central lumen that has a central guide wire extending therethrough and the wall of the alignment sheath defines an alignment lumen that has an alignment guide wire extending therethrough. The distal end of the alignment sheath is positioned proximally to the distal end of the central sheath. The alignment apparatus has at least one stent disposed about one of the alignment guide wire or the central guide wire. The at least one stent has a pre-delivered state so that when the at least one stent is in the pre-delivered state, it is contained within at least one of the central sheath and the alignment sheath.
US09044339B2
The present invention relates to an intervertebral disc prosthesis comprising at least three pieces including an upper plate, a lower plate, and a movable core at least in relation to a plate, wherein it also comprises two anatomic adaptation elements of which each has, on one hand, a surface in contact with a surface of a vertebra and, on the other hand, a face of which at least a part has a surface in contact with at least a part of the plate opposite to which the anatomic adaptation element is mounted, the anatomic adaptation elements being fixed onto the plates via fixation means.
US09044334B2
A spinal surgery tool system including an elongated conduit and an implant is disclosed. The implant assumes a straight configuration within the elongated conduit and is deployable from the elongated conduit into a closed or nearly-closed loop configuration for deployment interposed between two tissue surfaces to define an enclosed volume. The conduit and the implant are configured such that, when the implant is deployed in the loop configuration, an opening formed in a proximal portion of the implant forms a contiguous channel with a passageway along the conduit so as to provide a continuous access channel along the elongated conduit into the enclosed volume.
US09044333B2
A system for implanting an interbody device between adjacent vertebrae comprises an interbody device having a plurality of lobes extending outwardly from a longitudinal rib, and having a relaxed shape approximating the shape of the disc being replaced. An insertion guide is provided having a bore therein from a proximal end to a distal end thereof to accept the interbody device in an unrelaxed shape, wherein the distal end is shaped for insertion into an intervertebral space. The insertion rod may be positioned within the bore of the insertion guide whereby the interbody device is positioned within the intervertebral space by advancing the insertion rod into the insertion guide.
US09044332B2
In various embodiments, provided are implantable devices for replacing all or a portion of a metatarsophalangeal joint, comprising (i) a metatarsal component comprising a substantially convex bearing surface; or (ii) a phalanx component comprising a substantially concave bearing surface; or (iii) both. In various embodiments, also provided are methods of treating hallux valgus by replacing all or a portion of a metatarsophalangeal joint with one or more of the provided implantable devices.
US09044324B2
A contouring arm and shoulder support is provided that is secured to a supporting and stabilizing belt. The support is interconnected to the belt by an adjustable shoulder component that supports an adjustable arm cuff and provides upward force that moves the patient's shoulder joint out of subluxation.
US09044321B2
An implant having an integrated cutting broach and/or cutting burr. The integrated implant may be inserted without requiring separate steps for drilling and broaching bone. The integrated implant assembly may include an integrated implant, a flexible sheath, a delivery rod, and a delivery pin. The implant may have a core which may have any of a variety of cross-sectional geometries. A method for fusing bone may involve inserting the implant laterally through the ilium, through the sacral-iliac joint, and into the sacrum.
US09044311B2
An aortic graft device (10) is provided with a graft portion (12) integrally fixed to a corrugated trunk portion (14). A fixing ring (16) is provided between the graft and trunk portions. The trunk portion (14) can be everted into the graft portion, leaving the fixing ring (16) at an extremity of the device for suturing purposes. The fixing ring (16) is preferably made from a relatively stiff material such as a compressed foam or rubber like material, which provides a relatively solid component for a surgeon to hold during suturing and which can provide a strong support for sutures.
US09044306B2
A joint-supporting device comprises tensile members extending from above the joint to below it, supplementing the tensile characteristics of the joint's tendons, ligaments, and other structure.
US09044303B2
Techniques, apparatus and systems for laser surgery including imaging-guided surgery techniques, apparatus and systems.
US09044300B2
A system for therapy within a gastrointestinal system includes anchoring or attachment functionality embodied in a low-profile implant technology and removable therapy components, which can be reversibly attached to these low-profile implants to accomplish various therapies. This design allows the physician to tailor the therapy to the patient's needs. The system has the potential to create conduits for diversion and/or restriction of food and organ secretions and to facilitate the treatment of metabolic disorders such as obesity and T2DM.
US09044292B2
Provided are methods of improving the wear resistance and aesthetic properties of dental articles though use of ceramics and microparticles, as well as dental articles having an abrasion resistant microparticle and ceramic coating thereon.
US09044288B2
Disclosed herein is a two part retraction system that can be inserted into the sulcus to form a semi-rigid porous elastomer releasing a hemostatic agent suitable for sulcus retraction such that a dental impression may be completed by a dental practitioner.
US09044281B2
A bone transport system includes a nail having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end configured for securing to a first portion of bone, the distal end configured for securing to a second portion of bone. The system includes a housing having a wall with a longitudinal opening extending a length along a portion thereof. The system further includes a transport sled having a length that is shorter than the length of the longitudinal opening, the transport sled configured for securing to a third portion of bone, the transport sled further configured to be moveable along the longitudinal opening. The system further includes a magnetic assembly disposed within the nail and configured to be non-invasively actuated by a moving magnetic field, wherein actuation of the magnetic assembly moves the transport sled along the longitudinal opening. The system further includes a ribbon extending on opposing sides of the transport sled and substantially covering the longitudinal opening.
US09044279B2
Spinal canal expansion through pedicle lengthening in combination with spinal column stabilization, to treat spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, kyphosis, scoliosis or a major spinal rotational deformity, with or without a spinal fusion. A device or implant that includes a pedicle lengthening implant to decompress (expand) the spinal canal, and a bridge to connect two or more pedicle lengthening implants and/or pedicle screws or bone anchors to achieve simultaneous spinal stabilization across one or more vertebral segments. The bridge across the vertebral segments can include a longitudinal member, such as a plate or rod. The pedicle lengthening implant is originally made, or can be modified to, connect to the longitudinal member. Spinal deformity can be manipulated, through operation of one or more pedicle lengthening implants in respective vertebral segments, to improve a relative relationship between the respective vertebra segments, the longitudinal member then fixating the vertebral segments into a multi-level spinal construct.
US09044278B2
The described devices are useful in the treatment of spinal disorders and pain. In particular, the described devices are designed to stabilize a portion of the spine by restoring and maintaining spacing between two adjacent vertebrae. The devices are compressible spacers that may be situated between the spinous processes of those adjacent vertebrae. The described inter spinous process spacers also allow a range of spinal motion and mimic the motion of a normally functioning spine.
US09044275B2
A spine stabilization system having a base plate having a plurality of screw holes and a plurality of corresponding screw locking mechanisms. The present invention also provides an extension plate having a plurality of screw holes and corresponding screw locking mechanisms. The extension plate is dimensioned and configured with an extension portion, the extension portion having a screw hole and a screw locking mechanism and a finger portion having a connection element and to couple with the base plate. The base plate is provided a graft window having edges, wherein at least one of the edges being configured to receive and connect with the connection element.
US09044260B2
A cutting implement includes a first tubular portion and a second tubular portion. Each tubular portion is hollow and includes a blade element at a distal end. The blade element helps define an aperture that allows access to the interior hollow portion of the tubular portion. A ligament graft element is threaded through the aperture of each tubular portion and the respective tubular portions are interoperated to cut the ligament graft.
US09044258B2
A laparoscopic instrument is disclosed, including an elongated tube defining a proximal portion and a distal portion; an end effector removably coupled to the distal portion, the end effector including first and second elements pivotably coupled to one another; an anchor coupled to the tube and a pivot point of the end effector to restrict axial movement of the end effector; and a sleeve movably coupled to the tube, where the sleeve is slidable across at least a portion of the end effector to secure the end effector to the tube.
US09044246B2
The present invention provides methods and devices for grasping, and optional repositioning and fixation of the valve leaflets to treat cardiac valve regurgitation, particularly mitral valve regurgitation. Such grasping will typically be atraumatic providing a number of benefits. For example, atraumatic grasping may allow repositioning of the devices relative to the leaflets and repositioning of the leaflets themselves without damage to the leaflets. However, in some cases it may be necessary or desired to include grasping which pierces or otherwise permanently affects the leaflets. In some of these cases, the grasping step includes fixation.
US09044243B2
A nested trigger assembly for a surgical instrument may generally comprise a first trigger and a second trigger, wherein the first trigger and the second trigger are movable together on a first stroke of the nested trigger assembly, wherein the second trigger is configured to be biased away from the first trigger after the first stroke and before a second stroke, and wherein the second trigger is configured to be moved toward to the first trigger during the second stroke. A surgical instrument may generally comprise a shaft comprising a proximal end and a distal end, a handle extending from the proximal end, wherein the handle comprises a gripping portion, and a nested trigger assembly extending from the handle. The nested trigger assemble may comprise one of a separable trigger assembly and a divisible trigger assembly.
US09044242B2
A bipolar forceps may include a first forceps arm having a first forceps arm aperture, a first forceps jaw, and a first forceps arm conductor tip; a second forceps arm having a second forceps arm aperture, a second forceps jaw, and a second forceps arm conductor tip; and an input conductor isolation mechanism having a first forceps arm housing and a second forceps arm housing. The first forceps arm may be disposed in the first forceps arm housing and the second forceps arm may be disposed in the second forceps arm housing. An application of a force to a lateral portion of the forceps arms may be configured to close the forceps jaws. A reduction of a force applied to a lateral portion of the forceps arms may be configured to open the forceps jaws.
US09044240B2
A device for clipping tissue includes a clip including first and second arms coupled to one another and biased toward an open configuration and a core member including a proximal portion and a distal portion connected to one another via a frangible link configured to break when subjected to a predetermined tension, the distal end of the core member being directly coupled to the first arm. The device further includes a capsule slidably housing the distal end of the core member and a proximal portion of the clip, the capsule being dimensioned so that, when the clip is drawn proximally thereinto, contact between the arms and the capsule move the arms toward one another into a closed, tissue-gripping configuration, the core member and the capsule being longitudinally movable relative to one another to move the clip between and a closed tissue-gripping configuration and the open configuration.
US09044236B2
A coring knife can be used to make a circular incision. The coring knife includes an abutment that is inserted into an initial slit through the heart wall. The abutment can be inserted into the slit while oriented in a direction that minimizes its insertion profile. After insertion, the abutment is reoriented by turning a key so that its abutment surface faces toward a circular cutting edge of the coring knife on the other side of the heart wall. The circular incision through the heart wall is made by pressing the circular cutting edge of the coring knife against the abutment.
US09044232B2
A medical heating device is based on an electrical heater formed out of a self-limiting conductive material, such as a conductive polymer or ceramic. An electrical resistance that gradually changes with temperature characterizes the material such that heat production from electrical current through the material varies with temperature. A thermally insulating jacket contains the self-limiting heater element, which can be coupled to an electrical power supply. A probe thermally coupled to the heater extends outward from the jacket. The self-limiting medical heating device can be used by touching the end of the probe to target tissue, such as skin, adipose tissue, nerves, glands, vascular tissue, or abnormal growths or tumors to effect the desired treatment, typically by thermally ablating, cutting, or shrinking the target tissue where touched by the probe or in the vicinity therein.
US09044231B2
Devices, systems, and methods for treating a heart of a patient may make use of one or more implant structures which limit a size of a chamber of the heart, such as by deploying a tensile member to bring a wall of the heart toward (optionally into contact with) a septum of the heart.
US09044230B2
Sensor arrangements for determining the position of a firing element in an end effector of a surgical instrument. In various forms, the sensor arrangement comprises a resistive element supported in the end effector. As the firing element translates within the end effector, it movingly contacts the resistive element to generate signals indicative of the firing element position. In other arrangements, the sensor can detect the status or presence of a staple cartridge in the end effector. The sensor arrangement can communicate with a memory device, processor and indicator.
US09044229B2
Surgical instruments and cartridges for cutting and fastening tissues and organs such as vessels are disclosed. In various non-limiting forms, the surgical instrument includes a first jaw that operably supports a substantially flexible elongated tissue closure assembly therein. A second jaw is movably supported relative to the first jaw and is selectively movable between open and closed positions in response to opening and closing motions applied thereto. A closure retraction assembly is configured to selectively apply cinching motions to the substantially flexible elongated tissue closure assembly.
US09044227B2
A fastener cartridge can comprise a crushable cartridge body and fasteners embedded within the crushable cartridge body which can be utilized to fasten tissue. In use, the fastener cartridge can be positioned in a first jaw of a surgical fastening device, wherein the first jaw can be positioned opposite a second jaw, or anvil. The anvil can be engaged with the fastener cartridge to crush the cartridge body and deform, or otherwise deploy, the fasteners contained therein. As the fasteners are deformed or deployed, the fasteners can capture at least a portion of the cartridge body therein along with at least a portion of the tissue being fastened. A fastener cartridge can comprise a compressible cartridge body having a thickness which can be reduced by the compressive pressure applied by the anvil. In certain embodiments, a fastener cartridge can comprise a cartridge body which can collapse from the compressive pressure.
US09044219B2
A surgical instrument for providing an ionized gas to a surgical site includes a receptacle for at least one cylinder of pressurized surgical gas and a frame having a port near the distal end for emitting the surgical gas. A passageway extending between the receptacle and the port delivers the surgical gas to the port. A puncture assembly for rupturing a seal on at least one cylinder to release the surgical gas into the passageway includes at least one bank for storing mechanical energy which may include at least one spring. An actuator is operable to actuate the at least one bank release the mechanical energy. At least one puncture pin is operatively coupled to the at least one bank such that energy released by the at least one bank is effective to move the at least one puncture pin relative to at least one cylinder to rupture the seal.
US09044217B2
A distractor device (1) comprises a distracting element that includes a fixed plate (3) and a mobile plate (4), said mobile plate (4) being translatable by means of an actuator with respect to a body (2) of said distracting element between a first position where it is in contact with said fixed plate (3) and a second position where it is spaced therefrom. The distractor device further includes at least one rod (10) suitable to be introduced in the medullary cavity of a femur (F) and provided with a stem (10a) and an abutment plate (10b) fixed at one end of the stem (10a) and inclined by a known angle (α) with respect thereto, said abutment plate (10b) being suitable to receive in abutment the mobile plate (4) in said second position, and one between the mobile plate (4) and the fixed plate (3) being also rotatable with respect to the other, the angle of rotation of the rotatable plate (3, 4) determined by the contact between the mobile plate (4) and the abutment plate (10b) being measured by means of a graduated scale (5d) and an indicator (4a) secured to said rotatable plate (3, 4). Thanks to these features, the distractor device according to the invention allows to check in situ and to correct the theoretical valgism angle of a patient's knee determined during a pre-surgery phase, thus allowing to correctly place the jig for the first distal resection of the femur.
US09044207B2
The present invention is a Miniature Vein Enhancer that includes a Miniature Projection Head. The Miniature Projection Head may be operated in one of three modes, AFM, DBM, and RTM. The Miniature Projection Head of the present invention projects an image of the veins of a patient, which aids the practitioner in pinpointing a vein for an intravenous drip, blood test, and the like. The Miniature projection head may have a cavity for a power source or it may have a power source located in a body portion of the Miniature Vein Enhancer. The Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to one of several improved needle protectors, or the Miniature Vein Enhancer may be attached to a body similar to a flashlight for hand held use. The Miniature Vein Enhancer of the present invention may also be attached to a magnifying glass, a flat panel display, and the like.
US09044199B2
The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.
US09044195B2
A sonic window includes a body sized and configured to close an opening formed through the cranium, wherein at least a part of the body is made of a sonically transparent material through which ultrasonic waves can pass.
US09044189B2
A method and a computed tomography system are disclosed for generating tomographic image datasets of a measurement object. The computed tomography system includes at least two simultaneously operable sets of detector elements which jointly scan a measurement object from a multiplicity of projection angles in an integrating manner on the one hand and an energy-resolving manner on the other hand. In at least one embodiment, the method includes determining a first projection dataset from measurement data recorded in an integrating manner. Further, at least one second projection dataset is determined from energy-resolved measurement data, and in addition a weighted tomographic result image dataset is calculated based on weighted use of the first and the second projection dataset, the weighting being applied to the projection data or the tomographic image data reconstructed therefrom.
US09044175B2
In order to three-dimensionally quantify the elastic information indicating the hardness or softness of tissue of an object with a simple operation, two three-dimensional regions of interest are set on a displayed elastic rendering image. A three-dimensional distortion ratio measuring unit 52 calculates a ratio between elastic information in the set first three-dimensional region of interest and elastic information in the set second three-dimensional region of interest and displays the ratio on an image display device 13.
US09044174B2
An adaptive optics apparatus includes an aberration measuring unit that measures an aberration caused by a subject's eye, the aberration being measured on the basis of returning light that returns from the subject's eye; an aberration correcting unit that performs aberration correction in accordance with the aberration measured by the aberration measuring unit; an irradiation unit that irradiates the subject's eye with light corrected by the aberration correcting unit; and an adjusting unit that maintains a correction characteristic of the aberration correcting unit when the subject's eye moves out of a predetermined area.
US09044169B2
A heart size measuring tool includes a tubular body, a flexible measuring cord having length indicia, a measuring cord support mechanism movable between retracted and extended states with respect to the body, and an actuating mechanism to move the measuring cord support mechanism. When in the retracted state the measuring cord support mechanism is positioned within the tubular body with the measuring cord in a collapsed position. When the measuring cord support mechanism is in the extended state the measuring cord extends around a portion of a heart to be measured. A scale on the body can be used in connection with the indicia on the measurement cord to provide a reading of the heart size.
US09044168B2
An ophthalmologic apparatus includes an aberration measurement unit configured to measure aberration caused by a subject's eye, a correction unit configured to correct aberration of return light from the subject's eye of measurement light applied to the subject's eye caused by the subject's eye based on the aberration measured by the aberration measurement unit, a storage unit configured to store a plurality of combinations of frame rates for obtaining an image of the subject's eye with a number of pixels of the obtained image according to values of the frame rates, and an obtaining unit configured to obtain the image based on the frame rate and the number of pixels in one combination among the plurality of combinations using aberration-corrected return light from the subject's eye.
US09044166B2
An optical tomographic image photographing apparatus includes: an OCT optical system for capturing tomographic images of an object to be examined, the OCT optical system including a light source, a splitter for splitting a light from the light source into a measurement optical path and a reference optical path, an optical scanner, and a detector for detecting a spectrum of light obtained by combining the light of the measurement optical path reflected from the object and the light from the reference optical path; a drive unit to move at least a part of optical components of the OCT optical system in an optical axial direction; a monitor to output at least the tomographic image; and a display controller for displaying the tomographic image and identifying information used to determine whether the tomographic image output to the monitor is a normal image or a reverse image.
US09044153B2
Random sinogram variance is reduced in continuous bed motion acquisition. The randoms are modeled as a product of transverse singles efficiencies. The random sinogram is assumed to be a smooth function in the axial direction, collapsing the parameterization for estimating the transverse singles efficiencies into a single, conceptual ring. By solving the product, the mean random values are used to smooth the randoms in image reconstruction with less noise and artifacts.
US09044138B2
A steerable stereoscopic endoscope including a shaft having a distal end, a proximal end, and an articulating region therebetween; a stereo image acquisition mechanism disposed at the distal end of the shaft for acquiring stereo images of a remote site; and a mechanism for steering the portion of the shaft distal to the articulating region.
US09044134B2
A capable of efficiently disposing nozzles spraying washing water is provided. A dishwasher includes a washing tub, an upper rack, a lower rack and a middle nozzle. The washing tub forms a space in which dishes are washed. The upper rack has the dishes loaded thereto, being provided inside the washing tub. The lower rack is provided below the upper rack, being provided inside the washing tub. The middle nozzle sprays washing water toward the upper and lower racks, being provided on side walls of the washing tub.
US09044131B1
A grout and tile cleaning apparatus comprises a grout and tile cleaning head subassembly carried upon a cleaning end of a handle assembly. The grout and tile cleaning head subassembly includes a pair of diametrically opposed absorbent material pivotal support members. The absorbent material support members are pivotally assembled to a control member. The handle assembly is in operational engagement with the grout and tile cleaning head subassembly to convert the absorbent material support members between a cleaning configuration, a downward compression absorbent material removal configuration, and an upward, brush scrubbing configuration. An absorbent cleaning material pad is attached to each absorbent material support member. A brush subassembly is located between the cleaning material pads.
US09044130B2
The invention relates to a cleaning device for a portioning utensil used for portioning ice cream or the like, which can be used in a receptacle. Cleaning fluid being fed to a valve support can be conducted through at least two rinsing rods and can be discharged via nozzles being located on the rinsing rods. An actuation mechanism switches a valve within the valve support. In order to be able to optimally clean the receptacle and the cleaning device, it is proposed to insert a splash guard separately into the receptacle and/or to design the rinsing rods such that the same can be detached, especially by hand.
US09044120B1
A spice grinder is revealed. The spice grinder includes a base connected to a bottom of a container body, an inner grinding member, and an outer grinding member arranged between the container body and the base. The inner grinding member includes a plurality of grinding blades. Each grinding blade has an insertion hole on a center thereof. A rod of a fixing shaft is inserted through the insertion hole of each grinding blade. Thus a first fixing block on one end of the fixing shaft and a second fixing block on other end thereof are against a top and a bottom of the inner grinding member respectively. While in use, the container body and the base are rotated to drive the inner and the outer grinding members. Thus granular spices are ground gradually by the grinding blades. Therefore the granular spices are broken into fine grains precisely.
US09044117B2
An automatic coffee maker comprises a tube valve which has a passage tube for liquids and/or gases and a control device for controlling a throughput through the passage tube. The tube valve is improved by a direction changing device which changes an orientation of the passage tube during operation.
US09044114B1
A product that can be used to repair curtain hangers and/or extend them and includes a bipedal attachment that affixes to a standard curtain hanger. In order to repair a broken or damaged hanger, simply slide the hanger parallel to the curtain slide and snap into position. Afterwards rotate the handle ninety degrees and the task is finished. The invention further contemplates a method for removing and replacing curtain hangers in an expeditious and safe manner.
US09044110B2
An anchoring system for use with hollow panels, comprises an anchor member and a separate fixture, which are adapted to be mounted together. The anchor member includes an elongated element, such as a wire, adapted to be inserted into and partly through a hollow panel, such as a wall, and to bear against a rear surface of the panel. The fixture is adapted to bear against a front surface of the panel for securing the anchoring system to the panel.
US09044103B2
Bassinet assemblies and related methods are disclosed. An example bassinet assembly includes an upper frame, a first support arm and a second support arm coupled to the upper frame and a floorboard coupled or adjacent to the first support arm and the second support arm. The example bassinet assembly also includes a support liner coupled between the floorboard and the upper frame and a cover disposed over at least a portion of each of the upper frame, the support liner and the floorboard.
US09044097B1
Leg Ease provides users with a way to relax their legs when travelling long distances. The device may come in different embodiments, one that wraps around both of a user's legs and then secures at the top. This allows users to fully relax their legs without touching the person next to them. Leg Ease helps align a user's hips, knees and ankles in their natural positions, thereby reducing the stress on those joints. Leg Ease provides a soft barrier between a person's legs and the rigid, narrow, and sharp edges of a chair. Leg Ease effectively prevents knee-to-knee contact when sitting between two people which helps to ensure a more relaxed and private travel experience. Leg Ease can be easily placed in a bag or pocket for use at any time.
US09044089B1
A system and method of store sliding shelving that may be selectively extended for restocking and retracted for normal supply and product display. Each sliding shelf includes a slide mechanism that allows each shelf to extend outwardly to enable a store worker to stock or restock the shelf and a concealed locking mechanism with a release lever to allow the sliding shelves to be locked into position. The sliding shelving is beneficially positioned on vertical tracks.
US09044084B2
The modular folding table includes a collapsible truss framework that supports a folding table top and a folding utility shelf, and includes legs that can be connected horizontally or vertically to the legs of one or more similar modular folding tables, to provide desired table and shelf space with a structure that is foldable, strong and stable.
US09044077B1
An eyelash holder includes a base and at least one eyelash mount disposed on the base. The at least one eyelash mount includes an eyelash positioning edge and at least one holding means disposed on the eyelash positioning edge. The at least one holding means includes a first end connecting to the eyelash positioning edge and a second end separating from the eyelash positioning edge with an eyelash holding space.
US09044062B2
A convertible shoe enables people to easily modify a single shoe to form a total of at least three different shoe types. This reduces the bulkiness/amount of a traveler's luggage and reduces the burden of traveling without limiting a traveler's options of available shoe types. The convertible shoe can include a front removable shoe upper to convert between an open-toe and a closed-toe shoe. The convertible shoe can further include a rear removable shoe upper to convert the shoe between closed-back shoe and a sandal-type shoe. The sandal-type shoe can include a removable strap to convert between a strapped and a strapless sandal-type shoe.
US09044058B2
An article of footwear with an integral upper and sole and a method of assembling the article of footwear are disclosed. The method includes folding the article of footwear from a flat configuration and attaching top and bottom lateral edges to form the article of footwear. A kit of parts containing an article of footwear with an integral upper and sole and a set of instructions is also disclosed.
US09044057B2
Goggles, goggle attachment systems, and helmets are described. One such goggle attachment system includes an attachment post and a resilient goggle strap tab. The attachment post includes a post portion and a stop and the goggle strap tab includes an opening. The goggle strap tab is configured to be stretched and the opening pulled over the stop and onto to the post portion. The goggle strap tab is retained on the post portion by the stop. An example goggle includes a frame, a resilient strap attached to the frame, and a resilient goggle strap tab attached to the strap. The goggle strap tab having an opening disposed between a strap tab and a tab pull. The goggle strap tab is configured to stretch when pulled by the tab pull along a longitudinal axis and the opening being asymmetrical about an axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis when stretched.
US09044056B2
A lighted artificial tree, including a first tree portion having a first electrical connector having a first electrical terminal positioned in line with a central vertical axis, and a second electrical terminal. The tree also includes a second tree portion that includes a second electrical connector having a first electrical terminal and a second electrical terminal, the second electrical terminal defining a ring shape that encircles the first electrical terminal. When the first tree portion is coupled to the second tree portion, the first electrical connector is coupled to the second electrical connector, such that the first electrical terminal of the first electrical connector is electrically connected to the first electrical terminal of the second electrical connector, and the second electrical terminal of the first electrical connector is electrically connected to the second electrical terminal of the second electrical connector.
US09044055B2
A garment (30) with a retroreflective and electroluminescent article (35) includes one or more electroluminescent structures (36), which may in some embodiments be discontinuous from each other. In some embodiments, the electroluminescent structures can be electrically connected with conductors (34) including conductive adhesive. The article further includes one or more retroreflective structures (39) disposed at least partially in the light path capable of being emitted by one or more of the electroluminescent structures. The article can be disposed on a support (33), such as a garment shell. The present disclosure also includes methods for making such garments.
US09044053B1
A knee-spacing garment assembly provides space between knees of a user using wedges that remain in place while the user changes position. The assembly includes a main section having a front portion coupled to a back portion. The main section has a top opening. Each of a pair of pant legs has an open top end coupled to the main section and an open bottom end positioned opposite an associated one of the top ends. The main section and the pant legs define a garment. A pocket is coupled to each of the pant legs. The pockets are coupled to an inner side of an exterior surface of the pant legs. A wedge is positioned in each of the pockets wherein the wedges are configured to facilitate spacing between the user's knees when the wedges are positioned in the pockets and the garment is worn on the user's lower body.
US09044042B2
A method of producing a ready to eat oatmeal product for consumption in a container of a desired size. A mixture of acid, salt, fruit juice concentrate, sweetener and water are added to a processing receptacle and heated and agitated at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time period. A selected amount of thick cut oats and the heated and agitated mixture are added to the container. The container is then sealed, pasteurized and cooled to ambient temperature. A fruit may be added to the container before it is sealed. A flavor and/or plant sterol may be added to the processing receptacle before the mixture is heated and agitated.
US09044039B2
An edible pet chew has a member of meat based material. As a first aspect of present invention, the edible pet chew has a chewy sheet of meat based material. As another aspect, the edible pet chew has a meat based material chewy sheet member and additionally an edible material member being wrapped therein. As another aspect, the edible pet chew has an edible material member and additionally a meat based material chewy sheet member being wrapped therein. As another aspect, the edible pet chew has a THREE-DIMENSIONAL-SHAPE meat based material member and additionally an edible material member wrapped therein. As another aspect, the edible pet chew has an edible material member and additionally a THREE-DIMENSIONAL-SHAPE meat based material member wrapped therein. Other aspects of present invention provide a method for making the edible pet chew with the essential member of meat based material chewy sheet member or THREE-DIMENSIONAL-SHAPE member.
US09044035B2
A method of preparing an orally ingestible hard boiled product, comprising: i) heating a sugar material to a first temperature sufficient to liquefy the sugar material; ii) cooling the liquefied sugar material to provide a cooled sugar material having a solid or semi-solid form; iii) heating the cooled sugar material to a second temperature, which is lower than the first temperature; iv) combining the sugar material with one or more temperature sensitive ingredients before, during, or after said heating step iii), but after said cooling step ii), such that an intimate mixture of the second liquefied sugar material and the one or more temperature sensitive ingredients is provided; and v) cooling the intimate mixture to form an orally ingestible product. Orally ingestible hard boiled products prepared according to this method are also provided.
US09044029B2
According to a first aspect, the invention relates to a mass-distributing device (18) for supplying a mass of foodstuff starting materials suitable for consumption, in particular a meat mass, to one or more mold cavities (44) of a molding member (16) for molding three-dimensional products (46) from said mass. The device (18) comprises a housing (30), which has an open side (38) which can be turned towards the molding member, in which a flexible abutment element (40) for the housing to abut the molding member is arranged. In the housing (30), a through-passage (34) for said mass extends from an introduction opening (32) in the housing (30) to a discharge (36), which discharge opens at the open side (38) of the housing (18). Pressure means (50) are provided in order to position the flexible abutment element (40) under pressure against the plane (35) of the molding member (16) comprising one or more mold cavities (44), the pressure means (5) being designed to set contact pressures in separate zones (72, 74, 76, 78) of the flexible abutment element (40).
US09044027B2
A method and apparatus for the humane euthanasia of small animals involves the use of a programmable controller and animal holding chamber. The apparatus includes a Mass Flow Controller (“MFC”) having a closed-loop interface with a Programmable Logic Controller (“PLC”) to provide a predetermined flow rate of gas under specified pressures for specified time periods. The PLC is preprogrammed to provide various cycles that are designed to provide the proper flow rate for various animal species. The program may allow for a two-stage flow rate cycle so that in the first stage the animal is anesthetized and in the second stage the animals are euthanatized.
US09044013B2
The present invention provides a glyoxime derivative displaying excellent pesticidal effect or a salt thereof and a pesticide containing the same as an active ingredient. This pesticide is characterized by containing as an active ingredient, a glyoxime derivative expressed by the general formula [I] (in which X represents a cyano group or a carbamoyl group, R1 represents a C1˜C8 alkyl group, a C3˜C6 cycloalkyl C1˜C6 alkyl group, etc, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1˜C8 alkyl group, a C3˜C6 cycloalkyl C1˜C6 alkyl group, etc.) or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof.
US09043984B1
A wheat variety designated W030065A1, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W030065A1, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W030065A1 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W030065A1 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W030065A1. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W030065A1 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
US09043973B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1MDJ and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1MDJ with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1MDJ through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1MDJ or a locus conversion of PH1MDJ with another maize variety.
US09043971B1
A novel maize variety designated PH18TA and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH18TA with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH18TA through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH18TA or a locus conversion of PH18TA with another maize variety.
US09043970B1
A novel maize variety designated PH188M and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH188M with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH188M through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH188M or a locus conversion of PH188M with another maize variety.
US09043969B1
A novel maize variety designated PH18Y1 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH18Y1 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH18Y1 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH18Y1 or a locus conversion of PH18Y1 with another maize variety.
US09043968B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1JPB and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1JPB with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1JPB through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1JPB or a locus conversion of PH1JPB with another maize variety.
US09043964B2
Methods and devices are provided to automatically determine plant water requirements and adjust irrigation. In one implementation, a method comprises: receiving, from a user via a user interface of an irrigation control unit and at a time after an initial commercial sale, a region identifier corresponding to a region of the irrigation controller; identifying a set of historical values from a plurality of sets of historical values pre-stored in a memory of the irrigation control unit; receiving a current value of at least one other environmental variable from at least one sensor; receiving at least one historical value from the identified set of historical values from the memory; determining the plant water requirements using the at least one historical value and the current value; outputting an adjustment control message to the irrigation controller; and adjusting execution of the irrigation schedule, the irrigation schedule defined for a peak irrigation period.
US09043962B2
A self-irrigating planter system that waters vegetation on a regular schedule using hollow upright supports to convey the water from a pump and reservoir to multiple organic-shaped pods that are attached to the upright supports in a tiered manner, and which uses gravity to deliver water so as to provide sustained plant growth and a healthier living environment with reduced energy usage.
US09043959B2
A combine harvester includes a separating device that extends in a longitudinal direction of the combine harvester. In front of the separating device, a tangentially disposed feed drum is installed. The feed drum is configured with substantially axially parallel guide plates on a circumference thereof. The substantially axially parallel guide plates bear against the jacket surface of the feed drum via support elements. The support elements extend between adjacent guide plates in the circumferential direction and, extend between the adjacent guide plates in the radial direction across an entire free jacket surface of the feed drum.
US09043955B2
In one embodiment, a header control method for an agricultural machine, the method comprising receiving, through a graphical user interface, operator input corresponding to a first set point and a second set point for flotation pressures corresponding to independently controllable first and second header portions, respectively; and automatically causing first and second sets of hydraulic valves to increase or decrease pressure to the first or second header portions to meet or at least approximate the first and second set points, the first and second sets each comprising opposing-action hydraulic valves, the causing responsive to sensed pressure at respective first and second accumulators associated with respective first and second float cylinders.
US09043952B2
A robot lawnmower includes a body and a drive system carried by the body and configured to maneuver the robot across a lawn. The robot also includes a grass cutter and a swath edge detector, both carried by the body. The swath edge detector is configured to detect a swath edge between cut and uncut grass while the drive system maneuvers the robot across the lawn while following a detected swath edge. The swath edge detector includes a calibrator that monitors uncut grass for calibration of the swath edge detector. In some examples, the calibrator comprises a second swath edge detector.
US09043948B2
The present invention includes an auxiliary closing wheel for use with an agricultural seeding implement of a type of having a factory closing wheel rotatably coupled to a mounting arm with a rod. The auxiliary closing wheel includes a plate member rotatably coupled to the rod to which the factory closing wheel is coupled. The auxiliary closing wheel has a generally planar and annular configuration. The plate member includes a peripheral edge having a plurality of spiked teeth extending away therefrom. The plate member includes an inner surface defining a flange configured to mate with a recessed area of the factory closing wheel such that both wheels thereafter move unitarily. The plate member includes a diameter greater than a diameter of the factory closing wheel such that the spiked teeth will contact a ground surface in use instead of the factory closing wheel.
US09049809B2
Provided is an apparatus for manufacturing a double-sided mounting substrate, the apparatus including: a backup table provided under the printed circuit board at the mounting position which supports the lower surface of the printed circuit board; and a servo motor which elevates and lowers the backup table, wherein the servo motor elevates the backup table to mount the new electronic components and lowers the backup table to carry-in and to carry-away the printed circuit board based on a lower limit position of the backup table, and wherein the lower limit position of the backup table is a position separated downwardly from a reference surface at the mounting position by a distance obtained by adding a preset clearance to a sum of a maximum height of the mounted electronic components mounted on the lower surface of the printed circuit board and a thickness of the printed circuit board.
US09049790B2
The invention relates to a masking layer. The masking layer produced by coating a white-color photosensitive resin composition on a peripheral region of a transparent substrate, developing the white-color photosensitive resin composition to obtain a patterned composition layer, coating a gray-color photosensitive resin composition on the cured composition layer and developing the gray-color photosensitive resin composition, so that the gray-color photosensitive resin composition is cured to obtain the masking layer having an optical density (O.D.) of ≧3.5. The masking layer is adapted for use on a touch panel or a flat panel display device. The masking layer shows a white color appearance when viewed from outside and serves as a white color decoration around the peripheral region of the device. The masking layer further comprises a gray colored sub-layer to mask the electrical circuitry disposed beneath the masking layer.
US09049777B2
A conductive thermoset material is provided that provides shielding against electromagnetic radiation. The conductive thermoset material includes an intermixed conductive material dispersed essentially throughout. An antisettling additive is present in the conductive thermoset material to support dispersion, optionally, homogenous dispersion of the conductive material in the resin. The conductive thermoset material is formable into one or more articles. The articles may be transportable and resistant to significant conductivity changes by contact with other surfaces.
US09049776B2
A latching module for latching two housings together includes a rotary member, a compression spring, an elastic sheet, and a magnetic member. The rotary member is attached to one housing, and includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a peripheral surface. The first surface defines a first receiving hole and a curved groove. The second surface defines a second receiving hole communicating with the first receiving hole. A latching projection extends from the peripheral surface. The compression spring is received in the second receiving hole. The elastic sheet is attached to the peripheral surface. The magnetic member is received in the curved groove. The magnetic member is attracted by another magnet to rotate the latching projection into a latch in another housing.
US09049775B2
A housing for an electronic circuit for a fuel pump includes a base and a cover which is connected to the base, a printed circuit board and, disposed on one side of the latter, electric and/or electronic components. Disposed on either side of the printed circuit board in each case is a cover in such a way that each component is arranged in a region covered by a cover.
US09049770B2
A circuit arrangement may include: an inverter comprising first electronic and second electronic switches coupled in series between a first and second input connections to form a bridge center point; a drive apparatus for the first electronic switch and the second electronic switch; a current-measuring apparatus which is designed and arranged to measure the current through the inverter; a short-circuiting apparatus which is designed to short-circuit the output when the output voltage exceeds a first predefinable threshold value; and an evaluation apparatus which is coupled to the current-measuring apparatus and is designed to determine the mean value of the current through the inverter and, when the mean value undershoots a second predefinable threshold value, to drive the drive apparatus in such a manner that the latter influences the operation of the inverter, by driving the electronic switches in such a manner that the current in the short-circuiting apparatus is reduced.
US09049768B2
Thermal management and control techniques for light emitting diode and other incandescent replacement light technologies using a current controller are disclosed.
US09049764B2
A LED drive circuit according to the present invention comprises a controller and a programmable signal. The controller generates a switching signal coupled to switch a magnetic device for generating an output current to drive a plurality of LEDs. The programmable signal is coupled to regulate a current-control signal of the controller. The switching signal is modulated in response to the current-control signal for regulating the output current, and the level of the output current is correlated to the current-control signal.
US09049754B2
A laser light display system that includes a plurality of laser heads, a router controller and a plurality of transmission cables is disclosed. The system includes control signal receivers associated with the laser heads and a laser controller that includes a relay, signal output ports, and a programmable logic controller for providing output signals for the control of the laser heads each which emit a single static and motionless beam of radiation of visible light.
US09049752B2
The invention describes a method of generating electrical power utilizing hot surface air as the heat source, high atmosphere as the heat sink and a microwave beam aimed upward providing updraft to initiate and control the large-scale air circulation. The frequency of the microwave beam is centered at approximately 60 GHz, within the absorption band of molecular oxygen, so as to result in beam penetration to an altitude of several kilometers. The power plant comprises a high-power microwave source, e.g. a bank of gyrotrons, one or more turbine-generator sets, and—optionally—a condenser/cyclone (if on a floating platform). The plant can also provide clean water from condensation out of humid, sea level air. The plant could also be used to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide from large quantities of air. The dynamic chimney produced by the microwave beam could alternatively be deployed in conjunction with a solar heat power plants, industrial chimneys, and cooling towers of conventional power plants to increase their effective height.
US09049742B2
An method for forming wireless communications groups applied in a wireless communications system includes selecting g coordinators from n wireless communications devices around a base station, allocating remaining (n−g) wireless communications devices of the n wireless communications devices to the g coordinators to form g wireless communications groups, reselecting a coordinator from each wireless communications group to generate g updated coordinators, and allocating remaining (n−g) wireless communications devices of the n wireless communications devices to the g updated coordinators to form g updated wireless communications groups.
US09049725B1
A spread spectrum communication system includes a base station that is able to transmit wireless signals that are spread by any of a plurality of orthogonal spreading codes and receive wireless signals that mobile stations transmit in an access channel. One of the orthogonal spreading codes is reserved as an indicator code that the base station uses to indicate when the access channel is occupied by a transmission from a mobile station. When the base station detects a transmission in the access channel, the base station estimates a completion time when the transmission will be completed and transmits an indicator signal spread with the indicator code until the completion time is reached. Before a mobile station transmits a message in the access channel, the mobile station determines whether the access channel is occupied by determining whether the base station is transmitting the indicator signal.
US09049724B2
A base station transmits a message to wireless devices in connected mode. The message comprises an initial subframe allocation bitmap indicating an initial plurality of subframes including an initial plurality of special subframes. After an increase in the number of wireless devices or traffic load by an amount greater than a load value, the base station transmits a second message. The second message comprises an updated subframe allocation bitmap indicating a second plurality of subframes including an updated plurality of special subframes. The updated plurality of special subframes includes a smaller number of special subframes than the initial plurality of special subframes.
US09049702B2
A base station allocates resources for peer-to-peer communications by creating or updating peer sets from measured performance information received from one or more stations. Based on current resource assignments in each timeslot and based on the peer sets, the base station determines excluded timeslots and preferred timeslots. The base station then marks potential resources in a portion of a resource allocation map. One of the potential resources is allocated for peer-to-peer communication between a transmitter station and one or more receiver stations.
US09049700B2
A method and an apparatus for uplink transmission using multiple uplink carriers are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) selects a dedicated channel medium access control (MAC-d) flow with highest priority data to be transmitted and performs uplink carrier selection and enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) transport format combination (E-TFC) restriction and selection to select a carrier among a plurality of carriers and select an E-TFC based on a maximum supported payload, a remaining scheduled grant payload of the selected carrier and a remaining non-scheduled grant payload. The WTRU then generates a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) for E-DCH transmission via the selected carrier based on the selected E-TFC.
US09049688B2
A device establishes a first communication session with an endpoint and is configured to perform the first session via one of two different call configurations. In response to unplanned termination of the first session, the device identifies a specific call terminating condition and determines when the call terminating condition is within a first subset of call terminating conditions. Then, in response, the device: creates a record of the first session, including information identifying the established call configuration; and activates a timer associated with the record. The device then autonomously accepts a request to establish a second communication session from an endpoint and implements the same call configuration for the second session, in response to the request (a) being received before expiration of the timer and (b) establishing the second session between the communication device and the same endpoint. With a Push-to-Talk call, the established call configuration is full duplex mode.
US09049686B2
Methods and apparatuses for acquiring/providing available channel information using Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN) are disclosed. AP (Access Point) station has a capability to acquire information for available channels from a database using a specific protocol related to an operation within the White Space (e.g. Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP)). And, non-AP station can retrieve the information for available channels by transmitting a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) initial request frame to the AP station, wherein the GAS initial request frame comprises an Advertisement Protocol Element whose element ID indicates the specific protocol, and receiving a GAS initial response frame comprising a White Space Map (WSM) the specific protocol. The WSM comprises one or more white space channel units, and each of the white space channel units comprises a channel number field indicating one of the available channels and a power constraint field indicating a maximum allowable power on the indicated channel.
US09049682B2
Provided are an operating method for machine to machine (M2M) communication and an apparatus using the method. In an idle mode, an M2M device receives a paging message from a base station. The paging message comprises a network connection type and a start offset. The network connection type indicates a resource allocation for a ranging request. The start offset indicates an offset at which to start monitoring the ranging resource for the ranging request.
US09049681B2
A router receives from a host service a message which is intended for delivery to a mobile device via a wireless network. The message includes an indication field which includes a return packet indication on whether to send a return packet to the host, an identifier field which includes an identifier which identifies the device, and a payload field which includes a payload of the message. When the indication is set to a first, setting and the message is not being delivered to the device, the router sends to the host a return packet which indicates that the message is not being delivered to the device. When the indication is set to a second setting and the message is not being delivered to the device, the router does not send to the host the return packet which indicates that the message is not being delivered to the device.
US09049660B2
Wake pattern management techniques are described. In one or more implementations, network traffic received by a network interface device of a computing device is monitored and a traffic pattern is recognized in the monitored network traffic. An application of the computing device is identified that corresponds to the recognized traffic pattern and responsive to this identification, at least a portion of the identified application is woken.
US09049657B2
A user equipment and a method performed by the user equipment is provided. The method comprises receiving a network message from a network, inhibiting a sending of a user equipment message to the network and transitioning to a target state. The user equipment is adaptable/adapted and/or configurable/configured to receive a network message from a network, inhibit a sending of a user equipment message to the network and transition to a target state. The network message indicates the target state to which the user equipment is to transition.
US09049651B2
The disclosure is directed to an access terminal, and method for selecting an access point in a communications system. The access terminal may include memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to maintain in the memory a database containing a list of access points that have previously served the access terminal with at least a minimum quality of service, the processor being further configured to use the list to search for an access point to associate with, or search for an access point to handoff the access terminal to during operation. In addition to, or alternatively, the processor may also be configured to maintain in the database a second list of access points. The database may be used by the processor to search for an access point that is not on the second list to associate with, or handoff the access terminal to.
US09049650B2
Methods and apparatus for selecting an inter-radio access technology for an electronic device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a wireless electronic device determines if a first radio signal strength (e.g., LTE) is weak enough that the device should start scanning for another radio access technology (e.g., CDMA). If the first radio signal strength (e.g., LTE) is very weak (e.g., even weaker than the level that caused the device to start scanning), and a second radio signal strength (e.g., CDMA) is above a second threshold, then the device selects the second radio access technology (e.g., switches from LTE to CDMA). If (a) the first radio signal strength (e.g., LTE) is not weak enough to warrant a move to another radio access technology, (b) the second radio signal strength (e.g., CDMA) is not above the second threshold (e.g., not strong enough to warrant a move), and/or (c) a motion sensor determines that the device is relatively stationary (e.g., signal strengths are unlikely to change), then the device sets a back-off timer (e.g., set to expire in one second before trying again, and then two seconds before trying again, then three seconds etc).
US09049648B2
Object: To provide a mechanism and a function of a system that can determine a communication method and the like effectively utilizing frequency resources, considering priority of each communication, in a cognitive communication network system of a frequency shared type or the like assuming that a given frequency band is shared by a plurality of systems in use.Solution: In a configuration in which a cognitive communication network system has a plurality of radio access networks 23 and a superior communication network 10 that provides a common platform at least to the radio access networks, in a plurality of base stations 23a on at least a part of the radio access network 23, base-station state obtaining means 232 that collect information relating to a state of the base station itself in the base station or a communication state and base-station communication reconfiguration managing means 231 that reconfigure at least one of either a selection of the base station to be used in the communication or a communication condition in the base station on the basis of the information collected by the base-station state obtaining means are provided.
US09049647B1
A method for performing manual public land mobile network (PLMN) search includes: receiving a command to perform manual PLMN search on an inactive subscription associated with a first subscriber identity module (SIM) of a communication device; determining if a data connection is enabled on an active subscription associated with a second SIM of the communication device; and if the data connection is not enabled on the active subscription, performing the manual PLMN search on the inactive subscription by tuning away from the active subscription to identify available operators associated with the first SIM.
US09049644B2
A method for transmitting a beacon for a star network in manufacturing automation, for use in a communications protocol, such as IEEE Standard 802.15.4e, for manufacturing automation, using at least one gateway and at least one sensor node, wherein the beacon comprises a field including information about a number of base time slots in a superframe.
US09049634B2
A mobile communication device is provided with a wireless module and a controller module. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions to and from a Long Term Evolution (LTE)-based network and a non-LTE network. The controller module blocks any outgoing Circuit-Switched (CS) service in response to finishing a CS Fallback (CSFB) call and having an ongoing Packet-Switched (PS) session with the non-LTE network, and performs an idle mode cell reselection procedure via the wireless module to camp back to the LTE-based network in response to the outgoing CS service having been blocked. Also, the controller module unblocks the outgoing CS service in response to camping back to the LTE-based network.
US09049633B2
Methods, systems, and devices for facilitating mobility between flexible bandwidth systems and other bandwidth systems are provided. These tools and techniques that provide mobility between different bandwidth systems may facilitate supporting circuit-switched (CS) services, such as CS voice services. Some embodiments provide for determining flexible bandwidth capable devices, such as user equipment. Some embodiments involve core network redirection where a core network may direct the handling of circuit-switched services when a flexible bandwidth system does not support the CS services. Some examples provide for radio access network determined handling of CS services when a flexible bandwidth system may not support the CS services. Some embodiments provide for transitioning to a flexible bandwidth system. Some embodiments provide for transitioning from flexible bandwidth systems to non-flexible bandwidth systems that have no support for some or all CS services, other flexible bandwidth systems, and/or systems that natively support CS voice services.
US09049631B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus that select a radio access technology based on a usage history are presented herein. A recording component can record, based on a first use of a wireless communication network, information identifying a radio access technology associated with the first use. A selection component can select, in response to receiving a request for a second use of the wireless communication network, the radio access technology for the second use based on the information. A transfer component can determine whether a request for a handover is based on a wireless service coverage. Further, the transfer component can determine whether a request for a reselection is based on the wireless service coverage. Moreover, the selection component can select another radio access technology for the second use in response to the request being based on the wireless service coverage.
US09049627B2
Some embodiments provide a mobile relay node, RN, (16) with complete and valid neighbor cell information. The RN (16) requests this information from a donor base station (12) upon detecting a defined condition characteristically indicating that movement of the RN (16) has rendered previously obtained neighbor cell information incomplete or invalid. The RN (16) may generate the request to identify cells (18) currently neighboring the mobile cell (20). The donor base station (12) may then provide the RN (16) information that more specifically pertains to the mobile cell's neighbors, rather than generally pertaining to the donor cell's neighbors. Other embodiments compensate for the RN's incomplete or invalid neighbor cell information. These embodiments permit the RN (16) to identify a target cell (18) with a non-unique cell identifier in a handover message sent to the donor base station (12). The donor base station (12) resolves this non-unique identifier and replaces it with the corresponding unique identifier for sending the message towards the target cell (18).
US09049618B2
A method and apparatus for aperiodic CQI/PMI/RI reports in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The wireless communication system supports carrier aggregation that enables a user equipment of the wireless communication system to perform transmission and/or reception using multiple component carriers. The method includes reporting CQI/PMI/RI for multiple component carriers. When the user equipment needs to report CQI/PMI/RI for a deactivated component carriers, a special value may be used to signal the condition. Alternatively, the user equipment indicates with the reported CQI/PMI/RI which component carriers are measured.
US09049591B2
A system and method for delaying delivery of teleconference access information includes at least one processor, at least one computer readable medium in communication with the processor, and at least one program module stored on the medium. The module is operative to create a teleconference notification in response to a request from a requestor device. The module can also assign a date, time, and access information for the teleconference, receive an input from the requestor device to delay delivery of the access information, and deliver the teleconference notification to at least one participant device. The teleconference notification has at least the date and time of the teleconference but not the access information. The module delays delivery of the access information to the at least one participant. For example, delivery of the access information is delayed until a predetermined time period from the assigned date and time of the teleconference.
US09049587B2
Even when multiple providing apparatuses joined in a network are activated as providing apparatuses, a new apparatus can be added to the network without degrading the network security or the ease of use of the providing apparatuses, a apparatus activates an operation as a providing apparatus of a communication-parameter in accordance with the a state notification of an operation as a providing apparatus of a communication-parameter, which is received from another communication apparatus.
US09049585B1
An emergency locating communications device that includes an emergency locator beacon that transmits emergency signals at 406 MHz and a SEND commercial satellite transmitter and receiver is provided. The communications device can be identified for both 406 MHz originator and SEND capable emergency locator device to an emergency services provider by sending a first message to the emergency services provider including a unique identity number of the 406 MHz transmitter of the device and. sending a second message to the emergency services providing including an International Mobile Equipment Identity number of the SEND transmitter of the device. The second message further includes at least a portion of the unique identity number of the 406 MHz transmitter of said device such that the emergency services provider can process the first and second messages to identify both the 406 MHz transmitter and the SEND transmitter of said emergency locator device.
US09049584B2
A vehicle communication system enables one or more processors to receive indication that an emergency event has taken place from an emergency detection sensor position throughout the vehicle. An emergency condition detection signal may be automatically sent by a detection sensor, or manually sent by a vehicle occupant pushing an emergency assistance button. The processor may receive vehicle parameter data indicating one or more vehicle parameters including, but not limited to, vehicle global position coordinates. The processor may transmit a communication to an emergency response center that an emergency has been indicated at the vehicle. The vehicle parameter data may be transmitted to the emergency response center using a data transmission signal. If the data transmission signal has failed transmission after several attempts, the processor may convert at least a portion of the vehicle parameter data to speech signals and communicate the speech signals to the emergency response center.
US09049580B2
A QUALCOMM chat (Qchat) mobile terminal update and authentication method and a mobile terminal are disclosed. A historical result of performing data update of a Qchat service is recorded in a preset storage location in a mobile terminal, and determines, according to the result, whether the Qchat service is activated in the current mobile terminal card. If the Qchat service is not activated, a data update process of the Qchat service is skipped, and a start-up procedure except the data update process of the Qchat service is directly executed, thereby effectively reducing an invalid tariff incurred to a non-Qchat mobile terminal card user during start-up; and meanwhile, normal use of a Qchat user is not affected and user experience is improved.
US09049573B2
The present publication discloses a method and system for sending messages in a telecommunications network (1, 2, 6, 11, 12), in which method digital messages (40) which contain information on the desired reply address (32) are mass sent (3), and messages, which are sent on the basis of the reply-address information (32) are received (10). According to the invention, the reply-address information of each mass-sent message (40) is converted (3) to correspond to a predefined dialog, in which the stage of the dialog defines unequivocally the reply-address information (32), so that the transmission and reception of the messages are implemented in different parts of the telecommunications system (1, 2, 6, 11, 12).
US09049558B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for accurately identifying a moving thing motion activity (MTMA) associated with a mobile thing (MT) using sensor data from one or more sensors associated with a wireless communication device (WCD) transported by the MT so as to enable or initiate a further one or more activity based actions. One such method, among others, comprises: (a) receiving first and second data from one or more sensors (e.g., accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, etc.) associated with a wireless communication device (WCD) transported by a mobile thing (MT), the first and second data indicative of movement of the WCD; (b) determining reference data that defines a reference framework from the first data; (c) normalizing the second data with the reference data so that the second data can be analyzed in the reference framework; and (d) identifying an MTMA associated with the MT based upon the normalized second data.
US09049555B2
A geofence management system obtains location data for points of interest. The geofence management system determines, at the option of the user, the location of a user mobile computing device relative to specific points of interest and alerts the user when the user nears the points of interest. The geofence management system, however, determines relationships among the identified points of interest, and associates or “clusters” the points of interest together based on the determined relationships. Rather than establishing separate geofences for multiple points of interest, and then alerting the user each time the user's mobile device enters each geofence boundary, the geofence management system establishes a single geofence boundary for the associated points of interest. When the user's mobile device enters the clustered geofence boundary, the geofence management system notifies the user device to alert the user of the entrance event. The user then receives the clustered, geofence-based alert.
US09049553B2
A wireless data processing device is described which periodically exits an unpowered state and transmits location data. For example, one embodiment of a wireless data processing device comprises: power circuitry for maintaining the wireless data processing device in a powered or unpowered state, the power circuitry causing the wireless data processing device to enter into an unpowered state responsive to user input; a timer to periodically power up the wireless device or portion thereof in response to reaching a predetermined time; a location services module determining a current location of the wireless data processing device using one or more specified location determination techniques; a transmit thread transmitting the current location of the wireless device over one or more specified communication channels; and the power circuitry powering down the wireless data processing device a second time after the current location has been transmitted.
US09049539B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system and method for managing events associated with the detection of wireless devices. The disclosed embodiments utilize a residential wireless access point for detecting the signal transmitted by a wireless device. A user configures a wireless device detection program to perform specified events in response to the detection and/or absence of a wireless device. The disclosed embodiments may provide home automation functions, home security functions, and/or provide child monitoring features.
US09049535B2
Voice messaging services are used to provide messages for recipients associated with terminated network-based instant connect communication sessions. A first device engages in a communication session with a second device. The communication session between the two devices terminates and the first device records locally a voice message addressed to the second device. The message may be stored on the first device and transmitted to the second device after another communication session is established between the two devices. Alternately, the voice message may be transmitted to a message server and forwarded to the second device at a later time.
US09049532B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for separating sound sources capable of learning distributions of corresponding sound sources based on the assumption that specific sound sources have specific distributions based on interchannel correlation parameter in audio signals providing space perception through a plurality of channels to separate an amount corresponding to energy contribution of the corresponding sound sources from mixture signals. Exemplary embodiments of the present invention can more precisely predict the channel distributions of the specific sound sources included in the input mixture signals and more accurately separate sound sources than a method for separating a sound source based on the channel according to the related art, under conditions that general channel distribution information of the specific sound sources are approximately modeled.
US09049531B2
In order to compensate tonal changes arising from a multi-path propagation of sound portions during the mixing of multi microphone audio recordings as far as possible it is suggested to form spectral values of respectively overlapping time frames of samples of each a first microphone signal (100) and a second microphone signal (101). The spectral values (300) of the first microphone signal (100) are distributed with formation of spectral values (311) of a first sum signal to the spectral values (301) of a second microphone signal (101) in a first summing level (310), whereat a dynamic correction of the spectral values (300, 301) of one of the two microphone signals (100, 101) occurs. Spectral values (399) of a result signal are formed out of the spectral values (311) of the first sum signal which are subject to an inverse Fourier-transformation and a block junction (FIG. 3).
US09049518B2
An audio device includes a casing configured for operation in a first orientation and a second orientation different from the first orientation, an orientation input device disposed on the casing to detect an orientation of the casing relative to the direction of the force of gravity, and a plurality of acoustic drivers disposed on the casing and operable to form a plurality of acoustic interference arrays, each of which is associated with one of a plurality of audio channels. The acoustic drivers of the audio device operate in a first frequency range and modify at least one of the acoustic interference arrays in response to a change in the orientation detected by the orientation input device.
US09049517B2
A loudspeaker including an acoustic waveguide includes an enclosure, an acoustic transmission line formed within the enclosure, and a plurality of acoustic transducers contained within the enclosure and disposed along a length of the acoustic transmission line. Each acoustic transducer is configured to emit acoustic energy directly into the acoustic transmission line at two separated locations along the length of the acoustic transmission line.
US09049514B2
An audio headset includes a pair of earphones and a nape-band. The earphones are secured to the nape-band at respective ends of the nape-band. A pair of suspension elements each have (i) a first end connected to the headset at a location in front of a user's respective ear when the user is wearing the headset, and (ii) a second end connected to the headset at a location behind the user's respective ear when the user is wearing the headset. As such, each suspension element at least partially wraps around a portion of a top of a respective ear of the user to support the headset when the headset is being worn by the user.
US09049513B2
A power management system and method for a noise reducing headset. The power management system adjusts the operations of the noise reducing headset based on the characteristics of the power sources available to the noise reducing headset.
US09049504B2
A sound emission and collection device has a plurality of speakers (11) and a plurality of microphones. The speakers each have a sound emission surface arranged on the side surface of a case (1) so that sound can be emitted in all circumferential directions. The microphones (12) each are arranged with the sound collection direction set in the center direction of the case (1). The microphone (12) and the speaker (11) have directivities opposing to each other to minimize a wraparound sound from the speaker (11) to the microphone (12). Moreover, since the speaker (11) and the microphone (12) are arranged on circumferences of concentric circles, it is possible to obtain a compact configuration.
US09049497B2
This disclosure describes techniques relevant to HTTP streaming of media data. According to these techniques, a server device may signal an open decoding refresh (ODR) random access point (RAP) for a movie segmentation of a movie representation. At least one frame of the media segmentation following the ODR RAP frame in decoding order may not be correctly decoded, and wherein each frame of the media segmentation following the ODR RAP frame in display order can be correctly decoded without relying on content of frames prior to the ODR RAP in display order. According to the techniques of this disclosure, a client device may communicate a request to a server device for the streaming of media data based on signaling of the ODR RAP. Also according to the techniques of this disclosure, a client device may commence decoding and/or playback of the movie representation based on signaling of the ODR RAP.
US09049490B2
The present disclosure relates to an image display apparatus, and more particularly, an image display apparatus capable of displaying screen information. The image display apparatus includes a display configured to display screen information, an interface configured to receive an input signal with respect to the display, and a controller configured to display a menu item for controlling the screen information, wherein the display outputs the screen information on an inner region of rounded corners of the display, and wherein the controller decides a shape of the menu item to be displayed on a point where the input signal has been received, in response to the reception of the input signal.
US09049478B2
The disclosed system and method provide a facility for a dynamic media overlay. An end user can provide data for the dynamic media overlay that is activated upon selection to permit end users to share information while receiving or sending video data. The overlay may be in the form of a link, such as a hyperlink, that can be selected by an end user to take action indicated by information provided in the link. The link may be represented by audio or image information in the form of instructions or clickable “targets.” A content of information represented by the link can be dynamic, so that selection of the link can result in different actions, depending upon the informational content of the link. One or more flags may be provided to indicate that a new link or new informational content for a link is requested. The link may be provided in an overlay represented as a media layer provided in addition to the video media, or it may be embedded in the video media itself.
US09049476B1
A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
US09049462B2
The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is “inter_pred_flag”.
US09049457B2
A method of encoding an input video frame into an encoded video frame comprises the steps of disassembling the input video frame into a plurality of blocks of pixels. For each block being a current block, the method further comprises generating a corresponding predicted block from already reconstructed pixels, generating a residual block by subtracting the predicted block from the current block, generating a reconstructed block from the residual block and the predicted block, and generating the encoded video frame from the residual block The method further entails creating a local structure of reconstructed pixels in a region of the predicted block and aligning the predicted block with the local structure to produce an aligned predicted block, wherein the aligned predicted block is used in the steps of generating the residual block and generating the corresponding reconstructed block.
US09049455B2
An image coding method includes: adding, to a candidate list, a first adjacent motion vector as a candidate for a predicted motion vector to be used for coding the current motion vector; selecting the predicted motion vector from the candidate list; and coding the current motion vector, wherein in the adding, the first adjacent motion vector indicating a position in a first reference picture included in a first reference picture list is added to the candidate list for the current motion vector indicating a position in a second reference picture included in a second reference picture list.
US09049454B2
Embodiments for high efficiency low complexity interpolation filters for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) are disclosed herein, specifically novel techniques for a video compression system. In order to estimate and compensate sub-pel displacements, the image signal on these sub-pel positions is generated by an interpolation process. In HEVC, sub-pel pixel interpolation is performed using filters. As described herein, the filter may have, for example, eight taps to determine the sub-pel pixel values for sub-pel pixel positions, such as half-pel and quarter-pel positions. The taps weight the integer pixels with coefficient values to generate the sub-pel signals. Different coefficients may produce different compression performance in signal distortion and noise.
US09049451B2
A method for decoding a compressed video data sequence containing one or more coded pixel blocks. The compressed video sequence is buffered. Prediction information for each of the coded pixel blocks is reviewed. One or more groups of coded pixel blocks are formed based on the reviewed prediction information such that the coded pixel blocks within a given group have similar prediction dependencies and/or at least do not depend on a reconstructed pixel within a group of received pixel blocks to enable parallel decoding. The formed groups are scheduled for processing and subsequently decoded to produce a decoded video data sequence.
US09049448B2
Methods and systems for bidimensional video processing comprise preprocessing the video signal in horizontal and vertical dimensions of the video signal to reduce an amount of information of the video signal by low pass filtering the video signal and removing pixels to obtain an information-reduced video signal; expanding the information-reduced video signal by an expander process to produce an upconverted video signal; and comparing the upconverted video signal to the original video input to generate a support signal based on a difference between the original video signal and the upconverted video signal. Further embodiments include at least one of storing and transmitting the information-reduced video signal and the support signal; and during post-processing, processing and combining the information-reduced video signal and the support signal to generate a full information duplicate of the video signal.
US09049447B2
Techniques are discussed for providing mechanisms for coding and transmitting high definition video, e.g., over low bandwidth connections. In particular, foreground-objects are identified as distinct from the background of a scene represented in a plurality of video frames received from a video source, such as a camera. In identifying foreground-objects, semantically significant and semantically insignificant movement (e.g., repetitive versus non-repetitive movement) is differentiated. Processing of the foreground-objects and background proceed at different update rates or frequencies.
US09049446B2
There is provided a method of adapting a Quantization parameter of digitally encoded video, comprising using a look-ahead encoding pass to provide look-ahead bit costs for each macroblock in a picture of interest, calculating an activity metric for each macroblock in the picture of interest, determining at least an accumulated look-ahead bit cost threshold for a low macroblock activity category, wherein the low macroblock activity category comprises macroblocks having an activity metric below a pre-determined level, sorting the macroblocks according to the calculated activity metrics of each macroblock to provide sorted macroblocks, adding sorted macroblocks to the low macroblock activity category in ascending activity order and accumulating bit costs of the added sorted macroblocks up to the determined accumulated look-ahead bit cost threshold, and applying a change in quantization parameter, Qp, to the macroblocks of the picture of interest comprising decreasing the Qp value of the macroblocks in the low macroblock activity category.
US09049430B2
A broadcast receiver and a 3D video data processing method are disclosed. The method includes receiving a broadcast signal including system information and video data, parsing system information of a program, and determining whether the program provides a 3D broadcast service from the system information, extracting, if the program provides a 3D broadcast service, broadcast data of the program, and processing video data of broadcast data according to the system information. The broadcast receiver includes a receiving unit receiving a broadcast signal including system information and video data, an SI processor parsing system information of a program, and determining whether the program provides a 3D broadcast service from the system information, a demultiplexer extracting, if the program provides a 3D broadcast service, broadcast data of the program, and a video processor processing video data of the broadcast data according to system information.
US09049428B2
An image generation system includes a captured image acquisition section that acquires a captured image captured by an imaging section, a depth information acquisition section that acquires depth information about a photographic object observed within the captured image, an object processing section that performs a process that determines a positional relationship between the photographic object and a virtual object in a depth direction based on the acquired depth information, and synthesizes the virtual object with the captured image, and an image generation section that generates an image in which the virtual object is synthesized with the captured image.
US09049413B2
Dual or multi-modulation display systems comprising a first modulator and a second modulator are disclosed. The first modulator may comprise a plurality of analog mirrors (e.g. MEMS array) and the second modulator may comprise a plurality of mirrors (e.g., DMD array). The display system may further comprise a controller that sends control signals to the first and second modulator. The display system may render highlight features within a projected image by affecting a time multiplexing scheme. In one embodiment, the first modulator may be switched on a sub-frame basis such that a desired proportion of the available light may be focused or directed onto the second modulator to form the highlight feature on a sub-frame rendering basis.
US09049410B2
Displays are provided with circuitry performing color correction to compensate for the displays' luminance and chrominance transfer characteristics. Some techniques are suitable for RGBW displays and for subpixel-rendered displays. Some displays include an external light source (e.g. a backlight unit in LCDs), and the color correction is coordinated with dynamic control of the light source.
US09049405B2
A soft proof system includes a display module and a manager. The display module displays a visual representation of a print product, and a color array expressing a tolerance range of a color component of the visual representation and a target color within the range. Via the manager, a visualization function produces the visual representation and the color array according to a soft proof array. A tolerance selection function, associated with the display module, enables selection of the tolerance range for at least a portion of the print product, wherein the selection is expressed on the display in the visual representation and in the color array.
US09049403B2
An embodiment implements a methodology for printing non-saturated text and lines in a way that removes the jagged edge problem. An embodiment uses a combination of two screens, e.g. AM screening and applying pure color. For example, according to the embodiment, the closer to the edge from the interior of text or lines, the less amplitude modulation half toning is applied and the more actual color or contone is applied. A particular algorithm for determining and using a blending parameter is provided.
US09049400B2
When an electronic document is to be generated from an image of a document, reproduction of both an appearance of the document image and a logical structure is difficult because of format limitations imposed on the electronic document. According to the present invention, from among column arrangements allowed by the specifications of the electronic document, a column arrangement is selected by using which the positions of character areas in an input image and the logical structure analyzed from the input image can be most appropriately reproduced, and is used to generate an electronic document.
US09049399B2
Embodiments of a digital up-converter and an N-channel modulator are provided herein. The embodiments of the digital up-converter, in combination with the N-channel modulator, are capable of efficiently filling the spectrum of one or more RF signals with one or more types of information signals. For example, the digital up-converter can fill the spectrum of one or more RF signals with both broadcast and narrowcast video and data signals. In addition, the digital up-converter is capable of flexibly mapping the information signals to one or more channels of the one or more RF signals using a novel, three-level switching architecture.
US09049398B1
Described herein are techniques for synchronizing reading locations of electronic copies of a print medium with page numbers associated with physical copies of the print medium. A page number is derived from an image of a page of a physical copy of the print medium, and the image is captured by an electronic bookmark or electronic device in proximity to the physical copy of the print medium. The page number or image is provided to a synchronization service which synchronizes the page number with one or more reading locations or other page numbers.
US09049396B2
An exemplary method for creating a composite image includes the steps of capturing a plurality of images with an image capture device which includes a sensor, determining an image capture device pose corresponding to each of the images based on data from the sensor, transforming each of the images based on its corresponding pose, projecting the transformed images to a common projection space, and combining the projected images to form a composite image.
US09049390B2
A camera array, an imaging device and/or a method for capturing image that employ a plurality of imagers fabricated on a substrate is provided. Each imager includes a plurality of pixels. The plurality of imagers include a first imager having a first imaging characteristics and a second imager having a second imaging characteristics. The images generated by the plurality of imagers are processed to obtain an enhanced image compared to images captured by the imagers. Each imager may be associated with an optical element fabricated using a wafer level optics (WLO) technology.
US09049386B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for causing a stunt switcher to run a bug-overlay digital video effect (DVE). In one aspect, a method involves (i) selecting a first log-entry from a traffic log, wherein the first log-entry corresponds to a bug-overlay DVE stored in the stunt switcher, and to a start time; (ii) selecting a second log-entry from the traffic log, wherein the second log-entry corresponds to a video component (VC) and the start time; (iii) causing the VC to start being channeled through the stunt switcher proximate the start time; (iv) making a determination that a threshold time-period has passed since the start time; and (v) responsive to making the determination that the threshold time-period has passed since the start time, causing the stunt switcher to run the stored bug-overlay DVE, thereby overlaying a bug on the VC as the VC is being channeled through the stunt switcher.
US09049385B1
A video media clip synchronization tool has a timeline display which indicates, from its beginning, the running time of a video shooting event in hours, minutes and seconds. The tool also has two video frame displays which sequentially indicate frame numbers within a current second of the video shooting event. One of the video frame displays indicates the odd numbered frames within the current second of the video shooting event and the other of the video frame displays indicates the even numbered frames within the current second of the video shooting event. A single video frame number is displayed when the clips of video media and the video frame displays are synchronized. Adjacent odd and even video frame numbers are simultaneously displayed when the clips of video media and the video frame displays are not synchronized.
US09049377B2
Provided is an image taking device having high image taking efficiency when a plurality of images are continuously taken. The image taking device comprises an image taking unit which performs image capturing processing and processing for creating a taken image, a first image processing unit which creates a live view image from a captured image captured by the image taking unit, a second image processing unit which creates a preview image from the taken image, a third image processing unit which performs processing for storing the taken image, and a display unit which displays the live view image and displays the preview image.
US09049376B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an emission unit for emitting a projection image onto a subject, which is to be photographed, so as to allow the subject to perform a predetermined operation, a recognizing unit for recognizing operation performed by the subject, and an execution unit for executing a predetermined processing according to the operation of the subject that is recognized by the recognizing unit.
US09049368B2
An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a display unit, a position acquisition unit, a map information acquisition unit, a composition prediction unit, and a display control unit. The imaging unit acquires a subject image within an imaging range. The display unit displays an image. The position acquisition unit acquires a present location. The map information acquisition unit acquires map information including the present location. The composition prediction unit calculates a predictive composition based on the present location and the map information. The display control unit causes the display unit to display the predictive composition.
US09049345B2
A method and system for monitoring a display venue are disclosed. One method involves receiving information generated by an audience in response to a request associated with content provided to the audience at a display venue, and determining at least one condition at the display venue based on the information.
US09049340B2
A method and an apparatus for adjusting site bandwidth, a conferencing terminal, and a media control server are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining the number of streams at a multi-screen site, and assigning bandwidth to each stream according to preset total bandwidth of multiple streams, maximum bandwidth of a single stream, and a preset bandwidth assignment method; and obtaining a conference joining state of each stream, and adjusting bandwidth of each stream according to the conference joining state of each stream. The apparatus includes an assigning module, an obtaining module, and a first adjusting module. Embodiments of the present invention implement dynamic adjustment of bandwidth resources of each stream according to the actual condition of a conference, so that bandwidth resources of each site are fully utilized.
US09049332B2
A management apparatus obtains setting information from a replacement target device. Thereafter, it designates a distribution mode for distributing the setting information to a new device. If a replace mode is designated as the distribution mode, the management apparatus distributes the setting information to the new device and issues a power-off request to the replacement target device. The replacement target device that received the power-off request turns off its own power. The new device that received the setting information reflects the setting information in the new device in accordance with the designated distribution mode.
US09049327B2
The instant application discloses an apparatus including an image forming unit and an image reading apparatus. The image forming unit may be disposed adjacent to the base wall of the image reading apparatus. The image reading apparatus may include a base member including the base wall and a peripheral wall protruding orthogonally from the base wall to define an accommodation region; a movable member configured to reciprocate between one end portion of the accommodation region and another end portion of the accommodation region; a reading unit supported by the movable member; a cable having a first extending portion, a curve portion, and a second extending portion; and a contact reduction portion configured to reduce contact of the second extending portion of the cable with a side wall of the peripheral wall. Various embodiments of the contact reduction portion are also disclosed.
US09049325B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a display unit, which is configured to display information, an electric substrate, which is configured to manipulate the display unit to display the information, a cover, which is formed to have an opening in a position corresponding to the display unit, and an insulating sheet, which is arranged to cover the opening and includes a first sheet and a second sheet, the first sheet and the second sheet being arranged to interpose the cover in there-between. The first sheet is arranged on one of two sides of the cover closer to the display unit. The second sheet is arranged on an opposite side of the cover further from the display unit.
US09049318B2
A portable hand-held device is provided having a network interface for sharing images between the device and a network, an image display for displaying the shared images, an orientation sensor for sensing an orientation of the device, and a processor for processing the displayed images based on the sensed device orientation and outputting the processed images to the image display.
US09049309B2
The present disclosure includes a system and method for handling customer service requests in a virtual computing environment supporting multimedia interactions. In some embodiments, the system includes an automated management tool for receiving a customer service request from a client device, a server for establishing an individualized communication session, and a plurality of available resources capable of being connected to the individualized communication session. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving and establishing a connection between an automated management tool and a client device, receiving a customer service request from the client device, establishing an individualized communication session, and providing resources to the individualized communication session.
US09049308B2
A communication terminal device is capable of communicating with an external terminal device and an external information supplying device. The communication terminal device includes a receiving unit for receiving origination information from the external terminal device; a registration information storage unit for storing a destination of information transmission to the external terminal device as destination information; a searching unit for determining whether information for identifying the origination information exists in information in the external information supplying device; a destination information analyzing unit for retrieving retrieved information as the information for identifying the origination information from the information in the external information supplying device according to a determination result of the searching unit; and a destination registration unit for storing the retrieved information in the registration information storage unit according to the determination result of the searching unit.
US09049305B2
A method may include receiving, from a first party, restrictions associated with each of a number of applications stored on a mobile device and storing the restrictions, wherein the restrictions include time based restrictions and/or use based restrictions. The method also includes receiving, from a user of the mobile device, a request for access to a first application and providing access to the first application in response to the request. The method further includes receiving, from the user, a second request for performing a first action by the first application and determining whether first action is permitted based on the stored restrictions.
US09049303B2
System for audio communication comprising: a peripheral unit and an interface unit, wherein the peripheral unit comprises a microphone and a speaker, and the peripheral unit is connectable to a telephone via the interface unit, the interface unit having a unique interface unit device address, and the peripheral unit having a unique peripheral unit device address, wherein the peripheral unit and the interface unit are mutually connectable via a wireless communication link for audio communication and via a detachable wired communication link for auxiliary data, and wherein the system further comprises automatic pairing routine for pairing the peripheral unit and the interface unit to establish the wireless communication link.
US09049300B1
Methods for protecting telephone privacy are provided that utilize the phone number of the other party to a telephone call to automatically determine whether privacy protection is necessary and to automatically take measures to protect the user's privacy. Particular versions, such as an app for a smart phone that performs the methods, are also provided.
US09049290B2
A method is provided for detecting interactions between call-related and web-enabled features. In some embodiments, communication application components are configured to transmit an indication to a feature interaction detector every time a feature is invoked by the user. When the interaction detector receives an indication that a feature is being invoked, it compares the invoked feature against features that have previously been invoked (or executed) and determines whether the invoked feature interacts with any of the features that have been previously executed.
US09049269B2
A method for data communication is provided and may include storing multimedia data in a first database, the multimedia data being associated with enhanced metadata stored in the first database. The enhanced metadata may be created based on at least a user profile stored at a central management unit. Multimedia data may be selected from the first database based on at least the enhanced metadata, and the selected multimedia data may be modified to produce user-specific multimedia data. The user-specific multimedia data may be stored in a second database and may be communicated from the second database to a user terminal. An alarm to a user interface of the user terminal may be generated, if in producing the user-specific multimedia data from the profiled multimedia data, it was not possible to generate the user-specific multimedia data in conformance with the user specific hardware or network characteristics.
US09049265B1
A method of processing client requests that includes receiving a client request from a client for access to data, issuing a direct memory access command to non-transitory storage resources to load data to a target memory location without accessing the target memory location, and instructing a network interface controller in communication with the storage resources to send a response to the client. The response includes an information portion and a data portion.
US09049262B2
A method and system for combined Peer-to-Peer (P2P) conferencing and central relay server-based conferencing using a telephony and conferencing protocol that includes Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), including receiving by a central relay server a request from a client device to participate in a conference call, comparing by the central relay server a received client device policy and a central relay server policy for selecting at least one of the P2P conferencing or the central relay server-based conferencing, and selecting at least one suggested connection mode for the client device based on a result of the comparing of the received client device policy and the central relay server policy, the combined P2P conferencing and central relay server-based conferencing including mixing server-based conferencing streams and P2P conferencing streams.
US09049256B1
A network device includes a first and a second control board, with each control board having a separate control plane and fabric plane. The network device is configured to establish an active control plane on the first control board and an active fabric plane on the second control board. The network device is configured to establish a standby fabric plane on the first control board and a standby control plane on the second control board. The network device is configured to detect a failure on the first control board or the second control board and switch the status of the control plane on the second control board from standby to active, when the failure is on the first control board, and switches the status of the fabric plane on the first control board from standby to active when the failure is on the second control board.
US09049254B2
The present invention discloses a control method, an apparatus, and a system. In the embodiments of the present invention, a control command is encapsulated into a network data packet to be sent to a remote network driver interface specification (RNDIS) device, and the encapsulated network data packet is sent to the RNDIS device to control the RNDIS device. In the conventional network architecture, a user device can directly send a network data packet to an RNDIS device. Therefore, with this solution, a control command can be transmitted to the RNDIS device without adding a new control interface. Compared with the solution that requires adding a new interface and installing an additional driver program in the prior art, this solution reduces application complexity and has no special requirement for the RNDIS device, which is commonly applicable and easy to implement.
US09049252B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of efficient name management for named data networking in datacenter networks. In various examples, efficient name management for named data networking in datacenter networks may be implemented in the form of systems, methods and/or algorithms.
US09049240B2
The present invention concerns a method at a network device, the device comprising a first interface to a first network, a second interface to a second network, and routing means, for enabling access to a file shared by a first device located on the first network, the network device having detected the presence of the first device on the first network, the first device comprising at least one shared file. The method comprises the step, at the network device, of detecting that the first device is not accessible, on reception of a request from a second device located on the second network for getting a shared file on the first device, storing the request, on detection that the first device is accessible, retrieving the shared file in a memory of the network device, and sending a notification to the second device that the shared file is available at the network device or sending the file to the second device.
US09049226B1
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for defending against a cyber attack via asset overlay mapping are provided herein. A method includes determining which of multiple systems within an organization stores each of multiple assets, determining at least one relationship present between the multiple assets across the multiple systems of the organization, and identifying, upon an attack of a first system of the multiple systems within the organization, one or more additional systems of the multiple systems vulnerable to the attack based on at least one relationship between one or more of the multiple assets stored on the first system to one or more of the multiple assets stored on one or more additional systems.
US09049220B2
A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving a packet, and determining whether the packet is a previously dropped packet that is being retransmitted. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of headers, the plurality of headers having respective first field values, and determining whether the first field values of the respective headers form a first prescribed pattern. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of packets, and determining an existence of a flooding attack without tracking each of the plurality of packets with a SYN bit.
US09049214B1
A method, system, and/or computer program product enables the sharing of memory among mobile devices. Copies of a same hard key holder are installed in all mobile devices from a user-defined group of mobile devices. The hard key holder controls memory sharing between a master mobile device and a slave mobile device. A memory appropriation request is sent from the master mobile device to the slave mobile device. In response to the slave mobile device receiving the memory appropriation request, an unused sector of the memory in the first slave mobile device is reserved for use by the master mobile device. Upon storing of data sent from the master mobile device, a message is sent from the slave mobile device to the master mobile device describing how much room is still available for the master mobile device to use.
US09049208B2
A media processing device, such as a set top box, having a plurality of selectable hardware and software components for supporting multiple media pathways providing differing levels of security. In general, each security level corresponds to a particular certification service boundary definition(s) or key/authentication and security management scheme for managing resources such as hardware acceleration blocks and software interfaces. Different sets of components may be adaptively employed to ensure composited compliance with one or more security constraints and to address component unavailability. Security constraints may be applied, for example, on a source or media specific basis, and different versions of a media item may be provided over multiple pathways providing corresponding levels of security. In one embodiment, a service operator or content provider may provide requisite certification or security requirements, or otherwise assist in selection of pathway components.
US09049207B2
A pluggable asset detection engine is used to identify devices within a network. The pluggable asset detection engine includes a set of pluggable discovery sensors and is adapted to identify particular address information of a particular computing device within a network, using a first pluggable discovery sensor in the set of discovery sensors, and send an identification of the particular address information of the particular computing device to an asset management system for inclusion of the particular address information in an asset repository managed by the asset management system.
US09049203B2
A system and method for is provided. The present invention provides a system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary. A profile for a user is created. One or more privacy setting selections are received from the user associated with the profile. The profile associated with the user is updated to incorporate the one or more privacy setting selections. A privacy summary is then generated for the profile based on the one or more privacy setting selections.
US09049202B2
A method, information processing system, and wireless communications system for providing dynamic information associated with at least one of a wireless device and a network to at least one application server. The method includes receiving a registration message (604) associated with a wireless device (106). A service profile (220) associated with the wireless device (106) is retrieved from a register (212). The service profile (220) is determined to indicate dynamic information associated with at least one of a wireless device (106) and a network requested by at least one application server (218) associated with the wireless device (106). A third-party registration message that includes at least the dynamic information requested by the at least one application serve (218) is generated (612). The third-party registration message is sent (614) to the at least one application server (218).
US09049182B2
Techniques for virtual Representational State Transfer (REST) interfaces are provided. A proxy is interposed between a client and a REST service over a network. The proxy performs independent authentication of the client and provides credentials to the client and for the client to authenticate to the REST service using a REST service authentication mechanism. The proxy inspects requests and responses and translates the requests and responses into formats expected by the client and the REST service. Moreover, the proxy enforces policy and audits the requests and responses occurring between the client and the REST service over the network.
US09049181B2
In order to reduce the frequency with which communication occurs when updating a network key is reduced and minimize the deterioration in performance due to updating without relying on a key tree, a server is provided with an address key allocation unit which generates identifiers for identifying clients by the combination of addresses on a plurality of address spaces and allocates address keys to respective addresses included in the generated identifier, and a network key ciphering unit which generates a network key update key which cannot be generated from the address keys allocated to a client to be disconnected, ciphers a new network key using the network key update key, and delivers the new network key to the clients.
US09049176B2
Users specify that a file set comprising their files, folders, or other content owned by the users should be made accessible via a link, such as a uniform resource locator (URL). The system which stores and provides access to the files accordingly creates a link that specifies the file set to be made accessible. The users may distribute the link to recipients with whom the file set is to be shared, and the distribution may be performed in any manner that the users choose.
US09049173B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing access to a cloud-based logging service to a user without requiring user registration. Methods and systems are also provided for providing cloud-based logging service to users by integrating the cloud-based logging service within a network security gateway appliance, thereby enabling the users to use the cloud-based logging service by accessing the gateway appliance. The cloud-based logging service can be accessed via an Application Programming Interface (API) without requiring user registration and allows easy and efficient access to log files, viewing of log files, and data security to stored log files and generated reports. Methods and systems of the present invention can also be used for multiple other purposes apart from using the cloud-based logging service without registration including, but not limited to, reducing the complexity of a network architecture, providing better and more effective GUI representation and minimizing distribution of data over a controlled network, among other such purposes.
US09049167B2
Apparatus are provided that include a mobile access notification service interface configured to operate on messages targeting a mobile access notification service so that a given message targeting a given user via the mobile access notification service causes a access notice indicator of the given user's mobile data communication device to visibly show when data from the given message is ready for access via one or more designated non-mobile access devices. The mobile access notification service interface includes an access notification trigger data detector configured to process and identify, from among plural messages originating at message source machines, access notification messages containing access notification trigger data. A mobile access notification service linking mechanism is configured to link access notification messages containing the access notification trigger data to access notice indicators on corresponding targeted user mobile data communication devices, to link the access notification messages to one or more non-mobile access devices for access of content of the access notification messages at those non-mobile access devices, and to communicate non-mobile access device access code information to the targeted users for controlled user access at the one or more non-mobile access devices.
US09049165B2
A method for delivering a message from a converged IP messaging (CPM) server include: checking registered target terminals that can receive a message from a source terminal based on a user preference; determining whether to deliver a message from the source terminal to the checked target terminal based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be delivered, determining whether to store the message in a message storage server based on the user preference; when the message is determined to be stored, requesting the message storage server to store the message; receiving a response message including information regarding the stored message from the message storage server; and including the information in the message and transmitting the same to the target terminal.
US09049154B2
An access management system provides tiered access to a global communications network. A default level of restricted access to the global communications network, for example the Internet, is provided free for all users with a compatible communications device, and at least one subscription level of service is provided to users for a fee. Access to the communications network is monitored and restricted based on user content and resource privileges.
US09049151B2
Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a method may include determining, by a port processor, a buffer length based on an amount of data stored in a port controlled by the port processor, comparing the buffer length to a low-power buffer threshold, determining a link utilization based on a number of packets transmitted by the port, comparing the link utilization to a link utilization threshold, and placing the port into a low-power state based on the comparison of the buffer length to the low-power buffer threshold and the comparison of the link utilization to the link utilization threshold.
US09049149B2
An example embodiment includes a network element. The network element includes an ingress port, an ingress line card, a link aggregation group (LAG) including multiple egress ports, and a distributor. The ingress port receives multiple packets including flood traffic. The ingress line card separates the packets into buckets. The distributor is configured to allocate the buckets to the egress ports, transmit the buckets to the egress ports, and when a failed egress port is identified, reallocate the buckets from the failed egress port to at least one functional egress port while continuing to transmit the buckets to functional egress ports of the LAG.
US09049147B2
A system, computer implemented method, and server for measuring compliance with a SLA. The system includes a server operable to communicate with a number of UNIs. The system further includes a network operable to communicate packets between the server and the number of UNIs. The server includes an application engine operable to determine that the network is noncompliant with the SLA in response to the determined frame loss and further in response to a determination that a committed information rate (CIR) has not been exceeded, and the monitoring device being further operable to log the network is noncompliant with the SLA.
US09049145B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for searching a least-cost path between a source node and a destination node in a communication network. A set of costs associated with least-cost paths from the source node to a set of intermediate nodes is first determined. A least-cost path in a reverse direction from the destination node to an intermediate node is also determined. The intermediate node is selected based at least on a first cost associated with the least-cost path from the destination node to the intermediate node, and a second cost associated with a least-cost path from the source node to the intermediate node that was first determined. Accordingly, the least-cost path between the source node and the destination node might then be calculated by using the second cost as heuristic information.
US09049142B1
In one embodiment, a technique enables protection, e.g., Fast Reroute (FRR) protection, for selective traffic in an area of a computer network. A source node, located at an edge or perimeter of a network area or located in the core of the network area, may utilize one of a plurality of labels when forwarding traffic to a destination node, wherein a first label (“a protected label”) indicates that traffic receive FRR protection and a second label (“an unprotected label”) indicates that that traffic not receive FRR protection.
US09049141B2
A process and system for user-controlled configuration of an Internet protocol network. The user may supply input for generating a network configuration profile, which includes a number of classes of service (COSs) for prioritizing network traffic, including video transmission. A quality of service (QOS) may be measured and compared with a COS for video transmission. Depending on the measured QOS, a network alert may be issued and a priority of packets associated with the COS for video transmission may be increased.
US09049139B2
Specially configured host bus adaptors (HBAs) are located in the switches in the fabric or added to a management server. The HBAs are programmed to perform higher level protocol analysis, such as monitoring exchanges, LUNs, and VM/LUN/LBA ranges and developing SCSI statistics on the flows. The HBA can detect protocol exceptions. When located in the switches, mirroring of the desired frames is simplified as all routing is handled internally to the switch, with the HBA/switch combination providing data over the management Ethernet port to a management server. To maintain performance, preferably only the protocol relevant frames are mirrored to the HBAs. With the data provided from the HBAs, in conjunction with the normal diagnostic and statistics data available from the switch itself, the management server can correlate events end-to-end, correlate I/O error statistics collected from the fabric with server statistics, and correlate performance statistics collected from the fabric with server statistics.
