US09251403B2
A method for finding and digitally evaluating illegal image material is provided, wherein a data memory is searched for image material. Image material that is found is classified as potentially illegal image material or as legal image material by means of a classification method on the basis of an image content that is presented. The image material graded as potentially illegal has the age of the persons shown determined, and potentially illegal image material which shows at least one person whose ascertained age is below a prescribed age is graded as illegal image material. Biometric features of the persons shown in the illegal image material are detected and are compared with at least one database which contains biometric features. In the illegal image material, at least one further feature which it contains is detected and is compared with at least one appropriate database.
US09251401B1
A method for authenticating a live person subject. The method includes receiving an authentication request from a user, generating a sequence of instructions instructing the user to point a face toward a sequence of facial directions, wherein the sequence of facial directions are randomly generated using a random sequence generation algorithm, presenting the sequence of instructions to the user, capturing, while presenting the sequence of instructions to the user, a sequence of live-captured facial images (LCFIs) based on a pre-determined frame rate, and generating an authentication result identifying the user as the live person subject by at least, matching the sequence of LCFIs to multiple reference facial images of the live person subject and validating each LCFI in the sequence of LCFIs based on a pre-determined criterion.
US09251397B2
A fingerprint image capturing module includes a light-emitting element, a light-splitting element, a first light-reflecting element, a second light-reflecting element, a lens assembly and a fingerprint image sensing element, characterized in that: a projection light beam generated by the light-emitting element is reflected by the light-splitting element and the first light-reflecting element in sequence to form an illumination light beam that passes through a light-transmitting element and is projected onto a fingerprint of a finger, the illumination light beam is reflected by the finger to form an image light beam that is reflected by the first light-reflecting element, the image light beam sequentially passes through the light-splitting element and the lens assembly and is projected onto the fingerprint image sensing element through the second light-reflecting element, and the fingerprint image sensing element receives the image light beam to obtain a fingerprint image of the fingerprint of the finger.
US09251391B2
A method for continuous determination of a person's presence in a public transport conveyance is proposed, where a customer medium comprising an RF transceiver is assigned to the person, where at least one reading device per passenger compartment or car is provided for data communication with the customer media in the conveyance, which is connected to a computer serving as an on-board unit for the purpose of data communications, where these are also connected to each other in the case that several reading devices are provided, where an on-board unit serving as the main on-board unit is assigned to a passenger compartment or car if several passenger compartments or cars are present, and the other passenger compartments or cars are assigned to on-board units serving as secondary on-board units, which are connected to the main on-board unit for the purpose of data communication, where the customer medium is in a “sleep” mode upon entering the transport in order to keep energy consumption as low as possible.
US09251387B2
A decodable indicia reading terminal can comprise a multiple pixel image sensor, an imaging lens configured to focus an image of decodable indicia on the image sensor, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter configured to convert an analog signal read out of the image sensor into a digital signal, a communication interface, and a microprocessor configured to output decoded message data corresponding to the decodable indicia by processing the digital signal. The decodable indicia reading terminal can be configured, responsive to a triggering event, to transmit via the communication interface a decoding result and an indicia readability rating. The triggering event can be provided by a failure to detect decodable indicia, the indicia readability rating being less than a pre-defined threshold, exceeding a pre-defined time period to decode decodable indicia, a user interface action, and a command received via said communication interface.
US09251375B1
Use case-specific entity identifiers are disclosed. Entity data associated with an actual entity identifier of an entity is generated. A use case-specific entity identifier is generated based at least in part on encrypting the actual entity identifier using reversible encryption. The entity data, in association with the use case-specific entity identifier, is sent to another service.
US09251373B2
Improved buffer overflow protection for a computer function call stack is provided by placing a predetermined ShadowKEY value on a function's call stack frame and copying the ShadowKEY, a caller EBP, and a return pointer are pushed onto a duplicate stack. The prologue of the function may be modified for this purpose. The function epilogue is modified to compare the current values of the ShadowKEY, caller EBP, and the return pointer on the function stack to the copies stored on the duplicate stack. If they are not identical, an overflow is detected. The preserved copies of these values may be copied back to the function stack frame thereby enabling execution of the process to continue. A function prologue and epilogue may be modified during compilation of the program.
US09251368B2
A new approach to customer support that protects working artifacts through their entire lifecycle by provisioning, on-demand, a transient-controlled debugging environment that preferably is associated with a particular support issue (or subset of issues) when particular artifacts (e.g., files) are securely received at the service or software provider. This approach allows for complete (or substantially complete) isolation and control of the artifacts in a contained environment for so long as necessary by the provider. Preferably, the provider owns or otherwise manages the provisioned environment, which can be augmented as needed to meet the debugging requirements of the particular issue. Preferably, the provisioned environment is restricted in access to only those engineers or others with a verifiable need to know, or that have the necessary training and skill sets for the support operation required.
US09251362B2
A computer-readable storage medium that stores a control program for a client apparatus connectable to a repeater storing execute permission information on a plurality of codes included in an application program received from a server, the control program causing the client apparatus to execute a process including receiving the application program and the execute permission information from the repeater, updating the execute permission information received from the repeater based on evaluation information on the application program received from the repeater, and executing the application program based on the execute permission information updated based on the evaluation information.
US09251353B2
A credential caching system includes receiving a set of authentication credentials, storing the set of authentication credentials in a credential cache memory, wherein the credential cache memory is coupled with a management controller, and supplying the set of authentication credentials for automatic authentication during a reset or reboot. In the event of a security breach, the credential caching system clears the set of authentication credentials from the credential cache memory so that the set of authentication credentials may no longer be used for a reset or reboot.
US09251346B2
Preventing propagation of hardware viruses in a computing system, including: determining, by a hardware virus detection module, whether an empty connector in the computing system is damaged, wherein the empty connector is blocked from receiving an attachable computing device by a bumper; determining, by the hardware virus detection module, whether a connector for the attachable computing device is damaged; and responsive to determining that the empty connector is not damaged and that the connector for the attachable computing device is not damaged, moving the bumper such that the empty connector is not blocked from receiving the attachable computing device.
US09251338B2
Exemplary embodiments include a method for remapping subsets of host-centric application programming interfaces to commodity service providers, the method including receiving a commodity service providers object, embedding the commodity service providers object with a handle, transforming the handle into a serialized object readable by a hardware security module, generating a virtualized handle from the transformed handle, selecting a target hardware security module based on characteristics of the serialized object and mapping the virtualized handle to the target hardware security module.
US09251334B1
Technology is described for allowing playback of protected media content on an untrusted device. A request to entitle playback of the protected media content may be received from a trusted device. The request may include an outer encrypted message with location information for the trusted device and identity information for the trusted device and a nested encrypted message with a signed challenge processed by the untrusted device. An entitlement for the playback of the protected media content may be generated in response to verification of the request in the outer encrypted message and the nested encrypted message. The entitlement may be sent to the untrusted device via the trusted device. The entitlement may enable the untrusted device to play the protected media content for a defined duration.
US09251325B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for verifying a password are disclosed. For example, the password can be verified on a mobile device to control user access to the mobile device. In some implementations, a mobile device includes a user interface, a main processor, and a co-processor. The user interface receives a submitted password value from a user. The main processor calls the co-processor to provide a hash chain input value based on the submitted password value. The main processor evaluates a hash chain based on the hash chain input value provided by the co-processor. Evaluating the hash chain generates a submitted password verification value. The submitted password verification value is compared to a stored password verification value stored on the mobile device. Access to mobile device functionality may be permitted or denied based on a result of the comparison.
US09251324B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for developing application definition packages, and deploying the application definition packages at cloud services to produce real-time data analytics applications. In one implementation, a selection is received of an application definition package that defines a real-time data analytics application. The application definition package indicates an application name and includes at least one payload definition, reference data definition, and query definition. A domain name is provided for the real-time data analytics application, and a cloud service is generated that is associated with the domain name. The application definition package is applied to an application template to generate a finalized real-time data analytics package. The finalized real-time data analytics package is instantiated in the cloud service to create a network-accessible instance of the real-time data analytics application.
US09251318B2
The present invention enables items in a Virtual Universe to be tagged as available for pickup by one or more designated users. The present invention permits a designated user to be alerted that there is an item designated for that user/avatar and available for pick-up at a location in the Virtual Universe. A user may designate another user (or user's avatar), for example, a minor for whom the designating user has responsibility, as an “item” to be tracked. For privacy and other reasons, this and other features may be implemented on an opt-in basis.
US09251315B2
A device receives application information associated with applications provided by a network, and determines service package identifiers for one or more applications identified in the application information. The device also receives information associated with devices and subscribers of the network, and determines security key parameters based on the information associated with the devices and the subscribers of the network. The device further generates, based on the security key parameters, a security key for each of the service package identifiers.
US09251314B2
A cloud based system that constantly monitors the consumption of each medication by an individual, specifies medication regimes and schedules and provides a means of enforcing compliance based on both local and cloud based intelligence. Enforcing compliance to a medication schedule is achieved through complex logic that correlates events from the medication bottles; behavior learned from the individual, individual's schedules and geo-location. The system employs this complex logic per medication and generates a variety of email, phone call, SMS, MMS, voice messages, audio, visual and multimedia cues and alerts to enforce compliance. These same alerts are also used by multiple caregivers, who can further reinforce compliance by the patient via similar types of communications.
US09251313B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of systems and methods for visualizing, analyzing, and managing telepresence devices operating in a telepresence network of healthcare facilities. The visualization and management system for telepresence devices may display a first viewing level that includes a geographical representation of the location of various telepresence devices. A user may selectively view a global view of all telepresence devices, telepresence devices within a particular region, and/or the details of a particular telepresence device. A user may also access a viewing level of a network of healthcare facilities. The user may view, analyze, and/or manage the healthcare network, telepresence device network, individual telepresence devices, connection rules, and/or other aspects of the healthcare network using the geographical visualization and management tool described herein.
US09251312B2
An application platform is disclosed in a medical environment with a number of computer systems providing an information technology infrastructure and a plurality of basic information technology services to a number of users in the medical environment. At least one embodiment of the application platform provides a particularly simple and coordinated upgrade and update by independent software manufacturers and further provides a particularly high operational fail-safety during updates and upgrades by preventing damage to the systems caused by third party installer programs. To this end, at least one embodiment of the application platform includes a plurality of platform versioning building blocks and a number of platform data repositories, wherein the plurality of platform versioning building blocks are mutually independently updateable.
US09251310B2
A method for organizing care for a patient undergoing a peritoneal dialysis therapy under a system including at least one display device, at least one memory device, at least one processor and at least one peritoneal dialysis instrument for performing the peritoneal dialysis therapy, the method comprising: organizing information for presentation in a plurality of screens using the at least one display device, the at least one memory device, and the at least one processor, wherein each screen presents information pertinent to a particular aspect of the peritoneal dialysis therapy; and displaying in the plurality of screens information about the patient's prescription for the peritoneal dialysis therapy, information about medication the patient is taking in connection with the peritoneal dialysis therapy, and information about the patient's compliance with the peritoneal dialysis therapy.
US09251307B2
A circuit information processing device includes an evaluating unit that evaluates complexity of placement and routing of each of multiple circuit configurations, the multiple circuit configurations each having a common portion common to the multiple circuit configurations and a non-common portion not common to the multiple circuit configurations, a selecting unit that selects, from among the multiple circuit configurations, a reference circuit configuration evaluated by the evaluating unit as satisfying a predetermined criterion, and a generating unit that causes first placement and routing information to be shared by circuit configurations other than the reference circuit configuration, and generates second placement and routing information for each of the circuit configurations other than the reference circuit configuration, the first placement and routing information being information for placing and routing the common portion of the reference circuit configuration, the second placement and routing information being information for placing and routing the non-common portion.
US09251302B2
A method for planning a radiation therapy treatment of a body represented by a volume of voxels determines a radiation dose matrix representing a spatial distribution of a radiation dose of beams of radiation irradiating the volume with homogeneous stopping power. The beams are collimated and are shifted copies of each other at each depth of the volume, and the spatial distribution is determined by calculating cumulative beam-axial doses in a single matrix-matrix multiplication and redistributing the cumulative beam-axial doses to all voxels in the volume using a convolution. Next, a set of correcting operations is applied to the radiation dose matrix to produce a cumulative voxel radiation dose of the volume. Each correcting operation is linear, independent from another correcting operation and has a transform.
US09251299B1
One aspect creates or identifies a rule, identifies or creates track pattern(s), and associate the rule with the track pattern(s). The rule is used to guide physical implementation tools to implement electronic designs which not only satisfy the constraints of the rule but also the constraints of the track pattern(s). Some other aspects are directed at interpretation or automatic association or assignment of a layer constraint by determining whether a track pattern on a layer with a first rule matches a second rule, and adding the track pattern to the layer constraint for the second rule on the layer. Another aspect is directed at automatic creation of a rule by creating a new rule, examining each track pattern associated with a first rule, determining whether the new rule matches the first rule, and adding the track pattern to a layer constraint for the new rule.
US09251283B2
A method, system, and medium are provided that relate to dynamically instrumenting a website. In general, an exemplary aspect of the invention includes storing configuration information in a datastore. A unique identifier, which corresponds to configuration information, is inserted within code of one or more web pages that relate to the website. When content is requested from the website, such as by a browser, the unique identifier can be used to retrieve corresponding configuration information. Using corresponding configuration information, instrumenting code may be generated and communicated, thereby instrumenting the website.
US09251281B2
A system and method for web browsing using placemarks and contextual relationships in a data processing system. A navigation placemark is provided within a web browser. The web browser comprises a first web page and a second web page. A piece of information is located at a specific location within each of the first and second web pages. A first individual placemark is added to the navigation placemark, and a second individual placemark is added to the navigation placemark. Web page content is extracted from the first web page and can be used to control information shown within the second web page. An interaction between the first individual placemark and the second individual placemark is specified. A trigger criteria for the first individual placemark and the second individual placemark is also specified. A first profile and a second profile are created. The first profile is run as a background process that can be driven by the second profile, and a user may switch between the first and second profiles. The web browser may further comprise a first browser window comprising the first web page and a second browser window comprising the second web page, and/or the web browser may further comprise a browser window comprising a first tab and a second tab, where the first tab comprises the first web page and the second tab comprises the second web page.
US09251279B2
A database search method and system utilize user community defined facets and facet values for refining searches. The system provides access to a database having a plurality of records in respective categories of information. Each record has one or more facets to the respective category of information. The system enables user input of a search term formed of a first parameter indicative of at least one category of information of the database. In response to the user input, the invention system displays (a) a set of search results, including records from the database of the at least one category of information, and (b) a listing of facets and/or facet values of the records in the search results. The listing of facets and/or facet values serve as suggested additional parameters for further refining the search terms or guiding user navigation of the database. In response to user selection of a facet value from the listing, the system refines the search term resulting in a refined search term formed of the first parameter plus the user selected facet and/or facet value. A search of the database is rerun using the refined search term. The facets and facet values are defined by a computer network community of users over time and through use of the network community portal. Another embodiment is an advertising engine that displays targeted advertisements to the user based on refined search. Another embodiment is a method that utilizes refined search to help the user with navigation of a site (e.g., website or other computer network site) as a component of a GUI.
US09251270B2
Methods are disclosed for grouping search results into a profile page. A search engine accepts a user search string and generates a first set of results. In response to the first set of results, a query generator generates queries corresponding to a number of entities sharing a common name. The search engine executes the queries, returning responsive data sets. An entity resolver merges the data sets to ensure that each unique entity is represented by a single data set. A threshold may be defined such that results meeting a certain level of similarity are merged. A profile generator creates a profile page for each unique entity using biographical data contained in the respective data sets and generates a results page containing links to each unique profile. The results page is then sent to the user for display on a graphical user interface.
US09251268B2
Providing context to a target minimizes the amount of information that a user must input. Context transfer pages receive context and reformat for the target. Selection of links to such pages provide context which is then reformatted and provided to the target to pre-populate information for the user. A return link can be specified to enable the target to return further context upon user interaction completion. The return link can specify further context transfer pages which can use the returned context to direct the performance of convenience actions, including invoking other applications on the user's computing device and entering information into them. The context transfer pages can themselves collect information from the user to provide appropriate interfaces without requiring resource investment from the target.
US09251265B2
The apparatus comprises at least one database for storing digital information associated with at least a first user and a second user, at least one links module for the first user and for the second user, at least one manipulations module and at least one display device for respectively displaying at least said linked digital information wherein said linked digital information associated with said first user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said second user when that information is manipulated, and wherein said linked digital information associated with said second user is automatically updated on at least said display device of said first user when that information is manipulated.
US09251258B2
Processes are disclosed for fingerprinting and identifying client applications based on the analysis of client requests. In an HTTP-based embodiment, a fingerprint is constructed based on the presence and order of HTTP headers included in a request from a client application or device. This fingerprint may then be compared to known fingerprints associated with particular client applications to identify the particular client application and/or to assess whether the client application is malicious. The results of this analysis may, for example, be used to determine how to respond to the current request and/or subsequent requests.
US09251234B1
In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include receiving, at a computer system, a request to create a snapshot of a virtual storage device, wherein the virtual storage device virtually stores data at virtual addresses, the data being physically stored at a plurality of physical storage locations that are managed by an underlying storage system associated with virtual storage device. The methods can further include identifying, by the computer system, one or more regions of the virtual storage device that have been written to since a previous snapshot of the virtual storage device was created. The methods can additionally include generating a unique identifier for the requested snapshot; and creating the requested snapshot using the identified one more regions and the unique identifier.
US09251228B1
A method and system for eliminating global and local noise in periodical items is described. An exemplary method may include preprocessing each item in a set of items using one or more rules, removing global noise from the set of items using semantic similarities across items in the set of items, and removing local noise in each item in the set of items based on text content in each item.
US09251214B2
A computer system includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute instructions that cause execution of an in-memory database system that includes one or more database tables. Each database table includes a plurality of rows, where data representing each row is stored in the memory. The in-memory database system also includes a plurality of indexes associated with the one or more database tables, where each index is implemented by a lock-free data structure. Update logic at the in-memory database system is configured to update a first version of a particular row to create a second version of the particular row. The in-memory database system includes a non-blocking garbage collector configured to identify data representing outdated versions of rows.
US09251208B2
A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for merging search results. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying a query, splitting the query into sub-queries, and calculating information content for each of the sub-queries. This method also comprises executing each of the sub-queries to obtain a plurality of search results, and combining the search results based on the information content calculated for the sub-queries. In an embodiment, the execution of each of the sub-queries includes identifying a multitude of search results for at least one of the sub-queries; and the combining includes grouping said multitude of search results into a plurality of clusters, and computing a relevance score for each of said clusters. In the embodiment the combining further includes merging the clusters based on the relevance scores computed for the clusters as well as the information content calculated for the sub-queries.
US09251192B2
The information matching apparatus includes calculating matching result values representing identicalness, similarity, and relevance between a plurality of records by matching the plurality of records based on a judgment criteria, each of the plurality of records including sets of values corresponding to items, generating frequency distribution information in which the calculated matching result values are used as classes and determining the judgment criteria for whether the records matches or not based on the generated frequency distribution information.
US09251188B2
An information processing device includes: an analysis information storing means for storing each of analyzed raw data so as to be associated with analysis portion specification information; a storage destination information storing means for storing each of the raw data so as to be associated with a raw data storage destination address referring to a raw data managing device storing the each raw data; a raw data specifying means for specifying raw data associated with analysis portion specification information corresponding to portion designation information designating a predetermined time portion in combined analysis result information; and a distribution instructing means for instructing a raw data managing device specified by a raw data storage destination address associated with the specified raw data to distribute raw data of the time portion corresponding to the designated portion designation information.
US09251180B2
According to a present invention embodiment, a system supplements structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data. The system analyzes a document with unstructured data and extracts attribute values from the unstructured data for one or more entities of the data system. Entity records with structured information are retrieved from the data system based on the extracted attribute values. Entity references for corresponding entities of the data system are constructed based on a comparison of the retrieved entity records and the extracted attribute values. The entity references are linked to the corresponding entities within the data system, wherein the entity references include extracted attributes from the unstructured data for corresponding linked entities. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for supplementing structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data in substantially the same manner described above.
US09251178B2
A system and method for connection labeling for use with connection pools. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a connection pool, including a plurality of connection objects which provide connections that software applications can use to make requests to access the database, wherein each of the connections can be labeled according to the configuration of particular applications; and a connection pool logic that identifies connections labeled as high-cost connections, and avoids using those high-cost connections to serve requests when the total number of connections is below a particular threshold value.
US09251176B2
In embodiments of photo chapters organization, a photo analyzer is implemented to receive a set of digital photos, and generate a photo sequence of the digital photos based on a respective timestamp of each photo. The photo sequence includes a first photo based on an earliest timestamp and a last photo based on a latest timestamp. The photo analyzer creates a photo chapter that includes the first photo. To organize the digital photos into photo chapters, the photo analyzer can determine whether a next photo in the photo sequence is to be added to a current photo chapter, and then either adds the next photo to the current photo chapter, or creates a next photo chapter that includes the next photo. The photo analyzer can repeat to organize each next photo in the photo sequence into the photo chapters until the last photo is included in a last photo chapter.
US09251174B2
Disclosed are a system and method for creating multi-angle views of an object-of-interest from images stored in a dataset. A user specifies the location of an object-of-interest. As the user virtually navigates through the locality represented by the image dataset, his current virtual position is determined. Using the user's virtual position and the location of the object-of-interest, images in the image dataset are selected and interpolated or stitched together, if necessary, to present to the user a view from his current virtual position looking toward the object-of-interest. The object-of-interest remains in the view no matter where the user virtually travels. From the same image dataset, another user can select a different object-of-interest and virtually navigate in a similar manner, with his own object-of-interest always in view. The object-of-interest also can be “virtual,” added by computer-animation techniques to the image dataset. For some image datasets, the user can virtually navigate through time as well as through space.
US09251172B2
A method of presenting digital assets in response to a search query by a user to locate at least one digital asset from a database of digital assets is described. Each digital asset has at least one keyword associated with it, and each associated keyword is part of a hierarchical organization of keywords. A first set of digital assets that have associated keywords equivalent to the search query is identified as well as suggested keywords that have e.g., an ancestor, descendant or sibling relation to the search query. The digital assets and the suggested keywords are presented to the user. The user selects a suggested keyword, and a second set of digital assets that have associated keywords equivalent to the suggested keyword is identified. The second set of digital assets is presented to the user.
US09251168B1
Methods and apparatus related to determining a characteristic of a location based on visit data associated with the location. Visit data indicative of travel of users to a first location from one or more other locations and/or of travel of users from the first location to one or more other locations may be utilized to determine information about the location. In some implementations visit data may be utilized to determine a connectedness measure and associate the second location with the first location based on the connectedness measure. A characteristic of the first location may optionally be determined based on a characteristic of the second location and/or an attribute associated with the visit data.
US09251158B2
Systems and methods for compressing a raw logical data object (201) for storage in a storage device operable with at least one storage protocol, creating, reading, writing, optimizatic in and restoring thereof. Compressing the raw logical data object (201) comprises creating in the storage device a compressed logical data object (203) comprising a header (204) and one or more allocated compressed sections with predefined size (205-1-205-2); compressing one or more sequentially obtained chunks of raw data (202-1-202-6) corresponding to the raw logical data object (201) thus giving rise to the compressed data chunks (207-1-207-6); and sequentially accommodating the processed data chunks into: said compressed sections (205-1-205-2) in accordance with an order said chunks received, wherein said compressed sections serve as atomic elements of compression/decompression operations during input/output transactions on the logical data object.
US09251156B2
An information processing device can determine, as a placement destination of object data, a storage location which is the most suitable for speeding up future processing which uses a plurality of pieces of data including the object data simultaneously, even when the object data is stored newly before use of it.
US09251151B1
A system divides a source computer storage device into a plurality of logical volumes, and creates a first recovery point data file and a first recovery point index file. In response to an incremental backup of a first logical volume, the system creates a second recovery point index file comprising a plurality of indices. In response to no data changing in a particular block in the first logical volume, the system points an index in the second recovery point index file to the particular block in the first logical volume. In response to data changing in the particular block in the first logical volume, the system creates a corresponding new block in a second recovery point data file. The system points the index in the second recovery point index file to the corresponding new block in the first logical volume.
US09251147B2
A content selection server including a processor configured to receive personal preference information from a plurality of personal media devices, select content based on the personal preference information, and provide playback of the content.
US09251146B2
Various embodiments provide for altering relevancy of a document by adding (e.g., to an index associated with the document) one or more term relationships (which may result, for example, in adding one or more non-obvious terms). Other embodiments provide for altering relevancy of a search query by adding to the search query one or more terms based upon one or more determined term relationships (in one example, the added term(s) may be one or more non-obvious terms).
US09251139B2
Provided is a process for extracting conveyance records from unstructured text documents, the process including: obtaining, with one or more processors, a plurality of documents describing, in unstructured form, one or more conveyances of interest in real property; determining, with one or more processors, for each of the documents, a respective jurisdiction; selecting, with one or more processors, from a plurality of language processing models for the English language, a respective language processing model for each of the documents based on the respective determined jurisdiction; extracting, with one or more processors, for each of the documents, a plurality of structured conveyance records from each of the plurality of documents by applying the language processing model selected for the respective document based on the jurisdiction associated with the document; and storing, with one or more processors, the extracted, structured conveyance record in memory.
US09251138B2
The invention enables creation of grammar networks that can regulate, control, and define the content and scope of human-machine interaction in natural language voice user interfaces (NLVUI). More specifically, the invention concerns a phrase-based modeling of generic structures of verbal interaction and use of these models for the purpose of automating part of the design of such grammar networks.
US09251134B2
A system and method for automatically generating a narrative story receives data and information pertaining to a domain event. The received data and information and/or one or more derived features are then used to identify a plurality of angles for the narrative story. The plurality of angles is then filtered, for example through use of parameters that specify a focus for the narrative story, length of the narrative story, etc. Points associated with the filtered plurality of angles are then assembled and the narrative story is rendered using the filtered plurality of angles and the assembled points.
US09251132B2
A document tagging method and apparatus. According to the method, a focused entity relevant to a basic document and a sentiment polarity of comments on the focused entity are acquired, and then a tag is generated on the basic document from the focused entity and the corresponding sentiment polarity. The present invention can tag the basic document with an opinion on the relevant focused entity and thus facilitate knowledge of the opinion on a relevant entity.
US09251126B1
A request for a document from a mobile device via a network is received. In response to the request, within the document a non-textual document element unrecognizable to the mobile device is identified. Within the document, at a first location associated with the non-textual document element, a start marker comprising a first code selected from a predetermined Unicode range is inserted. Within the document, at a second location associated with the non-textual document element, an end marker comprising a second code selected from the predetermined Unicode range is inserted. The second code has a predetermined relationship to the first code. The document is transmitted to the mobile device via the network.
US09251125B2
A method and apparatus for managing text is disclosed. A data processing system identifies a log of research and text in a document that matches the log of research. The data processing system determines whether a mismatch exists between a search result for the text in the document and the log of research. Responsive to determining the mismatch exists between the search result for the text and the log of research, the data processing system then modifies the text in the document based on the log of research.
US09251120B2
Embodiments can provide a system, a wheel localizer, a wheel localization device, a method or a computer program for locating a position of wheel. The system for locating the position of the wheel on the vehicle includes a detector for obtaining information related to a steering angle of the vehicle and a locator for determining the position of the wheel based on the information related to the steering angle of the vehicle. Embodiments further provide a device, a method and a computer program configured to determine information related to one or more expected rotational frequencies of one or more wheels of a vehicle. The device includes a path detector configured to determine expected path lengths of the one or more wheels of the vehicle based on information related to a path of the vehicle. The device further includes a controller configured to determine the information related to the one or more expected rotational frequencies of the one or more wheels of the vehicle based on the expected path lengths of the one or more wheels.
US09251117B2
A reconfigurable circuit includes a reconfigurable arithmetic execution unit array including a plurality of arithmetic execution units and a network circuit to provide reconfigurable connections between the arithmetic execution units, a suspension control circuit configured to control suspension and resumption of operation of the reconfigurable arithmetic execution unit array, and a buffer circuit configured to temporarily store data supplied from an external source upon suspension of the operation of the reconfigurable arithmetic execution unit array and to supply the stored data to the reconfigurable arithmetic execution unit array upon resumption of the operation of the reconfigurable arithmetic execution unit array.
US09251111B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can continually increase a command rate of an interconnect if one or more requests to lower the command rate are not received within one or more periods of time. In one example, the command rate can be set to a fastest level. In another example, the command rate can be incrementally increased over periods of time. If a request to lower the command rate is received, the command rate can be set to a reference level or can be decremented to one slower rate level. In one or more embodiments, the one or more requests to lower the command rate can be based on at least one of an issue rate of speculative commands and a number of overcommit failures, among others.
US09251101B2
In an embodiment, in response to a request from a producer thread to set a bit in a global bitmap, a nodal lock is obtained on a nodal bitmap at a node at which the producer thread executes. A determination is made whether a corresponding bit in a pending clear bitmap in the nodal bitmap indicates that a clear of the bit in the global bitmap is pending. If the corresponding bit in the pending clear bitmap in the nodal bitmap indicates that a clear of the bit in the global bitmap is pending, the corresponding bit in the pending clear bitmap is cleared. If the corresponding bit in the pending clear bitmap in the nodal bitmap indicates that the clear of the bit in the global bitmap is not pending, a corresponding bit in a pending set bitmap in the nodal bitmap is set.
US09251097B1
A data storage service redundantly stores data and keys used to encrypt the data. Data objects are encrypted with first cryptographic keys. The first cryptographic keys are encrypted by second cryptographic keys. The first cryptographic keys and second cryptographic keys are redundantly stored in a data storage system to enable access of the data objects, such as to respond to requests to retrieve the data objects. The second cryptographic keys may be encrypted by third keys and redundantly stored in the event access to a second cryptographic key is lost.
US09251095B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to store entries each having a translation portion to store a virtual address (VA)-to-physical address (PA) translation and a second portion to store bits for a memory page associated with the VA-to-PA translation, where the bits indicate attributes of information in the memory page. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09251080B2
Managing access to a cache memory includes dividing said cache memory into multiple of cache areas, each cache area having multiple entries; and providing at least one separate lock attribute for each cache area such that only a processor thread having possession of the lock attribute corresponding to a particular cache area can update that cache area.
US09251076B2
A coherent attached processor proxy (CAPP) participates in coherence communication in a primary coherent system on behalf of an attached processor external to the primary coherent system. The CAPP includes an epoch timer that advances at regular intervals to define epochs of operation of the CAPP. Each of one or more entries in a data structure in the CAPP are associated with a respective epoch. Recovery operations for the CAPP are initiated based on a comparison of an epoch indicated by the epoch timer and the epoch associated with one of the one or more entries in the data structure.
US09251072B2
Technologies are generally described for a cache coherence directory in multi-processor architectures. In an example, a directory in a die may receive a request for a particular block. The directory may determine a block aging threshold relating to a likelihood that data blocks, including the particular data block, are stored in one or more caches in the die. The directory may further analyze a memory to identify a particular cache indicated as storing the particular data block and identify a number of cache misses for the particular cache. The directory may identify a time when an event occurred for the particular data block and determine whether to send the request for the particular data block to the particular cache based on the aging threshold, the time of the event, and the number of cache misses.
US09251064B2
In one embodiment, a node coupled to one or more solid state drives (SSDs) executes a storage input/output (I/O) stack having a plurality of layers, including a persistence layer. The node includes a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM). A portion of the NVRAM is configured as a write-back cache to store write data associated with one or more write requests. The persistence layer is configured to organize the write data into extents that are written back to the one or more SSDs in any order. The write data is preserved in the write-back cache until each extent is safely and successfully stored on the one or more SSDs in an event of a power loss.
US09251060B2
Described herein are embodiments of an apparatus configured for compression-enabled blending of data, a system including the apparatus configured for compression-enabled blending of data, and a method for compression-enabled blending of data. An apparatus configured for compression-enabled blending of data may include non-volatile memory configured to operate in a single-level cell mode and a multi-level cell mode, a compression module configured to compress data to generate compressed data, and a memory controller configured to write, in response to a reduction ratio of the compressed data being less than a threshold compression ratio, a first portion of the compressed data to the non-volatile memory in the single-level cell mode, and a second portion of the compressed data to the non-volatile memory in the multi-level cell mode. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09251056B2
A method for memory management is provided for a memory including a plurality of pages. The method comprises assigning in-use pages to in-use buckets according to use counts. The in-use buckets include a low in-use bucket for a lowest range of use counts, and a high in-use bucket for a highest range of use counts. The method comprises assigning free pages to free buckets according to use counts. The free buckets include a low free bucket for a lowest range of use counts, and a high free bucket for a highest range of use counts. The method maintains use counts for in-use pages. On a triggering event for a current in-use page, the method determines whether the use count of the current in-use page exceeds a hot swap threshold, and if so moves data in the current in-use page to a lead page in the low free bucket.
US09251047B1
Approaches for automatically backing up data from volatile memory to persistent storage in the event of a power outage, blackout or other such failure are described. The approaches can be implemented on a computing device that includes a motherboard, central processing unit (CPU) a main power source, volatile memory (e.g., random access memory (RAM)), an alternate power source and circuitry (e.g., a specialized application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)) for performing the backup of volatile memory to a persistent storage device. In the event of a power failure of the main power source, the alternate power source is configured to supply power to the specialized ASIC for backing up the data in the volatile memory. For example, when power failure is detected, the ASIC can read the data from the DIMM socket using power supplied from the alternate power source and write that data to a persistent storage device.
US09251045B2
Localizing errors by: (i) running a testcase on a hardware processor and saving results; (ii) running the testcase on a software model of the processor and saving results; (iii) recording control flow information during the software run; (iv) determining a set of miscompare data storage locations by comparing the results from the hardware run with those from the software run; (v) based on the set of miscompare data storage locations and/or the control flow information, generating and running a modified version of the testcase that takes a different execution path when run on the software model than did the original testcase when run on the software model; and (vii) comparing the results from the hardware run and the results obtained from the modified software run to provide an indication of similarity between execution paths taken in these respective runs.
US09251037B2
Elastic insight to Information Technology (“IT”) performance data is provided. Local performance data is continuously pushed from a front-end component to a back-end component. Global performance data is continuously pushed from the back-end component to the front-end component. The local performance data and the global performance data are aggregated at the front-end component by product, product family, and product solution. The aggregated data is monitored at the front-end component to identify a performance bottleneck.
US09251033B2
A method and apparatus for automatic provisioning steps using a physical computing block-based infrastructure platform and a virtualized environment is discussed to provide automatic elasticity. Running applications may be monitoring for increased workload, which may trigger a proactive and/or reactive response. The triggered proactive or reactive response includes executing a remediation action upon workloads exceeding set thresholds, as set by a pre-determined monitoring policy. The remediation actions may include the provisioning of additional virtual or physical computing resources to reduce the workload below the set threshold.
US09251031B2
A data processing apparatus for generating running performance information indicative of a running state of at least one device, has a data storage process section that obtains device state information indicative of a result of detection of a state of the at least one device, and obtains operational activity performer information indicative of a result of detection of whether an operational activity performer that performs an operational activity to the at least one device or an operational activity with the at least one device is present at a predetermined position for the operational activity performer to do the operational activity on the at least one device or the operational activity with the at least one device, and causes the device state information and the operational activity performer information to be stored in a result-of-detection storage.
US09251029B2
Methods, systems, and products predict locations of failures. Messages historically received are analyzed to predict a future failure. A pattern in the messages historically received is used to retrieve a template. A location of the future failure is predicted from the template.
US09251024B2
A method for manipulating a memory operation of a control unit program on a memory of a virtual or real electronic control unit (ECU), such as is used in vehicles, for example. The manipulation of the memory operation is accomplished by a memory manipulation program component, via which a set of manipulation functions is provided, from which at least one manipulation function is selected, so that this function, by activating the memory manipulation program component, changes a memory access initiated by the control unit program in accordance with the selected manipulation function during execution of the control unit program.
US09251020B1
A computer-implemented method for file-level replication may include 1) identifying a selection of at least one source file to replicate from a primary volume to a secondary volume, 2) identifying extent information that indicates a volume location of the source file within the primary volume, 3) identifying a volume offset within the primary volume of a write operation performed on the source file within the primary volume, 4) converting the volume offset to a file offset within the source file using the extent information, and 5) replicating the write operation and the file offset to the secondary volume. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09251010B2
A mechanism is provided for caching backed-up data locally until successful replication of the backed-up data. Responsive to an indication to back up one or more pieces of identified data from a local storage device, a determination is made as to whether a primary storage device is available. Responsive to the primary storage device being available, the one or more pieces of identified data are backed up to the primary storage device and a local replication cache. Responsive to the backed-up data being replicated from the primary storage device to a secondary storage device, the backed-up data is removed from the local replication cache.
US09251006B2
A power management mechanism maintains power to a processor and an integrated memory. Read-only logic and a cache are also provided. At power on, the read-only logic configures the cache as an internal memory and loads executable instructions in the cache. A copy of the executable instructions is stored in the internal memory. A branch instruction is also stored. Thereafter, the processor uses the copy of the executable instructions and present status information. The processor is programmed to issue a reset signal when a failure is detected. The read-only logic responds to the reset signal by going to the branch instruction in the internal memory, which directs the processor to use the copy of the executable instructions and status information in the internal memory circuit. The operating state is restored and the processor is instructed to execute the next instruction in the copy of executable instructions.
US09251002B2
In part, the invention relates to a system and method for writing checkpointing data to a computer having a standby virtual machine for each checkpointed component on a computer having an active virtual machine. In one embodiment, the checkpointing data is processed on a per virtual machine basis. This is performed in a way that allows checkpointing data packets from multiple sources to be transferred asynchronously, subsequently reassembled into a coherent checkpoint message, and applied asynchronously.
US09251001B2
A write or read method for use in a computer having multiple channels of memory includes writing or reading data to or from one channel in the memory, and simultaneously in parallel writing or reading an error correction code corresponding to the data to or from a different channel in the memory.
US09250991B2
Methods and apparatuses for reduction of Read Disturb errors in a NAND FLASH memory system comprise a controller configured to organize FLASH memory devices into blocks, each block having a plurality of pages, and each page defining an individually addressable physical memory location. The controller is further configured to accumulate a Block READ Count corresponding to the number of times any pages in a first block of pages have been read since the first block was last erased. Once the READ count reaches a predetermined number, the controller responds to subsequent READ requests for pages within the first block by moving data associated with a requested page to a page in a second, different block without moving data associated with other pages in the first block, and modifying a logical-to-physical translation table to associate the moved data with the physical address of the page in the second block.
US09250989B2
An identification request is received from a host device. A virtual address that identifies at least the first device and a second device is determined. The first device and the second device are coupled together to form a plurality of redundant paths between the host device and a target device. A plurality of target ports associated with the target device are determined. A single virtual target port address is assigned to the plurality of target ports associated with the target device. A first of the plurality of redundant paths between the host device and the target device is designated as an active path. The first of the plurality of redundant paths between the host device and the target device is associated with a first of the plurality of target ports. The virtual address and the virtual target port address are transmitted to the host device.
US09250986B2
The present invention provides a method for data linkage driven by an event, used for data interaction between a first platform and a second platform. The second platform stores shared information and the method comprises: determining which platform the received event is from; forwarding a data packet from the second platform to the first platform for logical operation processing when the received event is from the second platform; when the received event is information from the first platform that at least includes a shared information operation instruction resulting from logic operation processing of data packets in the first platform, returning a shared information operation instruction completion message to the first platform, meanwhile forwarding the shared information operation instruction to the second platform so as to complete the shared information operation on the second platform. Therefore, the first platform acquires data synchronously without waiting for feedback of the second platform.
US09250974B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a cloud computing environment that includes a service cloud and one or more services accessing the service cloud. The service cloud includes multiple resources of different types that support the execution of the services accessing the service cloud. Each resource and service in the cloud computing environment is configured via a centralized configuration service. In addition, resource allocation and predictive performance monitoring engines allocate resources and monitor the resources allocated to the services accessing the service cloud.
US09250968B2
A memory managing method and memory manager for a multi processing environment are provided. The memory manager adjusts the number of processors assigned to a consumer process and/or an assignment unit size of data to be consumed by the consumer process based on a condition of a shared queue which is shared by a producer process producing data and the consumer process consuming the data.
US09250965B2
A method and system for intelligent tiering is provided. The method includes receiving a request for enabling a tiering process with respect to data. The computer processor retrieves a migration list indicating migration engines associated with the data. Additionally, an entity list of migration entities is retrieved and each migration entity is compared to associated policy conditions. In response, it is determined if matches exist between the migration entities and the associated policy conditions and a consolidated entity list is generated.
US09250960B2
A computer-implemented method, program product and system for planning execution of a plurality of tasks according to a plurality of dependencies includes receiving an indication of a task type and execution time, ordering the tasks into a task list according to a primary ordering criterion, receiving an indication of a dependency type for the task type and an indication of a dependency time for the execution time of a predecessor one of the tasks, ordering the dependencies into a dependency list according to the primary ordering criterion, scanning the dependency list for resolving each current one of the dependencies, identifying the predecessor task as a current one of the tasks having the task type meeting the dependency type and the execution time meeting the dependency time, and planning the execution of the tasks according to the resolved dependencies.
US09250959B2
A virtual network control program includes allowing a physical port of a destination server device, which is a destination of a virtual machine to be transferred by migration, to use a virtual network used by the virtual machine to be transferred when the physical port of the destination server device does not belong to the virtual network; determining whether or not the virtual network, which has been used by the virtual machine in a source server device, is used by another virtual machine running on the source server device when the virtual machine to be transferred has been transferred onto the destination server device; and inhibiting, when it is determined that the another virtual machine does not use the virtual network, that a physical port of the source server device uses the virtual network which has been used by the virtual machine to be transferred.
US09250958B2
Methods and systems for launching applications on a computing device are disclosed. An exemplary method may include gathering data in connection with a launch of each of the applications that indicates one or more events occurring in connection with the launch of each application. When an indication of a particular event occurring is received, one or more out-of-memory values are modified based upon the data and the particular event. The out-of-memory values are indicative of a priority in which corresponding background applications are killed from running in the background of the computing device when memory runs low. When memory runs low on the computing device, one or more of the background applications are killed based upon the out-of-memory values to leave background applications running that a user is more likely to launch than the killed applications.
US09250955B1
A method is used in managing approval of a data storage management operation. An approval module is provided. A request to perform a management operation is received from a first user where the first user is associated with a first user access level. The management operation is forwarded to the approval module. The management operation is evaluated to determine an approval status, the evaluation based on the first user access level and the management operation. Based on the evaluation, an approval status is provided.
US09250952B2
There is provided a method to schedule execution of a plurality of batch jobs by a computer system. The method includes: reading one or more constraints that constrain the execution of the plurality of batch jobs by the computer system and a current load on the computer system; grouping the plurality of batch jobs into at least one run frequency that includes at least one batch job; setting the at least one run frequency to a first run frequency; computing a load generated by each batch job in the first run frequency on the computer system based on each batch job's start time; and determining an optimized start time for each batch job in the first run frequency that meets the one or more constraints and that distributes each batch job's load on the computer system using each batch job's computed load and the current load.
US09250945B2
A generation identifier is provided having a value established upon generating a new virtual machine configuration context or a snapshot of a virtual machine configuration context. The generation identifier is configured to be sampled in order to indicate whether the sampled generation is a latest generation. To use the generation identifier, a service or application persists the generation identifier upon resuming or initiating operation. During normal operation or replay, the persisted generation identifier is compared to the generation identifier sampled from a location associated with the virtual machine configuration context on which the service or application is being run before performing a requested process or committing to a transaction. When the sampled generation identifier is different than the persisted generation identifier, the service or application knows that it is running a time-shifted operation such as from a snapshot replay.
US09250940B2
A baseline set of graph information associated with a predefined execution environment of a program may be obtained, the baseline set associated with a baseline time interval. The predefined execution environment includes predefined environment objects, at least a portion of which are dynamically mutatable. A second set of graph information associated with the predefined execution environment may be obtained, the second set associated with a second time interval that is later in time than the baseline time interval. The baseline set and the second set may be compared to detect virtualization activity associated with a dynamic runtime.
US09250939B2
The information processing system of the present invention includes a profile information collection unit for storing access-related profile information in response to detecting access to an object set as a profile target on the basis of the sampling frequency for each class or object allocation site during the execution of a program, and a sampling frequency updating unit for calculating the allocation percentage of an object having properties used in the optimization of the program at each class or object allocation site on the basis of profile information, and for reducing the sampling frequency regarding a class or object allocation site in which the calculated percentage is below a predetermined threshold value.
US09250925B2
Object inheritance is a programming feature that allows developers to designate a programming object as a “descendent” of one or more “ancestors.” Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for supporting inheritance in a programming language. In an embodiment, a first programming object is received from a first document, inheritance information about the first programming object is received and analyzed, a second programming object based on the first programming object and the inheritance information is created, the second programming object is sent to an editor for editing, a third programming object is received from the editor, a fourth programming object based on the first or second programming object, the third programming object, and the inheritance information is created, and the fourth programming object is stored in a second document.
US09250921B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for initializing a plurality of processors of a multi-processor system by executing, at each respective processor of the plurality of processors, at least a portion of local initialization code stored on the respective processor. Receiving, at a designated processor of the plurality of processors, external initialization code stored in external memory, wherein the remainder of the plurality of processors do not have access to the external initialization code stored in external memory. Determining, the designated processor, send at least a portion of the external initialization code to a processor of the remainder of the plurality of processors.
US09250920B2
A method for initializing processor cores in a multiprocessor system. The method includes a microcontroller initializing a first processor utilizing a common initialization image for all processor cores within the first processor. The first processor detects and executes system firmware. All remaining processors are initialized utilizing the common initialization image. The executing firmware detects a system configuration of the multiprocessor system. A customized processor initialization image for each of the processor cores in the multiprocessor system is generated and stored to a storage device. The processor cores are triggered to enter a power save state in which all initialization settings of the processor cores are lost. In response to all the processor cores entering the power save state, the first processor core of the first processor is re-initialized using a first customized initialization image generated for the first processor core.
US09250914B2
An apparatus and method for determining whether to execute an atomic operation locally or remotely. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder to decode an atomic operation on a local core; prediction logic on the local core to estimate a cost associated with execution of the atomic operation on the local core and a cost associated with execution of the atomic operation on a remote core; and the remote core to execute the atomic operation remotely if the prediction logic determines that the cost for execution on the local core is relatively greater than the cost for execution on the remote core; and the local core to execute the atomic operation locally if the prediction logic determines that the cost for local execution on the local core is relatively less than the cost for execution on the remote core.
US09250909B2
Embodiments relate to using a fast index tree for accelerated branch prediction. A computer-implemented method includes determining, by a computer, that searching of a branch target buffer is to be performed under FIT control. A current search address is saved. The branch target buffer is searched at the saved current search address for a branch prediction. A FIT next-search address is determined based on reading branch taken and branch not taken paths for a next search level of predicted branches from a FIT structure. The searching is re-indexed based on the FIT next-search address. Based on locating the branch prediction, the searching is continued under FIT control with the current search address set based on the FIT next-search address. Based on failing to locate the branch prediction, the searching is re-indexed with the saved current search address, and the searching is performed without FIT control.
US09250904B2
An modify next sequential instruction (MNSI) instruction, when executed, modifies a field of the fetched copy of the next sequential instruction (NSI) to enable a program to dynamically provide parameters to the NSI being executed. Thus the MNSI instruction is a non-disruptive prefix instruction to the NSI. The NSI may be modified to effectively extend the length of the NSI field, thus providing more registers or more range (in the case of a length field) than otherwise available to the NSI instruction according to the instruction set architecture (ISA).
US09250897B2
The subject invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate display, selection, and management of context associated with execution of add-on instructions. The systems and methods track add-on instruction calls and provide a user with call and data context, wherein the user can select a particular add-on instruction context from a plurality of contexts in order to observe values and/or edit parameters associated with the add-on instruction. The add-on instruction context can include information such as instances of data for particular lines of execution, the add-on instruction called, a caller of the instruction, a location of the instruction call, references to complex data types and objects, etc. The systems and methods further provide a technique for automatic routine selection based on the add-on instruction state information such that the add-on instruction executed corresponds to a current state.
US09250887B2
A cloud computing environment provides the ability to deploy a web application that has been developed using one of a plurality of application frameworks and is configured to execute within one of a plurality of runtime environments. The cloud computing environment receives the web application in a package compatible with the runtime environment and dynamically binds available services by appropriately inserting service provisioning data (e.g., service network address, login credentials, etc.) into the package. The cloud computing environment then packages an instance of the runtime environment, a start script and the package into a web application deployment package, which is then transmitted to an application (e.g., container virtual machine, etc.). The application container unpacks the web application deployment package, installs the runtime environment, loads the web application package into the runtime environment and starts the start script, thereby deploying the web application in the application container.
US09250885B2
Provided is a method of installing a bundle in an image forming apparatus operating based on a framework capable of sharing a function among a plurality of bundles. The method includes extracting related information between the bundle and another bundle from an XML file of any one bundle; and adding the extracted related information to a file including information of the bundle.
US09250883B2
In developing applications for a plurality of node types, a meta-data definition of the application can be captured into an application definition module. The meta-data definition can describe the application for the plurality of node types. A code generation module can then automatically generate the application code for the plurality of node types. The code can be compiled per node type and the packaging necessary to deploy the application to the plurality of node types can also be automatically generated.
US09250880B2
The present invention is a technique for obtaining execution frequency information on execution paths in a CFG, including preparing a CFG from a source code read into a memory, preparation of the CGF including modifying the CFG by assigning path value zero to an edge v→w between a precedent basic block v and a successor basic block w following the predecessor basic block v in a case where the successor basic block w has a predecessor basic block x other than the predecessor basic block v, and where the successor basic block w exists on a fall-through path from the predecessor basic block x. The technique also includes obtaining execution frequency information by using the modified CFG.
US09250879B2
An optimizing compiler includes a strength reduction mechanism that optimizes a computer program that includes conditional operations by analyzing the instructions in the computer program in a single pass, determining whether instruction substitution is profitable for original instructions in the code, and performing instruction substitution for one or more original instructions for which instruction substitution is deemed profitable, including conditional operations. The substituted instructions result in strength reduction in the computer program.
US09250874B1
A system and method is disclosed for sharing type information between object maps. When an object data structure is modified in a dynamic programming environment to change an initial number of object properties a child object map for the modified object data structure is generated based on a parent object map for the unmodified object data structure, and a descriptor array associated with the base object map is shared with the child object map. The descriptor array is dynamically altered according to the modified object data structure, and access to the descriptor array is limited from the parent object map in accordance with the initial number of object properties of the unmodified object data structure.
US09250869B1
An asynchronous business process specification declared in a procedural markup language comprising an activity flow model and a plurality of activities is received. An indication is received that a subset of the plurality of activities is to be synchronously executed without reduced latency. All process execution related objects are fetched once into a memory. The synchronous subset is executed in a single execution transaction context.
US09250861B2
A random number generating device includes: a microcomputer; a first oscillator circuit that has a predetermined temperature characteristic and generates a clock serving as a basis of a behavior of the microcomputer; and an electronic circuit that has a temperature characteristic being different from the predetermined temperature characteristic of the first oscillator circuit and operates in accordance with a command from the microcomputer. The microcomputer measures an operating time of the electronic circuit based upon the clock generated by the first oscillator circuit and generates a random number based upon a result of the measurement.
US09250860B2
A mechanism is provided in a storage device for performing a write operation. The mechanism configures a write buffer memory with a plurality of write buffer portions. Each write buffer portion is dedicated to a predetermined block size category within a plurality of block size categories. For each write operation from an initiator, the mechanism determines a block size category of the write operation. The mechanism performs each write operation by writing to a write buffer portion within the plurality of write buffer portions corresponding to the block size category of the write operation.
US09250838B2
A terminal device to which an information processing device and an output device are connected, includes a substitute user setting unit configured to set a substitute user as an executor capable of executing output of output data specified by a user requesting the output of the output data, the substitute user being different from the user requesting the output of the output data; an output information transmission unit configured to send, to the information processing device, the specified output data and output data relevance information including substitute user information identifying the substitute user; an output data acquisition unit configured to acquire the output data, of which the output is set as being executable by the executor, from the information processing device; and an output data transmission unit configured to send the output data acquired by the output data acquisition unit, to the output device connected to the terminal device.
US09250836B2
A mobile apparatus is disclosed. The mobile apparatus includes a user interface unit which is selected with a web page to be printed, an obtaining unit which obtains a size of the selected web page, a calculating unit which calculates a plurality of capture areas regarding the web page based on the obtained size of the web page so that there is not repeated area, an image processing unit which generates a capture image regarding the web page per calculated plurality of capture area, and combines the generated capture images to generate a print image, and a communication interface unit which transmits the generated print image to the image forming apparatus.
US09250823B1
Physical storage is replaced online in a data integrity storage system comprising RAID groups of physical disks in separate enclosures (shelves). All disks of a RAID group are located on a corresponding shelf, and each shelf is mapped by an internal file system to a separate independent logical address space partitioned into a plurality of blocks forming a blockset containing data and metadata. Source shelf disk data is moved online to disks of a target shelf using invulnerable data movement that ensures the integrity of the data, and source shelf blockset metadata is migrated to a corresponding target shelf blockset. After verifying the correctness of the target data and metadata, the source shelf and blockset are removed.
US09250821B2
Various embodiments for storing a logical object are provided. In one such embodiment, by way of example only, incoming data is divided corresponding to a logical data object into a plurality of independent streams, associating each data chunk of a plurality of obtained data chunks with a corresponding stream among the plurality of independent streams. At least one of the obtained data chunks and derivatives thereof is sequentially accommodated in accordance with an order the obtained chunks are received, while keeping the association with the corresponding streams. A global index is generated as a single meta-data stream accommodated in the logical data object and comprising information common to the plurality of independent streams and related to mapping between data in the logical data object and the obtained data chunks.
US09250814B2
An apparatus includes a memory and storage circuitry. The storage circuitry is configured to receive at least one request causing execution of a sequence of memory commands in the memory, to identify that, although a first memory command appears in the sequence before a second memory command, the execution of the second memory command would improve a performance of the execution of the first memory command, and to execute the second memory command and then to execute the first memory command with the improved execution performance.
US09250813B2
When a plurality of applications operating in a host computer or a storage system uses a same pool, actual data constantly allocated to an upper tier drive satisfying the required response performance will continue to increase. Therefore, when data is migrated by IOPS in page units, the access performance such as the response speed may not be satisfied. Therefore, according to the present invention, multiple virtual volumes used in applications are subjected to grouping. Relocation conditions corresponding to performances required for each group are set in advance, and reallocation of tiers according to the relocation conditions is performed.
US09250810B2
Exemplary method, system, and computer program product embodiments for priority based depopulation of ranks in a computing storage environment are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, multiple ranks selected for depopulation are prioritized. The highest priority rank of the multiple ranks is depopulated to a target rank. Additional system and computer program product embodiments are disclosed and provide related advantages.
US09250805B2
Methods of and systems for entering ambiguous text input via a linear character selection display are provided. A system for entering an alphanumeric string includes presentation logic for displaying on a presentation device an alphabet arranged into a row of letters and indication logic for presenting visual cues grouping a series of letters of the row into a cluster. The system also includes navigation logic for receiving user actions to move the visual cues along the row of letters to change the letters grouped into the cluster. The visual cues move along the row of letters in variable offsets based on a rate of input of the user actions. The system further includes selection logic for receiving user actions to select the cluster of letters to cause at least one of the letters of the selected cluster to be displayed in a string field.
US09250803B2
Method, computer program product and user device for searching implemented at the user device, wherein an input is received from a user via a touch screen of the user device. Without user initiation of a temporary character recognition mode specifically to receive the input, the input is analyzed using character recognition. Responsive to the character recognition recognizing at least one character in said received input, a search mode is invoked in which one or more search results which at least partially match the at least one recognized character are displayed. The user may select one of the displayed search results.
US09250802B2
According to an embodiment, a shaping device includes an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, first and second calculators, a determining unit, a shaping unit, and a display unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire strokes handwritten by a user. The extracting unit is configured to extract multiple combinations of strokes. The first calculator is configured to calculate a first likelihood representing a probability that each combination related to a target graphic. The second calculator is configured to calculate a second likelihood representing a probability that each combination related to an incomplete shape. The determining unit is configured to determine whether there is a first combination having first likelihood not less than a first threshold and the second likelihood not more than a second threshold. The shaping unit is configured to shape the strokes into the target graphic. The display unit is configured to display a result of shaping.
US09250800B2
A touch-panel input device as disclosed in the specification comprises a touch panel and an input controller capable of switching between a right-hand two-point touch input sensing mode suitable for the placement of right fingers and a left-hand two-point touch input sensing mode suitable for the placement of left fingers, wherein the input controller senses two-point touches on the touch panel in either of these input sensing modes.
US09250795B2
This invention is directed to an electronic device with an embedded authentication system for restricting access to device resources. The authentication system may include one or more sensors operative to detect biometric information of a user. The sensors may be positioned in the device such that the sensors may detect appropriate biometric information as the user operates the device, without requiring the user to perform a step for providing the biometric information (e.g., embedding a fingerprint sensor in an input mechanism instead of providing a fingerprint sensor in a separate part of the device housing). In some embodiments, the authentication system may be operative to detect a visual or temporal pattern of inputs to authenticate a user. In response to authenticating, a user may access restricted files, applications (e.g., applications purchased by the user), or settings (e.g., application settings such as contacts or saved game profile).
US09250774B2
Systems and methods for establishing UI push channels are disclosed. The UI push channels can be used to broadcast event notifications to multiple UIs whenever the information in an underlying data source is changed. In response to the event notifications, the UIs may update or refresh the displayed information so as to include the most current information in the data source. UI push channels are defined by associations between an application messaging channel (AMC) and the UI connection used to communicate with the client computing device and the application server. In particular, the UI push channels can be established by an AMC definition that defines a target data source, subscriber entities, and publisher entities. The listing of the publishers and the subscribers in the AMC definition infer the associations between the corresponding AMC and the UI connections.
US09250773B2
A method, system, and computer program product for accessible chart navigation using object neighborhood are provided. An input is received to navigate a focus away in a direction from a first object, the first object being a member of a set of objects depicted in a graphical visual chart. A set of inputs is designed to access the chart without using a pointing device or requiring visual inspection of the chart and the set of objects. The set of inputs includes the input and a second input to allow return to a previous step in navigating the chart. A second object is identified to which to navigate responsive to the input, the second object being located within a neighborhood of the first object at a shortest neighborhood distance from the first object. Navigation is performed to the second object to keep the focus within the neighborhood.
US09250765B2
In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for changing a reference to a bookmark icon. The method includes receiving resources that include an HTML document and computer program script code. The HTML document does not include a reference to a bookmark icon. The method includes determining that the computing device has loaded the web page and, in response, adding, in a representation of the HTML document, a reference to a first bookmark icon. The method includes receiving a request to change a display of the web page from a first screen to a second screen, without requesting additional resources over the network. The method includes removing the reference to the first bookmark icon in the representation of the web page, and adding a reference to a second bookmark icon in the representation of the web page.
US09250753B2
To address the above issues, a display device with a capacitive touch screen display having a touch surface in close proximity to a display stack is provided. The display may include a touch sheet with a top surface, a touch sensor having a matrix of capacitors formed of electrodes positioned below the touch sheet and configured to exhibit a change in capacitance of at least one of the capacitors in response to a touch on the top surface by a digit or stylus of a user, a display stack positioned below the matrix of capacitors and configured to emit light through a top surface of the display stack to travel in a light emitting direction through the matrix of capacitors and the touch sheet. A distance between the top surface of the touch sheet and the top surface of the display stack is between about 225 and 1500 micrometers.
US09250752B2
A method and apparatus for scanning a first set of electrodes of a capacitive sense array using a first sensing mode to identify a presence of an object in proximity to the capacitive sense array, where scanning using the first sensing mode identifies objects not in physical contact with the capacitive sense array. The first set of electrodes is scanned using a second sensing mode to determine a location of the object in relation to the capacitive sense array, where rescanning using the second sensing mode determines locations of objects in physical contact with the capacitive sense array.
US09250750B2
A flat panel display with a built-in touch panel includes a display panel having a lower substrate, an upper substrate, and a plurality of touch sensing patterns on the upper substrate. The plurality of touch sensing patterns includes a plurality of sensing cells on a bottom surface of the upper substrate that faces the lower substrate, a plurality of outer lines on the bottom surface of the upper substrate that connect lines of sensing cells of the plurality of sensing cells along at least one of a first direction or a second direction to a driving circuit, a plurality of connection lines that correspond to respective outer lines on the lower substrate. The plurality of outer lines are connected to the driving circuit via the plurality of connection lines on the lower substrate, and the plurality of outer lines are electrically connected to the corresponding connection lines.
US09250742B1
A method and apparatus of detecting user initiated movement by an input element handled by a user. The method includes positioning at least one sensor to dynamically adjust a size of an effective workspace range. The method also includes detecting the user's movement of the input element within the effective workspace range. The effective workspace may be adjusted to suit a user's size preference.
US09250740B2
It becomes possible to use drive pulses having different pulse widths for one kind of drive pulse signal period. Therefore, even if a voltage acting on a crossing part of drive and detection electrodes is periodically changed through a stray capacitance attributed to an external object such as a finger in an undesired manner, the pulse width of the drive pulse is never fixed with respect to the period, and the periodic buildup of a certain voltage on a detection signal, which would make appreciable noise, is suppressed. Thus, the reduction of detection signals can be suppressed in quantity without switching the pulse signal frequency of the drive pulse of a touch panel.
US09250739B2
There are provided a touch sensing device and a touchscreen device. The touch sensing device according to an embodiment of the invention may include: a buffer unit including a buffer capacitor charged and discharged by a first voltage and a second voltage input at a predetermined period; an integrating circuit unit integrating a charging voltage of the buffer capacitor; a signal conversion unit comparing a voltage output from the integrating circuit unit with a predetermined reference voltage to generate the second voltage; and a touch determination unit counting the second voltage with a predetermined reference clock to determine a touch.
US09250737B2
An information apparatus includes a housing, first and second strain detectors, and first and second stress collectors that transmit distortion applied to a side surface of the housing to the first and the second strain detectors, respectively. Upon having the same amount of distortion is applied to the side surface of the housing, the first and strain detectors outputs different values a processing circuit. This information apparatus has a small size and can be accurately controlled.
US09250733B2
A foldable display apparatus is provided. The foldable display apparatus includes a flexible display panel, first body configured to support a left portion of a flexible display panel, and second body configured to support a right portion of the flexible display panel, first and second frames configured to surround portions of outlines of the first and second bodies, a hinge member configured to hinge-connect the first and second frames with each other in a foldable manner, and first and second supports having sides hinge-connected to the first and second frames, and configured to form an accommodation space in which a folded portion of the flexible display panel is folded to form a curvature at a first position at which the first and second bodies are folded, and to support the folded portion of the flexible display panel at a second position at which the first and second bodies are unfolded.
US09250731B2
Disclosed are a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes a first common electrode line connected to a first common electrode of a plurality of common electrodes, and formed to overlap a data line formed in a panel where the plurality of common electrodes are formed. The plurality of common electrodes are separated from each other in a block form, receive a common voltage in an image output period, and receive a touch driving voltage in a touch sensing period. The display device includes a second common electrode separated from the first common electrode line with a protective layer therebetween, and configured to include two second common electrode plates which are separated from each other in a left and right direction with respect to the first common electrode line.
US09250723B2
A method and apparatus for stroke acquisition, and an ultrasonic electronic stylus are provided. The method is applied to the ultrasonic electronic stylus. In the case that the ultrasonic electronic stylus contacts with a writing board and a pressure generated on the writing board by the ultrasonic electronic stylus reaches a first predetermined value, the ultrasonic electronic stylus is controlled to generate a first signal so that a signal receiver of an electronic device acquires a first stroke based on the first signal. After the first signal is generated, an operation parameter of the ultrasonic electronic stylus is adjusted. In the case that the pressure is smaller than the first predetermined value and a preset condition is satisfied, a second signal is generated so that the electronic device continues to acquire a second stroke based on the second signal.
US09250722B2
There is provided a system and method for a pressure and angle sensitive stylus device. The method comprises detecting a plurality of pressure inputs using a plurality of sensors, determining an angle of pressure applied to a stylus device from the plurality of pressure inputs, and transmitting the angle of pressure to an interactive device. The plurality of sensors may be recalibrated when the plurality of sensors are not in use. Further, using the plurality of pressure inputs may detect a velocity of usage of the stylus device. The plurality of sensors may include three sensors arranged in a radially symmetric pattern about a longitudinal axis of the stylus device.
US09250716B2
A bias value associated with a sensor, e.g., a time-varying, non-zero value which is output from a sensor when it is motionless, is estimated using at least two, different bias estimating techniques. A resultant combined or selected bias estimate may then be used to compensate the biased output of the sensor in, e.g., a 3D pointing device.
US09250714B2
Described herein are optical proximity detectors, methods for use therewith, and systems including an optical proximity detector. Such optical proximity detectors include an analog front-end and a digital back-end. In certain embodiments, the digital back-end includes a dynamic gain and phase offset corrector, a cross-talk corrector, a phase and magnitude calculator, and a static phase offset corrector. The dynamic gain and phase offset corrector corrects for dynamic variations in gain and phase offset of the analog front-end due to changes in temperature and/or operating voltage levels. The crosstalk corrector corrects for electrical and/or optical crosstalk associated with the analog front-end. The phase and magnitude calculator calculates phase and magnitude values in dependence on the corrected versions of digital in-phase and quadrature-phase signals received from the analog front-end. The static phase offset corrector corrects for a static phase offset of the optical proximity detector.
US09250711B2
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to generate artificial variants in certain circumstances. Each artificial variant is compared with N-gram data on the handheld electronic device and is suppressed from being output if the artificial variant is determined to have a low probability of being the input intended by a user.
US09250710B2
A device with a user interface includes a display screen, input keys, and a controller that is configured to control the display screen to display a three by three matrix of fields wherein each of the fields may contain a symbol, and wherein the controller is further interfaced with a number of the input keys, for example four selection keys or eight selection keys, in such a way that one of the symbols is selected by operation of at least one of these selection keys and some of the symbols are selected by simultaneous operation of two or more of the selection keys.
US09250708B2
A combination of a stylus and a keyboard. A collapsible keyboard portion is coupled to a stylus tip. When in a collapsed state, the apparatus may be used as a stylus, or stored in a receptacle or a user's pocket. When a keyboard is needed, the stylus keyboard may be unrolled or unfolded, and used to control an electronic device via a wireless connection between a transceiver on the stylus keyboard and the electronic device.
US09250707B2
An image display apparatus and a method for operating the same are discussed. According to an embodiment, the method includes recognizing, by the image display apparatus, a specific gesture made with a user's hand as a first gesture; and displaying, on a screen of the display, a menu at a position of the screen corresponding to the position of the user's hand according to the recognized first gesture.
US09250701B2
A flexible portable device including a display unit for displaying an image, a communication unit for performing communication with an external device, a sensor unit for sensing user input or an environment of the flexible portable device, and a control unit for controlling the flexible portable device and the units of the flexible portable device. Further, the sensor unit includes a motion sensor unit for sensing motion of the flexible portable device and/or motion with respect to the flexible portable device, the flexible portable device has at least one flexible area which is bendable, and the motion sensor unit is located at a first area at which influence on the motion sensor unit when the flexible area is bent is avoided or minimized.
US09250699B2
A transmissive display apparatus includes an operation section that detects an operational input issued through an operation surface, an image output section for the left eye and an image output section for the right eye that output predetermined image light, an image pickup section that visually presents the predetermined image light in an image pickup area that transmits externally incident light, a sensor that outputs a signal according to a positional relationship between the operation surface and the image pickup area, and a determination section that detects overlap between an optical image of the operation surface that has passed through the image pickup area and the predetermined image in the image pickup area based on the signal according to the positional relationship and receives the operational input when the optical image of the operation surface overlaps with the predetermined image.
US09250692B2
A method includes providing, in a data processing device including a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a capability to interface a microprocessor with the GPU, and communicatively interfacing a sensor with the microprocessor. The method also includes obtaining data related to an operating environment external to the data processing device through the sensor, and determining, through the microprocessor, personalization required of a computing environment of the data processing device with respect to a user thereof based on the data related to the operating environment external to the data processing device. Further, the method includes utilizing the GPU solely to effect the personalization required of the computing environment of the data processing device with respect to the user determined through the microprocessor to reduce power consumption through the data processing device.
US09250689B2
A control server selects part of nodes included in a first communication network, generates a second communication network from the selected nodes, determines a forwarding probability of a packet between a node and its next hop node in the second communication network to calculate a communication volume between at least one pair of nodes included in the second communication network with respect to a prescribed traffic using the determined forwarding probability, and calculates a link cost for at least one pair of nodes included in the second communication network based on the determined forwarding probability and the calculated communication volume, adds at least one node included in the first communication network to the second communication network so that the calculated link cost satisfies a prescribed condition, and puts nodes not included in the second communication network in a low power consumption mode.
US09250688B2
Examples are disclosed for adaptive graphics subsystem power and performance management including adjusting one or more power management or performance attributes for a graphics subsystem for a computing platform based on a comparison of a current quality metric to a target quality metric. The current and target quality metric to be separately determined based on current and target quality of service (QoS) values for power management and performance for at least portions of the computing platform.
US09250681B2
A system and method for improving power consumption by providing the ability to detect whether a cover is placed on top of Infrared, IR, touch device. While the cover is in the open state, a certain amount of the light transmitted by the IR transmitters is directed upward and away from the IR receivers in the device. When the cover is closed, this light is reflected off of the cover and is incident on the IR receivers. The system of the present invention recognizes this increased level of received IR light and determines that the cover is in a closed position. Having made such a determination that the cover is placed on the device, the device's power savings system can switch to an appropriate power saving mode.
US09250660B2
A mobile device having a HOME button with integrated user biometric sensing comprises a casing, a touchscreen, a HOME button and a camera/scanner module. The touchscreen is mounted on the casing and simultaneously acts as a display panel and a touch-sensitive digitizing input pad. The HOME button is mounted on the casing, and at least a portion of the HOME button is formed of an optically transparent material forming an aperture or lens for transmitting optical images through the HOME button. The camera/scanner module is disposed below the HOME button adjacent the aperture, and includes a housing, a lens, a photo sensor and signal wires which operatively connect the scanner/camera module to sensing/security circuitry disposed within the casing. When a user presses the HOME button with a fingertip, the lens array focuses an image of a fingerprint from the top surface of the HOME button onto the photo sensor.
US09250655B2
The illustrative embodiments described herein provide an apparatus and method for changing a display mode. The apparatus includes a graphical user interface having one of a set of display modes. The set of display modes include a passive matrix display mode and an active matrix display mode. The apparatus also includes a switch capable of changing the display mode of the graphical user interface from one display mode to another display mode in the set of display modes.
US09250651B2
An electronic device with folded display (500) is disclosed. The electronic device (500) includes: a housing (502) including a front surface (506), a rear surface (508) and edge surface (510); a flexible display (504); a controller (512) coupled to the housing (502) and flexible display (504), the controller (512) configured to control the operations of an electronic device; and the flexible display (504) extending along the front surface (506) and along at least one edge surface (510), forming a fold area (514) where the front surface (506) and the at least one edge surface (510) meet, such that the flexible display (504) includes multiple display surfaces. Advantageously, this structure can provide an enhanced electronic device with multiple displays and/or user interfaces and is adapted for mass production.
US09250649B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may comprise a plurality of slots each configured to receive a modular information handling system, a plurality of air movers each configured to cool at least one modular information handling system disposed in at least one of the plurality slots, and a chassis management controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of slots and the plurality of air movers and configured to display a recommended placement of modular information handling systems in the plurality of slots based on at least one of: identities of slots populated with modular information handling systems, an airflow ranking of the plurality of slots, an impedance ranking of information handling systems disposed in the slots, and a workload of each of the information handling systems disposed in the slots.
US09250622B2
A system and method for operating a smart service robot includes: an integrated control server for storing and managing a plurality of service applications and providing a relevant service application according to a service application request from an intelligent service robot; and the intelligent service robot for requesting a specific service application from the integrated control server and downloading the application in order to provide a corresponding service. Accordingly, when a user using the intelligent service robot needs an application which is related to the operation of the intelligent service robot and which is for a specific purpose, the application for the specific purpose is easily downloaded online in order to be applied to the intelligent service robot of the user. Thus, the services that the robot provides are optimized for certain purposes and used.
US09250617B2
According to an embodiment, a smoothing device includes an acquiring unit, a determining unit, and selecting unit. The acquiring unit acquires weather information of a plurality of operation areas. A facility device that performs environmental control according to a control value resulting from operation based on the weather information is installed in each of the operation areas. The determining unit determines whether or not an amount of change in weather exceeds a predetermined first threshold in each of the operation areas. The selecting unit selects at least one first operation area that is an operation area in which the amount of change exceeds the first threshold as a halt area for which the operation of the control value used by the facility device installed in the first operation area is halted when the number of first operation areas exceeds a predetermined second threshold.
US09250616B2
A process control system that controls an industrial process implemented in a plant, may include: a network provided in the plant; a first field device that is connected to the network, the first field device being configured to output one of measurement data, which is obtained by measuring a state quantity in the industrial process, and first simulation data, which simulates the state quantity; a controller that is connected to the network, the controller being configured to perform control in response to one of the measurement data and the first simulation data output from the first field device; and a simulator configured to generate the first simulation data to be output from the first field device.
US09250614B2
A motor control apparatus includes a state quantity detector configured to output a detection signal in correspondence with a state quantity of a motor, a vibration detection unit configured to detect a disturbance vibration component of the motor based on a torque instruction and the detection signal and output a vibrational component signal in correspondence with the detection result, a speed signal generator configured to generate a speed signal based on a result of subtracting the vibration component signal from the detection signal, and a speed controller configured to generate the torque instruction based on a deviation between a speed instruction and the speed signal.
US09250610B2
A split collet in which the contour of the central opening that is intended to receive a balance staff is not circular. The collet is characterized in that the contour (3) of the central opening (2) comprises a limited number of supporting parts (4, 5, 12, 14, 15) intended to co-operate with the balance shaft, said number being greater than two.
US09250608B2
An image forming apparatus includes a casing having a cover which is moved between a closed position and an open position, a process unit which is removably mounted to the casing via an opening of the casing and includes a handle, and an interlocking mechanism which moves the process unit in interlocking with a movement of the cover between the closed position and the open position to cause the process unit to be located at an internal position when the cover is located at the closed position and cause the process unit to be located at an extraction position when the cover is located at the open position. The handle is moved in interlocking with a movement of the process unit between an accommodation position when the process unit is located at the internal position and an ejection position when the process unit is located at the extraction position.
US09250605B2
A process unit includes a first shaft portion at a first end of a photoreceptor drum that is fitted into a hole of a first receiving portion so as to move the photoreceptor drum from a front side of a mounting space to the inside of the mounting space. The photoreceptor drum is temporarily supported by a repulsive force of a cleaning blade and positioned in a predetermined position in the mounting space. Then, in order to cause a lock member to support a second shaft portion at a second end of the photoreceptor drum, the lock member is retracted against a biasing force of a biasing member. The second shaft portion at the second end of the photoreceptor drum is supported by the lock member by a restoring force of the biasing member, so that the photoreceptor drum is locked in a mounted state.
US09250603B2
A developing cartridge includes: a housing having first and second sidewalls through which respective end portions of a developing roller shaft are rotatably inserted; a developing gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which is fixed to the end portion of the developing roller shaft; a transmission gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which transmits driving force to the developing gear; a first cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the transmission gear; and a second cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the developing gear from an outer side in the axis line direction. The second cover member is formed separately from the first cover member and is arranged side by side with the first cover member outside of the first sidewall.
US09250589B1
A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, a heat source, a moving member and a biasing member. The moving member is movable between a first position where the moving member blocks the radiant heat from the heat source to the fixing belt and a second position where the moving member does not block the radiant heat from the heat source to the fixing belt. The biasing member biases the moving member to the first position. The moving member moves from the first position to the second position by a friction force between the fixing belt and the moving member against a biasing force of the biasing member when the fixing belt is rotated. The moving member moves from the second position to the first position by the biasing force of the biasing member when a rotation of the fixing belt is stopped.
US09250578B2
An image forming apparatus includes first and second rollers forming an image fixing nip, the second roller being disposed below the first roller; a casing accommodating the first and second rollers and having a sheet introduction opening and a sheet discharge opening; a suppression portion provided at a position, away by not less than 0.5 mm and not more than 3.5 mm, from a surface of the first roller in a space extending from the sheet introduction opening to the sheet discharge opening and configured to suppress scattering of particles of predetermined particle sizes resulting from the parting material adjacent the sheet introduction opening; and a substantially closed chamber provided above the casing and having an entrance for permitting entering of the particles guided to the outside of the casing by the suppression portion to stagnate the particles.
US09250576B2
It has been difficult to ensure satisfactory secondary transfer performance while ensuring satisfactory primary transfer performance by passing a current in the circumferential direction of an intermediate transfer belt from a current supply member.To satisfy a relationship of Rv>Rs, where Rv is resistance in the thickness direction of an intermediate transfer belt and Rs is resistance in the circumferential direction of the intermediate transfer belt over the distance between an image carrier located most upstream and an image carrier located most downstream in the movement direction of the intermediate transfer belt.
US09250574B2
In a constitution in which a power source exclusively for primary transfer is omitted and a predetermined voltage is generated in an intermediary transfer member by a constant-voltage element, a high power source voltage more than necessary is applied in order to avoid primary transfer defect, so that a transfer member is deteriorated by energization in some cases. By detecting a current flowing into the constant-voltage element, it becomes possible to obtain a minimum power source voltage at which the intermediary transfer member is capable of maintaining a predetermined voltage, so that it is possible to avoid the energization deterioration of the transfer member.
US09250567B2
A developer container including a frame configured to define a developer containing portion, a first electrode, and a second electrode arranged on a surface of the frame and having a surface opposed to the first electrode, a developer amount in the developer containing portion being detected based on a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09250564B2
A developing device includes a developer bearing member that bears a developer on its surface to supply the developer to an image bearing member having a first dielectric portion and a second dielectric portion in its surface, a regulating member that regulates a thickness of a layer of the developer carried by the developer bearing member, and a flexible sheet-like charging auxiliary member disposed so as to be in contact with the developer bearing member at a position downstream of a contact portion between the developer bearing member and the image bearing member and upstream of a contact portion between the developer bearing member and the regulating member in a rotational direction of the developer bearing member, where the charging auxiliary member charges the developer carried by the developer bearing member. In a triboelectric series, the charging auxiliary member is positioned between the first and second dielectric portions.
US09250563B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that rotates, a latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier, with a developer including a toner and an external additive, a transfer unit that transfers an image developed on the image carrier to a recording material, a cleaning member that cleans a residue remaining on the image carrier after transfer, a supply unit that supplies a developing bias, which has an alternating-current component superimposed on a direct-current component, between the image carrier and the developing unit, and a setting part that increases a peak-to-peak value of the alternating-current component of the developing bias when a non-image region on the image carrier passes a developing region, in comparison to when an image region on the image carrier passes the developing region.
US09250556B2
An image forming apparatus having; an electrostatic latent image support; a charger for charging the electrostatic latent image support; an exposure unit for exposing the electrostatic latent image support with a light beam to form an electrostatic latent image; a development unit for developing the electrostatic latent image into a toner image; a sheet feeding unit for feeding a recording sheet in an image forming operation; a transfer member for transferring the toner image to the recording sheet; a fuser for fusing the toner image onto the recording sheet; and a high-voltage power supply circuit for, in an image forming operation, applying a plurality of bias voltages at least to the charger and to the development unit, wherein the high-voltage power supply circuit supplies a high voltage only to the charger in an operation in an ion generation mode so as to cause the charger to generate ions.
US09250553B2
A liquid developer includes a carrier liquid having insulation property, colored particles, and an organic high molecular compound. The organic high molecular compound is dissolved in the carrier liquid. The organic high molecular compound includes elastomer A that is a styrene-butadiene-based elastomer not having an acid group or a basic group and elastomer B that is a styrene-based elastomer having an acid group or a basic group. A content of the elastomer A in the liquid developer is 6% by mass or more and 8% by mass or less, and a content of the elastomer B in the liquid developer is 0.4% by mass or more and 0.8% by mass or less. The colored particles include aniline black.
US09250551B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner is manufactured by mixing an aqueous medium dispersion liquid (X) containing negatively chargeable toner cores and an aqueous medium dispersion liquid (Y) containing positively chargeable resin particulates, followed by stirring the mixture liquid to form shell layers each on a surface of the toner cores with the resin particulates. The shell layers are formed with the resin particulates subjected to a stirring treatment together with an anionic surfactant.
US09250543B2
In a substrate stage, when a Y coarse movement stage moves in the Y-axis direction, an X coarse movement stage, a weight cancellation device, and an X guide move integrally in the Y-axis direction with the Y coarse movement stage, and when the X coarse movement stage moves in the X-axis direction on the Y coarse movement stage, the weight cancellation device moves on the X guide in the X-axis direction integrally with the X coarse movement stage. Because the X guide is provided extending in the X-axis direction while covering the movement range of the weight cancellation device in the X-axis direction, the weight cancellation device is constantly supported by the X guide, regardless of its position. Accordingly, a substrate can be guided along the XY plane with good accuracy.
US09250542B2
According to one embodiment, a method includes preliminarily measuring the amount of overlay or alignment shift of the mark for overlay or alignment measurement while sequentially shifting a position of a measurement area relative to the mark for overlay or alignment measurement so as to position the mark for overlay or alignment measurement on each of a plurality of partial areas. The measurement area corresponds to a field angle of the optical measurement system, and an inside of the measurement area is two-dimensionally divided into the partial areas. The method includes calculating a tool-induced shift regarding a characteristic deviation of the optical measurement system for each of the plurality of partial areas based on a preliminarily measured result of the amount of overlay or alignment shift. The method includes determining a partial area to be used from among the plurality of partial areas on the basis of the tool-induced shift calculated for each of the plurality of partial areas.
US09250539B2
An exposure apparatus includes a light source, a mask and a blind. The light source is disposed over a substrate. The light source cyclically radiates light. The mask is disposed between the light source and the substrate. The mask includes an exposure region and a peripheral region. The peripheral region surrounds the exposure region. A pattern is formed in the exposure region. A plurality of first alignment marks is disposed in the peripheral region. The blind is disposed between the light source and the mask. The blind includes a blocking plate and an adjusting part. The blocking part may move across the substrate. The blocking plate includes second alignment marks disposed at end portions of the blocking plate, opposite to each other. The adjusting part adjusts a position of the blocking plate.
US09250535B2
Methods and systems for determining a source shape, a mask shape and a target shape for a lithography process are disclosed. One such method includes receiving source, mask and target constraints and formulating an optimization problem that is based on the source, mask and target constraints and incorporates contour-based assessments for the target shape that are based on physical design quality of a circuit. Further, the optimization problem is solved by integrating over process condition variations to simultaneously determine the source shape, the mask shape and the target shape. In addition, the determined source shape and mask shape are output.
US09250529B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a photoresist polymer and a fluoropolymer. In one embodiment, the fluoropolymer comprises a first monomer having a pendant group selected from alicyclic bis-hexafluoroisopropanol and aryl bis-hexafluoroisopropanol and preferably a second monomer selected from fluorinated styrene and fluorinated vinyl ether. The invention composition has improved receding contact angles with high refractive index hydrocarbon fluids used in immersion lithography and, thereby, provides improved performance in immersion lithography.
US09250527B2
An imageable material can be used to form a mask image for providing a relief image. This imageable material has a simplified structure and consists essentially of, in order: a transparent polymeric carrier sheet and a barrier layer comprising a first infrared radiation absorbing compound. A first ultraviolet radiation absorbing compound is provided in the transparent polymeric carrier sheet or the barrier layer. A non-silver halide thermally sensitive imageable layer is disposed on the barrier layer and comprises a second infrared radiation absorbing compound and a second ultraviolet radiation absorbing compound. A relief image is formed by imaging the imageable material to form an imaged mask material, exposing a relief-forming material with curing radiation through the imaged mask material to form exposed regions and non-exposed regions, and developing the imaged relief-forming material to form a relief image by removing its non-exposed regions.
US09250525B2
A composition forms a resist underlayer film showing improved adhesiveness to a resist pattern. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography, including: a polymer that has a structure of Formula (1a), Formula (1b), or Formula (2) below on an end of the polymer; and an organic solvent: where R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; each of R2 and R3 is independently a hydrogen atom or an organic group such as a hydrocarbon group, etc., the hydrocarbon group optionally has at least one of a hydroxy group and a methylthio group as substituent(s); R4 is a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy group; Q1 is an arylene group; v is 0 or 1; y is an integer of 1 to 4; w is an integer of 1 to 4; x1 is 0 or 1; and x2 is an integer of 1 to 5.
US09250509B2
A spatial light modulator imaging system is disclosed. The system comprises an illumination module configured to provide illumination light representing data patterns to be imaged by the spatial light modulator imaging system, a projection module configured to project the illumination light to a substrate, and an illumination-projection beam separator coupled between the illumination module and the projection module, where the illumination-projection beam separator is configured to receive the illumination light along an illumination optical axis and transmit the illumination light received to the projection module along a projection optical axis, and where the illumination optical axis and the projection optical axis are substantially parallel to each other.
US09250506B2
An illumination light source device, comprising: a light path junction member which splits light emitted from a light source into a first light path emitting excitation light for phosphor and a second light path irradiating illumination light; a first diffuser disposed in the first light path; and a second diffuser disposed in the second light path, the second diffuser having a diffusion degree larger than that of the first diffuser.
US09250504B2
A light source unit includes a light emitting element supporter to support a plurality of light emitting elements disposed with a dispersed pattern in a two-dimensional direction as a light emitting element assembly, and light emitted from the light emitting element assembly exits to a target. The light emitting element supporter includes a ventilating hole at an inner portion of two dimensional direction of the light emitting element assembly, and cooling air, supplied from a rear side of a light emitting side of the light emitting element assembly, passes through the ventilating hole to the light emitting side of the light emitting element assembly.
US09250500B2
An articulating camera arm permits a camera to be positioned includes multiple sections connected together in series at joints. At least one of the joints is movable, and each of the joints connects one of the sections to an immediately preceding one of the sections. The articulating arm may also be connected to one or both of a camera and a mounting plate via movable joints such as swivel joints. The arm's interior includes a wiring conduit that allows wiring for the camera to pass through it while being protected by the arm.
US09250490B2
To provide a liquid crystal display device having high quality display by obtaining a high aperture ratio while securing a sufficient storage capacitor (Cs), and at the same time, by dispersing a load (a pixel writing-in electric current) of a capacitor wiring in a timely manner to effectively reduce the load. A scanning line is formed on a different layer from a gate electrode and the capacitor wiring is arranged so as to be parallel with a signal line. Each pixel is connected to the individually independent capacitor wiring via a dielectric. Therefore, variations in the electric potential of the capacitor wiring caused by a writing-in electric current of a neighboring pixel can be avoided, whereby obtaining satisfactory display images.
US09250483B2
A display device includes a substrate, a cover layer, liquid crystal, electrodes, and a sealant layer. The cover layer is disposed on the substrate and defines at least a portion of a tunnel-shaped cavity. The liquid crystal is disposed in the tunnel-shaped cavity. The electrodes are disposed on the substrate and are configured to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal. The sealant layer is disposed on the substrate and is configured to seal the tunnel-shaped cavity. The cover layer includes a first insulating layer including a concave-convex surface.
US09250477B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides an array substrate, and the array substrate including: at least a data line and at least a gate line; and a plurality of pixel units defined by the data line and the gate line. Each of the plurality of pixel units includes a thin film transistor, a first electrode and a second electrode, and the first electrode and the second electrode overlap each other and are insulated from each other and the second electrode is positioned above the first electrode. An alignment film is formed on a surface of the array substrate, a direction of the second electrode and one side of the array substrate form a predetermined angle and a rubbing direction of the alignment film is parallel to the one side of the array substrate.
US09250475B2
A liquid crystal display device (100A) of the present invention includes a liquid crystal layer (1) and first and second alignment films (12, 13) which are provided with an alignment treatment. The liquid crystal layer (1) includes, in each of the pixels, a plurality of first small sections (14a) separated by a wall (10) and the first alignment film (12) and a plurality of second small sections (14b) separated by the wall (10) and the second alignment film (13). Each of the plurality of first small sections (14a) has a first liquid crystal region (11a). Each of the plurality of second small sections (14b) has a second liquid crystal region (11b). Each of the first and second liquid crystal regions (11a, 11b) includes a nematic liquid crystal material and a dichromatic dye (21a, 21b). The dichromatic dye (21a) of the first liquid crystal region (11a) is aligned along the alignment direction of the first alignment film (12). The dichromatic dye (21b) of the second liquid crystal region (11b) is aligned along the alignment direction of the second alignment film (13).
US09250474B2
A display substrate for a display device includes: a substrate which includes a light blocking region defining a plurality of pixel areas disposed in a matrix, each pixel area having a length extending in a second direction, and a width extending in a first direction; a color filter overlapping a portion of the each pixel area of the plurality of pixel areas; and an alignment layer disposed on the color filter. the color filter includes a first edge parallel to the second direction, and a second edge forming a predetermined angle with the first edge. The second edge is substantially parallel to an alignment direction of the alignment layer.
US09250467B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing mold for a color filter including: a mold boy provided with an injection hole for overcoat material and having a recess for forming a pad at a side facing color photoresist. The present invention further relates to a manufacturing method for a color filter. The manufacturing method and the corresponding manufacturing mold of the present invention can realize an integral formation of the color filter, so as to solve the technical problems of redundant working processes, troublesome control and low manufacturing efficiency in existing manufacturing method for the color filter.
US09250454B2
A method and a system is provided for configuring a device for correcting the effect of a medium on a light signal having propagated through the medium, the device including at least one optical element whose phase profiles are individually adjustable. The configuring system and method include propagating a reference signal and a disordered signal obtained at the output of the medium through the correcting device. An interference parameter is measured and optimized by modifying the phase profile of each of the optical elements of the correcting device. A method and a system is also provided for correcting the effect of a medium on a light signal having propagated through the medium.
US09250452B1
An photonic RF circulator is described that provides greater than 40 db of isolation between a Received RF signal and a Transmitted RF signal in a simultaneous transmit and receive device. The photonic RF circulator uses light modulated in an optical waveguide grating where the Received RF signal co-propagates with the light and the Transmitted RF signal counter-propagates with the light. Variations described within provide for broadening the bandwidth of the T/R isolation and rejection of various noise sources.
US09250445B2
A multiple-pixel-beam retinal display (MPBRD) system comprises a near-eye or on-eye display system which delivers any one or more of 2D or 3D images or data to at least one of a user's retinas using a bundle of simultaneously—and differently—statically directed light beams. Each individual beam is of low or no divergence and each angularly fixed beam of the bundle originates from a different corresponding source-image pixel and is delivered through a display-system exit aperture each at static, fixed angles. The bundle of differently statically directed, individually low- or no-divergence pixel beams can be overlaid upon a user's eye-entrance pupil.
US09250443B2
Disclosed are a head-mounted display apparatus and a contents display method. The head-mounted display apparatus includes: a mobile device tracing information processing unit for receiving position information or orientation information of a mobile device and generating tracing information of the mobile device based on the received position information or orientation information of the mobile device; a gesture processing unit for receiving input information of the mobile device and generating gesture information to change an output format of contents by using the received input information; a rendering unit for generating a predetermined virtually augmented contents image based on the tracing information of the mobile device and the gesture information; and a display unit for displaying the generated virtually augmented contents image.
US09250439B2
A light scanning device includes: a first semiconductor laser 44a that emits a light beam L1; a polygonal mirror 42 that deflects the light beam L1; a reflective mirror 64a that reflects the light beam L1 deflected by the polygonal mirror 42 and causes the light beam L1 to enter a photosensitive drum 13; and a BD sensor 72 that detects the light beam L1 deflected by the polygonal mirror 42. The light scanning device scans the photosensitive drum 13 with the light beam L1 and set scanning timing of the photosensitive drum 13 using the light beam L1 based on detection timing of the light beam L1 using the BD sensor 72. The BD sensor 72 is arranged in the position farther from the polygonal mirror 42 than the last reflective mirror 64a that reflects the light beam L1 immediately before entering the photosensitive drum 13 and arranged inside a scanning angle range α of the light beam L1 corresponding to an effective scan area of the photosensitive drum 13.
US09250432B2
A microscope illumination system includes a first light source configured to provide light along an optical axis and an aperture device including an aperture wheel that is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The aperture wheel includes a plurality of apertures of varying size disposed circumferentially on the aperture wheel. The aperture wheel is rotatable so as to dispose each of the apertures in a position that is centered on the optical axis so as to generate an illumination beam path that extends in a centered relationship with respect to the optical axis, and so as to dispose each of the apertures in a position that is off-center from the optical axis and that is within a defined region around the optical axis so as to generate an illumination beam path that extends off-center from the optical axis for oblique incident illumination.
US09250426B2
Provided is a zoom lens, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: first to fifth lens units having positive, negative, positive, positive, and negative refractive powers, respectively. During zooming, the first, third, and fifth lens units are immovable, and the second and fourth lens units are moved. The fifth lens unit includes a partial unit (L5n) having a negative refractive power, and a partial unit (L5p) having a positive refractive power. An entire lens length (TL), a focal length (ft) of an entire system at a telephoto end, a focal length (f2) of the second lens unit, a focal length (f4) of the fourth lens unit, and a focal length (f5n) of the partial unit (L5n) are set appropriately.
US09250423B2
A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, includes a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; a third lens unit having positive optical power; a fourth lens unit having negative optical power, and a subsequent lens unit. The first lens unit includes a negative lens element and a positive lens element. In the zoom lens system, the conditions: 1.47
US09250414B2
Disclosed is a lens driving apparatus. The lens driving apparatus includes a base formed at a center thereof with a first opening; a housing coupled with the base and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening; a yoke installed on the base and including a horizontal plate having a third opening corresponding to the first opening and a vertical plate protruding upward from the horizontal plate; a bobbin movably installed in the yoke and coupled with a lens module; a coil fixedly disposed around the bobbin; a plurality of magnets provided at the vertical plate of the yoke to face the coil; and a spring installed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the yoke to return the bobbin, which has moved up due to interaction between the magnet and the coil, to its initial position.
US09250412B2
A lens device includes a first barrel surrounding an optical axis, a first frame coupled rotatably to the first barrel and surrounding a first axis, and an adjusting unit. The adjusting unit has an adjusting groove formed in one of the first barrel and the first frame, and having adjusting groove segments, one of which extends spirally. The adjusting unit further has adjusting blocks formed on the other one of the first barrel and the first frame and engaging respectively and slidably the adjusting grooves. The first frame is rotatable relative to the first barrel to adjust the first axis relative to the optical axis.
US09250407B2
The present disclosure relates to a cable sealing device (30) for providing a seal about a cable (88, 90). The cable sealing device (30) includes a cable seal arrangement (38) that is pressurized to seal the cable (88, 90). The cable sealing device (30) includes an autonomous containment structure (92F, 92R, 56) for laterally and axially containing the sealing arrangement (38). The autonomous containment structure (92F, 92R, 56) includes a moveable portion (92F, 92R) that is moved to an actuated position to pressurize the cable seal arrangement (38). The cable sealing device (30) also includes a retention mechanism (129) for retaining the moveable portion (92F, 92R) in the actuated position. The autonomous containment structure (92F, 92R, 56) further includes an autonomous perimeter casing (56) mounted over the sealing arrangement (38) for laterally containing the cable sealing arrangement (38) such that the cable sealing arrangement (38) remains pressurized when the moveable portion (92F, 92R) is in the actuated position independent of whether the cable sealing device (30) is mounted within an enclosure (20). The cable sealing device (30) has a wrap-around configuration for allowing a cable (88, 90) to be laterally inserted into the cable sealing device (30).
US09250406B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for routing signals of an electro-optical assembly using a glass bridge. In one embodiment, an electro-optical assembly includes a laser die having a laser device and a glass bridge electrically coupled with the laser die by one or more interconnect structures, the glass bridge including electrical routing features configured to route electrical signals to the laser die from a transmitter device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09250402B2
A pluggable optical transceiver is disclosed. The optical transceiver provides a pull-tab assembled with a body of the transceiver. The pull-tab comprises a pair of arms and a handle. The arms in an end portion thereof each provides a leg set in a guide formed in the body. Sliding the pull-tab to disengage the optical transceiver from the cage, the leg is slid within the guide to push the end portion of the arm outwardly. The handle provides in an end thereof a bar including a slope. The optical fiber pulled out from the optical connector set in the optical receptacle of the transceiver rides on the slope even when the transceiver is set in the cage by the upside-down arrangement.
US09250400B2
An optical receptacle includes a cylindrical optical fiber attaching section for attaching an end portion of an optical fiber by insertion; a cylindrical photoelectric conversion device attaching section that includes an inner circumferential surface into which a photoelectric conversion device having a light-receiving element is inserted and for attaching the photoelectric conversion device with an adhesive that is interposed within an annular adhesion space; and a lens for optically coupling the end portion of the optical fiber and the light-emitting element, and the lens is a Fresnel lens in which a second face that faces the light-receiving element includes a convex face.
US09250397B2
An optical connector comprising a connector body, an enclosure that is a slit-shaped hole formed from one surface of the connector body into the connector body and accommodates a sheet-like optical waveguide with a tip of the optical waveguide abutting against a bottom of the hole, and a pressing section that is provided on a first surface of the enclosure facing a sheet surface of the enclosed optical waveguide and presses the enclosed optical waveguide toward a second surface of the enclosure facing the first surface so as to bring the enclosed optical waveguide into contact with the second surface.
US09250396B2
An optical coupling device includes a first and a second body. The first body receives first optical fibers. The first body has a first body optical surface and a first body partial top surface. First lenses are positioned on the first body optical surface. The second body receives second optical fibers. The second body has a second body optical surface and a second body partial top surface. Second lenses are positioned on the second body optical surface. Flexible connecting members connect the first body optical surface to the second body optical surface. When the coupling device is in a closed position, the first body partial top surface is in substantial contact with the second body partial top surface. When the coupling device is in an open position, the first body optical surface is opposite to the second body optical surface aligning the first lenses with the second lenses.
US09250390B2
An optical delivery waveguide for a material laser processing system includes a small lens at an output end of the delivery waveguide, transforming laser beam divergence inside the waveguide into a spot size after the lens. By varying the input convergence angle and/or launch angle of the laser beam launched into the waveguide, the output spot size can be continuously varied, thus enabling a continuous and real-time laser spot size adjustment on the workpiece, without having to replace the delivery waveguide or a process head. A divergence of the laser beam can also be adjusted dynamically and in concert with the spot size.
US09250388B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and configurations for an optical device having a semiconductor layer to propagate light and a mirror disposed inside the semiconductor layer and having echelle grating reflective surface to substantially totally internally reflect the propagating light inputted by one or more input waveguides, to be received by one or more output waveguides. The waveguides may be disposed in the semiconductor layer under a determined angle relative to the mirror reflective surface. The determined angle may be equal to or greater than a total internal reflection angle corresponding to the interface, to provide substantially total internal reflection of light by the mirror. The mirror may be formed by an interface of the semiconductor layer comprising the mirror reflective surface and another medium filling the mirror, such as a dielectric. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09250380B2
A backlight module includes a light guide plate, at least one light source, and a reflective plate. The light source is configured for emitting light toward the light guide plate. The reflective plate has a plurality of reflective units arranging along a curved direction. Each of the reflective units includes a body and a plurality of microstructures. The body has a main surface facing the light guide plate. The plurality of microstructures are disposed on the main surface of the body. Each of the microstructures has a reflective surface. A first angle is included between the reflective surface of each of the microstructures and the main surface of the body. The first angles of the microstructures in one reflective unit are different from the first angles of the microstructures in an adjacent reflective unit.
US09250377B2
A light guide plate includes a plate body and a supporting unit. The plate body has a light-exiting face and a lateral side, wherein the supporting unit is disposed along the lateral side. The supporting unit has a top surface and an outer lateral surface, the top surface is above the light-exiting face, the lateral surface protrudes from an end surface of the lateral side of the plate body, wherein a portion of the end surface away from the light-exiting face is exposed to form a recess. A backlight module includes the light guide plate mentioned above and a back plate having the light guide plate disposed thereon. A periphery of the back plate has a side wall formed thereon and extending into the recess. A display device includes the above light guide plate and a display panel.
US09250373B2
In an optical system, first green light reflected by a first diffractive optical element propagates in a left direction by repeating total reflection within a first light guide unit, is reflected by a third diffractive optical element, and is guided to a left eye. First red light reflected by a fifth diffractive optical element propagates in a left direction by repeating total reflection within a second light guide unit, is reflected by a seventh diffractive optical element, and is guided to a left eye. First blue light reflected by a ninth diffractive optical element is reflected by an eleventh diffractive optical element, and is guided to a left eye.
US09250371B2
An anti-reflective film includes a polarizing film and a compensation film, where the polarizing film includes a polymer, and a plurality of dichroic dyes having an absorption wavelength region in a range from about 380 nanometers to about 780 nanometers, and a reflective color of the anti-reflective film is substantially in a range of −5≦a*≦5 and −5≦b*≦5 in CIE-Lab color coordinates.
US09250366B2
A display structure is provided. The display structure includes a first substrate, a pixel array, a second substrate and an optical component. The pixel array is disposed on the first substrate. Each of pixels of the pixel array includes a light-transparent region and a non-light-transparent region. The second substrate is disposed on the pixel array. The optical component has a microlens structure. After the light passes through the microlens structure, the light passes directly through the plurality of the light-transparent regions without passing through the edge of the plurality of the non-light-transparent regions.
US09250363B2
A display includes: a laminated wiring with a conductive film arranged on a foundation layer, and a transparent film and a translucent film arranged on the conductive film; a wiring terminal part arranged at an edge portion of the laminated wiring and having the same laminated structure as that of the laminated wiring; and an insulating film that covers the laminated wiring and the wiring terminal part.
US09250355B2
An optical apparatus includes a first beam combining device arranged to receive a first optical beam having a first wavelength at a first location and a second optical beam output having a second wavelength at a second location. The second optical beam has a polarization that is substantially orthogonal to a polarization of the first optical beam. The first beam combining device configured to output a first combined beam that comprises a combination of the first optical beam and the second optical beam. An optical element is arranged to receive the first combined beam and a second combined beam and to transmit an output beam that includes a combination of the first combined beam and the second combined beam.
US09250354B2
A through casing formation evaluation tool string 1000, 2000, 3000 including a conveyance string 100, a sonic array tool 200, a pulsed neutron tool 400 and one or more downhole memory modules 160, 540, 550. A method of through casing formation evaluation and casing and cementing integrity evaluation includes lowering a tool string into a cased wellbore; concurrently collecting data with the sonic array tool and pulsed neutron tool and transmitting at least a portion of the collected data via a conveyance string to a CPU located at the surface of the earth; storing a portion of the collected data in a memory module disposed in the tool string; removing the tool string from the wellbore; processing the collected data in the CPU to obtain selected rock property data about the one or more of the geologic formations and/or cement integrity.
US09250350B2
Sensors, systems and methods for downhole electromagnetic field detection, including a downhole micro-opto-electro-mechanical system (MOEMS) electromagnetic field sensor that includes a first surface that is at least partially reflective, a second surface that is at least partially reflective and suspended by one or more flexible members to define an optical cavity having a variable distance between the first and second surfaces, and a magnetically polarized layer attached to the second surface. A magnetic field passing through the optical cavity interacts with the magnetically polarized layer and a gradient in the magnetic field produces a displacement of the second surface that alters the variable distance and causes a spectrum variation in light exiting the sensor.
US09250346B2
Method for determining geometric characteristics of a hydraulic fracture includes performing a baseline seismic survey for a geological formation. A velocity model is created by combining results of the baseline seismic survey and additional geoscientific information, and seismic properties of the geologic formation are evaluated. At least one strong flat lithological reflector disposed below a planned fracture is identified. A numerical model of elastic wave propagation in the geologic formation with a fracture with given properties is created. Hydraulic fracturing is performed and after fracturing when the fracture is maintained open and pressurized seismic surveys are performed. The fracture's dimensions and shape are determined by comparing the first and the second reflected and refracted seismic signals and solving an inverse problem with the use of the numerical model.
US09250335B2
The present invention provides a radiographic imaging device, a radiographic imaging system, a computer readable medium storing disconnection detection program and a disconnection detection method that may detect disconnected specific signal lines even when the charge amount output from a single pixel is small. Namely, a bias voltage is applied to pixels, and offset charges due to leak current of sensor portions (photodiodes) are accumulated. The gates of pixel TFT switches are switched ON in sequence, and electric signals are output corresponding to the accumulated offset charges. A control section detects a cumulative value of the offset charge amount based on the electric signals. The detected cumulative value is then compared to a predetermined disconnection detection threshold value and disconnected signal lines are detected when the cumulative value is less than the threshold value.
US09250334B2
An X-ray detecting device includes a lower case, a driving circuit substrate on the lower case, an X-ray detection panel connected with the driving circuit substrate, the X-ray detection panel being adapted to detect X-rays applied from the outside by converting the X-rays into electricity, a touch panel on the X-ray detection panel, and an upper case on the touch panel. The driving circuit substrate is provided with a driving circuit. The driving circuit is electrically connected with the X-ray detection panel and the touch panel and is adapted to control the driving of the X-ray detection panel and the touch panel.
US09250331B2
A method and apparatus for providing mapping data in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives coordinate data from a customer mobile endpoint device, and processes the coordinate data against at least one existing map. The method then identifies a route associated with the coordinate data as a candidate new route if the route is not previously known on the at least one existing map.
US09250329B2
The present invention relates to devices and methods for tracking movement in a marine environment. At least one tracking device that is adapted to be deployed on a surface of the water, wherein the tracking device is capable of moving along the same trajectory of a desired object. Data from the tracking devices are received by at least one satellite, transmitted to a database, and used to determine the forecasted trajectory of the desired object. All data collected from deployed tracking devices may be integrated into a spatial data repository for analysis and reporting using GIS and associated information technologies, thereby allowing for more accurate decision-making and asset deployment during a fluid spill or similar marine contamination event. The present invention also allows for the collection and modeling of accurate localized sea current data, which may assist with marine and coastal engineering works such as shoreline protection and port dredging.
US09250327B2
An adaptive method by which Differential GNSS corrections may be compressed. Each measurement datum to be transmitted to a rover for satellite navigation purposes is decomposed into two parts, namely, an anchor value and a delta value, and in some instances an added third part termed a nonce value is used. Encoding parameters such as the number of bits assigned to each part of the measurement datum, the order of the models used to convey positional data, and scaling constants in the models, are adjusted adaptively based on changing data and/or transmission medium characteristics. Adaptive compression also allows for anomalous conditions such as out-of-range data values to be handled gracefully.
US09250322B2
A signal processor performs a signal transform of a signal, and comprises a signal demodulator for demodulating said signal by a first chirp signal having a first chirp rate to obtain a reduced bandwidth chirped signal, a filter for filtering the reduced bandwidth chirped signal and delaying the reduced bandwidth chirped signal by an interval proportional to a reciprocal of said first chirp rate, a signal modulator for modulating said filtered signal by a second chirp signal having a second chirp rate to obtain an increased bandwidth chirped signal and to provide a time domain output spectrum of said signal, and wherein each of said first chirp signal and said second chirp signal is a complex signal representing a linear frequency modulated chirp.
US09250315B2
Apparatus and methods for assisting collision avoidance between a vehicle and an object include receiving an acoustic signal from the object using microphones supported by the vehicle, and determining a location of the object using the acoustic signal and an acoustic model of the environment, the environment including a structure that blocks a direct view of the object from the vehicle.
US09250304B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus and control method for comparing a sound generated from the bore of the MRI apparatus to a pulse sequence sound to adjust the output level of a sound output unit located in an operating room and thus permit a patient to be heard by an operator when an emergency situation or other information is expressed by the patient. The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus includes: a sound input unit; a sound output unit configured to output a sound acquired by the sound input unit; and a controller configured to compare the acquired sound to a sound of a pulse sequence stored in advance, and to increase the output level of the sound output unit if the acquired sound is not identical to the sound of the pulse sequence.
US09250303B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a magnetic resonance data acquisition unit and a cerebrospinal fluid image data generation unit. The magnetic resonance data acquisition unit consecutively acquires a plurality of magnetic resonance data for generating a plurality of cerebrospinal fluid image data, each corresponding to a different data acquisition time, after a labeling pulse is applied. The cerebrospinal fluid image data generation unit generates the plurality of cerebrospinal fluid image data based on the plurality of magnetic resonance data.
US09250300B2
A mobile device includes a magnetometer. The mobile device is calibrated during application usage by sampling magnetic information received from the magnetometer, recognizing an initial controller orientation signal derived from a first sample of a plurality of samples of the magnetic information and from directional offset data, calculating updated directional offset data based on the plurality of samples of the magnetic information and on the directional offset data, and deriving a calibrated controller orientation signal from a second sample of the plurality of samples of the magnetic information and the updated directional offset data.
US09250293B2
A system and a method for capacitive testing a component (including a packaged component) are disclosed. An embodiment of a test head comprises a holding unit configured to pick-up, hold and release the component, an electrode configured to receive a capacitive signal from the component and a preamplifier configured to amplify the capacitive signal.
US09250291B2
A cartridge, including a cartridge frame, formations on the cartridge frame for mounting the cartridge frame in a fixed position to an apparatus frame, a contactor support structure, a contactor interface on the contactor support structure, a plurality of terminals, held by the contactor support structure, for contacting contacts on a device, and a plurality of conductors, held by the contactor support structure, connecting the interface to the terminals.
US09250286B2
A method performed using a resistive device, where the resistive device includes a substrate with an active region separated from a gate electrode by a dielectric and electrical contacts along a longest dimension of the gate electrode, the method comprising, performing one or more processes to form the resistive device, measuring a resistance between the electrical contacts, and correlating the measured resistance with a variation in one or more of the processes.
US09250285B2
Detection and location of electrical faults in a network of metal structures which can receive electric cables and allow return of current by the cables. The reflectometry-based method involves injecting a probe signal into a cable coupled to the structures and analyzing the signal reflected by the anomalies. A conductive element is provided for carrying the probe signal at a constant distance from each structure. In one aspect, an insulated conductive element is arranged inside the metal structure and is built into a longitudinal groove in a surface for receiving a longitudinal plastic holder wedged into the structure. The reflected signal from the conductive element is compared to a threshold above which an anomaly is detected, and the anomaly is located by topological correlation. The invention is useful for airplane raceways having a composite skin.
US09250280B2
Technologies are generally described for multi-resolution based power spectral density estimation. According to some examples, a first power spectral density (PSD) of a signal may be computed to determine a first frequency resolution and a first error variance (EV) value associated with the PSD. The first PSD may be computed using fewer segments of the signal to achieve a higher resolution. The higher resolution is associated with a higher EV because of the fewer segments used for the computation of the first PSD. Next, a second PSD may be computed using the signal while sampling more segments to determine second resolution and EV. The second PSD may be associated with a lower EV because of the additional segments used for the computing of the second PSD. Missing frequency variables of the second PSD may be determined using the first resolution and the second EV through an expectation maximization technique.
US09250279B2
A measuring system for measuring signal characteristics on a node is disclosed. The measuring system includes a contact measuring unit including a probe for contacting the node to fetch a signal on the node, an output interface, a plurality of capacitors coupled between the probe and the output interface where a capacitance of each capacitor corresponds to a frequency range, and a protection circuit, of which one terminal coupled between the probe and the output interface and the other terminal coupled to a ground terminal, and a frequency analyzer coupled to the output interface for displaying information of amplitude vs. frequency of a signal outputted from the output interface to measure the signal characteristic on the node.
US09250277B1
A high resolution, high reliability, magnetically coupled, linear position sensor (50) provides a means of determining the position of an object (51) using a methodology that does not require a direct mechanical or physical connection between the sensor (50) and the object (53) whose position is to be determined. The sensor (50) can operate in a high temperature, high pressure fluid with exposure to moderate levels of radioactivity. The sensor (50) utilizes dual rod elements with a magnetically coupled bridging contact slider (51) supported by a ceramic guide all of which are contained within a non magnetic pressure housing. The topology of the sensor (50) supports at least two types of measurement techniques, Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) as well as linear resistive to determine target (51) position.
US09250275B2
Activity sensing in the home has a variety of important applications, including healthcare, entertainment, home automation, energy monitoring and post-occupancy research studies. Many existing systems for detecting occupant activity require large numbers of sensors, invasive vision systems, or extensive installation procedures. Disclosed is an approach that uses a single plug-in sensor to detect a variety of electrical events throughout the home. This sensor detects the electrical noise on residential power lines created by the abrupt switching of electrical devices and the noise created by certain devices while in operation. Machine learning techniques are used to recognize electrically noisy events such as turning on or off a particular light switch, a television set, or an electric stove. The system has been tested to evaluate system performance over time and in different types of houses. Results indicate that various electrical events can be learned and classified with accuracies ranging from 85-90%.
US09250273B2
A current sensor includes: a current bar through which a current flows; a first cover that covers the current bar and includes a cutout portion formed in at least a part thereof; a magnetic substance core that covers at least parts of the current bar and the first cover and includes a gap; a magnetic field measuring element located in the gap; and a second cover that covers the magnetic substance core and the magnetic field measuring element and at least parts of the current bar and the first cover, and is located so that a side surface thereof engages with the cutout portion of the first cover.
US09250271B2
Embodiments relate to a direct voltage sensor and a charge pump system for a computer system. A charge pump that supplies switching current for a plurality of transistors includes a capacitor generating a pumped voltage. A comparator generates a pump control signal for turning on and off charging of the pump capacitor based on a difference between a comparison voltage and a reference voltage. A direct voltage sensor receives a feedback signal reflecting the pumped voltage and generates the comparison voltage in response to the feedback signal. The sensor includes a sensor resistor, a current source configured to drive a sensor current through the sensor resistor, and a differential op-amp that drives the sensor current to cause the voltage drop across the sensor resistor to remain constant as the pumped voltage experiences the voltage drop. The charge pump may include two similar direct voltage sensor controlling positive and negative pumped voltages.
US09250265B2
A high-frequency test probe device comprising a contact section (18) which forms an inner contact (40) and an outer contact (44), which is designed to interact with a contact partner (30) that is to be contacted for testing purposes, and which is provided on an inner housing (16) at one end and can be contacted at a pickup end (20) for signal pickup at the other end. The inner housing is guided at least along some sections in an outer housing (10) and in an axially movable manner relative to same.
US09250263B2
A socket is electrically connected to a test carrier. The test carrier includes a film-shaped first member on which at least one internal terminal, which contacts at least one electrode of an electronic device, is provided; and at least one external terminal which is electrically connected to the internal terminal. The socket includes: at least one contactor which contacts the external terminal; and a first pusher which pushes a portion of the first member where the internal terminal is provided and a portion of the first member surrounding the internal terminal. The first pusher includes: a bag member which has a sealed space within the bag member; and a fluid which is housed in the sealed space.
US09250262B1
This invention relates generally to semiconductor manufacturing and packaging and more specifically to semiconductor manufacturing in MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) inertial sensing products. Embodiments of the present invention provide a robust packaging process and a mechanical filter to reduce the mechanical shock from impact. The mechanical filter can be integrated within the package substrate as part of the packaging process, reducing the assembly complexity.
US09250258B2
A sensor array including an electronic control unit and a speed sensor that has at least one sensor element. The speed sensor and the electronic control unit are interconnected by at least one line. The speed sensor includes a signal processing circuit which is designed in such a way as to obtain at least one digital frequency signal from the output signal of the sensor element, the at least one digital frequency signal being encoded in a data item, being stored in at least one first memory unit, and being transmitted to the electronic control unit.
US09250257B2
A method of processing a sample for an assembly line workstation for a body fluid test includes: receiving application information including a sample number; checking a sample of a sample rack to acquire a sample checking result; matching the sample checking result with the sample number to determine if a match succeeds; and if a match is not successful, pausing dispatch of the sample rack.
US09250255B2
A sample analyzer is provided that does not require a plurality of reagent containers containing the same type of reagent to be connected, that can continue measurement even when a reagent container becomes empty, and that allows the timing of replacement of the reagent container to be recognized suitably. A reagent storage section is provided that is connected to a reagent container containing a reagent through a fluid channel and that stores the reagent transferred from the reagent container. A message for prompting replacement of the reagent container is outputted when it is detected that the remaining amount in the reagent container is a predetermined amount or less. A message for prompting to suspend sample measurement in the measurement section is outputted when it is detected that the remaining amount in the reagent storage section is a predetermined amount or less.
US09250251B2
The present description relates to a method for determining the risk of a pregnant woman developing a hypertensive disorder, more specifically gestational hyper-tension or late onset preeclampsia. The present description provides methods useful for determining risk that a pregnant individual will develop a hypertensive disorder or condition of pregnancy, such as gestational hypertension, early preeclampsia, late preeclampsia and related disorders. Several useful combinations of biochemical markers and related clinical population studies are described herein. Additionally, it is proposed herein that certain sets of biochemical markers can be used to determine risk of multiple hypertensive disorders in a single screen. The biochemical markers are PlGF, Activin A and optionally P-Selectin.
US09250241B2
The present invention relates to devices and methods for the measurement of cell traction forces. In particular, the invention is based on the use of a soft substrate with cell adhesive micropatterns.
US09250240B2
Provided herein are immunoreactive peptides which can selectively bind Ehrlichia-specific anti-p120 or anti-p140 antibodies. Methods and kits utilizing the immunoreactive peptides are also provided. The immunoreactive peptides may be utilized, e.g., for determining whether or not a subject is infected with Ehrlichia chaffeensis or Ehrlichia canis. In certain embodiments, the immunoreactive peptides may be utilized in an ELISA or lateral flow assay.
US09250232B2
A compound represented by the formula (I) [R1 represents hydrogen atom or a substituent; R2, R3, R6, and R7 represent hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a halogen atom, or a hydrophilic substituent; R4 and R5 represent an alkyl group or an aryl group; R8 and R9 represent a group cleaved by contact with an object substance for measurement; and X represents silicon atom, germanium atom, or tin atom] or a salt thereof, which is useful as a fluorescent probe that emits red fluorescence by contact with an object substance for measurement.
US09250231B2
The invention provides a method for selecting pharmaceutical compounds that enhance inhibition of mevalonate synthesis in which mesodermal stem cells (MSC type) that are derived from human pluripotent cells or from induced stem cell are contacted with pharmaceutical compounds to be tested in the presence of an inhibitor of mevalonate synthesis. Pharmaceutical compounds are then identified which enhance cell toxicity in the presence of the inhibitors.
US09250230B2
The invention uses induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for screening anti-neoplastic agents by examining the capability of a single agent, compound or drug, or a combination of multiple agents, compounds or drugs, for inhibiting or suppressing one or more neoplastic activities or processes, including aerobic glycolysis and neoplastic anabolism and, thus, inhibiting rapid growth and excessive reproduction of neoplastic cells. Agents, compounds or drugs may also be screened for their potential in inhibiting an invasion and/or migration of neoplastic cells into healthy or normal tissues and/or cells and a metastasis of neoplastic cells into other sites of the body. Anti-neoplastic agents, compounds and/or drugs found through these methods may represent broad-spectrum anti-neoplastic agents, compounds and/or drugs that preferentially target and damage neoplastic tumor or cancer cells but exert limited or minimal harm to normal or healthy cells.
US09250226B2
A method for estimating a greenhouse gas emission from a ruminant in a loose housing environment, and in a predetermined time period from T0 to Tdesired, the method including: determining a model emission rate function EM(t) for the ruminant determining the moments of eating feed by the ruminant, at least during the predetermined time period, as a series of points in time {T1, T2, T3, . . . , Tn} constructing the estimated real emission rate function ER(t) on the basis of the model emission rate function and the moments of eating feed, and integrating ER(t) from T0 to Tdesired. Also provided is a greenhouse gas emission estimation device, arranged to perform this method. In the device and method, use is made of the insight that knowing the eating moments can fine-tune calculations for establishing greenhouse gas emissions from the animals.
US09250224B2
Disclosed is a test apparatus of accelerated photo-degradation measuring a degradation caused by photo-degradation in a material or a product by light containing UV light and visible light that simulate the solar light-inducing degradation. The apparatus includes a light irradiating unit configured to irradiate light using at least one electrodeless plasma lamp; a light condensing unit configured to collect light emitted from the light irradiating unit and irradiate the light uniformly into the surface of the specimen for the material or the product; and a specimen holder configured to fix the specimen, and the specimen holder being fixed at a predetermined position or rotated. Further, the at least one electrodeless plasma lamp generates light having a light power spectrum similar to a solar light in a region of UV light and short-wavelength visible light corresponding to a range of about 300-500 nm.
US09250220B2
A cable system is disclosed including a central cable; an inner membrane having a higher minimum bend radius than the central cable and surrounding the cable, thereby forming an inner chamber around the central cable, the inner chamber containing a gas or at least one chemical; and an outer membrane surrounding the inner membrane and forming an outer chamber around the inner chamber, the outer chamber comprising a gas or at least one chemical. When the minimum bend radius of the inner membrane is exceeded, the inner membrane fractures or breaks, and the gas or at least one chemical from the inner chamber enters the outer chamber to create a chemiluminescence reaction, color, or smell.
US09250214B2
A flaw detection system includes a CMM having a base and one or more transfer members, one or more articulation members connecting the one or more transfer members to the base, and a flaw detection sensor at a distal end, the CMM being configured to measure a location of the flaw detection sensor, and a processor configured to correlate the location of the flaw detection sensor as measured by the CMM with data detected by the flaw detection sensor.
US09250213B1
A method and apparatus for inspecting a test object. The apparatus comprises an inspection vehicle, a sensor structure, a first array of optical fibers, and a second array of optical fibers. The inspection vehicle is configured to move on a surface of the test object. The sensor structure is associated with the inspection vehicle. The first array of optical fibers is associated with the sensor structure. The first array of optical fibers is configured to transmit a pattern of light towards the surface of the test object and the pattern of light is configured to cause sound waves in the test object when the pattern of light encounters the test object. The second array of optical fibers is associated with the sensor structure. The second array of optical fibers is configured to detect a response to the sound waves.
US09250210B2
A gas sensor that can enhance gas detection sensitivity more than the conventional sensors with a simple configuration is proposed. An electric double layer including a gate insulating layer is formed in an ionic liquid (IL), a change of a state of the gate insulating layer in the ionic liquid (IL) that occurs by absorbing a gas is directly reflected in a source-drain current (Isd) that flows in a carbon nanotube (8). Therefore, the gas detection sensitivity can be enhanced more than in the conventional sensors. Further, since the ionic liquid (IL) can be simply provided on a substrate (2) to be in contact with the carbon nanotube (8) and a gate electrode (7), the configuration that chemically modifies a surface of the carbon nanotube with a plurality of polymers as in the conventional gas sensors is not needed, and the configuration can be simplified correspondingly.
US09250208B2
There is provided an electrolyte solution for extending useful electrophoresis life of an electrophoresis gel containing Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (TRIS), at least one zwitterion, and water. The electrolyte solution may be used in buffer systems for gel electrophoresis, such as SDS-PAGE.
US09250200B1
A Compton tomography system comprises an x-ray source configured to produce a planar x-ray beam. The beam irradiates a slice of an object to be imaged, producing Compton-scattered x-rays. The Compton-scattered x-rays are imaged by an x-ray camera. Translation of the object with respect to the source and camera or vice versa allows three-dimensional object imaging.
US09250199B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus and an X-ray imaging method that can stitch transmission images detected by a two-dimensional detector at different positions of the sample are provided. An X-ray imaging apparatus and an X-ray imaging method include: an X-ray generating unit configured to irradiate a sample with a substantially parallel X-ray; a two-dimensional detector including a detection region; a stage where a support base is mounted is configured to move the support base in a plane along a plane of the detection region; and an imaging control unit configured to generate stitched transmission image data based on a plurality of transmission images of the sample detected by the two-dimensional detector. The imaging control unit is configured to stitch the transmission images at a plurality of mutually different positions in the sample to generate the stitched transmission image data.
US09250188B2
A system and method for measuring cooling effectiveness of a component is disclosed. The method includes providing a component with a coating applied on a surface of the component. Further, the method includes supplying a first gaseous medium over a surface of the component through a plurality of holes in the component and feeding a second gaseous medium along the surface of the component. Further, the method includes exposing the surface of the component to the first and second gaseous mediums for a predetermined period. The method further includes obtaining an image of the surface of the component exposed to the first and second gaseous mediums for the predetermined period. The method includes analyzing the obtained image to determine whether at least a portion of the coating is removed from the surface of the component upon exposure to the second gaseous medium.
US09250187B1
A system and method for detecting a feature located on a surface, comprising: attaching a label to said feature; generating a label radiation from said label, a feature radiation from said feature, and a surface radiation from said surface; collecting said label radiation, said feature radiation, and said surface radiation; separating said label radiation from said feature radiation and said surface radiation; capturing the separated label radiation for generating an image of label, with said image of label having one or more pixels; and locating label pixels corresponding to said label radiation by searching for pixels, in said image of label, that possess substantially different pixel values when compared to other pixels in local neighborhood, whereby said feature is located by detecting said label.
US09250181B2
The invention relates to a method and a sensor device (100) for detecting particles (MP) that are bound to the binding surface (12) of a carrier (11). The sensor device (100) comprises a microscope (50) for imaging bound particles (MP) onto an image sensor (53). In order to increase the spatial resolution of the microscope (50), a displacement unit (60,70,80) is provided that can displace the carrier (11) relative to the image sensor (53). The distance of a bound particle (MP) from the binding surface (12) and/or its lateral displacement in reaction to forces can thus be determine with high accuracy. This allows to discriminate specific bindings of large magnetic particles (MP) that are bound to the binding surface (12) via smaller target particles from nonspecific direct bindings.
US09250173B2
The present disclosure relates to identifying potential fracture treatment locations in a rock formation for oil and/or gas production based on production potential. One example method includes receiving internal imaging data of a core sample of a rock formation; generating a digital core sample model of the structure of the core sample based on the internal imaging data; analyzing the core sample model to determine the density distribution of a deposit in the core sample; and determining a production potential value from the density distribution of the deposit.
US09250172B2
Various systems and methods for predicting metabolic and bariatric surgery outcomes are provided. The systems and methods can also provide predictions for non-surgical metabolic and bariatric treatments. In general, a user can receive predictive outcomes of multiple bariatric procedures that could be performed on a patient. In one embodiment, a user can electronically access a metabolic and bariatric surgery outcome prediction system, e.g., using one or more web pages. The system can provide predictive outcomes of one or more different bariatric surgeries for the patient based on data gathered from the user and on historical data regarding outcomes of the different bariatric surgeries. The system can additionally provide predictive outcomes for not having any treatment and/or a comparison of the predictive outcomes of the one or more different bariatric surgeries to the predictive outcomes for not having any treatment.
US09250163B2
A biomedical microfluidic device for separating a sub-population of particles from a first fluid, particularly a biological fluid, has means for separation and/or filtration of the fluid, which include a first microfluidic path defined in a first body of the device, a first inlet for introduction of a first fluid in the first path and at least a first outlet for discharge from the first path of a sample of fluid enriched in the sub-population of particles.
US09250160B2
An apparatus for characterizing the performance of air turbine handpieces including high speed dental handpieces and chucking devices in terms of speed, torque, power, and air consumption include an air or fluid supply source for the handpiece and various sensors to measure input, flow rate, temperature and pressure and output speed and forces on the output shaft of the handpiece. Data from the sensors is collected, collated, processed and recorded to continuously provide a record of the handpiece characteristics for purposes of evaluating efficiency, quality control, safety and compliance with standards.
US09250147B2
Sensors for outputting signals indicative of a rate of change of torque experienced by a magnetized member in response to a change in torque experienced by the member are described. Such sensors include at least one sense element capable of detecting a change in a magnetic parameter of a magnetized region of the member positioned proximate to the sense element in response to a change in torque applied to the member. Devices for detecting and/or measuring rates of changes in or of torque that employ one or more of these sensors are also described, as are various applications for such devices.
US09250134B2
An assembly including an optically excited infrared nondestructive testing active thermography system is disclosed. The optically excited infrared nondestructive testing active thermography system includes one or more illumination sources, at least one first reflector, at least one second reflector and a computing resource. The at least one first reflector is arranged about the one or more illumination sources. The at least one first reflector has a near focal point and a far focal point. The one or more illumination sources is/are positioned at least proximate the near focal point of the at least one first reflector. The at least one second reflector is positioned at least proximate the far focal point. The computing resource is communicatively-coupled to a motor that is coupled to the at least one second reflector for manipulating the at least one second reflector between at least: a first spatial orientation and a second spatial orientation. At least one of the first spatial orientation and the second spatial orientation results in the at least one second reflector reflecting light that originates from the one or more illumination sources. The light is directed toward the at least one second reflector as a result of the light being directly propagated from the one or more illumination sources and reflected by the at least one first reflector. A method is also disclosed.
US09250130B2
A quantum cascade laser (QCL) may include a QCL crystal having an emitting facet, and an active region adjacent the emitting facet, the emitting facet for providing an electromagnetic beam. The QCL may include an optical cavity comprising a mirror being external to the QCL crystal, and for redirecting the electromagnetic beam into the active region of the QCL crystal to provide optical feedback, and a driver circuit for driving the QCL crystal with a constant current. The QCL may include a controller coupled to the optical cavity and for dynamically and autonomously aligning the optical cavity based upon an error signal from the QCL crystal to maintain stable the optical feedback into the active region of the QCL crystal.
US09250126B2
A sensor assembly is disclosed that includes a hollow casing having a radiation entrance opening. A radiation-transmissive optic is at the radiation entrance opening. A substrate is inside and sealed against the hollow casing. An optical sensing element is coupled to the substrate and configured to sense radiation that has passed through the radiation-transmissive optic. A method of manufacturing the sensor assembly also is disclosed.
US09250125B2
An optical sensor is provided according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. The optical sensor includes a first photodiode, a second photodiode having characteristics different from characteristics of the first photodiode, filters configured to block or transmit a specific wavelength range of the light, and an output circuit configured to correct a sensitivity deviation, which may be caused when one of the filters is used for the first photodiode, based on a sensitivity deviation, which may be caused when the other filter of the same kind as the one filter is used for the second photodiode, and output only the specific wavelength range of the light.
US09250121B2
An imaging apparatus has a color filter array, an image sensor, and a differential information acquisition unit. In the color filter array, including five or more types of color filters are arranged in a two dimensional form. The image sensor has a plurality of pixels covered by the color filters, and the plurality of pixels generate pixel signals. The acquisition unit designates one of the pixels covered by the color filters of interest as a pixel of interest one pixel at a time in order. The acquisition unit calculates first differential information based on pixel signals generated by two of the pixels arranged on both sides of the pixel of interest along the first direction. The acquisition unit calculates second differential information based on pixel signals generated by two of the pixels arranged on both sides of the pixel of interest along the second direction.
US09250105B2
By monitoring pressure transients in a liquid within a liquid distribution system using only a single sensor, events such as the opening and closing of valves at specific fixtures are readily detected. The sensor, which can readily be coupled to a faucet bib, transmits an output signal to a computing device. Each such event can be identified by the device based by comparing characteristic features of the pressure transient waveform with previously observed characteristic features for events in the system. These characteristic features, which can include the varying pressure, derivative, and real Cepstrum of the pressure transient waveform, can be used to select a specific fixture where a valve open or close event has occurred. Flow to each fixture and leaks in the system can also be determined from the pressure transient signal. A second sensor disposed at a point disparate from the first sensor provides further event information.
US09250098B2
An aircraft display system includes a processor configured to receive a heading-based leg and to generate display signals based on the heading-based leg; and a display device including a horizontal situation indicator coupled to the processor. The horizontal situation indicator receives the display signals from the processor and displaying symbology representing the heading-based leg.
US09250091B2
In some implementations, a mobile device can transmit traffic information to a server for analysis. The traffic information can include movement information including detected stops and durations of detected stops. The traffic information is analyzed to detect traffic patterns that indicate locations of stop signs or stop lights or both. The traffic information can be analyzed to determine durations of stops at stop signs or stop lights or both. The durations of stops can be associated with a time of day or day of the week or both. In some implementations, navigational routes can be determined based stop sign or stop light information or both, including the delays attributable to detected stop signs or stop lights or both.
US09250089B2
A navigation method for a vehicle includes receiving a destination inputted by a user and establishing a current position of a vehicle using a positioning device. Based on an electronic map, a route from the current position to the destination is determined and characteristic points of the determined route are extracted. A street view mapping of the determined route is acquired. Based on the street view mapping, and using a camera, a marker of each of the characteristic points is extracted using an image extraction method. When the vehicle arrives at each of the characteristic points, a prompt is output for the user by recognizing the marker of each of the characteristic points from the street view mapping.
US09250074B1
A resonator assembly comprising a semiconductor substrate, a resonator gyroscope, the resonator gyroscope including a first resonator formed in a layer of a first material, and an oscillator on the semiconductor substrate, the oscillator including a second resonator formed of a second material, wherein the second resonator is attached in a cavity; the cavity comprising a first recess in said layer of a first material and the edges of the first recess being attached to the substrate, or the cavity comprising a second recess in said substrate and the edges of the second recess being attached to said layer of a first material.
US09250073B2
A method of determining a gauge and a tilt of a rail track at a location includes providing a rail trolley including a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, an RFID reader, a gauge sensor, and a tilt sensor and positioning the rail trolley on the rail track at the location. The method also includes interrogating one or more RFID tags positioned along the rail track and determining, using the processor, a fixed location associated with each of the one or more RFID tags. The method further includes determining, using the processor, the location of the rail trolley in relation to the fixed locations associated with each of the one or more RFID tags and determining the gauge and tilt of the rail track at the location of the rail trolley.
US09250071B2
A measurement apparatus for measuring a substrate, on which a measurement object is formed, and a correction method of the same is shown. The correction method includes measuring a reference phase by measuring a phase of a substrate for measuring the reference phase by using an image-capture part, acquiring a tilted pose of a reference plane of the measured reference phase to an image plane of the image-capture part, and calculating a height that is required to correct the reference plane with regard to the image-capture part based on the tilted pose. Therefore, based on a tilted pose of a reference phase in order to correct a reference plane being a reference of measuring a height, a measurement credibility of the measurement object may be improved.
US09250067B2
A system and method for evaluating the performance of a vehicle windshield wiper system includes a digital camera positioned to allow the camera to capture an image of the surface of the windshield, and a computer including logic for capturing a digital image of the surface of the soiled windshield, capturing a digital image of the surface of the wiped windshield, and comparing the data from both captured images to develop selected indicia related to the extent to which the soil has been removed from the windshield.
US09250065B2
This image capture device includes: a light-transmitting section 1 that is made up of a plurality of portions 1AB, each including diffraction regions 1D1, 1D2 that diffract incoming light, a transparent region 1CLR that transmits the incoming light without diffracting it, and polarization regions 1P1, 1P2 arranged so as to overlap at least partially with the diffraction regions 1D1, 1D2; an image sensor in which a plurality of unit elements are arranged two-dimensionally on an imaging area, wherein each of the unit elements includes a first photosensitive cell, a second photosensitive cell, and a polarization filter arranged so as to face the first photosensitive cell; and an imaging section configured to obtain images produced on the imaging area by the light transmitted through the transparent region and by the light transmitted through the diffraction region.
US09250058B2
A capacitive rotary encoder has a stator and a rotor as well as stator electrodes firmly arranged at the stator on an encoding path coaxial to the rotor axis, and coupling electrodes arranged at the rotor. The coupling electrodes are guided over the stator electrodes at a small axial distance from the encoding path by rotation of the rotor, wherein they each cover stator electrodes adjacent in the peripheral direction and connect the latter capacitively to each other. Interrogation electronics detects for each of the stator electrodes a capacitive coupling with an adjacent stator electrode caused by a coupling electrode of the rotor. This permits the reliable detection of the angular position of the rotor both statically and dynamically.
US09250056B2
A method is presented. The method includes the steps of generating rotation signals corresponding to a plurality of rotations of a rotor physically coupled to a plurality of blades, and determining peak voltages corresponding to the plurality of blades by applying time synchronous averaging technique to blade passing signals using the rotation signals, wherein the peak voltages are representative of clearances of the plurality of blades.
US09250051B1
Technologies for sequentially initiating squibs in one or more release mechanisms in order to reduce delay between successive squibs are provided. A squib initiation sequencer is configured to initiate squibs of one or more release mechanisms in a pre-programmed sequence. The squib initiation sequencer is further configured to detect when the initiation of each squib in the sequence is complete, and immediately move to the next sequential step without waiting the entire maximum initiation time per the squib manufacturer's specifications.
US09250049B1
Sabots for projectiles are provided. One sabot includes a body formed from at least one section, wherein the body is configured to surround a portion of a projectile. The sabot also includes one or more engagement portions configured to interface the body with another sabot such that the body is supported at an intermediate position of the projectile, and one or more surfaces configured to interface with an outer mold line of the projectile. The sabot further includes one or more surfaces configured to interface with an inner surface of a launch platform.
US09250038B2
The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
US09250037B2
A method determining artillery fire corrections toward a fixed target using a fixed observation system is oriented and equipped with a device measuring orientation of line of sight, a laser rangefinder, a positioning device, and a display screen with fixed crosshair, displaying and moving another crosshair. The method includes: orienting the observation system to display the central crosshair on the target image and calculating target geographical coordinates using distance provided by the rangefinder. If, after firing, the impact and target do not coincide, the method includes, if the orientation is fixed: displaying a second crosshair on the impact image and measuring offset between the two crosshairs, displaying a third crosshair symmetrical to the second crosshair; and orienting the optronic system to position the third crosshair on the target image, the first crosshair coinciding with the impact point image, and actuating the rangefinder to obtain distance between the system and impact.
US09250034B2
Consistent with various embodiments, a firearm securing kit includes a barrel securing unit configured and arranged to secure a barrel of a firearm and including a securing mechanism configured and arranged to generate a holding force between the apparatus and a surface in response to an applied pressure. The kit can also include a butt plate securing unit configured and arranged to secure the butt plate of a firearm and including a securing mechanism configured and arranged to generate a holding force between the apparatus and a surface in response to an applied pressure.
US09250033B1
A trigger linkage mechanism for use in toy gun includes: a trigger pivoted to a gun frame and formed with a push block; a linkage member having one end formed with a first pivotal part and the other end formed with a second pivotal part. The linkage member is formed with an abutting part disposed between the two pivotal parts and abutted against the push block; a pull member pivoted to the second pivotal part and formed with a pawl part capable of being correspondingly buckled with the buckle part; a first recovery spring clamped between the gun frame and the linkage member; and a second recovery spring clamped between the linkage member and the pull member. Accordingly, the rotation radian and speed of the pawl part is able to be controlled and adjusted.
US09250019B2
A plate heat exchanger realizing improved heat exchange performance by increasing the fluidity of fluids and by promoting turbulence of the fluids, including: heat exchange elements stacked by being laid one on top of another and individually formed by assembling upper and lower plates, with an internal flow channel defined in each of the heat exchange elements and an external flow channel defined between the heat exchange elements, the internal and external flow channels allowing internal and external fluids to pass therethrough, respectively, wherein the upper and lower plates are provided with respective wave patterns having ridges and valleys, each of the heat exchange elements has an inlet port and an outlet port, the upper and lower plates respectively have an upper flange and a lower flange which are assembled with each other through fitting, and first and second flat parts are formed around the upper and lower flanges.
US09250013B2
An improved desolventizer toaster and methods are provided wherein a solvent vapor recycle system may be employed to recycle solvent vapor throughout a portion of the desolventizer portion of the apparatus housing. In other embodiments of the invention, a water vapor recycle system may be employed to recycle water vapor throughout a portion of the toaster portion of the apparatus housing. The solvent vapor recycle system may comprise an appropriate meal dust separator, blower and superheater. The water vapor recycle system may comprise an appropriate ejector or blower and superheater. Water vapor recovered in the solvent extraction process may be used as a water vapor feed to the heated water vapor recycling system.
US09249996B2
The invention relates to a method of conditioning a condensate generated in the compression section of a gas purification unit. The invention also relates to system for this method.
US09249995B2
A positioning system for a solar panel includes a frame, a surface plate, an adjustable rail and a frame coupling. The surface plate is configured to secure the positioning system to a mounting surface and includes a connection for an axle. The axle links the surface plate with the frame coupling or with the adjustable rail. The frame coupling attaches to the frame and holds the frame in an operating position. A length of the adjustable rail may be increased or decreased for varying the angular orientation of the frame relative to the mounting surface. The frame is configured to be removable from the frame coupling without requiring the surface plate to be removed from the mounting surface.
US09249987B2
A mounting bracket for mounting a temperature sensor, a gas valve, a power delivery unit, a controller and/or any other suitable object or device to a water heater tank. An illustrative but non-limiting example may be found in a mounting bracket that includes a polymeric body that has a sensor portion configured to receive a temperature sensor. The sensor portion may have a distal end that extends into and supports the temperature sensor within the water heater tank, and may include a shell disposed over at least a portion of the sensor portion.
US09249980B2
A self-contained air unit for installation on a roof top of a building has a pressure relief opening that is independent of the air circulation system of the unit. The air circulation system has a first blower and the pressure relief opening has a damper system that connects the pressure relief opening to ambient air through two passages. One of the passages contains a second blower to exhaust air from the air circulation system and from the independent pressure relief opening simultaneously. A two-stage pressure relief hood is provided for use with a self-contained air unit.
US09249978B2
A gas turbine combustion liner having a novel and improved system for receiving a peripheral device through a floating collar is disclosed. The retaining collar assembly provides planar movement for receiving the peripheral device while preventing the floating collar from rotational movement through an anti-rotation tab on the collar and a collar cap, resulting in reduced wear to the peripheral device. The collar cap can include different configurations for reducing any vibratory effects caused by an oncoming airflow directly contacting the floating collar.
US09249971B2
A rotary control (120) is illuminated through a controlled illuminated indicator provided by a light guide arc reflector (114) disposed on a control panel (104) along an outer periphery of a rotary control knob (112). The controlled illuminated indicator concurrently indicates status and location of the rotary control knob. The controlled illuminated indictor generates an increased rotational arc of illumination in response to the knob being rotated in a first direction and generates a decreased rotational arc of illumination in response to the knob rotated in a second direction. The rotary control (120) utilizes a helix slider (304) to control upwards and downwards movement of a reflector shield (302) which block and unblocks light rays in response to the knob (112) being rotated.
US09249964B2
A multi-purpose illumination device and a system and method for operating a multi-purpose illumination device are provided herein. A multi-purpose illumination device may include a lamp housing and a light source disposed within the lamp housing. The lamp housing may include a front, a back, a top, and a bottom, with the light from the light source projecting from the front of the lamp housing. The lamp housing may further define an air channel with an air inlet and an air outlet. The air inlet may be defined in the front of the lamp housing. The air outlet may be defined in the top of the lamp housing. Some embodiments may include a heat sink disposed within the lamp housing, where the air channel is at least partially defined by the heat sink. The heat sink may include at least one heat-dissipating fin disposed within the air channel.
US09249959B2
A method of fabricating packaging for a product comprises forming a plurality of conductive tracks on a sheet of material and forming a physical barrier, such as a hole, for impeding fluid flow between adjacent conductive tracks. The method may further comprise depositing first and second regions conductive fluid onto adjacent first and second conductive tracks either side of the physical barrier and mounting an electronic device having first and second terminals such that the electronic device forms a bridge over the physical barrier and the first ands second terminals contact the first and second conductive adjacent tracks.
US09249958B2
LED light fixtures include a hollow body, a source of illumination mounted inside the body, a transparent cover extending across one end of the body, and a twist and lock mounting bracket assembly provided at another end of the body for securing the light fixtures to a building structure.
US09249957B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device. The light emitting device includes: a body including a cavity having first and second inner sides opposite to each other and third and fourth inner sides connected to first and second inner sides and opposite to each other; a first lead frame extending from a bottom of cavity under a first inner side of cavity; a second lead frame extending from the bottom of cavity under a second inner side of cavity; a gap part in the bottom of cavity between first and second lead frames; a light emitting chip on first lead frame; a protective chip on the second lead frame; a recess region recessed outward of body from at least one of third and fourth inner sides of cavity; and a first wire connected to the second frame disposed between light emitting chip and a sidewall of the recess region.
US09249956B1
A mounting structure and associated mounting bracket for a board containing multiple LED lights is the subject of this invention. It is particularly designed for use in converting a conventional fluorescent tube housing to an LED board housing. The mounting structure includes arms which are received in a support bracket and are held by the bracket at a desirable angle. LED boards may be quickly and easily mounted to or removed from the mounting structure which in turn is easily removable from the support bracket.
US09249953B2
An LED lamp having a lamp housing including a lamp base capable of connecting to a source of electrical power and at least one LED lighting device having at least one LED, the lighting device being electrically connected to the lamp base offset from a center line running vertically through the center of the housing. The lamp further includes at least one optic having at least two sub-optics, each sub-optic capable of allowing a different beam angle of light distribution to pass there through when aligned with the LED lighting device, the optic being integrated with the lamp housing such that the optic may be rotated to align one sub-optic over the LED lighting device at a time.
US09249948B2
A device for projecting an elongate optical image (7) onto a surface (5) is disclosed. The device has an optical element (8) with a reflective surface (11) configured to reflect a beam of light emitted by a light source (9) so that the beam of light (12) converges in a first plane (X-Y) and diverges in a second plane (Y-Z), the first plane being at right angles to the second plane.
US09249946B2
An illuminating glazing unit includes a first sheet having a first main face, a second main face and an edge face; a second sheet having a first main face, a second main face and an edge face; a lamination interlayer having an extent smaller than that of each of the glass sheets and defining a space between the edge of the second main face of the first sheet and the edge of the first main face of the second sheet; a strip of LEDs, including a printed circuit board and a plurality of LEDs, positioned so that the emitting faces of the LEDs face the edge face of the first sheet; and an encapsulating element made of an opaque polymer encapsulating at least the edge face of the second sheet and the LED strip. The PCB bears against the first main face of the second glass sheet with a plurality of spacers and the space is filled by the opaque polymer.
US09249943B2
The present invention is directed toward a light module for a motor vehicle headlamp having a primary lens which conducts light emitted by a light source to an intermediate light distribution, wherein an aperture shutter is disposed in relation to a secondary lens such that light in the intermediate light distribution, which passes by the aperture shutter on a first side of the aperture shutter, ends up in a first beam path in a region lying on a first side of the light/dark border in the second light distribution. The primary lens deflects a portion of the light emitted from the light source, such that it passes by the aperture shutter on a second side of the aperture shutter, and is distributed by the secondary lens in a second beam path in a region lying on a second side of the light/dark border in the second light distribution.
US09249942B2
The invention relates to a lighting device (100) for a motor vehicle, comprising a lens (1) and at least one light source (4, 5, 61), wherein light from the at least one light source (4, 61) is projected by the lens (1) into a region lying in front of the lighting device (100), wherein at least one reflective surface (3a) is assigned to the lens (1) at the rear side (3) thereof, and/or wherein the lens (1) has at the rear side (3) thereof at least one total reflection region (3a′), wherein at least one light source (4) radiates light into the lens (1) via an incidence region (40), and wherein the light radiated into the lens (1) via the incidence region (40) is reflected by the at least one reflective surface (3a) and/or the at least one total reflection region (3a′) and emerges from the lens (1) via the light exit surface (2) thereof and is projected into a region in front of the lighting device (100).
US09249939B2
Gradient optics for even light distribution of LED light sources. In an aspect, an apparatus is provided for uniform distribution of light emitted from a light source. The apparatus includes a panel coupled to receive the light emitted from the light source, and gradient optics disposed on the panel, the gradient optics providing a matching transparency gradient that is aligned with the light source to evenly distribute the emitted light. In another aspect, an apparatus includes means for receiving the light emitted from the light source, and means for providing a matching transparency gradient that is aligned with the light source to evenly distribute the emitted light.
US09249934B2
Adsorbent pellets coated with an outer nano-porous layer can be loaded with gas at loading pressures of 250 bar or greater, enabling a much higher loading than can be achieved at low pressures. The nano-porous layer provides nano-valves which can be sealed with an adsorbate such as ethanol or a hydrocarbon to close the nano-valves. The closed nano-valves maintain the high loading pressure inside the adsorbent pellets, and thus maintain the gas loading, during storage of the loaded nano-valved adsorbent pellets at much lower pressure. To release the gas, the nano-porous layer can be heated to a temperature sufficient to vaporize the adsorbate and open the nano-valves.
US09249920B2
An insulating material is fed in and shaped by superposing a plurality of N layers Ci (3) of the insulating material. For each layer Ci, a plurality of ni, axial insulating elements Ei precut from the insulating material is formed, a rough form of the tubular insulating device is formed by using an adhesive to assemble the Ni elements Ei of each layer Ci which are juxtaposed along a plurality of joining zones Ji, so that the plurality of joining zones Ji+1 of a layer Ci+1 is offset relative to the plurality of joining zones Ji, of the adjacent layer Ci. Then, by the adhesive is polymerized, and the tubular element rough form is subjected to a heat treatment. The method is economical and makes it possible to obtain a device of high mechanical strength.
US09249916B2
A plug for sealing the end of a tube including a cylindrical housing member having longitudinal bore that communicates with a threaded portion. An insert member having a threaded end portion is received within the threaded portion of the bore and supports a frustroconical member that deflects at least a portion of the wall of the housing member that is highly ductile. The frustroconical member has a correspondingly large angle of taper to deflect the wall of the housing member outwardly as much as possible without causing fracturing of the wall.
US09249905B2
A hose and fitting assembly includes a hose of a first thermoplastic polymer material having an end portion with an inner surface and an outer surface and a fitting of a second polymer material for connection with an external point of use. The fitting has a central tubular projection with an axial fluid passageway. The central tubular projection has an inner wall which defines the fluid passageway and an outer wall, at least partly integrally coupled to the inner surface of the end portion of the hose. The hose and fitting assembly includes a reinforcement member of a third polymer material at the periphery of the end portion of the hose for restraining radial deformations of the hose and providing the assembly with a good mechanical and/or hydraulic sealing capability. A method of making such assembly.
US09249903B2
A composite pipe comprises a polyetheretherketone innermost pipe around which a reinforcing overwrap is arranged. A protective sheath surrounds the overwrap. Such a composite pipe may be made by selecting a polyetheretherketone pipe having an outer region having a crystallinity of less than 25%; overlaying the selected pipe with overwrap; and subjecting the combination to heat, thereby causing the crystallinity of the outer region of the polyetheretherketone pipe to increase. The method reduces the risk of pipe failure.
US09249894B2
A solenoid valve, particularly for a hydraulic braking system of a motor vehicle, includes a valve sleeve in which a pole core is fixed and an armature is disposed in an axially displaceable manner. The armature includes at least one longitudinal groove in the outer shell surface thereof. A spring washer is configured to be braced between the armature and the pole core. The end face of the armature facing the pole core is configured to be at least substantially convex, and the end face of the pole core facing the armature is configured to be at least substantially concave. A braking system includes the solenoid valve.
US09249893B2
A valve device has a movement element, which is cylindrical at least in sections, and a guide element, which has a guide recess for guiding the movement element and is pressed into a valve housing. The guide element comprises a radially inner ring-like section and a radially outer ring-like section. The guide recess is arranged in the inner ring-like section. On its outer circumference, the outer ring-like section has a number of contact sections which are arranged distributed uniformly over the circumference and by means of which the outer ring-like section is pressed into the valve housing. The inner ring-like section is connected to the outer ring-like section via an identical number of connecting sections, which are arranged distributed uniformly in the circumferential direction, wherein, as viewed in the circumferential direction, the connecting sections are offset radially by an angle of 180 DEG/N in relation to the contact sections.
US09249879B2
A hydraulic drive system designed so that while maintaining intact a structure of a relief valve having a shockless function, the drive unit hydraulic drive system facilitates changing a driving pressure or braking pressure of a hydraulic swing motor and hence, changing a maximum driving torque or braking torque of the hydraulic swing motor. Inside a swing motor unit is arranged a first swinging relief valve provided with a shockless function to limit a driving pressure or braking pressure of the hydraulic swing motor in order to prevent the pressure from exceeding a first setting pressure. Also, a second swinging relief valve is provided for limiting the driving pressure or braking pressure of the hydraulic swing motor in order to prevent the pressure from exceeding a second setting pressure that is lower than the first setting pressure.
US09249877B2
A position diagnostic test for a shift-by-wire system is provided. The shift-by-wire system includes a shift lever configured to move along a shift path, a first and a second position sensor configured to generate a first and a second position signal, respectively, of the shift lever along the shift path, and a controller configured to receive the first and second position signals. The first position sensor includes a first x-coordinate value and a first y-coordinate value, and the second position sensor includes a second x-coordinate value and a second y-coordinate value. The position diagnostic test includes performing a rationality test on each of the coordinate values. If at least one predetermined condition exists for a particular coordinate value, then it fails the rationality test, and the position signal containing the coordinate value may be disregarded.
US09249866B2
Belt tensioners for a power transmission belt system are disclosed. The belt tensioners have a support member, an arm, a torsion spring operatively coupled therebetween, and an improved damping assembly. The arm includes a housing section pivotally mounted to the support member for rotation about the arm. This housing section has a rub surface against which the damper assembly is seated. The damper assembly has a body having a friction surface frictionally contacting the rub surface of the arm and a damper spring integrated with the body. The improvement of the damper assembly is that the rub surface of the arm includes a trough concentric about the axis of rotation and the friction surface of the body includes an annular protrusion seated in the trough.
US09249858B2
A hydraulic engine mount is provided having at least one channel provided within the engine mount. The channel is provided fully enclosed within the engine mount. The channel includes at least two restrictions operable to partially restrict fluid flow through the channel thereby preventing unwanted noise heard by the user. The at least two restrictions include at least one protrusion extending away from a side wall of the channel. Two protrusions are provided to form each restriction where the protrusions are opposed and spaced apart extending into the channel. The at least one protrusion includes at least one sloped wall. The at least one sloped wall is disposed upstream of the fluid through the channel and may be positioned adjacent to an inlet or an outlet of the channel.
US09249854B2
A piston valve assembly for a shock absorber is disclosed. In a high-frequency mode, a damping force control is achieved through an open passage that is always opened. In a low-frequency mode, a guide assembly moves downward due to an increase in a pressure of a first pressure chamber by a fluid moved through an inlet hole of the first pressure chamber. At this time, the guide assembly blocks the open passage and the damping force control is achieved through only a rebound passage. Consequently, it is possible to solve a fluid bottle neck through a passage formation. A disk is installed on the inlet hole to prevent a continuous increase in the pressure of the first pressure chamber, thereby effectively preventing the reduction of the damping force.
US09249851B2
A method and apparatus for reducing a vibratory response in a structure using a tuning object. A selected mass may be identified for the tuning object. A plurality of channels may be formed in a workpiece having a mass greater than the selected mass to form the tuning object having the selected mass. The tuning object may be bonded to the structure using an adhesive bond to reduce the vibratory response of the structure.
US09249846B2
A brake assembly adapted to be mounted to the flange of an axle housing. The brake assembly includes a stationary plate having a plurality of threaded holes therein. The brake assembly also includes a mounting sleeve positioned adjacent to the axle housing flange opposite the stationary plate. A plurality of holes are provided through the mounting sleeve and are aligned with the threaded holes in the stationary plate. A bolt is received through each of the holes in the mounting sleeve and the aligned holes in the axle housing flange and the threaded holes in the stationary plate to secure the brake to the axle housing. The mounting sleeve may be provided in two or more separate pieces in order to facilitate installation.
US09249830B2
Provided is a sintered bearing (1) including an inner layer (2) and an outer layer (3) formed by integral molding, the sintered bearing (1) having a bearing surface (A) formed on an inner peripheral surface (2a) of an inner layer (2). The inner layer (2) is made of sintered metal containing Fe and a hardness increasing element (such as Ni or Mo). The outer layer (3) is made of sintered metal containing Fe and no hardness increasing element. A concentration gradient of the hardness increasing element is present at an interface between the inner layer (2) and the outer layer (3).
US09249824B2
A locking nut includes a nut top, a nut middle, and a slip section. The nut top includes an integrally-formed bushing. The nut middle includes a threaded central bore suitable for threaded engagement on a threaded installation bolt, as well as a plurality of ratchet gears on an outer surface where each gear has a respective first slip surface and a first drive surface. The slip section includes a plurality of cantilevered posts having a respective free end, wherein on each post are formed a respective second slip surface and a second drive surface. When the slip section is rotated in a tightening direction, the slip section and the nut middle rotate together until a torque threshold is reached, where the second slip surfaces override the first slip surfaces to limit the applied torque. The locking nut includes structure to produce sound when the torque threshold has been reached.
US09249823B2
A piercing nut element having a strength in the range between 700 and 900 MPa which is designed to be pressed into the sheet metal part. The nut element is characterized in that the self-piercing attachment of the nut element into a sheet metal part of higher strength, or into a sheet metal part with a thickness greater than 3.5 mm, the nut element is designed in such a way that the piercing section has a peripheral extending groove below the sheet metal contact surface and in that the piercing section has a piercing edge at its free end face with the piercing edge being spaced from the boundary of the groove adjacent to the piercing section by a peripheral surface having an axial height which corresponds to at least 30% and preferably to at least 50% of the sheet metal thickness, wherein the radial wall thickness of the piercing section in the region of its free end face from the outer side of the piercing section up to the nominal diameter of the thread corresponds to a thickness between 1.2 to 1.8 and preferably 1.5 times the intended sheet metal thickness.
US09249821B2
The invention relates to a stop screw (1) having a stop buffer part (2), which at a region located opposite of the stop screw (2) comprises a substantially spherical protrusion (2a). At a region located opposite of the stop buffer part (2), the stop screw (1) comprises a recess for receiving the substantially spherical protrusion (2a) of the stop buffer part (2) in order to form an articulated connection between the stop screw (1) and the stop buffer part (2). In order to limit the articulated connection between the stop screw (1) and the stop buffer part (2), the stop screw (2) comprises a screw contact surface (1a) and the stop buffer part (2) comprises a stop buffer part contact surface (2b) located opposite of the screw contact surface (1a), wherein a resetting element is provided for resetting the stop buffer part (2).
US09249805B2
A vacuum pump comprises a molecular drag pumping mechanism and a regenerative pumping mechanism. A rotor element of the molecular drag pumping mechanism surrounds rotor elements of the regenerative pumping mechanism.
US09249801B2
A motor-driven compressor includes a housing assembly, a compression mechanism, an electric motor, a discharge port, an outlet, a discharge passage, discharge valve and a valve device. The compression mechanism is accommodated in the housing assembly. The electric motor drives the compression mechanism. The discharge chamber is formed in the housing assembly. The discharge port is formed in the housing assembly for communication between the discharge chamber and the compression mechanism. The outlet is formed in the housing assembly for communication with an external circuit. The discharge passage is formed in the housing assembly for communication between the discharge chamber and the outlet. The discharge valve is disposed in the discharge chamber for opening and closing the discharge port. The valve device is configured to adjust an opening of the discharge passage.
US09249792B2
A pump operated with compressed gas is disclosed herein. The pump has two separate cylinders which share a common wall. Pistons are attached to a common shaft that runs through the common wall. The pistons are disposed within each of the cylinders. The pistons divide the cylinders into gas and liquid chambers. The liquid chambers of the cylinder form a liquid system and are in fluid communication with the liquid inlet and outlet. The gas chambers of the cylinders form a gas system and are in communication with gas inlet and outlet. A manifold switching mechanism controls routing of compressed gas to either one of the gas chambers to operate the gas operated pump by way of a spool valve or a shuttle valve mechanism. The pump may also have an automatic shutoff valve which shuts off operation of the pump when liquid from a liquid source has been depleted.
US09249790B2
A fuel delivery system is provided including one or more pump assemblies and one or more controllers configured to control the one or more pump assemblies. The fuel delivery system may conserve energy by selectively activating the one or more pump assemblies and the one or more controllers.
US09249779B2
A method for controlling a wind turbine with a rotor and at least one rotor blade, and a control unit are disclosed. The method is characterized in adjusting a pitch angle of the rotor blade and determining the limit of an input value based on the adjusted pitch angle, wherein the input value includes information about the turbine rotational speed.
US09249773B2
An apparatus and method is provided for testing a spark plug after the spark plug is assembled in an internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes a high voltage test probe to mechanically probe the spark plug. The high voltage test probe includes a non-electrically conductive part, an electrically conductive ring substantially shielded by the non-electrically conductive part, and a high voltage contactor for electrically connecting to a terminal end of the spark plug. The apparatus also includes a high voltage control box having a high voltage source and an electrical ground, and including at least one of an insulator crack detection circuit and a spark plug firing circuit. The method includes using the apparatus to test assembled spark plugs.
US09249765B2
An intake manifold includes plural intake pipes, a distribution portion connecting to the plural intake pipes and guiding fluid at an inside of the distribution portion to the plural intake pipes and a first protruding portion providing at least a same number of the plural intake pipes at the inside of the distribution portion, the first protruding portion being directed to the corresponding intake pipes.
US09249764B2
A system for a vehicle includes a humidity determination module, a specific humidity module, and a parameter control module. The humidity determination module determines a first specific humidity of air based on a relative humidity of the air measured by a humidity sensor in an intake system of the vehicle. The specific humidity module sets a second specific humidity of the air equal to one of the first specific humidity and a predetermined specific humidity of the air in response to a comparison of a mass air flowrate (MAF) into an engine and a predetermined flowrate. The parameter control module controls at least one operating parameter of an engine based on the second specific humidity.
US09249761B2
Systems and methods for internal combustion engine operation with exhaust gas recirculation and turbocharging are disclosed. The systems include an exhaust gas recirculation loop for recirculating exhaust gas flow from a first portion of the cylinders of the engine into an intake system prior to combustion. The system further includes a turbine with first and second inlets for receiving exhaust gas flows from respective first and second parts of the exhaust gas of the remaining portion of the cylinders.
US09249759B1
A mortar system includes a launch unit that comprises a mortar ignition cartridge provided with a flashtube. The flashtube incorporates a ring-like nozzle that is positioned within the flashtube, which acts to restrain the motion of the black powder pellets as well as to choke the flow of the resultant combustion products. The nozzle separates the flashtube into two compartments: a flashtube venting chamber and a pellet combustion chamber. The mortar ignition cartridge combustion chamber acts as the product-gas venting area of the flashtube. The combustion of the black powder pellets essentially takes place in the pellet combustion chamber. The present design modification improves the overall performance of the mortar system.
US09249757B2
A propulsion system is disclosed that uses metal fuel particles heated to a range from 3000° K to 6000° K by reaction with oxygen in air inside a cyclone combustor to form metal oxides that are retained and removed from the combustor for re-conversion to metal, while nitrogen in the air is heated to the temperatures that on supersonic exhaust propels 50,000 ton monohull ships to from 50 to 100 knots. The ship can accelerate by electromagnetic force from a MHD generator-accelerator rendered electrically conducting by alkali metal seed injection into the gas. Also disclosed are 10 MW to 1000 MW Closed Cycle MHD power plants fired by natural gas into a top half of a falling pebble bed heat exchanger that transfers 2000° K to 3000° K heat to a noble or diatomic gas in a bottom half of the exchanger that on exit is seeded with an alkali metal rendering the gas conducting.
US09249751B2
Methods and systems are provided for converting an asymmetric degradation response of an exhaust gas sensor to a more symmetric degradation response. In one example, a method includes adjusting fuel injection responsive to a modified exhaust oxygen feedback signal from an exhaust gas sensor, the modified exhaust oxygen feedback signal modified by transforming an asymmetric response of the exhaust gas sensor to a more symmetric response. Further, the method may include adjusting one or more parameters of an anticipatory controller of the exhaust gas sensor based on the modified symmetric response.
US09249745B2
Disclosed is a method of injecting natural gas into a diesel fuel engine for combustion with diesel fuel therein. One aspect includes injecting natural gas into an air-stream of an engine air intake or manifold, measuring the percentage of natural gas injected into the airstream or other efficiency gauge, varying the rate of injection of natural gas into the airstream in response to the measured percentage of natural gas therein and injecting the natural gas at a pre-determined rate so as to maintain an natural gas concentration in the air intake stream in the range of 0.6% to 3.0% by volume of natural gas.
US09249743B2
Systems and methods for compensating for nozzle coking in fuel injection system include creating expected fuel flow rate formula for selected fuel injection nozzle, operating selected fuel injection nozzle for a time, measuring fuel pressure and injector control valve on-time of fuel injection nozzle during operation, determining expected fuel flow rate for measured fuel pressure and injector control valve on-time, measuring actual fuel flow rate of fuel injection nozzle, determining coking condition of fuel injection nozzle, and automatically altering injector control valve on-time to compensate. Expected fuel flow rate formula is determined as function of fuel pressure and injector control valve on-time, while actual fuel flow rate is measured by flow rate sensor attached to injection system. Sometimes, coking condition determination is based on difference between actual fuel flow rate and expected flow rate. Compensation in control valve on-time is necessitated by deterioration in actual fuel flow to cylinder.
US09249739B2
A controller for controlling a power source in response to a throttle input, the throttle input representing the status of a throttle control in a range from a minimum state to a maximum state, the controller being configured to control the power source in dependence on both the current status of the throttle control and the current direction of change of that status between the maximum state and the minimum state.
US09249734B2
A combustor includes an upstream surface that extends radially across at least a portion of the combustor, a downstream surface that extends radially across at least a portion of the combustor and is axially separated from the upstream surface, and a plurality of tubes that extend through the downstream surface. A resonator is upstream from at least one of the tubes, and a fluid passage extends through the resonator and into the least one tube.
US09249726B2
A muffler insert for motor vehicles, in particular for passenger cars and motor trucks, in the form of a shaped material made from glass fiber material, has a wound continuous glass fiber material which includes a textured glass fiber. When producing the muffler insert the glass fiber material is wound around a carrier in order to form a shaped material, and this shaped material is used as a muffler insert, if appropriate after further processing steps.
US09249711B2
A system for collecting carbon dioxide in flue gas includes a stack that discharges flue gas discharged from an industrial facility to outside, a blower that is installed at the downstream side of the stack and draws the flue gas therein, a carbon-dioxide collecting device that collects carbon dioxide in the flue gas drawn in by the blower, and a gas flow sensor arranged near an exit side within the stack. A drawing amount of the flue gas by the blower to the carbon-dioxide collecting device is increased until an flow rate of the flue gas from the stack becomes zero in the gas flow sensor, and when the discharged amount of flue gas from the stack becomes zero, drawing in any more than that amount is stopped, and the carbon dioxide in the flue gas is collected while the flue gas is drawn in by a substantially constant amount.
US09249710B2
A work vehicle includes an engine, an injector injecting a reducing agent to an exhaust gas exhausted from the engine, a determination portion determining whether or not a temperature of the injector is high, a stop determination portion determining whether or not the engine has stopped while the injector is in a high-temperature state as a result of determination by the determination portion, a counter counting the number of times of stop of the engine while the injector is in the high-temperature state based on a result of determination by the stop determination portion, and a warning portion giving a warning in connection with stop of the engine when a count value of the counter exceeds a first prescribed value.
US09249709B2
A device for providing liquid reducing agent includes a tank with an interior space and a vessel disposed at least partially in the interior space of the tank. The vessel is at least partially surrounded on the outside by a filter having a filter surface and a filter depth. A delivery unit disposed in the vessel is configured to deliver reducing agent from the tank, through the filter and to an extraction point for reducing agent. A motor vehicle having the device is also provided.
US09249707B2
In a plug-in hybrid vehicle that includes an EHC, an ECU eliminates a sulfur poisoned state by supplying external electric power to the EHC when it is necessary to eliminate a state in which adhesion to a catalyst in the EHC degrades a function of the catalyst and external charging is being performed. On the other hand, when it is necessary to eliminate the sulfur poisoned state, the external charging is not being performed, and operation of an engine is permitted, the sulfur poisoned state is eliminated by operating the engine.
US09249704B2
A burner for exhaust gas purification devices, comprising a base, a first pipe section, and a second pipe section. The first pipe section has a base end section, a tip section, a combustion chamber wherein combustion air and fuel are combusted, and a discharge port from which combusted gas is discharged. The base end section is fixed to the base. An air flowpath through which combustion air passes is provided between the first pipe section and the second pipe section. The burner for exhaust gas purification devices also comprises a compressable blocking section fixed to the first pipe section or the second pipe section, and interposed between the tip section of the first pipe section and the second pipe section. The entire perimeter of the tip section of the first pipe section is supported so as to be slidable relative to the second pipe section, via the blocking section.
US09249695B2
A concentric cam shaft assembly, including: a first camshaft; a second camshaft including at least a portion disposed radially within the first camshaft; and at least one phasing assembly including first and second electric motors and a first input gear arranged to rotate at a first speed in response to receiving rotational torque from a crankshaft of an engine. The rotational torque is arranged to rotate the first and second camshafts. The first electric motor is arranged to circumferentially off-set the first camshaft with respect to the first input gear. The second electric motor is arranged to circumferentially off-set the second camshaft with respect to the first input gear.
US09249693B2
An opposed piston engine includes a valve mechanism for regulating fluid flow through an opening formed in a cylinder of the engine. The mechanism includes a valve operatively coupled to the cylinder so as to be rotatable to a first position to seal the opening and to a second position to unseal the opening, and at least one cam surface operatively coupled to the cylinder so as to be movable with respect to the cylinder to engage the valve so as to produce rotation of the valve.
US09249691B2
A Rankine cycle device includes a heat exchanger for supplying heat to a working fluid and an expansion device for expanding the working fluid. A valve is disposed between the heat exchanger and the expansion device and a cooling device is reduces a temperature of the working fluid. A pump moves the working fluid through the Rankine cycle device and a sensor is used to sense a pressure of the working fluid. A controller is operable to open the valve based upon the sensed pressure of the working fluid.
US09249689B2
An exemplary system method for the operation of a CCPP with flue gas recirculation to reduce NOx emissions and/or to increase the CO2 concentration in the flue gases to facilitate CO2 capture from the flue gases is disclosed. The flue gas recirculation rate (rFRG) is controlled as function of the combustion pressure and/or the hot gas temperature. Operability is enhanced by admixing of oxygen or oxygen enriched air to the gas turbine inlet gases or to the combustion.
US09249687B2
A system includes multiple blades coupled to a rotor, a stationary shroud disposed about the multiple blades, and a clearance between the stationary shroud and each blade end of the multiple blades, wherein the clearance is configured to enable over tip leakage flow. The system also includes a diffuser section that includes an outer wall defining an expanding flow path downstream from the multiple blades. The outer wall includes a first wall portion having a first angle relative to a rotational axis of the multiple blades, and the clearance is configured to enable an increase in the first angle by maintaining the boundary layer along the outer wall with the over tip leakage flow.
US09249684B2
A composite component includes a bonded portion and a component mount. The component mount is coupled to the bonded portion to move relative to the bonded portion. The bonded portion includes a fiber portion and a ceramic portion.
US09249683B2
The invention proposes a method for determining the capacity of an aircraft pump to deliver a predetermined fuel flow rate, characterised in that it comprises a step of rotating the pump at a predetermined speed; a step of supplying at least one cylinder with the totality of the fuel coming out of the pump; a step of determining the fuel flow rate supplying said cylinder, and a diagnostic step which consists in determining whether the pump is able to supply a sufficient flow rate as a function of the determined value of the flow rate supplying the cylinder. The invention also proposes a device implementing the method.
US09249679B2
An impingement sleeve and methods for designing and forming an impingement sleeve are disclosed. In one embodiment, the impingement sleeve includes a body configured to at least partially surround a transition piece of the combustor. The impingement sleeve further includes a plurality of cooling holes defined in the body, the plurality of cooling holes having a cooling hole pattern configured to provide a desired operational value for the transition piece. At least one of the plurality of cooling holes has a chamfer extending at least partially between an inlet and an outlet of the at least one of the plurality of cooling holes. At least a portion of the plurality of cooling holes are generally longitudinally asymmetric.
US09249674B2
A platform cooling arrangement in a turbine rotor blade having a platform positioned between an airfoil and a root. The rotor blade, along a side that coincides with a pressure side of the airfoil, includes a pressure side of the platform includes a topside extending from an airfoil base to a pressure side slashface. The platform cooling arrangement includes: a main plenum residing just inboard of the topside in the pressure side of the platform, the main plenum extending through the platform from an upstream end having an aft position to a downstream end having a forward position; and cooling apertures. Near the upstream end, the main plenum includes an aft switchback, and, between the aft switchback and the downstream end, a forward arc. Each of the cooling apertures extends from the main plenum to a port formed on the pressure side slashface.
US09249671B2
A deflector for guiding a cooling fluid to a blade device of a turbine is provided. The deflector includes a first opening region with a first opening shape and a second opening region with a second opening shape. The deflector is connectable to a first blade device and to a second blade device in such a way that the cooling fluid is streamable through the first opening region into the first blade device and the cooling fluid is streamable through the second opening region into the second blade device. The first opening shape differs from the second opening shape for achieving a predetermined first mass flow of the cooling fluid into the first blade device and a predetermined second mass flow of the cooling fluid into the second blade device at predetermined installation locations of the first blade device and the second blade device.
US09249670B2
A component includes a substrate having an outer surface, an inner surface and a tip. The inner surface defines at least one hollow, interior space. The outer surface defines one or more grooves, where each groove extends at least partially along the outer surface of the substrate and has a base. The component further includes a coating disposed over at least a portion of the outer surface of the substrate. The coating includes at least a structural coating that extends over the groove(s), such that the groove(s) and the structural coating together define one or more channels for cooling the component. The tip comprises a tip cap enclosing the hollow, interior space(s), and a tip rim disposed at a radially outer end of the substrate. The tip rim at least partially defines at least one discharge channel in fluid communication with at least one cooling channel.
US09249652B2
A method for selective placement, initiation and propagation of a hydraulically induced fracture in an open wellbore.
US09249646B2
A method of cementing a tubular string in a wellbore includes: deploying the tubular string into the wellbore; pumping cement slurry into the tubular string; launching a cementing plug after pumping the cement slurry; propelling the cementing plug through the tubular string, thereby pumping the cement slurry through the tubular string and into an annulus formed between the tubular string and the wellbore; and controlling flow of fluid displaced from the wellbore by the cement slurry to control pressure of the annulus.
US09249642B2
A self-actuated cyclical flow interruption valve on a deployment tool is positioned at a proximal end of a well completion assembly. Fluid is pumped though the self-actuated cyclical flow interruption valve and vented immediately distal of the valve, to return to surface of the well. A water hammer pulse is generated each time the self-actuated cyclical flow interruption valve closes, thereby generating an impact force that acts to push the completion equipment distally into the well. The continuous cyclic force of the impact facilitates placement of the completion equipment where desired in the well, including within a horizontal extension of the well. Fluid discharged through the self-actuated cyclical flow interruption valve circulates up to the surface through a vertical and inclined section of the well.
US09249641B2
The articulated wireline hole finder is a modular device which attaches to the bottom of a wireline logging tool-string to aid conveyance down irregular shaped and/or deviated boreholes which possess features such as ledges, washouts, and contractions, that might otherwise terminate full descent of the tool-string to the bottom of the borehole and thereby compromise the wireline data acquisition objectives. Elements of the articulated wireline hole finder may include a low friction roller nose assembly and spacer sub, an articulated spring joint, that transfers tool-string weight and directs lateral movement of the roller nose towards hole center, and a pair of five arm centralizers that possess a wide dynamic range.
US09249633B1
A casing centralizer which has an annular body having a substantially cylindrical bore extending longitudinally therethrough. The annular body is divided along its axis into two inter-connectable sections, each of which includes fins extending radially therefrom. Each inter-connectable section also includes at least one latch and at least one alignment guide, as well as at least one latch cavity configured for matingly receiving and interlocking with the at least one latch of the other inter-connectable section, and at least one alignment guide cavity configured for matingly receiving and interlocking with the at least one alignment guide of the opposing inter-connectable section. The two inter-connectable sections may then be clamped about a drill pipe for maintaining a centralized position of the drill pipe in a downhole casing.
US09249632B2
A method includes inserting a vibration damper tool in a drill string, the damper includes a tubular housing having an exterior surface and a longitudinal passageway, and at least one fluid actuated piston assembly. The piston assembly includes an extendable piston, a transverse passageway, a spring chamber in the transverse passageway, and at least one spring disposed in the spring chamber. The spring biases the piston in a refracted position. The drill string and dampening tool are inserted into a wellbore, fluid is flowed down the drill string and exerts pressure on a proximal end of the piston, and creates a fluidic force sufficient to overcome a biasing retractable force of the spring to extend the piston longitudinally until a distal end of the piston contacts a sidewall of the wellbore.
US09249625B2
An attachment apparatus is disclosed suitable for use with ladders comprising a wedging section enabling it to be wedged into a central bore of a rung of a ladder for attachment thereto. The attachment apparatus may have a wedging section formed from a resilient material. It may further include elongate engaging section whose cross-sectional dimension is less than that of a largest dimension of a central bore of a rung of a ladder for attachment thereto. It allows a user of the such apparatus to safely suspend items such as paint pots or tools from a ladder for easy reach.
US09249620B2
A roll blind is provided which can guarantee a simple operation. The roll blind includes: a supporting frame disposed in a window frame; first and second winding bars rotatably disposed in the supporting frame; a winding driver rotationally driving one of the first and second winding bars; first and second screens coupled to the first and second winding bars, respectively; a weight bar to which the tower ends of the first and second screens are fixed; and a clutch unit binding and unbinding the first and second winding bars with respect to each other.
US09249612B2
A movable barrier operator controls access to a secured area which houses vehicles. The movable barrier operator is operable to move a movable barrier from an open to a closed position. A sensor controls the operation of a service-providing device through the controller of a movable barrier operator or by direct communication to a controller for the service-providing device. The sensing device senses whether a vehicle is present in the secured area. The sensor is operatively connected to the moveable barrier operator and is used to control the operation of at least one service-providing device without necessarily effecting movement of a barrier by the movable barrier operator. Operation of the service-providing device is effected upon sensing whether a vehicle is present in the secured area to effect an operation of the service-providing device.
US09249611B2
In a rotary damper 1 including a cam surface 3f formed in a lower end surface of a large-diameter portion 3b of a rotor 3 and including a cam surface 4f formed in an upper end surface of a piston 4, the cam surface 4f being capable of contacting the cam surface 3f, the cam surfaces 3f, 4f pressed to contact each other by a coil spring 9 biasing the piston 4, the piston 4 is prohibited from being moved toward the large-diameter portion 3b beyond a predetermined second position. Coil spring 9 does not rotationally bias the piston 4. The coil spring 9 biases the piston 4 only such that the piston 4 approaches the large-diameter portion 3b.
US09249608B2
A door assembly includes a structure including an exterior panel defining an opening, and a grab bar. The grab bar is moveable relative to the exterior panel. A first linkage system and a second linkage system interconnect the grab bar and the structure. A drive assembly is coupled to the first linkage system and the second linkage system to move the grab bar between an extended position and a retracted position. The drive assembly includes a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuator that contracts in response to a control signal, to move the grab bar. A seal may be provided to seal between the grab bar and the structure. A heating element may provide a thermal load to heat the grab bar, a seal surrounding the grab bar, or both.
US09249604B2
A locking and insertion structure, applicable for an electronic device including a casing, includes a fastening element and a locking element. The casing includes a bottom part, a locking seat and a cantilever part. The fastening element includes a body disposed on the casing, a first locking part extending from the second locking part to between the cantilever part and the locking seat, and a second locking part extending from the body onto the cantilever part. The cantilever part is between the first and second locking part. A first locking hole of the first locking part, a second locking hole of the second locking part and a third locking hole of the cantilever part align with each other. The locking element penetrates through the second, third and first locking hole and is inserted into the locking seat sequentially so the fastening element is affixed to the casing.
US09249603B2
A lock is provided, the lock having: a lock mechanism having a first member and a second member, the first member and the second member each being slidably mounted to a housing of the combination lock, wherein the first member is capable of movement between a first position and a second position and the second member is capable of movement between a first position and a second position and wherein movement of the first member from the first position to the second position causes the second member to move from the first position to the second position; a bolt configured for movement between a locking position and an unlocking position, the bolt preventing the second member from moving from the second position to the first position when the bolt is in the locking position.
US09249598B2
A modular crypt structure comprising a frame, a module insert defining a chamber and a closure panel and methods of constructing the same are disclosed. The chamber functions as a crypt module and is adapted to receive bodily remains or portions thereof. The chamber is closed by attaching a closure panel, such as a stone crypt front to the frame, thereby encapsulating bodily remains. The modular crypt structure may comprise a plurality of chambers, thereby providing a plurality of crypt modules, and the frame may comprise a plurality of horizontal bars and a plurality of vertical bars. A method of constructing a modular crypt structure comprises erecting a frame, providing at least one module insert, configuring the insert to define a chamber adapted to receive bodily remains, and closing the crypt module.
US09249597B2
A tower construction for a wind turbine is proposed. The tower construction has a number of axially disposed hollow cylindrical tower sections. Each of the axially disposed hollow cylindrical tower sections has a number of circumferentially disposed first tower section segments and a number of circumferentially disposed second tower section segments. The first tower section segments and the second tower section segments are alternated with each other.
US09249587B2
A collapsible cardboard concrete form is disclosed. In a particular embodiment the form includes a cardboard box beam having a depressed longitudinal section along an outer portion of its length for added structural integrity. A lateral notch is disposed in the outer portion of the form at intervals and across a width of the form to divide the form into what will be the sides of the form when assembled. The lateral notches include a flexible planar connector of an inner portion of the form to allow the notch to act as a hinge and bend to create each corner of the form. A tab extends from one end of the form and is used to tuck in an opposing end of the form. The surfaces of the form may be coated with wax, or other sealant, to prevent moisture damage to the form as the concrete is curing.
US09249582B1
A floating floor system includes a plurality of floor panels, each including: a resilient base layer; a wear layer forming an uppermost surface of the floor panel atop the resilient base layer and having a higher degree of stiffness than the resilient base layer; a first locking edge portion having a first locking profile that includes a first horizontal locking feature, a first vertical locking feature, and a channel having a channel floor, being formed by the wear layer and the resilient base layer, and including a channel bed thickness measured between the uppermost surface and the channel floor, the wear layer forming at least 5% of the channel bed thickness; and a second locking edge portion having a second locking profile that includes a second horizontal locking feature, a second vertical locking feature, and a second vertical ridge and being located opposite the first locking edge portion.
US09249575B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for centralizing rebar in a shaft are provided. The systems include a rebar centralizer system comprising a first ring and a second ring configured to be positioned in an angular relationship with each other. The first and second rings are configured to at least partially intersect so as to present at least one interior corner in which a section of rebar can be secured.
US09249572B2
Prefabricated wall segments for construction of buildings. The prefabricated wall segments are lightweight and easy to install and enable an improved ability to install electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling systems as well as insulation in both the vertical and horizontal direction. The prefabricated wall segments can be utilized in new construction as well as in preexisting structures without the need for specialty equipment or tools.
US09249564B2
A sanitary installation element that is arranged in a water line includes a mixing device with at least one throttling or closing element, which throttling or closing element can be moved under the pressure of the inflowing water from a mixing or open position into a throttling or closed position against a restoring force, wherein the mixing device offers a relatively large clear flow cross section when the at least one throttling or closing element in the mixing or open position, and, by contrast thereto, a reduced clear flow cross section when the at least one throttling or closing element is in the throttling or closed position. The installation element always offers an optimum flow cross section both in low and high pressure ranges.
US09249563B2
A mixer tap is provided that includes: a lever; a temperature adjusting mechanism that enables adjusting a discharge water temperature by rotating the lever from side to side; a discharge amount adjustment mechanism that enables adjusting the discharge amount by rotating the lever back and forth; a side-to-side click mechanism that effects a side-to-side click feeling in association with rotation of the lever from side to side; and a back-and-forth click mechanism that effects a back-and-forth click feeling in association with rotation of the lever back and forth. In the mixer tap, a click feeling is varied depending on a lever back-and-forth position and/or a lever side-to-side position. The difference in the click feeling can provide a user with various items of information. This information allows the improvement of the convenience of the mixer tap.
US09249560B2
An apparatus for activating or cleaning filter tube wells with a filter tube includes a first and second volume bodies, which are substantially adapted to the inside diameter of the filter tube and on the outer circumferential surfaces thereof are designed radially flexibly with respect to the well longitudinal axis such that a sealing effect is achieved between the outer circumferential surfaces of the respective volume bodies and the inside wall of the filter tube. A removal chamber, which can be hydraulically connected to a pump device, is formed between the first and second volume bodies and the inside wall of the filter tube. At least one equalizing tube completely penetrates the removal chamber in the longitudinal direction of the apparatus such that a hydraulic connection is established between the respective regions that adjoin the outer faces of the two volume bodies disposed opposite of the removal chamber.
US09249553B2
The system makes it possible to control and treat gas emanations inside a wastewater access shaft. The system includes a cover with at least one pivoting part, which is normally closed, having a substantially horizontal rotation axis and able to allow solid and/or liquid matter falling onto the main upper surface of the cover to pass toward the bottom of the access shaft. The cover also includes a raised part that has at least one lateral wall and includes a plurality of orifices situated vertically above the main upper surface of the cover. The orifices define an outlet of a gas-emanations circuit formed between the underside and the top of the cover. An air filter is arranged across the circuit. The filter is moistened by a liquid that comes from a reservoir in order to treat the emanations.
US09249540B2
Disclosed is a water and oil resistant agent comprising a fluorine-containing copolymer obtained by copolymerizing a (meth)acrylate monomer having a polyfluoroalkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms, hydrophilic monomer, and monomer having an anion-donating group, which agent affords a superior water and oil resistance to a paper. The invention also discloses a process for treating a paper by the water and oil resistant agent and a treated paper thereby.
US09249532B2
A method of preparing a reinforcing structure for use in manufacture a pultruded part where the reinforcing structure is pulled through a pultrusion die in a continuous longitudinal pull direction. The method includes arranging a plurality of first reinforcing fibers in a transverse direction and attaching a permeable transport web of staple fibers to the first reinforcing fibers such that the portion of the first reinforcing fibers oriented in the direction transverse comprises at least 30% of a volume of materials comprising the reinforcing structure.
US09249522B2
Methods for forming three-layer thin-film battery (TFB) structures by sequential electrophoretic deposition (EPD) on a single conductive substrate. The TFBs may be two-dimensional or three-dimensional. The sequential EPD includes EPD of a first battery electrode followed by EPD of a porous separator on the first electrode and by EPD of a second battery electrode on the porous separator. In some embodiments of a Li or Li-ion TFB, the separator includes a Li ion conducting solid. In some embodiments of a Li or Li-ion TFB, the separator includes an inorganic porous solid rendered ionically conductive by impregnation with a liquid or polymer. In some embodiments, the TFBs are coated and sealed with an EPDd PEEK layer.
US09249521B2
Anode applicators include consumable anodes, that can be operated in a non-stationary mode and are insensitive to orientation, are used in selective plating/brush electrodeposition of coatings or free-standing components. The flow-through dimensionally-stable, consumable anodes employed are perforated/porous to provide relatively unimpeded electrolyte flow and operate at low enough electrochemical potentials to provide for anodic metal/alloy dissolution avoiding undesired anodic reactions. The consumable anodes include consumable anode material(s) in high surface area to reduce the local anodic current density. During electroplating, sufficient electrolyte is pumped through the consumable anodes at sufficient flow rates to minimize concentration gradient and/or avoid the generation of chlorine and/or oxygen gas and/or undesired reaction such as the anodic oxidation of P-bearing ions in the electrolyte. The active consumable anode material(s) can have a microstructure which is fine-grained and/or amorphous to ensure a uniform anodic dissolution.
US09249511B2
The problem addressed by the present invention is to provide a method for facilitating the regenerating a waste plating solution as a plating solution. This method for regenerating an acidic waste plating solution containing, as ions, Fe and at least one plating metal element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ni, Zn, Co, and Mn by removing Fe therefrom is characterized in having an addition step in which phytic acid is added to the waste plating solution to yield a phytic-acid-containing solution in which Fe ions are precipitated, and a removal step in which the precipitate is removed from the phytic-acid-containing solution to yield a regenerated plating solution.
US09249510B2
A method and apparatus for regenerating a plating composition which is suitable for depositing at least one first metal on a substrate where the plating rate in the plating composition is very low, where the concentration of the at least one first metal in the plating composition cannot be easily set at a constant level, and where plating-out of the at least one first metal from the plating composition takes place. The method and apparatus for regenerating a plating composition is suitable for depositing at least one first metal on a substrate at a sufficiently high plating rate, while offering the opportunity to easily adjust the concentration of the at least one first metal in the plating composition at a constant level and to provide the plating composition with sufficient stability against decomposition thereof in order to safeguard the regeneration cell from plated-out first metal.
US09249507B2
A chemical bath deposition (CBD) apparatus includes a first cap, a second cap, and a solution input/output device. The second cap is arranged corresponding to the first cap so as to form a deposition space. The solution input/output device is located in the first cap so as to feed a solution into/out of the deposition space. The position of the solution input/output device is fixed, or the solution input/output device is movable in the deposition space.
US09249503B2
The film formation method comprises the steps of: unrolling and feeding an elongated substrate wound in a roll form from a first roll chamber in a first direction from the first roll chamber toward a second roll chamber, using a first surface as a surface for film formation; degassing the substrate fed in the first direction; forming a second material film on the first surface of the substrate in a second film formation chamber; taking up the substrate in a roll form in the second roll chamber, the substrate having the second material film formed thereon; unrolling and feeding the substrate from the second roll chamber in a second direction from the second roll chamber toward the first roll chamber; forming a first material film on the second material film in a first film formation chamber; taking up the substrate in a roll form in the first roll chamber.
US09249501B2
A mirror (1) for a microlithography projection exposure apparatus including a substrate (3) and a reflective coating (5). A functional coating (11) between the substrate (3) and the reflective coating (5) has a local form variation (19) for correcting the surface form of the mirror (1), wherein the local form variation (19) is brought about by a local variation in the chemical composition of the functional coating (11) and wherein a thickness of the reflective coating (5) is not changed by the local variation in the chemical composition of the functional coating (11). The local variation in the chemical composition of the functional coating (11) can be brought about by bombardment with particles (15), for example with hydrogen ions.
US09249489B2
A system and method for adjusting dipping time in a continuous steel pipe manufacturing line. The system manufactures a steel pipe of which inner and outer faces or any one face thereof is subjected to molten metal-plating from a steel sheet in a continuous manufacturing line, and includes an inner-face plating performing part for molten metal-plating by pouring molten metal to the upper side of the steel sheet corresponding to the inner face of the steel pipe, a steel pipe forming part that obtains a continuous steel pipe by continuously cold-forming the steel sheet subjected to the inner-face plating into a tubular shape and seam-welding a longitudinal end face joint portion of the steel sheet formed in the steel pipe, and an outer-face plating performing part for molten metal-plating by dipping the outer face of the steel pipe into the molten metal, in which a dipping length of the molten metal is adjusted in the inner-face plating performing part and/or the outer-face plating performing part.
US09249487B2
New methods for aging aluminum alloys having zinc and magnesium are disclosed. The methods may include first aging the aluminum alloy at a first temperature of from about 330° F. to 530° F. and for a first aging time of from 1 minute to 6 hours, and then second aging the aluminum alloy at a second temperature for a second aging time of at least 30 minutes, with the second temperature being lower than the first temperature.
US09249484B2
New 7xxx aluminum alloy bodies and methods of producing the same are disclosed. The new 7xxx aluminum alloy bodies may be produced by preparing the aluminum alloy body for post-solutionizing cold work, cold working by at least 25%, and then thermally treating. The new 7xxx aluminum alloy bodies may realize improved strength and other properties.
US09249478B2
This invention relates to a method for the selective recovery of manganese and zinc from brines that includes the steps of contacting a brine with an ionic liquid in order to selectively extract manganese and zinc from the brine into the ionic liquid; and treating the ionic liquid containing extracted manganese and zinc with an aqueous solution to selectively precipitate manganese, producing a manganese depleted, zinc rich ionic liquid. The method can further include the steps of treating the manganese depleted, zinc rich ionic liquid with an aqueous solution to selectively precipitate zinc.
US09249477B2
This disclosure concerns the recovery of PGM (platinum group metals) from spent homogeneous catalysts present in an organic phase. Specifically, a pyrometallurgical process is provided whereby the PGM, and Rh in particular, are concentrated in a metallurgical phases, rendering them accessible for refining according to known processes. To this end, a process is disclosed comprising the steps of: —providing a molten bath furnace, having a submerged injector equipped for liquid fuel firing; —providing a molten bath comprising a metallic and/or matte phase, and a slag phase; —feeding the spent homogeneous catalyst and an O2 bearing gas through the injector, a major part of the PGM being recovered in the metallic and/or matte phase; —separating the PGM-bearing metallic and/or matte phase from the slag phase. The energy content of the organic waste can be effectively used for heating and/or reduction of the metallurgical charge in the furnace. Valuable metals are recovered with high yield, and the environmentally harmful organic waste is destructed.
US09249457B2
The purpose of the subject invention is to provide a method of manufacturing a mixture of amplified double-stranded nucleic acids comprising unknown sequence including the complete 5′ end sequence.A method of manufacturing a mixture of amplified double-stranded nucleic acids comprising: (a) preparing a single-stranded nucleic acid comprising a single-stranded adapter 1, a single-stranded nucleic acid fragment and a single-stranded adapter 2, and (b) conducting PCR with said single-stranded nucleic acid prepared in step (a), a primer 1, and a primer 2 to amplify double-stranded nucleic acids.
US09249456B2
Methods, combinations and kits are provided for identifying the methylation state of a target nucleic acid molecule, the methylation state of a nucleotide locus in a target nucleic acid molecule, or for identifying the locus of one or more methylated or unmethylated nucleotides in a target nucleic acid molecule. Methylation state identification is performed by treating a methylated target nucleic acid molecule with a reagent that modifies one or more nucleotides in the target nucleic acid molecule as a function of the methylation state of the target nucleic acid molecule, methylation specifically amplifying treated target nucleic acid molecule, fragmenting amplified products, and detecting one or more fragments to thereby identify the methylation state of a target nucleic acid molecule, the methylation state of a nucleotide locus in a target nucleic acid molecule, or the locus of one or more methylated or unmethylated nucleotides in a target nucleic acid molecule.
US09249453B2
Provided is a method for identifying a malodor inhibitor based on a response of an olfactory receptor. The present invention provides a method for identifying a malodor inhibitor including: adding a test substance and a malodor-causing substance to at least one olfactory receptor selected from the group consisting of OR5P3, OR5K1, OR2W1, OR8H1, and a polypeptide which has 80% or more identity in amino acid sequence to any one of the aforementioned polypeptides; measuring the response of the olfactory receptor to the malodor-causing substance; identifying the test substance which can suppress the response of the olfactory receptor based on the measured response; and selecting, as a malodor inhibitor, the test substance which can suppress the response of the olfactory receptor.
US09249450B2
The described invention provides a method of generating a catalytically active oxidase enzyme preparation. The described invention also provides a means of generating reagents for a protease detection sensor which can use colorimetric, fluorescent, or electrochemical detection. Further, the invention describes a system for a protease detecting sensor.
US09249446B2
The present invention is an apparatus for detecting the presence, quantity and identity of one or more microorganisms in a sample and a method for using the same. The apparatus is composed of one or more chambers and a sensing element for sensing microorganisms. In particular embodiments, the sensing element is an array of chemoresponsive dyes deposited on a substrate in a predetermined pattern combination, wherein the combination of the dyes have a distinct and direct spectroscopic, transmission, or reflectance response to distinct analytes produced by the microorganism which is indicative of the presence, quantity and identity of the microorganism.
US09249444B2
Disclosed are genes that, when overexpressed in cells expressing alpha-synuclein, either suppress or enhance alpha-synuclein mediated cellular toxicity. Compounds that modulate expression of these genes or activity of the encoded proteins can be used to inhibit alpha-synuclein mediated toxicity and used to treat or prevent synucleinopathies such as Parkinson's disease. Also disclosed are methods of identifying inhibitors of alpha-synuclein mediated toxicity.
US09249442B2
The present invention is directed to a method of converting biomass to biofuel, and particularly to a consolidated bioprocessing method using a co-culture of thermophilic and extremely thermophilic microorganisms which collectively can ferment the hexose and pentose sugars produced by degradation of cellulose and hemicelluloses at high substrate conversion rates. A culture medium therefor is also provided as well as use of the methods to produce and recover cellulosic ethanol.
US09249438B2
A process is described for the production of an immunostimulant by submerged cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum in which mycelium from agar plates or a fermentation broth is added to a liquid medium in a shake flask or a bioreactor containing nutrients such as malt extract, yeast extract, peptone and glucose having access to air or to which air is added, and which is kept in constant movement at approx. 28° C. At the proper conditions, there will be an increase in the production of extracellular lentinan, which is shown to be a better immunostimulant than intracellular lentinan. The extracellular product is precipitated from the growth medium by means of methods for the precipitation of microbial polysaccharide.
US09249424B2
The invention provides a method to prevent, inhibit or treat one or more neurological symptoms associated with a lysosomal storage disease in a mammal in need thereof, which includes intranasally administering to the mammal a composition comprising an effective amount of a lysosomal storage enzyme or a recombinant adeno-associated virus vector comprising an open reading frame encoding a lysosomal storage enzyme. Also provided are compositions and devices useful in the methods.
US09249423B2
RNA prepared by in vitro transcription using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-generated template can be introduced into a cell to modulate cell activity. This method is useful in de-differentiating somatic cells to pluripotent, multipotent, or unipotent cells; re-differentiating stem cells into differentiated cells; or reprogramming of somatic cells to modulate cell activities such as metabolism. Cells can also be transfected with inhibitory RNAs, such as small interfering RNA (siRNA) or micro RNA (miRNA), or combinations thereof to induce reprogramming of somatic cells. For example, target cells are isolated from a donor, contacted with one or more RNA's causing the cells to be de-differentiated, re-differentiated, or reprogrammed in vitro, and administered to a patient in need thereof. The resulting cells are useful for treating one or more symptoms of a variety of diseases and disorders, for organ regeneration, and for restoration of the immune system.
US09249418B2
The present disclosure is directed to the use of plant promoters to drive recombinant expression in filamentous fungal cells. In certain aspects, the present disclosure provides an expression cassette useful for the expression of polypeptide in filamentous fungal cells. Also provided herein, are vectors and recombinant filamentous fungal cells comprising the expression cassettes of the present disclosure, and methods of making and using the same for recombinant polypeptide expression.
US09249414B2
The invention relates to siRNA compounds comprising one non-nucleotide moiety covalently attached to at least one of the sense or antisense strands to down-regulate the expression of human genes. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and to methods of treating and/or preventing the incidence or severity of various diseases or conditions associated with the target genes and/or symptoms associated with such diseases or conditions.
US09249410B2
The present invention is based, at least in part, on the development of a mating-based yeast two-hybrid screen that allows simultaneous screening for mutations that disrupt yeast two-hybrid interactions between a protein and multiple interacting partners. By coupling PCR mutagenesis and homologous recombination/gapped plasmid repair with a mating-based assay, the present invention allows screening for unique mutations that disrupt interaction with one partner, but not others. It also allows identification of specific mutations that may lie at protein-protein interfaces common to two or more partners, without employing multiple rounds of screening. In addition to screening against multiple interacting partners, the present invention removes the need for a two-step selection because truncations, frameshifts, or any mutations that affect folding are eliminated as disruptions that affect all protein partners. The methods of the present invention are named “Hotspot” because of its ability to identify “hotspot residues” in protein-protein interfaces.
US09249408B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for screening polypeptide libraries that include variants comprising unnatural amino acids. In addition, the invention provides vector packaging systems and methods for packaging a nucleic acid in a vector. Compositions of vectors produced by the methods and systems are also provided.
US09249394B2
An object of this invention is to provide a method, etc., for efficiently proliferating a pluripotent epithelial somatic stem cell. A method for producing an epithelial somatic stem cell comprising Steps (A) and (B) below: (A) expressing a gene of a protein having an activity for causing a cell in G0 phase or G1 phase to enter S phase, in a cell population including an epithelial somatic stem cell; and (B) culturing the cell obtained in Step (A) in the presence of an extracellular growth factor.
US09249393B2
The present invention provides a method to derive hepatic stem cells from stem cells derived from non-liver tissue. In one embodiment of the invention, hepatic stem cells are derived from adipose stem cells. The invention also provides a method of enhancing hepatic cytokine production (e.g., HGF) from ASCs, which may be useful in the regeneration of liver tissue when transplanted in vivo. Tissue culture conditions, including media conditions, are provided.
US09249392B2
The present application relates to methods and compositions for the generation of therapeutic cells having reduced incidence of karyotypic abnormalities. In several embodiments cardiac stem cells are cultured in an antioxidant-supplemented media that reduces levels of reactive oxygen species, but does not down regulate DNA repair mechanisms. In several embodiments, physiological oxygen concentrations are used during culture in order to increase the proliferation of stem cells, decrease the senescence of the cells, decrease genomic instability, and/or augment the functionality of such cells for cellular therapies.
US09249391B2
The present disclosure provides methods of generating neural stem cells from differentiated somatic cells. The present disclosure also provides induced neural stem cells generated using a subject method, as well as differentiated cells generated from a subject induced neural stem cell. A subject neural stem cell, as well as differentiated cells derived from a subject neural stem cell, is useful in various applications, which are also provided in the present disclosure.
US09249381B2
A process is disclosed for reducing alcohol in a fermented beverage without heat damage and without degrading the original flavor profile of the fermented beverage. The process generally includes the steps of: (i) removing aromatics from the wine; (ii) removing alcohol from the wine; (iii) refluxing a portion of the alcohol removed from the wine to increase the alcohol concentration of the alcohol vapor and return at least a portion of the condensed/recovered water to the wine; and (iv) condensing the aromatics removed from the wine and returning at least a portion thereof to the wine.
US09249378B2
Cleaning compositions and methods of making and using the same are provided. The cleaning compositions of the present invention are both non-toxic and environmentally benign, and are effective at removing both hydrophobic and hydrophilic soils from a wide range of substrate types, including metal, glass, painted wall board, vinyl, concrete, and many others. The cleaning compositions of the present invention may be useful in a variety of domestic, industrial, and/or institutional applications.
US09249372B2
A lubricating composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity, 1 to 1000 parts per million by weight of titanium in the form of an oil-soluble titanium-containing material, and at least one additional lubricant additive provides beneficial effects on properties such as deposit control, oxidation, and filterability in engine oils.
US09249367B2
An impingement injector includes an injector core having a plurality of conduits. The conduits include a first conduit and second conduits disposed circumferentially around the first conduit. The second conduits are at an impinging angle with respect to the first conduit. Replaceable, tunable jets are disposed in corresponding ones of the second conduits.
US09249366B2
Corrosive amine salts in hydrocarbon streams such as desalted crude oil streams can be prevented or avoided by adding certain amine scavenging chemicals to the streams to remove the amines therefrom. Suitable amine scavengers include, but are not necessarily limited to, carboxylic anhydrides and copolymers of carboxylic anhydrides, aromatic anhydrides, isocyanates, polyisocyanates, and epoxides. The non-corrosive reaction products of the amines and/or ammonia with these scavengers are preferably oil-soluble, non-basic and thermally stable. The amine scavengers bind up and react with the amines and/or ammonia to keep them from reacting with materials such as acids (e.g. HCl) to form corrosive amine salts.
US09249335B2
The invention relates to unique applications for the novel high melt flow, low viscosity, selectively hydrogenated styrene-butadiene-styrene (hSBS) or selectively hydrogenated controlled distribution styrene-butadiene/styrene-styrene (hSBSS) block copolymers, wherein the melt flow rate of said block copolymer is at least 100 g/10 min at 230° C. under 2.16 kg mass according to ASTM D1238. These block copolymers are novel and have the highest melt flow rate of any styrenic block copolymer also possessing high strength and elasticity. It has applications that prior to the present invention were not normally possible due to the normal low melt flow rate of styrenic block copolymers. The present invention also encompasses various fields of use such as a fiberglass hSBS or hSBSS reinforced mat, low viscosity hSBS or hSBSS coatings for industrial uses, hot melt adhesives prepared from hSBS or hSBSS blended with polyalpha-olefins, and elastic film, fiber, and nonwoven constructions using hSBS or hSBSS.
US09249334B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods for preparing high optical density solutions of nanoplates, such as silver nanoplates or silver platelet nanoparticles, and to nanoparticles, solutions and substrates prepared by said methods. The process can include the addition of stabilizing agents (e.g., chemical or biological agents bound or otherwise linked to the nanoparticle surface) that stabilize the nanoparticle before, during, and/or after concentration, thereby allowing for the production of a stable, high optical density solution of silver nanoplates. The process can also include increasing the concentration of silver nanoplates within the solution, and thus increasing the solution optical density.
US09249331B2
A colored coating composition comprising a white base paint and at least one colored pigment in a form that can be readily mixed with the white base paint, the white base paint comprising a film-forming polymer, a liquid carrier, one or more opacifying white pigments and one or more extenders, the colored coating composition having a light reflectance value Y less than 110, and greater than that defined by the equation Y=mC+K, where 25>C>1.0, C being the chroma of the colored coating composition, m and K being empirical coefficients selected according to the type and number of the type of the at least one colored pigment, and dependant on the hue angle of the coating composition.
US09249328B2
An ink for ink jet recording apparatuses contains water and a pigment dispersion containing a resin and carbon black. The ink additionally contains a surfactant including a compound expressed by the general formula (I) below, and the mass average molecular weight of the resin, the DBP oil absorption of the carbon black, the content of the resin with respect to the content of the carbon black in the pigment dispersion, and the dried-by-evaporation viscosity V40, which is the viscosity of the ink at the dryness of 40% by mass, are all within the respective predetermined ranges.
US09249324B2
The present disclosure provides an ink-jet ink comprising an aqueous ink vehicle and an aqueous dispersion, the aqueous dispersion comprises a colorant and a polyurethane dispersant, wherein said polyurethane dispersant is comprised of a polymer having a cross-linkable moiety, wherein the cross-linkable moiety is cross-linked with a cross-linking agent.
US09249323B2
Inkjet ink contains water, hydrosoluble organic materials; and a colorant, wherein the hydrosoluble organic materials account for 30% by weight to 50% by weight of the inkjet ink, wherein the hydrosoluble organic materials contain 3-methoxy-1-butanol, herein the hydrosoluble organic materials contain at least one of 1,3-butane diol, 3-methyl-1,3-butane diol, 1,2-butane diol, 2,3-butane diol, 1,2-pentane diol, 3-methyl-3-hydroxymethyl oxetane, 1,2-propane diol, or 1,3-propane diol in an amount of 1% of the inkjet ink.
US09249322B2
The ink set includes a deep black ink containing a carbon black, and a pale black ink containing the carbon black with a lower content than the deep black ink. The deep black ink further contains a first colorant and a second colorant, and the pale black ink further contains the first colorant, but does substantially not contain the second colorant. The first and the second colorant are each selected from the group consisting of cyan colorants, magenta colorants, violet colorants, and green colorants.
US09249321B2
A free radical curable liquid for inkjet printing of food packaging materials includes no initiator or otherwise one or more initiators selected from the group consisting of non-polymeric di- or multifunctional initiators, oligomeric initiators, polymeric initiators, and polymerizable initiators; and a polymerizable composition of the liquid consists essentially of: a) 25-100 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds A having at least one acrylate group G1 and at least one second ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable functional group G2 selected from the group consisting of a vinlyether group, an allylether group, and a allylester group; b) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds B selected from the group consisting of monofunctional acrylates and difunctional acrylates; and c) 0-55 wt % of one or more polymerizable compounds C selected from the group consisting of trifunctional acrylates, tetrafunctional acrylates, pentafunctional acrylates and hexafunctional acrylates.
US09249318B2
An object of the present invention is to obtain a dispersion in which a water-repellent inorganic powder is dispersed in water. The dispersion can be handled easily because the dispersion medium is water. In the case of using the dispersion for cosmetics, the dispersion can be suitably used when an inorganic powder subjected to a water-repellent treatment is mixed in an aqueous cosmetic. A dispersion in which an inorganic powder subjected to a water-repellent organic surface treatment is uniformly dispersed in water, wherein the contents of a water-repellent inorganic powder, a dispersant, and water is 80% by weight or more based on the total amount of the dispersion.
US09249313B2
A functional fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (“F-POSS”). The F-POSS, has a chemical structure: where Rf represents a nonreactive organic group and at least one of R1 and R2 represents a chain comprising at least three carbon atoms.
US09249298B2
The polyurethane resin composition comprises a main agent (I) which comprises an urethane prepolymer (A) with an isocyanate group terminal and a hardener (II) which comprises an urethane prepolymer (B) with a hydroxyl group terminal, wherein the urethane prepolymer (B) with the hydroxyl group is a product of reaction between a polyol ingredient (a) comprising a castor oil-based polyol (a1) and a polyisocyanate (b) can inhibit the hollow fiber membranes from clogging, regardless of the kind thereof, when the composition is used as a binder for hollow fiber membranes.
US09249297B2
The invention relates to a methylmethacrylate-butadiene-styrene (MBS) core/shell polymer impact modifier containing functionalization in the shell. The functionalized MBS is useful as an impact modifier in engineering resins, and especially in blends of engineering resins, particularly where the blend contains both functional and non-functional resins. One specific engineering resin blend having excellent low temperature impact performance is a polycarbonate (PC)/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blend with the functional MBS of the present invention.
US09249296B2
To provide a technique in which a phosphorus compound does not inhibit curing of an addition reaction type silicone-based composition even though the addition reaction type silicone-based composition is in contact with a resin molded product containing the phosphorus compound. An integrated molded product including a thermoplastic resin molded product containing a phosphorus compound, an addition reaction type silicone-based composition, and a member, in which: the thermoplastic resin molded product is in contact with the addition reaction type silicone-based composition; and a pentavalent phosphorus compound is used as the phosphorus compound. The thermoplastic resin molded product preferably contains a polybutylene terephthalate resin in light of heat resistance.
US09249286B2
Multimodal polyethylene resins having improved stress crack resistance and melt strength rendering them useful for the manufacture of thick-walled pipe are produced in a process wherein the second stage of the process is a copolymerization conducted at a high temperature with a low comonomer to ethylene ratio and a low hydrogen to ethylene ratio.
US09249284B2
Provided are a rubber composition for tires which provides both adhesion to fiber cords and conductivity even when an inexpensive conductive carbon black is used, and thus achieves a balanced improvement in conductivity, handling stability, fuel economy, elongation at break, adhesion to fiber cords, processability, and tire durability; and a pneumatic tire including the composition. The composition includes, per 100 parts by mass of a rubber component: 1.0-3.5 parts by mass of sulfur with an iron content of 30 ppm or less, calculated as the net sulfur content in the sulfur; and 0.5-15 parts by mass of conductive carbon black having a DBP of 300 ml/100 g or more and an iron content of 60 ppm or more, the composition having a total net sulfur content of 1.0-6.0 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, and a volume resistivity of 1.0×108 Ω·cm or less.
US09249282B2
Disclosed herein is a method for utilizing the exothermic energy generated by a low temperature cure reaction to access a high-temperature cure reaction, which is otherwise energetically inaccessible at a chosen tool temperature, thereby producing a cured resin matrix with properties closely matching to those produced via high-temperature cure reactions but achieved via a short cure time and low cure temperature. Also disclosed is a short-cure resin composition containing: (a) at least one multifunctional epoxy resin having an epoxy functionality of greater than 1; (b) a hardener composition containing (i) at least one aliphatic or cycloaliphatic amine curing agent having one or more amino groups per molecule; (ii) at least one aromatic amine curing agent having one or more amino groups per molecule; and optionally, (iii) an imidazole as curing accelerator. The improved properties of this resin composition include being curable at a temperature of ≦120° C. for a time period of less than 10 minutes to achieve a degree of cure higher than that derived from the same composition with just (i) aliphatic/cycloaliphatic amine or (ii) aromatic amine in isolation.
US09249278B2
Compositions containing an aqueous dispersion of selected polymers and selected polyaldehydes as crosslinking agents are described.Adhesives having very high resistance to boiling water can be produced from these formulations.
US09249274B2
A composite material with an elastic modulus of less than 0.1 MPa at 100% elongation including a polymer matrix and a non-Newtonian fluid is provided. The composite material may be employed in shock and impact absorption applications to reduce initial and shockwave acceleration forces. Methods of forming the composite material and reducing acceleration forces in an impact utilizing the composite material are also provided.
US09249267B2
Disclosed is a resin additive masterbatch which not only is capable of containing a resin additive having a low melting point at a high concentration, but also can be continuously produced without strand breakage and has an improved surface tackiness. The resin additive masterbatch contains, with respect to 100 parts by mass of (A) a crystalline resin, 100 to 900 parts by mass of (B) a resin additive, 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of (C) a metal salt of an organic acid other than fatty acid and 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of (D) a gelling agent, the resin additive masterbatch being characterized in that the above-described (B) resin additive retains a liquid state when melted with heating to 250° C. and then cooled to 80° C. and kept for 30 minutes.
US09249260B2
A process for preparing perfluoropolyethers of formula T-O—(RF)z-T′ (I) wherein: T, T' are end groups, z=0 or 1; RF is a perfluoro(poly)oxyalkylene chain containing one or more fluorooxyalkylene repeating units selected from the group consisting of (CF2O), —(CF(CF3)O)—, —(CF2CF2O)—, —(CF2CF(CF3)O)—, —(CF(CF3)CF2O)—, —(CF2CF2CF2O)—, —(CF2CF2CF2CF2O)—, and —(CF2)j—CFZ—O— wherein j is an integer from 0 to 3, and Z is a fluorooxyalkylene chain comprising from 1 to 20 repeating units selected from the above reported fluorooxyalkylene units; comprising the reduction of peroxidic perfluoropolyethers comprising one or more of the above defined repeating units by using gaseous hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising one or more metals of the VIII group supported on graphitic materials.
US09249255B2
This invention relates to a cardanol modified epoxy resin composition, especially, relates to a cardanol and/or dihydric phenol modified epoxy resin composition, a process making thereof and its application in low VOC high solids coating.
US09249251B2
Compositions and methods for forming condensates and resin compositions are provided. In one embodiment, a condensate is formed from a reaction mixture including a triazine monomer, an arylhydroxy monomer, an aldehyde monomer and an acid catalyst having a pKa value of greater than 3.8. The condensates contain up to 28 wt. % of nitrogen and have a melt viscosity of 3,000 cps or less at 175° C. The condensates may have a solubility of at least 80 wt. % solids dissolved in an organic solvent for 120 hours or greater. Also disclosed are methods for the manufacture of the condensate as well as the condensate's use in fire-retardant epoxy resin compositions suitable for the manufacture of laminates for electronic applications. There is also disclosed a glycidylated triazine-arylhydroxy-aldehyde condensate of this invention.
US09249242B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, which hardly causes alignment defects in the case of forming a horizontal alignment film by employing a photo-alignment treatment. The method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a step of forming a horizontal alignment film by carrying out a photo-alignment treatment of irradiating a photo-alignment film material applied to at least one substrate of a pair of substrates with light, wherein the photo-alignment treatment is a treatment for irradiating the same region with light two or more times from a slanting direction with respect to a surface of the at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, and at least two of lights applied two or more times in the photo-alignment treatment are polarized lights applied from directions mutually different at 90° or greater.
US09249237B2
The invention relates to a micro-encapsulated self-repairing polymerizable composition that comprises at least one selected polymerizable compound to be integrated into organic, inorganic or composite materials for the self-repairing of damages incurred in the use conditions thereof, characterized in that micro-encapsulated polymerizable composition is integrated alone into said materials and, after the release of the microcapsule and in the absence of a catalyst, spontaneously polymerizes in the presence of a polymerization-triggering agent that is absent in said materials but naturally occurs during the use thereof, thus repairing said damages.
US09249236B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of water and solvent-free hydrogenated nitrile rubber polymers, to the hydrogenated nitrile rubbers and the use thereof.
US09249230B2
The present invention relates to binding proteins that bind to HER-3 and polynucleotides encoding the same. Expression vectors and host cells comprising the same for the production of the binding protein of the invention are also provided. In addition, the invention provides compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating diseases associated with HER-3 mediated signal transduction and/or its ligand heregulin.
US09249228B2
The present invention relates to anti-Axl antibodies and uses thereof in diagnostic and therapeutic methods. More particularly, the present invention relates to a monoclonal antibody having specificity for Axl comprising an heavy chain variable region comprising SEQ ID NO:2 in the H-CDR1 region, SEQ ID NO:3 in the H-CDR2 region and SEQ ID NO:4 in the H-CDR3 region; and a light chain variable region comprising SEQ ID NO: 6 in the L-CDR1 region, SEQ ID NO:7 in the L-CDR2 region and SEQ ID NO:8 in the L-CDR3 region. Said monoclonal antibody binds to the extracellular domain of Axl via, SEQ ID NO:9, SEQ ID NO: 10 and SEQ ID NO: 11.
US09249226B2
Isolated monoclonal antibodies which bind to human CD38 and related antibody-based compositions and molecules, are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and therapeutic and diagnostic methods for using the antibodies.
US09249223B2
The present invention relates to a novel isolated humanized antibody, or the derived compounds or functional fragments of same, capable of binding to CXCR4 but also of inducing conformational changed of the CXCR4 homodimers and/or heterodimers. More particularly, the present invention relates to hz515H7 antibodies, specific to the CXCR4 protein, as well as their use for the treatment of cancer. Pharmaceutical compositions composed of such antibodies and a process for the selection of such antibodies are also covered.
US09249216B2
The present specification discloses SNAP-25 compositions, methods of making α-SNAP-25 antibodies that bind an epitope comprising a carboxyl-terminus at the P1 residue from the BoNT/A cleavage site scissile bond from a SNAP-25 cleavage product, α-SNAP-25 antibodies that bind an epitope comprising a carboxyl-terminus at the P1 residue from the BoNT/A cleavage site scissile bond from a SNAP-25 cleavage product, methods of detecting BoNT/A activity, and methods of detecting neutralizing α-BoNT/A antibodies.
US09249215B2
The present invention includes a human monoclonal antibody specific for the alpha-toxin of S. aureus, a hybridoma producing it, nucleic acids encoding it, and host cells transfected therewith. Further, the present invention includes methods for producing the monoclonal antibody. In addition, the present invention includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one antibody or at least one nucleic acid encoding the antibody. Further, the present invention includes the use of the monoclonal antibody for treating or preventing abscess formation.
US09249212B2
Monoclonal anti-HPV (human papillomavirus) E7 antibodies are capable of specifically recognizing an epitope of the C-terminal or the N-terminal region of a HPV E7 protein.
US09249204B2
This application is directed to chemokine-immunoglobulin fusion polypeptides and chemokine-polymer conjugates. The fusion polypeptides and conjugates can be used for treating chemokine receptor-mediated disorders and modulating inflammation, inflammatory cell motility, cancer cell motility, or cancer cell survival.
US09249203B2
A neurotrophic peptide having the sequence VGDGGLFEKKL (SEQ ID NO: 1) may be used to help sustain local microenvironment after mild-to-moderate brain injury. Treatment with the peptide was shown to enhance differentiation of newly born progenitors in the dentate gyrus 30 days after injury and to promote neuronal maturation and survival that is not seen naturally after traumatic brain injuries.
US09249197B2
NadA, App and ORF40 function as adhesins in N. meningitidis. Adhesion nad be modulated by targeting these three proteins. NadA allelic variants are also disclosed. Autoproteolytic cleavage of App is disclosed, as is removal of the activity by mutagenesis. App is processed and secreted into culture medium when expressed in E. coli. Mature App proteins are disclosed. Knockout mutants are disclosed. Vesicles from non-Neisserial hosts with heterologous adhesion expression are disclosed.
US09249196B2
The invention provides proteins from Neisseria meningitidis, including the amino acid sequences and the corresponding nucleotide sequences. The proteins are predicted to be useful antigens for vaccines and/or diagnostics.
US09249192B2
The present invention also provides infectious DNA clones, biologically functional plasmid or viral vector containing the infectious nucleic acid genome molecule of Torque teno sus virus (TTsuV). The present invention also provides methods for diagnosing TTsuV infection via immunological methods, e.g., enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA) and Western blot using PTTV specific antigens for detecting serum PTTV specific antibodies which indicate infections TTsuV1, TTsuV2, and individual TTsuV1 genotypes.
US09249170B2
Described herein are compounds and methods of catalyzing ethenolysis reactions, optionally on an industrial scale. In certain embodiments, the catalysts bear cyclic alkyl amino carbene (CAAC) ligands with an ortho substituent, such as a methyl substituent, on an N-aryl ring. When used to catalyze ethenolysis reactions, certain such compounds produce a turnover number greater than 50,000.
US09249169B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of phosphonium sulfonates, particularly tetraalkylphosphonium fluoroalkylsulfonates, in the presence of amine-type bases.
US09249165B2
The present invention is directed to a process for the synthesis of organohalosilane monomers, comprising the steps of (1) forming a slurry of cyclone fines, ultra fines and/or spent contact mass in a thermally stable solvent and reacting the agitated slurry with an organohalide of the formula R1X in the presence of an additive for a time and at a temperature sufficient to produce organohalosilane monomers having the formulae R1SiHX2, R12SiHX, R13SiX, R1SiX3, and R12SiX2; wherein R1 is a saturated or unsaturated aromatic group, a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic group, alkaryl group, or cycloaliphatic hydrocarbyl group, and X is a halogen; and (2) recovering said organohalosilane monomers.
US09249161B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of bromodomain-containing proteins. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising compounds of the present invention and methods of using said compositions in the treatment of various disorders.
US09249157B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I), wherein: X is O or —NR3; R1 is —CH2CH2CH3, —CH2CF3, —CH2CH2CF3, —CH2CF2CH3, —CH2CH2CH2CF3, —CH2CH2CF2CH3, —CH2CH(CH3)CF3, —CH2CH2CH2F, or CH2(cyclopropyl); R2 is —CH2CH2CH3, —CH2CF3, —CH2CH2CF3, —CH2CF2CH3, —CH2CH2CH2CF3, —CH2CH2CH2F, —CH2CH(CH3)CF3, CH2CH2CF2CH3, —CH2(cyclopropyl), —CH(CH3)(cyclopropyl), phenyl, fluorophenyl, chlorophenyl, trifluorophenyl, methylisoxazolyl, pyridinyl, formula (i), formula (ii), formula (iii), formula (iv) or formula (v); Ring A is phenyl or pyridinyl; and R3, Ra, Rb, Rc, y, and z are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds to inhibit the Notch receptor, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in treating, preventing, or slowing the progression of diseases or disorders in a variety of therapeutic areas, such as cancer.
US09249146B2
The present invention provides compounds useful as inhibitors of Btk, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US09249138B2
Compounds effective in inhibiting replication of Hepatitis C virus (“HCV”) are described. This invention also relates to processes of making such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat HCV infection.
US09249126B2
An oxetane-cyclic epoxy compound represented by Formula 1: where R1 is hydrogen, a methyl group or an ethyl group.
US09249123B2
Pyridone and pyrazinone compounds of Formula I including stereoisomers, tautomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful for inhibiting Btk kinase, and for treating immune disorders such as inflammation mediated by Btk kinase. Methods of using compounds of Formula I for in vitro, in situ, and in vivo diagnosis, and treatment of such disorders in mammalian cells, or associated pathological conditions, are disclosed.
US09249122B1
3-(3-Chloro-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine is prepared by cyclizing 3-hydrazinopyridine•dihydrochloride with acrylonitrile to provide 1-(pyridin-3-yl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-3-amine, by oxidizing to provide 3-(3-amino-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine, and by converting the amino group to a chloro group by a Sandmeyer reaction.
US09249107B2
The invention relates to a compound of the formula wherein the substituents are as defined herein, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound of formula (1). The compounds of formula (1) and their salts possess inflammation inhibiting properties and are therefore useful in the treatment and prevention of conditions related to inflammations such as inflammatory joint diseases. The compounds of formula (1) are also useful for the treatment of diseases where chronic inflammation is the underlying cause. This application relates to compounds of formula (1), methods for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and their use for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of humans and animals.
US09249101B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a probe for imaging a β-sheet structure protein which can be used for the diagnosis of conformational diseases, particularly disease (tauopathy) having a cardinal symptom such as intracerebral accumulation of tau protein, for example, Alzheimer's disease. Another object of the present invention is to provide a compound which is highly specific to tau and can image tau with satisfactory sensitivity, and also has high brain transition, low or non-recognized bone-seeking properties and low or non-recognized toxicity.According to the present invention, the above problems are solved by providing a compound of a formula I (wherein A, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Ra and Rb are as defined in the present description) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof.
US09249092B2
The present invention is directed to an isomerized alpha olefin sulfonate and a method of making the same wherein the isomerized alpha olefin sulfonate is derived from sulfonating an isomerized alpha olefin with sulfur trioxide in the presence of air thereby producing an isomerized alpha olefin sulfonic acid, wherein the isomerized alpha olefin is derived from the isomerization of C12-C20 normal alpha olefins; and neutralizing the isomerized alpha olefin sulfonic acid with a source of an alkali metal or ammonium or substituted ammonium ion.
US09249071B2
The invention provides methods for substituting polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polyheterocyclic compounds with perfluoroalkyl groups. The methods can include heating a polyaromatic hydrocarbon substrate or a polyheterocyclic compound substrate in the presence of a perfluoroalkyl iodide, typically in a closed system, wherein the heating is sufficient to bring both the polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polyheterocyclic compound, and the perfluoroalkyl iodide, into the gas phase, thereby allowing the substrate to react with the perfluoroalkyl iodide in the gas phase to form polyaromatic hydrocarbons or polyheterocyclic compounds having one or more perfluoroalkyl substituents. The methods allow for the creation of versatile libraries of novel perfluoroalkyl-containing derivatives that can serve as important building blocks and active components in biomedical, electronic, and materials applications.
US09249068B2
In a process for producing para-xylene, a feed stream comprising C6+ aromatic hydrocarbons is separated into a C7− aromatic hydrocarbon-containing stream, a C8 aromatic hydrocarbon-containing stream, and a C9+ aromatic hydrocarbon-containing stream. The C7− aromatic hydrocarbon-containing stream is contacted with a methylating agent to convert toluene to xylenes and produce a methylated effluent stream. Ethylbenzene is removed from the C8 aromatic hydrocarbon-containing stream, para-xylene is recovered from the ethylbenzene-depleted C8 aromatic hydrocarbon-containing stream and the methylated effluent stream in a para-xylene recovery section to produce a para-xylene depleted stream, which is then contacted with a xylene isomerization catalyst under liquid phase conditions effective to isomerize xylenes in the para-xylene depleted stream and produce an isomerized stream. The C9+-containing stream with a transalkylation catalyst under conditions effective to convert C9+-aromatics to C8−-aromatics and produce a transalkylated stream, which is recycled together with the isomerized stream to the para-xylene recovery section.
US09249067B2
The present invention provides an improved process for producing an alkylated aromatic compound from an at least partially untreated alkylatable aromatic compound having catalyst poisons and an alkylating agent, wherein said alkylatable aromatic compound stream is treated to reduce catalyst poisons with a treatment composition having a surface area/surface volume ratio of greater than or equal to 30 in−1 (12 cm−1) in a treatment zone separate from an alkylation reaction zone under treatment conditions including a temperature of from about 30° C. to about 300° C. to form an effluent comprising said treated alkylatable aromatic compound.
US09249058B2
Translucent zirconia sintered bodies have had a problem that incorporation of titania improves translucency but lowers mechanical strength. The invention provides: a zirconia sintered body containing titanium oxide, the sintered body containing 6-15 mol % yttria and 3-20 mol % titania and having an in-line transmission of 50% or higher when examined at a sample thickness of 1 mm and a measuring wavelength of 600 nm; and a zirconia sintered body having especially high translucency which is a high-quality transparent zirconia sintered body that contains 3-20 mol % titania and 6-15 mol % yttria and has an in-line transmission, as measured at a wavelength of 600 nm, of 73% or higher and a haze value of 2.0% or less and that is highly translucent and is undimmed (cloudless). The invention further relates to a production process in which a powder having the composition is molded and thereafter subjected to ordinary-pressure primary sintering and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) under specific conditions.
US09249057B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a colored translucent zirconia sintered body having red color and high translucency. The present invention relates to a zirconia sintered body, characterized by containing 6 to 30 mo % of yttria and 0.1 to 5 mol % of cerium oxide in terms of CeO2, the cerium oxide containing an oxide of trivalent cerium. The zirconia sintered body of the present invention has, in addition of high hardness, diamond luster based on high refractive index inherent in zirconia, deep red color and transparency.
US09249049B2
To provide cover glass for mobile terminals exhibiting high strength in a thin plate thickness state to enable reductions in thickness of apparatuses when inserted in the apparatuses, cover glass (1) for a mobile terminal of the invention is cover glass (1) that is obtained by forming a resist pattern on main surfaces of a plate-shaped glass substrate, then etching the glass substrate with an etchant using the resist pattern as a mask, and thereby cutting the glass substrate into a desired shape and that protects a display screen of the mobile terminal, where an edge face of the cover glass (1) is formed of a molten glass surface, and as surface roughness of the edge face, arithmetic mean roughness Ra is 10 nm or less.
US09249046B2
Methods for making a preform for a graded-index multimode fiber by using an inside deposition process are disclosed. The methods are characterized by an iterative refractive index profile correction with the following steps: determining a target refractive index profile for the preform to be produced, carrying out an inside deposition process with fixed volume flows for the reacting gases inside a tube and a given burner speed for all deposited layers, collapsing the tube and measuring the actual refractive index profile, comparing the target profile with the actual profile and calculating a correction value of index differences, converting this correction value in corrected burner speeds as varying process parameter, carrying out a inside deposition process with fixed gas flows and corrected burner speeds for all layers to be deposited.
US09249036B2
The instant invention describes a device and system for dispensing microbial solutions into a wastewater treatment environment. The device contains one or more removable modules that provides the user with the capability of quickly and easily removing one or more of the modules without the need for replacing or removing the entire unit. The modules are preferably designed to hold bags filled with a microbial solution. The bags are fluidly connected to a pump which dispenses the solution to a predetermined location.
US09249031B2
Methods are provided for beneficially reusing a paint-saturated filter aid, such as paint-saturated alkaline earth metal carbonates, as a substitute in applications requiring virgin alkaline earth metal carbonates. The paint-saturated filter aid is prepared by re-milling paint-saturated filter aid to a predetermined size to produce re-milled particles suitable for reuse in a variety of applications, including flooring, concrete, and the like. Also provided are flooring materials including re-milled particles of a paint-saturated filter aid characterized by one or more of: a median particle size (D50) of about 1 to about 50 microns; less than about 5% of the re-milled particles being retained on a 200 mesh screen; or a top cut size (D90) of about 5 to about 300 microns.
US09249029B2
The invention relates to an improved process for vaporizing organic compounds and the further conversion thereof.
US09249023B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to methods of forming a solution of single-walled carbon nanotube polyelectrolytes in a liquid crystalline phase. In some embodiments, such methods comprise: (a) providing single-walled carbon nanotube polyelectrolytes; and (b) mixing the single-walled polyelectrolytes with a polar aprotic solvent to form a mixture, where the mixing results in the formation of single-walled carbon nanotubes in the liquid crystalline phase. In some embodiments, the polar aprotic solvent comprises crown ether. In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to a method of making single-walled carbon nanotube fibers. Further embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to a method of making a single walled carbon nanotube composite. In some embodiments, the present disclosure pertains to an article comprising neat aligned carbon nanotubes.
US09249019B2
The invention relates to a method for producing hydrocarbon-containing gaseous fuel comprises at least three stages. In the first stage water is entered for heating and water steam forming. In the second stage hydrocarbon component is entered and mixed with water steam by injecting The mixture is heated and directed to third and subsequent stages to additional heating for fuel producing. Turbo generator is made as two cylinder tubes, divided on isolated sections. The first section is made with induction heat source for system start-up, the second section is made with injector type mixer. The inner tube cavity forms the firing chamber. In technological cylinder multistage components and mixture heated and additional heating in subsequent sections are realized until forming of hydrogen-containing gaseous fuel. Burning system, worker burner, start-up burner are installed on the firing chamber inlet. Working torch forming element is installed on the firing chamber outlet.
US09249018B2
A power generation system yielding exhaust providing both carbon dioxide and a preheated hydrogen source used to create liquid fuels from the reaction of the now heated hydrogen with cellulosic biomass, preferably where the hydrogen source is methanol.
US09249015B2
A mold structure having high-precision multi-dimensional components includes: depositing an oxide layer on a top surface of a plurality of semiconductor substrates, patterning a design integrated in one or more of the oxide layers; repositioning the substrates to enable the oxide layers make contact with one another; bonding in sequential order the repositioned substrates using a dielectric bonding, forming a three dimension (3D) mold; filling the 3D mold with filling material and removing the overburden filling material present on a top surface of the component.
US09249014B2
An assembled component and a method for assembling a component are disclosed. In one embodiment the assembled component includes a component carrier, an attachment layer disposed on the component carrier and a component disposed on the attachment layer, the component having a nano-structured first main surface facing the component carrier.
US09249009B2
A substrate-through electrical connection (10) for connecting components on opposite sides of a substrate, and a method for making same. The connection includes a substrate-through via made from substrate material (10′). There is a trench (11) provided surrounding the via, the walls of the trench being coated with a layer of insulating material (12) and the trench (11) is filled with conductive or semi-conductive material (13). A doping region (15) for threshold voltage adjustment is provided in the via material in the surface of the inner trench wall between insulating material (12) and the material (10′) in the via. There are contacts (17′, 17″) to the via on opposite sides of the substrate, and a contact (18) to the conductive material (13) in the trench (11) so as to enable the application of a voltage to the conductive material (13).
US09249006B2
A beverage dispenser that uses a slurry ice bath to achieve heat transfer from coils containing a beverage. The invention provides a hopper into which a slurry ice bath is created. The hopper receives ice from an ice bin via an ice chute. The ice bin contains a rotating agitator for pushing ice down the ice bin. Coils containing a beverage to be dispensed are submersed in the slurry ice bath. Ice passing through the ice chute and into the hopper floats to the surface of the water in the hopper. As the agitator rotates, it continues to push ice down the ice chute, which in turn raises the water level of the water in the hopper. The water level then reaches an equilibrium level, where the buoyant force of the ice in the water will prevent additional ice from falling through the ice chute.
US09248987B2
A recording medium conveyance apparatus includes a feeding unit for accommodating a roll pipe and feeding a recording medium, a conveyance unit for conveying the recording medium fed by the feeding unit, and a determination unit for determining an accommodation state of the recording medium accommodated in the feeding unit. The feeding unit includes a driving unit for rotating the roll pipe and a detection unit for detecting a rotational operation of the roll pipe. The conveyance unit, using at least two rollers, conveys or fixes the recording medium by nipping it with the rollers. The determination unit, based on the rotational operation of the roll pipe detected by the detection unit when the recording medium is fixed by the rollers, determines whether the recording medium is fixed to the roll pipe or not.
US09248984B2
A system for loading, unloading and rail transportation of road-hauled semi-trailers, having multiple wagons (1) constituting a railway train, with each of them incorporating at least one pivotable turntable (14) for accommodating a semi-trailer via its wheel assembly. The system also comprises a detachable hitch mounting (9) that can be gripped by a handling machine which carries the detachable mounting and assembles it, after adjustment on the semi-trailer's pivoting turntable. The hitch mounting is assembled on an accommodating platform (8) that is secured immobile to the wagon chassis (2) and independently of the pivoting turntable, in order to support the front of the semi-trailer during rail transportation. This invention is of interest to rail carriers and railway transport equipment manufacturers.
US09248971B2
A conveyor roller has a drum shell and an end lid that has an end lid, an embossed spring band, and a mounting face that is affixed to an axial end of the drum shell. The end lid has a cylindrical geometry that mates with the mounting face, whereby the embossed spring band is compressed by an interference fit between the two mating cylindrical geometries. A polymeric seal is disposed between the inward face of the end lid and the outward face of the drum shell, near the outer circumference of the end lid. Thus, the end lid maintains a spring force against the polymeric seal. The end lid has a ring compression geometry for exerting a compressive force on the polymeric seal as the end lid is retained against the drum shell by the embossed spring band. A cleaning system has a shaft with cleaning conduits, inlet and outlet ports, and an end lid.
US09248970B2
Disclosed herein is a belt assembly including a flexible belt with an improved belt attachment. The belt attachment includes two crossbars spaced along the length of the belt. The crossbars retain bearings that allow predetermined movement in six degrees of freedom. The crossbars are connected by a rigid body that attaches to the bearings. Implements that are attached to the rigid body are simply supported but restrained in pitching rotation.
US09248964B2
A refuse container has a container assembly. The container assembly has a bin defining a cavity, a lid, a telescopingly extensible handle assembly, a locking mechanism, a pair of wheels, and a pair of bottom handles. The lid is rotatably coupled to the bin at a pivot point, has a generally horizontal lid axis of rotation, and is movable relative to the bin between an open position providing access to the cavity and a closed position inhibiting access to the cavity. The extensible handle assembly is located adjacent the pivot point and is movable from a lower retracted position to an upper extended position above an upper surface of the lid. The locking mechanism maintains the lid in the closed position and is located opposite the extensible handle assembly. The wheels are located at the bottom of the refuse container. The bottom handles are located on opposing sides of the bin.
US09248956B2
Capsule (1) for the preparation of a beverage by centrifugation in a beverage preparation device; the capsule comprising: a generally concave outer wall (2) and a generally concave inner wall (3); each wall having a peripheral portion (4, 5) extending substantially revolutionary around a central axis (I) and a bottom portion (6, 7); a lid (18) extending transversally to said central axis (I) and covering said outer and inner walls (2, 3); and forming with said inner wall an inner cavity (8) containing beverage ingredients (9), an outer cavity (10) positioned between the inner and outer walls (2, 3).
US09248953B2
A transport carrier or case for storing and/or transporting a partially disassembled bicycle is disclosed. The carrier includes means for mounting the partially disassembled bicycle to a base while providing for adjustment of the mounting means dependent on the size of the bicycle. Also disclosed are wheel retention means for releasably mounting the wheels of the bicycle to one side of the transport case, and isolation means to separate the bicycle frame from the wheels.
US09248951B2
The present invention may be embodied as a texturing system for applying a desired texture pattern on a surface comprising texture material comprising a pH adjusting material and at least one pH change material and a dispensing system comprising a container assembly and a propellant material. The propellant material pressurizes the texture material within the container assembly. The dispensing system allows texture material to flow out of the container assembly and onto the surface such that a visible physical structure of the texture material corresponds to a desired texture pattern. When the texture material is applied to the surface, the texture material defines a first pH level associated with a first appearance. When dry, the texture material defines a second pH level such that the pH change material defines a second appearance. The second appearance is perceptibly different from the first appearance. The desired texture pattern is unchanged.
US09248949B2
For safe storage and simple and safe administration of tablets T by a user, a cartridge 900 is provided that can be inserted into a medicament dispenser 1 for solid medicament portions T and that is designed with a reservoir for receiving the medicament portions T, and a medicament dispenser 1 containing this cartridge 900 is also provided. According to the invention, the cartridge 900 comprises a transport safety mechanism for preventing movement of the medicament portions T during storage and transport of the cartridge 900 . This transport safety mechanism is in particular a tolerance compensation plug 970 that sits with a frictional fit in the reservoir and that is movable in the axial direction. The cartridge 900 also contains a tablet rider 960 which is movable in the axial direction in the reservoir and which engages through at least one axial slit in the cartridge 900 and with which a force acting in the axial direction is transferred to the medicament portions (T) in the cartridge, thus serving to hold down a column-shaped arrangement of medicament portions (T).
US09248946B2
A system for hanging a gift card includes a gift card assembly suspended from a gift card holder assembly by a looped strip of flexible material. The gift card assembly includes a removeably attached gift card and the gift card holder assembly includes a gift card holder for receiving the gift card after detachment from the gift card assembly.
US09248942B2
The present invention provides a continuous process for the epoxidation of an olefinic compound with an oxidant, which process comprises reaction of an olefinic compound with an oxidant in the presence of a catalyst in an apparatus that comprises a reactive distillation column, which column comprises (i) a reactive section, which comprises the catalyst (ii) a rectifying section situated above the reactive section and adapted to allow separation of reagents and/or by-products from products (vii) a stripping section situated below the reactive section and adapted to allow separation of product from reagents and/or by-products (viii) a vessel situated below the stripping section and adapted to provide a source of heat for the column and in which initial vaporization of one or more of the reagents can occur, wherein the temperature in the reactive section (i) is a temperature at which the reaction between the olefinic compound and the oxidant takes place and the temperature in the stripping section (iii) is higher than the temperature in the rectifying section (ii).
US09248938B2
Tooth protector devices are disclosed for attachment to the top of a bottle to provide protection against injury, including chipping of teeth that can occur during drinking from a glass bottle. One embodiment comprises a concentric sleeve with top lip for insertion over the end of a bottle. Sleeve inner portion is adapted for engaging the bottle outer surface to hold the sleeve in place. The outer and top portions of the sleeve protect the consumer from the top edge of the bottle. When installed, a tooth protector according to the present invention cushions the teeth and mouth from any blunt force or impact that can occur when a bottle is hit or knocked. Also disclosed is a beverage cap with cushioned outer and upper surfaces that remain in place on the beverage bottle after opening the bottle to protect the consumer, and another bottle enclosure without such cushioned surfaces.
US09248911B2
A rail cover for a seat rail includes a cover element for completely covering a longitudinal portion of the seat rail. The cover element extends at least in part in a plane of extension that is formed by a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of the rail cover and includes a first, rigid, longitudinal portion and a second longitudinal portion that follows on from the first longitudinal portion. The first longitudinal portion and the second longitudinal portion are mechanically coupled together by means of a flexible portion, wherein the second longitudinal portion is designed to carry out a pivoting movement in a direction across the plane of extension.
US09248909B2
A main rotor system of an aircraft is provided including a first rotor coupled to a transmission and configured to rotate about an axis in a first direction. A second rotor is similarly coupled to the transmission and is configured to rotate about the axis in a second direction. At least the first rotor includes an individual blade control system (IBCS) configured to adjust a pitch of each of a plurality of blade of the first rotor independently. A standpipe is fixedly attached to the aircraft. The standpipe is arranged such that the first rotor and the second rotor rotate relative to the standpipe. At least one slip ring is configured to transmit electrical power and/or a control signal to the at least one IBCS.
US09248904B2
The invention relates to a system for assisting the pilot of an aircraft, which comprises aboard the aircraft: a computer, a set of sensors able to provide data to the computer and, a seat for the pilot equipped with haptic actuators controlled by the computer. The computer comprises means for controlling each actuator or groups of actuators independently of one another, as a function of the data provided by the sensors. The seat comprising a back and a cushion, the actuators of the back and of the cushion comprise single-axis mini-rams distributed in the back and the cushion of the seat, whose displacement axes are respectively perpendicular to the back and to the cushion of the seat.
US09248896B2
A paddle device. First and second paddle assemblies each have a paddle blade extending from a paddle end of a paddle arm so that the paddle structures each have a paddle blade end and a paddle arm end. A hand crankable crank shaft arrangement have a center and first and second ends and having handle segments. The paddle arm end of the first paddle structure is coupled to the first end of the crank shaft arrangement and the paddle arm end of the second paddle structure is coupled to the second end of the crank shaft arrangement. First and second handle grips are rotatably coupled to the crank shaft arrangement so as to permit the crank shaft arrangement to rotate with respect to the first and second handle grips when the crankshaft arrangement is cranked. This abstract is not to be considered limiting.
US09248895B1
A watercraft has a hull, an engine compartment, an engine disposed and a jet pump. A gate is pivotable relative to the jet pump about a gate axis between an up and a down position. A gate actuator assembly includes an actuator housing fixed to the hull, and an actuator arm movable along an actuation axis with respect thereto. The actuator arm is operatively connected to the gate for pivoting the gate about the gate axis. A sealing member encloses a portion of the actuator arm between the actuator housing and the gate. The sealing member extends between a first end fixed with respect to the actuator housing and a second end fixed with respect to the actuator arm, forming a variable volume outer chamber to prevent entry of fluid therein. A passage fluidly communicating with the outer chamber, extends through the hull into the engine compartment.
US09248894B1
A controlled corrosion release system for a payload is provided. The payload is submerged in a conductive medium, such as seawater. The system includes clips which restrain the payload against a housing. A circuit is established to allow electrical current to flow from a power source contained within the housing, through the clips which serve as anodes, through the seawater, into the housing which serves as a cathode, and back to the power source. Accordingly, the clips corrode and weaken structurally. The clips eventually fail and the payload is released. The time for release is proportional to the power supplied, such that the release time can be controlled.
US09248891B2
A surfboard leash apparatus is disclosed. The surf leash apparatus includes a cuff for attaching to a limb of a surfer, an attachment mechanism for attaching to a surfboard, and a leash cord connected between the cuff and the attachment mechanism. The leash cord includes an elastic fiber rope core having a predetermined amount of stretch, and an extruded thermoplastic urethane cord surrounding the elastic fiber rope core. The extruded thermoplastic urethane cord has an elasticity corresponding to the predetermined amount of stretch of the elastic fiber rope.
