US09537097B2
The present invention relates to a substrate for an organic electrode device, a manufacturing method thereof, and an organic electronic device. An exemplary substrate of the invention, if an organic light emitting element is formed on an upper part of the substrate, can obtain luminance with high emission and uniformity by efficiently controlling the surface resistance of an electrode even when the device is configured into larger sizes.
US09537086B1
A technique relates to a linear magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device. A linear magnetic tunnel junction structure includes a non-magnetic tunnel barrier on top of a reference layer and a free layer on top of the non-magnetic tunnel barrier, where the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure is in a line. Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices are formed of the reference layer, the non-magnetic tunnel barrier, and the free layer, each of the MRAM devices are in the line. Self-aligned contacts are formed on top of the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure, and the self-aligned contacts individually define the MRAM devices. The self-aligned contacts are separated from one another in the line. Bottom conductive vias are underneath the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure. The bottom conductive vias abut the reference layer of the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure.
US09537077B2
A thermoelectric device and method based on creating a structure of nanoclusters in a composite metal and insulator material by co-depositing the metal and insulator material and irradiating the composite material to create nanoclusters of metal within the composite material. In one variation, the composite material may be continuously deposited and concurrently irradiated. A further variation based on a multilayer structure having alternate layers of metal/material mixture. The alternate layers have differing metal content. The layer structure is irradiated with ionizing radiation to produce nanoclusters in the layers. The differing metal content serves to quench the nanoclusters to isolate nanoclusters along the radiation track. The result is a thermoelectric device with a high figure of merit. In one embodiment, the multilayer structure is fabricated and then irradiated with high energy radiation penetrating the entire layer structure. In another embodiment, layers are irradiated sequentially during fabrication using low energy radiation.
US09537076B2
A thermoelectric conversion module has a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements 2, a plurality of second electrodes 4, and connectors 42. The plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements 2 are n-type elements, connected in series. The connector 42 is formed as a single unit with the second electrodes 4 and separate from the first electrodes 3. A receptor 33 that accepts the tip of the connector 42 is provided to each of the first electrodes 3. Six element rows 6 of five thermoelectric conversion elements 2 aligned along the X axis are arrayed along the Y axis. The receptors 33 are configured to accept connectors 42 of the same shape whether electrically connecting the thermoelectric conversion elements 2 within the element rows 6 or electrically connecting between adjacent element rows 6. The first electrodes 3 and second electrodes 4 are all the same shape.
US09537070B2
An optoelectronic component contains a semiconductor chip (1) and a carrier body (10), which are provided with a transparent, electrically insulating encapsulation layer (3), the encapsulation layer (3) having two cutouts (11, 12) for uncovering a contact area (6) and a connection region (8) of the carrier body, and an electrically conductive layer (14) being led from the contact area (6) over a partial region of the encapsulation layer (3) to the electrical connection region (8) of the carrier body (10) in order to electrically connect the contact area (6) and the electrical connection region (8) to one another. The radiation emitted in a main radiation direction (13) by the semiconductor chip (1) is coupled out through the encapsulation layer (3), which advantageously contains luminescence conversion substances for the wavelength conversion of the emitted radiation.
US09537065B2
Improves light extraction efficiency. A light emitting device 1 using a white resin molding package 5 integrally molded with lead frames 3, 4 constituting an electrode corresponding to one or a plurality of light emitting element 2 and white resin, wherein an area in a plane view of a white resin surface on a reflective surface that is level with amounting surface of the light emitting element 2 is configured to be larger than total area in a plane view occupied by surfaces of the lead frames 3, 4 and the light emitting element. Further, a step section is formed on the surfaces of lead frames 3, 4, white resin is filled in the step section, and the area of white resin surface on a reflective surface where the light emitting element 2 is mounted is increased.
US09537063B2
A method for producing a plurality of optoelectronic components (100) comprises the steps: providing a semiconductor body (101) that is arranged on a carrier (114); and applying a converter material (105) to the semiconductor body (101) by means of a photoconductive transfer element (120).
US09537058B2
The present invention discloses an embedded white light LED package structure based on a solid-state fluorescence material. In the present invention, the high power blue light chip is directly embedded into and bonded with a groove of the solid-state fluorescence material, and blue light emitted by the chip and yellow and green light obtained by conversion and emitted by the solid-state fluorescence material are blended by using the principle of lenses, to obtain white light. The embedded white light LED package structure based on a solid-state fluorescence material has a simple process, low cost, and high fluorescence efficiency; and blue light does not leak. Heat dissipation can be directly performed by using the solid-state fluorescence material, and heat dissipation performance is desirable. Energy conservation and environmental protection is achieved, and a service life of an LED lighting device is greatly improved.
US09537047B2
A method for fabricating an LED/phosphor structure is described where an array of blue light emitting diode (LED) dies are mounted on a submount wafer. A phosphor powder is mixed with an organic polymer binder, such as an acrylate or nitrocellulose. The liquid or paste mixture is then deposited over the LED dies or other substrate as a substantially uniform layer. The organic binder is then removed by being burned away in air, or being subject to an O2 plasma process, or dissolved, leaving a porous layer of phosphor grains sintered together. The porous phosphor layer is impregnated with a sol-gel (e.g., a sol-gel of TEOS or MTMS) or liquid glass (e.g., sodium silicate or potassium silicate), also known as water glass, which saturates the porous structure. The structure is then heated to cure the inorganic glass binder, leaving a robust glass binder that resists yellowing, among other desirable properties.
US09537045B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an insulation pattern including a mask region and an open region on a gallium nitride substrate, growing gallium nitride semiconductor layers to cover the insulation pattern, and patterning the semiconductor layers to form a plurality of semiconductor stacks separated from each other, the plurality of semiconductor stacks being electrically isolated from the gallium nitride substrate by the insulation pattern.
US09537044B2
A method for manufacturing an optoelectric device comprising a semiconductor substrate, pads on a surface of the substrate; semiconductor elements, each element being in contact with a pad; and a dielectric region extending in the substrate from the surface and connecting, for each pair of pads, one of the pads in the pair to the other pad in the pair, the method successively comprising the forming of the pads and the forming of the region, wherein the region is formed by nitriding of the substrate, the method comprising the successive steps of: depositing a layer on the substrate; forming portions on the layer; etching the parts of the layer which are not covered with the portions to form the pads; removing the portions; and nitriding the pads and the parts of the substrate which are not covered with the pads, wherein the nitriding step successively comprises: a first step of nitriding of the pads at a first temperature; and a second step of nitriding of the parts of the substrate which are not covered with the pads at a second temperature different from the first temperature.
US09537037B2
A wet etching method for an N-type bifacial cell including: (1) providing an N-type silicon wafer, proceeding with surface structuralization on the N-type silicon wafer, and producing a PN junction on a surface of the N-type silicon wafer by using a boron diffusion technique; (2) proceeding with a first mixed acid washing, etching the PN junction on an edge and a back surface of the N-type silicon wafer; (3) proceeding with a first pure water washing and a first alkaline washing, removing residual acid solution from the surface of the N-type silicon wafer; (4) proceeding with a second pure water washing and a second mixed acid washing, removing residual impurities from the surface of the N-type silicon wafer; (5) proceeding with a third pure water washing and air drying; and (6) after air drying, completing etching on the N-type bifacial cell.
US09537036B2
Interconnects for optoelectronic devices are described. For example, an interconnect for an optoelectronic device includes an interconnect body having an inner surface, an outer surface, a first end, and a second end. A plurality of bond pads is coupled to the inner surface of the interconnect body, between the first and second ends. A stress relief feature is disposed in the interconnect body. The stress relief feature includes a slot disposed entirely within the interconnect body without extending through to the inner surface, without extending through to the outer surface, without extending through to the first end, and without extending through to the second end of the interconnect body.
US09537020B2
A method of manufacturing a solar cell electrode comprising steps of: preparing a semiconductor substrate, applying a conductive paste onto the light receiving side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the conductive paste comprises (i) a conductive powder, (ii) a glass frit, (iii) an organic polymer comprising an elastomer and (iv) an organic solvent; and firing the applied conductive paste.
US09537001B2
In a general aspect, a high-voltage metal-oxide-semiconductor (HVMOS) device can include comprising a first gate dielectric layer disposed on a channel region of the HVMOS device and a second gate dielectric layer disposed on at least a portion of a drift region of the HVMOS device. The drift region can be disposed laterally adjacent to the channel region. The second gate dielectric layer can have a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the first gate dielectric layer.
US09536987B2
A line-end cutting method for fin structures of FinFETs formed by double patterning technology firstly utilizes the SiN hard mask lines to form fin structures and then performs lithography and etching processes to form line-end cuts. Since the depth of the line-end cuts is large, there is enough time and space to regulate the etching recipe so as to balance the etching rate of multiple layers including the spin-on-carbon layer, the SiN layer, the SiO2 layer and the silicon substrate, thereby forming the fin structures with line-end cuts having flatter bottom topography, preventing the formation of silicon protrusions or silicon cones during the etching process and improving the device electrical performance.
US09536986B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of enriching and electrically isolating a fin of a FinFET. The method includes forming at least one fin. The method further includes forming under a first set of conditions an enriched upper portion of the at least one fin. The method further includes forming under a second set of conditions an electrically isolated region from a lower portion of the at least one fin, wherein forming under the first set of conditions is spaced in time from forming under the second set of conditions. The method further includes controlling the first set of conditions separately from the second set of conditions.
US09536985B2
A method for producing a semiconductor structure, as well as a semiconductor structure, that uses a partial removal of an insulating layer around a semiconductor fin, and subsequently epitaxially growing an additional semiconductor material in the exposed regions, while maintaining the shape of the fin with the insulating layer.
US09536984B2
A multi-layer semiconductor structure is disclosed for use in III-Nitride semiconductor devices, including a channel layer, a band-offset layer having a wider bandgap than the channel layer, a spacer layer having a narrower bandgap than the band-offset layer, and a cap layer comprising at least two sublayers. Each sublayer is selectively etchable with respect to sublayers immediately below and above, each sublayer comprises a III-N material AlxInyGazN in which 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, and 0≦z≦1, at least one sublayer has a non-zero Ga content, and a sublayer immediately above the spacer layer has a wider bandgap than the spacer layer. Also described are methods for fabricating such semiconductor structures, with gate and/or ohmic recesses formed by selectively removing adjacent layers or sublayers. The performance of resulting devices is improved, while providing design flexibility to reduce production cost and circuit footprint.
US09536977B2
A tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) device is disclosed. A frustoconical protrusion structure is disposed over a substrate and protruding out of the plane of substrate. A source region is disposed as a top portion of the frustoconical protrusion structure. A sidewall spacer is disposed along sidewall of the source region. A source contact with a critical dimension (CD), which is substantially larger than a width of the source region, is formed on the source region and the sidewall spacer together.
US09536974B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is provided including forming a gate structure comprising a metal-containing layer over a semiconductor layer and doping the metal-containing layer by tilted ion implantation.
US09536970B2
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The three-dimensional semiconductor devices include an electrode structure with sequentially-stacked electrodes disposed on a substrate, semiconductor patterns penetrating the electrode structure, and memory elements including a first pattern and a second pattern interposed between the semiconductor patterns and the electrode structure, the first pattern vertically extending to cross the electrodes and the second pattern horizontally extending to cross the semiconductor patterns.
US09536954B2
A substrate with a silicon carbide film includes a silicon substrate, a SiC film, and a mask 4. The SiC film has a film 31 including openings 35 on the silicon substrate and a film 32 provided on the upper side of the film 31. The mask 4 has a mask 41 provided on the upper side of the silicon substrate and including openings 45 and a mask 42 covering at least part of the mask 41 located in the openings 35 and the side surfaces of the openings 35 and including openings 46. The width W1 of the opening 45, the thickness T1 (μm) of the mask 41, and the thickness D (μm) of the film 31 at a position corresponding to the opening 45 satisfy the following relationships: T1
US09536946B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, a gate structure intersecting the active region and extending in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region disposed in the active region at both sides of the gate structure, respectively, and a first modified contact and a second modified contact in contact with the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region, respectively. The distance between the gate structure and the first modified contact is smaller than the distance between the gate structure and the second modified contact.
US09536945B1
A semiconductor device includes a monocrystalline substrate configured to form a channel region between two recesses in the substrate. A gate conductor is formed on a passivation layer over the channel region. Dielectric pads are formed in a bottom of the recesses and configured to prevent leakage to the substrate. Source and drain regions are formed in the recesses on the dielectric pads from a deposited non-crystalline n-type material with the source and drain regions making contact with the channel region.
US09536939B1
A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor is provided on a surface of an insulator layer that is located on a handle substrate. The MIM capacitor includes a first metal structure extending upwards from a first portion of the insulator layer, a second metal structure extending upwards from a second portion of the insulator layer, and an oxide fin located between the first and second metal structures, wherein the oxide fin directly contacts an entirety of a sidewall surface of the first metal structure and an entirety of a sidewall surface of the second metal structure, the oxide fin having a topmost surface that is coplanar with a topmost surface of both the first and second metal structures.
US09536924B2
A light-emitting diode is provided to include: a transparent substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a side surface; a first conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first surface of the transparent substrate; a second conductive semiconductor layer positioned on the first conductive semiconductor layer; an active layer positioned between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first pad electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second pad electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the transparent substrate is configured to discharge light generated by the active layer through the second surface of the transparent substrate, and the light-emitting diode has a beam angle of at least 140 degrees or more. Accordingly, a light-emitting diode suitable for a backlight unit or a surface lighting apparatus can be provided.
US09536908B2
A thin-film transistor array panel includes an insulation substrate, a gate line disposed on the insulation substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate line, a semiconductor layer disposed on the gate insulating layer, a data line disposed on the semiconductor layer and including a source electrode, a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer and facing the source electrode, a first electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, a first passivation layer disposed on the first electrode and including silicon nitride, a second passivation layer disposed on the first passivation and including silicon nitride, and a second electrode disposed on the passivation layer, in which a first ratio of nitrogen-hydrogen bonds to silicon-hydrogen bonds in the first passivation layer is different from a second ratio of nitrogen-hydrogen bonds to silicon-hydrogen bonds in the second passivation layer.
US09536899B2
A first conductive structure forms gate electrodes of a first transistor of a first transistor type and a first transistor of a second transistor type. A second conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the first transistor type. A third conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a second transistor of the second transistor type. A fourth conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a third transistor of the first transistor type. A fifth conductive structure forms a gate electrode of a third transistor of the second transistor type. A sixth conductive structure forms gate electrodes of a fourth transistor of the first transistor type and a fourth transistor of the second transistor type. The second and third transistors of the first transistor type and the second and third transistors of the second transistor type are electrically connected to form a cross-coupled transistor configuration.
US09536897B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device may include a substrate including a cell array region, a word line contact region, and a peripheral circuit region, gate electrodes stacked on the substrate to extend from the cell array region to the word line contact region, a channel hole penetrating the gate electrodes on the cell array region and exposing an active region of the substrate, a dummy hole penetrating the gate electrodes on the word line contact region and exposing a device isolation layer provided on the substrate, and a semiconductor pattern provided in the channel hole but not in the dummy hole.
US09536894B2
According to an embodiment, a non-volatile memory device includes first electrodes arranged in a first direction, a second electrode disposed on a side of the first electrodes in the first direction, a semiconductor layer extending in the first direction through the first electrodes and the second electrode, and a memory film provided between the semiconductor layer and each of the first electrodes. The semiconductor layer includes crystal grains and has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being adjacent to the first electrodes, and the second portion being adjacent to at least a part of the second electrode, wherein the first portion includes a larger crystal grain than a crystal grain in the second portion.
US09536889B2
A split gate memory device, a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. In the split gate memory device, an erasing gate is further disposed, wherein the easing gate and a control gate are respectively disposed on two sides of a floating gate. Thus, an erase operation is implemented by the erasing gate instead of the control gate. Accordingly, electric potential applied to the control gate is reduced. Therefore, hot-electron effect in channel region may be avoided, and performance degradation of the memory caused by the hot-electron effect may be avoided as well. Furthermore, as electric potential applied to the control gate is reduced, a gate oxide layer underneath the control gate may be thinner. Accordingly, manufacturing processes of the control gate and the gate oxide layer and that of the gate and the gate oxide layer of a logic transistor in a periphery circuit may be compatible.
US09536886B2
A semiconductor device includes a first diode connected transistor of a first conductivity type and a second diode connected transistor of a second conductivity type connected in series, each of the first and second diode connected transistors being configured to exhibit negative differential resistance in response to an applied voltage. The first drain and first source regions of the first diode connected transistor include dopants of the first conductivity type at degenerate dopant concentration levels and a gate of the first diode connected transistor has a work function that corresponds to that of the semiconductor containing dopants of the second conductivity type. The second drain and second source regions of the second diode connected transistor include dopants of the second conductivity type at degenerate dopant concentration levels and a gate of the second diode connected transistor has a work function that corresponds to that of the semiconductor containing dopants of the first conductivity type.
US09536877B2
One example disclosed herein involves forming source/drain conductive contacts to first and second source/drain regions, the first source/drain region being positioned between a first pair of transistor devices having a first gate pitch dimension, the second source/drain region being positioned between a second pair of transistor devices having a second gate pitch dimension that is greater than the first gate pitch dimension, wherein the first and second pairs of transistor devices have a gate structure and sidewall spacers positioned adjacent the gate structure.
US09536874B2
A variable capacitor includes a fixed main capacitor electrode disposed in a first metal layer overlying a substrate, a second main capacitor electrode spaced from the fixed main capacitor electrode, and a movable capacitor electrode disposed in the first metal layer adjacent the fixed main capacitor electrode. The movable capacitor electrode can be caused to be in a first position ohmically electrically connected to the fixed main capacitor electrode such that the variable capacitor has a first capacitance value or in a second position spaced from the fixed main capacitor electrode such that the variable capacitor has a second capacitance value.
US09536873B2
Both a HEMT and a SBD are formed on a nitride semiconductor substrate. The nitride semiconductor substrate comprises a HEMT gate structure region and an anode electrode region. A first laminated structure is formed at least in the HEMT gate structure region, and includes first to third nitride semiconductor layers. A second laminated structure is formed at least in a part of the anode electrode region, and includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The anode electrode contacts the front surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer. At least in a contact region in which the front surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer contacts the anode electrode, the front surface of the second nitride semiconductor layer is finished to be a surface by which the second nitride semiconductor layer forms a Schottky junction with the anode electrode.
US09536871B2
Various aspects of the technology include an integrated circuit device comprising a compound semiconductor layer and a plurality of input, switch, and ground ohmic metal fingers fabricated on the compound semiconductor layer in a repeating sequence. A control gate may be disposed between each input finger and adjacent switch finger, and a sync gate may be disposed between each ground finger and adjacent switch finger. A sync gate and a control gate may be disposed adjacent each switch finger. The device further includes a plurality of control gate pads, each control gate pad at an end of two control gates, and a control gate pad at opposite ends of each control gate, and a plurality of sync gate pads, each sync gate pad at an end of two sync gates, and a sync gate pad at opposite ends of each sync gate.
US09536856B2
Provided is a flip chip bonder including: a pickup flipping collet configured to flip a chip; and a bonding tool configured to receive the chip flipped with the pickup flipping collet from the pickup flipping collet and to bond the received chip to a circuit board. The pickup flipping collet includes a cooling channel through which cooling air flows to cool the pickup flipping collet. Thus, bonding time can be reduced without lowering bonding quality.
US09536854B2
Bonding wire for semiconductor device use where both leaning failures and spring failures are suppressed by (1) in a cross-section containing the wire center and parallel to the wire longitudinal direction (wire center cross-section), there are no crystal grains with a ratio a/b of a long axis “a” and a short axis “b” of 10 or more and with an area of 15 μm2 or more (“fiber texture”), (2) when measuring a crystal direction in the wire longitudinal direction in the wire center cross-section, the ratio of crystal direction <100> with an angle difference with respect to the wire longitudinal direction of 15° or less is, by area ratio, 50% to 90%, and (3) when measuring a crystal direction in the wire longitudinal direction at the wire surface, the ratio of crystal direction <100> with an angle difference with respect to the wire longitudinal direction of 15° or less is, by area ratio, 50% to 90%. During the drawing step, a drawing operation with a rate of reduction of area of 15.5% or more is performed at least once. The final heat treatment temperature and the pre-final heat treatment temperature are made predetermined ranges.
US09536847B2
An embodiment is a bump bond pad structure that comprises a substrate comprising a top layer, a reinforcement pad disposed on the top layer, an intermediate layer above the top layer, an intermediate connection pad disposed on the intermediate layer, an outer layer above the intermediate layer, and an under bump metal (UBM) connected to the intermediate connection pad through an opening in the outer layer. Further embodiments may comprise a via mechanically coupling the intermediate connection pad to the reinforcement pad. The via may comprise a feature selected from the group consisting of a solid via, a substantially ring-shaped via, or a five by five array of vias. Yet, a further embodiment may comprise a secondary reinforcement pad, and a second via mechanically coupling the reinforcement pad to the secondary reinforcement pad.
US09536837B2
A TSV via structure comprising an upper part made on the side of the front face of a substrate in which electronic components are located and a lower part with height and cross-section smaller than the height and cross-section the upper part, the arrangement of the connection element in the substrate being such that it releases stresses generated by the different materials of said structure.
US09536835B2
A semiconductor device includes a first gate electrode provided in a jumper region of a substrate and extending in a first direction, first source/drain regions provided at both sides of the first gate electrode, and a connecting contact electrically connecting the first gate electrode and the first source/drain regions to each other. The connecting contact includes first sub-contacts disposed at both sides of the first gate electrode and connected to the first source/drain regions, and a second sub-contact extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second sub-contact is connected to the first sub-contacts and is in contact with a top surface of the first gate electrode. In the first direction, each of the first sub-contacts has a first width and the second sub-contact has a second width smaller than the first width.
US09536833B2
A semiconductor device may include a metal pad and a first specific metal layer routing. The metal pad is positioned on a first metal layer of the semiconductor device and is directly contacting the first metal layer. The first specific metal layer routing is formed on a second metal layer of the semiconductor device and under the metal pad. In addition, the semiconductor device may include at least one via plug for connecting the first specific metal layer routing to at least one metal region in the first metal layer, where the aforementioned at least one via plug is formed directly under the metal pad.
US09536832B1
A method of forming an interconnect structure includes providing a first dielectric layer, patterning a wire opening in a first dielectric layer, lining the wire opening with a metal liner and includes filling the wire opening with a first conductive material. The method also includes depositing a first cap on the first dielectric layer, depositing a second dielectric layer, and patterning a via trench in the second dielectric layer. The method also includes depositing a metal liner, removing the metal liner from a via junction, and enlarging the contact area. The method also includes filling the via trench with a second conductive material to form a via.
US09536825B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first transistor and a second transistor formed on the first region and the second region, respectively, a first contact formed on the first transistor, and a second contact formed on the second transistor. The first contact includes a first work function control layer having a first thickness and a first conductive layer formed on the first work function control layer, the second contact includes a second work function control layer having a second thickness different from the first thickness and a second conductive layer formed on the second work function control layer, and the first contact and the second contact have different work functions.
US09536817B2
Disclosed are a foldable and spreadable electronic device and a method of manufacturing the electronic device. The electronic device may include a flexible chip, a protection film and a flexible substrate. The flexible chip may include a first wiring on a first face thereof. The flexible chip may have a foldable and spreadable structure by reducing a thickness from a second face thereof. The protection film may be disposed on the second face of the flexible chip for protecting the flexible chip. The flexible substrate may include a second wiring on one face thereof. The protection film on disposed on the second face of the flexible chip may make contact with the flexible substrate. The first wiring of the flexible chip may be electrically connected to the second wiring of the flexible substrate using a wire.
US09536815B2
A semiconductor socket including a substrate with a plurality of through holes extending from a first surface to a second surface. A conductive structure is disposed within the through holes A plurality of discrete contact members are located in the plurality of the through holes, within the conductive structure. The plurality of contact members each include a proximal end accessible from the second surface, and a distal end extending above the first surface. The conductive structure can be electrically coupled to circuit geometry. At least one dielectric layer is bonded to the second surface of the substrate with recesses corresponding to desired circuit geometry. A conductive material deposited in at least a portion of the recesses to form conductive traces redistributing terminal pitch of the proximal ends of the contact members.
US09536808B1
Semiconductor devices are provided having large vias, such as under bonding pads, to increase the via open area ratio, increase the via etching rate, and avoid inter-metal dielectric cracking and damage to the integrated circuit. The via is defined as a large open area in the inter-metal dielectric layer between an isolated conductive bottom substrate layer and a conductive top layer. Methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices with a large via are also provided.
US09536807B2
A stack package may include a first chip, a second chip, a through silicon via (TSV) and an interface circuit unit. The first chip may include a first internal circuit unit driven by an internal voltage. The second chip may be stacked over the first chip. The second chip may include a second internal circuit unit driven by the internal voltage. The TSV may be electrically coupled between the first chip and the second chip. The interface circuit unit may be arranged in the first chip and the second chip. The interface circuit unit may be coupled to the TSV. A portion of the interface circuit unit may be received a variable voltage different from the internal voltage as a driving voltage.
US09536804B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a heat conductive sheet that itself is imparted with stickiness and has reduced heat resistance due to improved adhesion to a heat generator and a heat dissipater and that may be fixed provisionally without the need for using an adhesive agent or the like. The method includes the steps of molding a heat conductive resin composition, which includes heat conductive fillers and a binder resin, into a predetermined shape and curing the heat conductive resin composition to obtain a molded product of the heat conductive resin composition, cutting the molded product into sheets to obtain a molded product sheet, and coating an entire surface of a sheet main body (7) with an uncured component (8) of the binder resin oozing from the sheet main body (7).
US09536800B2
In one general aspect, a package can include a semiconductor die having a first terminal on a first side of the semiconductor die and a second terminal on a second side of the semiconductor die, a leadframe portion electrically coupled to the second terminal of the semiconductor die, and a molding compound. The first terminal on the first side of the semiconductor die, a first surface of the leadframe portion, and a first surface of the molding compound can define at least a portion of a first surface of the package. A second surface of the molding compound and a second surface of the leadframe portion can define at least a portion of a second surface of the package parallel to the first surface of the package, and the second surface can be on an opposite side of the package from the first surface of the package.
US09536798B2
The invention discloses a package structure made of the combination of a device carrier and a modifiable substrate. In one embodiment, a recess is formed in the device carrier and a conductive element is disposed on the substrate, wherein the substrate is disposed on the device carrier and the conductive element is located in the recess of the device carrier. The conductive pattern in the substrate is electrically connected to the device carrier and I/O terminals of the first conductive element. The invention also discloses a method for manufacturing a package structure made of the combination of a device carrier and a modifiable substrate. In one embodiment, a portion of the conductive pattern in the substrate can be modified.
US09536794B2
In one aspect, a method of forming a CMOS device includes forming nanowires suspended over a BOX, wherein a first/second one or more of the nanowires are suspended at a first/second suspension height over the BOX, and wherein the first suspension height is greater than the second suspension height; depositing a conformal gate dielectric on the BOX and around the nanowires wherein the conformal gate dielectric deposited on the BOX is i) in a non-contact position with the conformal gate dielectric deposited around the first one or more of the nanowires, and ii) is in direct physical contact with the conformal gate dielectric deposited around the second one or more of the nanowires such that the BOX serves as an oxygen source during growth of a conformal oxide layer at the interface between the conformal gate dielectric and the second one or more of the nanowires.
US09536792B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a substrate, a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET. The first MOSFET is disposed on the substrate within a first transistor region and the second MOSFET is disposed on the substrate within a second transistor region. The first MOSFET includes a first fin structure, two first lightly-doped regions, two first doped regions and a first gate structure. The first fin structure includes a first body portion and two first epitaxial portions, wherein each of the first epitaxial portions is disposed on each side of the first body portion. A first vertical interface is between the first body portion and each of the first epitaxial portions so that the first-lightly doped region is able to be uniformly distributed on an entire surface of each first vertical interface.
US09536787B2
Disclosed herein is a wafer processing method for dividing a wafer into a plurality of individual devices along a plurality of crossing division lines. The wafer is composed of a substrate and a functional layer formed on the front side of the substrate. The division lines are formed on the front side of the functional layer. A laser beam having a transmission wavelength to the substrate is applied to the wafer from the back side thereof to detect the height of an interface between the functional layer and the substrate in an area corresponding to each division line. The depth of cut by a cutting blade for cutting the substrate is next set according to the height detected above. The back side of the substrate is next cut by the cutting blade according to the depth of cut set above to thereby form a cut groove having a depth not reaching the functional layer with a remaining part of the substrate left between the bottom of the cut groove and the functional layer along each division line, the remaining part having a uniform thickness. Thereafter, the remaining part and the functional layer are cut along each division line to thereby divide the wafer.
US09536781B2
Methods of fabricating integrated circuits are disclosed herein. A die having a side is provided. A conductive stud extends from the side in a direction that is substantially normal to the side. A first dielectric layer is affixed to the side of the die. The first dielectric layer has a first side and a second side. The first side of the first dielectric layer is affixed to the side of the die. The conductive stud pierces the first side of the first dielectric layer. A first via is formed through the first dielectric layer between the conductive stud and the second side. The first via is electrically connected to the conductive stud.
US09536777B2
A method comprises bonding a first chip on a second chip, depositing a first hard mask layer over a non-bonding side of the first chip, depositing a second hard mask layer over the first hard mask layer, etching a first substrate of the first semiconductor chip using the second hard mask layer as a first etching mask and etching the IMD layers of the first chip and the second chip using the first hard mask layer as a second etching mask.
US09536773B2
Embodiments of a mechanism for forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure filled with a flowable dielectric layer are provided. The mechanism involves using one or more low-temperature thermal anneal processes with oxygen sources and one or more microwave anneals to convert a flowable dielectric material to silicon oxide. The low-temperature thermal anneal processes with oxygen sources and the microwave anneals are performed at temperatures below the ranges that could cause significant dopant diffusion, which help dopant profile control for advanced manufacturing technologies. In some embodiments, an implant to generate passages in the upper portion of the flowable dielectric layer is also used in the mechanism.
US09536746B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device configured to mitigate against parasitic coupling while maintaining threshold voltage control for comparatively narrow transistors. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device comprises a channel comprising an epitaxial layer that forms an outgrowth above the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a gate material formed over the epitaxial layer. In some embodiments, a method of forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method comprises etching the surface of a semiconductor substrate to form a recess between first and second isolation structures, forming an epitaxial layer within the recess that forms an outgrowth above the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and forming a gate material over the epitaxial layer. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09536745B2
A tungsten film forming method for forming a tungsten film on a surface of a target substrate by an ALD (atomic layer deposition) method comprises adding a reduction gas to allow an ALD reaction to mainly occur when a tungsten chloride gas is supplied. In the ALD method, the tungsten chloride gas as a tungsten source gas and the reduction gas for reducing the tungsten chloride gas are alternately supplied into a chamber which accommodates the target substrate and is maintained under a depressurized atmosphere, with a purge process for purging an inside of the chamber performed between the supply of the tungsten chloride gas and the supply of the reduction gas.
US09536741B2
The method for performing activation of n-type or p-type dopants in a GaN-base semiconductor includes the following steps: providing a substrate including a GaN-base semiconductor material layer, performing the following successive steps at least twice: implanting electric dopant impurities in the semiconductor material layer, performing heat treatment so as to activate the electric dopant impurities in the semiconductor material layer, a cap layer covering the semiconductor material layer when the heat treatment is performed, two implantation steps of electric dopant impurities being separated by a heat treatment step.
US09536740B2
A description is given of a method for doping a semiconductor body, and a semiconductor body produced by such a method. The method comprises irradiating the semiconductor body with protons and irradiating the semiconductor body with electrons. After the process of irradiating with protons and after the process of irradiating with electrons, the semiconductor body is subjected to heat treatment in order to attach the protons to vacancies by means of diffusion.
US09536726B2
MALDI-TOF MS systems have solid state lasers and successive and varied delay times between ionization and acceleration (e.g. extraction) to change focus masses during a single sample signal acquisition without requiring tuning of the MS by a user. The (successive) different delay times can change by 1 ns to about 500 ns, and can be in a range that is between 1-2500 nanoseconds.
US09536717B2
This invention relates to mass spectrometry that includes ion trapping in at least one of the stages of mass analysis. In particular, although not exclusively, this invention relates to tandem mass spectrometry where precursor ions and fragment ions are analyzed. A method of mass spectrometry is provided comprising the sequential steps of: accumulating in an ion store a sample of one type of ions to be analyzed; accumulating in the ion store a sample of another type of ions to be analyzed; and mass analyzing the combined samples of the ions; wherein the method comprises accumulating the sample of the one type of ions and/or the sample of another type of ions to achieve a target number of ions based on the results of a previous measurement of the respective type of ions.
US09536715B2
Recycling method for tantalum coil for sputtering and tantalum coil obtained by the recycling method
The present invention relates to a method for recycling a tantalum coil for sputtering that is disposed between a substrate and a sputtering target. The method for recycling a tantalum coil for sputtering is characterized in that the whole or partial surface of a spent tantalum coil is subject to cutting (cutting is performed until a re-deposited film and knurling traces are eliminated) so as to eliminate the re-deposited film that was formed during sputtering, and knurling is newly performed to the cut portion. While sputtered grains are accumulated (re-deposited) on the surface of the tantalum coil disposed between the substrate and the sputtering target during sputtering, by eliminating the sputtered grains accumulated on the spent coil by way of cutting after the sputtering is complete, the tantalum coil can be efficiently recycled. Thus, provided is technology capable of lean manufacturing of new coils, improving productivity, and stably providing such coils.
US09536714B2
A plate-centering system that has a plate with a holder, in which the plate is centered in the holder both at room temperature and at higher temperatures, independently of the thermal expansion of the plate and the holder, and the plate can freely expand in the holder at higher temperatures. The invention relates in particular to a target having a frame-shaped target mount, which is very well suited for use in a coating source for high power pulsed magnetron sputtering of the target.
US09536710B2
An apparatus for providing processing gases to a process chamber with improved uniformity is disclosed. One embodiment provides a gas delivery assembly. The gas delivery assembly includes a hub, a nozzle, and one or more gas diffusers disposed in the nozzle. The nozzle has a cylindrical body with a side wall and a top surface. A plurality of injection passages are formed inside the nozzle to deliver processing gases into the process chamber via a plurality of outlets disposed in the side wall. The injection passages are configured to direct process gases out of each outlet disposed in the side wall in a direction which is not radially aligned with a centerline of the hub.
US09536709B2
A large-sized plasma generator is suited to various surface shapes and has a longer service life and improved energy conservation. An example of the plasma generator (1-1) has a dielectric layer (3), first and second electrodes (4, 5) that are formed within the dielectric layer, an alternating-current power supply (6), and a first metal layer (7). The dielectric layer (3) is composed of polymer resin layers (31, 32) that are formed of a polyimide resin. The electrodes are arranged side by side within the dielectric layer. The first metal layer is formed of a metal having a sterilization effect, and has a plurality of pores (71) in the surface. The first metal layer spans between supporting parts (33, 34) of the polymer resin layer (32), and faces the whole of the electrodes. A gap (S) is formed between the first metal layer and the polymer resin layer.
US09536705B2
A writing apparatus includes a writing unit to include a deflector for deflecting a charged particle beam and write a pattern on a target object by the charged particle beam, a decision unit to decide a representative position of a deflection result range in which the charged particle beam was deflected with respect to a writing direction by the deflector, and a correction unit to correct drift of the charged particle beam by using a drift amount at the representative position of the deflection result range.
US09536697B2
This invention provides a system and a method for calibrating charge-regulation module in vacuum environment. Means for mounting the charge-regulation module provides motions to the charge-regulation module such that a beam spot, illuminated by the charge-regulation module, on a sample surface can be moved to a pre-determined position which is irradiated by a charged particle beam.
US09536695B2
A driving method includes providing a field emission cathode device. The field emission cathode device includes a cathode electrode, an electron emission layer electrically connected to the cathode electrode, a first gate electrode spaced from the cathode electrode by a first dielectric layer, and a second grid electrode spaced from the first gate electrode by a second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer has a second opening. A first voltage is supplied to the cathode electrode, a second voltage is supplied to the first gate electrode, and a third voltage is supplied to the second grid electrode, to extract electrons from the electron emission layer to a space formed by the second opening, until the electrons of the space saturate. The third voltage is greater than the second voltage, such that the electrons of the space are emitted through the second grid electrode.
US09536687B2
A push switch includes a switch contact part for carrying out electrical connection by pressing, a case having a wall part on a periphery thereof and accommodating the switch contact part in a concave portion surrounded by the wall part, and a protective sheet covering the concave portion. The protective sheet and at least a part of an upper surface of the wall part of the case are welded together as a first welding place.
US09536680B2
A jumper is for an electrical switching apparatus having a plurality of poles. Each of the poles comprises a terminal. The terminal of a first one of the poles is proximate the terminal of a second one of the poles. The jumper includes a jumper member having an attachment portion and a heat sink portion. The attachment portion is structured to electrically connect the terminal of the first one of the poles to the terminal of the second one of the poles. The heat sink portion includes a plurality of spaced apart heat transfer members that are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns.
US09536675B2
Provided is a polymerization liquid for electropolymerization, which uses a solvent that is mainly composed of water, which is greatly increased in the amount of a monomer contained therein, and which is capable of quickly forming a conductive polymer layer having high conductivity and heat resistance, A polymerization liquid for electropolymerization of the present invention contains: a solvent that is composed of 100-80% by mass of water and 0-20% by mass of an organic solvent; at least one monomer having a pi-conjugated double bond; at least one supporting electrolyte; and at least two nonionic surfactants. The at least two nonionic surfactants are composed of at least one acetylenol surfactant and at least one water-soluble nonionic surfactant other than the acetylenol surfactant. Due to the combination of the two nonionic surfactants, the amount of the monomer emulsified with the solvent can be greatly increased.
US09536670B2
A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal.
US09536669B2
In a method of forming a plating layer for an external terminal electrode by applying, for example, copper plating to an end surface of a component main body with respective ends of internal electrodes exposed, and then applying a heat treatment at a temperature of about 1000° C. or more in order to improve the adhesion strength and moisture resistance of the external terminal electrode, the plating layer may be partially melted to decrease the bonding strength of the plating layer. In the step of applying a heat treatment at a temperature of about 1000° C. or more to a component main body with plating layers formed thereon, the average rate of temperature increase from room temperature to the temperature of about 1000° C. or more is set to about 100° C./minute or more. This average rate of temperature increase maintains a moderate eutectic state in the plating layer and ensures a sufficient bonding strength of the plating layer.
US09536664B2
In an electronic component, capacitor conductors include linear portions parallel or substantially parallel to a lower surface of a laminate, and lead-out portions led out respectively from the linear portions to the lower surface. Outer electrodes are disposed on the lower surface and cover exposed portions where the lead-out portions are exposed at the lower surface, respectively. At least one of the linear portions includes a groove, which is recessed in a direction away from the lower surface, in a region thereof overlapping with the corresponding outer electrode when looking at the electronic component in a plan view from a z-axis direction.
US09536658B2
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet that is subjected to magnetic domain refining treatment by electron beam irradiation and exhibits excellent low-noise properties when assembled as an actual transformer in which tension exerted on the steel sheet by the forsterite film is 2.0 MPa or higher both in a rolling direction and a direction transverse (perpendicular) to the rolling direction, and a ratio of an irradiation pitch in a thermal strain introduced region (B) to a spot diameter (A) on an electron beam irradiation surface satisfies 0.5≦B/A≦5.0.
US09536645B2
A ferrite composition comprises a main component and a sub component. The main component is comprised of 40.0 to 49.8 mol % iron oxide in terms of Fe2O3, 5.0 to 14.0 mol % copper oxide in terms of CuO, 0 to 32.0 mol % zinc oxide in terms of ZnO, and a remaining part of nickel oxide. The sub component includes 0.5 to 4.0 wt % tin oxide in terms of SnO2, 0.10 to 1.00 wt % bismuth oxide in terms of Bi2O3, and 0.21 to 3.00 wt % cobalt oxide in terms of Co3O4, with respect to the main component.
US09536639B2
A wire harness is provided in which, by merely overlap wrapping a binding tape member around a group of lead wires, intruding water can be guided to the outside. The wire harness includes a group of lead wires and a binding tape-type protection portion that covers the group of lead wires. The binding tape-type protection portion is formed by overlap wrapping a binding tape member around the group of lead wires, the binding tape member having a tape member body made of a synthetic resin and an adhesive layer formed on one surface of the tape member body. The tape member body has a plurality of water drain holes that are provided so as to penetrate the wall of the tape member body in the width direction, and that are provided in the lengthwise direction.
US09536636B2
An insulated wire including a laminated resin-coated insulated wire containing: a thermosetting resin layer (A) directly or via an insulating layer (D) on a conductor having a rectangular cross-section; and at least a thermoplastic resin layer (B) on the outer periphery of the thermosetting resin layer (A), in which the cross-sectional shape of the thermosetting resin layer (A) composed of two pairs of two sides facing each other, and has at least four convex portions each of which has a film thickness in maximum, at least one convex portion of the at least four convex portions is on each of the four sides, or at least two convex portions of the at least four convex portions are at least on each of the two sides facing each other, and in the each side having the convex portion, provided that a minimum film thickness is designated as “a” pm, and an average of maximum film thicknesses of the convex portions is designated as “b” pm, the a/b ratio is 0.60 or more and 0.90 or less; a coil, and electric/electronic equipment.
US09536627B2
The semiconductor device includes a bit line, a transistor, a retention node, and a capacitor. The transistor has a function of charging or discharging the retention node. The capacitor has a function of retaining a potential of the retention node. A voltage greater than the sum of a writing voltage and a threshold voltage is applied to a gate of the transistor. When the transistor is turned on, a first potential is supplied to the bit line with a reference potential in a floating state. A voltage less than the sum of the writing voltage and the threshold voltage is applied to the gate of the transistor. When the transistor is turned on, a second potential is supplied to the bit line with a reference potential in a floating state. With use of the first and second potentials, the threshold voltage of the transistor is calculated without being influenced by parasitic capacitance and variations in the storage capacitance of the capacitor.
US09536623B2
The present invention discloses a gate drive circuit and a shift register. The gate drive circuit comprises a plurality of shift register circuits which are cascade connected, and each of the shift register circuits comprises a clock control transmission circuit and a NOR gate latch circuit, wherein the clock control transmission circuit is triggered by a first clock pulse of a clock signal to transmit a gate drive pulse of a former stage to the NOR gate latch circuit, and the NOR gate latch circuit performs latch, and the NOR gate latch circuit is further triggered by a second clock pulse following the first clock pulse to output the gate drive pulse. With the aforesaid arrangement, the gate drive circuit of the present invention is applicable to CMOS process, and the power consumption is low and the noise margin is wide.
US09536622B2
For programming an antifuse memory, the power consumption of the memory is assessed during programming mode. The power consumption is compared with a threshold. When the threshold is exceeded, indicative of successful programming of the antifuse memory cell, the programming mode is terminated.
US09536621B2
A nonvolatile memory includes a memory area including plural first magnetoresistive elements each serving as a memory element, each first magnetoresistive element including a first storage layer and a first reference layer, with a first insulating film therebetween. A fuse circuit storing correction information of the memory area when a defect exists in the memory area, includes plural second magnetoresistive elements and plural fuse elements, the second magnetoresistive elements each serving as an anti-fuse element. Each second magnetoresistive element includes a second storage layer and a second reference layer, with a second insulating film therebetween. The fuse elements each store at least part of the correction information. A redundancy area includes plural third magnetoresistive elements each serving as a redundancy element, each third magnetoresistive element including a third storage layer and a third reference layer, with a third insulating film therebetween. When an external address signal matches the correction information, one third magnetoresistive element is selected.
US09536616B1
A non-volatile memory device includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer adjacent to the first electrode layer, a third electrode layer adjacent to the second electrode layer, a fourth electrode layer adjacent to the third electrode layer, and a channel body extending through the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer, the third electrode layer and the fourth electrode layer in a first direction. The device further includes a circuit electrically connected to the first electrode layer, the second electrode layer, the third electrode layer, the fourth electrode layer, and the channel body. The circuit providing the second electrode layer with a first potential, the third electrode layer with a second potential higher than the first potential, the fourth electrode layer with a third potential between the first potential and the second potential and the channel body with a potential rising in the first direction.
US09536615B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having first and second groups of memory strings, each memory string including first and second memory cells connected between select transistors. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device further includes a first word line connected to the first memory cells of the memory strings, a second word line connected to the second memory cells of the memory strings, and a control unit configured to control application of control voltages to the select transistors and the word lines, such that a select line voltage is applied to the first word line and a non-select line voltage is applied to the second word line and not discharged while select transistors of the first group of memory strings are turned off and select transistors of the second group of memory strings are turned on.
US09536614B2
A memory system has an array of split gate non-volatile NVM cells that are in program sectors and the program sectors make up one or more erase sectors. The control gate of cells in a program sector are physically connected. A program/erase circuit programs a selected program sector by applying a programming signal to the control gates of the split gate memory cells of the selected program sector while applying a non-programming signal to the control gates of program sectors not selected for programming, that erases an erase sector comprising a plurality of the program sectors by contemporaneously applying an erase voltage to the control gates of the split gate NVM cells of the erase sector, wherein during the applying the programming signal, the program/erase circuit applies a source voltage to the sources of each of the split gate NVM cells of the erase sector.
US09536612B1
A method for multilevel programming flash memory cells of a three dimensional array of flash memory cells, the method may include receiving or determining a multiple phase programming scheme that is responsive to coupling between flash memory cells of the three dimensional array; and programming data to multiple flash memory cells of the three dimensional array in response to the multiple phase programming scheme. The multiple phase programming scheme determine a manner in which multiple programming levels are applied. At least two programming levels of the multiple programming levels correspond to bits of different significance.
US09536611B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of active strips, where active strips in the plurality are coupled together at one end by a pad and terminated at another end by a conductive line. The device includes memory cells at cross-points between the plurality of active strips and a plurality of word lines. The device includes string select structures arranged in an interlaced configuration as side gates for active strips. The device includes control circuitry, configured to turn on a particular active strip by applying a turn-on voltage to two string select structures arranged as side gates for the particular active strip, and to turn off a second particular active strip by applying a turn-off bias to at least one string select structure arranged as a side gate for the second particular active strip. The turn-off bias includes one of a ground voltage, a non-negative voltage, and a floating condition.
US09536605B2
Provided are a resistive memory device including a plurality of memory cells, and a method of operating the resistive memory device. The resistive memory device includes a sensing circuit connected to a first signal line, to which a memory cell is connected, the sensing circuit sensing data stored in the memory cell based on a first reference current; and a reference time generator for generating a reference time signal that determines a time point when a result of the sensing is to be output, based on the first reference current.
US09536604B1
A memory system is deigned for impedance matching using a network of resistors that are tuned to reduce reflections on a shared bus. Any deviation from the matched state causes a mismatch and results in reflections on the bus. Overall signal reflections are reduced by balancing the back reflections occurring at a connector junction coupled to a pair of resistors and the back reflections occurring at the input of the DIMMs. This balance or tradeoff is achieved by changing the resistance value of the resistor pair to reduce the overall back reflections in the memory system.
US09536598B2
Among other things, techniques and systems are provided for activating a memory cell of a memory arrangement in preparation for at least one of a read operation or write operation. The memory arrangement comprises a word-line driver comprising at least a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The first input terminal is operably coupled to a first decoder and the second input terminal is operably coupled to a second decoder. When the word-line driver senses a first voltage at the first input terminal and a second voltage at the second input terminal, the word-line driver outputs a gate voltage signal which activates the memory cell.
US09536595B2
Methods, devices, arrays and systems for reducing standby power for a floating body memory array. One method includes counting bits of data before data enters the array, wherein the counting includes counting at least one of: a total number of bits at state 1 and a total number of all bits; a total number of bits at state 0 and the total number of all bits; or the total number of bits at state 1 and the total number of bits at state 0. This method further includes detecting whether the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; setting an inversion bit when the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; and inverting contents of all the bits of data before writing the bits of data to the memory array when the inversion bit has been set.
US09536590B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit (IC) chip having a memory controller. The memory controller includes a memory interface circuit configured to interface the IC chip with a memory chip having a memory array, and a first control circuit. The memory chip has a configuration circuit for adjusting one or more configurations of the memory chip. The first control circuit is configured to control the memory interface circuit and to communicate with the configuration circuit in the memory chip via the memory interface circuit to adjust the one or more configurations of the memory chip.
US09536589B2
A method of operating a memory controller is disclosed. The method includes transmitting data signals to a memory device over each one of at least two parallel data links. A timing signal is sent to the memory device on a first dedicated link. The timing signal has a fixed phase relationship with the data signals. A data strobe signal is driven to the memory device on a second dedicated link. Phase information is received from the memory device. The phase information being generated internal to the memory device and based on a comparison between the timing signal and a version of the data strobe signal internally distributed within the memory device. A phase of the data strobe signal is adjusted relative to the timing signal based on the received phase information.
US09536587B2
A first semiconductor device equalizes levels of a bit line and a complementary bit line of a high-order bit line pair in a first memory block using a first drive voltage signal whose level is controlled when a power-down mode or a self-refresh mode is activated according to a level combination of high-order command/address signals. A second semiconductor device equalizes levels of a bit line and a complementary bit line of a low-order bit line pair in a second memory block using a second drive voltage signal whose level is controlled when the power-down mode or the self-refresh mode is activated according to a level combination of low-order command/address signals.
US09536572B2
Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards an apparatus in which a base deck and a forged base deck cover are coupled to one another, via a weld joint, to provide a hermetically sealed cavity within. The base deck includes an outer region, and the base deck cover includes a lip that interfaces with the outer region of the base deck to provide the weld joint. Similarly, the base deck is formed by an outer region of a base deck bottom portion interfacing with a lip of the shroud to form, via welding, the base deck.
US09536568B2
A method of operation of a display system includes: receiving a recap request for a source media; generating source content descriptors for the source media with a control unit; extracting a source recap segment from the source media based on correlation of the source content descriptors with a recap theme associated with the recap request; and generating a custom recap with the source recap segment for displaying on a device.
US09536557B2
A method for content playback and recording may include using a computer to obtain media content from a recorded medium. Concurrently with obtaining the media content, the method may include reencrypting the encrypted media content using a secondary encryption key and storing the reencrypted media content in a storage device.
US09536556B2
A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) assembly includes a slider, a laser diode and solder connections between the laser diode and the slider. The solder connections mechanically and electrically attach the laser diode to the slider. Each solder connection has a total volume per unit area (i.e., height) of less than or equal to about 15 μm. The solder connections have a first intermetallic zone adjacent to the laser diode, a second intermetallic zone adjacent to the slider, and a eutectic zone of eutectic material between the first and second intermetallic zones. The eutectic zone occupies greater than or equal to about 35% of the total volume per unit area of the solder connection.
US09536550B1
A cross-track profile of a known good test track on a recording medium is read during operation of a data storage device. Two or more center locations of the test track are determined at two or more different amplitude levels via a read transducer. A health condition of the read transducer is determined by comparing the two or more center locations of the test track with one another.
US09536546B2
Systems and techniques are provided for finding differences in nearly-identical audio recordings. A first version of an audio recording may be received. A second version of the audio recording may be received. A difference between the first version of the audio recording and the second version of the audio recording may be determined using time domain analysis and frequency domain analysis. The difference may be stored in a difference set. The difference set may allow the first version of the audio recording to be distinguished from the second version of the audio recording. The audio recording may be a music track. The first version of the audio recording may be an explicit version of the music track. The second version of the audio recording may be an edited version of the music track.
US09536545B2
The invention relates to the analysis of characteristics of audio and/or video signals for the generation of audio-visual content signatures. To determine an audio signature a region of interest for example of high entropy—is identified in audio signature data. This region of interest is then provided as an audio signature with offset information. A video signature is also provided.
US09536535B2
Described herein are systems, methods and apparatus for decoding in-band on-channel signals and extracting audio and data signals. Memory requirements are reduced by selectively filtering a bit stream of data in the signal so that services of interest which are encoded therein are processed. A single pool of memory may be shared between physical layer and data link layer processing. Memory in this pool may be allocated dynamically between processing of data at the physical and data link layers. When the available memory is not sufficient to support the required services, the dynamic allocation allows for graceful degradation.
US09536526B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display controller and circuitry. The display controller displays a first object indicative of a first speaker, a first object indicative of a second speaker different from the first speaker, a second object indicative of a first speech period identified as a speech of the first speaker, and a second object indicative of a second speech period identified as a speech of the second speaker. The circuitry integrates the first speech period and the second speech period into a speech period of a same speaker when a first operation of associating the first object indicative of the first speaker with the first object indicative of the second speaker is operated.
US09536520B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method selects a program from a library of programs. A user selection is determined based upon a voice command, and the program is presented at a display device in accordance with the voice command. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a system selects a program from a library of programs. The system includes a processor that determines a user selection based upon a voice command, and also includes a display device that presents the program in accordance with the voice command. In accordance with yet another embodiment of the present invention, a computer-readable medium contains a set of instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to determine a user selection based upon a voice command and to command a display device to present the program, in accordance with the voice command.
US09536513B2
Polymer dispersions and sound deadener compositions with emulsion polymer from two-stage preparation
A description is given of an aqueous polymer dispersion comprising a polymer which is obtainable by emulsion polymerization from a monomer mixture comprising as hydrophilic monomers ethoxylated (meth)acrylate monomer, acid monomer, and C1 to C20 hydroxyalkyl(meth)acrylate; and also at least one hydrophobic principal monomer, selected from C1 to C20 alkyl(meth)acrylates and vinylaromatics; and also, optionally, further monomers. This polymer is preparable by at least two-stage emulsion polymerization, where in a first polymerization stage the predominant fraction or the entire amount of the hydrophilic monomers is used, and in a later polymerization stage the predominant fraction or the entire amount of the hydrophobic monomers is used. The polymer dispersion is a suitable binder for aqueous particle dispersions, more particularly of sound deadener compositions, which comprise inorganic and optionally also organic particulate solids. Also described is a method for damping oscillations or vibrations of vehicle components.
US09536512B2
A non-reciprocal acoustic device that accomplishes non-reciprocity via linear or angular-momentum bias. The non-reciprocal acoustic device includes an azimuthally symmetric or planar acoustical cavity (e.g., ring cavity), where the cavity is biased by imposing a circular or linear motion of a gas, a fluid or a solid medium filling the cavity. Acoustic waveguides are connected to the cavity or the cavity is excited from the surrounding medium. A port of this device is excited with an acoustic wave. When the cavity is biased appropriately, the acoustic wave is transmitted to one of the other acoustic waveguides while no transmission of the acoustic wave occurs at the other acoustic waveguides. As a result, linear non-reciprocity is now realized in acoustics without distorting the input signal or requiring high input power or bulky devices.
US09536508B2
An accompaniment data generating apparatus has a storing portion 15 for storing sets of phrase waveform data each related to a chord identified on the basis of a combination of chord type and chord root, and a CPU 9. The CPU 9 carries out a chord information obtaining process for obtaining chord information by which a chord type and a chord root are identified, and a chord note waveform data generating process for generating phrase waveform data indicative of chord notes of the chord root and the chord type identified by the obtained chord information in accordance with the obtained chord information by use of the sets of phrase waveform data stored in the storing portion 15, and outputting the generated data as accompaniment data.
US09536506B1
A lighted drum or other article may have a LED strip light and a wireless receiver/decoder in communication with the LED strip light. The wireless receiver/decoder may be configured to receive wireless control signals from a remote computer and control operation of the LED strip light in response to the control signals. Some embodiments may include a trigger assembly engaged with a drum head; a wireless receiver/decoder in communication with the trigger assembly; and at least one LED strip light in communication with the wireless receiver/decoder. The trigger assembly may be configured to generate a trigger signal in response to movement of the drum head. The wireless receiver/decoder may be configured to receive the trigger signal and wireless control signals and control operation of the at least one LED strip light in response to the trigger signal and the control signals. Related systems and methods are also described.
US09536505B1
A method, computer program product, and system for automatically tuning a stringed instrument. An initial height of a first string of an instrument having a plurality of strings and a floating bridge is determined. The height of the plurality of strings is determined using a bridge sensor. The floating bridge is locked. A frequency of the first string is analyzed. In response to determining the frequency of the first string does not match a predetermined frequency, a tuning peg servo motor to adjust a tuning peg, thereby adjusting a string tension of the first string. The one or more bridge servo motors adjusts a spring tension until the spring tension of the one or more springs equals the string tension of the first string. In response to determining the first string is tuned, the floating bridge is unlocked.
US09536490B2
The present invention provides a display panel and driving method thereof, and display device. The display panel includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate, disposed oppositely; the array substrate comprising a plurality of scan lines, disposed at intervals; a plurality of data line, disposed at intervals, and crossing over and isolated from the scan lines; and a plurality of pixel units, arranged in a matrix form, and driven by the scan lines and data lines; each of the pixel units further divided into at least two active areas; the color filter substrate includes at least two common electrodes, disposed correspondingly to the active areas, the at least two common electrodes applying common voltages independently. The present invention can eliminate the non-uniform luminance problem in display images and improve the display quality.
US09536488B2
The present invention provides a gamma voltage supply circuit capable of stably supplying a gamma voltage in response to the change of external voltage and a power management IC including the same. The gamma voltage supply circuit generates a regulating voltage using an internal voltage which is not influenced by the variation in load of a source driver IC, and generates a gamma voltage using the regulating voltage.
US09536484B2
A liquid crystal array substrate includes a number of pixels, each pixel includes a main region, a first sub-region, and a second sub-region. The main region includes a first thin film transistor (TFT), the first sub-region comprises a second TFT, and the second sub-region comprises a third TFT. Gates of the first TFT, the second TFT, and the third TFT of each pixel are connected to a first scan line, a source of the first TFT is connected to a first data line, a drain of the first TFT is connected to one corresponding pixel electrode; sources of the second TFT and the third TFT are connected to a second data line, drains of the second TFT and the third TFT are respectively connected to corresponding pixel electrodes.
US09536481B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes unit pixels including a first unit pixel and a second unit pixel, each of the first unit pixel and the second unit pixel including a first white area and first to third color areas, gate lines which extend in a first direction, cross the unit pixels and include a first gate line and a second gate line, data lines which extend in a second direction, and pixel electrodes which are electrically connected to the data lines and include first to seventh pixel electrodes, where the first to third pixel electrodes overlap the first to third color areas of the first unit pixel, respectively, the fourth to sixth pixel electrodes overlap the first to third color areas of the second unit pixel, respectively, and the seventh pixel electrode overlaps the first white areas of the first and second unit pixels.
US09536472B2
An organic light emitting device having a repair line connected to an organic light emitting element of a bad pixel. A first capacitor stores a voltage corresponding to a data voltage of the bad pixel, and a driving transistor outputs a current corresponding to the voltage stored in the first capacitor to an output terminal. A first transistor is connected between the output terminal of the driving transistor and the repair line, and is turned on or turned off in response to a first signal. A second transistor is connected between the repair line and a node, and is configured to be turned on or turned off in response to a second signal. A third transistor is connected between a node and a first voltage line for supplying a first voltage, and is turned on or turned off in response to a third signal.
US09536461B2
Some embodiments provide methods of increasing a resolution of multimedia content. Some of those methods comprising: identifying an uprendering matrix, wherein the uprendering matrix is dependent on a resulting resolution of resulting multimedia content having the increased resolution; and for each source image of the multimedia content: defining a reference image of the source image from the multimedia content, wherein the reference image has a resolution that is the same as an original resolution of the source image; defining multiple shifted images of the source image, wherein each of the multiple shifted images corresponds with one of the elements of the uprendering matrix; and coalescing pixels from each of the reference image and the shifted images creating an uprendered image having a higher resolution than the reference image.
US09536454B2
A method is provided for displaying physical objects. The method comprises capturing an input image of physical objects, and matching a three-dimensional model to the physical objects. The method further comprises producing a modified partial image by at least one of modifying a portion of the matched three-dimensional model, or modifying a partial image extracted from the input image using the matched three-dimensional model. The method also comprises displaying an output image including the modified partial image superimposed over the input image.
US09536449B2
This invention is a device and system for monitoring a person's food consumption comprising: a wearable sensor that automatically collects data to detect eating events; a smart food utensil, probe, or dish that collects data concerning the chemical composition of food which the person is prompted to use when an eating event is detected; and a data analysis component that analyzes chemical composition data to estimate the types and amounts of foods, ingredients, nutrients, and/or calories consumed by the person. In an example, the wearable sensor can be part of a smart watch or smart bracelet. In an example, the smart food utensil, probe, or dish can be a smart spoon with a chemical composition sensor. The integrated operation of the wearable sensor and the smart food utensil, probe, or dish disclosed in this invention offers accurate measurement of food consumption with low intrusion into the person's privacy.
US09536442B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to an online test platform adapted to facilitate the development, delivery, and management of educational tests with interactive participation by students, teachers, proctors, and administrators even when some or all of them are remotely located. The platform may include administrator interfaces, test proctor interfaces, and test taker (e.g. student) interfaces to allow each participant to view, navigate, and interact with aspects of the online test platform that are intended to meet their needs.
US09536440B2
A question setting apparatus is disclosed, including a processor and a storage part. The storage part stores a problem database which maintains problem data including a problem and a correct answer and a student answer database which maintains answer data including an answer of a student for the problem and a correct/incorrect answer determination result for each of the students. The processor performs recording the answer data and the correct/incorrect answer determination result by using the problem database based on a correct answer of the problem, the answer data being received during a test from each of student terminals connected through a network; and sending a comment to the student terminals through the network in which during the test, an answer state of the students is determined by using the student answer database and the comment related to the problem is acquired from a teacher based on a determination result.
US09536434B2
A method and apparatus of turning an aircraft for interval management. Interval management information identifying a desired spacing between the aircraft and a target aircraft is received. Turn information is determined using a performance gain factor. The turn information identifies a turn point for the aircraft. The performance gain factor identifies a desired portion of achieving the desired spacing due to turning the aircraft at the turn point and a desired portion of achieving the desired spacing due to changing speed of the aircraft. The turn information is used to turn the aircraft at the turn point.
US09536433B2
A method determines the optimal turn direction of an aircraft among two directions, right and left, following a lateral trajectory to join an arrival straight charted by an angle of arrival, based on a departure point and angle of departure defining a departure straight oriented along movement of the aircraft, the direction defined by a respectively positive or negative optimal turn sign, comprising: determining a conventional departure sign of the departure point; determining a center value of an angle of change of course equal to the difference between the angle of arrival and angle of departure referred back between −180° and +180°, the center value exhibiting a logical sign corresponding to the center value sign of the angle of change of course; determining the sign of the optimal turn based on comparison between the departure sign and the logical sign, the sign of the optimal turn defining optimal turn direction.
US09536422B2
Provided is a remote control system with which leakage current flowing in a switch can be reduced so that power consumption can be reduced. The remote control system includes a portable information terminal, a server, and an electric device. The on/off of the switch included in the electric device is controlled using information transmitted from the portable information terminal to the server. The switch includes a transistor formed using a semiconductor whose band gap is larger than that of single crystal silicon in a channel formation region.
US09536418B2
An industrial field real-time working condition radio alarm system, comprises a transmitting end (11) and a receiving end (12) carried a worker; the transmitting end (11) comprises a detector (101) to detect the current working condition, a transmitting end processor (102) to process an on-off signal sent by the detector (101), and a radio transmitter (103) to transmit an alarm signal to the receiving end (12) under the control of the transmitting end processor (102); the receiving end (12) comprises a radio receiver (105) to receive the alarm signal, a receiving end processor (106) to process the alarm signal sent by the radio receiver (105), and an alarm (107) to send an alarm under the control of the receiving end processor (106); the transmitting end processor (102) is connected to the detector (101) and the radio transmitter (103) respectively; and the receiving end processor (106) is connected to the radio receiver (105) and the alarm (107) respectively. The radio alarm system can send a dangerous working condition alarm to all workers in real time.
US09536414B2
A device for delivering stimuli to a user of a vehicle includes a data generating device that generates signals regarding information regarding a vehicle or surroundings about the vehicle. A human interface device is provided for positioning in contact with a user of the vehicle. The human interface device receives the signals from the data generating device. A control is operable to select the signals from the data generating device for operating the human interface device to deliver stimuli to the user of the vehicle.
US09536406B2
A regional monitoring system in communication with a plurality of locally displaced detectors can implement a fusion of inputs from a variety of additional non-system devices. The monitoring system includes a wireless receiver or transceiver enabling the system to detect local traffic from the non-system devices, such as sensors. Information received from such non-system devices can be combined with information from system detectors to initiate activity on other networks, to energize actuators, or to activate system detectors that normally reside in a low energy inactive state.
US09536404B2
A bottle fraud system and method encapsulates a wireless communication tag into a bottle to ensure the authenticity of the bottle. The tag stores information about the bottle. The tag is physically integrated into a bottle stopper through encapsulation by multiple layers of a polymer film and a wax composition. The physical condition to the bottle stopper or the layers serves as an indication of whether tampering has occurred. The information in the tag is accessible through a reading device. The reading device communicates with a database that stores information about the bottle and analyzes the probability of fraud with an algorithm. The algorithm analyzes the information about the bottle, such as shipping history, contents and location, to predict whether fraud is likely. Thus, both the physical condition of the bottle, and the predictive capacity of the algorithm help detect fraud on the bottle.
US09536386B2
A system for personalizable hybrid games including a gambling game and an entertainment game are provided. A gaming system includes, a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credit from a wager of real world credit in a gambling game using a random number generator; an entertainment software engine constructed to provide outcomes based upon a player's skillful execution of an entertainment game; and a game world engine constructed to: collect parameter data indicative of player performance during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game at each of a plurality of difficulty settings, the parameter data indicative of wagering in the gambling game as triggered by the player's actions during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game and indicative of a rate of accumulation of game world credit during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game; select a difficulty setting from the plurality of difficulty settings for the skill based entertainment game based upon the collected parameter data; determine a rate of consumption of an element of the entertainment game based on the difficulty setting for the entertainment game, where the element is a limited resource utilized within the entertainment game to advance gameplay in the entertainment game and trigger a wager in the gambling game; determine an amount of real world credit wagered based on the determined rate of consumption of the element; and generate a perceivable display of the anticipated amount real world credit wagered.
US09536380B2
A system and method for allowing gaming device participants to effect trades of player assets for improved odds of attaining gaming bonus events. A player engages in play of a gaming activity, such as a slot game, which includes a standard mode of play and a bonus mode of play. Player assets are traded for an increased probability of attaining a bonus event associated with the bonus mode. A trade amount is surrendered by the player as part of the trade, and the probability of the player attaining the bonus event increased, thereby allowing the player to engage in bonus activity sooner, more frequently, or when otherwise less available to the player.
US09536375B2
Systems for a networked gaming system are disclosed, including an entertainment game controller connected to a game world controller, and constructed to: communicate game world information; receive a request to aggregate information; aggregate game world information, encode and associate it with a transaction identifier; receive a gambling outcome; display gambling outcome; a real world controller connected to the game world controller, and constructed to: receive a wager request; determine gambling outcome; communicate gambling outcome; the game world controller connected to the entertainment game controller and to the real world controller, and constructed to: receive game world information; determine whether or not to generate an aggregation request; generate an aggregation request; communicate plurality of transaction identifiers; receive game world information and transaction identifier; determine whether the transaction identifier is valid; disaggregate game world information, communicate wager request; receive gambling outcome; and communicate gambling outcome.
US09536364B2
A system and method for employing BLE nodes in a PEPS system to determine whether a FOB is within or outside of a vehicle. The method includes interrogating the FOB using a signal transmitted by a BLE device on the vehicle to determine whether the FOB is in a predetermined vicinity of the vehicle and receiving a Bluetooth signal at the BLE device that is transmitted by the FOB if the FOB is in the vicinity of the vehicle. The method also included determining a transmit power of the Bluetooth signal transmitted by the FOB and determining a receive power of the Bluetooth signal transmitted by the FOB and received by the BLE device. The method uses the transmit power and the receive power in a comparison process to determine whether the FOB is inside or outside of the vehicle.
US09536361B2
Methods and systems for a vehicle system that include determining whether a vehicle action is necessary and providing a notification to predetermined users. Sensors provide signals to a sensing control system to generate the notification.
US09536360B2
A vehicle electronic key system for unlocking a vehicle includes an electronic key and a vehicle controlling device. The electronic key includes a first controller, a signal transmitting module configured to collet and transmit speech signals, and a wireless charging receiving coil configured to transmit electromagnetic signals to the first controller. The vehicle controlling device includes a second controller configured to authenticate the speech signals and unlock the vehicle, a signal receiving module configured to receive speech signals sent by the signal transmitting module and send the speech signals to the second controller, and a wireless charging transmitting coil configured to transmit the electromagnetic signals to the wireless charging receiving coil. The second controller is further configured to drive the wireless charging transmitting coil. The first controller is configured to convert the electromagnetic signals to electric energy and send the electric energy to the signal transmitting module.
US09536356B2
A mailing machine that provides for permanent postage is described. Postage may be purchased at one point of time at a then prevailing rate and used in the future at the same effective purchasing power even if a new more expensive rate schedule is in effect. The mailing machine provides for the accounting of such rate purchased postage using a Postal Security Device and may include multiple rate-table based accounts each associated with a particular postage rate table.
US09536354B2
Methods and devices for initiating a search of an object are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving sensor data from a sensor on a wearable computing device and, based on the sensor data, detecting a movement that defines an outline of an area in the sensor data. The method further includes identifying an object that is located in the area and initiating a search on the object. In another embodiment, a server is disclosed that includes an interface configured to receive sensor data from a sensor on a wearable computing device, at least one processor, and data storage comprising instructions executable by the at least one processor to detect, based on the sensor data, a movement that defines an outline of an area in the sensor data, identify an object that is located in the area, and initiate a search on the object.
US09536343B2
In a three-dimensional image generation apparatus, a CPU concatenates meshes of a plurality of objects which meet a predefined concatenation condition, and performs in advance vertex attribute transformation on the plurality of objects of which the meshes have been concatenated. The CPU regards as a single object, the plurality of objects on which the vertex attribute transformation has been performed, and transfers a rendering command, which instructs rendering of the plurality of objects regarded as the single object, to a GPU. The GPU renders, at a time, the plurality of objects that are regarded as the single object, upon receiving the rendering command from the CPU.
US09536337B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to restoring digital image noise lost in a blur process. In one embodiment, a noise reduction factor is calculated for each pixel of the digital image that has had a blur applied thereto. The noise reduction factor for a respective pixel is indicative of an estimated reduction in noise resulting from an amount of blur applied to the respective pixel. A noise compensation value can then be determined for each of the pixels, based on the noise reduction factor calculated for each of the pixels and a target noise level for the digital image as a whole. Once the noise compensation value is determined, noise can be applied to each of the plurality of pixels in accordance with the determined noise compensation value. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09536332B2
A computer-implemented method for displaying graphical representation of legends in a data visualization engine is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving input to configure a plurality of swatches of the legends of graphical charts, the input comprises at least one of a threshold number of swatches, an identification of graphical area for displaying the swatches, and a size or a data of the swatches for display in the graphical charts of the data visualization engine. The computer-implemented method further includes modifying the legend swatches, based on the received input. The computer-implemented method further includes generating a plurality of graphical charts of the data visualization engine for displaying the swatches, based on the modification, wherein the display is generated randomly, based on at least one user preference for displaying the swatches.
US09536324B1
Systems and techniques are disclosed for dynamically and automatically selecting an appropriate compression technique and/or compression parameters for digital images in order to reduce or prevent loss of significant information that may negatively impact the utility or usefulness of the digital images. For example, based on various image characteristics associated with a digital image, the system may dynamically compress the image using particular compression techniques and/or by adjusting compression parameters, to maintain significant information of the image. The system may select compression techniques and/or compression parameters based on one or more compression rules, which may be associated with image characteristics, patient characteristics, medical history, etc. Further, the system may, based on the one or more compression rules, compress the image to a maximum degree of compression while maintaining the significant information of the image.
US09536323B2
A data storage control apparatus includes a compression part that performs lossless compression for reducing a data amount on image data that is in units of blocks, a determination element for determining whether lossless compression is possible or not, and a storage control part that performs storage control for, if the determination element has determined that lossless compression is possible, causing data obtained through lossless compression to be stored as compressed data in a storage part, and if the determination element has determined that lossless compression is not possible, causing the image data in units of blocks to be stored in the storage part.
US09536322B1
A method and apparatus for tracking a location of an object or target in a 3D space. At least one target including unique sub-targets is attached to a vision object in the 3D space. A camera disposed in a 3D space, and coupled to a computing device captures a 2D image of a target. The camera computing device identifies the sub-targets of the target and transfers the sub-target data to a computing device associated with the camera which accesses a data base of target data to identify target an, using sub-target separation distances in the database to determine 3D location and orientation of the target. Another computing device transforms the 3D locations of the detected target in the camera coordinate system into a single 3D coordinate system for the 3D space. The 3D location of targets detected by multiple cameras of different computing devices maybe daisy chained together to convert the target location in the 3D coordinate systems of each computing device into a single 3D coordinate system.
US09536316B2
An apparatus and method are provided including a first segmenter and a second segmenter. The first segmenter is configured to generate a first segmentation result from a medical image using a first segmentation parameter for a candidate lesion. The second segmenter is configured to determine a target lesion to segment from among the candidate lesion based on the first segmentation result, and generate a second segmentation result using a second segmentation parameter to segment the target lesion.
US09536309B2
A method and computing device for displaying surgical path data are provided. The computing device includes an input device, a display, a memory and a processor. The memory stores (i) an image of a volume of patient tissue having an outer surface, and (ii) anatomical data defining anatomical features of the volume. The processor receives an identifier of a target location within the volume; generates a plurality of paths from the outer surface to the target location, each path having a start point located on the outer surface, and an end point at the target location; for each of the plurality of paths, determines a score based on a comparison between the path and the anatomical data; and controls the display to present the outer surface and, at the locations of the start points, indications of the respective scores of the paths corresponding to the start points.
US09536307B2
The invention relates to a method and an image processing device (50) for the registration of two images (I1, I2) that may for example be provided by a CT scanner (10) and/or an MRI scanner (20). According to one embodiment of the invention, the images are first globally registered (GR) with a given registration algorithm using a first parameter vector (p). A user may then select a region of interest ROI, and a plurality of local registrations (LR1, . . . LRs, . . . LRn) are calculated for this ROI using the same registration algorithm but different parameter vectors (p, p, . . . p). The results of the local registrations (LR1, . . . LRs, . . . LRn) are displayed and the user can select the best local registration(s). In a final step, the selected local registration(s) (LRs) and the global registration (GR) may be merged. Additionally or alternatively, a parameter vector for a local registration in the ROI may be determined by an automatic analysis of the ROI.
US09536304B2
A computer-implemented method of identifying a pathogen likely causing an increased somatic cell count in a sample of fluid is described. An image of the sample of fluid is received. Pixels in the image are parsed to identify pixels representing somatic cells. The identified pixels are analyzed to determine image parameters. The determined images parameters are compared with different sets of predefined pathogen parameters stored in memory to determine a match. Each of the sets of pathogen parameters represents a different one of a plurality of pathogens. The pathogen likely causing an increased somatic cell count is identified by the set of the pathogen parameters that matches the image parameters. A computer readable medium storing instructions to implement the method and a system configure to implement the method are also described.
US09536291B2
To suppress influence of a rounding error and acquire a more highly precise filter processing result, by performing convolution processing in order from a divided filter having a smaller sum of filter coefficient among divided filters, shifting a position of the decimal point of a filter processing result in a fixed-point format to generate an intermediate image, integrating the filter processing result having a larger bit width of a decimal part, and substantially reflecting a processing result of the decimal part.
US09536290B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method for tempering an adjustment of an image to account for prior adjustments to the image. The adjustment in some embodiments is an automatic exposure adjustment. The method performs an operation for a first adjustment on a first set of parameters (e.g., saturation, sharpness, luminance). The method compares the first set of parameters to a second set of parameters to produce a third set of parameters that expresses the difference between the first adjustment and a second adjustment. The method performs a third operation to produce an adjusted image. The first set of parameters quantify a set of prior adjustments to the image by an image capturing device when the image was captured in some embodiments. The second set of parameters is a set of target parameters. The third set of parameters specify the tempered adjustment of the image.
US09536281B2
A method and system are provided for image scaling including low resolution text areas. The method may include: determining one or more areas of text in an image to be scaled; scaling the one or more areas of text using two or more scaling algorithms to a required resolution to acquire two or more scaled versions of the text area; selecting the clearest text in a text area from two or more scaled versions of the text area; scaling the overall image to the required resolution; and merging the scaled overall image with the selected scaled version of each text area.
US09536270B2
Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. In one example, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users is accessed. Potential membership of a first user in a first group of users is determined based on scores generated for each of a plurality of possible groups of users, the scores based on the logical relationship information. Then the first user is added to the first group of users. Content from an electronic device of the first user is received for broadcast to the first group of users. In response to the receiving of content, the scores for each of the plurality of possible groups of users are regenerated based on the content. Then the first user is added to or removed from a second group of users selected from the plurality of possible groups of users based on the regenerated scores.
US09536269B2
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques that quantize community interactions with social media to understand and influence consumer experiences. Embodiments include a customer predictive experience platform. The platform can include an outcome engine configured for information mining and applying rules and analytics to the information, and an ops module configured for providing agent performance management, average handling time analytics, workflow management, and voice of the customer facilities. The platform can also include a chat module, a social media dialog engine, and a solution client configured for effecting predictive self-service, active auto sentiment management and rapid response to counteract negative sentiment, a customer experience ticker, a pre- and post-launch pulse, enhanced brand ambassadors, integration into corporate messaging and marketing, a social media dashboard, and a live portal configured for social media engagement and feedback.
US09536262B2
A method and apparatus are provided for verifying authenticity of a data acquisition peripheral to be used, which has at least one identifier. The method includes: receiving the identifier by means of an authentication server, verifying, by the authentication server, an association of the identifier with a referenced authentic peripheral, delivering a decision of identification; and transmission, by the server, of the decision of identification.
US09536259B2
Systems and methods for entity-based searching with content selection include receiving a search query and determining that the search query corresponds to a search entity. The search entity may be associated with an online action, thereby forming an entity-action pair. Auction parameters that specify the entity-action pair may be used to select third-party content. A visual layout for the third-party content may be generated based on the relationship between a search query and the entity-action pair and used as part of the presentation of the third-party content on a search result screen.
US09536257B2
Management device for a network of audiovisual information reproduction systems or jukeboxes, including a database with a plurality of sets of arrays, each array containing grouped information either about the composition of a jukebox, or the use of the jukebox, or the payment of fees. The database is managed by a computer server connected with the audiovisual information reproduction systems to receive messages sent by each audiovisual information reproduction device and containing information necessary to update determined sets of arrays in the database, and update data or the program for each audiovisual information reproduction device with information stored in at least one set of arrays in the database and transmitted in this message.
US09536250B2
A method and a system are provided for blending advertiser data with ad network data in order to serve finely targeted ads. In one example, the system receives campaign information from one or more advertisers. The campaign information includes at least one of a budget, criteria, and a creative. The system receives a notification from a user device about an available ad spot on a webpage for display at a browser running on the user device. The system receives data from an advertiser. The data from the advertiser pertains to managing an ad to be sent to the user device to fill the ad spot on the webpage. Then, the system combines the data from the advertiser with data from an ad network to obtain combined data. The ad network is configured for managing at least part of an ad campaign. The advertiser is also configured for managing at least part of the ad campaign.
US09536235B2
A single space electronic parking meter mechanism for inserting into an outer parking meter housing is provided. The mechanism includes an inner housing, a payment receiving structure supported by the inner housing and an electronic display screen supported by the inner housing. The mechanism also includes a wireless communication subsystem supported by the inner housing configured to wirelessly communicate with a parking management system and an electronic meter control system controlling the electronic display and the wireless communications subsystem. The mechanism includes a memory device receiving port externally accessible through the inner housing and a read-write removable memory device physically accessible from outside of the inner housing and configured to be coupled to the memory device receiving port. The removable memory device including operation mode information that is read by the electronic meter control system to select an operation mode of the meter mechanism.
US09536231B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving information that describes an issue with a building; accessing data that identifies (i) a plurality of components that are included in the building and (ii) features of the plurality of components; identifying one or more candidate components that have at least a threshold likelihood of being a cause of the issue; selecting a candidate service provider from among a plurality of service providers based on a comparison of (i) the one or more candidate components and (ii) information identifying technical qualifications for the plurality of service providers; transmitting a service request for the issue to the candidate service provider; receiving a response from the candidate service provider; and scheduling, based on the response, a service appointment with the candidate service provider to resolve the issue.
US09536224B2
A method, an apparatus, and a recording medium are provided. In the method, a mobile apparatus is positioned to obtain a positioning location and an electronic map around the positioning location is displayed. Then, at least one task stored in the mobile apparatus is accessed and each of the at least one task is marked on the electronic map according to a task location thereof.
US09536220B2
Computer-implemented prospective planning of personnel costs for an enterprise includes conducting planning preparation to plan the personnel costs, electronically collecting data relating to personnel costs, electronically performing a cost planning run, electronically conducting a detailed analysis of the results to revise and modify the collected data to produce updated results, and reporting the results of the cost planning run.
US09536217B2
A method of object association is disclosed. The method includes receiving object location information for a first object, receiving object location information for a second object, determining an existence of a correlation between a varying position of the first object and a varying position of the second object over for a predetermined amount of time and dynamically associating the first object with the second object based on the correlation.
US09536214B2
A method, system, and computer program product for resource management are described. The method includes selecting trouble regions within the service area, generating clustered regions, and training a trouble forecast model for the trouble regions for each type of damage, the training for each trouble region using training data from every trouble region within the clustered region associated with the trouble region. The method also includes applying the trouble forecast model for each trouble region within the service area for each type of damage, determining a trouble forecast for the service area for each type of damage based on the trouble forecast for each of the trouble regions within the service area, and determining a job forecast for the service area based on the trouble forecast for the service area, wherein the managing resources is based on the job forecast for the service area.
US09536209B2
Methods and systems for tracking compliance of personal protection (PP) articles in working environments. Tracking compliance includes providing at least one PP article configured with a smart tag; providing at least one predetermined criterion that governs compliance with respect to the at least one PP article in a particular working environment; tracking the PP article by retrieving smart tag data; and determining whether the smart tag data satisfies at least one predetermined criterion; and storing data relating to results of the determination.
US09536208B1
A computer-readable medium is configured to determine a support vector data description (SVDD). For each of a plurality of values for a kernel parameter, an optimal value of an objective function defined for an SVDD model using a kernel function, a read plurality of data points, and a respective value for the kernel parameter is computed to define a plurality of sets of support vectors. A plurality of first derivative values are computed for the objective function as a difference between the computed optimal values associated with successive values for the kernel parameter. A plurality of second derivative values are computed for the objective function as a difference between the computed plurality of first derivative values associated with successive values for the kernel parameter. A kernel parameter value is selected where the computed plurality of second derivative values first exceeds zero.
US09536207B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that uses data from an online social network to optimize subscription offers. During operation of the online social network, the system gathers data associated with subscription offers that were presented to members of the online social network, including information about which subscription offers were converted. Next, the system uses a machine-learning technique to train a model based on the gathered data. Finally, the system uses the trained model to select subscription offers to present to a member of the online social network.
US09536205B2
A hybrid ultracapacitor-battery energy storage system is integrated with a photovoltaic system to help solve fluctuations. A fuzzy-logic-based adaptive power management system enables optimization of the power/energy distributions and a filter-based power coordination layer serving as a rudimentary step for power coordination among the hybrid storage system and a fuzzy-logic-based control adjustment layer that keeps monitoring the operation status of all the energy storage devices, taking into account their dynamic characteristics, and fine-tuning the control settings adaptively.
US09536195B2
A method comprises the steps of receiving a set of process metrics, evaluating the set of received process metrics to determine a set of process classifications, determining a set of process parameters, and generating one or more processes based at least in part on the set of process parameters and the set of process classifications, each of the one or more processes having respective sets of process metrics similar to the set of received process metrics. The receiving, evaluating, determining and generating steps are performed by at least one processing device.
US09536185B2
An image forming apparatus, and a method of controlling it. The apparatus performs, in a case where at least one function out of a plurality of functions of the apparatus ceases to be usable, degeneracy control for operating to provide functions other than the at least one function, and stores information indicating a degeneracy control state is entered. The apparatus controls so as to activate without initialization operation of an image forming mechanism in a case where it is determined that the activation is due to the return from a power saving mode and the information is stored and so as to activate with the initialization operation when the activation is due to a power of the apparatus being turned on.
US09536176B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards environmental based location monitoring. Environmental based location monitoring can include collecting, a first set of image data that corresponds to a first set of environmental characteristics existing within a bounded area encompassing a hardware element of the computer and determining an environmental difference based on a difference between a first location corresponding to a geographic position of the hardware element relative to the first set of environmental characteristics and a second location corresponding to an approved geographic position of the hardware element. Environmental based location monitoring can include determining that the environmental difference does not satisfy a threshold and executing a reaction sequence in the computer, in response to determining that the environmental difference does not satisfy the threshold.
US09536167B2
The techniques include an image recognition system to receive a realogram image including a plurality of organized objects and to detect and identify objects in the realogram image of one or more items on a retail shelf, identify shelf fronts and labels on the shelf fronts, identify empty space under shelves, identify areas where unidentified products may be, and identify areas where products are “out of stock”.
US09536165B2
A method (100) is provided for characterizing a functionality of a flash (14) from at least one image (200) captured with a camera (12) using the flash (14). The method (100) includes: analyzing the image (200) by segmenting (106) the image (200) into at least one sub-region (206, 208), and applying a metric (108) to the sub-region (206, 208) to measure an image property within the sub-region (206, 208); and determining (110) the functionality of the flash (14) in response to a result of the applied metric.
US09536164B2
A setting apparatus for making a setting to detect that a moving object in an image has passed a line set in the image accepts designation of one of a position and a partial region in an object region in the image, and makes a setting to detect that the designated position or partial region in the object region of the moving object in the image has passed the line set in the image.
US09536163B2
An object position and orientation detection system and in particular one which is capable of describing observed movement in 3 dimensions. In one example, a spherical patterned marker with concentric rings is imaged using one or more digital cameras, and the resulting images are processed to determine the position and orientation of an object to which the patterned marker is attached. The method of optical tracking employed by the system allows motion to be determined in six degrees of freedom. In conjunction with a suitable display, such as a projector, an interactive white board or similar application can be realized.
US09536161B1
Various embodiments describe systems and methods for utilizing a reduced amount of processing capacity for incoming data over time, and, in response to detecting a scene-change-event, notify one or more data processors that a scene-change-event has occurred, and cause incoming data to be processed as new data. In some embodiments, an incoming frame can be compared with a reference frame to determine a difference between the reference frame and the incoming frame. The reference frame may be correlated to a latest scene-change-event. In response to a determination that the difference does not meet one or more difference criteria, a user interface or at least one processor of the computing device can be notified to reduce processing of incoming data over time. In response to a determination that the difference meets the one or more difference criteria, the user interface or the at least one processor can be notified that a scene-change-event has occurred. Incoming data to the computing device is then treated as new and processed as those under an active condition. The current incoming frame can be selected as a new reference frame for detecting next scene-change-event.
US09536159B2
Smart glasses and a method for recognizing and prompting a face are provided. The smart glasses store a database recording a plurality of profile information and business card information thereof. In the method, an image located in the field of view of the smart glasses is captured by an image capturing unit and at least one face appearing in the image is recognized. Facial features of each of the recognized faces are compared with those of the profile information in the database to find the profile information matching the facial features. In particular, if profile information matching the facial features is found, business card information corresponding to the profile information is displayed on a display unit; if profile information matching the facial features is not found, the business card information of a business card appearing in the image is recognized to associate the business card information with the recognized face.
US09536156B2
Various embodiment include a system and a method for recognizing road signs. An image of a road sign may be captured by least one image sensor. A vehicle computer may receive the image data representing one or more road signs along a route and display one or more images of the road sign based on the image data. The display may be capable of presenting one or more status of the road sign based on one or more travel states for the vehicle. These travel states may include at least one of an amount of elapsed travel time, distance travelled, or speed.
US09536153B2
Disclosed are methods and systems to automatically detect and optionally classify when a recipient receives goods in surveillance video. According to one exemplary embodiment, a computer implemented method determines a customer has received goods which are associated with a retail environment.
US09536152B2
A system and method of providing annotated trajectories by receiving image frames from a video camera and determining a location based on the image frames from the video camera. The system and method can further include the steps of determining that the location is associated with a preexisting annotation and displaying the preexisting annotation. Additionally or alternatively, the system and method can further include the steps of generating a new annotation automatically or based on a user input and associating the new annotation with the current location.
US09536150B2
Embodiments provide a video camera that can be configured to allow tagging of recorded video and/or capture of video segments or sequences of images in response to user actuation of a camera control identifying an event of interest. For example, a user may press a button on the camera when an event of interest occurs, and in response the camera may tag a captured video file at a timestamp corresponding to the event. In another example, the user may initiate capture of video segments or sequences of images at an occurrence of an event of interest by pressing a button. The camera may include an image data buffer that may enable capture of video segments and/or sequences of images occurring before the user initiates capture of the event. User interfaces may enable the user to quickly review the captured video or sequences of images of the events of interest.
US09536148B2
A property assessment system includes image processing logic configured to identify building structure attributes from image data and rate their associated condition. The outputs can include property condition ratings, occupancy predictions and similar scores.
US09536138B2
Technologies are described herein for dynamically remapping components of a virtual skeleton to enhance the control and appearance of an avatar. Embodiments disclosed herein may remap components of the virtual skeleton if a need for an enhancement, replacement or correction is identified. For example, one or more components of a virtual skeleton, e.g., a joint, hand, arm or leg, may be remapped with modeled components if the component is distorted, missing or incomplete. Components of a virtual skeleton may be remapped with modeled components if enhancements, augmentations, corrections or special effects are desired. A remapped skeleton defining one or more modeled components may be generated from model data. The remapped skeleton may be used to drive user-controlled animations having enhanced movement and appearance characteristics. In addition to driving user-controlled animations, the remapped skeleton may be used to drive robotic devices.
US09536137B2
In an object detection apparatus 1, a window definer 11 defines a window relative to the location of a pixel in an input image 20. A classification value calculator 13 calculates a classification value indicative of the likelihood that a detection target is present in the window image contained in the window based on the feature data of the detection target. A classification image generator 14 arranges the classification value calculated from the window image according to the pixel location to generate a classification image. An integrator 15 integrates the classification image and a past classification image 42 generated from a past input image input prior to the input image 20 to generate an integrated image 45. A determiner 16 determines whether the detection target is present in the input image 20 based on the integrated image 45.
US09536131B1
An electronic device and method are provided. The fingerprint recognition method includes: obtaining a verification fingerprint image; transmitting the verification fingerprint image to the second processing unit; generating verification fingerprint data according to the verification fingerprint image by the second processing unit; transmitting the verification fingerprint data to the first processing unit by the second processing unit; comparing the verification fingerprint data with a plurality of registered fingerprint datasets to generate matching information by the first processing unit; transmitting the matching information from the first processing unit to the second processing unit; and verifying the verification fingerprint data according to the matching information by the second processing unit.
US09536130B2
A method for operating an electronic device is provided, in which the device detects contact with a user's finger, scans its fingerprint and sets the orientation of the electronic device based on the fingerprint (e.g., whether is from the user's left hand or right hand) and on an angle of the fingerprint with respect to the device. This allows the electronic device to determine its orientation with respect to the user rather than with respect to the environment.
US09536128B2
There is provided a thin biometric detection module, which is advantageous in being able to detect scattered light from body tissue after the light transmitting in the body tissue without additional optical mechanism placed on the semiconductor optical detection pixel of the detection module for biometric detection.
US09536117B2
Systems and methods for reading Radio Frequency Identified (RFID) tags. In an embodiment, an enclosure having, within it, an antenna and processor is provided. The processor may be configured to record tag observations for tag identifiers received by the antenna from RFID tags. For one or more time intervals, tag observations may be identified which satisfy a tag filter, and a confidence that RFID tags satisfying the tag filter were in the field of view of the antenna during the time interval may be computed based on the identified tag observations. According to an embodiment, reports for tag filters may be then generated using the computed confidences, and these reports may be transmitted to an external system over a network.
US09536114B1
Described is system for secure mobile proactive multi-party computation. The system securely evaluates a circuit in the presence of an adversary. The circuit receives secret inputs comprising secret values from a set of servers. Sharings of random values for the random and input gates are generated. For each input gate, a sharing of a random value associated with the input gate is opened toward a server Pi. A sum of the server Pi's secret values and the random value is broadcast to the set of servers. Each server uses the sum to adjust its sharing of the random value, generating a sharing of server Pi's secret values. The secret values are re-randomized to preserve privacy of the secret values. A sharing of the secret values is determined for each output gate, and each sharing of secret values is revealed to an intended recipient.
US09536108B2
A privacy processing system may use privacy rules to filter sensitive personal information from web session data. The privacy processing system may generate privacy profiles or privacy metadata that identifies how often the privacy rules are called, how often the privacy rules successfully complete actions, and the processing time required to execute the privacy rules. The privacy profiles may be used to detect irregularities in the privacy filtering process that may be associated with a variety of privacy filtering and web session problems.
US09536103B2
Methods and systems for vendor independent and secure cloud storage distribution and aggregation are provided. According to one embodiment, an application programming interface (API) is provided by a cloud storage gateway device logically interposed between third-party cloud storage platforms and users of an enterprise. The API facilitates storing of files, issuing of search requests against the files and retrieval of content of the files. A file storage policy is assigned to each user, which defines access rights, storage diversity requirements and a type of encryption to be applied to files. Responsive to receiving a request to store a file, (i) searchable encrypted data is created relating to content and/or metadata of the file based on the assigned file storage policy; and (ii) the searchable encrypted data is distributed among the third-party cloud storage platforms based on the storage diversity requirements defined by the assigned file storage policy.
US09536102B2
A method receives authentication credentials for a user from a client device and receives a request from the user for content stored on a remote storage system. A portion of the content is encrypted and a corresponding decryption key is available only at the computer system. The remaining portion of the content is unencrypted. The method retrieves the content from the remote storage system and uses the received credentials to determine whether the user is authorized to view the encrypted portion. When the user is not authorized, the method forms alternative content by replacing the encrypted portion with a substitute element and transmits the alternative content to the client device. When the user is authorized, the method decrypts the encrypted portion of the content using the decryption key, and combines the decrypted portion with the unencrypted portion to form updated content. The updated content is transmitted to the client device.
US09536099B2
An information processing apparatus includes an accepting unit that accepts from a user a command relating to security; a setting unit that makes a setting relating to security of the information processing apparatus based upon the command from the user accepted by the accepting unit; a recording unit that performs the following operation in a case where the accepting unit has accepted a command for changing a security-related setting that has already been made by the setting unit: before the setting unit changes the security-related setting, the recording unit records an event, among events that occur in the information processing apparatus, the content of which will be different between a case where the security-related setting is changed and a case where the security-related setting is not changed; and a notification unit that notifies the user based upon the event that has been recorded by the recording unit.
US09536098B2
A retrieving system for retrieving information concealed within a sequence of symbols. The system includes a decoder configurable using rule information and operable when so configured to retrieve the information concealed within the sequence of symbols by applying to the sequence of symbols at least one decoder rule determined by the configuration of the encoder.
US09536089B2
A method for detecting memory modifications includes allocating a contiguous block of a memory of an electronic device, and loading instructions for detecting memory modifications into the contiguous block of memory. The electronic device includes a plurality of processing entities. The method also includes disabling all but one of a plurality of processing entities of the electronic device, scanning the memory of the electronic device for modifications performed by malware, and, if a memory modification is detected, repairing the memory modification. The method also includes enabling the processing entities that were disabled. The remaining processing entity executes the instructions for detecting memory modifications.
US09536084B1
Described systems and methods enable a computer security module to protect a set of guest virtual machines against computer security threats. In some embodiments, the computer security module receives introspection notifications from the protected VM, each such notification indicating that a particular trigger event (e.g., a system call) has occurred during execution of guest software within the respective VM. In some embodiments, delivering a notification comprises suspending execution of guest software and switching the processor to executing a notification handler forming part of the computer security module. In some embodiments, the computer security module may indicate to the processor a selected subset of events which trigger introspection notifications.
US09536083B2
One example method for securing data on untrusted devices includes the steps of identifying, by a first process, a command in a command queue, the command from a second process and comprising an action on secure data; determining whether the command is permitted based on the action and a user credential; and responsive to determining the command is not permitted, removing, by the first process, the command from the command queue.
US09536077B2
A method is provided for attack detection and protection of a set of virtual machines in a system, which includes at least one first host server hosting said set of virtual machines. The method includes: receiving an attack detection message regarding a virtual machine, triggering a first migration of the virtual machine from the first host server toward a security system, and receiving an attack treatment message regarding the migrated virtual machine.
US09536076B2
An automatic train operation system includes a first control system configured to run a first software for controlling a first vehicle subsystem and a second control system configured to run a second software for controlling a second vehicle subsystem. The automatic train operation system also includes a software verification controller. The software verification controller is configured to identify a first identifier of the first software and a second identifier of the second software as a software configuration and determine whether the software configuration is preapproved. The software verification controller is also configured to, if the software configuration is preapproved, authorize the first control system and the second control system to run the first and second software.
US09536072B2
The disclosure relates to machine-learning behavioral analysis to detect device theft and unauthorized device usage. In particular, during a training phase, an electronic device may generate a local user profile that represents observed user-specific behaviors according to a centroid sequence, wherein the local user profile may be classified into a baseline profile model that represents aggregate behaviors associated with various users over time. Accordingly, during an authentication phase, the electronic device may generate a current user profile model comprising a centroid sequence re-expressing user-specific behaviors observed over an authentication interval, wherein the current user profile model may be compared to plural baseline profile models to identify the baseline profile model closest to the current user profile model. As such, an operator change may be detected where the baseline profile model closest to the current user profile model differs from the baseline profile model in which the electronic device has membership.
US09536059B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates redistribution of content objects with a different name without requiring re-computation of the original authentication information. During operation, the system determines, by a content producing device, an original manifest which indicates at least an original name associated with a content object, wherein the name is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier (HSVLI) which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level. The system renames the content object with a new name. The system also creates a new manifest which indicates the new name, wherein the new manifest includes original authentication information associated with the original manifest.
US09536058B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for managing a digital copyright on electronic publication (EPUB)-based content and an apparatus and method for providing EPUB-based content according to a user's right. An encryption unit of the apparatus for managing digital copyright generates encrypted unit files by encrypting a plurality of unit files included in content in the form of a compressed archive including the plurality of unit files with different encryption keys, stores the encrypted unit files in a content database, generates mapping data by mapping the encryption keys to pieces of identification information of the encrypted unit files, and stores the mapping data in an encryption key database. A rights management unit transmits an encryption key selected from among the plurality of encryption keys to a content provision apparatus, which decrypts the encrypted unit files and provides the unit files to a user, based on at least one of identification information of the user and identification information of the content included in an encryption key provision request message received from the content provision apparatus.
US09536052B2
A clinical predictive and monitoring system comprising a data store operable to receive and store data associated with a plurality of patients selected from medical and health data; and a number of social, behavioral, lifestyle, and economic data; at least one predictive model to identify at least one high-risk patient associated with at least one medical condition; a risk logic module operable to apply the at least one predictive model to the patient data to determine at least one risk score associated the at least one medical condition and identify at least one high-risk patient; a data presentation module operable to present notification and information to an intervention coordination team about the identified at least one high-risk patient; and an artificial intelligence tuning module adapted to automatically adjust parameters in the predictive model in response to trends in the patient data.
US09536046B2
Described is a technology by which medical patient facial images are acquired and maintained for associating with a patient's records and/or other items. A video camera may provide video frames, such as captured when a patient is being admitted to a hospital. Face detection may be employed to clip the facial part from the frame. Multiple images of a patient's face may be displayed on a user interface to allow selection of a representative image. Also described is obtaining the patient images by processing electronic documents (e.g., patient records) to look for a face pictured therein.
US09536045B1
Systems and techniques are disclosed for dynamically and automatically selecting an appropriate compression technique and/or compression parameters for digital images in order to reduce or prevent loss of significant information that may negatively impact the utility or usefulness of the digital images. For example, based on various image characteristics associated with a digital image, the system may dynamically compress the image using particular compression techniques and/or by adjusting compression parameters, to maintain significant information of the image. The system may select compression techniques and/or compression parameters based on one or more compression rules, which may be associated with image characteristics patient characteristics, medical history, etc. Further, the system may, based on the one or more compression rules, compress the image to a maximum degree of compression while maintaining the significant information of the image.
US09536036B1
Performing RC analysis in a hierarchical circuit design includes: accessing hierarchical circuit data in the hierarchical circuit design, the hierarchical circuit data comprising top-level data and lower-level block data; obtaining hierarchical RC information; combining RC information on boundary paths between blocks and RC information on boundary paths within blocks to generate boundary RC information; performing RC analysis using the boundary RC information to determine a timing delay; and comparing the timing delay with a desired delay to determine whether an RC timing is closed.
US09536031B2
A replacement method for scan cell of an integrated circuit (IC) is provided. A gate-level netlist of the IC is obtained. A place-and-route process is performed on the gate-level netlist to obtain a first netlist. A clock tree synthesis process is performed on the first netlist to obtain a second netlist. Static timing analysis is performed to analyze a plurality of first scan cells of the second netlist in normal mode and scan mode. The first scan cell is replaced with a second scan cell according to the static timing analysis that indicates the replaced first scan cell has a specific time margin in the scan mode. A first skew of the normal mode and a second skew of the scan mode are adjusted symmetrically in the first scan cell. The first skew and the second skew are adjusted asymmetrically in the second scan cell.
US09536030B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for optimizing an integrated circuit design is provided. The method may include identifying one or more nets crossing a boundary between a parent block, having parent logic, and a child block, having child logic. The method may include inserting interior buffers on the nets inside of the child block and exterior buffers on the nets outside of the child block and inside of the parent block, wherein the interior buffers and the exterior buffers define a buffer pair for each of the nets. The method may further include determining a first placement for the parent logic and a second placement for the child logic, such that the buffers of the buffer pair for each net are placed substantially near to one another. The method may further include determining pin locations for the child block based on the second placement.
US09536029B2
For linear array hierarchy navigation, a method encodes a logic design as a linear array with a plurality of logic states. The method displays combination maps of a plurality of fields at two or more successive display levels having a top display level and at least one lower display level. In addition, the method receives a selection of a first field of the plurality of fields. The method displays the first field and one or more successive combination maps for the first field. Each of the one or more successive combination maps is displayed with a field identifier of a predecessor field. In addition, the method displays relationship arrows linking the first field and each successive field of the first field.
US09536014B1
Parallel processing of data may include a set of map processes and a set of reduce processes. Each map process may include at least one map thread. Map threads may access distinct input data blocks assigned to the map process, and may apply an application specific map operation to the input data blocks to produce key-value pairs. Each map process may include a multiblock combiner configured to apply a combining operation to values associated with common keys in the key-value pairs to produce combined values, and to output intermediate data including pairs of keys and combined values. Each reduce process may be configured to access the intermediate data output by the multiblock combiners. For each key, an application specific reduce operation may be applied to the combined values associated with the key to produce output data.
US09536010B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically issuing travel documents. Tasks relating to issuance of travel documents are generated by an originating application in response to booking a travel service. The tasks are received and stored in a first queue until a triggering event, such as the arrival of a time for issuance of a document. In response to the triggering event, a task in the first queue may be placed in a second queue for transmission to an issuing application. The documents to be issued may be determined based on records in a passenger name record (PNR) stored in a database. The PNR may be determined based on the task. The PNR may be updated with information indicating whether task processing was successful. In the event of an error, information indicating the cause of the error may be added to the PNR.
US09536003B2
Method, system, and programs for hybrid information query. A request is first received from a user associated with a hybrid query. The hybrid query is expressed in accordance with an input in terms of one of a user, a feature, and a document, and a desired hybrid query result in terms of one of a user, a feature, and a document. A mapping is then determined between the input and the desired hybrid query result. A hybrid model is established based on hybrid information collected and associated with one or more users. The mapping is performed based on the hybrid model to obtain the desired hybrid query result based on the input. Eventually, the desired hybrid query result is provided as a response to the hybrid query.
US09536001B2
Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter include computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and computer systems configured to respond to a search query from a computer user. In response to receiving a search query from the computer user, search results are obtained. A plurality of user intents are identified according to the obtained search results. The obtained search results are then grouped according to the subject matter of the search results, where each group corresponds to one of the plurality of user intents. A first user intent (with the corresponding group of search results) is selected. A search results page is generated from the search results of the group the search results corresponding to the selected first user intent and the generated search results page is returned to the computer user in response to the search query.
US09535998B2
Systems and methods for an information repository search system are disclosed. The system receives search criteria from users and associates the search criteria with source information. The source information identifies sources via which the search criteria are being received. The system further maintains counts of instances for the plurality of search criteria in association with the respective source information.
US09535997B2
A method for managing the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) content of web pages is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes providing a set of web pages organized in a hierarchical structure. Each web page has an SEO content pattern associated therewith. The method establishes an inheritance scheme for the hierarchical structure such that the SEO content patterns of parent web pages are inherited by children web pages. The method further enables a user to override the inheritance scheme for selected web pages such that the SEO content patterns of the selected web pages override the SEO content patterns of their respective parent web pages. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.
US09535992B2
Determining an item to present to a first user is disclosed. Preference information is received that comprises the preferences of a plurality of users associated with one or more items. User correlations are determined from the received preference information. For the first user, a set of other users most correlated with the first user is determined. One or more items are presented to the first user based at least in part on the preferences of the other users.
US09535991B2
A video display apparatus for displaying a catalog of one or more candidate video items for replay, each video item being represented in the catalog by a catalog entry having at least one displayed representative image comprises a user control device operable to resize a displayed catalog entry by a select-and-drag operation; and means responsive to a resizing of a catalog entry to select a number of distinct representative images, for display in respect of that video item, so that the number displayed increases with increasing size of the catalog entry while the display size of each representative image stays substantially constant with respect to changes in the catalog entry size.
US09535985B2
A fully functioning dual purpose digital audio player presented in cassette-shaped housing which incorporates a display, control buttons, audio output, and remote control.
US09535981B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide intelligent filtering of system log messages having low utility value. In providing the filtering, the systems and methods determine the utility value of a system log message and delete the message from the system log if the message is determined to be of low utility value. As such, embodiments herein provide an system log filter, which reduces the amount of data stored in the system log based on the utility value of the message.
US09535971B2
A method for validating SRS registry transaction data includes receiving OLTP transaction data from a first database, parsing the OLTP transaction data, and comparing the parsed OLTP transaction data to one or more of a set of profiles. Each of the one or more of the set of profiles includes metadata in XML files. The method also includes caching the parsed OLTP transaction data in a first data cache, receiving log data associated with the OLTP transaction data; and caching the log data in a second data cache. The method further includes correlating the parsed transaction data cached in the first data cache with the log data cached in the second data cache.
US09535970B2
A repository stores a metric catalog. The metric catalog represents a slice of multidimensional data source. The metric catalog includes a selected measure, at least one analysis dimension, and at least one fixed dimension. A metric catalog system exposes the metric catalog as a web service. A web service client requests to consume the metric catalog. In response to the request, the metric catalog system parses the metric catalog. Based on the parsed metric catalog, one or more queries are generated and executed. Based on the execution of the queries, values of the selected measure for the at least one analysis dimension are determined. The determined values of the selected measure for the at least one analysis dimension is returned to the web service client.
US09535969B1
A system and method for conflict-free two-way synchronization between a primary repository and a secondary repository, which may be a mirror of the primary repository, are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a child revision associated with a parent revision in a secondary repository. The parent revision may be pointed to by a second user-visible reference in the secondary repository. The hidden reference to the child revision may be stored in a temporary storage area in the secondary repository that is hidden from view of user operations. A first user-visible reference in the primary repository that corresponds to the second user-visible reference in the secondary repository may be identified. This first-user-visible reference may point to a revision in the primary repository. Then, the revision to which the first user-visible reference in the primary repository points may be compared with the revision to which the second user-visible reference in the secondary repository points. If the revision to which the second user-visible reference points in the secondary repository is a copy of the revision to which the first user-visible reference points in the primary repository, the child revision may be pushed from the secondary repository to the primary repository so that the primary repository includes a copy of the child revision from the secondary repository. The first user-visible reference in the primary repository may be updated to point to the copy of the child revision in the primary repository.
US09535965B2
An input extension specification can be generated, via an administration tool on a business intelligence (BI) server, for an extender associated with a data warehouse in order to extend the data warehouse. The administration tool can request for data flow information of the data warehouse from the extender. The data flow information indicates the mapping relationship between one or more source data objects and one or more target tables in the data warehouse. The administration tool further allows a user to select said one or more target tables in the data warehouse to be extended based on the data flow information, and builds the input extension specification for the extender.
US09535961B2
A data storage system includes a column store and a row store. The data storage system may generate a query summary. The data storage system determines query summary fields comprised of a subset of fields from a schema used to store data in the row store. The data storage system searches the column store or the row store for query results in the query summary fields. A query summary field is generated from the query results in the query summary fields.
US09535960B2
A search engine is described herein for providing search results based on a context in which a query has been submitted, as expressed by context information. The search engine operates by ranking a plurality of documents based on a consideration of the query, and based, in part, on a context concept vector and a plurality of document concept vectors, both generated using a deep learning model (such as a deep neural network). The context concept vector is formed by a projection of the context information into a semantic space using the deep learning model. Each document concept vector is formed by a projection of document information, associated with a particular document, into the same semantic space using the deep learning model. The ranking operates by favoring documents that are relevant to the context within the semantic space, and disfavoring documents that are not relevant to the context.
US09535957B1
A method, computer program product and computer system are provided. A processor receives a plurality of pointers corresponding to a plurality of electronic files. A processor determines at least one affinity score for the plurality of electronic files based, at least in part, on one or more usage patterns of a user. A processor generates a geometric diagram including a plurality of regions, wherein the geometric diagram is represented by a matrix. A processor assigns the plurality of pointers to the plurality of regions based, at least in part, on the at least one affinity score. A processor selects at least one pointer of the plurality of pointers based, at least in part, on a selection area of the geometric area, where the at least one pointer is located within the selection area. A processor generates a list including the at least one pointer of the plurality of pointers.
US09535949B2
One or more processors apply rules to a first query to generate a modified query such that processing of the modified query is improved for a first set of processing conditions. One or more processors measure a degree of latency experienced during processing of the modified query under a second set of processing conditions. One or more processors generate other rules to be applied to queries based, at least in part, on the measured degree of latency.
US09535940B2
A method for storing database information includes storing a table having data values in a column major order. The data values are stored in a list of blocks. The method also includes assigning a tuple sequence number (TSN) to each data value in each column of the table according to a sequence order in the table. The data values that correspond to each other across a plurality of columns of the table have equivalent TSNs. The method also includes assigning each data value to a partition based on a representation of the data value. The method also includes assigning a tuple map value to each data value. The tuple map value identifies the partition in which each data value is located.
US09535937B2
A method for implementing a geometric array in a computing environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes providing an array of slots, where each slot is configured to store a pointer. Each pointer in the array points to a block of elements. Each pointer with the exception of the first pointer in the array points to a block of elements that is twice as large as the block of elements associated with the preceding pointer. Such a structure allows the geometric array to grow by simply adding a pointer to the array that points to a new block of elements that is twice as large as the block of elements associated with the preceding pointer in the array. A corresponding computer program product, as well as a method for accessing data in the geometric array, are also disclosed.
US09535928B2
Content-based retrieval of digital pathology images (DPI) is a fundamental component in an intelligent DPI processing and management system. One key issue of content-based DPI retrieval is how to represent an image as a feature vector, capturing its key information that is most relevant to the goal of retrieval. A unified framework of extracting information of different levels for DPI, namely low level color information, middle level texture information and high level diagnostic information is described herein. Such information from all the levels are integrated to the end of content-based DPI retrieval.
US09535927B2
Described is a method and apparatus for constructing a boundary comprising a set of contextual square quadrangles. Also described is a method and apparatus for searching a set of contextual square quadrangles.
US09535919B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product selectively delete records from a cache in a manner that not only takes into account usage of the record, but also the cost associated with the generation of the record. In regards to a method, a cost associated with generation of a record maintained in a cache is determined. The cost may be defined in terms of the time consumed to generate the record. The method also determines usage of the record. At least one of the cost or the usage may be determined on a relative basis with respect to the cost or the usage, respectively, of other records maintained in the cache. Further, the method determines whether the record should be deleted from the cache based upon the cost and the usage of the record. Based on this determination, the record may be selectively deleted from or retained within the cache.
US09535912B2
Techniques for validating complex digital objects such as DICOM objects. The techniques employ a declarative validation document which employs a declarative constraint language to specify the constraints to which the complex digital object is subject. A validator performs an evaluation of the constraint document with regard to the complex digital object. The complex digital object is valid if all of the constraints in the validation document are satisfied. The constraint document may be compiled by an optimizing compiler and the validator may apply the resulting compiled constraint specification to an in-memory representation of the digital object which has been optimized for fast reference. An example is given of the use of the techniques with DICOM objects.
US09535905B2
A method for translation supply chain analytics includes receiving operational variables of a translation process from a translation supply chain. The method further includes determining a cognitive leverage and a productivity factor for post editing of matches of a plurality of match types generated by the translation supply chain based at least in part on the operational variables from the translation supply chain. The method further includes generating linguistic markers for the matches of the plurality of match types generated by the translation supply chain, based at least in part on the cognitive leverage and the productivity factor for the post editing of the matches of the plurality of match types. The method further includes performing statistical analysis of the linguistic markers for the matches of the plurality of match types. The method further includes generating one or more analytics outputs based on the statistical analysis of the linguistic markers.
US09535890B2
A computer processor circuit can be used to receive a resizing request that includes parameters for resizing a user interface containing a plurality of visual elements. In response to the request, the computer processor circuit can access a set of one or more data files specifying: links to binary image data files for the plurality of visual elements; a set of nodes forming a plurality of vector paths for at least one of the plurality of visual elements; and a set of rules defining different image resizing properties for different vector paths of the plurality of vector paths. The computer processor circuit can then create a resized version of the user interface by modifying the plurality of visual elements according to the set of rules and to the parameters for resizing.
US09535888B2
A system, method and computer-accessible medium for analyzing an electronic document(s) can be provided. For example, content data can be received that can be related to the electronic document(s). The content data can be segmented into a plurality of first segments, and then combined into a second segment(s). Ranking information can be generated for the second segment(s).
US09535887B2
A computerized method of generating a content display area on a web page is provided. The method includes receiving a request to initiate a content display area creation sequence for a web page loaded at a web browser. The method includes receiving position data of objects comprising the web page. The method includes determining eligible positions for the content display area. The method includes receiving a first user input indicating a position of a space for the content display area. The method includes repositioning the space and the objects responsive to the first user input. The web browser loads the space and the repositioned objects for viewing. The method includes receiving a second user input indicating confirmation of the position of the space. The method includes generating machine-readable instructions for providing the content display area on the web page. The method includes providing display data representative of the machine-readable instructions.
US09535880B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for preserving fidelity of bounded rich text appearance, by maintaining reflow, when converting between interactive and flat documents across different environments. The method comprises receiving an image, text data, and formatting metadata corresponding to text entered on a webpage; and processing the text data, wherein processing includes using the image and formatting metadata, evaluating a count of characters corresponding to a line of entered text to identify a location in the image for insertion of a newline character; and inserting the newline character at a location identified during the evaluating.
US09535872B2
A system includes a first physical chassis comprising a first chassis management unit (“CMU”). The first CMU is configured to communicate with a second CMU in an additional physical chassis. The first CMU is also configured to communicate for the first physical chassis and the additional physical chassis as one logical chassis.
US09535869B2
A system including a first system-on-chip (SoC) and a second SoC. The first SoC includes a first module and a second module. The second module is separate from the first module. The second module is in communication with the first module via a first bus. The first bus is internal to the first SoC. The second SoC is separate from the first SoC. The second SoC is in communication with the first SoC via a second bus. The second bus is external to both the first SoC and the second SoC. The first bus and the second bus are configured to use a same communication protocol to respectively transfer information (i) between the first module and the second module via the first bus and internally within the first SoC and (ii) between the first SoC and the second SoC via the second bus.
US09535862B2
A system and method can a scalable message bus in a distributed data grid. The system can provide a plurality of message buses in the distributed data grid, wherein the distributed data grid includes a plurality of cluster members and provides a plurality of services. Furthermore, the system can associate each said service in the distributed data grid with a said message bus, and use the plurality of message buses to support data transferring between different services on different cluster members in the distributed data grid. Additionally, the system can use a datagram layer to support clustering in the distributed data grid, and bypass the datagram layer in the distributed data grid for data transferring.
US09535861B2
A device includes a routing buffer. The routing buffer includes a first port configured to receive a signal relating to an analysis of at least a portion of a data stream. The routing buffer also includes a second port configured to selectively provide the signal to a first routing line of a block of a state machine at a first time. The routing buffer further includes a third port configured to selectively provide the signal to a second routing line of the block of the state machine at the first time.
US09535860B2
In an embodiment, a shared memory fabric is configured to receive memory requests from multiple agents, where at least some of the requests have an associated deadline value to indicate a maximum latency prior to completion of the memory request. Responsive to the requests, the fabric is to arbitrate between the requests based at least in part on the deadline values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09535856B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to methods and a computer program product for allowing writes based on a granularity level. The method for a storage server may include receiving a received granularity level for a particular volume of a storage device of a client computer including an effective duration for the received granularity level. The method may include receiving an anticipated write to the particular volume at an anticipated write granularity level. The method may include verifying whether the anticipated write granularity level substantially matches the received granularity level at the effective duration. The method may also include writing, in response to the anticipated write granularity level substantially matching the received granularity level at the effective duration, the anticipated write to the particular volume for the received granularity level.
US09535851B2
A transactional memory receives a command, where the command includes an address and a novel DAT (Do Address Translation) bit. If the DAT bit is set and if the transactional memory is enabled to do address translations and if the command is for an access (read or write) of a memory of the transactional memory, then the transactional memory performs an address translation operation on the address of the command. Parameters of the address translation are programmable and are set up before the command is received. In one configuration, certain bits of the incoming address are deleted, and other bits are shifted in bit position, and a base address is ORed in, and a padding bit is added, thereby generating the translated address. The resulting translated address is then used to access the memory of the transactional memory to carry out the command.
US09535846B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation, the operation comprising processing a first logical partition on a shared processor for the duration of a dispatch cycle, issuing, by a hypervisor, at a predefined time prior to completion of the dispatch cycle, a lightweight hypervisor decrementer (HDEC) interrupt specifying a cache line address buffer location in a virtual processor, and responsive to the lightweight HDEC, writing, by the shared processor, a set of cache line addresses used by the first logical partition to the cache line address buffer location in the virtual processor.
US09535843B2
In order to prevent data thrashing and the resulting performance degradation, a computer system may maintain an application-layer cache space to more effectively use physical memory and, thus, significantly improve an application-memory hit ratio and reduce disk input-output operations. In particular, the computer system may maintain a managed memory cache that is separate from a page cache. The managed memory cache may be managed according to predefined caching rules that are separate from the caching rules in the operating system that are used to manage the page cache, and these caching rules may be application-aware. Subsequently, when data for an application is accessed, the computer system may prefetch the data and associated information from disk and store the information in the managed memory cache based on data correlations associated with the application.
US09535821B1
A device performs a verification analysis of source code, where the verification analysis includes a coding rules check of the source code based on coding standards, and run-time error check of the source code. The device provides, for display, results of the coding rules check of the source code, and provides, for display, results of the run-time error check of the source code. The device provides, for display, from the results of the coding rules check of the source code, at least one of a coding rule error violation associated with the source code, or a coding rule warning violation associated with the source code.
US09535820B2
Technologies for software testing include a computing device having persistent memory that includes a platform simulator and an application or other code module to be tested. The computing device generates a checkpoint for the application at a test location using the platform simulator. The computing device executes the application from the test location to an end location and traces all writes to persistent memory using the platform simulator. The computing device generates permutations of persistent memory writes that are allowed by the hardware specification of the computing device simulated by the platform simulator. The computing device replays each permutation from the checkpoint, simulates a power failure, and then invokes a user-defined test function using the platform simulator. The computing device may test different permutations of memory writes until the application's use of persistent memory is validated. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09535816B2
For remote diagnostics of a computing device, a method is disclosed that includes collecting failure information from a computing device, wherein the computing device has an error, encapsulating the failure information into a file, and transmitting the file from the computing device to a remote device using a low level file transfer protocol.
US09535815B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for collecting trace information based on a computational workload. The method includes the steps of compiling source code to generate a program, launching a workload to be executed by the parallel processing unit, collecting one or more records of trace information associated with a plurality of threads configured to execute the program, and correlating the one or more records to one or more corresponding instructions included in the source code. Each record in the one or more records includes at least a value of a program counter and a scheduler state of the thread.
US09535814B2
The present invention enables capturing API level calls using a combination of dynamic instrumentation and library overriding. The invention allows event level tracing of API function calls and returns, and is able to generate an execution trace. The instrumentation is lightweight and relies on dynamic library/shared library linking mechanisms in most operating systems. Hence we need no source code modification or binary injection. The tool can be used to capture parameter values, and return values, which can be used to correlate traces across API function calls to generate transaction flow logic.
US09535810B1
Delivering a page including a plurality of modules is disclosed. A plurality of candidate modules are selected. A corresponding module score for each of the modules in the plurality of candidate modules is evaluated. A plurality of modules is selected from the plurality of candidate modules to be displayed on a page. The position of each module on the page is based at least in part on that module's module score.
US09535794B2
A computer receives a heartbeat message that includes both program reset information and at least one segment, of the heartbeat message, that is configured to indicate whether or not a first program is functioning correctly. The computer determines if the heartbeat message includes the indication that the first program is functioning correctly. If the computer determines that the heartbeat message indicates that the first program is functioning correctly, then the computer sends a data stream to the first program.
US09535790B2
A method of prioritizing data for recovery in a distributed storage system includes, for each stripe of a file having chunks, determining whether the stripe comprises high-availability chunks or low-availability chunks and determining an effective redundancy value for each stripe. The effective redundancy value is based on the chunks and any system domains associated with the corresponding stripe. The distributed storage system has a system hierarchy including system domains. Chunks of a stripe associated with a system domain in an active state are accessible, whereas chunks of a stripe associated with a system domain in an inactive state are inaccessible. The method also includes reconstructing substantially immediately inaccessible, high-availability chunks having an effective redundancy value less than a threshold effective redundancy value and reconstructing the inaccessible low-availability and other inaccessible high-availability chunks, after a threshold period of time.
US09535781B2
A method and an apparatus for repairing a system file are provided. The computer-implemented method for repairing a system file, comprises: detecting, by a processor, a corrupted system file in an operating system; sending identification information of the operating system and an identifier of the corrupted system file to a server; receiving an integrity identifier of an intact system file to be used in repairing the corrupted system file, wherein the intact system file is determined by the server according to the identification information of the operating system and the identifier of the corrupted system file; verifying, by the processor, the received integrity identifier with a locally stored integrity identifier of the corrupted system file; and if the received integrity identifier passes the verification, obtaining, from the server, the intact system file corresponding to the verified integrity identifier and repairing the corrupted system file with the obtained intact system file.
US09535780B2
Techniques for writing logging files, where the logging files include multiple pieces of logging information. The pieces of logging information are based on operation of a computer system. The writing of the logging information includes the following steps (not necessarily in the following order): (i) choosing a set of logging rules; which logging rules determine the selection of which pieces of operational information relating to the computer system will be written to a non-volatile log file; (ii) operating the computer system; (iii) during operation of the computer system, collecting a first set of pieces of operational information; (iv) saving the first set of pieces of operational information to a volatile buffer memory; and (v) writing only a first sub-set of the first set of pieces of operational information to a first log file.
US09535766B2
Disclosed are a method of and system for profiling a computer program. The method comprises the steps of using a utility application to execute the computer program; and on the basis of said execution of the computer program, identifying specific performance requirements of the computer program. A profile of the computer program is determined from said identified performance requirements; and based on said determined profile, resources for the computer program are selected from a grid of computer services.
US09535764B2
A first network device determines capabilities of resources in a section of a network that is accessible using the first network device. The first network device groups the resources into a resource cluster. The first network device advertises the resource cluster in the network, wherein each of a plurality of network devices advertise a resource cluster associated with sections of the network. A second network device receives a request for providing a service. The second network device groups the request into a plurality of request clusters. The second network device selects at least one resource cluster for providing the service based on information associated with the request clusters and the advertised resource clusters. The second network device allocates resources included in the at least one resource cluster for providing the service based on selecting the at least one resource cluster.
US09535762B2
A system and methodology that facilitates improving performance of a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) during overload conditions, by embedding a unique Application Session Identifier (app session ID) within multiple requests associated with a single call processing session is provided. Moreover, the system includes an overload protection component that identifies whether an incoming request is associated with previously processed requests based in part of the app session ID embedded within the incoming request. When the HSS is overloaded, the incoming requests that initiate a new call processing session and are not associated with previously processed requests are rejected/dropped before incoming requests that are associated with requests that have been previously processed.
US09535750B1
In a computing resource environment including at least one resource capable of being allocated to at least one of a plurality of tasks, techniques are disclosed for applying a taint to a resource in a computing resource environment, the taint being configured to prevent the resource from being claimed for a resource request without a toleration to that taint. Variations include receiving, at a resource scheduler in the resource environment, a request to allocate the resource to perform a particular task and determining whether the resource is subject to a taint. If the resource is subject to a taint, analyzing the request to determine if it includes a toleration for the taint. If the request includes a toleration for the taint, allocating the resource to the task. If the request does not include a toleration for the taint, not allocating the resource due to the taint.
US09535747B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an application heartbeat period adjusting method and apparatus, and a terminal, and in the embodiments, it is determined, according to an identifier of an application, that the application is in a heartbeat adjustment blacklist. A first heartbeat period of the application is adjusted to a second heartbeat period according to a preset trigger heartbeat period. The heartbeat adjustment blacklist includes an identifier of an application on which a heartbeat period adjustment needs to be performed, the first heartbeat period of the application is an original heartbeat period of the application, the second heartbeat period is a heartbeat period, which is adjusted according to the preset trigger heartbeat period, of the application, and the preset trigger heartbeat period is an adjustment period according to which the first heartbeat period is adjusted.
US09535746B2
A method for scheduling the execution of a computer instruction, receive an entitlement processor resource percentage for a logical partition on a computer system. The logical partition is associated with a hardware thread of a processor of the computer system. The entitlement processor resource percentage for the logical partition is stored in a register of the hardware thread associated with the logical partition. An instruction is received from the logical partition of the computer system and the processor dispatches the instruction based on the entitlement processor resource percentage stored in the register of the hardware thread associated with the logical partition.
US09535732B2
A system for providing a zero copy transmission in virtualization environment includes a hypervisor that receives a guest operating system (OS) request pertaining to a data packet associated with a guest application, where the data packet resides in a buffer of the guest OS or a buffer of the guest application and has at least a partial header created during the networking stack processing. The hypervisor further sends, to a network device driver, a request to transfer the data packet over a network via a network device, where the request identifies the data packet residing in the buffer of the guest OS or the buffer of the guest application, and the hypervisor refrains from copying the data packet to a hypervisor buffer.
US09535721B2
A method and apparatus of a device that removes constraints in solving a mathematical programming problem is described. The device identifies a plurality of constraints for bulk removal by postponing execution of constraint removal requests. The device further sorts the plurality of constraints based on a set of criteria to put the plurality of constraints in a sorted order. To sort the plurality of constraints based on the set of criteria, the device determines, for each identified constraint, the number of equations containing the constraint in the mathematical programming problem. The device further sorts the plurality of constraints based on the number of equations determined for each constraint. The device performs bulk constraint removal on the plurality of constraints based on the sorted order.
US09535708B2
In one embodiment, individual or groups of heat generating data processing operations are rate-controlled such that a component, a set of components, a board or line card, and/or an entire apparatus or any portion thereof stays within a corresponding heat budget. One or more heat price tags are associated with these data processing operations which are used to determine whether or not a corresponding data processing operation can be currently performed within one or more corresponding heat budgets. If so, the data procession operation proceeds. If not, the data processing operation is delayed. Examples of such data processing operations include, but are not limited to, data retrieval from memory, data storage in memory, lookup operations in memory, lookup operations in a binary or ternary content-addressable memory, regular expression processing, cryptographic processing, or data manipulation.
US09535692B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing, in a software development environment, related files that are used for generating an output presentation document. A software development environment discovers the related files for an application (e.g., web page) that is being authored, and the software development tool presents a visual indication (e.g., graphical tabs) of the discovered related files in a user interface. The software development tool further aids in managing the presentation of the related files by enabling any of the related files to be selectively displayed in a designated interface (e.g., window). That is, a designated interface may be provided in which the content of any selected related file may be alternately displayed in response to a user selecting a visual indication of a related file. In one embodiment, the designated interface is a textual source code view interface that is provided by the software development tool.
US09535690B2
A user input initiating delivery of a first change set to a stream maintained by an artifact management application can be detected. A first set of elements and a first set of elements types associated with the first change set can be identified. A second set of element types that pertain to at least one unit of work identified for the first set of elements can be identified. A second set of elements that are involved in the same unit of work can be identified. A second change set modifying the second set of elements can be identified. A third change set modifying at least one element type can be identified. A change set group can be created and the first change set, the second change set and the third change set can be added to the change set group. The change set group can be delivered to the stream.
US09535685B1
A technique identifies a version of a software application for installation on computerized equipment. The technique involves receiving an electronic communication containing a software version database which identifies different versions of the software application. The technique further involves performing an update assessment operation based on the software version database to determine whether there exists newer versions of the software application available for installation on the computerized equipment. The technique further involves providing an electronic notification to a user of the computerized equipment in response to a result of the update assessment operation indicating that there exists newer versions of the software application available for installation on the computerized equipment. The electronic notification identifies, for installation on the computerized equipment, a particular newer version of the newer versions of the software application available for installation on the computerized equipment.
US09535682B2
A method of determining whether a dialogue is displayable includes recording a previous software use state in a terminal which has been responded to an input operation to the terminal, comparing the recorded previous software use state with a current software use state in the terminal, and displaying an input operation dialogue according to a result of the comparison.
US09535673B1
A method for significantly reducing compilation time of an application program is provided for compiling the program using profile-directed feedback (PDF). The method applies an additional analysis process between a training run of the application program and a whole program compilation of the application. This analysis process examines a PDF profile file(s) produced during the training run and aggregates data from the PDF file to determine a maximum block counter associated with each source file of the application. Only those source files having maximum block counters in a specified top percent of all the source files of the application have their fat binaries included in the whole program compilation.
US09535664B1
A software development system maps the organization and storage of software or code of a project in a structured database instead of in a series of discrete files and directories in a traditional file system. The code is analyzed and parsed to create parse trees for storage in the structured database. Individual software developers may be presented with the code taking the appearance of a traditional file based representation with each developer being able to have their own customized representation or view of the code to best suit their needs, preferences and current task. To facilitate migration to such system, tools are provided to export a snapshot of the structured database into discrete files in order that existing file based tools may continue to be used.
US09535662B2
A data processing apparatus includes a first program that causes the data processing apparatus to perform a display of a first screen relating to a process using hardware specific to the data processing apparatus, and to perform the process in accordance with setting data input via the first screen, includes an interface that receives setting data relating to the process from a second program, and causes the data processing apparatus to perform the process in accordance with the setting data received from the second program.
US09535651B2
Described are systems and methods for screen sharing between host and agent computing systems. At a time before capturing the screen of the host computing system, each open window corresponding to a browser process is identified. Certain information is acquired about each browser process. It is determined, in response to the certain information acquired about each browser process, whether the open window corresponding to that browser process is eligible for screen capture. For each eligible open window, each visible portion of that eligible open window is captured. Capture of an image on the screen of the host computing system is limited to each visible portion of each eligible open window.
US09535640B2
A printing system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus, and the information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires identification information of the image forming apparatus in a printing service system from the image forming apparatus by a short-range communication; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printing service system, a setting request which contains the identification information of the image forming apparatus acquired by the acquiring unit and identification information of a user in the printing service system and which is a request for making a setting for permitting the user to use the image forming apparatus; and the image forming apparatus includes a holding unit that holds the identification information of the image forming apparatus in the printing service system in such a form that the identification information can be acquired by the acquiring unit of the information processing apparatus.
US09535639B2
A communication apparatus includes a display, a processor and a memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the communication apparatus to perform receiving a first request for acquiring acquisition target information included in the communication apparatus, determining whether the first request is received from a server apparatus outside of a local area network or a terminal apparatus belonging to the local area network, displaying a transmission selection screen for receiving a user's selection when the first request is determined to be received from the server apparatus, transmitting the acquisition target information to the server apparatus in response to receiving the user's selection to transmit the acquisition target information through the transmission selection screen, and transmitting the acquisition target information to the terminal apparatus when the first request is determined to be received from the terminal apparatus.
US09535637B2
An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a reading unit, a carriage, a motor, a motor gear, a conveyance gear, a carriage gear, and a control device. The conveyance unit is configured to convey a document. The reading unit is configured to read an image on the document. The carriage is configured to support the reading unit and to be movable in a prescribed direction. The reading unit is selectively operable in a first mode in which the image on the document is read while conveying the document by the conveyance unit, and a second mode in which the image on the document is read by moving the reading unit in the prescribed direction. The switching gear is configured to be placed in a first position and a second position. The control device is configured to control the switching gear to move between the first position and the second position, acquire initialization data initializing the reading unit, and control the reading unit to read the image on the document. The control device acquires the initialization data while controlling the switching gear to move between the first position and the second position.
US09535635B2
In one example, a first directive is received at a system. The directive is to embed, into content selected via a printer application accessed at a network-connected printer, a network address. A carrier image that includes the network address in encoded form is generated. A second directive, to provide first content to the printer, is received via the application. The carrier image is merged into the first content. After the merging, the merged first content is sent to the printer for printing.
US09535629B1
A method, computer program product and system enabling provisioning of a storage volume across network resources through the storage provisioning interface, wherein the storage provisioning interface enables provisioning of network resources to enable presentation of a provisioned storage volume, wherein the provisioned storage volume is enabled to be provisioned across a plurality of storage resources across the network resources, and wherein the provisioned storage volume is enabled to be a redundant distributed volume.
US09535627B2
A system, method and computer-readable storage device for accessing heterogeneous memory system, are provided. A memory controller schedules access of a command to a memory region in a set of memory regions based on an access priority associated with the command and where the set of memory regions have corresponding access latencies. The memory controller also defers access of the command to the set of memory regions using at least two queues and the access priority.
US09535621B2
A storage node for a distributed object storage system, comprising a control board configured to receive a parameter for setting predetermined allowable temperature ranges through a serial port, and sending a signal through said serial port for indicating one or more of said measurements of temperatures lies outside said predetermined allowable ranges. The control board is further configured to receive a parameter for controlling the switching on or off the storage elements through said serial port by sending a signal through said serial port to indicate which storage elements is switched on or off.
US09535619B2
An information handling system and method provide for receiving a request to remove a selected physical disk from a disk group realizing a virtual disk in a redundant array data storage subsystem, determining whether removal of the selected physical disk is feasible, and, when feasible, removing the selected physical disk from the disk group without deleting the virtual disk realized by the disk group and reconstructing the virtual disk to be realized by the disk group using only the proposed number of physical disks, wherein the proposed number of physical disks is less than an initial number of physical disks of the disk group.
US09535616B2
A method and system. In response to a request for a proposed additional data transfer from a source storage system to a target storage system, an estimate is made of utilization of one or more data transfer components of the source storage system and the target storage system that would occur during the proposed additional data transfer combined with other scheduled data transfers involving the source storage system and the target storage system, based in part on (i) an I/O request rate for recent actual data transfers involving the source storage system and the target storage system combined with (ii) an estimated I/O request rate for the proposed additional data transfer. It is ascertained whether the estimated utilization exceeds a corresponding utilization threshold. If so, execution of the proposed additional data transfer is postponed. If not, execution of the proposed additional data transfer is initiated.
US09535615B2
A system for storing data includes a rack, one or more data storage drive assemblies coupled to the rack, and a data control module coupled to the rack. The data storage drive assemblies include one or more drive mechanical modules configured to store data and one or more drive control modules coupled to the drive mechanical modules. The drive control modules control mechanical operations in the drive mechanical modules. The drive mechanical modules and the associated drive control modules are separable from one another without removing the other module from the at least one data storage drive assembly.
US09535614B2
A memory system or flash card may include memory maintenance scheduling that improves the endurance of memory. Certain parameters, such as temperature, are measured and used for scheduling maintenance. For example, memory maintenance may be performed or postponed depending on the ambient temperature of the card. The memory maintenance operations may be ranked or classified (e.g. in a memory maintenance queue based on priority) to correspond with threshold values of the parameters for a more efficient scheduling of memory maintenance. For example, at a low temperature threshold, only high priority maintenance operations are performed, while at a higher temperature threshold, any priority maintenance operation is performed.
US09535610B2
For optimizing peer-to-peer remote copy (PPRC) transfers for partial write operations in a computing storage environment by a processor device by maintaining a PPRC modified sectors bitmap in bind segments upon demoting a track out of a cache for transferring a partial track after the demoting the track, wherein a hash table is used for locating the PPRC modified sectors bitmap.
US09535609B2
Mechanisms are provided for automatically expanding a virtual storage of a virtual machine. The virtual machine monitors a usage of the virtual storage of the virtual machine. The virtual machine determines, based on the monitoring of the usage of the virtual storage, whether to expand the virtual storage of the virtual machine. In response to the virtual machine determining to expand the virtual storage of the virtual machine, a virtual machine manager executes one or more operations to expand the virtual storage. The monitoring and determining may be performed by a virtual storage management agent executing within the virtual machine and which may send an expansion request to an authorization engine to request expansion of the virtual storage.
US09535605B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for providing a character input interface in a terminal having a touchscreen. A single keyboard is displayed in a keyboard area of the touchscreen. A first keyboard and a second keyboard are simultaneously displayed in place of the single keyboard in the keyboard area, upon detecting selection of a key on the single keyboard. At least one of the first keyboard and the second keyboard includes a plurality of character-type selection keys, and at least one of the plurality of character-type selection keys includes a language selection key. A controlling unit of the terminal changes a type of characters displayed on one of the first keyboard and the second keyboard, upon detecting selection of one of the plurality of character-type selection keys on the one of the first keyboard and the second keyboard.
US09535602B2
Systems and methods for promoting connectivity between a mobile communication device having a touch screen and a vehicle touch screen installed in a vehicle are disclosed. According to an embodiments, a system may include a controller configured to: connect to the mobile communication device and to the vehicle touch screen. The controller may also be configured to receive video signal of a current screen video image shown on the touch screen of the mobile communication device and transmit the current video image to the vehicle touch screen, causing a corresponding video image of the current screen video image to be displayed on the vehicle touch screen. The controller may further be configured to receive a signal indicative of a touch action that was performed on the vehicle touch screen, and cause the mobile communication device to respond as if a touch action corresponding to the touch action that was performed on the vehicle touch screen was performed on the touch screen of the mobile communication device.
US09535589B2
An electronic thermostat is described that includes a head unit, a rotatable ring, a backplate, an electronic display that is viewable by a user in front of the thermostat, a printed circuit board, and a daughter circuit. The daughter circuit is coupled to the printed circuit board, and senses motion of the rotatable ring and includes a first temperature sensor. A second temperature sensor separated from the first temperature sensor, are both used to calculate ambient temperature. The first temperature sensor is positioned at least partially within a cavity formed between a front surface of the head unit and the printed circuit board.
US09535587B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for generating an online listing, such as a yellow pages listing, that includes information about an object, such as a business, and also includes at least one image of the structure containing the object. For example, the image may be a digital image of the store front of a business taken at a street view. Additionally, a user may select an image from a plurality of images that the user perceives as being an appropriate representative image for the business. Based on votes received a default representative image may be identified that is provided in response to a request for information about the business.
US09535584B2
A system that provides visual components generates a first display of selectable and hierarchical visual components, where each visual component has at least one associated attribute. The system receives a selection of one of the visual components and displays a second display of visual components at a next hierarchical level of the selected visual component. The system then generates and displays breadcrumbs that include a navigation path from the first display to the second display, and include the associated attribute for the selected visual component.
US09535565B2
Embodiments described herein relate to maintaining a tiled arrangement of application windows as a user inserts application windows into a managed display region. A tiled arrangement is an arrangement where windows do not overlap each other and substantially maximize window occupation of the display region. Generally, when a user inserts an application window the tiled arrangement is maintained by resizing any previously present application windows. Where to insert a window, which displayed windows to resize and to what extent can be determined based on factors such as user input, any prior manual adjustment of the tiled arrangement, and/or minimum window sizes. Whether tile arranging is performed in a managed or curated fashion (e.g., by sharing space equally among windows) or in a semi-curated fashion may be determined by taking into account any of the aforementioned factors.
US09535550B2
One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a deformation sensor configured to detect a deformation of a deformable surface and transmit a first sensor signal associated with the deformation. The system also includes a sensor configured to detect a user interaction with a user input device and transmit a second sensor signal associated with the user interaction. The system further includes a processor configured to: receive the first sensor signal; receive the second sensor signal; execute a function based at least in part on the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal. The processor is also configured to: determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the first sensor signal or the second sensor signal; and transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect to a haptic output device configured to receive the haptic signal and output the haptic effect.
US09535547B2
A device for control interface sensitive to movement of a body, includes a detection surface; at least one capacitive sensor including a measurement electrode including an active surface facing the detection surface, or substantially coinciding with the detection surface; electronic excitation and processing components for exciting the measurement electrodes at an alternating electrical potential and processing the signals emanating from the capacitive sensors, to provide distance information between the active surface of the electrodes and one or several objects; a guard of electrically conducting material disposed in proximity to the measurement electrodes, at least along the face of the measurement electrodes substantially opposite to the active surface, which guard is excited at an alternating electrical potential substantially identical to the alternating electrical potential of the measurement electrodes, wherein: the measurement electrodes and the guard are made of substantially transparent conducting materials; and the device for interface is substantially transparent.
US09535546B2
A cover device having an input unit and a portable terminal having the cover device are provided. The cover device includes a cover unit divided into a plurality of areas, each area having an electrode. A connection surface is provided in the cover unit and configured to be detachably engaged with a terminal to which the cover unit is mounted. The input unit including an electrode line is configured to transmit a touch input signal to a touch panel of the terminal through an electrode of a touched area among the plurality of areas.
US09535541B2
The present invention provides a method and device for position detection. For detection of a touch position, a segment of surface acoustic wave (SAW) is provided multiple times to be propagated on a SAW touch panel, and the multiple SAW segments are received by the SAW touch panel. In addition, during or after reception, partial output electrical signals are provided based on different portions of each received SAW segment to construct a complete output electrical signal.
US09535538B2
A system includes: a projection unit that projects an image on a projection object; an image capturing unit that captures an image of a target object present in an optical path of projection light projected from the projection unit; a detection unit that detects light reflected from the target object, based on a captured image captured by the image capturing unit; a judging unit that judges position information of the target object in target space that corresponds to the image projected by the projection unit, based on the captured image; and an identification unit that identifies a projection area on the projection object in which the image is projected, based on the light reflected from the target object detected by the detection unit and the position information judged by the judging unit.
US09535534B2
An electronic device and a control method are provided. The electronic device includes a display unit, a touch sensing unit, an adjustment unit and a controller. At least a first portion of the display unit is deformable, and the first portion deformed has a deformation distance with respect to a first side or a second side of a plane where the display unit is located. The adjustment unit triggers deformation of the first portion of the display unit. The controller determines a control button in display content and a display position of the control button on the first portion of the display unit, and controls the display unit to be deformed at the display position according to a predetermined deformation rule by means of the adjustment unit. The touch sensing unit detects contact information generated by touching the control button by a user.
US09535532B2
A method of acquiring data of a matrix touch sensor including a matrix array of cells arranged according to a set of rows and columns, the method including: activating the cells arranged according to a column of at least one subset of columns of the matrix touch sensor; taking an overall measurement of an overall electrical characteristic on all the rows of at least one subset of rows of the matrix touch sensor; taking a sequential measurement of an electrical characteristic successively on each row of the at least one subset of rows, if the overall electrical characteristic has a value representative of a contact on at least one of the cells arranged according to the column; and repeating the overall measurement and sequential measurement after activating the cells arranged according to another column of the at least one subset of columns of the matrix touch sensor.
US09535528B2
A system for displaying images is provided. The system includes a touch sensor device including a transparent substrate having a sensing region and a non-sensing region adjacent to the sensing region. A sensing electrode pattern layer is on the transparent substrate in the sensing region. An inorganic dielectric material layer is on the transparent substrate. The inorganic dielectric material layer has a first portion in the non-sensing region and a second portion in the sensing region and partially covering the sensing electrode pattern layer. A method of forming a touch sensor device is also disclosed.
US09535521B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, plural conducting wires, an insulating layer, and a ground layer. The substrate includes an active region and a peripheral region surrounding the active region. The conducting wires are disposed in the peripheral region and extend along a first direction. The insulating layer is disposed on the conductive wires. The ground layer is disposed at an edge of the peripheral region and at least partially on the insulating layer, and the ground layer is at least partially in contact with the substrate.
US09535519B1
Embodiments described herein may help to provide an extension of touchpad sensing to adjacent surfaces. An example device may involve: (a) a touchpad having a first surface, (b) at least one electrode coupled to at least one location on the first surface, where at least a portion of the at least one electrode is arranged on a second surface that is adjacent to the first surface so that a touch to the portion of one of the electrodes on the second surface causes the touchpad to output data relating to the corresponding location on the first surface, and (c) and a control system configured to: (1) receive a first signal that is indicative of touch input on the touchpad, and (2) detect, in the first signal, data relating to the corresponding location on the first surface and responsively output a second signal relating to a touch of one of the electrodes on the second surface.
US09535514B2
A tactile feedback apparatus may include: a touch display configured to display objects; a tactile information extractor configured to extract tactile information corresponding to an object touched by a touch input tool; a tactile information changing unit configured to change the tactile information based on sensing information of the touch input tool; and/or a tactile feedback provider configured to provide the touch input tool with tactile feedback based on the tactile information.
US09535513B2
A thin electromagnetic handwriting pen includes a casing unit, a circuit unit, an electromagnetic unit and a pen core unit. The casing unit includes a thin pen-shaped casing structure. The circuit unit includes a circuit substrate disposed inside the thin pen-shaped casing structure. The electromagnetic unit includes a hollow holder and an electromagnetic coil wound around the hollow holder. Both the hollow holder and the electromagnetic coil are embedded in the thin pen-shaped casing structure, and the electromagnetic coil is fixed between the thin pen-shaped casing structure and the hollow holder and electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The pen core unit includes a pen core structure movably disposed inside the thin pen-shaped casing structure and passing through the hollow holder, and one portion of the pen core structure is exposed outside the thin pen-shaped casing structure.
US09535511B2
An information processing apparatus that determines a position of a touch input received at a display of the information processing apparatus, controls the display to display a string of candidate characters for input at a position on the display corresponding to the position of the touch input, detects selection of a desired character from the string of candidate characters, and controls the display to display the desired character in a character input field on the display.
US09535507B2
A mobile terminal includes a display device, a detector, and a storage. The detector detects an attitude of the mobile terminal. The storage stores, when an event occurs, therein at least one piece of incoming information on the event. The mobile terminal further includes a first display control module and a second display control module. The first display control module displays, when the detection module detects a first attitude, a first tiled object relating to the at least one piece of incoming information and a second tiled object not relating to the at least one piece of incoming information on the display device. The second display control module displays, when the detection module detects a second attitude, the at least one piece of incoming information stored in the storage on the display device.
US09535502B2
A sensing panel includes sensing units, each of the sensing units configured to represent a tactile sense in response to a tactile signal and a thermal sense in response to a thermal signal in different time periods. Each of the sensing units includes a first module including a first lower electrode, a first semiconductor disposed on the first lower electrode, and a first upper electrode disposed on the first semiconductor, and a second module including a second lower electrode, a second semiconductor disposed on the second lower electrode, and a second upper electrode disposed on the second semiconductor, and the first lower electrode is electrically connected to the second lower electrode.
US09535497B2
In one aspect, a device includes a processor, at least one at least partially transparent display accessible to the processor, at least one eye sensor accessible to the processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to present content at a first location on the at least partially transparent display and, based at least in part on data from the eye sensor, determine whether a user is looking one of at least substantially at the first location and past the first location. The instructions are also executable to, in response to a determination that the user is looking past the first location, remove the content from presentation at the first location.
US09535495B2
Display repositioning is provided. A viewer set is detected based, at least in part, on sensory data received from one or more sensors, wherein the viewer set includes one or more viewers of a display device. A location of the viewer set is determined relative to a screen of the display device based, at least in part, on the sensory data. A secondary interface element is presented via the screen, wherein the secondary interface element has a location based, at least in part, on the location of the viewer set and wherein the secondary interface element has a size based, at least in part, on the location of the viewer set.
US09535491B2
A power supply for a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier that amplifies an RF input signal into an RF output signal and a method of operation in the power supply. The power supply comprises a first power converter to convert an input voltage to the power supply into a first supply voltage of the RF power amplifier. The power supply comprises a second power converter to receive the input voltage and the first supply voltage and to selectively convert either the input voltage or the first supply voltage into at least a portion of a second supply voltage of the RF power amplifier.
US09535490B2
Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include power saving techniques in computing devices. In particular, as data is received by a modem processor in a computing device, the data is held until the expiration of a modem timer. The data is then passed to an application processor in the computing device over a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) interconnectivity bus. On receipt of the data from the modem processor, the application processor sends data held by the application processor to the modem processor over the PCIe interconnectivity bus. The application processor also has an uplink timer. If no data is received from the modem processor before expiration of the uplink timer, the application processor sends any collected data to the modem processor at expiration of the uplink timer. However, if data is received from the modem processor, the uplink timer is reset.
US09535487B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having a core and a power controller to control power management features of the processor. The power controller can receive an energy performance bias (EPB) value from the core and access a power-performance tuning table based on the value. Using information from the table, at least one setting of a power management feature can be updated. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09535472B1
The present invention relates to methods and systems for providing reliable power to a storage device, such as a network attached storage. In one embodiment, the storage device employs a redundant power backplane design using a DC-to-DC converter per drive in the backplane. Each drive is thus provided its own independent power interface to the power backplane. One embodiment may employ DC-to-DC converters having integrated N-channel MOSFETs to provide overcurrent and thermal protection. In addition, an embodiment may employ a staggered startup procedure to manage peak power draw.
US09535470B2
An electronic substrate with heat dissipation structure includes a substrate plate and at least one heat pipe. The substrate plate includes a wiring layer, a grounding layer and an insulation layer from top to bottom. The wiring layer has at least one heat-producing element mounted thereon, and is formed with a receiving hole for the heat pipe to tightly fit therein. Heat produced by the heat-producing element and distributed over a high-temperature zone of the substrate plate surrounding the heat-producing element is absorbed by the heat pipe and then transferred to a low-temperature zone of the substrate plate distant from the heat-producing element, from where the heat is dissipated into ambient air to achieve cooling effect at upgraded heat dissipation efficiency.
US09535469B2
A server cabinet includes a cabinet body having a side plate, a door pivotably coupled to a front side of the side plate, a power distribution unit mounted in the cabinet body, and a plurality of power supply units attached to an inner side of the door. The power supply units are electrically coupled with the power distribution unit and configured to be electrically coupled with a plurality of servers through a plurality of cables, the power supply units being detachable and replaceable in spite of minimal physical access through the partly-closed door.
US09535464B2
An information handling system housing is provided with a base portion, a head portion and a chin portion all coupled via a hinge such that the chin portion are separately articulable. By providing the hinge so that the chin portion can articulate separately from the rest of the head portion, the chin portion can articulate towards the rear of the system. This articulation reduces the table height of the hinge pivot point, and therefore reduces the slope of the base and keyboard assembly.
US09535462B2
There is provided an information processing device including a casing in which a top surface, a bottom surface, and side surfaces are integrally formed, and an opening portion which is formed in one of the top surface, the bottom surface, and the side surfaces and through which each component to be mounted inside the casing is inserted.
US09535455B2
A portable media enhancement device for use with a mobile device for processing one or more media files is provided. The mobile device is located separately from the portable media enhancement device. The portable media enhancement device comprises a docking connection input used to communicate with the mobile device and at least one control module. The control module is configured to establish a connection with the mobile device via the docking connection input and to receive one or more media files from the mobile device. The control module is further configured to decode the one or more media files and post process the one or more media files. The control module is further configured to transmit the decoded and processed media files to the mobile device.
US09535453B2
An electronic device is provided according to the present application. The electronic device includes a housing provided with a sliding groove. A protrusion extending towards an inner side of the sliding groove is provided at an upper edge of the sliding groove, a slidable elastic strip is slidably cooperated between the protrusion and the bottom of the sliding groove. The slidable elastic strip includes two slidable components and an elastic component, and the two slidable components are fixedly connected to two ends of the elastic component, respectively. The housing is provided with at least two locking structures which are detachably connected to the two slidable components, respectively, and are configured to allow the elastic component to slide out of the sliding groove to form a convex structure perpendicular to the housing in a case that the slidable components are immobilized to the locking structure. The structure in the present application is simple and convenient to use.
US09535443B1
A middle phase power-fetching type phase front/phase tail synchronized modulation circuit, comprising: a power supply unit, that is used to fetch power from the middle phase of an ordinary AC voltage waveform, and supplies it to a phase front/phase tail modulation unit as a normal operating voltage after rectification; and a phase front/phase tail modulation unit, it includes an MCU microcomputer, to control a driving circuit to turn-on, and control synchronously at least two bi-directional electronic power element, to generate a phase front/phase tail turn-on modulation signal. As such, while performing synchronous modulation from phase middle, phase front/phase tail can be retracted inward or expanded outward at the same time, so that phase front/phase tail turn-on output voltage average values complement each other, hereby achieving stable and modulated power supply.
US09535439B2
A circuit and method for providing a current limiting feature in a low dropout (“LDO”) linear voltage regulator. A pass element generates an output voltage that is less than the input voltage. The pass element is normally enabled by an error amplifier that compares a feedback signal from the output of the pass element with a reference signal. However, the pass element may be enabled by a current limiting circuit that bypasses the error amplifier to limit the current generated at the output of the pass element.
US09535434B2
A method, system or computer usable program product for managing a water heater utilized for heating stored hot water including utilizing an expected user schedule to determine an expected user load for storage in memory, utilizing ambient temperature data to determine a water heating load for storage in memory, utilizing a processor to analyze the expected user load and the water heating load stored in memory to determine a desired temperature for the stored hot water according to a predetermined policy, and utilizing the processor to instruct the water heater to heat the stored hot water to the desired temperature.
US09535428B2
The present disclosure provides a spring controlled valve including a spring being movable between an expanded position wherein coils of the spring are spaced apart from one another thereby permitting gas flow through the valve and a compressed position wherein the coils are in contact with one another thereby substantially preventing gas flow through the valve.
US09535426B2
A positioning control device according to an embodiment includes an amplifier that includes a converter that rectifies and outputs an AC power supply to bus-bars; a smoothing capacitor that smoothes an output of the converter and generates a bus voltage; a regenerative resistance and a regenerative transistor; an inverter that supplies a drive current; and a command generation unit that generates a position command value for positioning control of a mechanical load in accordance with a command pattern. The inverter is connected between the bus-bars and supplies the drive current. The command generation unit acquires a regenerative-power-amount estimated value and an energy value storable in the smoothing capacitor; and on the basis of a result of a comparison between these values, it decides whether to use the position command value on the basis of the command pattern.
US09535425B2
An independent monitoring system and method for measuring the airflow rate in an appliance and determining its sufficiency is provided. An airflow detection system that monitors airflow rate (velocity) in an appliance is separate from the primary appliance control system and can determine whether a sufficient flow of air through air passageways occurs during operation of the appliance. An appliance component or subsystem can be controlled (e.g. activated or deactivated) by the airflow monitoring system based on the detected airflow rate.
US09535418B2
Provided is a method and system for creating assembly instructions and using them on a computer system to direct assemblers working in a light-manufacturing environment. The assembly instructions break the assembly process into smaller elemental steps with specific instructions to be performed and verified in sequence during assembly. Each assembly instruction may identify a specific pocket in a matrix tray holding the material to be used in the assembly. Before the assembler begins assembling the manufactured product, in some embodiments, a training history is retrieved with the assembler's experience, If the assembler has fulfilled a prerequisite training sequence or equivalent from the training history, in some embodiments, assembly instructions are provided through the user interface coordinated with multimedia assembly data that guide the assembler to combine materials with the component and complete the assembly.
US09535416B2
The present invention relates to a robot teach pendant unit (2) coupled to a programmable robot controller (1), the teach pendant comprising a graphical screen (6), and a native user interface program (9) which creates a graphical user interface and displays the user interface on the graphical screen. The robot teach pendant further comprises a processing component (10) capable of receiving an application including one or more animated graphical objects, instructions for displaying the animated objects on the graphical screen, information on the behavior of the animated graphical objects, and instructions on how the user can interact with the animated graphical objects, and the processing component is configured to display the animated graphical objects on the screen and to set up a sandbox providing an isolation mechanism for safely running the application without disturbing the execution of normal teach pendant operations, and said user interface program is programmed to host directly the processing component and instructing it to load and display the application containing the animated graphical objects.
US09535414B2
A system and method are disclosed for distributing and exchanging elements for planning and/or operating automation operating equipment, which include at least one interface device, at least one processing device and at least one data store, wherein the interface device effects an integrated connection to at least one engineering tool and/or an integrated link to at least one engineering tool such that functionalities of the at least one interface device and of the at least one processing device can be retrieved from the respective engineering tool and carried out. The respective processing device, the respective interface device, and the respective engineering tool, elements created and/or marked by a first engineering tool can be transferred to the respective processing device and processed and/or can be made available on the at least one data store to be retrieved and/or to be transferred to and/or implemented in at least one second engineering tool.
US09535412B2
An electrical assembly is provided for selectively operating a household appliance in a demonstration mode or a standard mode. A logic unit (2) is adapted to control the electrical and/or electronic components of the household appliance (1), and to make the household appliance (1) perform a standard mode or a demonstration mode. A power supply device (5), external to the household appliance (1), is adapted to deliver electric power to the household appliance (1). The household appliance (1) comprises a power supply circuit (3) adapted to be connected to the power supply device (5) or directly to the supply mains (4), in order to energize the logic unit (2) and the other electrical and/or electronic components of the household appliance (1). The household appliance (1) further comprises a detection device (9) adapted to detect if the power supply circuit (3) is connected to the power supply device (5) or directly to the supply mains (4). The logic unit (2) is configured to enable the performing of the demonstration mode if the detection device (9) detects that the power supply circuit (3) is connected to the power supply device (5), and to enable the performing of the standard mode if the detection device (9) detects that the power supply circuit (3) is connected directly to the supply mains (4).
US09535409B1
Methods and systems for optimizing the startup, shutdown, and running operation of a multiple receiver concentrated solar power (CSP) plant comprising a predicted variable from at least one receiver model, a predicted variable from a plant model, and a determined target from an optimizer based on the predicted variable from the at least one receiver model and the predicted variable from the plant model.
US09535408B2
A universal control system is provided for a room air conditioner or heat pump that has a number of sensor inputs. An electronic control system with a microcontroller and microcomputer are used to provide a large number of operations that can be performed by (1) manufacturer, (2) end users and (3) maintenance personnel. The manufacturer can load different versions of a software program to match the unit. The end user can program in a large number of different conditions or schedules the end user finds desirable, plus the end user is advised of maintenance requirements or faults. The maintenance personnel may perform diagnostics, determine fault history, upload improved or replacement software, as well as the numerous maintenance functions normally performed by maintenance personnel.
US09535403B2
A watch is delimited by a case formed of a back cover and of a middle part. A timepiece movement is disposed in a casing ring housed inside the watch case. The watch also includes a dial disposed on top of the casing ring and held by a fixing ring. The fixing ring has an S-shaped cross-section. An upper branch of the fixing ring is supported on the dial and a lower branch of the fixing ring is supported on the casing ring. The lower branch of the fixing ring is clamped between the middle part and the casing ring, so as to grip the dial between the upper branch of the fixing ring and the casing ring.
US09535400B2
The present invention provides a digital hologram recording system and a numerical reconstruction method for a hologram, which are used for capturing an image of an object and recording it as a holographic data. Said system comprises: signal light, formed after irradiating the object with a light source; an image detector, for recording interference fringes of the signal light; and a light pipe, arranged in a path of the signal light and located between the object and the image detector, wherein the light pipe has a reflection surface, and a part of the signal light enters the image detector after reflected by the reflection surface of the light pipe. The present invention can make the collected signal equivalent to several times of the pixel counts of the image detector, thereby able to break through the spatial bandwidth limitation and shortening the amount of time required to measure the hologram.
US09535399B2
An image forming device includes: a fixing unit fixing a toner image to a paper sheet after image formation; a conveying path conveying the paper sheet toward and from the fixing unit; a cooling fan disposed at a position facing the conveying path that is downstream relative to the fixing unit in a paper conveying direction; a casing where the cooling fan is accommodated; a first discharge port discharging cooling air from the cooling fan toward a part of the conveying path that is upstream in the paper conveying direction relative to an end portion of the conveying path in the conveying path, which is downstream relative to the fixing unit; and a duct guiding the cooling air from the cooling fan in a direction toward the end portion of the conveying path, which is different from a direction that the cooling air flows in the first discharge port.
US09535395B2
A process cartridge includes: a first unit including a first side plate, a second side plate and a photosensitive drum; and a second unit including a developing member and an electrical terminal for supplying power to the developing member. The second unit is pivotally movable relative to the first unit about a pivot axis between a first position and a second position. The electrical terminal is rotatably supported by the first side plate and is positioned on the pivot axis.
US09535387B2
If a sheet is jammed while conveyed, whether the jammed sheet and a sheet preceding the jammed sheet have been generated by cutting an uncut sheet from which the jammed sheet is derived is determined. If generated, a printing apparatus re-prints a plurality of images including an image of the jammed sheet on a sheet, and the cutting apparatus cuts the re-printed sheet. If the jammed sheet and the preceding sheet have been generated, the printing apparatus re-prints a plurality of images including an image of the jammed sheet on a sheet, the cutting apparatus cuts the re-printed sheet, and a sheet that includes the same image as the preceding sheet is discharged to a different discharge destination from that of the preceding sheet.
US09535385B2
In a method to adjust print quality of print images in an electrophoretic digital printer with at least one print group, the print group generates charge images of the print images. The charge images are developed with a developer station into toner images using liquid developer having carrier fluid and toner. The toner images are transfer-printed onto a carrier medium in a transfer station. A first control marking is generated on the recording medium with elements of the first control marking being aligned transverse to a printing direction. A shape of the elements of the first control marking is measured to generate a first measurement signal. The first measurement signal is compared with a predetermined nominal value, and given a difference, an adjustment signal is generated via which an amount of the carrier fluid in the liquid developer is modified so that the first measurement signal approaches the predetermined nominal value.
US09535383B2
When trial printing is executed in a repeat printing mode, trial printing is performed in size of an image of one piece in a layout in which a plurality of images are supposed to be printed in the repeat printing mode normally. A user who has checked a finished state of the trial printing sets, when the finished state is in a desired state, the recording paper on which the trial printing is performed to the paper feed portion again and executes the repeat printing. Thereby, in a blank space excluding a print image which is printed with a first time trial printing, a scheduled quantity of a plurality of images are repeatedly printed.
US09535381B2
An electrophotographic member includes a rubber layer having a lightness of 15 or less and including a marked portion formed so as to have a depth of 35 μm or more and 100 μm or less, a fluorine-based resin layer having a light transmittance of 60% or more, and an adhesive layer disposed between the rubber layer and the fluorine-based resin layer. The adhesive layer has a lightness of 60 or more and has a thickness of 3 μm or more and 10 μm or less in a portion surrounding the marked portion.
US09535377B2
In one embodiment, an image forming apparatus has an image carrier, a transfer unit, and a spacer. The image carrier has a toner image carrying surface. The transfer unit transfers a toner image from the toner image carrying surface to a recording medium. The transfer unit includes a transfer roller which forms a nip with the image carrying surface and a contact roller provided coaxially with the transfer roller. The spacer is detachably provided on the transfer unit to separate the image carrier and the transfer unit. The transfer roller forms the nip with the toner image carrying surface when the spacer is detached from the transfer unit.
US09535374B1
An ITM module for an imaging device, including a frame; a tension roll disposed in the frame; an ITM belt rotatably coupled to the frame and formed as an endless loop around rolls of the ITM module, including the tension roll; and an adjustment mechanism coupled to an end portion of the frame and to the tension roll, the adjustment mechanism setting an amount of skew of the tension roll relative to the frame. The amount of skew is in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to a process direction of the ITM belt. The adjustment mechanism includes a cam member rotatably coupled to the frame and having a cam surface coupled a first end portion of the tension roll such that rotating the first cam member sets an amount of elevation of the first end portion of the tension roll relative to the frame.
US09535373B2
An end seal for removable attachment to a doctor blade assembly is provided. The end seal comprises a seal body having a bottom wall, opposite first and second sidewalls and a top edge configured to include a radius adapted to seal against a roller surface. At least one abrasion resistant insert is integrally secured within the seal body. The insert includes a bottom wall, opposite first and second sidewalls and a top edge configured to coincide with the body top edge so as to seal against the roller surface. The seal body and the at least one abrasion resistant insert each further comprise respective first and second upper angled sidewalls extending from respective opposite first and second sidewalls, the respective first upper angled sidewall having a different length and tapering from the top edges at a different angle than the respective second upper angled sidewall.
US09535371B2
A toner container includes a container main body, a cylindrical portion, an opening/closing member, and a conveyance member. Container main body includes a storing chamber. Opening/closing member is provided in a inner space of cylindrical portion and, operates to open and close a toner discharge outlet of cylindrical portion. Conveyance member includes rotation shaft and blades along rotation shaft and when rotated, allows blades to convey the toner that is present inside storing chamber and the inner space toward toner discharge outlet. The plurality of blades include a first blade and a second blade. First blade is disposed in storing chamber at a position near a boundary between storing chamber and the inner space and is larger in outer diameter than the other blades. Second blade is disposed in the inner space and is larger than first blade in inclination angle with respect to rotation shaft of conveyance member.
US09535365B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording material, the apparatus including: a first helical gear and a second helical gear that are engaged with each other; and a driving portion that applies a driving force to the first helical gear, wherein at least one of the first helical gear and the second helical gear is a helical gear in which torsional rigidity in a tooth width direction of one side end in a width direction of the gear is larger than torsional rigidity in a tooth width direction of the other side end, and wherein a twist direction of helical teeth and a rotational direction of the first helical gear due to the driving portion are set such that the other side end is engaged earlier than the one side end.
US09535340B2
A support for a movable element includes a stator element, a gravity compensator field inducing element mounted on the stator element, the gravity compensator field inducing element configured to apply a translational force to the movable element by controlling a magnetic field in a gap between the stator element and the movable element, and a plurality of torque compensator field inducing elements mounted on the stator element, the torque compensator field inducing elements configured to apply a torque to the movable element by controlling a magnetic field in the gap between the stator element and the movable element, the torque being about a first axis substantially perpendicular to the direction of the translational force applied by the gravity compensator field inducing element.
US09535335B2
An apparatus which projects a pattern of an original onto a substrate by a projection optical system within a chamber to expose the substrate, comprises a measurement unit which performs measurement to calculate a deformation amount of the original, and a controller which calculates a predicted deformation amount of the original and corrects a projection magnification of the projection optical system so as to correct the predicted deformation amount, based on information representing a relationship between the deformation amount with reference to a shape of the original at a certain temperature and a time for which the original receives exposure light, a deformation amount of the original before exposure determined based on a measurement value obtained by measuring, by the measurement unit, the deformation amount of the original loaded into the chamber and unused for exposure, and the time for which the original receives the exposure light.
US09535323B2
By a lithographic printing plate precursor including a support having provided thereon an image-recording layer capable of forming an image by supplying at least any of printing ink and dampening water on a printing machine after image exposure to remove an unexposed area thereof, wherein the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and a polysaccharide having a sulfonic acid group or a group made by a salt thereof and a plate making method of a lithographic printing plate using the same, a lithographic printing plate precursor which exhibits good development property while maintaining printing durability of a lithographic printing plate after development and a plate making method of a lithographic printing plate using the same can be provided.
US09535309B2
The invention relates to a compensator system adapted to compensate for the angular dispersion of electromagnetic beams deflected by at least one acousto-optic deflector of an optical system, wherein the angular dispersion of each deflected beam is dependent on the deflection angle obtained by the deflecting acoustic frequency of the acousto-optic deflector, characterized in that the compensator system comprises: —a first lens group for spatially separating the deflected beams of different deflection angle and angular dispersion by focusing the beams substantially into the focal plane, —a compensator element having a first surface and a second surface, and being arranged such that the first surface of the compensator element lies substantially in the focal plane of the first lens group, and the first and second surfaces of the compensator element have nominal radiuses R1 and R2 that together work as prisms with tilt angles β and prism opening angles αp that vary with the distance from the optical axis so as to compensate for the angular dispersion of the spatially separated deflected beams, —a second lens group arranged so as to substantially parallelize the different wavelength components of each deflected beam exiting the compensator element while maintaining the angular variation of the beams deflected at different acoustic frequencies. The invention further relates to method for compensating for the angular dispersion of electromagnetic beams deflected by at least one acousto-optic deflector of an optical system, wherein the angular dispersion of each deflected beam is dependent on the deflection angle obtained by the deflecting acoustic frequency, characterized by —spatially separating the deflected beams of different deflection angle and angular dispersion by focusing the beams via a first lens group substantially into the focal plane of the first lens group, —compensating for the angular dispersion of the spatially separated deflected beams in accordance with the angular dispersion of the given beam, —substantially parallelizing the spectral components of each deflected beam while maintaining the angular variation of the beams deflected at different acoustic frequencies.
US09535298B2
A Fringe-Field Switching (FFS) mode liquid crystal display (LCD) panel with optimized designs of pixel areas and/or liquid crystal materials is provided. The FFS mode LCD panel includes an active-element array substrate with a plurality of pixel areas, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. Each pixel area comprises a plurality of first common electrodes, a second common electrode between the pixel area and another horizontally adjacent pixel area, and a pixel electrode. The optical transmittance and homogeneity of the pixel area of the display panel are modified by manipulating the relative position of the electrodes in the pixel areas on the active-element array substrate and/or adopting specific parameters of liquid crystal materials in the liquid crystal layer of the display panel.
US09535296B2
There is provided a display apparatus including a wiring pattern formed over a substrate, a first insulating film which is laminated over the wiring pattern and in which a contact hole is formed in an up-down direction at a specified position, lower electrodes each formed over the first insulating film and including a contact portion that is inserted through the contact hole and electrically connected to the wiring pattern, a light emitting layer formed over the lower electrodes, an upper electrode formed over the light emitting layer, a light emitting region regulating member regulating a light emitting region where the light emitting layer is interposed between the lower electrodes and the upper electrode as a region including the contact portion, and a color filter disposed over the substrate in a region corresponding to at least the contact portion.
US09535282B1
A system and method are disclosed employing a dielectric mirror layer, highly reflective at wavelengths below a cut off but highly transparent at wavelengths above the cut off, is placed within a display assembly. This dielectric mirror layer creates a very efficient reflecting cavity for a portion of a Light Emitting Diode (LED) pumping spectrum. Accurate dielectric filter tuning allows an increased portion of the pumping spectrum to be converted to desired wavelength spectrum and also raise the luminance ratio of the display to a useful value for display applications. Variable and active tuning of the cut off wavelength value functions to optimize system performance.
US09535278B2
A liquid crystal display device with a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal interposed between the first and the second substrates, and a detection circuit. The second substrate includes a detection electrode for a touch panel. The respective pixels have pixel electrodes and counter electrodes. The counter electrode divided into a plurality of blocks is provided common to the respective pixels on a plurality of consecutive display lines. The counter electrode divided into blocks serves as the scanning electrode for the touch panel. The detection circuit includes a calibration capacity element provided for each of the detection electrodes, having one end connected to the detection electrode, and supplies a calibration voltage to the other end of the calibration capacity element in a touched position detection process.
US09535277B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a conductive oxide film having high conductivity and high transmittance of visible light. The conductive oxide film having high conductivity and high transmittance of visible light can be obtained by forming a conductive oxide film at a high substrate temperature in the film formation and subjecting the conductive oxide film to nitrogen annealing treatment. The conductive oxide film has a crystal structure in which c-axes are aligned in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the film.
US09535270B2
The invention relates to a method for measuring the geometric morphometric parameters of a person wearing glasses (21), said method implementing an independent computing device (1, 10) comprising a screen, a target (8, 18), a compact image acquisition system (7, 17) which is provided with a means of determining the inclination thereof, said system (7, 17) being connected to said screen, and a computer for controlling the image acquisition system (7, 17) and processing the images obtained. The main feature of a measuring method according to the invention is that it comprises a step in which the person observes the target (8, 18) placed in a position known to the image acquisition system (7, 17), by rolling his or her head in an upward direction while keeping his or her eyes fixed on the target (8, 18).
US09535265B2
Frame (2) for eyeglasses having an optical face (3) and two side arms (4) joined with hinges onto the two end portions (30) of said optical face, each side arm (4) having an inner longitudinal surface (42) and an outer longitudinal surface (43), and a front end surface (44) extending transversely to the longitudinal surfaces over a front end of said side arm, said front end surface extending to face a rear end surface (31) of the relevant end portion of the optical face when the side arm is in the open position, said frame further including at least one means for receiving a decorative piece (6), wherein the or each receiving means consists of a slotted hole (45) formed in one side arm and opening only into its front end surface or of a slotted hole formed in an end portion of the optical face and opening only into its rear end surface, the said or each slotted hole being designed to form a slide channel for receiving the decorative piece.
US09535261B2
An eyeglass temple includes a main frame adapted for connection with a lens unit, and an auxiliary cushion frame disposed behind the main frame. The auxiliary cushion frame includes an ear engaging portion, a main connecting portion extending forwardly from the ear engaging portion to connect with the main connecting portion, an abutment portion extending forwardly from the ear engaging portion and adapted to be disposed between the main connecting portion and the wearer's head, and at least one resilient connecting portion connected between the main connecting portion and the abutment portion and adapted for biasing the abutment portion away from the main connecting portion toward the wearer's head.
US09535258B1
Methods and systems for correcting chromatic aberrations in a telescope incorporating a diffractive primary optical element are provided. In particular, a corrective optic assembly that includes a corrector diffractive optical element (DOE) is described. The corrective optic assembly provides light to the corrector DOE at a high incidence angle. Moreover, light is reflected from the corrector DOE at a high exit angle comprising a cylindrical Littrow configuration allowing for greater bandwidth and smaller size.
US09535254B2
A headset for virtual reality applications includes an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) emitting light captured by a camera included in a virtual reality system, allowing the virtual reality system to detect the position and orientation of the headset in three-dimensional space. To manufacture the headset, a flexible strip including a circuit having the LEDs is molded into an outer shell of the headset using a casting material that is transmissible to wavelengths of light transmitted by the LEDs. An interior surface of the outer shell of the headset is within a specified distance of the LEDs. The outer shell may also include fabric that is also molded into the outer shell in the same or in a similar process.
US09535252B2
A virtual image display apparatus includes a video image display element which generates video image light, a light guiding member which includes a plurality of optical surfaces and guides the video image light by reflecting on inner surface side, and an optical device portion such as a projector lens through which the video image light passes when the video image light is made to foe incident on the light guiding member. Here, the light guiding member is a block-shaped member including a pair of facing first and third surfaces which extend substantially in parallel with each other and fully reflect the video image light, and first reference optical axis of the optical device portion on a light emitting side extends in a direction in which the first reference optical axis forms an obtuse angle with respect to a traverse reference axis corresponding to an eye alignment direction.
US09535251B2
An HMD apparatus with an imaging optical system for each one of the eyes of a user, which includes at least one display unit to be viewed by the respective eye, and with a device for the acquisition of the viewing direction of at least one eye within a field of view of the display unit by means of an eye camera, wherein the eye camera is provided with a camera holder, which can be adjusted in terms of a peripheral angle around a viewing central axis of the field of view and in terms of a setting angle with respect to the viewing central axis.
US09535250B2
A head mounted display (HMD) device according to one embodiment comprises a communication unit configured to transmit and receive data; a display unit configured to display visual information; a camera unit configured to capture an image; and a processor configured to control the communication unit, the display unit and the camera unit, wherein the processor is further configured to: detect an object image from a first image, which includes the object image, the first image being displayed in an external device located in an angle of view area of the camera unit, display information related to the object image, and display the first image in addition to the information when detecting that the first image is switched to a second image, which does not include the object image.
US09535246B2
Six first holes into which lead pins of a first semiconductor laser are inserted are arranged to form a parallelogram having line segments each connecting two first holes arranged in an X direction as first short sides, and line segments each connecting three first holes arranged in an intersecting direction intersecting with the X direction as first long sides. Six second holes into which lead pins of a second semiconductor laser are inserted are arranged to form a parallelogram having line segments each connecting two second holes arranged in the X direction as second short sides, and line segments each connecting three second holes arranged in the intersecting direction intersecting with the X direction as second long sides.
US09535237B2
Provided is a zoom lens, comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power. The second lens unit and the third lens unit are configured to move along loci different from each other during zooming. At least one lens unit of the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, or the fourth lens unit includes a positive lens and a negative lens that are arranged adjacent to each other, and materials for the positive lens and the negative lens are appropriately set, respectively.
US09535229B2
A fiber optic cassette including a body defining a front and an opposite rear and an enclosed interior. A cable entry location is defined in the body for a cable to enter the interior of the cassette. The cable which enters at the cable entry location is attached to the cassette body and the fibers are extended into the cassette body and form terminations at connectors. The connectors are connected to adapters located at the front of the cassette. A front side of the adapters defines termination locations for cables to be connected to the fibers connected at the rear of the adapters. A cable including a jacket, a strength member, and fibers enters the cassette. The strength member is crimped to a crimp tube and is mounted to the cassette body, allowing the fibers to extend past the crimp tube into the interior of the cassette body. A strain relief boot is provided at the cable entry location.
US09535224B2
An optical fiber cable has a sectional area of Ac [μm2] and housing a number N of optical fibers. A transmission loss αdB [dB/km], a mode field diameter W [μm], an effective area Aeff [μm2], an effective length Leff [km], and a wavelength dispersion D [ps/nm/km] of each of the optical fibers at a wavelength of 1550 nm satisfy a predetermined equation.
US09535216B2
The present invention relates to a dry film for an optical waveguide which has a carrier base material, a resin layer for an optical waveguide that can be cured by active energy ray or heat, and a protective film. The surface of the protective film that is in contact with the resin layer for an optical waveguide is a roughened surface.
US09535213B2
An optical module includes: a substrate; a wiring pattern; and a cover material. The wiring pattern includes, on the substrate, an electrode portion having a predetermined width and a signal line having a width smaller than the predetermined width and connected to the electrode portion. The cover material covers a part of the electrode portion and the signal line.
US09535208B2
A display apparatus in which a display module in a state of a curved surface is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image and which is bendable; a light guide plate which guides light toward the display panel; and a guide unit which guides the light guide plate to be maintained in a state of a curved surface, wherein the guide unit includes a shape of a curved surface in which both ends of the guide unit protrude forward relative to a center portion of the guide unit.
US09535202B2
A layered phase difference film including, in the following order: a resin layer A1 formed of a resin A1 having a positive intrinsic birefringence; a resin layer B formed of a resin B having a negative intrinsic birefringence; and a resin layer A2 formed of a resin A2 having a positive intrinsic birefringence, wherein the resin layer A1 and the resin layer B are in direct contact with each other, the resin layer B and the resin layer A2 are in direct contact with each other, the resin layer A1 and the resin layer A2 are negative C-plates, the resin layer B is a positive B-plate, and the layered phase difference film has an Nz coefficient within a range of 0 to 1.
US09535200B2
An apparatus for simultaneously measuring linear and circular polarization components of light is provided, and contains no moving parts. The apparatus may include a prism assembly configured to receive collimated light and splits the light into different directions according to its polarization state. The apparatus may also include lenses configured to collimate light from an image plane to be analyzed by the prism assembly, or direct the light that is split by the prism assembly to different detectors or locations on an image plane.
US09535190B2
Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition including (A) an acrylic-based binder resin; (B) a photopolymerizable monomer; (C) a photopolymerization initiator; (D) a colorant including a dye represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein in Chemical Formula 1, each substituent is the same as defined in the detailed description; and (E) a solvent, and a color filter using the same.
US09535185B2
Methods and systems for failure point diagnostics in cable telemetry at a wellsite. The methods involve providing a system includes a cable operatively coupling between a surface modem and a downhole modem that is operatively coupled to a downhole toolstring of one or more downhole tools via a toolbus. The methods further involve generating a plurality of test signals, sequentially applying the test signals across one or more test loops in the cable telemetry system, and generating a failure point alert when at least one of the test signals fails in at least one of the test loops. The failure point alert identifies which component of the cable telemetry system caused the test signal to fail.
US09535183B2
Direct arrivals from walkaway vertical seismic profiling or VSP survey data are used to derive Green's functions representing the seismic wave amplitude and travel time information required to extrapolate the vertical seismic profiling survey data from individual wellbore receivers to the individual source locations. The derived Green's functions are employed in a convolution process with upcoming primary wavefields from the VSP survey data for other surface locations. The derived Green's functions are also used in a correlation process with downgoing wavefields from the VSP survey data to extend lateral coverage of the VSP image. The sets of VSP-CMP gathers so formed are then processed to obtain information about the subsurface formations.
US09535178B2
A sweep generator is employed to generate a sweep to be used by a seismic vibrator device for generating a desired target output spectrum, wherein the frequency sweep is designed so as to comply with one or more constraints imposed by the seismic vibrator device and/or imposed by the environment in which the device is to be used. In one embodiment, a sweep generator determines a sweep for achieving a desired target output spectrum by a given seismic vibrator device in compliance with at least a pump flow constraint imposed by the seismic vibrator device. In another embodiment, a sweep generator determines a sweep for achieving a desired target output spectrum by a given seismic vibrator device in compliance with all of multiple operational constraints of the seismic vibrator device, such as both mass displacement and pump flow constraints. Environmental constraints may also be accounted for in certain embodiments.
US09535175B2
A medical nuclear imaging system (10) and corresponding method (100) are provided. A plurality of pixels (20, 24) detect radiation events and estimate the energy of the detected radiation events. A memory (58) stores a plurality of energy windows (44), the energy windows corresponding to the pixels. An event verification module (56) windows the radiation event with the energy windows corresponding to the detecting pixels. A reconstruction processor (60) reconstructs the windowed radiation events into an image representation.
US09535172B2
A voltage reset method may include: acquiring a voltage that is changed with time by using an input photon; determining a timing for resetting the acquired voltage by using time information in a period where the acquired voltage increases; and/or resetting the acquired voltage on a basis of the determined voltage reset timing. A voltage reset apparatus may include: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a voltage that is changed with time by using an input photon; a determination unit configured to determine a timing for resetting the acquired voltage by using time information in a period where the acquired voltage increases; and/or a reset unit configured to reset the acquired voltage on a basis of the determined voltage reset timing.
US09535163B2
Methods and apparatus to provide assistance data for satellite navigation in a wireless communication device are disclosed. Processing circuitry in the wireless communication device determines whether to obtain assistance data for navigation based on a set of criteria. The set of criteria include one or more of a property of a geographic region in which the wireless communication device operates, a satellite signal quality estimate measured by the wireless communication device, and a user setting of the wireless communication device. When the set of criteria indicates that assistance data for navigation is beneficial for satellite navigation in the wireless communication device, the processing circuitry obtains one or more sets of assistance data. The processing circuitry configures operation of the wireless communication device for navigation based at least in part on the one or more sets of assistance data obtained.
US09535152B2
In some implementations, radio access technology (RAT) signals can be monitored and used to synchronize an internal clock of a mobile device to a network system clock without registering the mobile device to the network. In some implementations, a RAT processor can be configured to receive RAT signals and to prevent transmission of RAT signals. In some implementations, the internal clock can be associated with a GNSS processor and can be used to calculate a location of the mobile device. In some implementations, a RAT processor that is configured for a particular radio access technology can be configured to monitor signals associated with another radio access technology when synchronizing the internal clock. In some implementations, the RAT processor can monitor signals in response to a power event. The power event can be associated with powering a display of the mobile device.
US09535150B1
A measuring device comprises at least one port, an external cable connected to the at least one port, a transmitter connected to the at least one port through a switch, a receiver connected to the at least one port through the switch and a reference path connecting the transmitter with the receiver through the switch. The cable is connected to calibration elements, e.g., short and open. The switch alternately switch in a manner that in a first state the transmitter and the receiver are connected to the at least one port and that in a second state the transmitter and the receiver are connected via the reference path.
US09535143B2
A coil support arrangement for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging System and method of support are provided. One coil support arrangement includes a main former body having a plurality of channels between end flanges and a splint coupled to the main former body between the end flanges. The coil support arrangement also includes a load spreader coupled to the main former body adjacent one or more of the ends of the splint, and having a gap between the one or more ends of the splint and the load spreader.
US09535141B2
A magnetic shielding mechanism for preventing penetration of metallic objects through an aperture, towards the open bore of an magnetic resonance imaging device, where the magnetic field is maximized. The magnetic resonance imaging device produces a fringing magnetic field that decreases with increasing distance (L) from the aperture. The mechanism includes at least one magnet with a magnetic field. The mechanism is affixed at a distance from the aperture of magnetic resonance imaging device.
US09535136B2
A detector of a magnetic field probe includes a first wiring pattern formed on a first surface of a multilayer substrate and having a predetermined inclination with respect to an axial line direction of the magnetic field probe, a second wiring pattern formed on a second surface and having the predetermined inclination with respect to the axial line direction, and a first penetrating via penetrating through the multilayer substrate in the thickness direction and connecting a front end portion of the first wiring pattern and a front end portion of the second wiring pattern. A rear end portion of the first wiring pattern is connected to a conductor pattern configuring a strip line and a rear end portion of the second wiring pattern is connected to ground patterns configuring the strip line.
US09535135B2
A method for calculating a solar radiation amount is provided, which enables the prediction of a solar radiation amount with consideration also given to the small movement of a cloud that affects a power generation amount generated by a PV array and thereby improves the accuracy of prediction of the power generation amount generated by the PV array. From a measured output value of a solar panel, solar radiation and a temperature parameter are extracted. An output of a PV is calculated from the extracted solar radiation and temperature parameter. The calculated value is correlated with the measured value. A temperature correction coefficient is obtained so that a correlation coefficient is highest, and a solar radiation amount is calculated using the obtained correlation coefficient.
US09535134B2
A method for accurately diagnosing an internal fault of an oil-immersed transformer by analyzing content ratios of dissolved gases generated when the internal fault occurs in the oil-immersed transformer is provided. The method diagnoses the internal fault by analyzing the dissolved gases contained in the insulating oil of the oil-immersed transformer for internal fault diagnosis, wherein the method comprises: a first step of extracting H2, CH4, C2H4, and C2H2 from the dissolved gases; a second step of calculating a content ratio (%) of each dissolved gas from the total content of the four dissolved gases selected from the extracted five dissolved gases; and a third step of determining the internal fault of the oil-immersed transformer for diagnosis corresponding to an internal fault region according to content ratio (%) values of the calculated four dissolved gases and predetermined content ratios (%) of the four dissolved gases.
US09535133B2
Described herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses for determining sag in a signal. In one example, a method of tracking sag in a signal includes, when in an initial state, monitoring for when the signal transitions to a sag state based at least on an output of a tracking filter. In response to the signal transitioning to the sag state, increasing a bandwidth of the tracking filter and, when in the sag state, monitoring for when the signal transitions to a recovering state. The method further includes, in response to the signal transitioning to the recovering state, decreasing the bandwidth of the tracking filter.
US09535127B2
An integrated circuit includes combinational logic with flip-flops, parallel scan paths with a scan input for receiving test stimulus data to be applied to the combinational logic, combinational connections with the combinational logic for applying stimulus data to the combinational logic and receiving response data from the combinational logic, a scan output for transmitting test response data obtained from the combinational logic, and control inputs having an enable input and a select input for operating the parallel scan paths, each scan path includes flip-flops of the combinational logic that, in a test mode, are connected in series, compare circuitry indicates the result of a comparison of the received test response data and the expected data at a fail flag output, and one of the scan paths includes a scan cell having an input coupled to the fail flag output.
US09535121B1
Described herein are apparatuses and methods for enhancing timing delay fault coverage during testing of functional circuitry. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes functional circuitry for performing functional operations and test logic coupled to the functional circuitry to enhance timing delay fault coverage for the functional circuitry with at-speed test sequences. The test logic includes a plurality of partitions of scan flip-flops and an independent partition scan enable input signal for each partition for enabling or disabling each partition.
US09535120B2
An integrated circuit and method for establishing scan test architecture in the integrated circuit is provided. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of circuit modules. Each circuit module includes a clock control unit, a first pipeline unit, a serialized compressed scan circuit and a second pipeline unit. The clock control unit generates a scan clock according to a test clock. The first pipeline unit converts a test input signal into first data according to the scan clock. The serialized compressed scan circuit generates second data according to the first data and the test clock. The second pipeline unit converts the second data into a test output signal according to the scan clock. The scan clock of each of the circuit modules is independent from the scan clocks of the other circuit modules, thereby reducing the difficulty and cost of timing analysis and adjustment.
US09535114B2
A testing device comprises a first probe member, a second probe member, and an insulation member. The first probe member comprises a tip portion for contacting a device being tested. The second probe member also comprises a tip portion for contacting the device being tested. The insulation member is located at or can be moved to a location between the tip portions of the first and second probe members.
US09535112B2
Increase in number of valves complicates the configuration and control. A temperature control apparatus for controlling a temperature of a device, includes; a heat exchange section exchanging heat with the device; a main flow path causing a fluid to flow; a sub flow path causing, to flow, a fluid having a temperature different from a temperature of the fluid flowing through the main flow path; a mixture flow path merging the fluids from the main flow path and the sub flow path and causing the merged fluids to flow to the heat exchange section; and a flow rate adjusting section adjusting an amount of a fluid flowing from the sub flow path to the mixture flow path, in relation to the fluid flowing through the main flow path.
US09535111B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present description, integrated circuits may tested by optically transmitting test data over a light beam in addition to or instead of transmitting the test data using mechanical probes. Optically transmitted test data is detected by a photon detector on board the die to be tested. Individual circuit portions of the die may be tested using test data associated with each individual circuit portion. Other aspects are described.
US09535101B2
A circuit (1) is described for detecting a reverse current condition of a DCDC converter (2). This circuit uses a simple logic gate such as an AND gate to sense the voltage on a determined node (7) of the DCDC converter, and the propagation of the gated signal (27) is controlled using the timing control signals SW1 and SW2 of the DCDC converter, together with delay cells (16 and 17), to ensure that the positive or negative state of the sensed voltage at said node (7) is propagated cleanly through the logic gate (18), the flip-flop or latch circuit (19) and the up-down counter (29) to the output timing control circuit (25). The up-down counter is incremented or decremented in dependence on the presence or absence of a reverse current condition at said node, and the count value (24) of the up-down counter determines the duration of the on-period of the second-phase timing control signal SW2.
US09535091B2
A probe head includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a spacer, at least one probe, and an insulating material. The first substrate has at least one first through hole. The second substrate has at least one second through hole. The spacer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The spacer, the first substrate, and the second substrate together form a cavity. The probe is disposed in the cavity and protrudes from the first through hole and the second through hole. The insulating material is on the probe and at least partially disposed in the first through hole.
US09535083B2
In some embodiments of the invention, the central controller may comprise a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium comprises code, executable by the processor to implement a method. The method comprises identifying, by the processor, a sample container or a sample container holder associated with the sample container, and then accessing, by the processor, a location database storing mapping data correlating sample containers or sample container holders with sample containers to test regions in the storage unit. The test regions store sample containers with samples that have been or are to be tested according to different tests. After accessing the database, the method continues by providing, by the processor, a proposal for storage of the sample container or the sample container holder associated with the sample container in the storage unit.
US09535081B2
There is provided an automatic analysis system that dispenses samples and reagents into a plurality of reaction vessels to cause reaction and to measure the liquid resulting from the reaction. The system implements a method of handling capped sample containers such as vacuum blood collection tubes along transfer routes. A sample container opening/closing mechanism is provided which removes the caps of the sample containers prior to sample dispensing and which closes the sample containers following sample dispensing using the same corresponding caps as before the dispensing. Also provided is an opening/closing mechanism that retains and manages the caps removed from the sample containers, as well as a transport unit capable of selecting one of the transport routes which fits the identified sample containers so as to close them with the fit caps. This invention thus provides a container opening/closing system that improves throughput of the sample collection process in conjunction with the automatic analysis system performing the sample container opening/closing process.
US09535075B2
Aspects of the present invention include methods for determining a transplant category of a subject having a transplant. Common mechanisms of rejection injury are uncovered across different tissue transplants, and provide a means to understand rational drug design. Various sources of tissues are examined form the patient for understanding AR mechanism (graft biopsy), as well as monitoring by minimal invasive means (blood) or non-invasive means (urine for the kidney allograft). For biomarker discovery different categories of markers are examined such as genes, proteins, peptides and antibodies. These biomarkers can help determine the subject's transplant category (e.g., acute allograft rejection (AR), stable allograft (STA), BK viremia, BK nephritis, drug toxicity or chronic allograft injury (CAI), and the like). Also provided are compositions, systems, kits and computer program products that find use in practicing the subject methods. The methods and compositions find use in a variety of applications.
US09535062B2
Dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, methods for making dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials, and devices that include dual-functional nonfouling surfaces and materials. The dual-functional surfaces are nonfouling surfaces that resist non-specific protein adsorption and cell adhesion. The dual-functional surfaces and materials include covalently coupled biomolecules (e.g., target binding partners) that impart specific biological activity thereto. The surfaces and materials are useful in medical diagnostics, biomaterials and bioprocessing, tissue engineering, and drug delivery.
US09535053B1
A system of measuring hemoglobin and bilirubin parameters in a whole blood sample using optical absorbance. The system includes an optical-sample module, a spectrometer module, an optical fiber module optically connecting the optical-sample module to the spectrometer module, and a processor module. The optical-sample module has a light-emitting module having a LED light source, a cuvette and a calibrating-light module. The processor module receives and processes an electrical signal from the spectrometer module and transforms the electrical signal into an output signal useable for displaying and reporting hemoglobin parameter values and/or total bilirubin parameter values for the whole blood sample.
US09535051B2
An investment casting shell substrate sensor method and apparatus comprising a hollow probe 10 having an aperture 30, the aperture 30 covered by a water proof breathable membrane (WPBM) 20 that is constructed and arranged to repel liquid from entering the aperture 30, while remaining permeable so as to allow vapor and air to pass through the aperture 30, thereby creating a liquid free internal void 50 within the hollow probe 10 that receives a sensor 40 for measuring the conditions (i.e. temperature and humidity) within the internal void 50, which are accurately indicative of the conditions at the shell substrate at the aperture 30 location. The disclosed sensor assembly provides target specific information at selected substrates within the shell real time, during the shell building process.
US09535049B2
An analyzing arrangement for analyzing a composition of a fluid, such as oil mist of an engine, e.g. a gas turbine is provided. The analyzing arrangement includes a breather pipe coupleable to the gas turbine such that at least a part of the fluid is flowing through the breather pipe, a first collecting device for collecting a first sample of the fluid, wherein the first collecting device is configured for providing a first composition analysis of the first sample and a second collecting device for collecting a second sample of the fluid, wherein the second collecting device is configured for providing a second composition analysis of the second sample. The first collecting device and the second collecting device are arranged inside the breather pipe such that the first collecting device and the second collecting device are exposed to a common flow characteristic of the fluid inside the breather pipe.
US09535046B2
Functionalized titanium nanotubes can be utilized to detect compounds of interest, for example peroxide-based explosives. The nanotubes may desirably be coated, for example with a silicon oxynitride coating, in order to improve detection performance and/or functionality in the presence of moisture, saline, or other conditions typically unfavorable to titanium nanotube detection devices and methods. Inexpensive, compact, reusable, and responsive sensors may be fabricated from the coated nanotubes.
US09535045B2
A temperature and pressure regulating biogas sample extraction system and method for providing a conditioned biogas sample for constituent analysis.
US09535041B2
A sonic speed measurement device in which reliability is enhanced while the amount of calculation is minimized is provided. A propagation path postulation component postulates the sonic speed through bone, and calculates propagation paths up until ultrasonic waves transmitted from a wave transmitter are received by oscillators. A postulated propagation time calculator calculates the propagation time it takes for the ultrasonic waves transmitted from the wave transmitter to be received by the oscillators, based on the propagation paths. A Fourier transform component subjects I signals and Q signals of signals outputted by the oscillators to Fourier transform to generate Fourier transform data. A phase shifter shifts the phase of the Fourier transform data for the oscillators in a frequency region according to the propagation time. A sonic speed derivation component determines the validity of the postulated sonic speed based on the Fourier transform data shifted by the phase shifter.
US09535040B2
The invention relates to a method for testing connections of metal workpieces to plastic compounds for cavities by means of ultrasound, wherein the plastic compound is arranged between the workpiece as an intermediate layer or is connected to the workpiece on one side and the cavity is located within the plastic compound, wherein the cavity is connected to the workpiece by means of a remaining plastic layer or plastic skin and wherein the plastic compound is exposed to ultrasonic signals of a certain test frequency and pulse length from the metal side of the workpiece by means of at least one ultrasonic probe, and in particular the ultrasonic signals reflected by flaws in the plastic compound are detected by the same or another ultrasonic probe and converted into electrical signals that can be evaluated and subjected to a threshold observation. The test frequency of the ultrasonic signals is set in a range of 1 to 10 MHz so that the attenuation of the sound is minimal after passing through the plastic skin.
US09535037B2
An inspection apparatus (100) for monitoring the structural integrity of a pipeline (101) comprising a superconducting electromagnet (102) suitable for generating a magnetic field (106); a cryostat (103) suitable for containing and preserving said superconducting electromagnet (102) at a low temperature; at least two magnetic conveyors (104′, 104″) connected at opposite ends of the cryostat (103) suitable for conveying the magnetic field (106) generated by the superconducting electromagnet (102) to the wall of the pipeline (101) and facilitating the closing of a magnetic circuit; at least one sensor system (105) for revealing the intensity of the magnetic field (106). A method for monitoring the structural integrity of a pipeline (101) using an inspection apparatus (100) according to the present invention. The inspection apparatus (100) according to the present invention advantageously allows the localization of possible structural imperfections or anomalies of the walls of a pipeline (101), using a more efficient magnet with respect to those normally used in the “pigs” known in the state of the art.
US09535033B2
The analysis method allows analysis of samples with high sensitivity, irrespective of interelectrode distance. The method includes: a step of applying a voltage between a first electrode pair such that an electric field is formed in a direction intersecting a migration direction of a sample; a step of placing a solution, including an electrochemically active molecule that produces a redox reaction at the electrode pair, between the first electrode pair; a step of causing the sample to migrate; and a step of measuring an amount of change in current flow between the first electrode pair.
US09535025B2
A probe assembly includes plural capacitive contacts that are separate from each other and a conductive depletion gate disposed between and separating the contacts from each other. The depletion gate is configured to receive a direct electric voltage to deplete regions of a sample under test of electrons. The contacts are configured to be placed in close proximity to a buried conducting layer in the sample under test without engaging the buried conducting layer, thereby capacitively coupling to the buried conducting layer. A first subset of the capacitive contacts is configured to apply an alternating electric current to a portion of the sample under test and a second subset of the capacitive contacts is configured to sense an alternating voltage response of the portion of the sample under test to characterize one or more electrical properties of the sample under test without the capacitive contact with the buried conductive layer.
US09535012B2
Disclosed is a method for the non-destructive testing of workpiece surfaces of a workpiece by means of fluorescent penetrant testing or dye penetrant testing. The method comprises applying a penetrant to the region of the workpiece surface to be examined, thereby allowing the penetrant to penetrate into possible recesses in the workpiece surface, applying a developer to the region of the workpiece surface to be tested; bleaching the penetrant by a gaseous or liquid oxidant; and visually assessing the penetrant that has remained in the recesses present in the workpiece surface.
US09535007B2
A low-noise fluorescence image and a low-noise luminescence image are acquired even if a luminescent substance having a high luminescence level is used. Provided is a measuring apparatus including an illumination optical system that radiates excitation light coming from an excitation light source onto a specimen A, an image acquisition portion that acquires an image by measuring light generated at the specimen, and an image processing portion that, based on a first image, which is acquired by the image acquisition portion without radiating the excitation light, and a second image, which is acquired by the image acquisition portion while radiating the excitation light, generates a fluorescence image by removing a luminescence component from the second image.
US09535005B2
An instrument for measuring and analyzing surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and/or surface plasmon coupled emission on an electro-optic grating-coupled sensor surface is described herein. The sensor chip achieves SPR through a grating-coupled approach, with variations in the local dielectric constant at regions of interest (ROI) at the sensor surface detected as a function of the intensity of light reflecting from these ROI. Unlike other grating-based approaches, the metal surface is sufficiently thin that resonant conditions are sensitive to dielectric constant changes both above and below the metal surface (like the Kretschmann configuration). Dielectric constant shifts that occur as mass accumulates on the surface can be returned to reference intensities by applying voltage across the underlying electro-optic polymer. Approaches to the development of the sensor surfaces are described, as are software and hardware features facilitating sample handling, data gathering, and data analysis by this solid-state approach.
US09534998B2
A maximum number of charges on aerosol particles which are measurement targets is decided as a natural number x equal to or larger than 2. First and second electrical mobility groups are derived based on x. The first group includes electrical mobility Zc(U) and electrical mobilities having voltage values equal to a voltage U multiplied by values from 2 to x respectively, and the second group includes electrical mobilities having respective voltage values equal to voltage U multiplied by irreducible fractions which are coprime to each other among values with regularity. A ratio of flow rate with which range corresponding to the electrical mobilities included in the first group do not interfere with one another and the range corresponding to the electrical mobilities included in the first group and range corresponding to the electrical mobilities included in the mobility group do not interfere with one another is calculated.
US09534996B2
A rheometer includes a drive shaft, a drag cup motor for rotating the drive shaft, a first measuring object supported by the drive shaft, a second measuring object, a linear position sensor, and processing and control electronics. The linear position sensor includes a target (e.g., an aluminum target) mounted to the drive shaft, and a pair of coils. The linear position sensor is configured to measure thermal expansion of the drive shaft based on a change in impedance of the coils resulting from a displacement of the target relative to the coils. The processing and control electronics are in communication with the coils and are configured to adjust a position of one of the measuring objects relative to the other based on a change in impedance of the coils resulting from a displacement of the target relative to the coils, thereby to maintain a substantially constant measurement gap therebetween.
US09534993B2
Methods and apparatus for identifying the location of the load on a structure. Various embodiments include calculating a plurality of potential loading sites, assessing the statistical order of each of those predictions, and selecting regions of the structure where the load most likely occurred based on the orderliness (or randomness) of the assessments.
US09534988B2
A sampler including an ejector and a sample channel extending to the ejector, which are placeable in a mixture of particles of a solid and a medium, the medium being a gas and/or a liquid. The ejector includes at least one inlet and an outlet. The ejector takes a mixture sample by using vacuum via the inlet and discharges it via the outlet so as to make the mixture sample flow from the inlet towards the outlet. The sample channel takes a desired measuring sample from the mixture sample flowing in the ejector, the solid particles and the medium being at least partly separable from one another in the ejector on the basis of the flow and inertia in the mixture sample.
US09534986B2
A bicycle rim examination device includes a body having a base and two upright side frames extend from the base. Each of the two side frames has a first cylinder, a second cylinder and a third cylinder connected to the top thereof. Each of the second and third cylinders is connected with a roller. A power supply device is located on one end of the body and has transmission shaft which has a roller and is driven by a motor. The transmission shaft is supported by two slides which are movable along two guide frames. A first detector with a first probe and a second detector with a second probe are connected to the body. The bicycle rim examination device examines the tension of the spokes and the roundness of the rim.
US09534975B2
A pressure sensor assembly for measuring the pressure of a first fluid. The assembly having a first housing including a pressure sensing device arranged therein. A diaphragm is arranged on a surface of the first housing and is configured to transmit a force exerted on a first side thereof to the pressure sensing device. A second housing is provided and attached to the first housing. The second housing may be arranged generally circumferentially around the diaphragm. A compressible element is provided and arranged within a compressible element space defined within the second housing. The compressible element is configured to transmit a force exerted thereon by the fluid to the first side of the diaphragm.
US09534973B2
A capacitive pressure sensor may be configured to transduce both a dynamic pressure and a static pressure using a single diaphragm. A capacitive pressure sensor may comprise a dynamic excitation signal module in parallel with a static excitation signal module, a summing amplifier module in connection with both the dynamic excitation module and the static excitation module, a dynamic charge amplifier stage in a parallel with a static charge amplifier stage, and a capacitive sensor connected to an output of the summing amplifier module, as well as an input of the dynamic charge amplifier stage, and an input of the static charge amplifier stage. Further, a dynamic excitation signal may be provided by the dynamic excitation signal module as a constant DC voltage signal, and a static excitation signal may be provided by the static excitation signal module as an AC voltage signal.
US09534972B2
A pressure sensing element has at least a housing containing a fluid. The housing has at least two moveable surfaces in contact with the fluid in the housing; There is a first moveable surface comprising a pressure application surface which, when moved towards, away from, into or out of the fluid, creates a change in fluid pressure and a second moveable surface in contact with the fluid in the housing comprising a membrane which, when deformed by pressure changes in the fluid, alters its electrical resistance. The membrane has two electrodes attached to deformable material in the membrane. The membrane my have an elastomer having conductive particles distributed therein. The elastomer may be a dielectric and the particles are conductive nanoparticles.
US09534967B2
A method includes determining a relationship between indirect thermal data for a processor and a measured temperature associated with the processor, during a calibration process, obtaining the indirect thermal data for the processor during actual operation of the processor, and determining an actual significant temperature associated with the processor during the actual operation using the indirect thermal data for the processor during actual operation of the processor and the relationship.
US09534961B2
Provided are a metal nitride material for a thermistor, which has high reliability and high heat resistance and can be directly deposited on a film or the like without firing, a method for producing the same, and a film type thermistor sensor.The metal nitride material for a thermistor consists of a metal nitride represented by the general formula: (M1−vAv)xAly(N1−wOw)z (where “M” represents at least one element selected from Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Co, “A” represents at least one element selected from Mn, Cu, Ni, Fe, and Co, which is different from the selected “M”, 0.0
US09534952B2
Techniques are disclosed for monitoring parameters in a high power fiber laser or amplifier system without adding a tap coupler or increasing fiber length. In some embodiments, a cladding stripper is used to draw off a small percentage of light propagating in the cladding to an integrated signal parameter monitor. Parameters at one or more specific wavelengths (e.g., pump signal wavelength, signal/core signal wavelength, etc) can be monitored. In some such cases, filters can be used to allow for selective passing of signal wavelength to be monitored to a corresponding parameter monitor. The filters can be external or may be integrated into a parameter monitor package that includes cladding stripper with integrated parameter monitor. Other parameters of interest (e.g., phase, wavelength) can also be monitored, in addition to, or as an alternative to power. Numerous configurations and variations will be apparent in light of this disclosure (e.g., system-on-chip).
US09534950B2
A visible LED light scattering apparatus comprising a substantially hollow spherical cavity including a light entry port arranged to receive visible light from an LED mounted outside the cavity, a light exit port located opposite the entry port and through which the LED light exits the cavity for analysis, and a baffle located in a central region of the cavity in a direct optical path between the entry port and the exit port to interrupt the passage of visible LED light between the entry and exit ports.
US09534943B2
A measuring tube for magneto-inductive flowmeter systems, having a measuring tube for the flow of an electrically conductive medium and a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic field, at least two measuring electrodes which tap the measurement voltage induced in the electrically conductive medium and preferably an evaluation unit. The measuring electrodes have externally accessible measuring contacts, wherein the measuring tube forms a first functional unit with the measuring electrodes, and mating contacts corresponding to the measuring contacts of the measuring electrodes, the magnetic field generating device and an evaluation unit, if present, form a second functional unit. The measuring contacts of the measuring electrodes are provided on the measuring tube in such a manner that they can be brought into electrically conductive contact with the mating contacts by a movement which runs substantially perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic field and is substantially only translational.
US09534941B2
A pointer device, an instrument cluster, and a display for an instrument cluster are described herein. The pointer device includes a pointer with a stem and paddle. The instrument cluster includes a technique to display a bar graph based interface with a mechanically driven pointer. The display allows for a dual representation employing multiple pointers, with one pointer dedicated to a dial-based display, and another pointer dedicated to a bar graph display.
US09534940B2
A resolver can have a stator installed in a housing simply, without requiring a special jig. In the resolver including a housing and a stator core fixed in the housing, the stator core is fixed to the inside of the housing by rotating relative to the housing.
US09534928B2
A smart grid for improving the management of a power utility grid is provided. The smart grid as presently disclosed includes using sensors in various portions of the power utility grid, using communications and computing technology to upgrade an electric power grid so that it can operate more efficiently and reliably and support additional services to consumers. The smart grid may include distributed intelligence in the power utility grid (separate from the control center intelligence) including devices that generate data in different sections of the grid, analyze the generated data, and automatically modify the operation of a section of the power grid. Further, the intelligent devices in the power utility grid may cooperate together to analyze and/or control the state of the power grid. Finally, the distributed intelligence may further include distributed storage.
US09534927B2
A microcontroller unit (MCU) characterized by including a buffer is provided. The MCU is a part of a mobile device. The MCU fetches a plurality of samples from a sensor of the mobile device, performs a preset processing according to the samples, stores the samples and/or a result of the preset processing in the buffer, and provides the result or a signal based on the result to the central processing unit (CPU) of the mobile device or an electronic device.
US09534923B2
The sensor device includes a counter for counting the number of count commands used to perform measurements while maintaining among multiple sensor devices the ratio of measurement intervals; a ratio-holding-unit for setting the ratio to a desired ratio and holding respective values of the ratio for each of the multiple sensor devices; a sampling-timing-generating-unit for receiving a count value of the counter and the setting value of the ratio held by the ratio-holding-unit, and for generating a sampling timing signal based on the comparison result between the count value and the setting value; and a sampling-unit for sampling a detection signal detected by the detecting unit, by using the sampling timing signal generated by the sampling-timing-generating-unit.
US09534922B1
Present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method for recording a modification of an existing route plan are disclosed. The disclosed system may be comprised of a flight management system (“FMS”), at least one human-machine interface (“HMI”) device, at least one display unit, and a route modification generator (“RMG”). The disclosed device may be comprised of the RMG configured to perform the disclosed method, where such method may be comprised of receiving a request to modify an existing route plan; retrieving the route plan from the FMS; generating a message data set representative of one or more pre-formatted messages having one or more visually-conspicuous, user-interactive variable fields; updating the message data set in response to a user's selection of each field; sending the updated data set to the display unit; receiving a pilot's authorization to modify the route plan, and sending the accepted, modified flight plan to the FMS.
US09534918B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to identifying and displaying traffic lanes that are available for autonomous driving. This information may be displayed to a driver of a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode, in order to inform the driver of where he or she can use the autonomous driving mode. In one example, the display may visually distinguishing between lanes that are available for auto-drive from those that are not. The display may also include an indicator of the position of a lane (autodrive or not) currently occupied by the vehicle. In addition, if that lane is an autodrive lane the display may include information indicating how much further the vehicle may continue in the autonomous driving mode in that particular lane. The display may also display information indicating the remaining autodrive distance in other lanes as well as the lane with the greatest remaining autodrive distance.
US09534909B2
A service providing method of a user terminal device connected to a display apparatus mounted on a moving means includes displaying a stored contact list and guiding one or more routes which displays a route guide screen to selected address information by utilizing a display apparatus if the address information is selected from personal information recorded on the displayed contact list. Accordingly, various services can be provided based on the personal information.
US09534900B2
A system for determining a combined velocity rotation compensation and sculling compensation in an inertial navigation system includes: gyroscopes configured to provide a measured angular rotation rate with components from three orthogonal axes; accelerometers configured to provide a measured specific force with components from three orthogonal axes; and a processor configured to calculate a first combined velocity rotation compensation and sculling compensation at a single computational rate, the processor configured to: calculate a first cross product of an instantaneous angular rotation rate and a change in the measured specific force during a first interval; and sum the first cross product with a second cross product of a fraction of the change in the specific force during the second interval and the change in the measured angular rate during the first interval; where the first and second intervals are each one cycle of the single computational rate.
US09534899B2
Vector Field SLAM is a method for localizing a mobile robot in an unknown environment from continuous signals such as WiFi or active beacons. Disclosed is a technique for localizing a robot in relatively large and/or disparate areas. This is achieved by using and managing more signal sources for covering the larger area. One feature analyzes the complexity of Vector Field SLAM with respect to area size and number of signals and then describe an approximation that decouples the localization map in order to keep memory and run-time requirements low. A tracking method for re-localizing the robot in the areas already mapped is also disclosed. This allows to resume the robot after is has been paused or kidnapped, such as picked up and moved by a user. Embodiments of the invention can comprise commercial low-cost products including robots for the autonomous cleaning of floors.
US09534895B2
A vibrating element includes a vibration portion including a first main surface, a second main surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface, and extending in a first direction. The vibration portion includes a first groove formed in the first main surface and a second groove formed in the second main surface, and in a plan view seen from a direction perpendicular to the first main surface, the first groove and the second groove are provided to shift in opposite directions from each other, in a second direction.
US09534892B2
A distance measuring system comprises a radiation source, a radiation detector, a measuring lens system, a first damping filter, a second damping filter and an actuator. The radiation source is constructed to emit optical radiation and the radiation detector is constructed to detect optical radiation. The measuring lens system is designed to project optical radiation to a target and to conduct optical radiation reflected by the target to the radiation detector. The first damping filter has a constant damping and can be arranged in a beam path between the radiation source and the measuring lens system. The second damping filter has an adjustable damping and can be arranged in a beam path between the measuring lens system and the radiation detector. The actuator is mechanically coupled to the first and also to the second damping filter and is constructed to move the first and the second damping filter in common.
US09534888B2
The present invention provides a detection apparatus which detects an original mark on an original and a substrate mark on a substrate, the original mark and the substrate mark being arranged via a projection optical system, the apparatus comprising an optical system including an imaging device and configured to form an image of the original mark and an image of the substrate mark onto the imaging device, wherein the optical system includes a detection reference member having a first mark and a second mark, and is configured to form an image of the first mark onto the original, form an image of the second mark onto the substrate via the projection optical system and the original, and form the image of the first mark, and the image of the second mark onto the imaging device.
US09534884B2
A coded localization system includes a plurality of optical channels arranged to cooperatively image at least one object onto a plurality of detectors. Each of the channels includes a localization code that is different from any other localization code in other channels, to modify electromagnetic energy passing therethrough. Output digital images from the detectors are processable to determine sub-pixel localization of the object onto the detectors, such that a location of the object is determined more accurately than by detector geometry alone. Another coded localization system includes a plurality of optical channels arranged to cooperatively image partially polarized data onto a plurality of pixels. Each of the channels includes a polarization code that is different from any other polarization code in other channels to uniquely polarize electromagnetic energy passing therethrough. Output digital images from the detectors are processable, to determine a polarization pattern for a user of the system.
US09534882B2
To improve the energy efficiency of electrical drive systems for doors, the electric motor is actuated position-dependently, the electrically driven door is disconnected from the supply network in a resting position, a change of position of the door performed in the state of being disconnected from the grid is detected by a position encoder unit that is independently supplied with power by an energy store, and the change of position is used for position-dependently actuating the electric motor after the supply voltage has been reapplied.
US09534880B2
A liquid electrically initiated and controlled composition comprising an oxidizer, soluble fuel additive(s), and other optional additives to enhance the chemical or ballistic properties, or a combination thereof is disclosed. The liquid composition further comprises stabilizers to enhance thermal stability, sequestrants to minimize deleterious effects of transition metal contaminants, and combustion enhancers maximizing efficiency. Buffers and heavy metal sequestering or complexing agents may be used in combination to achieve the highest degree of thermal stability. Additional ionic co-oxidizers may be added to the liquid composition to stabilize the liquid oxidizer and further depress freezing point. The liquid phase of matter allows flow via pipes or tubes from tanks, reservoirs, or other containers, through metering valves, followed by ignition or combustion modulation when stimulated by electrodes, statically or dynamically.
US09534877B2
A low energy mechanical operating cartridge has an inner regulator core (13) supporting a projectile (21) slidably engaged in a primer casing (19). The regulator core acts to control the velocity at which the projectile is propelled from a firearm (61), and the primer casing carries the explosive propellant (25) necessary to generate the required energy to launch the projectile. To improve the operation of the cartridge and ejection of the cartridge from the firearm, the primer casing is configured to efficiently slide on the regulator core in a rearward recoil action, while robust gas seals are maintained between the casing and regulator core.
US09534869B2
A method for the inertial navigation of a projectile equipped with a mediocre-quality inertial init that is fired from a carrier equipped with a precision inertial unit includes, before firing the projectile, the biases of the accelerometers and of the gyrometers of the inertial unit of the projectile are determined using the inertial unit of the carrier. During the inertial navigation of the projectile, the measurements of the accelermeters and of the gyrometers output by the inertial unit of the projectile are corrected by the biases determined before launching.
US09534863B2
A device and method to accelerate solid metal slugs to high speeds. In one embodiment, a large electric current is passed through an outer cylindrical metal tube enclosing in part a metal slug, a central electrode, and a conducting tail coupled at opposite ends to the. metal slug and the central electrode. Electromagnetic forces accelerate the metal slug to a point high enough to mechanically separate the conducting tail. On separation, a plasma is generated by the passage of electric current though a gas produced by vaporization of the conducting tail and nearby materials. An insulator enclosed within the tube prevents the plasma from shorting to the outer tube until the current flow has produced a sufficient magnetic field to contain the plasma. The metal slug is then accelerated to high speed by a combination of electromagnetic forces and mechanical pressure from the hot gas through which the electric current is passing.
US09534862B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses, systems, and methods for constructing, installing, and using a compression follower in a tubular firearm magazine. In particular, the compression follower resides inside a shotgun magazine and replaces the standard follower. The compression follower has a compressible tail, thereby providing the capacity of a standard follower and increased reliability by aligning the follower and a magazine spring.
US09534859B2
A rifle has a receiver, a cartridge chamber connected to the receiver, and a bolt slideable longitudinally in the receiver, the bolt is engageable with a cartridge in the chamber. A bolt carrier is slideable longitudinally in the receiver to move the bolt into and out of engagement with a cartridge in the cartridge chamber, and a bolt handle is connected to the bolt carrier. The bolt handle is positionable in a manual position extending from one side of the rifle to permit manual firing of the rifle and in a semiautomatic position about 180 degrees different from the manual position and extending from the other side of the rifle to permit semiautomatic firing of the rifle. The position of the bolt carrier may be changed between the manual and semiautomatic positions without removing the bolt carrier from the rifle.
US09534857B2
The liquid cooling system has a heat exchanger having a fluid inlet and an outlet; a fluid supply conduit leading to the inlet of the heat exchanger; a fluid return conduit extending from the outlet of the heat exchanger; a bypass conduit extending between the fluid supply conduit and the fluid return conduit; a thermal valve configured for selectively closing the bypass conduit, the valve having a temperature sensing element positioned downstream of both the heat exchanger and the bypass conduit, the temperature sensing element configured to selectively move the thermal valve in response to a temperature change of the liquid which the temperature sensing element is exposed to relative to a temperature threshold of the valve; and a deflector positioned between the temperature sensing element and at least one of the bypass conduit and the heat exchanger outlet.
US09534849B2
A cooling module for a vehicle may include a radiator with a first header tank receiving coolant, a second header tank at a predetermined distance from the first header tank to exhaust coolant, and a plurality of tubes that connects the first header tank with the second header tank, and a radiating fin is formed therebetween and at a front side of a vehicle, a water cooled condenser that receives refrigerant through a refrigerant pipe in the second header tank formed by laminating a plurality of plates, which condenses refrigerant by exchanging heat with cooled coolant flowing the second header tank, and an air-cooled condenser connected to the water cooled condenser through the refrigerant pipe, receives first-condensed refrigerant from the water cooled condenser, and is disposed at a front side of the radiator to further condense the refrigerant by exchanging heat with outside air.
US09534842B1
Embodiments of a pusher device may include a frame, guide rails coupled to the frame, a carriage slideable along the guide rails, and a linear positioner coupled to the carriage and frame and operable to move the carriage along the guide rails. Two or more lugs may be mounted to the carriage and rotatable between a resting position, in which the forward ends of the lugs can contact the transverse supports of a tram above the carriage, and a lowered position in which the lugs can pass below the transverse supports. In the resting position, the longitudinal axis of each lug may be inclined from rear to front, such that the lugs contact the tram with the front end (as opposed to a longitudinal side) of the lugs. The lugs be generally triangular, trapezoidal, or concave polygonal in profile. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed herein.
US09534841B2
Disclosed is a phase change material injection device, which is disposed in a housing or a vehicle headlamp in which a predetermined heat source is provided. The phase change material injection device is configured to eject a phase change material, which has been changed into a gas from liquid by heating of the heat source, into the housing, and may include: i) a container storing the phase change material in a liquid state; ii) a discharge unit disposed at the container for discharging a predetermined amount of the phase change material in a gas state; and iii) a valve unit having an ejection port connecting the discharge unit with the inside of the housing, disposed at the container, the valve unit selectively opening and closing the ejection port based on the internal temperature of the housing.
US09534828B2
A refrigerator preventing a door thereof from drooping downward and allow the door to be automatically closed. The refrigerator includes a body, a storage compartment provided in the body, a front thereof being open, a door rotatably coupled to the body to open and close the storage compartment, a support unit coupled to a center of a lower portion of the body, the support unit including at least one rotating member arranged to protrude from a front of the body to correspond to a position of the lower portion of the door, and at least one droop prevention unit coupled to the lower portion of the door at a position corresponding to the rotating member, and supported by the rotating member to prevent the door from drooping downward, the droop prevention unit cooperating with the rotating member to support the door in an upward direction when the door is closed.
US09534822B2
A novel process for activating available compressors in multiple compressor air conditioning systems, using an Optimum Stage-Up Process. This process is programmed into a controller as an algorithm, to provide a process for fast compressor start. This process shortens the time to initiate operation of compressors in a multi-compressor air conditioning system required to meet the demand call under any load condition, and hence shortens the time required for the actual sensed interior region air temperature to reach the interior region temperature set point. The Optimum Stage-up Algorithm estimates the number of compressor stages or steps that must be initiated, based on sensed or measured values, to meet the demand at any load condition. These measured values include the sensed temperature of the interior region being cooled, which is compared to the temperature set point of this interior region as well as measured mixed air temperature and supply air temperature.
US09534819B2
The current invention relates to a system for fast and accurate filling of a two-phase cooling device, comprising a binding device (30) intended to be hermetically mounted onto the cooling device, the binding device (30) comprising a through-hole (32) able to be in fluid contact with the cooling device, said through-hole (32) being extending between a lower surface adapted to the cooling device's surface, and an essentially plane upper surface, the binding device (30) further comprising a gripping head essentially level with said upper surface, allowing for a filling tool (400) to be put in hermetic contact with said upper surface. In a preferred embodiment, the through-hole (32) can be hermetically sealed by forced insertion of a pin-shaped plug (33). The invention also relates to the filling tool (400) to be used in combination with the binding device (30), allowing gas removal from the cooling device, filling of a working fluid, and hermetic sealing of the cooling device. The invention also relates to the high accuracy of filling by using zero dead volume valves. The binding device (30) is notably particularly well adapted for use in an automated process.
US09534816B2
A thermo-magnetic cycle apparatus includes: a magnetic element having a Curie temperature distribution in a distribution direction. A magnetic-field supplier supplies an external magnetic field to the magnetic element. A pump pumps heat transport medium to flow forward and backward in the distribution direction. The heat transport medium transports heat of the magnetic element. A shift device causes a position of a high temperature end and/or a low temperature end of the magnetic element to move.
US09534810B2
A heating element (10) comprises an exothermic layer (11) containing an oxidizable metal, a water absorption agent and water and a water-retention layer (12) having a water absorption sheet (102), the exothermic layer (11) and the water-retention layer (12) are in layers, in which the mass ratio of the content of the water absorption agent is from 0.3 to 20 parts by mass for 100 parts by mass of the oxidizable metal, mass ratio of content of water to the content of the water absorption agent in the exothermic layer (11) (water/water absorption agent) is from 0.8 to 13, and the content of water contained in the water-retention layer (12) is from 10 to 45 mass % of the maximum water absorption of said water-retention layer (12).
US09534800B2
Techniques described herein are generally related to a biofilter for living spaces. The biofilter may include an organic biofilter medium to serve as a growth base for both plants and one or more microbial colonies. Example embodiments include systems, articles, methods and apparatus, as well as other embodiments that are described and claimed.
US09534797B2
Provided is an easy-to-design, inexpensive air-conditioning apparatus in which an external static pressure and an airflow are calculated without using a static-pressure detector and an indoor-unit-side fan is controlled using those values. An air-conditioning apparatus according to the present invention is configured such that a control unit (indoor-unit-side control unit) stores an external static pressure of an indoor unit calculated from a rotation speed of an indoor-unit-side fan when the airflow of the indoor-unit-side fan is controlled to a predetermined rated airflow and controls the rotation of the indoor-unit-side fan so that the external static pressure of the indoor unit obtained thereafter from the rotation speed of the indoor-unit-side fan approaches the stored external static pressure.
US09534793B2
A household appliance, in particular a cooking hob device, includes at least one thermochromic and/or thermoluminescent element that contains at least one vanadium-containing material. The material containing vanadium can be a semiconductor in at least one temperature range, e.g. a doped semiconductor in the temperature range, and may include vanadium dioxide.
US09534787B2
A system includes a combustor cap assembly for a multi-tube fuel nozzle. The combustor cap assembly includes a support structure defining an interior volume configured to receive an air flow, a plurality of mixing tubes disposed within the interior volume, wherein each of the plurality of mixing tubes comprises a respective fuel injector and is individually removable from the combustor cap assembly, an air distributor disposed within the interior volume and configured to distribute the air flow received by the interior volume to each of the plurality of mixing tubes, and a combustor cap removably coupled to the support structure.
US09534786B2
There is provided a combustor comprising a dome and a shell extending from the dome defining a combustion chamber. A dome heat shield is mounted to the dome inside the combustion chamber. A front heat shield is mounted to the shell and spaced therefrom. The dome heat shield has a lip extending generally away from the dome heat shield and generally parallel to the shell and spaced inwardly of the front heat shield to define a gap between the lip and the front heat shield. The front heat shield has a leading edge opposite the lip. The combustor has impingement holes extending through the shell and disposed to direct impingement cooling jets to the upstream portion of the front heat shield. The leading edge, of the front heat shield has at least one scallop defining an opening and disposed to allow the impingement cooling jets to impinge directly on a portion of the peripheral lip adjacent the scallop.
US09534782B2
A combustible fuel burner system includes a burner unit, a power source, and a circuit interrupter unit. The circuit interrupter unit has a switch electrically coupled between the power source and the burner unit. The switch has a closed state, wherein the burner unit receives operational electrical power from the power source. The switch moves from a closed state to an open state and electrically disconnects the device from the power source upon a voltage of the power source falling below an interruption threshold. The switch, when in the open state, moves to the closed state upon the voltage of the power source being above a restoration threshold that is higher than the interruption threshold.
US09534776B2
Methods, apparatuses, and products passively generate electrical energy from waste heat. Electronic components in cabinets generate waste heat that is used to illuminate an interior of a cabinet. A thermovoltaic semiconductor detects a temperature differential between a pair of terminals installed in the cabinet. The thermovoltaic semiconductor generates a low voltage output in response to the temperature differential. A power supply receives the low voltage output and produces a higher voltage for low-wattage light sources installed in the cabinet.
US09534773B1
A lamp is provided. The lamp includes at least one light emitting diode (LED) and an electronic circuit configured to provide power to the at least one LED. The lamp includes at least one flat circuit board having mounted thereto the at least one LED and the electronic circuit. The at least one flat circuit board acts as a heatsink to dissipate heat from the at least one LED and acts as a plurality of circuit paths for the electronic circuit and the at least one LED.
US09534767B2
A lamp comprises a LED lamp comprising a base. A plurality of LEDs are attached to a first side of the base. A lens covers the plurality of LEDs. A power supply provides power to the LEDs. A first electrical connector provides power to the power supply. A troffer housing comprises a wire way for receiving the power supply. A second electrical conductor is adapted to be connected to a source of power. The base is secured to the troffer housing where the power supply is located in the wire way and the first electrical conductor is connected to the second electrical conductor.
US09534760B2
A lighting arrangement includes a lighting chamber having a light-permeable section and a ventilation opening with a filtering membrane. A light source for supplying light is arranged in the lighting chamber. A ventilation arrangement is assigned to the ventilation opening so as to supply ambient air through the ventilation opening to the lighting chamber. The ventilation arrangement includes an air outlet opening assigned to the ventilation opening of the lighting chamber so as to supply the ambient air to the ventilation opening. A distance between the air outlet opening and the filtering membrane is configured so as to be adjustable.
US09534747B2
Disclosed embodiments include a manufacturing method for an LED assembly. Providing a first carrier, wherein several LED chips are formed on the first carrier, and providing a second carrier. Attaching the second carrier to the LED chips and detaching the first carrier from the LED chips but leaving the LED chips on the second carrier.
US09534739B2
A multiple-ply solid state light fixture is disclosed. A panelized, solid state light fixture includes combined layers of material chemically bonded together without a traditional mechanical housing and with relatively few or no fasteners. In example embodiments, the solid state light fixture includes an LED mounting substrate, a thermal material on a non-LED side of the LED mounting substrate, and an optical material on the LED side of the LED mounting substrate. A plurality of LEDs are disposed or mounted, with or without additional packaging, on the LED side of the LED mounting substrate. A chemical bond is created between the substrate and the other layers. This chemical bond can be created, for example, through use of applied fluid or gelatinous compounds that are then solidified, or through the use of adhesives.
US09534737B2
A fluid tank for a motor vehicle comprising a housing, wherein the housing has a housing base, a housing cover and at least one side wall. A through-passage is formed inside the side wall, wherein the through-passage extends from a first opening in the housing base in the direction of the housing cover. The through-passage is in fluidic connection with the interior of the fluid tank via a second opening.
US09534735B2
A high pressure dispensing nozzle for providing fuel from an inlet reserve to a connector of an outlet receptacle, including a generally tubular nozzle construction having an outer sleeve extending from adjacent a proximal end towards a distal end of the nozzle construction, an internal passageway construction disposed within the outer sleeve, and a plurality of radially movable jaw members disposed between the internal passageway construction and the outer sleeve extending to near the distal end of the tubular construction, wherein the internal passageway construction includes interacting components responsive to insertion of the connector into the distal end and engagement thereof with the internal passageway construction to effect movement of the jaws to lock the connector in engagement and to establish a fuel passageway through the nozzle construction for the delivery of fuel therethrough and wherein the internal passageway construction components include a pistonably slideable outlet tube construction that not only serves as part of the fuel delivery passageway through the nozzle construction but also both as a control for locking the jaws and the outer sleeve in a fueling configuration and as a valve construction for allowing and preventing fuel flow through the nozzle construction. The nozzle preferably is also responsive to the introduction of fuel thereinto to pressure lock the outer sleeve in a fueling configuration and additionally operates to prevent the dispensing of fuel in the event that a proper and correct connector is not locked into engagement for fuel dispensing.
US09534733B2
Disclosed is a modular barrier system to protect a machine user from injury, the barrier structure having a plurality of modular units that can be manipulated individually to provide variable configurations of the barrier structure, that can be used with different pieces of machinery or for different applications, without removal or changing of the barrier structure in its entirety. The modular units comprise a slide unit and a latch mechanism to lock each individual modular unit in place, by way of ratcheting teeth. The barrier system may be positioned on a rail system that provides for lateral movement of the modular units while maintaining its attachment to the rail by a rail lock mechanism on the modular unit.
US09534722B2
A flow passage structure is provided with a fluid flow passage that includes a plurality of straight flow passages, a first return bend that connects the downstream end of the straight flow passage through which a fluid flows from a second end surface toward a first end surface among the plurality of straight flow passages to the upstream end of the straight flow passage which is disposed at the downstream side of the straight flow passage and is adjacent to the straight flow passage, and a second return bend that connects the downstream end of the straight flow passage through which the fluid flows from the first end surface toward the second end surface among the plurality of straight flow passages to the upstream end of the straight flow passage which is disposed at the downstream side of the straight flow passage and is adjacent to the straight flow passage.
US09534719B2
An outer collar member of an end fitting for a flexible pipe. The apparatus comprises an outer collar body portion and an outer collar neck portion extending away from the outer collar body portion. The neck portion is arranged to be secured to a portion of flexible pipe body in a slotted position between layers of the flexible pipe body. The position is located between an outer sheath of the flexible pipe body and at least one armour layer of the flexible pipe body wherein the outer collar body portion comprises a curved inner surface region for determining a radius of curvature of wires of the armour layer bent away from an axis of the flexible pipe bodies and supported by the curved inner surface when the pipe body is mounted in the end fitting.
US09534715B2
An annular gasket includes an annular body; an annular body; a pair of sealing ribs each extending substantially radially inwardly from the annular body and having an innermost radial extent; and at least one center rib extending substantially radially inwardly from the annular body, the at least one center rib having an innermost radial extent closer to the annular body than the innermost radial extent of each of the pair of sealing ribs.
US09534708B2
A multiple axis control suspension system is disclosed. An example system includes at least one spine having a greater moment of inertia about a transverse centroidal axis than about a vertical centroidal axis. The example system includes at least one support member. A passage is formed through the at least one support member, the passage configured to receive the elongate spine. At least one receptacle is provided in the at least one support member, the at least one receptacle configured to receive at least one conduit such that a force acting on the conduit is transferred to the elongate spine.
US09534697B2
A foot operated water shutoff can be used to control the flow of water through a hose, such as a garden hose. With the push of a user's foot, a user can regulate water pressure to a sprinkler, negating the need to pick up and shut off the water supply by pinching the hose or walking to the water faucet source to shut off or regulate the supply. The foot operated water shutoff includes a foot pedal that can pivot on a top member. The top member pivotably connects to the lower member, with a channel formed therethrough. A hose can be placed in the channel between the top and lower members and the top member can be secured against the lower member, with the foot pedal engaging the lower member in a step-wise manner to lock the top and lower members together in a desired position sandwiching the hose.
US09534692B2
A rotary seal (10) for a fluid handling machine comprising first circular body (12) with circumferential surface (28) and second circular body (16) with similar surface (27), such that the bodies when coaxially assembled, the circumferential surface (28) and similar surface (27) mate with each other forming a sealing surface contact. An internal end face (33) of rotary seal (10) is exposed to fluids with an inclination, such that the fluid pressure on internal end face (33) adds to contact force at sealing contact surface. The first circular body (12) is continuous and second circular body (16) with a split (17) has a spring characteristic such that two ends formed by the split (17), force away from each other, hence exerting a radial force on circumferential surface when assembled with first circular body (12) and compensating for circumferential wear during operation. The second circular body (16) exerts combination of axial, radial and tangential forces on circumferential surface (28) which results in force closure at sealing surface contact.
US09534686B2
In order to reduce the amount of time from when signals are sent to solenoid valves 19, 23, 24 for adjusting hydraulic pressures inside hydraulic pressure chambers of various hydraulic devices 7, 8, 14 assembled in a continuously variable transmission device until the hydraulic pressures are actually changed is shortened, the solenoid valves 19, 23, 24 adjust the hydraulic pressures inside hydraulic pressure chambers connected to hydraulic introduction paths where the solenoid valves 19, 23, 24 are provided by adjusting apertures of the solenoid valves 19, 23, 24 set according to duty cycles, and a controller 16 for the solenoid valves 19, 23, 24, when the apertures of solenoid valves 19, 23, 24 are changed beyond specified values to desired apertures, adjusts the apertures beyond the desired apertures to a state where the apertures have been changed a maximum amount, then after a specified amount of time, returns the apertures to the desired apertures.
US09534684B2
A shift device for a motor vehicle transmission, in particular for a motor vehicle automatic transmission, includes a shift shaft operatively connected to the transmission and a shift lever for actuating the shift shaft, wherein the shift shaft and the shift lever are connected to one another by way of a spline connection. The spline connection is formed with rotational play, permitting a restricted rotational free travel of the shift shaft when the shift lever is stationary. A motor vehicle transmission having a shift device of this type is also disclosed.
US09534682B2
A mining shovel includes a boom and a transmission unit coupled to the boom. The transmission unit includes an outer housing, an internal motor housing disposed within the outer housing, and a venting system coupled to the outer housing to direct air through both the outer housing and the internal motor housing.
US09534678B2
In a power transmission device for a vehicle, a boss portion of a clutch guide, which is an input-side rotation member of a clutch unit, includes: a spline portion spline-connected to a small-diameter portion at one end of a center shaft which is an input shaft; and a fitting portion that extends further from the spline portion in an axial direction to contact the outer circumference of a medium-diameter portion of the center shaft. A recess functioning as a torque fuse is formed in the medium-diameter portion of the center shaft corresponding to the fitting portion. When the center shaft is severed or disconnected at the recess, the medium-diameter portion of the severed cut center shaft can still remain within the fitting portion, so that appropriate centering can be secured and stable self-propulsion of the vehicle can be secured without unwanted misalignment of the axis of rotation of the clutch.
US09534671B2
The occupation space of a chain inside an engine room can be reduced, while the necessary strength, rigidity, and durability are maintained, the sheet thickness can be decreased, the number of production steps and material waste can be reduced, stress concentration and strains during bending and fixing can be reduced, load offset during fixing and loosening of bolts or the like can be prevented, the increase in vibrations and noise during the use can be prevented, the maintenance operation load can be reduced, and utility can be increased with a simple configuration. A chain guide is provided with a base member supporting a guide shoe. The base member has a base mounting portion and base wall portions formed to sandwich the guide shoe from both sides in a width direction. The guide shoe has a guide shoe mounting portion at a position apart from the base mounting portion in the chain running direction.
US09534670B1
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft receiving torque of an engine, an output shaft configured to output changed torque of the engine, a first planetary gear set including first, second, and third rotation elements, a second planetary gear set including fourth, fifth, and sixth rotation elements, a third planetary gear set including seventh, eighth, and ninth rotation elements, and a fourth planetary gear set including tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotation elements.
US09534669B1
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is provided. The planetary gear train includes an input shaft that receives an engine torque, an output shaft that outputs a shifted torque, and planetary gear sets. Additionally, shafts are connected with respective rotational elements. The planetary gear train thus improves power delivery performance and reduces fuel consumption by achieving nine forward speed stages using a minimum number of constituent elements.
US09534665B1
A number of variations may include a product that may include an axle assembly with an electrical machine that may be interconnected with the axle assembly. A power transfer unit may be connected between the electrical machine and the axle assembly. The power transfer unit may include a planetary gear set and may include an engagement mechanism that in combination may provide a low range, a neutral mode and a high range between the electrical machine and the axle assembly. A first gear set may be engaged between the electrical machine and the power transfer unit and a second gear set may be engaged between the power transfer unit and the axle assembly.
US09534662B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a chain that employs simple structures so as to establish contact surface pressures in accordance with various conditions of use, for the purpose of reducing frictional loss and preventing wear or damage to a chain guide member, as well as reducing order-related noise. The chain 100 is formed by inner links 101 and outer links 102 alternately and pivotably coupled together in a longitudinal direction of the chain. The plurality of inner plates 110 include an asymmetrical inner plate 110x having different edge shapes on upper and lower sides in a height direction of the chain.
US09534658B1
At least one embodiment of the invention relates to an energy storage device comprising a housing, at least one flywheel disposed in the housing, and at least one stabilizing element disposed in the housing configured to stabilize the flywheel. There can be at least one cooling element for cooling a region interior of the housing to a preset temperature. In at least one embodiment, the stabilizing element comprises a magnet. In at least one embodiment the stabilizing element can be orientated at a position offset from a horizontal axis. In at least one embodiment the stabilizing element is orientated at a position offset from a vertical axis In at least one embodiment the stabilizing element is orientated at a position between a horizontal axis and a vertical axis. In at least one embodiment, the stabilizing element comprises at least one magnet coupled to the flywheel orientated at a first angle and at least one magnet coupled to the housing orientated at an angle substantially parallel to said first angle of orientation of the magnet coupled to the flywheel.
US09534657B2
A shock absorber spring is provided. The shock absorber spring is constructed as a single unit having an internal shaft which passes back through the coils of the spring. A first end of the internal shaft is secured to a stationary object (such as the top of a washing machine) while the second end of the internal shaft is surrounded by the spring and hangs down in a generally vertical orientation. The second end of the shock absorber spring is then secured or hung to the heavy, moving object and allows the heavy, moving object to move in a restricted, desired manner by dampening and absorbing the vibrations of the object. The shock absorber spring has an internal travel limiter which may make contact with an extended bump located at the bottom of the internal shaft wherein the internal travel limiter contacts the extended bump and prevents the shock absorber spring from over compressing.
US09534656B2
A method for controlling structure-borne noise based on a combined-type vibration isolation device includes the following steps: S1: determining a combined-type vibration isolation device as required according to parameters of a mechanical device to be isolated, and installing the combined-type vibration isolation device on a horizontal bearing surface; S2: vertically placing the mechanical device to be isolated on the combined-type vibration isolation device; S3: adjusting a mass of an intermediate balance weight block of the combined-type vibration isolation device; and S4: adjusting an inherent frequency of the combined-type vibration isolation device to be lower than a structural vibration sound transmission frequency generated in the operation of the mechanical device to be isolated.
US09534650B2
A friction material containing, as a binder, a lignin-phenol resin having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 or less or a cardanol-modified lignin-phenol resin having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 or less. The friction material is produced by a method including: reacting a lignin having a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 or less, a phenol, an aldehyde, and optionally a cardanol, in the presence of an acid catalyst.
US09534649B2
A friction brake device has a brake rotor which rotates around a rotation axis, brake pads as rotating friction members which rotate around an autorotation axis parallel to the rotation axis, rotational torque transmission devices which mutually transmit rotational torques between the brake rotor and the brake pads without depending on the friction force between the brake rotor and the brake pads, and pressing devices which press the brake pads against the brake rotor. The pressing devices press the brake pads against the brake rotor by way of non-rotating friction members which are supported so as not to rotate around the autorotation axis.
US09534648B2
A brake assembly having a brake shoe and an anchor pin. The brake shoe may have an anchor pin slot that may include first and second connecting surfaces that extend from an arcuate bearing surface. The anchor pin may have first and second flats and may be inserted into the anchor pin slot when the first and second flats are aligned with the first and second connecting surfaces.
US09534646B2
A method of adjusting clutch characteristics of a Double Clutch Transmission (DCT) vehicle may include determining whether gear shifting has been initiated, updating a T-S curve of a release-side clutch by a transmission torque that is determined using an equation of motion of an engine and a clutch, when a condition in which a difference between an engine speed and a speed of a release-side input shaft is satisfied to be above a first predetermined reference value during a first reference period of time when the gear shifting is determined to have been initiated, and when a torque handover has not been initiated, updating the T-S curve of a connection-side clutch by the transmission torque that has been determined using the equation of motion during a period of time from completion of torque handover to completion of the shifting of gears.
US09534631B2
A linear motion bearing assembly comprising a rolling element retainer structure and an outer housing sleeve enclosing substantially all of an exposed exterior surface of said rolling element retainer structure. A bearing block effective to enclose substantially all of an exposed exterior surface of the outer housing sleeve, the bearing block including a first bearing block segment effective to enclose a first part of the outer housing sleeve; and a second bearing block segment effective to enclose a second part of the outer housing sleeve, wherein the first bearing block segment and the second bearing block segment include first elements and second elements effective to interlock with each other when the bearing block encloses the outer housing sleeve.
US09534626B2
An environmentally robust joint for use in a lowering pole assembly comprising a lower pole section and an upper pole section. The joint includes a lower adaptor comprising a lower pivot member defining a first central wiring passage and an upper adaptor comprising an upper pivot member defining a second central wiring passage communicating with the first central wiring passage. The upper pivot member is rotationally coupled to the lower pivot member, and sharing a common axis of rotation. At least one of the lower adaptor and the upper adaptor comprises a pole adaptor mounted at an operative angle to the axis of rotation. The pole adaptor includes an open end for receiving an end of a pole section, and an internal wiring tube communicating with the first central wiring passage and the second central wiring passage.
US09534623B2
A joint for assembling two furniture parts to each other. A first furniture part has a male part for co-operation with a female part of a second furniture part. Each of the male and female parts has a number of grooves. At assembly the male part is moved along the female part via co-operation between the grooves of the male and female part, respectively. The co-operating male and female parts have an insertion position and an end position, in which end position the furniture parts are assembled to each other. The grooves of one of the female and male parts are compressed during movement from the insertion position to the end position. The grooves of the pair of co-operating female part and male part are such that the furniture parts are pressed toward each other when the male part is moved along the female part.
US09534621B2
The material transfer system and method of transferring materials comprises provides improved connectors that overcome the deficiencies of the connectors currently used. The connector and method of connecting of the present invention comprises a fool-proof method of connecting and a method of ensuring the safe and accurate transfer of materials. The connector of the present invention provides a plurality of male and female connector portions in a plurality of geometric shapes and colors and specific key components that prevent the delivery of and mixing of incorrect and incompatible materials. The connectors of the present invention are shaped differently from any connectors currently available on the market. Each geometric shape corresponds to a general class of chemicals. One embodiment of the present invention connector is a color coded element according to the shape, size, and configuration of the connector and the material the connector is intended to transfer. The connector comprises a seal or “O” ring disposed on the connector that is chemically and mechanically compatible with the material being transferred. A marking or label that describes the material to be transferred is disposedly attached to the connector to improve safety and accuracy of the method of transfer of the material.
US09534612B2
A control method of a fan comprises steps of: detecting a rotational speed of a blade and a rotor position of the blade; generating a control signal according to the rotational speed and a predetermined rotational speed; obtaining a Back-EMF waveform according to the control signal, the rotational speed, the rotor position and a waveform; adjusting the phase of the Back-EMF waveform; and outputting a switch control signal.
US09534604B2
A manifold trailer and pairing system are disclosed. The pairing system has a non-transitory computer readable medium storing processor executable code. The processor executable code causes a processor to receive identification data indicative of a first low pressure valve and a second low pressure valve connected to a low pressure manifold of a manifold trailer; receive identification data indicative of a first high pressure valve and a second high pressure valve connected to a high pressure manifold of the manifold trailer; and receive identification data indicative of a plurality of pumps. The processor determines a first association indicative of a first fluid connection between the first low pressure valve and a selected pump and a second association indicative of a second fluid connection between the selected pump and a selected high pressure valve. The processor populates the non-transitory computer readable medium with information indicative of the first and second associations.
US09534602B2
A fluid pump kit is provided. The kit includes a magnetic driven member for coupling with and rotating a propeller, and a magnetic driver for magnetically coupling to and driving the magnetic driven member by a magnetic attraction force establishable between the magnetic driver and the magnetic driven member. A motor of the kit operates the magnetic driver. First and second casings are provided for housing the magnetic driver and the magnetic driven member, respectively. The first and second casings with housed magnetic driver and magnetic driven member, respectively, are detachably securable to opposite sides of a non-magnetic spacer solely by the magnetic attraction force establishable between the magnetic driver and the magnetic driven member sufficient to support the second casing and the housed magnetic driven member in a particular position without the use of mechanical aids.
US09534599B2
This scroll compressor includes first and second fixed scroll members, first and second orbiting scroll members, a first Oldham coupling provided between the first orbiting scroll member and the first fixed scroll member and configured to prevent rotation of the first orbiting scroll member with respect to the first fixed scroll member, and a second Oldham coupling provided between the second orbiting scroll member and the second fixed scroll member and configured to prevent rotation of the second orbiting scroll member with respect to the second fixed scroll member. The first Oldham coupling is slidably mounted with respect to the first fixed scroll member along a first displacement direction, and the second Oldham coupling is slidably mounted with respect to the second fixed scroll member along a second displacement direction parallel with respect to first displacement direction. First and second orbiting scroll members are configured to operate in phase opposition.
US09534598B2
A sealing device includes a relatively dimensionally stable, elongated friction and/or wear element and an elastically-deformable elongated sealing element which rests lengthwise on the friction and/or wear element. The friction and/or wear element encompasses the sealing element at the ends of the friction and/or wear element.
US09534594B2
A rotary piston machine is disclosed. In one aspect, the machine includes a piston chamber that is defined in a housing by a first sidewall, a second sidewall and a peripheral wall interconnecting these sidewalls and a rotary piston that is rotatably arranged in the piston chamber and has a first face and a second face. The first face of the rotary piston faces an interior of the first sidewall of the piston chamber and the second face of the rotary piston faces an interior of the second sidewall of the piston chamber. at least one ventilation bore is provided in the first and/or the second sidewall of the piston chamber and connected to at least one ventilation channel, wherein the at least one ventilation bore is arranged at a location that radially lies within at least one first lateral seal.
US09534593B2
An automated system for monitoring and testing a sump pump installation includes an electrically-actuated valve which admits liquid to the liquid container in response to a valve control signal. A test control module includes a test control circuit which when actuated supplies a valve control signal to initiate a test cycle during which liquid is admitted to the container to cause the liquid level in the container to rise, after which the sump pump discharges liquid from the container until a predetermined event terminates the test cycle. An indicator circuit indicates in response to completion of the test cycle whether the test was successful or unsuccessful. A communications circuit is included which receives and verifies control signals addressed to the system from an external originator to allow a test cycle to be remotely initiated in the event of impending severe weather or other threats.
