US09657291B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and compositions for making paired tags and paired tag libraries.
US09657288B2
The invention relates to a complex comprising a phage particle, said phage particle comprising (i) a polypeptide; (ii) a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide of (i); (iii) a connector compound attached to said polypeptide wherein said connector compound is attached to the polypeptide by at least three discrete covalent bonds. The invention also relates to libraries, and to methods for making complexes and to methods of screening using same.
US09657285B2
Methods to generate doubled haploid plants and plant components using low mammalian toxicity chromosome doubling agents are disclosed. Chromosome doubling agents provide low mortality rates and higher chromosome doubling rate in plants.
US09657283B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides.
US09657282B2
The present invention relates in part to nucleic acids encoding proteins, therapeutics comprising nucleic acids encoding proteins, methods for inducing cells to express proteins using nucleic acids, methods, kits and devices for transfecting, gene editing, and reprogramming cells, and cells, organisms, and therapeutics produced using these methods, kits, and devices. Methods and products for altering the DNA sequence of a cell are described, as are methods and products for inducing cells to express proteins using synthetic RNA molecules. Therapeutics comprising nucleic acids encoding gene-editing proteins are also described.
US09657275B2
The present invention is directed generally to eukaryotic host cells comprising artificial endosymbionts and methods of introducing artificial endosymbionts into eukaryotic host cells. The invention provides artificial endosymbionts that introduce a phenotype to host cells that is maintained in daughter cells. The invention additionally provides eukaryotic host cells containing magnetotactic bacteria.
US09657273B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing differentiated cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cell, wherein undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) are removed, the method comprising steps of: (a) preparing a cell sample including undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells and differentiated cells by differentiating induced pluripotent stem cells; and (b) causing selective apoptosis of the undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells by treating the resultant in step (a) with quercetin of Formula 1 below or with YM-155 of Formula 2 below.According to the present invention, the present invention makes it possible to effectively selectively cause apoptosis only of undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells by causing induced pluripotent stem cells to differentiate into specific differentiated cells and then carrying out culturing in a differentiating culture medium comprising quercetin or YM-155, and, in the induced pluripotent stem cell differentiation method according to the present invention, only undifferentiated induced pluripotent stem cells that are a cause of teratoma formation are selectively caused to die, and thus differentiated differentiating cells are completely unaffected. In other words, the invention can be expected to ensure safety as the possibility of tumor formation during clinical use as a cell therapeutic agent is eliminated since the survival and functioning of the differentiated cells is maintained unchanged.
US09657271B2
Solutions and suspensions comprising polymerized hemoglobin derived from human blood are disclosed. The solutions and suspensions may comprise cell culture medium, an enzyme (such as a protease), and/or a buffer. Processes of preparing the solutions and suspensions are also disclosed. The solutions and suspensions may be employed in methods of isolating mammalian cells, such as pancreatic islets, methods of preserving mammalian tissue and organs, methods of aiding the recovery of mammalian cells following their isolation, methods of maintaining mammalian cells, methods of propagating mammalian cells, and methods of treating a mammal with diabetes.
US09657266B2
Methods for using vibration to harvest cells grown in 3D culture are provided. The methods entail the application of force to cells attached to a 3D matrix of sufficient amplitude, frequency, and duration to detach cells from the matrix and to flush the detached cells out of the matrix material. An apparatus for performing the methods of the invention as provided.
US09657263B2
Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for inhibiting infection and replication of influenza A and B virus, and the manufacture thereof. The pharmaceutical composition is produced by a manufacture of low-temperature disintegrating cyanobacteria, comprising the steps of: (a) mixing cyanobacteria and non-organic solvent to form a suspension containing cyanobacteria; (b) freezing the suspension with a temperature below 0° C. to form a ice block and the ice block being melted at a low temperature, the whole step being repeated at least twice; (c) separating the cyanobacterial residues and extract solution of the suspension; and (d) collecting the isolated cyanobacterial extract solution; wherein the cyanobacterial extract solution is a solution containing cyanobacterial bioactive substances. The pharmaceutical composition is able to effectively inhibit binding of sialic acid and hemagglutinin of influenza A and/or B virus, so as to inhibit infection and replication of influenza virus. Further, this pharmaceutical composition is able to inhibit infection of influenza virus resistant to neuraminidase inhibitors.
US09657249B2
Provided are devices and methods for discharging pretreated biomass from a pressurized reactor. Pretreated, hot biomass is added under high pressure at the top of a discharge vessel, which is partially filled with water or aqueous solution. The vessel comprises water jets situated on its sides through which water or aqueous solution is injected in order to establish a strong turbulence in the lower part of the vessel. This turbulence, preferably a vortex turbulence or “hydrocyclone,” blends biomass and water and disintegrates any clumped material prior to its ejection at high speed as a slurry through an orifice or valve at the bottom of the vessel. A stable temperature stratification is established within the discharge vessel, whereby hot water remains at the top of the vessel, reducing heat and steam loss from the pretreatment reactor.
US09657243B2
A process for the gasification of wet biomass. The process comprises heating wet biomass at a pressure in the range of from 22.1 MPa to 35 MPa. The wet biomass is heated from a temperature of at most T1 to a temperature of at least T2 by heat exchange with a first heating fluid. The gasification product is further heated. The further heated gasification product is used as the first heating fluid, upon which the further heated gasification product is cooled down from a temperature of at least T3 to a temperature of at most T4. The temperatures T1, T2, T3 and T4 can be calculated by using certain mathematical formulae. Also claimed: a reaction apparatus for the gasification of wet biomass.
US09657240B2
The invention relates to a method for improving the transportability of heavy crude oil.Proceeding from the disadvantages of the known prior art a method is to be provided, in which an additive can be used which is producible from a byproduct arising during mineral oil production. The method is to be performable with low expenditure and without any special safety precautions. Further the additive shall lead to an increased yield of conventional petroleum during subsequent refining.According to the invention, an aqueous hydrocarbon mixture having a chain length of predominantly C4 to C12 which does not contain any oxygen-containing hydrocarbon compounds is utilized. This is produced in the area of a mineral oil field from natural gas arising as by-product and/or mineral oil-associated gas. Thereby from the heavy crude oil a crude oil which is light in quality and transportable is obtained. During the subsequent refining of the light crude oil to give conventional petroleum, the amount of petroleum produced is increased by the amount of hydrocarbons present in the aqueous hydrocarbon mixture.
US09657239B2
The invention relates to a process for upgrading pyrolysis tar in the presence of a utility fluid. The utility fluid contains 1-ring and/or 2-ring aromatics and has a final boiling point ≦430° C. The invention also relates to the upgraded pyrolysis tar, and to the use of the upgraded pyrolysis tar, e.g., for fuel oil blending.
US09657235B2
The invention relates to a process for catalytic reforming of a naphtha hydrocarbon feedstock using a number of reaction zones in series, wherein the reaction zones contain a reforming catalyst bed. The process comprises comprising the following stages: sending hydrocarbon feedstock that is heated with hydrogen through the reaction zones to convert paraffinic and naphthenic compounds into aromatic compounds, with the effluent that is produced by each reaction zone, except for the last reaction zone, being heated before its introduction into the following reaction zone; drawing off a reformate from the last reaction zone.
US09657234B1
A mobile diesel fuel refinery system comprise a particulate filter adapted to remove particulates from diesel fuel flowing through the diesel fuel conduction system, a water filter adapted to remove water from diesel fuel flowing through the diesel fuel conduction system following its passage through the particulate filter, a magnetic field of sufficient strength to further refine the diesel fuel flowing through the diesel fuel conduction system following its passage through the water filter, a catalyst injector configured to inject the catalyst from a catalyst tank into the diesel fuel flowing through the diesel fuel conduction system following its passage through the magnetic field, a dispensing conduit configured to conduct the diesel fuel from the diesel fuel refinement apparatus following injection of the catalyst.
US09657232B2
A process for converting biomass to products is described. Biomass is contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a fluidized bed of hydropyrolysis catalyst in a reactor vessel under hydropyrolysis conditions; and products and char are removed from the reactor vessel. The products leave the fluidized bed at an exit bed velocity, the char has a settling velocity that is less than the exit bed velocity and hydropyrolysis catalyst has a settling velocity that is greater than the exit bed velocity.
US09657230B2
A problem is to provide a liquid crystal compound satisfying at least one physical property such as high stability to heat and light, high clearing point, low minimum temperature of liquid crystal phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy, suitable elastic constant and excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, a liquid crystal composition containing the compound, and a liquid crystal display device including the composition.The compound is represented by formula (1). In formula (1), for example, R1 is alkenyl; ring A1 and ring A2 are 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; Z1, Z2, Z3 are a single bond or —COO—; X1 is hydrogen or fluorine; L1, L2, L3 and L4 are hydrogen or fluorine; and a and b are each independently 0 or 1, a sum of a and b is 1, and when a is 1, at least one of ring A1 and ring A2 is 1,4-cyclohexylene.
US09657227B2
A method for preserving and processing cell-free nucleic acids located within a blood sample is disclosed, wherein a blood sample containing cell-free nucleic acids is treated to reduce both blood cell lysis and nuclease activity within the blood sample. The treatment of the sample aids in increasing the amount of cell-free nucleic acids that can be identified and tested while maintaining the structure and integrity of the nucleic acids.
US09657226B2
The present invention provides a composition for etching treatment of a resin material, the composition comprising an aqueous solution having a permanganate ion concentration of 0.2 mmol/L or more and a total acid concentration of 10 mol/L or more, and the aqueous solution satisfying at least one of the following conditions (1) to (3): (1) containing an organic sulfonic acid in an amount of 1.5 mol/L or more, (2) setting the divalent manganese ion molar concentration to 15 or more times higher than the permanganate ion molar concentration, and (3) setting the addition amount of an anhydrous magnesium salt to 0.1 to 1 mol/L. The composition for etching treatment of the present invention is a composition containing no hexavalent chromium and having excellent etching performance and good bath stability.
US09657225B2
The present invention relates to a nanophosphor which may be used as a wavelength conversion part of a solar cell, a fluorescent contrast agent, and a light emitting part of a display device, and a synthesis method thereof. The nanophosphor of the present invention is excited by ultraviolet light to exhibit strong green light emission, and has multicolor light emission characteristics capable of controlling a color such as green, yellowish green, yellow, and orange color by only adjusting the amount of a doping agent.
US09657219B2
A method of increasing hydrocarbon production, the method including fracturing downhole formation and disposing an expandable proppant into the downhole formation. The method further includes expanding the expandable proppant into contact with the downhole formation and holding open the downhole formation with the expandable proppant. A proppant having an expandable outer shell layer, wherein the expandable outer shell layer is configured to expand outwardly to a size at least 10 percent greater in an open position than in a closed position. A proppant delivery system having a tool body, an expandable injector disposed on the side of the tool body, and an expandable proppant disposed within the tool body.
US09657214B2
A drilling fluid system using retarded acid systems such as gelled acid (VES or polymer) and/or emulsified acid to drill carbonate formations (calcite and dolomite). Foamed acid may be used in low abnormal pressure carbonate reservoirs. The drilling fluid system permits drilling a target hydrocarbon-producing formation with zero-invasion of the drilling fluid system. A method for using the drilling fluid system for fluid loss control during drilling operations.
US09657206B2
The present invention relates to adhesive formulations based on uretdione-group-comprising polyaddition compounds that are free of isocyanate groups and monomeric polyisocyanates, and to the use thereof for the production of adhesive bonds between substrates, in particular for the production of flexible film composites.
US09657204B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising a first copolymer derived from monomers comprising a (meth)acrylate monomer, an acid monomer, and optionally at least one additional monomer selected from the group consisting of styrene, a-methyl-styrene, vinyl toluene, and mixtures thereof, wherein the first copolymer is derived in the absence of a molecular weight regulator and wherein the first copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of less than 10,000 Daltons, and methods of making the same. The compositions and methods disclosed can be used, for instance, in pressure-sensitive adhesive applications.
US09657202B2
A kit for providing a polymerizable resin system is disclosed, which kit comprises a first Part A and a second Part B, which Part A and Part B upon mixing provides a working period of intermediate stage polymerization in which the mixture obtains a desired cohesiveness for a predetermined period of time. The first Part A comprises an acid and the second Part B comprises an organic compound that is water soluble or partially water soluble and that, in the presence of the acid, initiates curing of polymerizable monomer and/or resin that is present in Part A, Part B, or both. Also disclosed is a method of using the mixed composition as an adhesive, cement, glue, sealant, a base liner, a capping agent, a material for surface or structural repair and/or filling, an encasing material, a bodily implant, a dental material, and/or as a polymeric object having a living polymer surface property.
US09657180B2
A coating composition for application to a subsea component or structure has cellulose acetate an amount of approximately 47% by weight of the total composition, diisooctyl phthalate in an amount of approximately 17% by weight of the total composition, a fatty acid ester in an amount of approximately 23% by weight of the total composition, a vegetable oil in an amount of approximately 8% by weight of the total composition, a stabilizer and a silica amorphous in which the stabilizer and the silica amorphous are in amount of approximately 5% by weight of the total composition. The stabilizer can be either titanium dioxide or aluminum dioxide. The vegetable oil is canola oil.
US09657177B1
The present disclosure provides an ultraviolet light-C (UVC) reflective coating composition. The UVC reflective coating includes a polymer binder of a first volume having a first refractive index and an inorganic material of a second volume having a second refractive index at least 0.2 greater than the first refractive index, the second volume in ratio to the first volume such that the reflective coating is at or below critical pigment volume concentration (CVPC) (CPVC), wherein the reflective coating is configured to diffusely reflect at least 10% UVC.
US09657175B2
A silicone resin composition for sealing an optical semiconductor element includes (A) (A-1) an organopolysiloxane having a resin structure which contains at least two alkenyl groups in one molecule, the alkenyl groups being present at 10 to 70 mol % of the total substituent groups bonded to silicon atoms, (B) an organopolysiloxane oligomer having at least two alkenyl groups in one molecule and 2 to 5 silicon atoms, (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane which contains at least one hydrosilyl group and may have an alkoxy group or hydroxyl group in one molecule, and (D) an addition reaction catalyst, and is capable of providing a transparent cured product.
US09657168B2
To provide a highly transparent thermoplastic resin composition without requiring, for example, a special molecular design or incorporation of an additive, with the refractive index of the composition being readily controllable.The highly transparent and refractive-index-controllable thermoplastic resin composition can be produced by blending a thermoplastic resin (A) containing a structural unit derived from a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer represented by a specific chemical formula and a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl monomer represented by a specific chemical formula, with a thermoplastic resin (B) obtained by hydrogenating aromatic double bonds of a thermoplastic resin which contains a structural unit derived from a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer represented by a specific chemical formula and a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl monomer represented by a specific chemical formula.
US09657167B2
A thermoplastic resin composition includes a thermoplastic resin; a pearlescent pigment; and a pigment that is not the same as the pearlescent pigment, wherein the pearlescent pigment and pigment have da and db satisfying da<15 and db<15 in an L*a*b* colorimetric system, respectively.
US09657164B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an emulsion coagulant capable of quickly coagulating an emulsion in an extremely low temperature environment. The present invention is an emulsion coagulant containing an amphoteric acrylic polymer, the amphoteric acrylic polymer having an amide group and a sulfonic acid group and having a weight average molecular weight of 30,000 or lower, and the emulsion coagulant being used to coagulate an emulsion. The present invention is also a tire puncture repair kit that uses the emulsion coagulant.
US09657163B2
The present invention provides a single-layer shape retaining material which is a fibrous, band-like, or sheet-like stretched formed material comprising 100 parts by weight of a high-density polyethylene resin having a weight-average molecular weight of 100,000 to 500,000 and a density of 0.945 to 0.960 g/cm3 and 3 to 50 parts by weight of an ethylene-α-olefin copolymer obtained by copolymerizing ethylene with an α-olefin having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, the copolymer having a density of 0.935 to 0.960 g/cm3, the difference in density between the copolymer and the high-density polyethylene resin being ±0.020 g/cm3 or less and a method for producing same.
US09657160B2
Organopolysiloxane gels produced by crosslinking an unsaturated organopolysiloxane resin with a crosslinking agent in the presence of a diluent have excellent sensory properties such as properties desirable in a variety of cosmetics products.
US09657157B2
A rubber composition is provided that includes a partially halogenated diene polymer that has a controllable microstructure, and no more than about 50% of the n repeat units are in blocks of three or more consecutive units. In embodiments, a reinforcing filler is also included in the rubber composition. In embodiment, the rubber composition is formed into a tire component. A method of making the composition is also provided.
US09657148B2
A method for forming a blend including graphene nanoparticles and a poly(styrene-co-methylmethacrylate), where the method includes melt mixing the poly(styrene-co-methylmethacrylate) and the graphene nanoparticles to obtain a nanocomposite and exposing the nanocomposite to microwave irradiation to bond the methyl methacrylate copolymer to the graphene nanoparticles, in which a content of the graphene nanoparticles is from 0.05 to 2 wt % based on the nanocomposites. A blend composition, including graphene nanoparticles and a poly(styrene-co-methylmethacrylate), where the graphene nanoparticles are dispersed in the poly(styrene-co-methylmethacrylate), the graphene nanoparticles are modified with microwave induced defects, and the free radicals of poly(styrene-co-methylmethacrylate) is bonded to the graphene nanoparticles at the defects.
US09657147B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparation a glycolide polyester by ring opening polymerization characterized in that glycolide monomer with optional co-monomer(s) of cyclic ester(s) is/are subjected to ring opening polymerization in the presence of a dispersion stabilizer and a catalyst, said catalyst being selected for precipitating glycolide homopolymer or copolymer from solvent, said solvent being selected so that the glycolide monomer and the optional co-monomer(s), the dispersion stabilizer and the catalyst are soluble therein but said glycolide homopolymer or copolymer is non-soluble. The present invention further relates to an in situ ring opening polymerizing process product, and to use of said glycolide polyester, and to further processing of said glycolide polyester.
US09657138B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a polyamide resin, comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a polyamide polymer by anionically polymerizing a monomer including 2-pyrrolidone; (b) refining an unreacted monomer and a catalyst in the polyamide polymer with water; (c) pH-controlling through an ion exchange of the refined water; and (d) recovering the unreacted monomer by concentrating the pH-controlled water.
US09657135B2
The invention relates to a method for producing polyether ester carbonate polyols by attaching at least one alkylene oxide, at least one cyclical anhydride, and carbon dioxide to one or more H-functional starter substances in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst. The method is characterized in that (α) a suspension agent, which does not contain H-functional groups, is provided in a reactor, and (γ) one or more H-functional starter substances are continuously metered into the reactor during the reaction process, and the one or more alkylene oxides, the cyclical anhydride, and optionally the carbon dioxide are metered simultaneously or sequentially.
US09657134B2
The present invention provides polyurethanes including a reaction product of components including: (a) about 1 equivalent of at least one polyisocyanate; (b) about 0.05 to about 1 equivalents of at least one branched polyol having 4 to 18 carbon atoms and at least 3 hydroxyl groups; (c) about 0.01 to about 0.3 equivalents of at least one polycarbonate diol; and (d) about 0.1 to about 0.9 equivalents of at least one polyol different from the branched polyol and having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, wherein the reaction product components are essentially free of polyether polyol and the reaction components are maintained at a temperature of at least about 100° C. for at least about 10 minutes; compositions, coatings and articles made therefrom and methods of making the same.
US09657126B2
A polymeric membrane for separating oil from water has a pore size of 0.005 μm to 5 μm, a thickness of 50 μm to 1,000 μm, a water contact angle of 0° to 60°, an oil contact angle of 40° to 100°. The membrane contains a hydrophobic matrix polymer and a functional polymer that contains a hydrophobic backbone and side chains. The side chains each have an oleophobic terminal segment and a hydrophilic internal segment. The weight ratio of the matrix polymer to the functional polymer is 99:1 to 1:9. Also disclosed is a method of making the above described membrane.
US09657119B2
The present invention relates to a preparation method of a highly active supported metallocene catalyst which can prepare a polyolefin of high bulk density. More specifically, the present invention provides a method of preparing the supported metallocene catalyst in which one or more metallocene catalysts are loaded on the silica carrier of which the inside is penetrated by more cocatalyst than the prior art and the outside is attached with a substantial amount of the cocatalyst. The catalyst according to the present invention can prepare a polyolefin polymer with improved bulk density and efficiency while maintaining its highly active catalytic characteristic.
US09657118B2
An epoxy thermoset that includes a reaction product of a toughening agent prepared from a reaction of a first epoxy resin and a polyether polyamine, a second epoxy resin and a liquid amine hardener for the toughening agent and the second epoxy resin. The toughening agent is an adduct of the second epoxy resin and the polyether polyamine. The polyether polyamine phase of the toughening agent separates to form particles in the epoxy thermoset, where the particles have a volume average diameter in a range from 20 nanometers to 200 nanometers.
US09657105B2
A family of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) containing a CD123 specific scFv was developed to target different epitopes on CD123. In some embodiments, such a CD123 chimeric antigen receptor (CD123CAR) gene includes an anti-CD123 scFv region fused in frame to a modified IgG4 hinge region comprising an S228P substitution, an L235E substitution, and optionally an N297Q substitution; a costimulatory signaling domain; and a T cell receptor (TCR) zeta chain signaling domain. When expressed in healthy donor T cells (CD4/CD8), the CD123CARs redirect T cell specificity and mediated potent effector activity against CD123+ cell lines as well as primary AML patient samples. Further, T cells obtained from patients with active AML can be modified to express CD123CAR genes and are able to lyse autologous AML blasts in vitro. Finally, a single dose of 5.0×106 CAR123 T cells results in significantly delayed leukemic progression in mice. These results suggest that CD123CAR-transduced T cells may be used as an immunotherapy for the treatment of high risk AML.
US09657094B2
Methods, processes, systems, and compositions for treating disease are disclosed. In some cases, the present disclosure provides for delivery of therapeutic agents, in an active form, to a localized area, over an extended period of time. In one embodiment, the disclosed composition may comprise a therapeutic agent and a biodegradable polymer and/or a biodegradable polymer microsphere.
US09657090B2
The invention provides a method of treating alveolar bone loss involving administration of a sclerostin inhibitor to a subject in need thereof.
US09657088B2
The invention relates to an anti-HSV antibody as defined in the claims, a pharmaceutical composition comprising of an effective amount of the said antibody, an expression vector comprising of a nucleotide sequence which encodes the said antibody, a host cell comprising of the said nucleotide sequence, a hybridoma cell capable of producing the said antibody and the use of the said antibody as a drug, in particular to use for the manufacture of a drug for the prophylactical or therapeutical treatment of HSV-associated diseases in a subject; as defined in the claims.
US09657077B2
A mini-peptide and its analogs have been found to target gene products to tumors. The peptide, named Carcinoma Homing Peptide (CHP), increased the tumor accumulation of the reporter gene products in five independent tumor models, including one human xenogeneic model. A CHP-IL-12 fusion gene was also developed using CHP and the p40 subunit of IL-12. The product from CHP-IL-12 fusion gene therapy increased accumulation of IL-12 in the tumor environment. In three tumor models, CHP-IL-12 gene therapy inhibited distal tumor growth. In a spontaneous lung metastasis model, inhibition of metastatic tumor growth was improved compared to wild-type IL-12 gene therapy, and in a squamous cell carcinoma model, toxic liver lesions were reduced. The receptor for CHP was identified as vimentin. CHP can be used to improve the efficacy and safety of targeted cancer treatments.
US09657063B2
A porcine circovirus type-2 (PCV2) immunogenic composition includes an antigenic peptide. The antigenic peptide is a non-arginine-rich peptide of a PCV2 open reading frame 2 (ORF2) and/or a recombinant fusion protein having the non-arginine-rich peptide of the PCV2 ORF2, a PE peptide, and a KDEL signal peptide. The number of arginines of the non-arginine-rich peptide of the PCV2 ORF2 is not greater than half of the number of arginines of the arginine-rich domain of the N terminal of the PCV2 ORF2.
US09657062B2
The present invention relates, inter alia, to ghrelin analogs and their medical use, for example in the treatment of cachexia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gastrointestinal disorders (e.g., gastroparesis and/or inflammatory disorders such as colitis, gut barrier dysfunction, and ischemia reperfusion injury), loss of body weight, and decreased appetite.
US09657051B2
The invention relates to a compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1 is C1-8 alkyl, C1-8 alkoxy, CN, NO2, amino, COOH, COOCH3, OH, N3, or halogen and R2 is H, OH, C1-8 alkyl, C1-8 alkoxy, C2-C6 alkenyl, halogen, Bn-O—, Bn- optionally substituted, or Ph- optionally substituted.
US09657047B2
A crystalline epirubicin hydrochloride and a method for its production are provided. The method for producing the crystalline epirubicin hydrochloride includes the steps: (a) providing epirubicin hydrochloride, (b) producing a mixture containing the provided epirubicin hydrochloride and at least one alcohol selected from the group 1-butanol, 2-butanol, and 1-pentanol, and (c) crystallizing epirubicin hydrochloride from this mixture.
US09657045B2
A process for enabling the production of a particulate composition containing crystalline trehalose dihydrate is provided. Including allowing an α-glycosyltrehalose-forming enzyme to act on liquefied starch derived from a microorganism of the genus Arthrobacter and a trehalose-releasing enzyme derived from a microorganism of the genus Arthrobacter along with a starch debranching enzyme and a cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase; allowing glucoamylase to act on the resulting mixture to obtain a saccharide solution containing α,α-trehalose; precipitating crystalline α,α-trehalose dihydrate from the above saccharide solution; collecting the precipitated crystalline α,α-trehalose dihydrate by a centrifuge; and ageing and drying the collected crystals. Cyclomaltodextrin glucanotransferase derived from a microorganism of the genus Paenibacillus or a mutant enzyme thereof is used to increase the α,α-trehalose content in the saccharide solution to over 86.0% by weight, on a dry solid basis, without passing through a fractionation step by column chromatography.
US09657041B2
The invention includes processes for the synthesis of amphetamine, dexamphetamine, methamphetamine, derivatives of these, including their salts, and novel precursors and intermediates obtained thereby, by synthesizing aziridine phosphoramidate compounds in specified solvents at specified temperatures, and then converting to a novel aryl or aryl-alkyl phosphoramidate precursors using an organometallic compound such as a copper salt, where the novel aryl or aryl-alkyl phosphoramidate precursor is then easily converted to the target compounds using known reactions.
US09657039B2
Provided is a method for efficiently producing alkoxysilanes that are useful as various functional chemicals. In order to produce alkoxysilanes efficiently, an ethoxy- or methoxysilane and an alcohol are caused to react using, as a catalyst, for instance an inorganic solid acid having a regular-pore and/or layered structure. Zeolites, montmorillonites or the like can be used as the inorganic solid acid. When a zeolite is used as the catalyst, the silica/alumina ratio of the zeolite ranges preferably from 5 to 1000. The reaction can be promoted through irradiation of microwaves.
US09657035B1
A method for treating cancer and gold(III) complexes with diaminocyclohexane ligand as anticancer agents. Also described are a pharmaceutical composition incorporating the gold(III) complexes and a method of synthesizing the gold(III) complexes.
US09657023B2
Polymorphs of a bis-mesylate salt of a compound of Formula I: or a hydrate thereof, are provided. The bis-mesylate salt may also be depicted as a compound of Formula IA: Provided herein are also compositions thereof, methods for their preparation and methods for such polymorphs.
US09657015B2
Substituted bicyclic dihydropyrimidinones of formula 1 which are inhibitors of neutrophil elastase activity and useful as medicaments for the treatment of, inter alia, COPD. Exemplary is
US09657003B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds of formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present disclosure also relates to compositions and methods of treating comprising compounds of formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US09657002B2
The present invention relates to novel substituted oxindole derivatives of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and their use for the treatment of vasopressin-related disorders.
US09657001B2
There is provided compounds of formula I, wherein E1, E2, E3, E4, L1, Y1, Y2, Y3, Ra and z have meanings provided in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, which compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of leukotriene C4 synthase is desired and/or required, and particularly in the treatment of respiratory diseases and inflammation.
US09656992B2
The disclosure provides compounds of formula I, including pharmaceutically acceptable salts, as well as compositions and methods of using the compounds. The compounds have activity against hepatitis C virus (HCV) and may be useful in treating those infected with HCV.
US09656988B2
Disclosed herein are reversible and irreversible inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk). Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions that include the compounds. Methods of using the Btk inhibitors are described, alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents, for the treatment of autoimmune diseases or conditions, heteroimmune diseases or conditions, cancer, including lymphoma, and inflammatory diseases or conditions.
US09656978B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of Formula I capable of inhibiting tissue transglutaminase, and uses of the same in medicine. In particular, the invention provides compounds for use in the treatment of prevention of disease and conditions such as fibrosis (e.g. cystic fibrosis), scarring, neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease), autoimmune diseases (e.g. multiple sclerosis and coeliac disease), thrombosis, proliferative disorders (e.g. cancers), AIDS, psoriasis and inflammation (e.g. chronic inflammatory diseases).
US09656964B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of carboxamide derivatives of formula (I) R N O N N CF2H C H3F starting from 1-methyl-3-difluormethyl-.5-fluoro-1H-pyrazole-4-carbonyl halides in absence of an acid acceptor.
US09656944B2
A novel fatty acid ester having the general formula R1—COOR2 wherein R1 and R2 are hydrocarbon groups derived from a branched fatty acid and an alcohol, respectively. R1 is derived from a branched fatty acid which has been refined from a commercially available acid to give a product with a high concentration of monobranched fatty acids and a low concentration of polybranched fatty acids. The use of the ester derived from the refined fatty acid is found to be particularly useful in personal care compositions, for example as an emollient.
US09656943B2
The present disclosure relates to a recycling method for producing dimethyl carbonate. The process is unique in that it produces a by-product that can be re-used in the process as a raw material for repeating the process. For example, when the process is directed to synthesizing dimethyl carbonate, glycerol is used as a starting material. Glycerol is also a by-product produced during formation of dimethyl carbonate, and therefore it can be re-used as starting material to generate more dimethyl carbonate.
US09656937B2
The present invention provides processes, methods, and systems for converting biomass-derived feedstocks to liquid fuels and chemicals. The method generally includes the reaction of a hydrolysate from a biomass deconstruction process with hydrogen and a catalyst to produce a reaction product comprising one of more oxygenated compounds. The process also includes reacting the reaction product with a condensation catalyst to produce C4+ compounds useful as fuels and chemicals.
US09656936B1
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to the hydroformylation of cyclododecatriene to form cyclododecatriene trialdehyde, and the conversion of the trialdehyde to the polyphenols of Formula 1: where R, m p and Q are as defined herein. Curable compositions comprising compounds of Formula 1, including powder coating compositions, and methods of curing the compositions are also disclosed.
US09656935B2
A method for producing a polyol-ether compound, wherein a compound represented by the following formula (1) is subjected to hydrogenation reduction in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst to obtain a polyol-ether compound having a skeleton represented by the following formula (2): wherein R1 and R2, which may be the same as or different from each other, each represent a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and R3 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a hydroxymethyl group.
US09656912B2
The disclosure relates to a metal nanowire film. The metal nanowire film includes a substrate and a number of first metal nanowire bundles located on the substrate. The number of first metal nanowire bundles are parallel with and spaced from each other. Each of the number of first metal nanowire bundles includes a number of first metal nanowires parallel with each other. The first distance between adjacent two of the number of first metal nanowires is less than the second distance between adjacent two of the number of first metal nanowire bundles.
US09656910B2
Methods of forming a glass article are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of forming a glass article includes translating a pulsed laser beam on a glass substrate sheet to form a laser damage region between a first surface and a second surface of the glass substrate sheet. The method further includes applying an etchant solution to the glass substrate sheet to remove a portion of the glass substrate sheet about the laser damage region. The method may further include strengthening the glass substrate sheet by an ion-exchange strengthening process, and coating the glass substrate sheet with an acid-resistant coating. Also disclosed are methods where the laser damage region has an initial geometry that changes to a desired geometry following the reforming of the glass substrate sheet such that the initial geometry of the laser damage region compensates for the bending of the glass substrate sheet.
US09656901B2
A method of manufacturing a glass roll, includes: a forming step (S1) of forming, while conveying a glass film, the glass film by a downdraw method; a temporary rolling step (S3) of rolling the glass film while superposing a protective film on the glass film at a downstream end of a path of the conveying in the forming step (S1), to thereby manufacture a source glass roll; and a main rolling step (S4) of unrolling, while conveying the glass film to a downstream side, the glass film from the source glass roll, and then rerolling the glass film while superposing a protective film on the glass film at a downstream end of a path of the conveying, to thereby manufacture a glass roll. Higher tension in a rolling direction is applied to the glass film in the main rolling step (S4) than in the temporary rolling step (S3).
US09656900B2
Provided herein are methods for preparing nano-macroporous glass articles, such as bioscaffolds, from starting materials such as phosphosilicate glasses made by melt-quench methods, mixed with a soluble pore former such as a sugar, followed by steps of dissolving, heating, and leaching to yield a glass composition having a highly interconnected system of both macropores and large scale nanoporosity.
US09656899B2
A process using a three-piece mold for making a three-dimensionally shaped glass article having a flat area and a curved/bend area is disclosed. The process includes placing a glass sheet on a mold having a shaping surface with a desired surface profile for the shaped glass article including a flat area and a bend area, moving a flat area plunger toward the glass sheet to compress the glass sheet, heating a portion of the glass sheet corresponding to an area above the bend area of the mold to a temperature above a forming temperature, and moving a bend area plunger toward the heated glass sheet to compress the heated glass sheet. A temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the bend area of the mold is higher than a temperature of the glass sheet in the area above the flat area of the mold when compressing the heated glass sheet with the bend area plunger.
US09656891B2
Disclosed is a process for the safe and efficient generation of chlorine dioxide while achieving a variable chlorine dioxide mass flow rate with a turn-down to turn-up ratio of at least 1 to 200. The process allows for a single chlorine dioxide generating system to safely provide variable mass flow rate of chlorine dioxide to applications that have wide ranging chlorine dioxide demand, like those experienced in oil and gas applications.
US09656888B2
New water treatment chemicals and corresponding water treatment or more generally aqueous systems treatment processes are provided, which greatly attenuate the NDMA problem, that is, decrease the formation of NDMA during the water or aqueous system treatment namely in the presence of a disinfectant, and decrease too the level of NDMA in the so treated water of aqueous system, and in the end products such as drinking water.
US09656883B2
The invention relates to a system for separating a product contained as solvent in a solution to be processed, comprising at least one forward osmosis device (816) through which the solution to be processed and a draw solution flow, and a device connected downstream thereof for obtaining the product (56, 62) from the diluted draw solution exiting the forward osmosis device, wherein the forward osmosis device comprises at least one flow channel conducting the solution to be processed and at least one flow channel conducting the draw solution, the inner space of a respective flow channel conducting the solution to be processed is delimited at least partially by a semi-permeable membrane wall that is permeable to the solvent of the solution to be processed but not to the substance dissolved therein, and at least one flow channel conducting the draw solution is delimited on opposite sides by membrane walls that are associated with two adjoining flow channels conducting the solution to be processed, such that solvent from the solution to be processed passes through the membrane walls into the adjoining flow channels conducting the draw solution.
US09656881B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for purifying and pumping liquids, and more particularly, for purifying and pumping water. The apparatus includes a chamber including a top portion and a bottom portion. A surface configured to be heated is proximate the bottom portion of the chamber. A baffle is disposed within the chamber and above the surface. The baffle is disposed at an angle relative to a vertical direction. The chamber further includes an inlet and a first outlet. The surface heats a liquid in the chamber, causing the liquid to boil. In operation, bubbles rise from the surface and are forced in a horizontal direction by the baffle disposed in the chamber.
US09656875B2
A method of making sodium carbonate and/or sodium bicarbonate is disclosed in which carbon dioxide gas is reacted with an aqueous solution sodium hydroxide solution in the presence of a compound of the formula (I): Na+[X—O]− where X is Cl, Br, or I.
US09656858B2
A method of reactive ion etching a substrate 46 to form at least a first and a second etched feature (42, 44) is disclosed. The first etched feature (42) has a greater aspect ratio (depth:width) than the second etched feature (44). In a first etching stage the substrate (46) is etched so as to etch only said first feature (42) to a predetermined depth. Thereafter in a second etching stage, the substrate (46) is etched so as to etch both said first and said second features (42, 44) to a respective depth. A mask (40) may be applied to define apertures corresponding in shape to the features (42, 44). The region of the substrate (46) in which the second etched feature (44) is to be produced is selectively masked with a second maskant (50) during the first etching stage, The second maskant (50) is then removed prior to the second etching stage.
US09656857B2
Some embodiments relate to multiple MEMS devices that are integrated together on a single substrate. A device substrate comprising first and second micro-electro mechanical system (MEMS) devices is bonded to a capping structure. The capping structure comprises a first cavity arranged over the first MEMS device and a second cavity arranged over the second MEMS device. The first cavity is filled with a first gas at a first gas pressure. The second cavity is filled with a second gas at a second gas pressure, which is different from the first gas pressure. A recess is arranged within a lower surface of the capping structure. The recess abuts the second cavity. A vent is arranged within the capping structure. The vent extends from a top of the recess to the upper surface of the capping structure. A lid is arranged within the vent and configured to seal the second cavity.
US09656856B2
MEMS packages, modules, and methods of fabrication are described. In an embodiment, a MEMS package includes a MEMS die and an IC die mounted on a front side of a surface mount substrate, and a molding compound encapsulating the IC die and the MEMS die on the front side of the surface mount substrate. In an embodiment, a landing pad arrangement on a back side of the surface mount substrate forms and anchor plane area for bonding the surface mount substrate to a module substrate that is not directly beneath the MEMS die.
US09656855B1
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a dielectric layer disposed over the substrate, a sensing structure disposed over the dielectric layer, a bonding structure disposed over the dielectric layer, a conductive layer covering the sensing structure, and a barrier layer disposed over the dielectric layer, the conductive layer and the bonding structure, wherein the conductive layer and the bonding structure are at least partially exposed from the barrier layer.
US09656848B2
A refrigerator capable of dispensing water adapted to an individual user's body temperature and a control method thereof. The refrigerator includes a selection unit for the user to select form body temperature water, cold water, and hot water. A temperature detecting unit is configured to detect a temperature of an external object through contact, for example a user's finger. The detected object temperature is interpreted as the user's body temperature. A controller is configured to receive a signal from the selection unit and a signal from the temperature detecting unit. Water stored in the refrigerator can be heated to the detected external object temperature before dispensing.
US09656847B2
Vacuum bottle stoppers for wine, particularly suited for partially consumed bottles of wine are disclosed. Systems are also disclosed for evacuating a partially consumed bottle of wine, filling the wine bottle head space with an inert or other gas and the storing the wine bottle while maintaining the inert or other gas in the bottle. The stopper has a vacuum valve and a vacuum indicator in a removable cap. The vacuum valve has a self-closing passageway due to the passageway traversing an elastomeric material. The vacuum indicator moves in response to vacuum and reveals a marking on a valve opener when a desired vacuum is achieved.
US09656841B2
Some illustrative embodiments of a fire tube implement for extraction and insertion of a fire tube may include an elongate shaft that is configured to extend outward and to be received within an opening in the fire tube. In some embodiments, the elongate shaft may carry at least one extender that is moveable between an extended position and a retracted position normal to a longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft. The at least one extender may be configured to engage an internal surface of the fire tube within the opening when the at least one extender is in the extended position. In some embodiments, a stabilizer may be laterally disposed from an exterior surface of the elongate shaft and securable to the fire tube. The elongate shaft may be operable by a powered machine.
US09656840B2
A work vehicle obtains determination information from information upon detecting inverting operation, the information upon detecting inverting operation indicating a traveling state of the work vehicle when an advancing direction detection device detects an inverting operation of an advancing direction switching device for inverting an advancing direction of the work vehicle while the work vehicle travels; decreases a first traveling instruction for allowing the work vehicle to travel in the advancing direction of the work vehicle upon the detection of the inverting operation, and increases a second traveling instruction for allowing the work vehicle to travel in the direction opposite to the advancing direction of the work vehicle upon the detection of the inverting operation, after detecting the inverting operation; and sets the first traveling instruction to 0 when speed information indicating a traveling state of the work vehicle becomes the determination information.
US09656837B2
An engine hoisting assembly for supporting an engine comprises a ground supporting frame, a substantially upright member having a longitudinal axis, a boom operably connected to the upright member, lifting means to selectively move the boom up or down along upright member's longitudinal axis and engine connecting means to operably connect the boom to the engine. The boom is maintained at a substantial horizontal orientation when lifting means selectively moves boom up or down.
US09656818B2
A paper feeding device of an image forming device includes a flotation air blowing unit and a separation air blowing unit. The flotation air blowing unit floats stacked uppermost paper through air blowing. The separation air blowing unit blows an end of other paper floated together with the floated uppermost paper to separate the other paper from the uppermost paper, the end being on the downstream side in the paper feeding direction. The flotation air blowing unit floats an end of the stacked uppermost paper, the end being on the downstream side in the paper feeding direction. The paper feeding device includes a resistance force applying mechanism which applies resistance force that gives a load against movement along the paper feeding direction to an end of stacked upper paper, the end being on the upstream side in the paper feeding direction.
US09656815B2
A system and method provides for controlling a pneumatic carrier system based on identification information read from a carrier or a payload of the carrier. Each carrier or payload which is to be employed within the system includes an identification device such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip which has stored thereon information for the carrier or payload. Positioned throughout the system are communications devices such as antennas and readers which are employed to read and/or write identification information on the identification device. Based on reading the identification device at locations within the system, the operation of the system is altered.
US09656811B2
Adjustment and tensioning of a drag slat chain system is necessary in order to best handle loads while keeping the drag moving and minimizing chances of the chain jumping the sprocket. An automated means of such adjustment is accomplished by providing a known force to tension the chain to a Known “slack” and then automatically setting a mechanical stop to maintain an “ideal” tension range.
US09656808B2
A tool (for gripping an object (e.g., a cylindrical object)) includes: an outer handle; a tubular neck having a proximal end connected to the outer handle; a linkage assembly having first and second ends connected to a distal end of the neck; an inner handle; a connecting rod having a proximal end connected to the inner handle and a distal end connected to a middle portion of the linkage assembly, partially disposed substantially coaxially within the neck thereby nesting the inner handle within the outer handle; and first and second claws attached to the linkage assembly, each claw having a compression surface (e.g., a concave cylindrical surface) configured to conform as a substantial complement to a portion of an outer surface of the to-be-gripped object (e.g., the to-be-gripped cylindrical object).
US09656805B1
A mobile base is provided that travels through areas for receiving items (e.g., from merchants, vendors, returns of items from users, etc.), wherein the items are transported to the mobile base by associated transportation units (e.g., automated aerial vehicles). The transportation units may be carried on the mobile base or may be stationed locally. Once an item is received by a transportation unit or at the mobile base, a credit or other payment may be issued to the supplier of the item, and the item may be recorded as available for sale in an inventory database. The mobile base may transport the received items to a materials handling facility, or the received items may be sold directly from the mobile base, for which transportation units may subsequently be utilized to transport the items to user specified delivery locations.
US09656802B2
A bin storage system includes a bin storage structure and robot vehicles for retrieving storage bins from the bin storage structure. The bin storage structure includes pillars that define storage columns for the storage bins, supporting rails, arranged on top of the pillars to provide a vehicle support for the plurality of robot vehicles allowing each robot vehicle to travel across the bin storage structure, a storage bin delivery station, and a bin lift device, arranged to receive storage bins from the plurality of robot vehicles and transport the storage bins from a top level of the bin storage structure to the delivery station. Each robot vehicle includes sets of rolling means for moving the robot vehicle along the supporting rails, a cavity for receiving a storage bin, and a lifting device for retrieving a storage bin from a storage column and storing the storage bin in the cavity.
US09656798B2
Capsule for preparing a predetermined quantity of beverage suitable for consumption using an extractable product, for instance roast and ground coffee, comprising a circumferential first wall, a second wall closing the circumferential first wall at a first end, a perforate and/or porous third wall closing the circumferential first wall at a second, open, end opposite the second wall arranged for draining the prepared beverage from the capsule, wherein the first, second and third wall enclose an inner space comprising the extractable product, wherein the extractable product in the inner space of the capsule has been, at least partly compacted. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing such a capsule, a system comprising such a capsule for preparing a beverage and a method for preparing of a beverage.
US09656794B2
An apparatus for dispensing solid articles includes a manifold assembly. The manifold assembly includes a manifold and a door assembly. The manifold has a plenum and an inlet port in fluid communication with the plenum. The door assembly includes a door panel and a shield. The door panel is selectively moveable between a closed position, wherein the door panel restricts airflow through the inlet port, and an open position, wherein the door panel permits airflow through the inlet port. The shield defines a pocket to receive the door panel in the open position and thereby reduce or restrict flow of air behind the door panel.
US09656790B2
A container for dispensing beverages is provided. The container includes at least six side walls coupled together along a plurality of parallel fold lines. The at least six side walls include two end panels and at least two side panels, and the at least six side walls define a substantially cylindrical shape of the container. A bottom wall is coupled to at least one of the two end panels, wherein a shape of the bottom wall corresponding to a cross-sectional shape of the at least six side walls. The container further includes a spout cutout removably defined in a first end panel of the two end panels proximate to a fold line connecting the first end panel to the bottom wall.
US09656782B2
A container structure is provided for detachable coupling of containers. The detachable coupling structure of a first container includes a top portion with an upstanding perimeter having radial protrusions extending from a surface of the upstanding perimeter, and a container bottom portion having a complementary structure to engage the radial protrusions of the top portion of a second container for the purpose of detachably coupling two or more containers end to end. In one embodiment, two containers placed end to end with their respective structures aligned to be engaged are rotated in opposite directions to fully engage the protrusions of one container with the complementary structure of the other. A rim around the top portion of a container in a second embodiment has a larger diameter than the top portion. The rim may be pushed through a flexible opening into a recess in the bottom of another container.
US09656779B2
A collapsible box-like container or carton may be formed from a unitary foldable blank divided by fold lines into a bottom panel, a pair of side panels, a pair of end panels and corner sections. Each corner section may include triangular corner or pleat panels divided by a diagonal or oblique fold line. The triangular corner or pleat panels may be folded in intimate face-to-face contact on the outer surface of the adjacent end panels. Some of the triangular corner or pleat panels may be adhesively secured to the outer surface the adjacent end panel.
US09656778B2
A panel board can include a main body confined by an upper boundary, a lower boundary, a first side boundary, and a second side boundary. A plurality of folding lines can be disposed on the main body and can extend from the upper boundary to the lower boundary. The folding lines disposed on the main body can provide a plurality of panels. A base having multiple sides can extend from the lower boundary of the main body. One or more locking tabs can extend from one or more sides of the base and one or more locking tabs can extend from the lower boundary of the main body. One or more locking slots can be disposed through the panel board about the lower boundary of the main body.
US09656765B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a helicopter-mediated system and method for launching and retrieving an aircraft capable of long-distance efficient cruising flight from a small space without the use of a long runway.
US09656764B2
A skew detection system for a high lift system for an aircraft, wherein pairs of sensors 4a, 4b with onboard data processing capabilities provide an onboard determination of relative skew between the sensors of each pair as an indication of skew of a flap of the high lift system.
US09656763B2
An actuator for a ram air turbine system includes a piston rod that is cylindrical in shape and centered about a centerline, and stow lock pawls supported by the piston rod and able to move radially. Each of the stow lock pawls has a crown with a crown radius. The actuator further includes a lock bolt extending along the centerline radially within the piston rod and configured to be axially movable within the piston rod between a stowed position and a deployed position. The actuator further includes rollers radially outward from the centerline configured to be guided by the lock bolt and a cylinder having a mating surface with a mating radius. The cylinder is positioned radially outward from the piston rod and configured to be axially movable between the stowed position and the deployed position. A ratio of the crown radius of the stow lock pawls to the mating radius of the cylinder is less than 0.98.
US09656759B2
A collapsible securing system for securing medical oxygen cylinders for passenger seats including: (i) a base configured such as to be positioned on the passenger seat; (ii) an intermediate securing structure for oxygen cylinders connected to the base by three legs; (iii) a gripping structure, connected to the intermediate securing structure by at least one pivot in common with the intermediate securing structure, and (iv) a fitting system comprising the seatbelt and two straps secured from one end the gripping structure and from the other end thereof to the fitting of the seatbelt to the passenger seat.
US09656758B2
An emergency parachute is a device for allowing the user to eject from a perilous high-altitude structure and float to safety once clear of the structure. The emergency parachute features a vest that may be donned by the user. The user is required to face toward the structure that he or she is escaping. In order to activate the canopy of the emergency parachute, the user is required to engage a first activation handle and a second activation handle of a simultaneous activation dual switch. The simultaneous activation dual switch ensures that the canopy is not accidentally deployed. A chute-inflation gas generator inflates the canopy and simultaneously ejects the user backward. The ejection serves the twofold purpose of ensuring that the user is able to clear the structure that he or she is escaping as well as aiding the user in overcoming any fears of jumping from a high altitude.
US09656757B2
Systems and methods of deicing aircraft propellers include a deicing heater timing cycle, i.e. heater on/heater off schedule that is calculated as a function of ambient temperature and the airspeed of the aircraft.
US09656754B2
A ventilation system (10) for installation in an aircraft passenger cabin comprises an air supply pipe (12), which has a plurality of air outlet openings (14) disposed in a distributed manner along its longitudinal axis (L). An air chamber housing (16) is connectable to the air supply pipe (12) at various positions along the longitudinal axis (L) of the air supply pipe, such that air-conditioning air flowing through the air supply pipe (12) is supplyable, through an air outlet opening provided in the air supply pipe (12), into the air chamber housing (16). A connection device (34) is designed to connect the air chamber housing (16) to an air supply device (36) for supplying air-conditioning air into the aircraft passenger cabin.
US09656750B2
A vehicle cargo compartment, comprising a housing receivable in a vehicle, and at least one latch mounted to the housing for locking a cargo unit in a fixed position. The latch comprises a latch housing mounted to the housing, and at least a first latch claw moveably mounted to the latch housing moveable between a latched and an unlatched position. A latch sensor system comprises a position sensor and a target, the position sensor adapted to detect and generate a latch signal when the target is in the predetermined position. The vehicle cargo compartment can be monitored easily and reliably when the first latch claw is in the latched position due to the position sensor and the target being arranged and adapted such that the predetermined position of the target is detected and the latch signal is generated, when the first latch claw is in the latched position.
US09656736B2
In the case of an aircraft aft portion equipped with an engine mounting structure passing across the fuselage, assembly of the aft portion presents problems caused by the moving of the box structure of the mounting structure through lateral openings in the fuselage. In order to overcome these problems, a method of assembling an aircraft aft portion is proposed, in which method the box structure of the engine mounting structure is inserted into the fuselage through a top opening extending from one side of the fuselage to the other across a vertical midplane of the fuselage such that the top opening opens to the top and to the sides of the fuselage.
US09656732B1
A throwable rotateable rescue device with a retrieval cord and a set of peripheral handles that are retained within the rescue ring during storage and throwing of the rescue ring but are automatically extendable to a grasping position without interfering with the rescue device retrieval cord during the flight of the rescue ring thereby enabling a person in distress to easily and quickly grasp the handles and be pulled to safety through the retrieval cord.
US09656730B2
The present disclosure relates to a closed inclination change system (32) for a floating unit (10). The inclination change system comprises a plurality of inclination change assemblies (34, 36, 38, 40) and each one of the inclination change assemblies (34, 36, 38, 40) is adapted to be in fluid communication with each one of the other inclination change assemblies (34, 36, 38, 40).Each one of the inclination change assemblies (34, 36, 38, 40) comprises a tank assembly (44) comprising a first tank (46), the tank assembly (44) comprising a tank assembly top portion (48).Moreover, each one of the inclination change assemblies (34, 36, 38, 40) further comprises: a pump assembly (50) arranged to pump the fluid from the tank assembly (44), and an inlet conduit assembly (52) adapted to guide the fluid into the tank assembly (44) from another inclination change assembly (34, 36, 38, 40), the inlet conduit assembly (52) having a conduit top portion (54) that is located above the tank assembly top portion (48).
US09656726B2
Disclosed is a vessel with two watertight flaps attached in a tensioned state on the two sides of the longitudinal keel, each being under one of the two rear side portions of the V-shaped hull, the outer side edge of each flap being connected under the shell covering the bottom compartment on the same side, and the bottom side edge being connected to the bottom along a line which is angled from the rear to the front and angled toward the lower compartment, with a flap width tapering from the tensioned, free rear edge between the ends at the transom, toward a front portion connected to the bottom and/or to the shell at the connection between the upper and lower compartments, defining, with the latter and the bottom, a channel converging from front to rear and angled toward the rear end of the edge of the V-shaped craft hull.
US09656724B2
A snowmobile ski tip is configured to be removably fitted over a snowmobile ski and has a bottom surface for contacting the snow and a top surface configured to contact a bottom surface of the ski, a side wall, and a top wall extending from the side wall. The ski tip forms a pocket configured to accept a front end of the snowmobile ski such that the ski tip widens at least the front end of the ski when installed.
US09656718B2
A motorcycle having an adjusting mechanism that allows a user to change the setting of at least a part forming a vehicle body by performing adjusting operation on the adjusting mechanism includes: a storage unit configured to store at least a plurality of pieces of adjustment information related to degrees of adjusting operation on the adjusting mechanism; a receiving unit configured to receive a request based on an input operation of the user; a selecting unit configured to select adjustment information corresponding to the request received by the receiving unit from the plurality of pieces of adjustment information in the storage unit; and an indicating unit configured to indicate the adjustment information selected by the selecting unit to the user.
US09656716B2
The systems and methods described herein relate to cycling. More specifically, the systems and methods described herein relate to an integrated cycling tool. The cycling tool may be integrated into the bicycle components to reduce the external modifications to a bicycle. This may enable a cyclist to carry a tool with them without the worry of carrying the tool, or the tool falling off the bicycle. The cycling tool may comprise multiple components and may be used to fix various parts of a bicycle. The cycling tool may fit within the confines of the bicycle and provide minimal to no impact to the rider or the functionality and performance of the bicycle.
US09656708B2
A process for the manufacture of a washing system to clean process equipment and the resulted washing system is disclosed. The method involves the conversion and transformation of a small excavation tractor into a remotely operated hydroblasting system that removes the operator from the working environment and avoids the risks of harm and fatigue normally associated with existing cleaning processes.
US09656705B2
A track roller for a mobile machine is disclosed. The track roller may have a shaft defining a central axis, and a roller body connected to the shaft and configured to rotate around the central axis relative to the shaft. The track roller may also have a sealing member positioned between the shaft and the roller body, and a collar member secured to the shaft and at least partially covering the sealing member. A passageway having an opening may be defined between the collar member and the roller body. The track roller may further have a guard member secured to the shaft, the guard member having a main body and an upper rim extending from the main body towards the roller body. The guard member may also have a plurality of projections extending from the main body towards the roller body, and a plurality of openings formed between the upper rim and the projections.
US09656704B2
A robotic vehicle (10,100,150A,150B150C,160,1000,1000A,1000B,1000C) includes a chassis (20,106,152,162) having front and rear ends (20A,152A,20B,152B) and supported on right and left driven tracks (34,44,108,165). Right and left elongated flippers (50,60,102,154,164) are disposed on corresponding sides of the chassis and operable to pivot. A linkage (70,156,166) connects a payload deck assembly (D1,D2,D3,80,158,168,806), configured to support a removable functional payload, to the chassis. The linkage has a first end (70A) rotatably connected to the chassis at a first pivot (71), and a second end (70B) rotatably connected to the deck at a second pivot (73). Both of the first and second pivots include independently controllable pivot drivers (72,74) operable to rotatably position their corresponding pivots (71,73) to control both fore-aft position and pitch orientation of the payload deck (D1,D2,D3,80,158,168,806) with respect to the chassis (20,106,152,162).
US09656703B2
An all-terrain vehicle (ATV) equippable with a plurality of ground-engaging wheels or a plurality of ground-engaging track assemblies providing traction on the ground. The ATV is designed to facilitate its use whether it is equipped with the ground-engaging wheels or the ground-engaging track assemblies. A powertrain, a steering system, a suspension, a braking system, a body, and/or other components of the ATV have features which take into account that the ATV can be equipped with either the ground-engaging wheels or the ground-engaging track assemblies.
US09656701B2
A platform trailer neck reinforcement structure includes a first beam reinforcement structure that includes: (i) a first beam inner insert connected to an inner side of the first beam; and, (ii) and a first beam outer insert connected to an outer side of the first beam. The neck reinforcement structure also includes a second beam reinforcement structure that includes: (i) a second beam inner insert connected to an inner side of the second beam; and, (ii) and a second beam outer insert connected to an outer side of the second beam. Internal cross members extend between and interconnect the first beam inner insert and the second beam inner insert. A first group of external cross members are located between the first beam outer insert and the left side rail, and a second group of external cross members are located between the second beam outer insert and the right side rail. Each external cross member comprises an inner segment connected to an outer segment, said inner and outer segments of each external cross member of the first group connected respectively to the first beam outer insert and the left side rail, and the inner and outer segments of each external cross member of the second group connected respectively to the second beam outer insert and the right side rail.
US09656695B2
A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a rear side member front-rear direction; a shock absorbing member that is placed at the rear side of the rear side member; and a lower bracket that has a reinforcement portion that is joined to a rear end portion of the rear side member, a load receiving portion that extends downward from a rear end portion of the reinforcement portion and to which the shock absorbing member is joined, and a load transmitting bead portion that is disposed spanning the distance between the load receiving portion and a lower wall portion of the reinforcement portion, with a length L to which the load transmitting bead portion projects in the vehicle front-rear direction becoming longer heading from the load receiving portion to the reinforcement portion.
US09656693B2
A structure for fastening a stiffening bar includes a floor panel covering a bottom side of a vehicle body. A sub-frame is mounted on the floor panel and extends in a width direction of the vehicle body. A pair of center side members are mounted to the sub-frame and extend longitudinally at both sides of the bottom side of the vehicle body. A pair of rear side members extend longitudinally below the pair of center side members. The stiffening bar is mounted to the pair of rear side members so that a bottom side of the stiffening bar is higher than bottom sides of the pair of rear side members.
US09656672B2
A derailleur-based electronic transmission system for an electric bicycle comprises a wheel; a driven sprocket set coupled to the wheel via at least a first one-way clutch, the driven sprocket set comprising two or more concentric sprockets of different effective diameters; a drive chain configured to engage the driven sprocket set; an electronically controllable derailleur configured to move the drive chain among the two or more sprockets; a pedal crank configured to cause rotation of the driven sprocket set by providing a user pedal force to the driven sprocket set through at least a second one-way clutch and the drive chain; a motor configured to cause rotation of the driven sprocket set by providing an electromechanical force to the driven sprocket set through at least a the drive chain; and an electronic controller configured to, responsive to a determination that a shift should occur at a time when neither the pedal crank nor the motor is causing rotation of the driven sprocket: operate the motor to rotate the driven sprocket at a rotational speed less than or equal to a current rotational speed of the wheel; and operate the derailleur to cause the shift to occur while the driven sprocket is being rotated by the motor.
US09656669B2
A control apparatus for a vehicle with a continuously variable transmission, having an acceleration requirement determining portion determining operator required acceleration, a first restricted accelerator operation amount setting portion setting an accelerating member restricted operation amount that increases with a running speed increase, when the determining portion has determined required vehicle acceleration, and a shift control portion controlling the transmission speed ratio on the restricted amount basis, the control apparatus having: a second restricted accelerator operation amount setting portion decreasing the restricted amount from a value immediately prior to an accelerating member rapid releasing action determination moment, at a rate lower than an accelerating member operation actual amount decrease rate after the rapid releasing action determination moment, and an upper limit stop processing portion to limit the restricted amount after a determination moment that the operator requires vehicle acceleration, the restricted amount is not larger than the actual operation amount.
US09656654B2
A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle may include a first input device, a torque transmitting device, a second input device, an output device, and a final reduction device. The first input device may receive either or both of torques of an engine and a first motor/generator. The torque transmitting device may be disposed at a rear or downstream of the first input device and selectively receive torque from the first input device. The second input device may be disposed at a rear or downstream of the torque transmitting device, convert torque of a second motor/generator, and output the converted torque. The output device may receive torque from the torque transmitting device and/or the second input device and output the torque. The final reduction device may output the torque transmitted from the output device as driving torque.
US09656652B2
A method for controlling regenerative braking of a vehicle is provided, in which a driving area of a motor is decided when shifting gears during regenerative braking, and an amount of regenerative braking is determined based on the decided result. The method includes a first process of deciding whether motor torque is in a constant power mode, a second process of deciding whether the motor torque is in a constant torque mode, and a third process of deciding whether the mode of the motor torque is converted into the constant torque mode from the constant power mode.
US09656635B2
The invention relates to a screen wiper (1) for a motor vehicle screen (6) comprising a support frame (2) of principal longitudinal orientation, having lower means exhibiting a wiper blade (4), the said support frame (2) being intended to be caused to move between two end positions along a predetermined trajectory in a wiping cycle of the screen (6), and a device (7, 8) for spraying cleaning liquid comprising at least one first set of spraying orifices aligned in the said principal longitudinal orientation for at least one part of a first side of the wiper in such a way as to permit the spraying of washing liquid in front of the wiper in relation to the wiping movement.According to the invention, the spraying orifices are distributed over the said first side with a non-constant spacing, the distance separating two successive orifices being selected in such a way that the portion of the surface of the screen that is effectively sprayed by a spraying orifice in the course of a wiping cycle is substantially equal to the same target value for all the spraying orifices of the first set.
US09656629B2
An access system for a vehicle may include a controller. The controller may be configured to respond to receiving an unlock signal indicative of an unlock request by causing a compartment closure to unlock for a predetermined time. Or the controller may be configured to respond to receiving an unlock signal indicative of an unlock request and a vehicle operation signal indicative of a vehicle secure state by causing a compartment closure to unlock for a predetermined time. Upon expiration of the predetermined time, the controller may cause the compartment closure to lock. The controller may be configured to respond to receiving an unlatch signal indicative of an unlatch request during the predetermined time by causing the compartment closure to unlatch.
US09656623B2
A crash box of a vehicle includes a back-beam laterally mounted to a front side of the vehicle. A first panel is longitudinally mounted to a rear side of the back-beam and combined with the back-beam. A second panel is longitudinally mounted to the rear side of the back-beam, is combined with the back-beam, and faces the first panel.
US09656612B2
An apparatus for fastening a pressure vessel of a vehicle is arranged to fix the pressure vessel to a vehicle body, where the pressure vessel includes a cylindrical body, dome-shaped curved portions at both ends of the cylindrical body, and bosses at distal ends of the curved portions. The apparatus is arranged to receive the pressure vessel, and further includes: elastic bodies disposed along circumferences of the curved portions of the pressure vessel to support surfaces of the curved portions and to be disposed on a virtual flat cross section vertically crossing the curved portions along the circumferences of the curved portions to support the curved portions of the pressure vessel in all directions; and a fixed structure having one side connected to the elastic bodies and the other side connected to the vehicle body.
US09656611B1
A transportable ski rack is configured to be both mounted directly on a vehicle or indirectly on a bicycle rack mounted on a vehicle and also be manually transported. The ski rack has forward and rear frame members, ski retaining brackets extending between and interconnecting the frame members, and wheels connected to both frame members. Dual handles are connected to the forward frame member, the handles being rotatable from a first position in which the handles extend outward for maintaining the ski rack in spaced relation to a vehicle when the ski rack is mounted on the vehicle and at least one of the handles extend outward for manually transporting the ski rack, to a second position in which both handles are rotatable towards the forward frame member for storage of the ski rack. A removeable storage box is located between the frame members.
US09656609B2
A vehicle step apparatus including an extending and retracting device having a mounting bracket, a step bracket, and an arm assembly. A gear box has a cavity into which at least a portion of a motor shaft of a motor is inserted. A worm wheel is rotatably disposed in the cavity and has a worm wheel body meshing with the motor shaft. An output shaft is mounted to the worm wheel body. A sun gear is fitted over the output shaft. A planet carrier is rotatably disposed in the cavity and connected with the arm assembly. A planet gear is rotatably mounted to the planet carrier and meshes with the sun gear. An adjusting member is mounted in the gear box, and is movable in an axial direction of the motor shaft and abuts against a free end of the motor shaft.
US09656606B1
Methods and systems for displaying a user interface that warns a driver that a vehicle is located within or is near a geographical area (and/or intersection) associated with a higher than average risk of animal-vehicle and/or vehicle-vehicle collisions are provided. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may access a database that identifies a plurality of high risk areas, including areas associated with prior vehicle accidents. The electronic device may display a virtual road map, as well as an icon indicating the vehicle's current location and a plurality of visual indications of high-risk areas. When the electronic device detects that the current location of the vehicle is within and/or approaching a high-risk area, the electronic device may then warn the driver about the higher than average risk of experiencing a vehicle collision.
US09656605B1
A vehicle includes a power detector for detecting a power state of the vehicle, a transmission detector for detecting a transmission mode of the vehicle, a door detector for detecting a door state of the vehicle, and a processor for generating an inadvertent ignition warning by comparing the power state, the transmission mode and the door state with an inadvertent ignition reference, for generating an inadvertent ignition level according to the accumulation of the generated inadvertent ignition warning, and for providing an inadvertent ignition warning message corresponding to the generated inadvertent ignition level.
US09656595B2
A light control system is provided. In the system, an processor sets a maximum light quantity of a lighting device according to the curvature radius of the road the own vehicle travels. The processor then controls the light quantity of the lighting device so as to be equal to or less than the maximum light quantity. According to the system, a maximum light quantity of the lighting device is set according to a curvature radius. Accordingly, a light quantity is appropriately set so as not to dazzle the driver of another vehicle.
US09656593B2
An autopilot for a flight vehicle is described herein. Various configurations of the autopilot may be used in a gyro-less guidance and control system, which can be designed based on translational acceleration measurements only. In other configurations, the one or more components of the autopilot may be used as a backup to primary components of a guidance and control system. The autopilot may use state estimates to determine effector commands to control a flight vehicle.
US09656590B2
A structure such as a toy hauler recreational vehicle includes a bed lift that moves a bed vertically between a lowered position, a raised position, and an upright position. The bed is oriented horizontally and positioned to receive one or more persons to sleep on it in the lowered position. The bed is oriented horizontally and stowed adjacent to a ceiling of the vehicle in the raised position. At least a portion of the bed is oriented vertically and stowed adjacent to a wall of the structure when the bed is in the upright position. The bed lift can include a mounting member that: (a) moves between a first position where the bed is oriented horizontally and a second position where the bed is oriented vertically and/or (b) is vertically offset to allow the bed to be lowered below or adjacent to the bottom of the bed lift.
US09656584B2
An assist handle apparatus for a vehicle having a mounting plate positioned at a handgrip may include a damping mechanism having a hinge pin connected to the handgrip; hinge ends positioned at first and second sides of the mounting plate, wherein a damper seat is formed in a space defined between the hinge ends; a damper that is inserted in the damper seat with the hinge pin passing through the damper and the hinge ends, the damper having first and second damping ends protruding at a first side and a second side of an outer circumference of the damper respectively; and a stopper that is formed on an inner side of a hinge portion of the handgrip, wherein the stopper damps rotation shock in both rotation directions of the handgrip when the stopper selectively contacts with the first damping end or the second damping end according to rotation of the handgrip.
US09656581B2
A compact body support apparatus is provided for use with an armrest of a vehicle such as an airplane, train, or bus. The compact body support apparatus comprises a base, a support post, a housing, and a headrest cushion. The support post presents a lower end secured to the base and an upper end. The housing is secured to the upper end of the support post. The headrest cushion is secured to the housing for supporting a head of a user. The compact body support apparatus is configured to be selectively placed into a collapsed position and a deployed position, such that the support post and at least a portion of the base are disposed within the housing when the compact body support apparatus is in the collapsed position and the support post extends in a generally downward direction when the compact body support apparatus is in the deployed position.
US09656578B2
A vehicle seat including: a tilt down mechanism configured to sink down a seat cushion in conjunction with forward tilting down movement of a seat back, wherein the tilt down mechanism couples a rear part of the seat cushion to a base on a floor by a rotary shaft, couples a front part of the seat cushion to the base via a front link, and further includes a power transmission member that couples the front link and the seat back, and wherein the power transmission member is configured by a link member of a rigid body and is configured to, when the seat back is raised from a forward tilted down position, transmit the movement of the seat back to the front link to raise the front link to thus pull up the seat cushion from a downward sunk position.
US09656575B2
A combined seat heater and capacitive occupancy sensor comprises a heater network including a heating element (11) and a capacitive sensing circuit connected to the heating element to sense a capacitive load. A first and a second interface are provided for connecting the heating element to a first and a second terminal of a power source, respectively. Each interface comprises electronically controlled switches (3, 5; 4, 6) arranged in series and defining an intermediate node (20; 21). An oscillator (8) is AC-coupled to the intermediate nodes to apply an oscillating voltage thereto. A current measuring means (9), AC-coupled between the oscillator and the heating element, keeps the AC-potential of the heating element at least substantially equal, in amplitude and phase, to the oscillating voltage on the intermediate nodes and to derive the capacitive load from a thus resulting current flowing into the heating element.
US09656572B2
A method for starting a motor vehicle with a fuel cell system for providing electrical drive power in the vehicle is disclosed. A starting procedure can be started by a remote control unit independently of the presence of the user in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle. The starting procedure only takes place by the remote control unit if a start signal from the remote control unit exists, and if simultaneously a sensed temperature in the vehicle, the fuel cell system and/or the surroundings of the vehicle is below a predetermined temperature threshold value.
US09656570B2
A vehicle includes a battery configured to operate at a current, during a drive cycle, in a nominal current range for a time greater than in a maximum current range. A controller is programmed to output a voltage based on the current according to a gain calibrated to be greater in the nominal current range than in the maximum current range to increase resolution in the nominal current range. The gain may be based on an exponential function or piecewise linear function of the current. The gain may increase as a magnitude of the current increases. A second controller receives the voltage and derives a battery current according to an inverse of the gain.
US09656566B2
According to one embodiment, a charge management apparatus includes an input unit, a first estimation unit, a determination unit, a generation unit, and an output unit. The input unit accepts an input of traffic demand data indicative of a number of vehicles. The first estimation unit estimates charge wait times at plural charge stations based on the traffic demand data. The determination unit compares the estimated charge wait times at the respective charge stations, and determines whether a desired condition is satisfied. The generation unit generates charge recommendation information indicative of a charge station according to a determination result. The output unit outputs the charge recommendation information to an external terminal.
US09656561B2
A door assembly for a charging port of an electric vehicle includes a housing accommodating the charging port and a door connected to one side of the housing. A link bracket is mounted inside the door, and a link portion connects the housing with the link bracket. A crushing portion removes foreign materials being introduced in a slot formed at the link bracket.
US09656552B2
Systems, apparatus and methods for cancelling a noise voltage at a vehicle are presented. An noise cancellation system (NCS) can be configured to null an earth-to-body voltage at the vehicle to prevent its interference with a receiver system. An (NCS) can include a noise sensor (NSSR) configured to sense a noise voltage, and a noise-nulling device (NNDV) configured to provide an anti-noise output. An anti-noise injector (ANI) can be configured to drive the anti-noise output at an anti-noise injection site In an example embodiment, an anti-noise output can be provided directly to the receiver system by cable. Alternatively, an anti-noise signal can be inductively or capacitively coupled to a vehicle structure or component that is not part of the receiver system. A noise cancellation system can be arranged in a feedback or feed-forward arrangement. Radio frequency noise and non-radio frequency noise can be cancelled.
US09656544B2
A flap arrangement is provided for a motor vehicle with a moveably mounted flap that is in particular a preloaded tank flap, a holder for fixing the flap, an actuator for actuating the holder, and a switch for selectively operating the actuator. The actuator is equipped in order to actuate the holder for fixing and for releasing the flap.
US09656543B2
A tank for safely storing a fuel in a high-pressure gaseous state, and a method for manufacturing the tank are provided. The fuel gas storage tank includes a composite material that forms a tank shell and a liner disposed under the composite material. In addition, the liner has a structure in which a metal coil is integrally formed within the liner.
US09656535B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an air conditioner (1) for treating the air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. The air conditioner (1) exhibits a refrigerant circuit (2) configured for a combined cooling unit and heat-pump mode and for a post-heating mode. In the heat-pump mode with a first and a second heat source, two heat sources differing from each other can be used. A temperature of the first heat source, a temperature of the second heat source, and a regulation characteristic number and a maximum pressure are taken into account in the refrigerant circuit (2) for operating the air conditioner (1) in a heat-pump mode. The invention additionally relates to a method for switching between the two heat-pump modes.
US09656534B2
An active pressure relief system for a vehicle cabin in response to a cabin-door closure. An air-extractor may be configured to open when a cabin-door is opened, and remain open until the last of a number of cabin-doors are closed. The air-extractor allows for the increased pressure resulting from the cabin-door closure to be equalized with the external environment through the air-extractor. After the last of a number of cabin-doors are closed, the air-extractor closes to inhibit noise and external elements from entering the cabin through the air-extractor.
US09656521B2
A run-flat tire includes a carcass including at least one carcass ply, a belt layer, a pair of side reinforcing rubber layers, a pair of bead apex rubber components. A height of the one bead apex rubber component is greater than a height of the other bead apex rubber component. An inner end height of the one side reinforcing rubber layer is greater than an inner end height of the other side reinforcing rubber layer. In a radial region of the tire where at least the bead apex rubber components and the side reinforcing rubber layers are provided, the tire has a same thickness in the respective sides of the bead portions.
US09656517B2
A wheel bearing includes a constant velocity universal joint and a wheel bearing. The wheel bearing is separably coupled to the constant velocity universal joint with a screw fastening structure, in which a stem section of an outer joint member of the constant velocity universal joint is fitted to an inner diameter portion of the hub wheel. Projecting portions extending in an axial direction are formed on the stem section of the outer joint member, and depressed portions having an interference with respect to the projecting portions are formed on the hub wheel. The stem section of the outer joint member is press-fitted to the hub wheel, and a shape of the projecting portions is transferred to the other, to thereby provide a projection and depression fitting structure in which the projecting portions and the depressed portions are in close contact at an entire fitting contact portion therebetween.
US09656513B2
A paint palette system for holding and dispersing paint wherein a painter can pour paint into a low profile receptacle for later removal with a paintbrush or like tool is provided. A disposable and removable paint retaining fabric retains the paint in a drip-less and mess free fashion. The paint can be transported and stored in an improved manner allowing for a faster and more efficient painting effort.
US09656495B2
A tape cassette is provided with a cassette case, a tape, a tape discharge portion, a first indicator portion, a first indicator member and a first attachment portion. The cassette case includes a bottom case and a top case. The tape is a print medium. The tape discharge portion discharges the tape from the cassette case. The first indicator portion includes at least one indicator hole and indicates a type of the tape. The first indicator member is provided with the first indicator portion. The first attachment portion is provided on an upstream side of the tape discharge portion and to which the first indicator member is attached.
US09656492B2
A flatbed printer and a method for printing with a flatbed printer are disclosed. The flatbed printer includes a flatbed surface for placing media to be printed upon, a controller configured to control the printing of digital images on the media, a camera-projector system connected to the controller and situated above the flatbed surface, and a print head for ejecting recording material on the media. The method includes detecting an arbitrary position, an arbitrary shape, an arbitrary size and/or an arbitrary thickness of a media on the flatbed surface with a camera of the camera-projector system, projecting a digital image on the media with a projector of the camera-projector system, and printing the digital image on the media according to the projection by moving the print head over the flatbed surface.
US09656491B1
Gas bearing systems, print gap control systems, and methods of print gap control are provided. The gas bearing systems can accommodate one or more print module packages. The systems and methods can be used for inkjet and/or thermal printing applications such as manufacturing organic light emitting devices (OLEDs). Gas bearing systems can employ one or more of pressurized gas and vacuum. For oxygen-sensitive applications, an inert gas, such as nitrogen gas, can be employed as the pressurized gas. Fluid channels and apertures of the gas bearing systems can be varied in terms of size and relative position to one another. Fluid channels and apertures can be grouped and paired with one or more manifolds and ultimately a pressurized gas and/or vacuum source.
US09656488B2
A tape cassette includes a housing. The housing includes a top wall having a top surface and a bottom wall having a bottom surface. The bottom surface has a first surface portion being a flat surface portion and a second surface portion being a flat surface portion. The second surface portion extends generally parallel to the first surface portion and is located between the top surface and the first surface portion in a first direction. The first direction is orthogonal to the top surface or the first surface portion. A first indicator portion is provided on the second surface portion. The first indicator portion has a first protrusion protruding from the second surface portion. The first protrusion has a protruding end being located between the second surface portion and the first surface portion in the first direction.
US09656487B2
A print media holder device has first and second grip members. Permanent magnets are attached to the first and second grip members. An electromagnet is disposed between the first and second grip members, where when the electromagnet is selectively energized the permanent magnets attached to the first and second grip members are repelled in a manner that increases the outer dimension of the print media holder device to grip a media core.
US09656481B2
Systems and methods for imprinting different types of articles of manufacture and for selectively enabling one or more of pre-treatment, processing, and/or post-treatment processes according to the type of article of manufacture to be processed.
US09656477B2
An ink composition for ultraviolet curable ink jets including monomer A represented by a general formula (I): CH2=CR1-COOR2O—CH═CH—R3 (I) (in the formula, ‘R1’ represents a hydrogen atom or methyl group, ‘R2’ represents a divalent organic residue having a carbon number of 2 to 20, and ‘R3’ represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic residue having a carbon number of 1 to 11), and a photopolymerization initiator containing an acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator and a thioxanthone-based photopolymerization initiator, in which the total content of the acylphosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator and the thioxanthone-based photopolymerization initiator is 8% by mass to 16% by mass with respect to the total mass of the ink composition.
US09656475B2
Methods and systems are provided for color printing onto nonwhite substrates and articles. For example, a method of color printing is provided, including printing multiple layers of ink each including a combination of a white ink and at least one color ink, and each printed layer having a ratio of white ink to color ink, wherein the ratio may be the same or may vary as a function of the number of layers and the color printed.
US09656473B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an inkjet ink degassing method that can sufficiently remove bubbles contained in active ray curable inkjet ink and improve dispensing stability and curability. The inkjet ink degassing method according to the present invention comprises a step of using hollow fibers to degas active ray curable inkjet ink that has been heated to between 60° C. and 120° C. and contains a colorant, a photopolymerizable compound, and a photoinitiator.
US09656468B2
By appropriately defining a flow path capacity from an opening of an ink supply path to a nozzle in a pressure chamber, a progress of thickening ink toward the pressure chamber is suppressed. In other words, by setting the individual flow path capacity to be large, specifically, to 4400 pl or higher, desirably 6210 pl or higher, it is possible to suppress the progress of the thickening of the ink even in a small-sized liquid ejecting head of which the shortest formation pitch between each of the nozzles is 1/300 inches. More specifically, a nozzle communication opening is provided between the pressure chamber and the nozzle, and a total capacity of the nozzle communication opening and the pressure chamber is configured to be 4400 pl or higher, desirably 6210 pl or higher.
US09656467B2
Piezoelectric actuator, liquid discharging apparatus and method for producing piezoelectric actuator
There is provided a piezoelectric actuator including: a plurality of piezoelectric elements forming first and second piezoelectric element rows, and including first, second electrodes and piezoelectric portion; an electrode conductive portion; a contact section; a plurality of drive wires; and conductive wires. A part of the drive wires corresponding to the piezoelectric elements of the second piezoelectric element row are extended toward the contact section while passing between two adjacent piezoelectric elements of the first piezoelectric element row which are adjacent in the first direction. The conductive wires are arranged between two adjacent piezoelectric elements of the second piezoelectric element row, each of the conductive wires is conducted, at two locations thereof apart in the second direction, with the electrode conductive portion.
US09656463B1
Embodiments described herein provide determining an ink drop size. One embodiment comprises a system that includes a printhead fluidly coupled to an ink input supply, and a controller to direct the printhead to eject drops of ink of an ink drop type. The system further includes an ink output estimator to estimate an ink output amount ejected from the printhead based on an estimated quantity of the ejected drops of ink of the ink drop type and an estimated size of the drop type, and an ink measurement device to measure an ink input amount provided by the ink input supply to the printhead. The system also includes a correction module to adjust the estimated size of the drop type based on the ink output amount and the ink input amount for a printing operation.
US09656461B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a modulation circuit that generates a modulated signal obtained by performing pulse modulation on a source signal; a transistor that amplifies the modulated signal to generate an amplified modulated signal; a lowpass filer that smoothes the amplified modulated signal to generate a driving signal; a piezoelectric element that is displaced when the driving signal is applied; and a circuit substrate on which the modulation circuit, the transistor, and the lowpass filter are mounted. The transistor includes a die, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a conductive die pad, a first lead which is electrically connected to the second electrode by a bonding wire, and a second lead which is electrically connected to the third electrode by a bonding wire. The die pad, the first lead, and the second lead are electrically connected to different wiring patterns of the circuit substrate.
US09656460B2
The disclosure provides an ink jet printing apparatus. The ink jet printing apparatus includes a support base configured to support the to-be-processed substrate; and a solvent adjusting mechanism, configured to supply a dummy region of the to-be-processed substrate on the support base with a first solvent that is same as a solvent in an ink and adjust a solvent atmosphere of the dummy region of the to-be-processed substrate on the support base, to make the solvent atmosphere of the dummy region of the to-be-processed substrate and that of a center region of the to-be-processed substrate reach a predetermined condition. The solvent adjusting mechanism is arranged on the support base.
US09656449B2
A consolidation device has a dispensing assembly configured to dispense a composite precursor material onto a surface of a mould, and a first nozzle assembly configured to direct a fluid stream onto the free surface of the dispensed composite precursor material. The use of a fluid flow to consolidate the dispensed composite precursor material onto the surface of the mould makes the device simpler, more cost effective and causes less damage to the surface of the composite article.
US09656438B2
A multi-layered film in the form of a hose-shaped outer film for an insert hose of a pipe rehabilitation system includes silver-colored pigments in at least two layers of the film, or a metallization applied on both outer layers of the film, or silver-colored pigments in at least one layer of the film and a metallization is applied on an outer layer of the film. At least one UV absorber is inserted in at least one or several layers of the film of the film. The entire film is permeable to UV light and visible light in a wavelength range from 200 to 800 nm at a rate of less than 0.1%, and is opaque. The UV radiation and visible radiation are reflected in a wavelength range from 200 to 800 nm.
US09656437B2
A novel tubular or profile shapes of co-extruded multilayer polymers. These materials contain tens to thousands of layers of milli-, micro- to nano- polymer layers. These new shapes contain contiguous layers of milli- to nano- polymer layers in three dimensions and these contiguous layers may be twisted or turned to further expand the potential microlayer geometries.
US09656435B2
A tire vulcanizer system in which multiple tire vulcanizers, provided with a frame and a vulcanizing mechanism that is supported by the frame and is for vulcanizing green tires, are connected, wherein the tire vulcanizers are provided with respective alignment sections, which are provided on the respective frames and are for aligning the level positions of adjacent frames relative to each other.
US09656423B2
The present invention relates to a device for manufacturing three-dimensional models by means of a 3D printing process, whereby a build platform for application of build material is provided and a support frame is arranged around the build platform, to which said support frame at least one device for dosing the particulate material and one device for bonding the particulate material is attached via the guiding elements and the support frame is moveable in a Z direction, which essentially means perpendicular to the base surface of the build platform. In so doing, the device provides a material feeding device having a particle material container to supply particulate material in batches from the storage area to the dosing apparatus and to do so with the least possible amount of shearing forces and without significant interaction with the atmosphere.
US09656415B2
The invention relates to a device (01) having at least two tool parts (03, 53, 63) that are separable at a parting face, wherein the closed tool parts (03, 53, 63) form a mold cavity (02, 52), within which (02, 52) particulate plastic material can be foamed and/or expanded to produce foamed molded parts. According to the invention, in particular to reduce the energy consumption, the tool wall forming the mold cavity (02, 52) is formed at least in sections by a multilayer structure (06, 56, 65) having a thin inner layer that is mechanically supported by a support element.
US09656414B2
The present invention relates to microfluidic devices that comprise a 3-D microfluidic network of microchannels of arbitrary complexity and to a method for fabricating such devices. In particular, the invention relates to a method of forming microfluidic devices having 3-D microfluidic networks that contain open or closed loop microchannels using a single-step molding process without the need for layer-by-layer fabrication, and to the resultant microfluidic devices. The networks of such microfluidic devices may comprise one or more microchannel circuits which may be discrete or interconnected.
US09656396B2
On an inner peripheral surface of an outer peripheral member 10, a recess 11 is formed to which a pipe spring 30 is fitted. On an outer peripheral surface of an inner peripheral member 20 arranged concentrically with and rotatable relatively to the outer peripheral member 10 on an inner peripheral side of the outer peripheral member 10, a cam surface 21 is formed which abuts against the pipe spring 30. The cam surface 21 protrudes in the radial direction as it is farther away in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral member 10 from the point of contact with the pipe spring 30 in the state where no load is applied.
US09656381B2
An adapter for a dielectric hot stick, the hot stick having a hook, the hook being movable along an axis of travel that includes a retracted position where the hook is within an axial passage in the hot stick, and an extended position where the hook is extended past a work end of the hot stick, the adapter comprising: a frame with a hot stick seat shaped to be mounted on the work end of the hot stick, the frame defining a lever passage positioned to at least partially align with the axial passage in use; and a lever assembly pivotally connected to the frame, the lever assembly having a first end with a connector for the hook and being at least partially within the lever passage, and the lever assembly having a second end defining or connected to a tool part to move the tool part relative to the frame to carry out a function when the hook moves along the axis of travel.
US09656375B2
A simplified installation tool for installing a cover strip in a linear guide rail assembly is provided. The installation tool includes a body having a channel that extends across a bottom surface of the body that is adapted to receive a guide rail. The channel is defined by an upper surface with a lead-in angled projection and sides defined by two L-shaped guide portions that extend from the upper surface and that face each other. Two undercut areas of the channel are located between the L-shaped guide portions and the upper surface of the channel. Retention tabs of the installation tool can attach to the carriage of the linear guide rail assembly. The lead-in angled projection provides a downward force on the cover strip as the carriage travels along the guide rail to press the cover strip into a flattened state within a slot of the guide rail.
US09656373B2
A hand tool is provided that is configured to provide ready access to individual tool members. In this regard, the hand tool may provide improved features for facilitating storage and operation of the tool members. One example hand tool includes first and second jaws capable of translating between an extended position and a retracted position.
US09656368B2
A device for gripping a substrate without contact with which the substrate can be more securely transported. In the device, a housing cap has an air inlet in the upper surface and a lower opening, the lower opening communicating with the air inlet such that air introduced through the air inlet exits through the lower opening. A contour of the lower opening in its vertical cross section is convexly rounded such that the introduced air is guided along a horizontal undersurface of the housing cap. A nozzle is disposed in an inner hollow space of the housing cap, and has an inclined surface such that the width of the nozzle gradually decreases in the direction from the undersurface of the nozzle to the upper surface of the nozzle adjacent to the air inlet. The undersurface of the nozzle is at a predetermined distance from the inner surface of the housing cap. An ultrasonic shaker applies ultrasonic vibration to the housing cap.
US09656367B2
An assembly includes a carrier device having proximal and distal ends. The carrier device includes a workpiece platform along the proximal end. The workpiece platform supports one or more slider bars. The carrier device attaches to a lapping machine. An adaptive component, including at least one spring, has a first portion that couples to the carrier device and a second portion that couples to a grinding-slicing machine.
US09656365B1
The axial rotation of a honing tool head and the radial advance of the co-rotating honing stones are accomplished simultaneously by a magnetic coupling. The magnetic coupling connects an inner and drive axle that are driven independently. When the inner axial is driven at a differential speed than the drive axle, a connected pinion gear mechanism is engaged to transfer torque and radially displace the honing stones in response to the speed difference.
US09656364B2
A hand sander and sanding disc fixture for attaching a sanding disc to a hand sander includes a table having a top with a sander storage station and an application station thereon. The storage station has a holder capable of holding a hand sander having a sander pad on the top of the table. The application station has at least two datum pegs extending from the top of the table that are capable of passing through two corresponding datum holes in the sanding disc. The at least two datum pegs having datum surfaces configured to be received in datum notches in an outer diameter of the sander pad. The datum pegs are capable of aligning the sander pad with the sanding disc when the sander pad is pressed against an attaching side of the sanding disc.
US09656363B2
A vertical machining center includes a base; a tilting rotary table, a tool spindle, a tilting shaft, a recessed area, a slide door, and an inner cover. The tilting rotary table is disposed on the base and configured to turn and tilt a table face of a rotary table. The tool spindle is rotatable about a vertical axis line and movable in an X axis direction, a Y axis direction, and a Z axis direction. The tilting shaft is disposed in the tilting rotary table and oriented in the Y axis direction. The recessed area is disposed on a front surface of the vertical machining center. The recessed area is adjacent to a support supporting the tilting shaft. The slide door is configured to cover the front surface. The inner cover is integral with the slide door. The inner cover is configured to cover the recessed area.
US09656344B2
A method of forming an object includes installing multiple foil drums within a processing chamber of an ultrasonic consolidation system. The multiple foil drums each include different materials than the other foil drums. The multiple foil drums are positioned so that one of the foils is selected to be placed on top of the build platform. The selected foil is welded onto the build platform or onto a previously processed layer. A portion of the welded foil is then cut. The multiple foil drums are retracted away from the build platform. The portion of the welded foil that was just cut is then consolidated to the object. The build platform is incrementally lowered before the process is repeated to form the next layer of the object.
US09656341B2
A low-back-pressure penetrating arc welding apparatus and a welding method using the same are disclosed. Through vacuuming a central vacuum chamber of a low-back-pressure protection device by a suction device, a plume of a penetrating arc located in the central vacuum chamber, as well as a back side of a keyhole molten pool, are maintained in a negative-pressure vacuum state relative to an argon gas ambience. A pressure gradient in the keyhole molten pool is thus generated that points from a front side of the keyhole molten pool to the back side of the keyhole molten pool. The pressure gradient thus further enhances a stiffness of the front side of the keyhole molten pool as well as a stability of the penetrating arc, resulting in an enhancement in the piercing capability of the penetrating arc, without changing a force distribution and a temperature gradient of the keyhole molten pool.
US09656339B2
A machining pass generating apparatus for a wire electric discharge machine, which is configured to generate a machining pass for machining a key groove on a side surface of a round hole, includes a processor. The processor is configured to define a shape of the key groove to be machined, designate a diameter of the round hole, designate a position of the round hole, and generate a machining pass, the pass suppresses an opening of the key groove from being narrowed.
US09656336B2
An electric power saw/cutter includes a rotatable saw structure, a rear handle with a switch/speed control, a front handle and a drive unit for rotating the saw structure. The drive unit itself including a saw structure drive arrangement to which the saw structure is attachable, a transmission for driving the saw drive arrangement, an electric motor for driving an input shaft of the transmission, and a support structure for holding/carrying the saw structure drive arrangement, the transmission and the electric motor. The front handle and the rear handle are directly connected to each other to form a handle unit, which unit is resiliently connected to the drive unit, so that vibrations from the saw blade and drive unit will be reduced in the handle unit.
US09656335B2
A broach tool includes a broach tool rake face with a tailored surface topography.
US09656329B2
A machining jig for rotatably supporting a workpiece comprising: a rotary drive part which rotates a seating part about a rotation axis, a clamp arm which has a rotary type clamp member which cooperates with the seating part to fasten a workpiece at a position separated from the seating part in a direction along the rotation axis of the seating part, a linear drive part which moves the clamp arm in a direction along a rotation axis, a position adjusting part which adjusts a position of the clamp arm in a plane intersecting the rotation axis, and a tilt adjusting part which adjusts a tilt of the clamp member so that a rotation axis of the clamp member becomes parallel with the rotation axis of the seating part.
US09656312B2
The invention concerns a 4-high/6-high/18 HS cassette-type roll stand in which bending force is transmitted to bending journals (6) of roll inserts (7) by piston-cylinder units that are connected with Mae West blocks (3).Here, the piston at the piston rod (1) is fixedly connected with the Mae West block (3) and the cylinders (4) fit around the bending journals (6) at the inserts (7) of the rolls, so that thereby bending force can be transmitted directly to the bending journals (6) of the roll inserts (7).
US09656310B2
A fluid dispensing apparatus may be used to dispense a paint fluid from a paint container that is under pressure and that has a pierceable membrane. The fluid dispensing apparatus may include a valve body having a bore, an adaptor having a bore and a piercing member, and a nozzle having a bore. The fluid dispensing apparatus may be operable to pierce the pierceable membrane to communicate the paint within the paint container with the adaptor bore and with the valve body bore. The nozzle may be operable to permit the paint to flow under the pressure out of the paint container, through the adaptor bore, through the valve body bore and through the nozzle bore to ambient.
US09656301B2
A sorting system having a plurality of sorting assemblies where each sorting assembly has an image device that transmits an image of product to a controller that then actuates a robotic sorting device to remove damaged product through a suction tube based upon the transmitted image.
US09656294B2
Embodiments described herein are related to methods for processing substrates such as silicon substrates. In some cases, the method may provide the ability to passivate a silicon surface at relatively low temperatures and/or in the absence of a solvent. Methods described herein may be useful in the fabrication of a wide range of devices, including electronic devices such as photovoltaic devices, solar cells, organic light-emitting diodes, sensors, and the like.
US09656285B2
A roll member having an outer circumferential surface in which a plurality of grooves are formed, wherein the plurality of grooves are arranged at an angle relative to a direction parallel to a central axis of the roll member. A coating device for coating a film member with a coating liquid, the coating device comprising the roll member. A separator production device for producing a separator in which a heat-resistant layer is laminated over a substrate. The separator production device comprising the coating device. A secondary battery production device for producing a secondary battery comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a pair of separators that sandwich the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate therebetween. The secondary battery production device comprising the separator production device.
US09656284B2
The present invention relates to a coating system for coating an elongated wood, plastic and/or metal workplace with a coating agent. Said system comprises a pre-treatment station, a coating station and/or a drying station. A transport means transports the workplace along the coating systems.
US09656283B2
A sprinkler protector including a housing which engages with a sprinkler or sprinkler pipe and a plurality of circumferentially disposed fingers forming a cage-like shroud over the sprinkler head. The protector shields the sprinkler from impact with foreign material but does not prevent the efficient spraying of water from the sprinkler for the purposes of irrigation.
US09656279B2
A top spraying shower head with reset function comprises a shower head main body having: a waterway switch valve, an inlet passage, a first outlet hole, and a second outlet hole concentrically arranged in the direction of the inlet passage. The inlet passage with the first outlet hole or the second outlet hole form a first outlet passage and a second outlet passage respectively. The waterway switch valve comprises: a valve body having a slidable valve body that moves between a first position and a second position to close the first outlet passage or the second outlet passage; a sealing element which can open the first and second outlet passage; an elastic element abutting between one end of the valve spindle and the inner wall of the valve body; and a W-shaped camshaft rotatably assembled in the valve body.
US09656276B1
A de-sanding tank with a vertical exterior wall and an interior conical bottom with a solids outlet located at a lower tip of the conical bottom. Downwardly and tangentially oriented water jet nozzles within the tank cause a swirling action to remove solids. An enclosing space located between the vertical wall and the conical bottom has a honey-combed structure of closed pore foam as reinforcement for the conical bottom. Compartments within the honey-combed structure fill with water as the vessel is placed in service to add support for the conical bottom. Water enters the compartments via downwardly facing bottom openings that fill a common void located at the bottom of the enclosing space and then into the compartments. Weep holes provided between the top of each compartment and the interior of the tank allow the air from the compartments to enter the tank as the compartments fill.
US09656273B2
A flotation separation apparatus for separating particles in suspensions, feeds slurry containing the particles through an inlet into a contactor where gas is fed through an inlet to mix with the slurry, for example in a downwardly plunging jet, to form a gas-liquid bubbly two-phase mixture under pressure from an outlet restriction in a throttling duct. The mixture is passed through a flow manipulator configured to induce a high energy dissipation rate, for example by way of a Shockwave formed in a diverging section of the throttling duct reducing the size of the bubbles and brining those bubbles into intimate contact with particles in the mixture which is released into a separation cell where a flow manipulating draft tube is provided to reduce turbulence in the mixture. Alternative apparatus and methods for inducing the high energy dissipation rate and for reducing turbulence in the mixture are also described and claimed.
US09656261B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a microfluidic chip to facilitate DNA analysis. The microfluidic chip includes a first domain configured for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of DNA fragments, a dilution domain coupled to the first domain to dilute a PCR mixture received from the first domain, and a second domain that is coupled to the dilution domain so as to receive the amplified DNA fragments. The second domain includes a separation channel that is configured to perform electrophoretic separation of the amplified DNA fragments. In addition, the disclosure provides a DNA analyzer to act on the microfluidic chip to perform an integrated single chip DNA analysis.
US09656256B2
The present invention relates to an n-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) type palladium catalyst and its preparation method as well as applications. Its preparation process is as below: select glyoxal as the raw material to synthesize glyoxaldiimine in the presence of Lewis acid or Bronsted acid, and then react with paraformaldehyde to get the NHC type ligand. Use palladium(II) to react with the compound containing carbon-nitrogen double bonds to get palladium(II) cyclic dimer; make the palladium cyclic dimer and the NHC type ligand coordinated to get the NHC type palladium catalyst. The palladium catalyst with a brand new structure according to the present invention, boasts high activity and multi-purpose. In addition, it shows excellent reaction activity in a lot of catalytic-coupling reactions including Suzuki-Miyaura, Heck, Buchwald-Hartwig, Kumada-Tamao-Corriu, Sonogashira, Negishi and α-ketone arylation reactions, and some reactions even can be carried out with the presence of an extremely low concentration of catalyst, exhibiting favorable industrialization prospect.
US09656251B2
The present invention relates to a full-Si molecular sieve, wherein the full-Si molecular sieve has a Q4/Q3 of (10-90):1 wherein Q4 is the peak strength at the chemical shift of −112±2 ppm in the 29Si NMR spectrum of the full-Si molecular sieve, expressed as the peak height relative to the base line; and Q3 is the peak strength at the chemical shift of −103±2 ppm in the 29Si NMR spectrum of the full-Si molecular sieve, expressed as the peak height relative to the base line.
US09656244B2
The invention relates to the use of a novel silica-supported trimetallic (La/Zr/Zn) catalyst in the production of 1,3-butadiene from ethanol. The presence of lanthanum in the catalyst further comprising zirconium and zinc increases the catalyst's yield and selectivity to 1,3-butadiene.
US09656242B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a super absorbent polymer. The method for preparing a super absorbent polymer according to the present invention comprises the steps of: preparing a hydrogel polymer by carrying out a thermal polymerization or a photopolymerization of a monomer composition including a water-soluble ethylene-based unsaturated monomer and a polymerization initiator; drying the hydrogel polymer; pulverizing the dried polymer; mixing the pulverized polymer with a surface crosslinking agent and a polymer particle having a core-shell structure; and carrying out a surface crosslinking reaction. According to the present invention, the super absorbent polymer having improved permeability can be obtained by adding the polymer particle during surface crosslinking.
US09656225B2
A method and system for magnetic actuated mixing which use magnetic particles and electromagnetic field to facilitate the mixing. The method and system use magnetic particles and a generated electromagnetic field to facilitate the milling as well. The method and system can be used in any application that requires the preparation of small-sized particles at either the micro or nano scale, including for example, preparing toners, inks, wax, pigment dispersions and the like.
US09656224B2
A dynamic mixer for a plurality of fluid components contains a housing and a rotor element which is rotatably arranged in the housing, with the housing having an inlet opening for at least one respective component and having at least one outlet opening. A ring-shaped intermediate space is provided between the rotor element and the housing in which a mixing element connected to the rotor element is arranged. The mixing element has a vane element which is formed as a directing element for conveying the components from the inlet opening to the outlet opening. The vane element is a directing element and has a directing surface which has a concave curvature with respect to the outlet opening and is further remote from the outlet opening at the onflow side than at the outflow side.
US09656222B2
Apparatuses and methods that reduce cavitation in interaction chambers are described herein. In an embodiment, an interaction chamber for a fluid processor or fluid homogenizer includes an inlet chamber having an inlet hole and a bottom end, an outlet chamber having an outlet hole and a top end, a microchannel placing the inlet hole in fluid communication with the outlet hole, wherein an entrance to the microchannel from the inlet chamber is offset a distance from the bottom end, and at least one of: (i) a tapered fillet located on a side wall of the microchannel at the microchannel entrance; (ii) a side wall of the microchannel converging inwardly from the inlet chamber to the outlet chamber; (iii) a top wall and/or bottom wall of the microchannel angled from the inlet chamber to the outlet chamber; and (iv) a top fillet that extends around a diameter of inlet chamber.
US09656219B2
A refrigerator includes a carbonated water tank in which carbonated water is stored; a water level sensor sensing a water level of carbonated water stored in the carbonated water tank; a water tank supplying filtered water to the carbonated water tank; a carbon dioxide cylinder supplying carbon dioxide to the carbonated water tank; and a controller, if the water level of carbonated water sensed by the water level sensor is less than or equal to a predetermined minimum water level, supplying the filtered water to the carbonated water tank, and if supply of the filtered water is completed, supplying the carbon dioxide to the carbonated water tank so as to produce the carbonated water. If the carbonated water is discharged, the controller controls the water level sensor to sense the water lever of the carbonated water stored in the carbonated water tank.
US09656214B2
Technologies are generally described for composite membranes which may include a porous graphene layer in contact with a porous support substrate. In various examples, a surface of the porous support substrate may include at least one of: a thermo-formed polymer characterized by a glass transition temperature, a woven fibrous membrane, and/or a nonwoven fibrous membrane. Examples of the composite membranes permit the use of highly porous woven or nonwoven fibrous support membranes instead of intermediate porous membrane supports. In several examples, the composite membranes may include porous graphene layers directly laminated onto the fibrous membranes via the thermo-formed polymers. The described composite membranes may be useful for separations, for example, of gases, liquids and solutions.
US09656206B2
A combined desulfuration, denitration, and demercuration apparatus and method using a semi-dry process in a circulating fluidized bed. The apparatus comprises a flue (2) and a circulating fluidized bed reaction column (8) connected in sequence, the flue (2) being connected to a bottom inlet of the circulating fluidized bed reaction column (8). The flue (2) is further connected to an ozone generation apparatus (1). The ozone distributor (1) feeds ozone in the flue (2) and sends oxidized flue gas into the circulating fluidized bed reaction column (8), so that the SO2, high-valence NOx, and Hg2+ contained in the flue gas are removed through reactions with a Ca-based absorbent under the effect of atomized water in the reaction column (8).
US09656204B2
A method for obtaining highly pure hydrogen from a raw gas begins with heating and/or treating a semipermeable material made of metal or a metal alloy, preferably, conducting an electric current through the semipermeable material at the beginning of the method in order to increase the quantity of hydrogen passing through the material. A device for obtaining highly pure hydrogen from the raw gas includes a semipermeable material which forms a boundary between the interior of a pressure vessel and the outer region of the pressure vessel and which is permeable to hydrogen. The device is designed such that is can be heatable or treatable at least in sections, in particular, by means of electric energy.
US09656198B2
An oil separator is provided with a housing having an inlet for air, and an expansion chamber located inside the housing. The oil separator introduces air containing oil that has passed through the inlet into the housing, and separates and recovers the oil from the introduced air. The transverse cross-sectional area of the expansion chamber is larger than the opening area of the inlet. The oil separator is further provided with a collected liquid storage portion that is located below the expansion chamber and collects the separated oil, a liquid communication portion having a communication hole that connects the expansion chamber to the collected liquid storage portion, and a mounting and dismounting mechanism for mounting and dismounting the collected liquid storage portion to and from the housing.
US09656195B2
A coalescence media for separation of water-hydrocarbon emulsions, the coalescence media comprising an emulsion-contacting sheet formed as a single dry layer from a wet-laid process using a homogenously distributed, wet-laid furnish of (a) a mixture of fibrous components of (a1) at least one type of a first group of cellulose and/or cellulose-based fibers, and (a2) at least one type of a second group of fibers selected from the group consisting of fibrillated fibers and glass microfibers, and (b) at least one non-fibrous component selected from the group consisting of (b1) a dry strength additive, and (b2) a wet strength additive. The fibrous components of the coalescence media constitute at least about 70% of the coalescence media, and includes a pore structure sufficient to coalesce water droplets having a droplet size of <3.5 μm in biodiesel blends or in surfactant stabilized water-hydrocarbon emulsions.
US09656178B2
An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: a game processing unit configured to execute a multiplayer game application through a plurality of users each using a terminal; a group formation unit configured to form a playgroup for playing the game application, wherein the game processing unit includes: a group formation request unit configured to output, to the group formation unit, a playgroup formation request that specifies a group, according to input of the terminals, wherein the group formation unit is configured to form the users of terminals that specify the same group into a playgroup, based on the specified group.
US09656175B1
One aspect of the disclosure relates to providing players pricing of in-game virtual items associated with their experience and their progress in the game. For example, the first player and the second player may have similar triggers, similar in-game events, and actually have different prices and currencies inside each story depending on each player's progress in the game, thus creating an individualized experience that may alter from player to player.
US09656173B2
Example systems and methods involve an information processing apparatus configured to transmit transmission data to one or more of a plurality of other information processing apparatuses, the transmission data including identification information for content data executed by the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus is also configured to receive reception data from one or more of the plurality of other information processing apparatuses, the reception data from each respective other information processing apparatus including identification information for content data executed by the respective other information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus accesses purchase information associated with purchasing content data corresponding to at least one piece of identification information included in the reception data received from the one or more of the plurality of other information processing apparatuses.
US09656166B1
Methods and systems for receiving a request for content associated with a game, receiving at least one of a device identifier and at least one of game data, associating the device identifier with the game data to create a document, and retrieving the document to generate relevant content items for display on the web page.
US09656164B2
A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game is provided. A plurality of players addresses a common task in the video game. Task related information that indicates a task that a player can challenge in the video game is stored in a task related information memory. When a task providing request is received from the player, the video game processing apparatus specifies a task corresponding to the task providing request, and generates other player related information. The other player related information indicates other player corresponding to the specified task. A task screen showing the specified task is then displayed. At least part of the generated other player related information is also displayed on the task screen.
US09656160B2
Video server systems and methods for providing video streams to a plurality of remote clients are described. In one implementation, the video streams are based on game states received from a remote game server. The game states are dependent on game commands received by the video server system from the remote clients and forwarded to the remote game server. The video server system is configured to appear, from the point of view of the game server, as more than one client. For example, the video server system may receive game states from the remote game server at more than one different Internet Protocol address and each of these Internet Protocol addresses may be associated with a different game session.
US09656159B1
One aspect of the disclosure relates to providing players of an online game the option of performing one or more activities external to the online game instead of spend virtual currency to accomplish a specific action in the game. This option is presented through an interface that creates and displays separate “offer walls” for separation actions in the game. The activities may thematically correspond to the type of action the player wants to perform.
US09656156B2
A multi-game ticket assembly includes a single continuous substrate having a middle section and opposite end sections folded inwardly against the middle section. A portion of the front surface of each end section is adhered to the front surface of the middle section. Each of the end sections has a game area defined by lines of weakness in the substrate, with each game area further including a first game printed on the rear surface thereof and a second separate game printed on the front surface thereof. The first games of the end sections are adjacent and accessible to a player from a front aspect of the ticket assembly, and the second game of each end section is accessible to the player by separating the game area from its respective end section and folding the game area outwardly away from the middle section.
US09656151B2
The present invention is a skin cleat device for increasing grip while ski touring. The skin cleat is configured to be attached around a ski by a skier without disengaging the ski boot from the skis and can be removed and re-attached depending on the needs of the user. The skin cleat is a strap-like device that includes two end sections and a studded central section there-between. The central section is intended to be placed underneath the base of the ski and skin such that the studs extend into the snow. The two end sections can be attached together by a coupling to form a continuous structure around the waist of the ski. Using the coupling, the structure can be tightened around the ski securing it in place and preventing the skin cleat from rotating around the ski or the studs from moving substantially when in use.
US09656150B2
A glove comprises tip-covering portions, joint-covering portions, and surface-covering portions. Each of the tip-covering portions is made of a first material and configured to cover each palm or back side of tip portions of fingers. Each of the joint-covering portions is made of a second material, connected to corresponding one of the tip-covering portions, and configured to cover one of palm or back side of joint portions of the fingers. Each of the surface-covering portions is made of a third material, connected to at least one of the tip-covering portions and the joint-covering portions, and configured to cover surface portions other than hand portions covered by the tip-covering portions or the joint-covering portions. The second material is more flexible than the first or third material, so that the glove has one size and multi-size feature.
US09656143B2
A basketball shot determination system for use with a basket and a portable electronic device including a data acquisition device, a processing unit, a memory and an output device, the system includes a basketball, at least one sensor carried by the basketball, and a non-transient computer-readable medium. The medium contains code to direct the processor to obtain at least one attribute of a shot of the basketball towards the basket from the data acquisition device. The at least one attribute is sensed by the sensor or derived from signal output by the sensor. The medium contains code to direct the processor to determine whether the shot is a made basket by comparing the at least one attribute of the shot to one or more predetermined signature characteristics of a made basket, and to present output to a person based on the determination of whether the shot is a made basket.
US09656142B2
A basketball shot determination system for use with a basket and a portable electronic device including a processing unit, a memory and an output device, the system includes a basketball, at least one sensor carried by the basketball, and a non-transient computer-readable medium. The medium contains code to direct the processor to obtain at least one attribute of a shot of the basketball towards the basket. The at least one attribute being sensed by the at least one sensor or derived from signal output by the at least one sensor. The code also directs the processor to determine whether the shot is a made basket by comparing the at least one attribute of the shot to one or more predetermined signature characteristics of a made basket, and to present output to a person based on the determination of whether the shot is a made basket.
US09656125B2
A golf ball 2 has, on a surface thereof, a plurality of types of dimples 8 having different diameters from each other. A standard deviation Vσ of the volumes of all the dimples 8 is equal to or less than 0.095 mm3. The ratio (Vσ/Dσ) of the standard deviation Vσ to a standard deviation Dσ of the diameters of all the dimples 8 is equal to or less than 0.35. Preferably, the shape of each dimple 8 is a portion of a spherical surface. The standard deviation Vσ is preferably equal to or less than 0.087 mm3. The ratio (Vσ/Dσ) is preferably equal to or less than 0.29.
US09656124B2
Exercise equipment having the control system capable to switch the equipment in its existing highest resistance mode in order to impede and thus discourage the usage of this equipment by an unauthorized user. Exercise equipment capable to detect unauthorized use and activating an alarm in order to discourage the usage of this equipment by an unauthorized user.
US09656123B2
A computing system is described that determines one or more of modes of transportation available to a user of a computing device to travel from a current location of the computing device to a particular destination such that the user is predicted to arrive at the particular destination by a particular future time. The computing system determines, based at least in part on a fitness goal associated with the user of the computing device, a recommended mode of transportation from the one or more modes of transportation, the recommended mode of transportation being a particular mode of transportation predicted to aid the user in achieving the fitness goal. The computing system outputs, for transmission to the computing device, an indication of the recommended mode of transportation.
US09656114B1
A jaw-strengthening device has a first receiver that receives a first row of teeth having first and second molar sections, a first air chamber within the first receiver positioned in a first molar section of the first receiver, a second air chamber within the first receiver positioned in a second molar section of the first receiver, and an egress valve, that permits egress and prevents ingress of air, in communication with the first and second air chambers, a second receiver that receives a second row of teeth having first and second molar sections, a third air chamber within the second receiver positioned in a first molar section of the second receiver, a fourth air chamber within the second receiver positioned in a second molar section of the second receiver, and an ingress valve in communication with the third and fourth air chambers.
US09656111B1
Climbing wall configuration systems and methods suitable for use with both traditional protection and a primary substructure of a climbing wall.
US09656110B2
A soft edged trampoline includes a flexible mat supported from a base frame by a plurality of resiliently flexible rods. Each rod has an enlarged upper end. A plurality of fittings coupled to the mat about the periphery of the mat each include a socket cavity which receives the enlarged upper end of a flexible rod, so that the upper ends of the flexible rods are pivotally connected to the periphery of the mat.
US09656109B1
A process for preparing humic-mineral agent granules is disclosed. Such a process may comprise providing a humic acid-containing material; crushing the humic acid-containing material to obtain first granules; contacting a quantity of water with the first granules, thereby forming slightly wet granules; blending the slightly wet granules for a period of time, thereby forming blended granules; contacting an amount of alkali with the blended granules, thereby forming alkali-treated granules; and mixing the alkali-treated granules at a temperature high enough to melt organic carbon substances in the alkali-treated granules. The resulting product has biologically, geologically, and chemically active properties, and may be applied to the soil alone or in combination with a commercially available fertilizer. Additionally, the resulting product may be used to detoxify solid or liquid waste products.
US09656107B2
A trigger unit (1) for triggering an extinguishing-agent flow in the direction of a fire zone, connected to an energy supply, having a first actuating device (3) that can be switched between a release position in which the energy supply is released, and an interruption position in which the energy supply is interrupted, a second actuating device (5) that can be switched between a release position in which the extinguishing-agent flow is released, and a rest position, a coupling unit (7) that can be moved between an operating position and an extinguishing position and permanently couples together the switching of the first actuating device (3) and the second actuating device (5). A tensioning element is connected in a force-transmitting manner to the coupling unit (7) in such a manner that a change in the tensioning state of the tensioning element always results in a movement of the coupling unit (7).
US09656099B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for radiotherapy. Embodiments of the present disclosure may receive a medical image including images of a target and an organ at risk (OAR). Some embodiments may also receive a target dose and a constraint on an OAR dose. Some embodiments may also generate a dose application plan based on the target dose and the constraint. Generation of the dose application plan may include determining a placement of an arc along which radiation is to be applied based on the target dose and a location of the target; dividing the arc into a plurality of segments; determining a dose rate associated with each segment; calculating a predicted OAR dose based on the determined dose rate; and comparing the predicted OAR dose with the constraint on the OAR dose to determine whether the predicted OAR dose satisfies the constraint on the OAR dose.
US09656096B2
Apparatus and methods for delivering electromagnetic signals configured specifically to accelerate the asymmetrical kinetics of the binding of intracellular ions to their respective intracellular buffers, to enhance the biochemical signaling pathways plant animal and human molecules, cells, tissues, organs, portions of entire organisms and entire organisms employ for growth, repair and maintenance. Described herein are devices and methods that utilize repetitive bursts of waveforms configured to maximize the bound concentration of intracellular ions at their associated molecular buffers to enhance the biochemical signaling pathways living systems employ for growth, repair and maintenance. For example the systems and methods described herein may drive the binding of calcium to calmodulin (CaM), thereby enhancing the CaM-dependent nitric oxide (NO)/cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) signaling pathway.
US09656091B2
Power saving communication techniques for communicating in a medical device system. One example medical device system may be for delivering electrical stimulation therapy to a heart of a patient, and may include a first implantable medical device implanted in a first chamber of the heart and configured to determine one or more parameters, a medical device physically spaced from and communicatively coupled to the first implantable medical device, the medical device configured to deliver electrical stimulation therapy to the heart of the patient, wherein the first implantable medical device is further configured to: compare a value of a first determined parameter to a first threshold; if the value of the first determined parameter passed the first threshold, communicate a first indication to the medical device; and if the value of the first determined parameter has not passed the first threshold, not communicating the first indication to the medical device.
US09656085B2
An example of a system may include an arrangement of electrodes configured to be operationally positioned for use in modulating targeted neural tissue, a neural modulator, a communication module, and a controller. The neural modulator may be configured to use at least some electrodes within the arrangement of electrodes to generate a modulation field. The communication module may be configured to receive user-provided selections. The controller may be configured to use the communication module to receive a user-provided selection of a desired electrode list where the electrode list identifies electrodes within the arrangement of electrodes that are available for use in modulating the targeted neural tissue, control the neural stimulation modulator to generate the modulation field, and use the electrodes identified in the electrode list to modulate the targeted neural tissue.
US09656077B2
The present application relates to a new stimulation design which can be utilized to treat neurological conditions. The stimulation system produces a combination of burst and tonic stimulation which alters the neuronal activity of the predetermined site, thereby treating the neurological condition or disorder.
US09656075B2
A method for assessment, optimization and logging of the effects of a therapy for a medical condition, including (a) receiving into a signal processor input signals indicative of the subject's brain activity; (b) characterizing the spatio-temporal behavior of the brain activity using the signals; (c) delivering a therapy to a target tissue of the subject; (d) characterizing the spatio-temporal effect of the therapy on the brain activity; (e) in response to the characterizing, optimizing at least one parameter of the therapy if the brain activity has not been satisfactorily modified and/or has been adversely modified by the therapy; (f) characterizing the spatio-temporal effect of the at least one optimized parameter; and (g) logging to memory the at least one optimized parameter. A computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, performs the method.
US09656074B2
Devices, systems and methods for treating at least one of a condition or a symptom of a patient by positioning a stimulation device at a target site adjacent to or near a nerve within a patient. The stimulation device comprising an antenna and one or more electrodes. Transmitting electrical energy to the antenna and generating electrical impulses within the stimulation device with the electrical energy and applying the series of electrical impulses to the nerve via the electrode. The electrical impulses sufficient to modulate the nerve and treat the condition or symptom of the patient; and which have on periods where the electrical impulses are generated and applied to the nerve and off periods between the electrical impulses, where the electrical energy is transmitted to the antenna.
US09656073B2
An external electronic ear device includes a housing, an external magnet, a microphone, a processing circuit and a wireless signal transmitter circuit. The external magnet is disposed in the housing and attracts a receiver magnet disposed under a scalp of a user. The microphone is disposed in the housing and receives an external sound and generates a sound signal corresponding to the external sound. The processing circuit is disposed in the housing and converts the sound signal into an electrode driving signal. The wireless signal transmitter circuit is disposed in the housing and transmits the electrode driving signal to a cochlear implant device in the cochlear system. The cochlear implant device converts the electrode driving signal into a plurality of electrode currents, and a plurality of electrical pulses are generated in a cochlear nerve of the user through a plurality of electrodes according to the electrode currents.
US09656057B2
In some examples, the present disclosure relates to an implantable medical lead and medical device systems employing such leads for medical applications, such as, e.g., neural stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and/or sensing of bioelectrical signals. In one example, the lead includes a thin film configured to be secured to at least a portion of a carrier core, wherein the thin film has a distal end, a proximal end, and at least one electrode between the proximal end and the distal end; and at least one fixation element configured to secure the distal end of the thin film to the carrier core, wherein the fixation element comprises at least one of a distal extension portion of the thin film at least partially wrapped around the carrier core distal to the at least one electrode or a jacket tube located around the carrier core and the thin film.
US09656055B2
This disclosure relates to an in vivo treatment of a skin lesion of a mammal comprising application of electrical energy to the skin lesion in a form of electrical pulses. At least one electrical pulse is applied. The pulse duration may be at least 0.01 nanoseconds at the full-width-at-half-maximum. This treatment may at least prevent growth of the lesion.
US09656052B2
An acoustic line tracing system for tracing a fluid transfer system tubing line includes an acoustic receiver operably connectable to the tubing line and configured to receive the vibratory signal. The acoustic receiver includes a vibration sensor disposed to contact the tubing line and configured for detecting vibration of the surface of the tubing line caused by the vibratory signal, and an indicator producing at least one of an audio and a visual cue when the vibration sensor detects the vibratory signal.
US09656047B1
An anchor device to simplify catheterization procedures, particularly for insertion and maneuvering of large catheters in tortuous arteries, vessels, or other lumen is disclosed. In some embodiments, the anchor device includes an anchor stent formed from a plurality of zig-zag shaped wire elements that are coupled together. The device further includes a plurality of connector struts attached at a proximal end of the anchor stent, the connector struts coalescing to form a strut tip. A guide device, such as a guidewire, is attached to the anchor stent at the strut tip and may be used to guide the anchor stent into the arteries or other vessels and toward a target treatment site.
US09656046B2
A fixator assembly comprising a fixator for fixing inside a blood vessel, the fixator being able to slide proximally along a guide wire. The assembly comprising means for preventing the fixator from moving distally of the preventing means. A tubular element for introduction into a blood vessel of a person, the tubular element comprising an end opening and a plurality of side openings as well as a transport wire extending from inside the tubular element and to the surroundings thereof through an individual side opening.
US09656045B2
Some embodiments of a medical device anchor system include an anchor device that receives a catheter (or other medical instrument) and secures the catheter in place relative to a skin penetration point. In some embodiments, the anchor device can secure the catheter in an operative position relative to the skin without the use of sutures or skin tapes. In particular embodiments, the anchor device can be adjusted to a folded condition so that subcutaneous anchors are partially rotated prior to removal from the skin penetration point.
US09656043B2
A multilumen catheter with an inflow or an outflow lumen having at least two tube extensions extending from the distal end of the catheter that open into the inflow or outflow lumen. The catheter is useful in the extracorporeal treatment of blood, such as hemodialysis, hemofiltration or apheresis. A device to selectively test each of the two tube extensions for occlusion.
US09656040B2
A valve (100) for controlling pressure in a ventilation system. The valve includes an electromagnet (105, 106), a shaft (107) connected to the electromagnet, and a diaphragm (110) connected to the shaft, wherein the electromagnet applies force to the diaphragm based on an input. The ventilation system includes a ventilator (200) connected to a patient circuit (204), the valve (100) controlling pressure in the ventilation system, and a controller (206) connected to the valve and configured to provide the input to the valve.
US09656038B2
A mask system and an air delivery conduit (200) for use in the treatment of respiratory disorders. The air delivery conduit (200) may comprise a textile (220) having an airtight arrangement. A support structure (240) may be provided to the conduit to provide form.
US09656037B2
A surgical mask for use in dental procedures, and oral or facial surgery, formed of a continuous sheet of flexible material comprising a nose-conforming shell incorporating adhesive material for sealing and for maintaining position on the patient during the dental or surgical procedure. The mask forms an encasement for input/output manifolds, and terminates in flexible flange at the columella-labial junction; the mask includes a manifold for receiving and directing N2O/O2 into the nasal vault of the patient, and for the removal of exhalant and the scavenging of gases from the work area.
US09656035B2
Thus far, it has not been possible to produce laryngeal masks having a supraglottic tube as a one-piece unit. If the supraglottic tube (2) is provided with three lumens (4, 5, 6), the center one (6) of which has no passage to the respiration space (10), a solution is proposed. What is proposed is that the center guide lumen is provided with a longitudinal slit (8) extending from the distal end (9) to the laryngeal mask head (3). A connecting web can be attached between two cores or sliders forming the lumens, generating the desired stability in order to maintain the pressing power tool state without deformation.
US09656025B2
An injection device has a container holder in a medicament container housing; first and second energy accumulating members in the housing; a slidable sleeve; a plunger holder associated with the first energy accumulating member such that the plunger holder and container holder are axially movable toward a proximal end of the device from an initial position to a position following needle penetration; and a plunger rod operationally associated with the second energy accumulating member such that the plunger rod is axially movable toward the proximal end from a locked position to a position following medicament injection. In the initial position, movement of the plunger holder is inhibited by interaction of a first biasable member with the plunger holder, the first biasable member recoiling when overlapped by an opening and/or recess of the sleeve such that the plunger holder is released.
US09656020B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a controller for controlling a glucagon pump. The controller comprises an input 8 for receiving an input signal indicative of a measured blood glucose concentration, an output 9 for providing a pulsed glucagon pump drive signal, each pulse being arranged to cause a glucagon pump to deliver a volume of glucagon, and a processing unit 10 for setting the pulse frequency of the pump drive signal in dependence upon the input signal, such that when the input signal indicates that the measured blood glucose concentration is above a threshold concentration the pulse frequency is zero and when the input signal indicates that the measured blood glucose concentration is below the threshold concentration the pulse frequency is increased as the measured blood glucose concentration decreases.
US09656010B2
A blood pump controller includes a microcontroller and a communication interface. The microcontroller is configured to communicate with various types of blood pump communication modules. The microcontroller is further configured to determine, based on communication with a particular type of blood pump communication module, the particular type of blood pump communication module communicated with. The microcontroller is further configured to select, based on the determination of the particular type of blood pump communication module, control logic used to control the particular type of blood pump communication module. The microcontroller is further configured to generate, based on the selected control logic, commands for controlling the blood pump communication module. The communication interface is configured to connect the microcontroller to the particular type of blood pump communication module.
US09655998B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure provide compositions, coatings and implantable devices including a drug and an excipient. In certain embodiments the excipient and the drug are present at a weight ratio of between 10 to 1 and 1 to 10 drug to excipient. In certain other embodiments, the excipient and the drug form particles in which the drug is encapsulated by the excipient. Other aspects of the disclosure provide methods of manufacturing and using such compositions, coatings and implantable devices.
US09655992B2
Disclosed in certain embodiments is a composition comprising a biological material and transition metal atoms selected from the group consisting of Group IVB, Group VB, Group VIB of the Periodic Chart and a combination thereof, bound to a surface of the biological material.
US09655988B2
An adhesive material for medical use comprising gelatin and a non-toxic cross-linking material such as transglutaminase. An optional embodiment of the invention includes dressings in which a layer of a transglutaminase is sandwiched between a first and second layer of gelatin. The hemostatic products are useful for the treatment of wounded tissue.
US09655983B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing a liquid pharmaceutical formulation containing a complex of macrocyclic chelate with a lanthanide and a mol/mol amount of free macrocyclic chelate of between 0.002% and 0.4%, advantageously between 0.02% and 0.3% and very advantageously between 0.025% and 0.25%, the macrocyclic chelate advantageously being chosen from DOTA, NOTA, DOTAGA, DO3A, BT-DO3A, HP-DO3A and PCTA, and is preferably DOTA, the said process comprising the following successive steps: b) preparation of a liquid pharmaceutical composition containing, firstly, the complex of macrocyclic chelate with a lanthanide, and, secondly, free macrocyclic chelate and/or free lanthanide; c) measurement in the pharmaceutical formulation obtained in step b) of the concentration of free macrocyclic chelate C ch1 and/or of free lanthanide C lan1; d) adjustment of C ch1 and/or of C lan1 so as to obtain C ch1=C tch1 and C lan1=0, wherein C t ch1 is the target concentration of free macrocyclic chelate in the final liquid pharmaceutical formulation.
US09655980B2
A compound that includes a quaterrylene dye moiety as core, and a dendrimeric shell. For example, the compound may comprise at least four dendronized polyamides covalently attached to a quaterrylene dye. Also disclosed is a compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, comprising A(G)x, wherein: A comprises a quaterrylene dye; G comprises at least one functionalized dendrimeric structure; and x is 2 to 16. The compounds may be used for in methods for monitoring a therapeutic or diagnostic agent in a subject, or for treating a subject by administering the compound to the subject.
US09655974B2
Analogs of FGF21 carrying a modifying, substituted ethylene or benzyl group can be used for treatment or prevention of diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and/or Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).
US09655971B2
Disclosed in certain embodiments is a solid oral dosage form comprising a heat-labile gelling agent; a thermal stabilizer; and a drug susceptible to abuse.
US09655968B2
A high concentration baclofen solution is provided suitable for therapeutic use in a medical setting. A high concentration solution of baclofen in multivalent physiological ion solution such as artificial cerebrospinal fluid is provided with concentrations of baclofen of 10 mg/ml. Artificial cerebrospinal fluid is particularly advantageous as a baclofen solvent. A medical package is also provided for baclofen delivery to patients suffering from spasticity.
US09655967B2
The formation of scars at a wound site is reduced by contacting the wound site with an effective dose of an inhibitor of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) activity or expression. Blockade of FAK is sufficient to prevent mechanical and inflammatory stimuli from activating MCP-1 pathways. In addition to these chemokine-mediated mechanisms, inhibition of FAK may control fibrosis by blocking fibroblast collagen production. Pharmacologic blockade of FAK significantly reduces scar formation in vivo.
US09655964B2
Engineered multivalent and multispecific binding proteins, methods of making, and specifically to their uses in the prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of disease are provided.
US09655955B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one mRNA comprising at least one coding region for at least one antigen from a tumor, in combination with an aqueous solvent and preferably a cytokine, e.g. GM-CSF, and a process for the preparation of the pharmaceutical composition. The pharmaceutical composition according to the invention is used in particular for therapy and/or prophylaxis against cancer.
US09655951B2
The present invention is the storage of biologically active natural ingredients in carbonated water. In a specific embodiment, the present invention is the storage in carbonated water of animal tissue containing type II collagen. Such type II collagen is useful for alleviating the symptoms of arthritis in mammals as well as the treatment of arthritis in mammals. Such type II collagen is also useful for the prevention of arthritis in mammals. The present invention is also a method for the preparation of a nutritional supplement that includes the steps of: (a) separating animal tissue containing water-insoluble, undenatured type II collagen from animal tissue not containing type II collagen; (b) subdividing and sterilizing said tissue under conditions which do not change the original structure of the type II collagen to produce a subdivided and sterilized product; (c) packaging the subdivided and sterilized product in carbonated water.
US09655941B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating diabetes or dementia, comprising centipede grass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) extracts as an active ingredient. It has been identified from animal tests that the centipede grass extracts, fractions thereof, and active fractions separated from the said fractions effectively regulate blood glucose levels, and inhibit the activity of amyloid-β(Aβ) which is involved in the formation of amyloid plaques that might cause dementia. Thus, the extracts, the fractions thereof, and the active fractions separated from the said fractions can be effectively used in a composition for preventing and treating diabetes or dementia, in a functional food for preventing or improving diabetes or dementia, and in a pharmaceutical composition or health food for blood glucose regulation.
US09655940B2
The present invention provides a novel composition of matter comprised of a mixture of two specific classes of compounds—Free-B-ring flavonoids and flavans—for use in the prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions mediated by the COX-2 and 5-LO pathways. The present invention further provides a novel method for simultaneously inhibiting the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) enzymes, and reducing cox-2 mRNA production. Finally, the present invention includes a method for weight loss and blood glucose control. The methods of this invention are comprised of administering to a host in need thereof an effective amount of the composition of this invention together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. This invention relates generally to the prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions mediated by the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) pathways, including but not limited to the relief joint discomfort and pain associated with conditions such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and other injuries that result from overuse.
US09655939B2
The present invention provides for an antimicrobial and/or antiviral composition suitable for administration to a surface. The antimicrobial and/or antiviral composition is suitable for administration to a surface, comprising an essential oil portion; and an effective amount of a volatile liquid carrier such that a majority of the composition readily evaporates after dispersal onto the surface. The composition is compatible with and suitable for topical use with human skin. Methods of preparing and administering the antimicrobial and/or antiviral compositions are also disclosed.
US09655938B2
The invention relates to compositions and formulations comprising polymeric myrcene. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions comprising an isolated fraction of polymeric myrcene in a hydrophobic carrier and formulations which maintain the biological activity of the active polymer.
US09655932B2
A composition composed of a Lactobacillus bacterium, Bifidobacterium longum, and xylooligosaccharide is provided for use in reducing uric acid levels in the blood and preventing or treating hyperuricemia or gout.
US09655928B2
The present invention provides a novel way to replenish the disc using retooled disc compositions to repair degenerative discs. There is no better source of proteoglycans than the actual disc material (6) itself. To this end, there has been developed a technique to remove the nucleus pulposus and retool the morphology of the nucleus pulposus to create a powder material (10) that is dry and can be stored at room temperature for long periods of time. This powder (10) can then be reconstituted with a variety of fluids, the most suitable being normal saline or lactated ringers to form a flowable mixture (20).
US09655920B2
The present invention provides crosslinked amine polymers effective for binding and removing bile salts from the gastrointestinal tract. These bile acid binding polymers or pharmaceutical compositions thereof can be administered to subjects to treat various conditions, including hypercholesteremia, diabetes, pruritus, irritable bowel syndrome-diarrhea (IBS-D), bile acid malabsorption, and the like.
US09655914B2
This application relates to combination therapies including triciribine compounds and epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor compounds, particularly erlotinib-like compounds and compositions with reduced toxicity for the treatment and prevention of tumors, cancer, and other disorders associated with abnormal cell proliferation.
US09655908B2
Oral dosage forms of osteoclast inhibitors, such as nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates, such as zoledronic acid and neridronic acid in an acid or a salt form, or in a molecular complex can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions, such as complex regional pain syndrome.
US09655907B2
The application provides formulations for the topical administration of an active agent comprising at least one steroid, in the form of topical sprays that are propellant-free, and/or substantially non-foaming, and/or alcohol-free. The present application also provides processes for preparing such compositions and methods of using them in management of skin diseases or disorders such as psoriasis, dermatoses, and other associated skin diseases or disorders.
US09655891B1
The present invention is related to a method for diabetic wound healing comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a therapeutically effective amount of a compound having the general Formula I, preferably salsolinol.
US09655890B2
An inhalable composition comprising: nicotine or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative or salt thereof; a propellant; a monohydric alcohol; and a glycol and/or glycol ether, characterized in that the ratio of monohydric alcohol:glycol or glycol ether by weight is from 6:1 to 1:1.
US09655885B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to amorphous form of mirabegron, amorphous solid dispersion of mirabegron, process for its preparation, processes for preparation of α form crystal and β form crystal of mirabegron and pharmaceutical composition thereof.
US09655883B2
A topical composition comprises at least 5-wt % metronidazole or a pharmacologically acceptable derivative thereof in a non-aqueous vehicle. The composition may be used in the treatment of conditions of the colon, rectum, anorectum and perianal region, in particular inflammatory bowel disease and perianal Crohn's disease. The composition also relieves pain and inflammation and promotes healing of the colon, rectum, and anorectum and perianal region following surgical operations. One advantage of the composition is that topical administration of metronidazole results in a primarily local effect and thus side effects observed from systemic administration are avoided.
US09655882B2
Compounds, compositions, kits and methods for treating conditions related to neurodegeneration or ocular disease, are disclosed.
US09655876B2
A liquid composition which includes a taxane-based active ingredient (a) selected from the group consisting of docetaxel and a derivative thereof; at least one glycol (b); and at least one surfactant component (c) selected from the group consisting of a polysorbate, a polyoxyethylene glycol ester, and a polyoxyethylene castor oil derivative, in which a volume ratio of the glycol (b) to the surfactant component (c) is in a range of form 45/55 to 55/45, and a total content of the glycol (b) and the surfactant component (c) with respect to a total volume of the liquid composition is 95% (v/v) or more.
US09655871B2
A composition comprising a purified extract isolated from Pseudolysimachion rotundum var. subintegrum containing abundant amount of active ingredient or the compounds isolated therefrom as an active ingredient for treating a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the use thereof. Inventive purified extract and compounds showed potent anti-COPD activity without beta-2-receptor agonistic response through various in vivo tests as well as in vitro test. Therefore, it can be used as the therapeutics or functional health food for treating and preventing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
US09655868B2
Disclosed herein are naphthoquinone analogs, such as plumbagin, pharmaceutical compositions that include naphthoquinone analogs, such as plumbagin, and methods of treating diseases and/or conditions such as cancer with naphthoquinone analogs, such as plumbagin. Also included are combination therapies wherein a naphthoquinone analog, such as plumbagin, and a hormone therapy agent are provided to a subject suffering from a condition such as cancer.
US09655867B2
The present invention provides compositions useful in reducing or preventing pain in a subject in need thereof. In certain embodiments, the compositions comprise a halogenated volatile compound. The present invention further includes a method of reducing or preventing pain in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of at least one composition of the invention. Dosing regimens contemplated within the invention include one-time administration, continuous administration or periodic administration.
US09655866B2
Disclosed is a cleansing composition comprising: (i) a non-soap surfactant which is an alkyi glycinate, alkyi carboxy glycinate, sarcosinate, glutamate or a mixture thereof; and, (ii) one or more antimicrobial agent, wherein pH of said composition is at least 8.5 and zein number of said composition is in the range of 10 to 65 and wherein soap content of said composition is not greater than 5 wt %. The formulation is highly alkaline, yet gives mild antibacterial cleansing action.
US09655855B2
The invention concerns a storage stable pharmaceutical formulation comprising preferably two active compounds in a non-swellable diffusion matrix, whereby the compounds are released from the matrix in a sustained, invariant and, if several compounds are present, independent manner and the matrix is determined with respect to its substantial release characteristics by ethylcellulose and at least one fatty alcohol. The invention also concerns methods for producing such pharmaceutical formulations.
US09655853B2
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical dosage form having a breaking strength of at least 300 N and comprising a pharmacologically active compound, an anionic polymer bearing carboxylic groups, wherein the content of the anionic polymer is ≧20 wt.-%, based on the total weight of the pharmaceutical dosage form, and a nonionic surfactant.
US09655852B2
The present invention is directed to a tablet containing a 1-(β-D-glucopyranosyl)-3-(phenylthienylmethyl)benzene compound in high drug loading, in particular, containing the compound ranging from 30 to 95% by weight of tablet and pharmaceutically acceptable additives.
US09655849B2
The present invention generally relates to improvements in the bioavailability and/or solubility of coenzyme Q10. For example, the present invention relates to methods for preparing particulate compositions including coenzyme Q10 that generally comprise dispersing and/or dissolving the coenzyme Q10 throughout a suitable solvent, and combining the coenzyme Q10 and an encapsulating (e.g., microencapsulating) agent. The present invention also generally relates to particulate compositions comprising coenzyme Q10 that exhibit improved bioavailability and/or solubility as compared to previous coenzyme Q10 products.
US09655847B1
A therapeutic liposome including a bilayer comprising at least one poly-unsaturated fatty acid (omega-3 fatty acid, omega-6 fatty acid, and omega-9 fatty acid), a beta-glucan, a cholesterol, and a doxorubicin. The liposome has a diameter of 100 nm to 1.5 μm. The beta-glucan and the doxorubicin are encapsulated in the liposome and the cholesterol is integral to the bilayer of the liposome.
US09655845B2
This invention generally relates to cationic oil-in-water emulsions that can be used to deliver nucleic acid molecules, such as an RNA molecule. The emulsion particles comprise an oil core and a cationic lipid. The emulsion particles have an average diameter of about 80 nm to about 180 nm, and the emulsion have an N/P ratio of at least 1.1:1.
US09655844B2
Modified polysaccharides and crosslinked modified polysaccharide compositions are described. Methods of using the crosslinked modified polysaccharide compositions to deliver proteins, oligonucleotides, or pharmaceutical agents are also disclosed.
US09655838B2
The invention provides antibacterial combinations of essential oils comprising bisabolol and one or more essential oils selected from citral, carvacrol, oregano extract, and rosemary, or comprising carvacrol and one or more essential oils selected from bisabolol, thymol, and rosemary, together with compositions, e.g., oral care compositions, comprising these combinations, and uses therefore.
US09655832B2
The present invention refers to a cosmetic composition of the oil-in-glycol type comprising (a) at least one sucrose non-ionic surfactant or derivatives thereof, (b) at least one fatty alcohol, (c) at least one glycol and (d) at least one ingredient selected from aminoacid and/or peptide, as well as associated uses, products and methods. The composition of the invention is capable of restoring the cutaneous barrier, reorganizing the lipidic layer of the stratum corneum in orthorhombic, conceding hydration, renewal and cellular energization in the long run. In a particular embodiment, said composition can be used simultaneously as an emulsifying system for preparing cosmetic products, for example, in the preparation of creams, lotions, etc.
US09655831B2
The present invention relates to a bar soap composition that contains zinc pyrithione (ZPT) and a metal-pyridine oxide complex, preferably a zinc-pyridine oxide complex. The bar soap may be characterized by enhanced discoloration resistance, extended shelf life, and/or increased anti-microbial efficacy.
US09655824B2
Novel uses of compounds of the Formula 1 or mixtures of substances that contain one more compounds of the Formula 1, are described. The said compounds are suitable as agents against skin and hair browning, for combating age spots and for the inhibition of the undesired browning of foods.
US09655818B1
Multi-film delivery system for multi-component teeth whitening, desensitization and remineralization
A multi-film delivery system for a multi-component tooth whitening, desensitization and remineralization composition is disclosed which comprises a first orally dissolvable film made of a liquid-soluble or liquid dispersible polymer system containing a peroxide activation compound or complex and desensitizing agents and/or remineralizing agents and/or anti-inflammatory agents, and a separate second undissolvable film containing a tooth whitening peroxide compound, such as hydrogen peroxide or carbamide peroxide, stabilizers and thickeners, and/or desensitizing agents and/or remineralizing agents and/or anti-inflammatory agents, which, when applied together on teeth surfaces, the peroxide activation compound/complex on the first film activates the peroxide compound on the second film, and accelerates the release of active bleaching radicals for accelerated whitening action. The first and second films are maintained separate from one another until application. The first orally dissolvable film is placed on a surface of the tooth, then immediately hydrates thereby becoming gelatinous upon contact with saliva, and initiates its adhesiveness, the second undissolvable film is then placed on top of the first orally dissolvable film, the peroxide activation compound/complex on the first film reacts with the tooth whitening peroxygen compound on the second film and accelerates the release of active bleaching radicals for rapid whitening action. The dissolution of the first dissolvable film is controlled by interaction with the fluid or liquid contained in the whitening composition on the second undissolvable film.
US09655811B2
Disclosed herein is a representative liquid heater that maintains a liquid temperature at a consistent and desirable temperature. The liquid heater includes a housing, a liquid pump, a temperature controller, and a mounting structure. The housing houses a power supply and a heating element that receives power from the power supply. The liquid pump receives power from the power supply and pumps liquid from a liquid container to the heating element, which heats the water. The temperature controller turns on or off the heating element to increase and/or decrease the temperature of the liquid from the liquid container. The mounting structure includes an inlet structure and an outlet structure, both of which are connected to the housing. The inlet structure receives liquid from the liquid container and the outlet structure ejects the liquid from the housing. The inlet structure and the outlet structure are configured to be in a “U” shape such that the inlet structure and the outlet structure can be mounted on the edge of the liquid container. A base of the U-shaped inlet structure and outlet structure rests on the top edge of the liquid container and the two arms of the U-shaped inlet structure and outlet structure are adjacent to a wet side and a dry side of the liquid container. The base of the U-shaped inlet structure and the outlet structure are configured to be telescopic that expands to accommodate various thicknesses of at least one liquid container.
US09655796B2
A hospital bed obstacle detection device and related method for detecting an obstacle between first and second components of a hospital bed is provided.
US09655791B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, an article includes a first web and second web underlying the first web. The first web includes a precursor web having a pattern of discrete substantially columnar protruded extensions extending only from a first surface of the precursor web, each of the protruded extensions having a sidewall defining an open proximal portion and a closed distal portion. The article further includes a bonding pattern. The bonding pattern includes a plurality of discrete bonding points and a sized spacing between each adjacent bonding point sufficient to have inscribed therein a circle having a diameter of about 1 mm to about 12 mm The article comprises between about 70 to 100 discrete bonding points for every 25 to 40 mm along a longitudinal axis of the article.
US09655775B2
Proper selection and centering of an intraocular lens (IOL) is provided. An image of an eye, which may be captured during pre-operative tests and provided to a program operable to calculate the power and axis orientation of the IOL, is used to determine the location and orientation of the IOL. This produces an output or placement guide used to properly center and orient an IOL within the eye.
US09655773B2
An injection assembly for a flexible intraocular lens, includes an injector body (1) accommodating a sliding push member (2), and a compaction and ejection chamber (3) rigidly connected to the injector body. The injection assembly includes a cartridge (6) receiving an intraocular lens (7) in a non-stressed state, the cartridge (6) being stored separately in a sterile container (32), and the compaction and injection chamber (3) is pivotably connected to the distal end of the injector body so as to be capable of occupying two positions, namely: a cartridge-loading position, in which the chamber is folded along the injector body, and an injection position, in which the chamber is aligned with the injector body. A tab (4) makes it possible to release the push member (2) when the tab is placed in a position for locking the compaction and injection chamber in a closed position on the injector body.
US09655770B2
A system is described for removing heat from a subject's subcutaneous lipid-rich regions, such as tissues, organs, cells, and so forth. In various embodiments, the system includes a controller, a computing device, a data acquisition device, a chiller, and one or more applicators. The system can employ these components to receive a selection of a treatment profile and apply the selected treatment using an applicator. The treatment profile may be received from a patient protection device that connects to an applicator.
US09655769B2
Disclosed are devices for supporting a prolapsed organ. An exemplary device comprises a ring-like body optionally having a naturally occurring substantially flat and substantially planar compact configuration, the ring-like body configured with a size suitable for insertion into a vagina and to be expanded by a support element such that in the expanded configuration an outer periphery of the ring-like body contacts a portion of the vagina and stretches at least a portion of a prolapsed vaginal wall, thereby substantially alleviating prolapse of at least one pelvic organ. The device optionally includes a support element comprising two moveably connected arms configured to support the ring in the expanded configuration.
US09655756B2
The present embodiments provide systems and methods for deploying at least a portion of a stent. In one embodiment, the system comprises a cannula having an outer surface, and an auger having a plurality of turns coupled to the outer surface of the cannula. A stent has a portion dimensioned to be disposed within a valley of the auger. Rotation of the cannula and the auger advances the portion of the stent in a predetermined longitudinal direction.
US09655755B2
Systems and methods are adapted for treating the carotid artery. The systems include interventional catheters and blood vessel access devices that are adapted for transcervical insertion into the carotid artery. Embodiments of the systems and methods can be used in combination with embolic protection systems including blood flow reversal mechanisms, arterial filters, and arterial occlusion devices.
US09655754B2
An endovascular delivery system includes a bifurcated prosthesis including a main tubular body having an open end and opposed ipsilateral and contralateral legs and a delivery catheter for deployment of the prosthesis. The delivery catheter includes an elongate outer tubular sheath, an elongate inner tubular member releasably disposed within the elongate outer tubular sheath and an elongate crossover guidewire slidably disposed within the elongate outer tubular sheath and extending through the ipsilateral and contralateral legs.
US09655743B2
An apparatus and method is provided for interbody fusion including distracting, in a given direction, and supporting opposing vertebral bodies. A plurality of wafers are consecutively inserted between the vertebral bodies to create a column of wafers. The column of wafers is oriented between the vertebral bodies so as to expand in the given direction as the wafers are consecutively added to the column.
US09655734B2
A first prosthetic ankle component (10) comprising: a first bearing surface (12) configured to engage a second bearing surface (22) of a second prosthetic ankle component (20); and a protrusion (16) or slot (26) on the first bearing surface, the protrusion or slot being configured to engage a respective slot (26) or protrusion (16) in the second bearing surface of the second prosthetic ankle component, wherein the protrusion or slot is further configured such that the interaction with the respective slot or protrusion permits the first and second prosthetic ankle components to slide with respect to one another in an interface plane defined by the interface between the first and second bearing surfaces, and wherein the protrusion or slot is further configured to restrict the first and second prosthetic ankle components moving away from one another in a direction with a component perpendicular to the interface plane.
US09655730B2
A prosthetic device that may be utilized as an artificial meniscus is disclosed. The prosthetic device can restore shock absorption, stability, and function to the knee after the damaged natural meniscus is removed and replaced with the prosthetic device. In some embodiments, the meniscus includes an integral fixation anchor and additional features that minimize the requirement for modification of the implant for proper fit during surgery.
US09655729B2
An orthopedic knee prosthesis includes a tibial bearing component with articular features which operate to protect adjacent soft tissues of the natural knee, promote and/or accommodate desired articulation with an abutting femoral component, and facilitate expedient and effective implantation by a surgeon.
US09655727B2
Disclosed herein are knee replacement systems for replacing the articular surface of a distal femur. The systems include one or more unicompartmental components, namely patellofemoral, lateral condylar and medial condylar components. The components are configured such that when engaged to the femur the peripheries thereof do not cross specific locations and/or regions of the femur, namely the intercondylar notch and condylopatellar notch. The patellofemoral components described herein preferably have an extension portion extending posteriorly from a posterior periphery thereof towards an intercondylar notch or the femur without contacting the intercondylar notch of the femur when the patellofemoral component is engaged to the femur. The extension portion preferably extends posteriorly from a posterior periphery of the patellofemoral component towards the condylopatellar notch of the femur without contacting the notch.
US09655725B2
The articulating joint prostheses of the invention demonstrate reduced wear and can include a cup (101) formed of UHMWPE. An insert (150) of a hard material, such as metal, ceramic or cross-linked UHMWPE is positioned within the cup at a location of the contact between the cup and head (102). The shape of either component of the kinematic pair may be modified so as to result in an annular surface contact between the two components, with the insert positioned at the annular surface contact. Fluid trapped between the two components within the inner contour of the annular contact area is pressurized under load due to elastic deformation of the components and exuded out through an inter-articular gap over the surface of contact of the insert. This aids lubrication and reduces wear.
US09655723B2
A medical device used in patients with inefficient heart function to improve the efficiency of the pumping action of the heart. This device adds one or more one-way valves in the blood vessels and/or arteries, very near, but not in, the heart, thereby increasing the efficiency of the native heart. The device includes one or more one-way heart valves designed to go in arteries/veins that are connected to the heart, and which arteries and/or veins are the conduits for taking blood into/out of the heart. The one-way heart valve allows blood flow in only one direction. An optional sleeve (stent) may be placed outside the arteries/veins where the valve(s) are located to add support to the walls. An optional sleeve (stent) may also be used on the inside of the artery to insure the artery does not collapse during a vacuum phase of the beating.
US09655714B1
An arthroscopic tenodesis kit, includes a guide provided by an elongate member having a length with a distal portion having a plurality of angled slots configured to directly and releasably engage a tendon. The kit also includes an inserter with an elongate cannulated body having an interior bore having a blind end and an open end configured to slidingly receive the guide. The body of the inserter has a length that is shorter than the length of the guide, so that the distal portion of the guide remains spaced from the bore when the guide is fully received within the bore.
US09655705B1
An implantable apparatus for controlling fluid flow within a host body includes a constricting member for allowing fluid flow within a body canal when in an open position, and for reducing fluid flow within a body canal when in an closed position. Remote telemetry can be used to operate the constricting member from a position outside the body. The constricting member can include a piston having at least two protrusions for contacting the vessel surface of the body canal. A fluid-operated member can receive fluid to reduce fluid flow within the body canal and expel fluid to allow fluid flow within the body canal. An actuating member is provided for operating the fluid-operated member between the open and closed positions. The actuating member has structure for flowing fluid into and out of the fluid-operated member. A control device is provided for operating the actuating member. An implantable drive mechanism for a constricting member or other medical device includes a sealed housing for implantation in a patient body, a drive magnet positioned within the housing, an actuator for moving the drive magnet, and a magnetically susceptible drive member positioned outside the housing such that movement of the drive magnet within the housing will move the drive member outside of the housing.
US09655699B2
An artificial teethridge has an arched top and an arched bottom. The top and the bottom of the artificial teethridge are curved toward the same direction. The thickness of the artificial teethridge is relatively thicker at central part and gradually becomes thinner toward two lateral sides. A fang is formed integrally on the top of the artificial teethridge. The artificial teethridge, the fang and a prosthesis are an integral structure, whereby the artificial teethridge, the fang and the prosthesis form a mechanical conduction structure. The bottom surface of the artificial teethridge has a complementary structure which can be tightly matched and fixed on each point of the top surface of the alveolar bone without any gap. A dental neck is formed integrally between the artificial teethridge and prosthesis, which is formed in a waisted shape that is narrower at middle section and gradually becomes wider toward to two terminal sections.
US09655697B2
A universal digital implant scanning code (UDDISC) is provided on a dental implant body and/or any device attached to the dental implant body (e.g., the dental implant carrier). Implant bodies and platforms are available in many different types of sizes and configurations from many different companies. The UDDISC allows for an immediate digital scan of the dental implant in relationship to the patient's dentition.
US09655696B2
A first assembly is provided for forming the dental impression and a second assembly for forming the dental model, wherein the first assembly includes an impression post; a first coupler for coupling the impression post with a dental implant affixed within the mouth; and an impression cap for positioning on the impression post. The second assembly includes: a model post; a second coupler for coupling the model post with a dental analog; and the impression cap. The impression cap has a first and second securing means, both for selectively securing the impression cap to the impression post and to the model post.
US09655692B2
A pre-fabricated, pre-programmed or custom-made guidance package is provided. The Anterior Guidance Package (AGP) of current invention is comprised of one maxillary guidance component and one mandibular guidance component produced in many shapes and sizes. Those components are attached to a maxillary retention piece and a mandibular retention piece, respectively when the mandible is at a point defined by an operator to provide ideal anterior guidance for the mandible, or to provide specialized guidance for a damaged stomatognathic system. In contrast to all current bruxism or Tempor-mandibular disorders (TMD) appliances, the AGP according to current invention provides a wide range of features and options including three-dimensional control, superior mechanical advantage and preferable vertical dimension at rest. The primary purpose is to provide a superior anterior guidance night guard including relief of centric occlusion/centric relation discrepancy for the amelioration of the damage and pain caused by bruxism.
US09655691B2
A dental appliance for positioning a patient's teeth includes a removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to directly receive at least some of the patient's teeth and apply a resilient positioning force to the patient's teeth. The appliance includes a hard polymer layer having a hard polymer layer elastic modulus disposed between a first soft polymer layer having a first soft polymer layer elastic modulus and a second soft polymer layer having a second soft polymer layer elastic modulus. The hard polymer layer elastic modulus is greater than each of the first soft polymer layer elastic modulus and the second soft polymer layer elastic modulus. At least one of the first soft polymer layer and the second soft polymer layer has a flexural modulus of greater than about 35,000 psi.
US09655685B2
Anatomic points within the body are projected outside the body through the use of extenders (180, 182, 188). The projected points may then be used for measurement, or to facilitate the selection or configuration of an implant that is positioned proximate the anatomic points using a slotted cannula (143). Such an implant may be a rod (270) for a posterior spinal fusion system. Pedicle screws (140, 142, 148) may be implanted into pedicles of the spine, and may then serve as anchors for the extenders. The extenders (180, 182, 188) may have rod interfaces (214, 216, 218) that receive the rod (270) in a manner that mimics the geometry of the pedicle screws (140, 142, 148) so that the selected or configured contoured rod (270) will properly fit into engagement with the pedicle screws (140, 142, 148).
US09655684B2
A catheter guidance system and method for guiding a catheter through the bloodstream of the patient's cardiovascular system in a medical procedure. The catheter has a front tip with a heating element for slightly heating a media surrounding the front tip in a blood vessel of the patient's cardiovascular system, and two temperature measuring elements located adjacent to and in front and behind the heating element respectively for measuring temperatures in the media at their respective locations. A guidance device is coupled to the catheter for converting the heating power and temperature measurement signals to digital signals, processing the digital signals, and displaying guidance information indicative of the location of the front tip of the catheter relative to the blood vessel wall of the patient's cardiovascular system. The guidance information may be shown by an intuitive traffic light type display.
US09655680B2
A master device for surgical robots may comprise: handle units, each of which includes at least one multi-joint robot finger configured to control a robotic surgical instrument on a robot arm of a slave device; and/or a micro motion generation unit configured to generate a control signal to control an end of the at least one multi-joint robot finger so as to move along a virtual trajectory. A master device for surgical robots may comprise: a first unit that comprises at least one multi-joint robot finger on a robot arm of a slave device; and/or a second unit configured to generate a first control signal to control the at least one multi-joint robot finger so as to move along a virtual trajectory.
US09655679B2
A steerable probe having high-power-density actuators positioned at joints along the length of the probe. The actuators are moveable about and between a straight position and a curved position in response to selective actuation.
US09655677B2
Cardiac tissue ablation catheters including an inflatable and flexible toroidal or spherically shaped balloon disposed at a distal region of an elongate member, a flexible circuit carried by an outer surface of the balloon, the flexible circuit including, a plurality of flexible branches conforming to the radially outer surface of the balloon, each of the plurality of flexible branches including a substrate, a conductive trace carried by the substrate, and an ablation electrode carried by the substrate, the ablation electrode in electrical communication with the conductive trace, and an elongate shaft comprising a guidewire lumen extending in the elongate member and extending from a proximal region of the inflatable balloon to distal region of the inflatable balloon and being disposed within the inflatable balloon, wherein a distal region of the elongate shaft is secured directly or indirectly to the distal region of the inflatable balloon.
US09655676B2
The present invention is related to a method of realizing percutaneous (transperineal) ablation of prostate tumor regions, using a radio frequency based coiled device. A bipolar electrode assembly comprising an outer helical electrode and an inner electrode arranged concentric with the outer helical electrode, wherein prior to applying radio frequency energy, at least the outer helical electrode is inserted percutaneously into the prostate. An image of the prostate and of the outer helical electrode as inserted is acquired, such that the outer helical electrode is visualized on the image. A graphical representation of a target position of the bipolar electrode assembly is superposed on the image.
US09655673B2
An electrosurgical instrument includes a housing including an elongated shaft. A stationary actuation member is axially disposed within the elongated shaft and includes a cam pin. An actuating mechanism is operably coupled to the elongated shaft and is moveable relative to the housing to selectively cause movement of the elongated shaft. An end effector includes a pair of opposing first and second jaw members operably coupled about a common pivot. One or both of the jaw members includes a camming slot configured to engage the cam pin. Each jaw member includes an electrically conductive tissue sealing surface adapted to connect to a source of electrosurgical energy. A knife blade is supported in the elongated shaft and moveable in a longitudinal direction to cut tissue disposed between the jaw members. A switch is configured to be engaged by the actuating mechanism to initiate delivery of electrosurgical energy to tissue.
US09655668B2
Apparatus and methods for cooling liquid coolant, such as nitrous oxide, to be delivered to a cryo-ablation device such as a balloon catheter. A hose or conduit in fluid communication with the ablation device includes an outer member and inner tubes. A first inner tube disposed within a lumen of the outer member carries liquid coolant to the ablation device. Another inner tube also disposed within the lumen carries liquid coolant and terminates within the lumen such that gaseous coolant derived from liquid coolant flowing through the second inner tube flows within the lumen to cool or chill the first inner tube and liquid coolant carried by the first inner tube to the ablation device.
US09655662B2
A dynamic bone plate and method of bone compression are disclosed. The dynamic bone plate comprises a first bone plate component including at least one hole for receiving screws for attachment to a first bone segment and a male component and a second bone plate component including at least one hole for receiving screws for attachment to a second bone segment and a female component for mating with the male component. The male component is adjustable after mating with the female component to adjust a position of the first bone plate component with respect to the second bone plate component and the male component is locked into place with respect to the female component by at least one screw inserted through the at least one hole of the second bone plate component causing compression between the first and second bone segments to form a corrective construct.
US09655654B2
The present application discloses an implantable device for spinal treatment or stabilization. The device includes a spinal rod support and gripping jaws. The gripping jaws operate between an opened position and a closed position to grip and release a first spinal rod implanted into a patient. The spinal rod support includes a perimeter structure having an interior cavity and passage to connect a second spinal rod to the device to operably connect the first and second spinal rods through the implantable device to form a spinal stabilization structure.
US09655651B2
A dynamic spine stabilizer moves under the control of spinal motion providing increased mechanical support within a central zone corresponding substantially to the neutral zone of the injured spine. The dynamic spine stabilizer includes a support assembly and a resistance assembly associated with the support assembly. The resistance assembly generates greater increase in mechanical force during movement within the central zone and lesser increase in mechanical force during movement beyond the central zone. A method for using the stabilizer is also disclosed.
US09655643B2
The invention is directed to a bladeless trocar obturator to separate or divaricate body tissue during insertion through a body wall. In one aspect, the obturator of the invention includes a shaft extending along an axis between a proximal end and a distal end; and a bladeless tip disposed at the distal end of the shaft and having a generally tapered configuration with an outer surface, the outer surface extending distally to a blunt point with a pair of side sections having a common shape and being separated by at least one intermediate section, wherein each of the side sections extends from the blunt point radially outwardly with progressive positions proximally along the axis, and the shaft is sized and configured to receive an optical instrument having a distal end to receive an image of the body tissue. With this aspect, the tapered configuration facilitates separation of different layers of the body tissue and provides proper alignment of the tip between the layers. The side sections include a distal portion and a proximal portion, the distal portion of the side sections being twisted radially with respect to the proximal portion of the side sections. The intermediate section includes a distal portion and a proximal portion, the distal portion of the intermediate section being twisted in a first radial direction and the proximal portion of the intermediate section being twisted in a second radial direction opposite the first radial direction.
US09655640B2
A dual function arthroscopic blade provides multiple cutting surfaces of differing cut aggressiveness for selective engagement of the desired cutting blade without retracting the instrument for changing cutting members to apply a different set of cutting edges, or blade. An inner rotating member within a stationary outer cutting member provide cutting edges defined by cutting windows on the inner and outer cutting members, and a rotational drive applies an oscillating rotation such that one of the cutting windows, corresponding to one of the sets of cutting edges, engages an extraction region such as tissue or bone. The use of different sized cutting windows allows variance in the aggressiveness of the cut, and allows selection of another cutting window by rotating the cutting member to align the selected cutting edges without requiring extraction and reinsertion in order to attach a different blade with a different cut aggressiveness.
US09655639B2
A tissue cutting device that is especially suited for neurosurgical applications is disclosed and described. The device includes a handpiece and an outer cannula in which a reciprocating inner cannula is disposed. The inner cannula includes a hinge between a body section and a cutting section that allows the cutting section to pivot when the inner cannula reciprocates within the outer cannula. A tissue collector is also provided and is in fluid communication with the lumen of the inner cannula. The tissue cutting device may be used with imaging device such as microscopes and endoscopes during neurosurgery procedures.
US09655636B2
A medical instrument with a handle arranged at the proximal end, with a shank arranged on the handle, and with a tool arranged at the distal end of the shank. The medical instrument can provide several functionalities, for example the rotation about the longitudinal axis of the medical instrument, the pivoting of the tool relative to the longitudinal axis of the medical instrument and/or the actuation of the tool, for example the opening or closing of scissors. Some of these functionalities are activated with the aid of a single common actuation element. By moving the actuation element between several switch positions, different functionalities are selected, and these are activated, e.g. by rotation of the actuation element.
US09655631B2
A mill head for replaceable attachment to a base so as to collectively form a bone mill. The mill head includes: a first opening in which bone stock is introduced into the head; a cutting device that converts the bone stock into bone chips; a second opening through which the bone chips are discharged; and a third opening through which a motor integral with the base is attached to the cutting device. Internal to the mill head are containment rings. The containment rings prevent the discharge of material through the third opening. The containment rings are services the internal component of the mill head on which the cutting device rests.
US09655627B2
A device for use in preventing stroke is provided. The device may include an expandable member that expands from a non-expanded configuration to an expanded configuration. The expandable member is located at a neck of a patient. An associated method is provided.
US09655622B2
A tissue bonding article includes a flexible material, an adhesive substance applied over at least a portion of a bottom side of the flexible material, and a polymerizable adhesive composition permeated throughout at least a portion of the flexible material.
US09655607B2
A cannula assembly having a retention member and a method of manufacture of the cannula assembly is provided. The cannula assembly includes a cannula and a sleeve disposed around the cannula from a proximal end to a distal end. The sleeve can be pre-formed by a stretch blow molding process then advanced over the cannula. The sleeve includes an inflatable balloon and an annular ring distal the inflatable balloon. The cannula includes an annular recess. The annular ring is sized to have an interference fit with the annular recess.
US09655602B2
This invention relates to apparatus and methods used to seal a vascular puncture site, particularly sites of punctures that are the result of catheterization or other interventional procedures. The sealing device includes a sealing member and a tether. The sealing member occupies a space in an incision, puncture, or other wound and sealing the space that it occupies, to prevent further blood flow. The tether is attached to the sealing member, and provides the user with the ability to withdraw the sealing member if necessary. The sealing device further includes a restraining member associated with the sealing member. The restraining member provides the ability to more securely restrain the sealing member to prevent it from migrating from the deployment location within a tissue tract. The restraining member also provides an additional capability of manipulating the sealing member after deployment.
US09655600B2
The present invention comprises methods and devices comprising a scraping element used to contact circumferentially and longitudinally the surface walls of the uterine cavity to provide for broad contact of the intended surface with the device, resulting in attainment of a sufficient volume and comprehensive tissue sample for analysis as an endometrial biopsy or screening uterine cancer. The device may provide for a reservoir for the obtained sample to be contained when removing from the uterine cavity, cervical canal, and vagina. The device may be comprised of a detachable means or be of a material that allows the user to cut the sampling head of the device for placement in collection means to maximize the amount of tissue or cells being sent to the laboratory for analysis.
US09655582B2
A mobile X-ray radiographic device has an extended operable time by employing a regenerative energy system and assembly. A regenerative brake circuit acts to provide a braking force for a rear wheel set during a circumstance and an adaptive use wherein a driving force is cut off to the rear wheels, and a second battery system charges with the generated electric power for adaptive use. The regenerative brake circuit further acts to provide the braking force for a rotary anode under the circumstance in which the driving force is cut off to the rotary anode and also the second battery charges with the generated electric power.
US09655578B2
There is provided a mammography apparatus capable of delivering a greater load when a breast is released than a load delivered when the breast is compressed by a compression paddle. A mammography apparatus includes a main body having an X-ray generating unit and an X-ray detecting unit, wherein the main body includes a ball screw extending in a vertical direction, a gear unit configured to receive a driving force and be vertically movable along the ball screw, a compression paddle connected to the gear unit and configured to move down in a direction in which the ball screw extends to compress a subject, a handgrip configured to manipulate the compression paddle to be vertically movable, and a power transmission device configured to deliver a driving force delivered from the handgrip to the gear unit, and the power transmission device includes a torque limiter configured to deliver a restricted driving force to the gear unit and a one-way clutch configured to deliver a driving force only when the gear unit moves in one direction.
US09655577B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for diagnosing lesions. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for diagnosing lesions capable of precisely diagnosing lesions such as breast cancer by digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). The present invention enables the improvement of lesion diagnosis accuracy and early diagnosis rates.
US09655569B2
A medical imaging device includes a gripping module having at least a first holding grip and a second holding grip. The first holding grip and the second holding grip are configured for holding by a patient during an image recording. A control unit is arranged on the medical imaging device. The control unit is configured to control an automatic movement of the holding grips. As a result, manual operation of the holding grips by medical operators may be avoided, thereby simplifying and accelerating the process of recording images.
US09655553B2
The invention provides a quantum dot (QD) modified optical fiber-based biosensor which characterizes matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) enzyme activity at pain signaling sites in the central nervous system (CNS) in vivo. Related systems and peptide biomarker screening methods are also provided.
US09655548B2
Biometric monitoring devices, including various technologies that may be implemented in such devices, are discussed herein. Additionally, techniques for utilizing gyroscopes in biometric monitoring devices are provided. Such techniques may, in some implementations, involve obtaining swimming metrics regarding swim stroke count, lap count, and stroke type. A biometric monitoring device for obtaining such metrics may include an immersions sensor.
US09655539B2
A system and method is described for a catheter guidance system which allows an operator to use a mapping catheter to specify tissue target locations for the automatic guidance of a second therapeutic catheter. The operator places a mapping catheter at a desired location, and commands the catheter guidance system by either selecting a point on that catheter or one of the catheter electrode electrocardiograms. The operator may target the selected dynamic location, or tissue contact beyond that location on a specific side of the mapping catheter.
US09655525B2
Described herein are user-wearable devices that include an optical sensor, and methods for use therewith. In certain embodiments, an optical sensor of a user-wearable device (e.g., a wrist-worn device) is used to detect blue light that is incident on the optical sensor and to produce a blue light detection signal indicative thereof, and thus, indicative of the response of the user's intrinsically photosensitive Retinal Ganglion Cells (ipRGCs). In dependence on the blue light detection signal, there is a determination of a metric indicative of an amount of blue light detected by the optical sensor. The metric is compared to a corresponding threshold, and a user notification is triggered in dependence on results of the comparing, wherein the user notification informs a person wearing the user-wearable device to adjust their exposure to light.
US09655516B2
A dilation tower providing a darkened space for performing a dilated fundus examination (DFE) in bright environments (e.g., stores, shopping malls, shopping centers, medical offices, etc.) is provided. In order to reach more patients in need of DFEs, the dilation tower provided may be configured to be mobile. A method of administering a DFE on a patient comprising the steps of positioning said patient in a patient area of a dilation tower, enclosing said patient and said patient area with a patient area cloak, and performing said DFE on said patient is also provided.
US09655500B2
A receiving device includes a receiving unit that receives, via a receiving antenna, an image signal including an in-vivo image of a subject that is captured by an in-vivo-image acquiring device introduced into the subject; a transmitting unit that wirelessly transmits the image signal to a real-time display device that displays the in-vivo image in real time; a detecting unit that detects a non-receiving period in which the receiving unit does not receive the image signal; and a control unit that performs a control to wirelessly transmit the image signal to the real-time display device during the non-receiving period immediately after receipt of the image signal by the receiving unit.
US09655497B2
A dishwasher for treating dishes according to at least one automatic cycle of operation comprises a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, a chassis supporting the tub and defining a space below the tub a junction box located within the space. The junction box includes a base and a cover configured to receive an electrical connection for the dishwasher.
US09655496B2
A dishwasher for treating dishes according to at least one automatic cycle of operation and including a tub having a bottom wall for at least partially defining a treating chamber in which dishes may be received for treatment, at least one sprayer provided on the bottom wall, and having at least one opening through which liquid is emitted into the treating chamber, and a recirculation circuit fluidly coupling the treating chamber to the at least one sprayer such that liquid emitted into the treating chamber may be directed back to the sprayer for recirculation.
US09655488B2
A catch device (1) for connecting a handle to a vacuum cleaner suction pipe (2), the catch device (1) being mountable on one end region of a vacuum cleaner suction pipe (2), and having at least one sleeve (3), at least one lever button (4) and at least one reset spring (7), the lever button (4) having a catch projection (8) and a pivot axle (9) for the lever button. The catch device (1) reduces the effort for mounting on a vacuum cleaner suction pipe (2) the provision of a clamp element (11) that is positively connected to the sleeve (3), the pivot axle (9) being pivotally held between the clamp element (11) and the sleeve (3).
US09655485B2
A vacuum cleaner nozzle assembly having an inlet opening, a height adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a vertical position of the inlet opening relative to a surface to be cleaned, a suction passage fluidly connected to the inlet opening, a bypass opening fluidly connected to the suction passage, and a bleed valve. The bleed valve has a closed position in which the bleed valve blocks the bypass opening, and an open position in which the bleed valve does not block the bypass opening to allow a flow of air through the bypass opening and into the suction passage. The bleed valve is configured to move from the closed position to the open position in response to an adjustment of the height adjustment mechanism.
US09655483B2
A grab bar includes a front facing side and a wall facing side that is opposite from the front facing side. The grab bar is attached to a wall structure with at least one mounting assembly at the wall facing side. A removable decorative insert is supported by the front facing side. The removable decorative insert is easily removed and replaced by other decorative inserts as needed without having to remove the grab bar from the wall structure.
US09655480B2
A facial cleaning brush having an outer shell coupled with a brush head assembly with a brush head housing surrounding a motor head operably configured to supply power for a movement of the brush head, wherein the brush head assembly has a brush head having an anchoring plate with a plurality of bristles coupled to a front face of the anchoring plate that includes a first anchoring point, and also has at least two U-shaped springs coupled to the anchoring plate and a brush head anchoring unit with a second anchoring point selectively removably coupled to the first anchoring point, wherein the first and second anchoring points are interposed between the at least two U-shaped springs.
US09655474B2
A food processor includes a base and a bowl with a removable lid. Food items are advanced into the bowl through a feed tube formed in the lid where they are cut by a cutting assembly driven by a motor. The cutting assembly is adjustable to vary the thickness of the cut food items. An adjustment assembly positioned in the base is operable to adjust the cutting thickness of the cutting assembly while the cutting assembly is driven by the motor.
US09655470B2
The invention relates to an injection unit (1) for an espresso coffee machine including a stationary mechanical upper block (2) having a central projection (4) which forms a hot-water dispenser (7) and to which a removable portion, referred to as the group head (8), is attached, the inner surface of the group head having a cavity (22) in which the portafilter (9) is mounted, said portafilter comprising an operating handle (10) and a recess for holding a basket (11) containing the coffee grounds for preparing espresso coffee, characterized in that the group head (8) is attached to the mechanical block (2) of the injection unit (1) via a linking device having a resilient effect, and in that the seal (23) surrounding the dispenser (7) engages with the inner periphery of the basket (11). The invention is useful for manufacturers of espresso coffee machines.
US09655466B1
A hanger with a foldable hook enabling the hanger to have the hook in a folded shipped position to reduce its footprint for reduction of cost of transportation and a rotatable cylindrical member to which the hook is attached, allowing the hook to be rotated from a folded to an upright hanging position.
US09655465B2
A lazy Susan platform has a major diameter and a minor diameter, at least one curved platform portion with a first width at or about the radius of curvature, at least one straight platform portion with a second width, and a ratio of the widths of the first platform portion to the second platform portion that is greater than one.
US09655459B1
A collapsible oar collection device is used for collecting a first collapsible section and a second collapsible section of a collapsible oar. The first collapsible section and the second collapsible section are detachably connected with each other to form the collapsible oar. The collection device comprises a first collection member and a second connection member. Since the fourth buckling element is buckled the second rod of the collapsible section so as to moved up and down, the collection device of the present invention may be applied to the collapsible oar with various diameters and aligned with the bottom ends of the first collapsible section and the second collapsible section with different lengths for housing in. Besides, the suspending rod is used for providing the display card to be detachably suspended and displayed. Therefore, the collapsible oar may be suspended and convenient to display simultaneously.
US09655458B2
Powered recliner chairs, assemblies for use in the chairs, and components for use in the assemblies are provided. Control systems and methods for operating powered recliner chairs are also provided. Any given chair may be locally and/or remotely controlled.
US09655455B2
A chair comprising a seat assembly and a support assembly is disclosed. The seat assembly has a deflectable body disposed about an axis that provides resilient convex seating surface. The support assembly retains the seat assembly and allows the seat assembly to rotate about its axis and additionally allows the seat assembly to rotate to cause limited tilt displacement of the axis from a neutral alignment. The support assembly includes biasing means that serve to urge the seat assembly towards the neutral alignment when the seat assembly is displaced from the neutral alignment.
US09655452B2
A furniture piece is provided. The furniture piece includes a back assembly having a plurality of horizontal supports and a plurality of vertical supports coupled to the plurality of horizontal support. The plurality of vertical supports includes a first indicia shape. An arm assembly is coupled to the plurality of horizontal supports and includes a plurality of arm supports, wherein the plurality of arm supports includes a second indicia shape. The furniture piece includes a leg assembly coupled to the plurality of vertical supports and to the plurality of arm supports. The leg assembly includes a plurality of leg supports, wherein the plurality of leg supports includes a third indicia shape. A seat assembly is coupled to the plurality of vertical supports and the plurality of leg supports. The first indicia shape, the second indicia shape and the third indicia shape include at least one of a profile, silhouette, pattern and scheme of a firearm.
US09655450B2
A furniture member may include a base assembly, a frame assembly and a tilt mechanism. The base assembly includes rails having a track and a stop plug received in the track. The frame assembly includes a base frame, a seatback frame and a seat bottom frame. The seatback frame is rotatably coupled to the base frame. The seat bottom frame is coupled to the seatback frame such that rotation of the seatback frame causes movement of the seat bottom frame relative to the seatback frame and the base frame. The tilt mechanism is coupled to the seat bottom frame and engages the tracks such that rotation of the seatback frame relative to the base frame causes bearings of the tilt mechanism to slide along the tracks, thereby translating the base frame relative to the base assembly. The bearings contact stop plugs when the seatback is in a fully reclined position.
US09655437B2
Disclosed is a portable table assembly having a table top, a hollow cylindrical stem that receives the table top, and a removable securing end cap that secures the table top to the cylindrical stem. The portable table assembly is easily assembled and adaptable for a wide variety of uses including, but not limited to, patio/porch use, outdoor/lawn gaming, parks and general recreation, outdoor sporting and concert events, tailgate parties, camping, gardening, beach use (with or without a beach umbrella), and boating.
US09655432B2
An abrasive tip is used to exfoliate skin and tissue through abrasive materials integrated in the tip. The tip also delivers fluid to the skin and vacuums the fluid and abraded tissue during treatment. Treated skin will look younger and healthier in appearance. In an implementation, the tip is replaceable and disposable.
US09655414B2
The present invention is directed to a jewelry element which includes two layers—a cladding layer and a substrate layer, each layer being its own alloy. The cladding layer and the substrate layer each include a base metal such as silver or gold at the same percentages so that the resulting jewelry element can be labeled in accordance with one or more industry-wide requirements. The cladding layer is further enhanced by introduction of a metal providing additional hardness when included in the alloy. By limiting the “hardness” metal or metals to being deposed only in the cladding layer, less of the hardness metal need be used, thereby reducing cost yet retaining the requisite hardness characteristic. Each of the alloys may further contain other metals for any of a number of reasons, including but not limited to, tarnish resistance.
US09655408B1
A charm attachment for a shoe heel to removably attach at least one charm to a rear side of a shoe heel including a cylindrical anchor member and V-shaped pairs of barbs to secure the anchor member onto the shoe heel. A charm engagement member of the anchor member disposed on the rearward end is configured to retain at least one charm on the central body proximal the shoe heel and is spiral shaped to prevent slippage of each charm from the anchor member and to provide a grip by which to insert the anchor member into the shoe heel. A stopper member, which is disposed on the central body between the at least one charm disposed on the central body and one of the pair of barbs most proximal the rearward end, allows the anchor member to be inserted only to the stopper member's location on the central body.
US09655402B2
An electronically controlled bladder assembly includes an adjustable pressure bladder and a constant pressure reservoir connected by an electronically controlled valve. The electronically controlled valve is operated in a manner that inflates the adjustable bladder when the current pressure is below a target pressure and in a manner that deflates the adjustable bladder when the current pressure is above the target pressure. The inflation and deflation of the adjustable bladder are achieved in an iterative manner by controlling the flow of fluid between the constant pressure reservoir and the adjustable bladder over several cycles of heel strikes.
US09655391B2
A knee pad holding mechanism for holding a knee pad over the knee region of a pantleg having a first length of fabric material and a second length of fabric material operatively secured together to form a pocket, the pocket being sized and shaped to receive a knee pad and having at least one opening located along each of the outside edges of the pocket for receiving a strap associated with the knee pad. In one embodiment, the first length of fabric material can be secured directly to the knee region of a pantleg wherein the pantleg forms the second length of fabric material. Other embodiments include using a loop, eyelet, slits or an additional section of fabric having a slit associated therewith for receiving a strap associated with the knee pad. The present mechanism is also adaptable for use to receive an elbow pad.
US09655386B2
Garments, including nursing garments configured as pull-over bras and camisoles, are disclosed. Nursing garments include a frontal portion configured to provide under-breast support connected to a first breast pocket and a second breast pocket, which are each configured to cover the breasts and may provide additional breast support. At least one of the first and second breast pockets is configured to cover at least one of the wearer's breasts when the breast pocket is in a first position, and to uncover and expose at least one of the wearer's breasts when in a second position. The frontal portion, the first breast pocket and the second breast pocket are also connected to a back portion, which provides back support for the wearer whether one or both of the first or second breast pockets are in the first position or in the second position.
US09655385B2
A reversible sling shirt may allow a patient to put on a shirt while keeping an injured shoulder with the arm bent at a prescribed, therapeutic angle. The reversible sling shirt may include a removable seam along a body of the shirt and at least a bottom portion of a sleeve. A plurality of magnetic fasteners may be sewn along the removable seam within individual plastic pockets, thus allowing a patient to put on the reversible sling shirt and take it off while keeping the injured arm bent at the predetermined angle. The reversible sling shirt may also be put on and taken off all while the injured arm remains in traction, suspended by a sling.
US09655381B2
A finished tobacco product is formed by a set of pre-rolled sheets. In one embodiment a form casing is used which includes at least two portions—a non-smokable portion along with a container portion which includes tobacco filler material.
US09655377B2
The present invention relates to plants with increased levels of water soluble carbohydrates, particularly fructan, in the stem and leaf sheath. The present invention also provides methods of identifying and/or producing these plants. In particular, the present invention relates to a novel class of polypeptides designated MYB13 which upregulate the expression of enzymes involved in fructan synthesis. The present invention further relates to a novel promoter element that can be used to express genes predominantly in the stem and leaf sheath during the early reproductive stage of a plant.
US09655374B1
A chocolate food product that is low in fat, dairy free, soy and lecithin free, free of added sugar or ingredients that increase sugar content, starch-free, Isomaltooligosaccharide-free, oligosaccharide-free, maltitol-free, sorbitol-free, xylitol-free, erythritol-free, and isomalt-free. The chocolate food product may comprise: a cocoa butter, an unsweetened cocoa powder, a glycerin, a coconut cream, an almond milk, a pectin, a salt, a monk fruit blend, and a coconut flour.
US09655372B2
The invention relates to a cellulose-based food casing comprising alkenyl succinic anhydride and a method for the manufacture of said cellulose-based food casing.
US09655371B2
The invention relates to an automatically-limiting electric sausage filler and control methods thereof. A piston is positioned at the tail end of a toothed piston rod and integrated as a whole; a DC motor drives an automatic shaft, the automatic shaft is meshed with the toothed piston rod through a gear train to drive the toothed piston rod to move up and down in a material cylinder, a meat outlet is formed at the bottom of the material cylinder, when the piston is arranged at the bottom of the material cylinder, the electric sausage filler has a lower limit; when the piston is arranged at the top of the material cylinder, the electric sausage filler has an upper limit; a lower limit signal detection element and an upper limit signal detection element are arranged on two sides of the toothed piston rod and correspond to an upper limit magnet strip and a lower limit magnet strip embedded on the toothed piston rod in an induction manner, and induction signals of the lower limit signal detection element and the upper limit signal detection element are sent to a control circuit which outputs a control signal to drive the DC motor to work. By virtue of the upper limit and the lower limit, the electric sausage filler is controlled to automatically fill sausages, overcurrent protection function is added in the control circuit for protecting the motor from stalling, so that a motor stalling protection device is omitted, and the cost is reduced; the sausage filling operation is simplified by virtue of the upper limit and the lower limit; and by virtue of the movement of the piston, the sausage filling process is fully automatic.
US09655367B2
A composition having a short disinfecting contact time is disclosed. The composition contains a biguanide or guanide, a quaternary ammonium compound and a basic compound in a specific weight ratio to one another. Compositions having less than a two minute disinfection time are disclosed.
US09655360B2
There is disclosed method of killing nematodes comprising the step of applying an effective amount of a nematicidal composition comprising a terpene component and compositions suitable for use in the method. The terpene component is preferably in association with water, either as a solution or a suspension. An excipient may also be included, which is suitably hollow glucan particles which encapsulate the terpene component.
US09655354B2
A termite control bait container includes an upper end portion opposite a lower end portion. The bait container includes a chamber containing a termite bait. The lower end portion includes an air-trapping pocket below at least a portion of the bait to reduce intrusion of water through the lower end portion when installed in a selected orientation at least partially below ground.
US09655352B2
Genetically modified mice comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a human M-CSF protein are provided. Also provided are genetically modified mice comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a human M-CSF protein that have been engrafted with human cells such as human hematopoietic cells, and methods for making such engrafted mice. These mice find use in a number of applications, such as in modeling human immune disease and pathogen infection; in in vivo screens for agents that modulate hematopoietic cell development and/or activity, e.g. in a healthy or a diseased state; in in vivo screens for agents that are toxic to hematopoietic cells; in in vivo screens for agents that prevent against, mitigate, or reverse the toxic effects of toxic agents on hematopoietic cells; in in vivo screens of human hematopoietic cells from an individual to predict the responsiveness of an individual to a disease therapy, etc.
US09655344B1
A pressure distribution element holding a ring, attachable to the horizontal chest strap of a chest harness which is closable-openable by a hook-and-loop fastener, by connecting the chest strap loop section and the chest strap hook section comprising a chest strap connecting portion, and a vertical connecting element connecting the horizontal chest strap of the dog harness to the belly strap, forming a loop around the belly strap by folding back on itself, comprising at least a loop section, continued in a lower loop portion resting on the belly strap of the dog harness.
US09655339B2
Novel lettuce cultivar, designated GIMLET, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar GIMLET, to the plants of lettuce line GIMLET, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar GIMLET with itself or another lettuce line, respectively. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other lettuce lines derived from the cultivar GIMLET.
US09655336B1
A soybean cultivar designated 58150703 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 58150703, to the plants of soybean cultivar 58150703, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 58150703, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 58150703. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 58150703. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 58150703, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 58150703 with another soybean cultivar.
US09655331B2
The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated BZ9S09-0735W. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar BZ9S09-0735W. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar BZ9S09-0735W and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar BZ9S09-0735W with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US09655328B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01052052. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01052052. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01052052 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01052052 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09655321B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051585. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051585. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051585 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051585 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09655320B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051581. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051581. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051581 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051581 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09655318B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH164592. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH164592, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH164592 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH164592.
US09655316B2
The cotton variety ST 5032GLT is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 5032GLT with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 5032GLT and to plants of ST 5032GLT reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 5032GLT.
US09655315B2
The cotton variety ST 5289GLT is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 5289GLT with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 5289GLT and to plants of ST 5289GLT reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 5289GLT.
US09655307B2
Pallet box assembly configured as planter box or workman's utility box is disclosed. The pallet box assembly includes a pallet base, two side panels, a front panel, and a rear panel, which are collapsible and reusable. Pallet base has tenon joint parts with locking mechanisms that extend out. Pallet base has an opening extending therethrough for ease of handling by pallet jack or hand truck. The side panels include grooves. Front and rear panels include tenon joint part with locking mechanism. The side panels are identical and interchangeable, the front panel is identical and interchangeable with the rear panel. Each locking mechanism includes a winged bolt threadedly inserted and engaged into the tenon joint part, and a wing which is rotated by about 45 to 135 degrees to engageably and securely attach the corresponding tenon joint part in the corresponding groove, so that the pallet box assembly is securely installed.
US09655304B2
A plant cultivation container is provided which does not need a feed-water tube made of a porous material or the like but the plant cultivation bed material can be made permeated in a relatively short time period. For this purpose, a water reservoir portion for pooling plant cultivation water is provided, the water reservoir portion having a bed material accommodation part for placing a water-absorbing plant cultivation bed material. In the plant cultivation container, the water reservoir portion is provided with a surrounding feed-water channel that surrounds an entire circumference of the bed material accommodation part, and a feed-discharge channel for supplying the plant cultivation water from outside to the water reservoir portion and for discharging the plant cultivation water in the water reservoir portion to outside is provided in communication with the surrounding feed-water channel.
US09655299B2
In a cutter bar having a upper and lower knife guards in cooperating pairs mounted on a support bar where each guard includes at least one point extending forwardly to define a channel therebetween in which the knife reciprocates, the upper knife guards are attached to an upper surface of the support bar by a compressible resilient pad between an under surface of the upper knife guard and the upper surface of the support bar, at least one hold down screw fastener engaged between the upper knife guard and the support bar which holds the upper knife guard on to the resilient pad and forms a fulcrum and at least one adjustment screw between the upper knife guard and the support bar behind the screw fastener so that adjustment of the screw increases an amount of compression of the compressible resilient pad.
US09661793B2
In mounting position correction of detecting a position of printed solder, calculating a positional-shift amount between a position of an electrode and the position of the printed solder, and correcting a mounting position based on the calculated positional-shift amount, when a correction amount based on the calculated positional-shift amount exceeds a limit value which indicates an upper limit of the correction amount which is defined and allowed in mounting information, the electronic component is mounted on the mounting position which is corrected by considering the limit value as the correction amount. Accordingly, it is possible to appropriately employ mounting position correction by considering a solder printing position as a reference in accordance with the degree of printing position shift, and to obtain an expected joint quality improvement effect.
US09661792B2
A protector and a wire harness that have piercing resistance, give shielding capability to the protector, enable reducing the number of man-hours in human labor, and are low cost. In the protector, foaming urethane layers that have a predetermined thickness and contain a high magnetic permeability metal powder are respectively formed on a recessed surface portion of a protector main body and an inner surface portion of a cover portion, and foil films are respectively formed on an outer surface portion of the protector main body and an outer surface portion of the cover portion. The wire harness is formed by using the cover portion to close the opening portion of the recessed surface portion of the protector main body in which a group of electrical lines is inserted and accommodated. Pieces of adhesive tape are wrapped around the protector main body and the cover portion to fasten them.
US09661787B2
An equipment chassis includes a rear-mountable fan tray assembly (FTA) having a plurality of fans arranged into two or more FTA housing portions, the rear-mountable fan tray assembly being slidably insertable into and retractable from the equipment chassis for facilitating front-to-back airflow while providing ease of access. The FTA housing portions are articulatably coupled to each other and are arranged to follow a smooth motion path when traveling from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa when the rear-mountable fan tray assembly is either inserted into or retracted from the equipment chassis, wherein a top FTA housing portion is guided by a top curvilinear tracking path and a bottom FTA housing portion is guided by a bottom curvilinear tracking path.
US09661779B2
A container data center includes a cabinet and a function module. The cabinet includes a plurality of sides and a bottom. A first one of the sides defines a plurality of spaced openings. At least one door is rotatably attached to the side beside each opening. A support member is rotatably attached to the sides near a bottom edge of each opening. The door and the support members are rotated to open each opening and the support members are aligned with the bottom to allow the function modules to slide on the bottom and the support members.
US09661771B2
An electronic device that can be attached to a cover and an electronic device attached to a cover are provided. The electronic device includes an electronic device body, a recess formed in an outer surface of the electronic device body, a movable member placed in the recess, an elastic member placed in the recess and supporting the movable member, and a retaining member placed in the recess and disposed around the movable member. The elastic member and the movable member are disposed to elastically bias the movable member from an inside of the recess to the outer surface of the electronic device body.
US09661770B2
Techniques for graphic formation via material ablation described. In at least some implementations, a graphic is applied to a surface of an object by ablating layers of the object to form an ablation trench in the shape of the graphic. In at least some embodiments, an object can include a surface layer and multiple sublayers of materials. When an ablation trench is generated in the object, the ablation trench can penetrate a surface layer of the object and into an intermediate layer. In at least some implementations, height variations in an object surface caused by an ablation trench can cause variations in light reflection properties such that a graphic applied via the ablation trench appears at a different color tone than a surrounding surface, even if the ablation trench and the surrounding surface are coated with a same colored coating.
US09661767B2
A mount for holding a display device includes a main support, a plurality of arms, and a locking assembly. The main support includes a front surface and a rear surface. The plurality of arms extends from a periphery of the main support. The main support and the plurality of arms are configured to retain the display device. The locking assembly is connected to the rear surface of the main support, and is configured to secure the display device. The locking assembly includes a locking arm and a locking mechanism. The locking arm is translatable relative to the main support, and is configured to support the display device in a secured position. The locking mechanism is connected to the locking arm. The locking mechanism includes a lever connected to the locking arm for releasing the locking mechanism.
US09661766B2
An electronic device package box is mounted with multiple coil components, is mounted on a circuit board, and includes a box unit, and multiple outer and inner connecting pins. The box unit includes inner and outer surrounding walls, a surrounding base wall connected between the inner and outer surrounding walls, and a surrounding space for receiving the coil components therein. The outer connecting pins are mounted to the outer surrounding wall, and each is connected to a corresponding one of the coil components and the circuit board. The inner connecting pins are mounted to the inner surrounding wall, and each is connected to a corresponding one of the coil components and the circuit board.
US09661743B1
A flexible circuit board includes a center “rigid” section, such as a printed circuit stack, and an adjoining flexible multi-layer body that are fabricated from a common interconnect layer. A transition material is included at the interface between the center rigid section and the flexible multi-layer body to minimize ripping and cracking of the interconnect layer. The transition material can also be added at stress areas not related to the interface. The transition material is attached at the interface and stress areas of the flexible circuit board in order to strengthen the flexible circuit board in general and in particular the transition material included therein. The transition material layer is formed and deposited at one or more locations on or within the flexible circuit board in order to minimize, reduce, if not prevent cracking and ripping of the flexible circuit board as it is bent, flexed and/or twisted.
US09661738B1
A method of and a device for dissipating/transferring heat through one or more solid vias and embedded coins are disclosed. The method and device disclosed herein can be used to transfer heat for a High Density Interconnect (HDI) board.
US09661736B2
An example particle therapy system includes: a particle accelerator to output a beam of charged particles; and a scanning system to scan the beam across at least part of an irradiation target. An example scanning system includes: a scanning magnet to move the beam during scanning; and a control system (i) to control the scanning magnet to produce uninterrupted movement of the beam over at least part of a depth-wise layer of the irradiation target so as to deliver doses of charged particles to the irradiation target; and (ii) to determine, in synchronism with delivery of a dose, information identifying the dose actually delivered at different positions along the depth-wise layer.
US09661726B2
The present disclosure provides an insulation machine platform, a substrate-contact type apparatus, and a static electricity elimination method. The insulation machine platform includes: a machine platform body including at least one vent hole, and at least one static electricity elimination device; the at least one vent hole corresponds to the at least one static electricity elimination device being located at a position corresponding to the at least one vent hole, respectively, wherein the machine platform body has a supporting surface, underneath which the static electricity elimination device is located, for receiving a substrate. The substrate-contact type apparatus includes the insulation machine platform.
US09661713B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with an intelligent LED light apparatus are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an intelligent LED light apparatus may include a communication interface, a processor, a body that encases at least the communication interface and the processor, and a plurality of sensors of a plurality of sensor types disposed on the body. The processor may be configured to receive sensor data from the sensors, and transmit the sensor data or results from processing the sensor data to an external recipient. Further, for some embodiments, the intelligent LED bulb apparatus may further comprise LED lights, and the body further encases the LED lights. In other embodiments, the body may include a male connector to mate with a bulb receptor, and a female connector to mate with a LED bulb. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US09661712B1
A lamp includes a light source in a top of a housing, the light source including a driver, a light emitting member electrically connected to the driver, and a dimming controller electrically connected to the driver wherein the driver is configured to activate the light emitting member after being activated by a signal sent from the dimming controller; and an electro-optical sensor in the top of the housing and electrically connected to the dimming controller wherein light emitted by the light emitting member is reflected to the electro-optical sensor, and the electro-optical sensor sends the sensed light to the dimming controller. The dimming controller compares intensity of the sensed light with intensity of the light emitted by the light emitting member, and the driver either decreases the intensity of the light output or increases same based on the comparison.
US09661707B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second field effect transistors (FETs) formed in a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface. The first FET includes first source and drain contact grooves, each running in a first direction parallel to the first main surface, each formed in the first main surface. First source regions are electrically connected to a conductive material in the first source contact groove. First drain regions are electrically connected to a conductive material in the first drain contact groove. The second FET includes second source and drain contact grooves, each running in a second direction parallel to the first main surface, each formed in the first main surface. Second source regions are electrically connected to a conductive material in the second source contact groove, and second drain regions are electrically connected to a conductive material in the second drain contact groove.
US09661706B2
A driver is connectable to an external power supply and configured to output a variable driving current for one or more loads, such as LEDs. A low intensity dimming module is operable to divert some or all of the driving current away from the LEDs when a user selects a very low level of light intensity so that the driver has a constant minimum load. The low intensity dimming module prevents performance issues that commonly affect drivers under light load conditions.
US09661697B2
A digital dimmable driver system includes an alternating current input, a dimmer operable to perform a phase cut operation on a waveform from the alternating current input, a driver circuit operable to switch from a dimming mode to a universal voltage input mode based on a phase angle of the dimmer, and a power output operable to power a light.
US09661693B2
The organic EL device includes a base material as a substrate, a plurality of organic EL elements disposed on the based materials, a seal layer covering the plurality of organic EL elements to seal, color layers of at least red, green, and blue corresponding to a plurality of organic EL elements and formed on the seal layer, and a convex portion which is formed by dividing each of colored layers with different colors on the seal layer, and whose height is lower than the height of a colored layer of at least red, green, blue on the seal layer. The convex portion has a property of optical transparency, and is formed using a photosensitive resin material which is a main material of the colored layers, for example.
US09661692B2
An optical film includes: a liquid crystal coating; and a base layer on the liquid crystal coating, wherein the liquid crystal coating has reversed wavelength dispersion and in-plane retardation for a reference wavelength ranging from 126 nm to 153 nm, and the base layer has in-plane retardation ranging from about 0 to about 50 nm and out-of-plane retardation ranging from about 0 nm to about 100 nm.
US09661689B2
A cooling and holding device for heating-elements, more particularly PTC heating-elements, including a flat housing having at least one heating shaft in which there is at least one heating-element, wherein the heating shaft has opposing shaft walls between which the heating-element is clamped, and at least one side slit that separates the shaft walls such that the distance between the shaft walls can be varied for installation of the heating-element, wherein at least one clamping section outwardly protruding from the flat housing, grips the flat housing, spanning the side slit, and is elastically deformed in the mounted state of the heating-element so as to provide a pressing force of the shaft walls on the heating-element in the assembled state.
US09661680B2
A method, implemented by a network node, for establishing an efficient dummy network connection between a mobile device and a first network includes establishing at least one data connection between the mobile device and the first network. The method further includes receiving a request to establish the efficient dummy network connection. The method also includes establishing the efficient dummy network connection after receiving the request, where the efficient dummy network connection that is established uses a minimum number of network resources, said minimum number of network resources being less than the number of network resources used in the at least one data connection.
US09661670B2
A base station may establish a wireless connection with a mobile device. The base station may determine an index value for each of a plurality of carriers that may be used for the wireless connection. The index value for a respective carrier may be determined based on a quantity of idle mode devices using the respective carrier in an idle mode. The base station may generate a carrier order that indicates a priority for each of the plurality of frequencies. The carrier order may be generated based on sorting the plurality of carriers based on the index values for the plurality of carriers. The base station may send order information indicating the carrier order to the mobile device via the wireless connection.
US09661664B2
A system, apparatus, and method are provided for placing emergency calls from a vehicle to a Public Safety Answering Point. An emergency call apparatus is configured to detect a trigger condition and, if the trigger condition is detected, send a telephone dial command through a vehicle communication network to a telecommunication apparatus to establish voice communication with the Public Safety Answering Point. A method is provided of retrofitting a vehicle with embedded telecommunication apparatus to enable single button access to emergency services without the need for a fee based subscription.
US09661661B2
A wireless device receives at least one control message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells grouped into at least a first cell group and a second cell group. The first cell group comprises a first reference cell. The second cell group comprises a second reference cell. The at least one control message comprises a pathloss reference for a secondary cell in the second cell group. The pathloss reference is configurable to one of a) a downlink of the second reference cell and b) a downlink of the secondary cell.
US09661651B2
The present invention relates to method for forwarding a buffer status report (BSR) for dual connectivity and devices therefor. In these schemes, the UE is simultaneously connected to a first eNB and a second eNB. The UE may transmit information on the amount of data to be transmitted to the first eNB to a second eNB. The second eNB may figured out that the received information is for the first eNB and/or second eNB.
US09661643B2
Cognitive interference management in Cellular wireless network with relays and micro/pico/femto cells operated in distributed scheduling mode. A cellular system may use RS to improve capacity or for coverage extension. ARS relays the signals between BS 104 and MS by using wireless links between BS-RS and RS-MS during both downlink and uplink transmissions. Embodiments herein disclose a mechanism to explicitly indicate to the MS whether the MAC management messages sent by the BS to the MS are to inform it to perform scanning for interference measurement. Also, disclosed herein is a mechanism to explicitly indicate to the BS whether the message sent by the MS is related to interference measurement.
US09661636B1
A wireless access node to facilitate voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) communication sessions comprises a wireless communication transceiver and a processing system. The wireless communication transceiver is configured to exchange VoLTE packets with a wireless communication device during a VoLTE communication session. The processing system is configured to monitor a number of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retries requested by the wireless communication device during the VoLTE communication session and compare the number of HARQ retries to a threshold value. The processing system is further configured to, if the number of HARQ retries falls below the threshold value, drop a percentage of the VoLTE packets to achieve an overall percentage of packet loss for the VoLTE communication session based on the number of HARQ retries.
US09661630B2
A method of signalling resource allocation data in a communication system which uses a plurality of sub-carriers arranged in a sequence of chunks. An allocation of the sub-carriers for each of a plurality of user devices is received. The received allocations are processed to determine, for each user device, data identifying a start chunk and an end chunk within the sequence of chunks, which depend upon the sub-carriers allocated to the user device. Different resource allocation data is generated for each of the user devices using a predetermined mapping which relates the data identifying the corresponding start chunk and end chunk determined by the processing step to resource allocation data comprising a unique value. The respective resource allocation data is signaled to each of the plurality of user devices.
US09661629B2
A method of transmitting a data frame by a station in a wireless local area network (WLAN), A station obtains a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for a bandwidth. The TXOP indicates an interval of time during which the station has a right to initiate frame exchange sequences onto a wireless medium. The station selects a transmit bandwidth parameter of a non-initial data unit of a plurality of data units from available bandwidth parameters. The available bandwidth parameters include a first available bandwidth parameter which is same as a transmit bandwidth parameter of a preceding data unit of the plurality of data units and a second available bandwidth parameter which is narrower than a transmit bandwidth parameter of the preceding data unit. The station transmits, during the TXOP, the non-initial data unit according to the transmit bandwidth parameter of the non-initial data unit.
US09661627B2
A method is provided for receiving an Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) from a base station by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. An EPDCCH is received for a first carrier by monitoring first EPDCCH candidates for the first carrier in a specific physical resource block (PRB) pair set. An EPDCCH is received for a second carrier by monitoring second EPDCCH candidates for the second carrier in the specific PRB pair set. The first EPDCCH between each of the first EPDCCH candidates at a specific aggregation level. The second EPDCCH candidates have an offset smaller than the interval from the first EPDCCH candidates.
US09661620B2
A mobile terminal for use in a mobile communications network includes a wireless access interface that provides a shared communications channel for communicating data to/from the mobile communications network, the shared channel divided in time into units of communications resource. The mobile terminal is configured to receive control information with a short identification number in association with an identification number allocated to the mobile terminal by the mobile communications network, the short identification number allocated to the mobile terminal by the mobile communications network for one super-frame including plural of the units of communications resource of the shared channel, the short identification number allocated to the mobile terminal as one member of a group of mobile terminals, and to receive a resource allocation message including the short identification number to identify the mobile terminal and to allocate units of the communications resource to the mobile terminal in one super-frame.
US09661618B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive a downlink signal. The UE receives a first downlink assignment including a first new data indicator (NDI) from a base station. The UE compares the first NDI to a second NDI and, based on a result of the comparison, determines whether the first NDI has been toggled. The UE receives the downlink signal and processes the received downlink signal based on whether the first NDI has been determined to be toggled. Furthermore, the second NDI is included in a second downlink assignment that was previously received from the base station and was not identified by a temporary cell identifier.
US09661613B2
There is provided a communication control device including a decision unit configured to decide radio resources available for inter-device communication within a cell, and a notification unit configured to notify a terminal device located within the cell of the radio resources. When the radio resources are modified, the notification unit gives notification of modification of the radio resources through paging. When the radio resources are modified, the radio resources before the modification refrain from being used for the inter-device communication after a predetermined timing and the radio resources after the modification are used for the inter-device communication after the predetermined timing.
US09661608B2
Provided in an embodiment of the present invention are a broadcast service resource allocation method, a resource management center and an MME, the method includes: a network side receiving a tracking area update (TAU) request message reported by a user equipment (UE) after the UE moves, and determining according to the TAU request message that a first multimedia broadcast multicast service over a single frequency network (MBSFN) to which the UE belongs before the UE moves is different from a second MBSFN to which the UE belongs after the UE moves; the network side adjusting broadcasts within the first MBSFN and the second MBSFN respectively according to a service subscribed or being received by the UE.
US09661607B2
A transfer node (310) receives downlink data addressed to a mobile station (100). A paging area control apparatus (300) determines a paging area of the mobile station (100) based on an attribute of the downlink data. A paging apparatus (200) sends a paging signal into the paging area determined by the paging area control apparatus (300), in order to page the mobile station (100). As a result, a technology for contributing to determining a proper paging area corresponding to downlink traffic is provided.
US09661602B2
System and method for determining device location in an IP-based wireless telecommunications network
A system and method determines a geographic position of a mobile device in communication with an IP-based wireless telecommunications network. A wireless connection between the mobile device and the IP-based wireless telecommunications network is established when the mobile device registers with a network controller (NC) through an access point (AP). When a geographical position is needed for the mobile device (e.g., a 911 call), messages are exchanged between the NC and the SMLC where the SMLC retrieves information from a database that is used to identify the geographic position of the mobile device. The database can store a variety of information related to mobile devices such as: last known position, IP address, MAC address, device or subscriber identifier, last CGI, etc. The geographical position is communicated back to the NC, which can then forward the position information to a switch for processing such as for 911 calls.
US09661600B2
A method and apparatus for measuring a location of a communication terminal using an access point is provided. Information of nearby access points from the communication terminal is received. A predetermined number of nearby access points among the nearby access points is selected based on the received information. Location coordinates of the selected predetermined number of nearby access points are extracted. A barycentric coordinate is calculated using the extracted location coordinates. The calculated barycentric coordinate is determined as a final location of the communication terminal.
US09661596B2
A system and method for receiving a radio frequency signal, comprising a device for digitizing, without prior alteration of frequency, an analog radio frequency representation of each of a plurality of radio frequency signals to produce a respective plurality of digital radio frequency signals having a respective associated radio frequency digital clock, the plurality of digital radio frequency signals having a sufficiently high respective associated clock rate to preserve an information content of an information communication present in the analog radio frequency representation; a switch matrix adapted to concurrently switch the plurality of digital radio frequency signals and associated digital radio frequency clock to ones of a plurality of digital signal processors; and a control adapted to selectively automatically control the concurrent switching of a plurality of digital signals and associated digital clock to the respective plurality of digital signal processors; wherein the digital signal processors produce processed representations of information contained in respective analog radio frequency representations.
US09661586B2
Disclosed are a power control method and device for D2D transmission. The method includes determining an upper limit value of interference power corresponding to a terminal. The upper limit value of the interference power is the maximum interference value which is allowed by a base station and generated by D2D transmission to cellular transmission. The base station sending the upper limit value of the interference power to the terminal the terminal determines the upper limit value of D2D transmission power by using the upper limit value of the interference power. The terminal determines the upper limit value of the D2D transmission power, and determines the D2D transmission power, the D2D transmission power of the terminal device can be controlled, transmitting power of the D2D transmission is controlled to make the interference generated by same to the cellular transmission to a controlled range, and the interference of a D2D signal to a cellular signal is controlled.
US09661582B2
Embodiments herein include a method of controlling the total power with which a radio transmitter of a radio access node transmits a signal. The method entails inputting an input signal into a power amplifier of the radio transmitter to produce, as a function of the input signal, an output signal to be transmitted by the radio transmitter. The method further entails generating a feedback signal from the output signal at the radio transmitter, and measuring that feedback signal to obtain one or more performance metrics that characterize performance of the output signal. The method finally includes comparing the one or more performance metrics to one or more performance metric thresholds, and controlling a maximum permissible level of the total power of the input signal, based on that comparison.
US09661554B2
A method of detecting a proximity to a target device. The method comprises scanning a wireless network frequency band in a personal mobile device to discover at least one wireless network signal, triggering, in response to a discovery of the at least one wireless network signal, a magnetic field scan of a magnetometer operated by the personal mobile device, detecting, in the personal mobile device, according to the magnetic field scan, a presence or an absence of a magnetic field signature associated with a predefined proximity to a target device.
US09661534B2
The invention provides a system and method for repairing corrupt security information. At a serving node in a telecommunications network, security capabilities of a terminal are received when the terminal registers with the serving node. The received security capabilities are stored. A path switch request message is received from a target base station following an X2 handover request sent from a source base station to the target base station for handover of the terminal, the path switch request including the security capabilities of the terminal. The serving node determines whether the security capabilities of the terminal stored in the storage medium should be sent to the target base station. If so, the serving node sends the stored security capabilities of the terminal to the target base station for use in reselecting security algorithms to be used in communications between the target base station and terminal following the handover.
US09661527B2
A method of performing a random access channel (RACH) procedure between a mobile terminal and a network includes the steps of detecting whether a random access response (RAR) is received from the network within a certain time period, the RAR including information about a random access channel (RACH) preamble transmitted to the network; and if the RAR is not received within the certain time period or if the information about the transmitted RACH preamble included in the RAR does not match the transmitted RACH preamble, performing a first procedure to detect failures in the RACH procedure; and if the RAR is received within the certain time period and if the information about the transmitted RACH preamble included in the RAR matches the transmitted RACH preamble, performing a second procedure to detect failures in the RACH procedure.
US09661526B2
The present specification relates to a communication method and a communication device, and a random access method of a user equipment (UE), according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: sensing a random access trigger in a connected state; determining the type of the random access trigger when the random access trigger is sensed; and performing congestion control if the type of the random access trigger is a preset type.
US09661524B2
A method in which a user equipment processes data in a wireless mobile communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a first data block from an upper layer, transferring a second data block including the first data block to a lower layer at a particular protocol layer, discarding the first and second data blocks present in the particular protocol layer if a certain period of time has passed, and transferring information associated with the discard of the second data block to the lower layer.
US09661522B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes configuring a network element for subscriber-specific service chaining and traffic steering, where the configuring includes programming a selected service flow router user plane element with a subscriber context corresponding to a subscriber's session at a subscriber termination function. The subscriber context comprises instructions to steer subscriber traffic through a plurality of services in a network environment.
US09661521B2
A system for merging first and second interrupts includes first and second queue modules, first and second status modules, and first and second merger modules. The first and second queue modules receive first and second en-queue signals corresponding to the first and second interrupts, first and second de-queue signals, and generate first and second status signals. The first and second status modules receive first and second status signals, and first and second output signals, and generate first and second merge signals. The first and second merger modules receive the first and second merge signals, and generate the first and second output signals. One of the first and second output signals is indicative of the first and second en-queue signals, thereby merging the first and second interrupts into at least one of the first and second output signals.
US09661520B2
Method and apparatus for transmitting channel measurement information in mobile communication system
A method and apparatus for transmitting channel measurement information in a mobile communication system are disclosed. The method and apparatus enable a user equipment to log channel measurement information and transmit the same to a base station so as to enhance radio network performance and reduce processing complexity of the user equipment by removing unnecessary operations of the user equipment and preventing waste of radio network capacity during transmission of channel measurement information.
US09661518B2
A cellular communications network 10 comprises a plurality of basestations 12, 14, 16 and 18 connected to each other through an interface and to a core network through another interface. Each basestation has a coverage area referred to as a cell k. There are provided methods for estimating the load imparted on a cell in the cellular communications network by user equipments in the cell. The methods make it possible to estimate any potential increase in the load that may impact onto a target cell due to the handover of a UE from a serving cell.
US09661503B2
The spectrum-efficient secondary users grouping method for two-tier cognitive radio groups femtocell base stations (FBSs) and macrocell secondary users (MSUs) into non-interfering groups based on their GPS location information, and then serves the FBSs/MSUs within each group using the same channel. A first approach for grouping the secondary users (SUs) is distance-based. A second approach utilizes profit maximization. Both approaches are extended to a co-channel deployment scenario where the FBSs can share part of the channels purchased for the MSUs to further reduce the number of channels to be purchased from the PU networks. The distance-based grouping method finds the minimum number of groups such that the desired quality of service (QoS) determined by an outage probability threshold is maintained. The profit maximization method tries to find the set of SUs that maximizes the expected total profit of the SU network.
US09661499B2
A computing device may be configured to authenticate a user for access control, and may include at least one ground electrode configured for contact with a user, an impedance sensor coupled to the least one ground electrode, where the impedance sensor may be configured to perform a measurement based on a touch input from the user, a memory which stores instructions, and a processor, coupled the impedance sensor and the memory, where the processor may be configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may cause the processor to: receive the touch input from the user, receive an impedance value based on the touch input measured by the impedance sensor, and determine whether the received impedance value corresponds to at least one stored impedance value associated with a user profile.
US09661495B2
A method of activating a first device is disclosed. The method includes: the first device pairing with a second device; receiving a connection request from a second device; connecting to the second device; opening a communication channel to the second device; transmitting an activation package to the second device; receiving an activation payload from the second device; and performing an activation using information from the activation payload.
US09661491B1
In a computer-implemented method for communicating information about an update of an application, a digital distribution platform can receive, at a first time, the update of the application. The digital distribution platform can receive, at a second time, a signal from a user device. The signal can include a request to receive a transmission of a user interface customized for a user account. The digital distribution platform can automatically determine, in response to receipt of the request to receive the transmission of the user interface customized for the user account, that the application was downloaded, at a third time, to the user device. The digital distribution platform can automatically generate, in response to the second time being later than the first time, the user interface. The user interface can include the information about the update.
US09661485B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for indicating a discovery signal resource by a User Equipment (UE) performing device-to-device communication. The UE receives information relating to the device-to-device communication from a base station. A synchronization signal including discovery signal-related information, is transmitted from the UE to a nearby UE, based on the information relating to the device-to-device communication. A discovery is performed based on the discovery signal-related information.
US09661484B2
A method of conveying a location information representing a physical location of a communication device to another communication device comprises acquiring by the communication device a first location information and a second location information, the second location information being acquired subsequently to the acquiring of the first location information and detecting by the communication device a deviation of the second location information from the first location information representing a change of the physical location of the communication device. The method further comprises, triggered by the detected change of the physical location of the communication device, conveying the most recently acquired physical location of the communication device to the other communication device by sending a signaling message by the communication device to the other communication device, the signaling message comprising either the second location information or the deviation of the second location information on the first location information.
US09661483B2
A multi-function emergency assistance request, tracking, and communication system is defined by a Hub and Spoke concept of portable units able to communicate one to each other using satellite with global earth coverage by sending GPS coordinates and text, by which the user can create its own private network inside the satellite network. A central Server manages the private network to decide which Spoke(s) are referred to specific hub(s). Functionalities include tracking without internet access (only through satellite link), system for rapid evacuation where the spoke(s) call in the Hub and receives back the confirmation of message received and read from the hub and Command and Control center from the server where the user can track all private networks and can communicate with each device through text.
US09661475B2
An apparatus for Internet-Protocol based communications in a wireless network includes a network interface, a controller, and memory. The interface receives a series of multicast data packets. The controller identifies one or more receiving nodes in the wireless network requesting data corresponding to the series of multicast data packets and determines that the effective unicast rate for one or more unicast data packets exceeds a minimum data rate of the series of multicast data packets using an 802.x protocol. The memory stores instructions that may be executable by a processor. Upon execution of the instructions by a processor, the received series of multicast data packets is converted into one or more unicast packets, the execution and conversion occurring in response to instructions received from the controller. A system for Internet-Protocol based communications in a wireless network implements such an apparatus in the context of an access point.
US09661473B1
A location device (e.g., realized at one or more of a mobile device and/or a location server) includes a wireless transceiver, one or more location sensors and a floor-plan of a venue. The location device determines a plurality of hypothetical locations of a mobile device in the venue in response to data sets provided by the one or more location sensors. The data sets are associated with obstacle indication values calculated for the venue or for regions of the venue including locations corresponding to the data sets. The obstacle indication values indicate the proximity or orientation of the obstacle edges in the region or in the venue. The location device refines the one or more hypothetical locations based on the obstacle indication values to provide an estimate of the current location of the mobile device.
US09661470B1
Examples methods and systems for locating an actor in an environment are described herein. For example, an information system may receive point cloud data representing a cluster of potential actors at a location in the environment. In addition, the information system may also receive location information from a device indicating that the current location of the device is proximate to the location of the cluster of potential actors. Based on movement information from the device that indicates movements of the device, the information system may determine a portion of the point cloud data that displays movements that matches the movement of the device. Using the determined portion of the point cloud, the information system may identify a particular actor of the cluster that corresponds to the device and provide an output signal indicating that the determined portion of the point cloud represents the identified particular actor.
US09661461B1
A method for searching an electronic device and an electronic device are provided. The method includes following steps. A request packet that is broadcasted by another electronic device according to a wireless communication protocol is received. It is determined whether the electronic device matches a target device indicated by the request packet according to target identification information in the request packet. If the electronic device does not match the target device indicated by the request packet, another request packet is generated and broadcasted according to the wireless communication protocol. If the electronic device matches the target device, indication for indicating location information of the electronic device is supplied.
US09661455B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for improving, in some examples, reference in a location system. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising: receiving reference tag blink data from a plurality of receivers; calculating, using a processor, a reference phase offset between the plurality of receivers; and generating a suspended reference phase offset table, wherein a suspended reference phase offset table is generated by causing the reference phase offset to be stored in a memory for later tag location calculations.
US09661440B2
An example method of synchronizing application data between a mobile device and a remote computing device includes for each network of one or more networks, collecting network data regarding a mobile device's current connectivity state to the respective network. The mobile device includes one or more mobile applications including application data. The method also includes detecting, at the mobile device, a current connection to a current network. The method further includes comparing one or more opportunity scores for synchronizing application data. The one or more opportunity scores includes an opportunity score for the current network. Each opportunity score is associated with a particular network. The method also includes determining, based on the comparing, whether the current network is a good opportunity network for syncing mobile application data.
US09661435B2
A dual loudness meter is disclosed, simultaneously displaying the current loudness of an audio signal and of a processed audio signal, and also displaying the previous loudness of both audio signals.
US09661434B2
A host device for use with a removable peripheral apparatus having a microphone, and to the biasing circuitry for said microphone. The host device may have a device connector for forming a mating connection with a respective peripheral connector. A source of bias is arranged to supply an electrical bias to a device microphone contact of the device connector via a biasing path. A capacitor is connected between a reference voltage node and a capacitor node of the biasing path. A first switch is located between the capacitor node and the device microphone contact. Detection circuitry detects disconnection of the peripheral connector and device connector; and control circuitry controls the switch to disable the biasing path.
US09661433B2
A method and circuit for testing an acoustic sensor are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises using electro-mechanical features of the acoustic sensor to measure characteristic of the acoustic sensor. In a second aspect, the method comprises utilizing an actuation signal to evaluate mechanical characteristics of the acoustic sensor. In a third aspect, the method comprises using a feedthrough cancellation system to measure a capacitance of the acoustic sensor. In the fourth aspect, the circuit comprises a mechanism for driving an electrical signal into a signal path of the acoustic sensor to cancel an electrical feedthrough signal provided to the signal path, wherein any of the electrical signal and the electrical feedthrough signal are within or above an audio range.
US09661431B2
An audio device and a position recognition method of the audio device are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, an audio device includes at least one infrared (IR) transceiver and a controller configured to recognize whether the audio device is positioned to a left or right of another audio device in response to a signal received by the at least one IR transceiver.
US09661428B2
A computing system automates the configuration and management of a live sound system that includes a processor and memory for building in a GUI of a display a representation of the live sound system for a venue. The system loads a venue template that includes loudspeaker arrays and related properties including a setup configuration of the loudspeaker arrays and tuning data for constituent loudspeakers that are operable to provide an audio coverage pattern for the venue. The system overlays on top of the representation of the loudspeaker arrays a wiring circuit representation indicating interconnections of the loudspeakers that define bandpass inputs for each array. The system generates a plurality of amplifiers in the representation to drive the arrays, and associates amplifier channels of the amplifiers with the bandpass inputs. The amplifier channels include representations of output channels of DSPs coupled with respective amplifier channels. The system loads tuning data into respective representation of the DSP and/or amplifiers based on configurations of the associated loudspeakers to complete virtual configuration. The representations of the devices and connections may be matched with physical devices of the live sound system and the tuning data sent down to the physical DSPs and/or amplifiers for their configuration.
US09661421B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) microphone package including a MEMS microphone die configured to sense acoustic pressure and to generate a signal based on the acoustic pressure. An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) electrically connects to the MEMS microphone die. The MEMS microphone package includes a molded package spacer that connects to a conductive lid and to a substrate. The molded package spacer forms side walls of the MEMS microphone package and is adapted to route electrical connections from the MEMS microphone die and the ASIC to the substrate.
US09661419B2
A microphone having a microphone capsule is provided. The microphone capsule has a diaphragm carrier, a diaphragm and an adhesive tape ring which is used to fasten the diaphragm to or in the diaphragm carrier. The microphone capsule is in the form of a dynamic sound transducer. A dynamic sound transducer for headphones, earphones or headsets is also provided. The sound transducer has a diaphragm carrier, a diaphragm and a moving coil which is coupled to the diaphragm. In a similar manner to the microphone capsule, the sound transducer has an adhesive tape ring between the diaphragm and the diaphragm carrier, which ring is used to fasten the diaphragm to the diaphragm carrier.
US09661415B2
A digital microphone system, audio control device and control method thereof is related to the method for controlling a digital microphone circuit including receiving a clock signal; detecting that the clock signal is maintained at a predetermined level for a duration; when the duration reaches a given time, switching a transmission type of a data pin; in a data mode, outputting a digital audio signal to a data line via the data pin in an output type; and in a command mode, receiving a command signal from the data line via the data pin in an input type.
US09661412B2
An apparatus comprising: a first substantially horn shaped structure configured to couple and amplify sound from a first speaker of a further apparatus; and a second substantially horn shaped structure configured to couple and amplify sound from a second speaker of the further apparatus, wherein the first and second substantially horn shaped structure each comprise a mouth portion with a physical separation dimension greater than a physical separation dimension of the first and second speaker acoustic outlet of the further apparatus.
US09661409B2
In one example, a presentation sound box is provided that includes a first box portion, and a second box portion that is movable relative to the first box portion. A sound module is disposed within the box and includes a speaker, a processor, and memory accessible by the processor. The presentation sound box further includes a power source operable to drive the speaker and processor, a trigger device operable to connect and disconnect the power source and sound module, and an amplifying cover configured and arranged to at least partly enclose the speaker.
US09661406B2
An optical device includes a plurality of optical input ports, a plurality of optical output ports, a wavelength dispersion arrangement and at least one optical beam steering arrangement. The plurality of optical input ports is configured to receive optical beams each having a plurality of wavelength components. The wavelength dispersion arrangement receives the optical beams and spatially separates each of the optical beams into a plurality of wavelengths components. The optical beam steering arrangement has a first region onto which the spatially separated wavelength components are directed and a second region onto which any subset of the plurality of wavelength components of each of the optical beams is selectively directed after the wavelength components in each of the subsets are spatially recombined with one another. The optical beam steering arrangement selectively directs each of subset of the plurality of wavelength components to a different one of the optical output ports.
US09661405B2
In one embodiment, method of photonic packet switching includes receiving, by a photonic switching fabric from a first top-of-rack (TOR) switch, a destination port request corresponding to a first photonic packet and a first period of time, where the destination port request includes a first output port and determining whether the first output port is available during the first period of time. The method also includes receiving, by the photonic switching fabric from the first TOR switch, the first photonic packet and routing the first photonic packet to the first output port when the first output port is available during the first period of time. Additionally, the method includes routing the first photonic packet to an alternative output port when the first output port is not available.
US09661396B2
Disclosed are a digital TV and a method for controlling same. The method for controlling a digital TV according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: displaying a user interface (UI) capable of selecting the standby mode for a power-off operation; and disconnecting the power source for a display panel so as to enter the standby mode when the standby mode is set through the UI in the power-off operation, and a power-off command is received. The standby mode includes a lower standby mode based on the operation of the digital TV and a network function, and the digital TV in the standby mode stops AV channel communication and performs SI channel communication.
US09661394B2
An apparatus and method for providing signaling information using inband transmission in a digital video broadcasting system where a frame for transmitting broadcasting data according to a ground-wave broadcasting service and broadcasting data according to a mobile broadcasting service is generated, and the generated frame is transmitted with an additional area for recording recognition information that indicates whether signaling information to be transmitted in the generated frame or the frame to be transmitted next time has been changed is allocated to a signaling information field of the generated frame.
US09661379B2
An electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a display displays a first video stream on the display. The electronic device downloads and stores a portion of a second video stream and, once the portion of the second video stream has been downloaded, ceases to download the second video stream. The electronic device receives a request to display the second video stream on the display and, in response, determines whether the stored portion of the second video stream satisfies recency criteria with respect to a current stream time of the second video stream. In accordance with a determination that the stored portion of the second video stream satisfies the recency criteria, the electronic device displays at least a portion of the first video stream on the display concurrently with at least the stored portion of the second video stream.
US09661372B2
An apparatus includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with an external device which is configured to provide video data; a user interface configured to control based on a user input; a processor configured to process the video data, which is received in the communication interface, to be displayed as an image on the display; a controller configured to perform control to extract a text for a plurality of respective processing regions which are set up to have a plurality of same coordinates as a designated region with regard to each video frame based on the processed video data after a point of time in response to a partial region being designated by the user interface within a displayed video frame on the display, and apply a preset process to the extracted text in sync with each video frame.
US09661369B1
An example method involves: accessing a first list including ordered clip identifiers C1 . . . Cn; accessing a second list including ordered player identifiers P1 . . . Px; determining that an identifier Cm of the identifiers C1 . . . Cn is restricted to being assigned an identifier P, from the identifiers P1 . . . Px; making a first determination that an identifier Cp is a next one of the identifiers C1 . . . Cn after the identifier Cm to have a player-identifier assignment-restriction; responsive to making the first determination, (i) determining that the identifier Cp is restricted to being assigned an identifier Py from the identifiers P1 . . . Px, and (ii) matching with each identifier Cm+1 . . . Cp in reverse order a respective one of the identifiers P1 . . . Px selected in a reverse ordered and looping fashion starting with the identifier Py; making a second determination that the identifier Cm+1 has been matched with the player identifier Pz; and responsive to making the second determination, causing an alert to be output.
US09661367B2
Methods and systems for message notification are described. A video message is received from a source access device. A selection of a target user may be received for the video message. A message notification of availability of the video message for a target access device associated with the target user may be provided.
US09661366B2
A hospitality media system includes a media system controller and a plurality of media devices located in a plurality of rooms and coupled to the media system controller. Each room has one or more in-room media devices located therein for performing a media function. A connection port allows a user of a room to establish data communications between the media system controller and a guest device. The media system controller is coupled to the connection port and configured to catalog guest content available on the guest device to thereby form a guest content list, associate the guest content with one or more associated rooms at least including the user's room, and perform the media function utilizing content selected from the guest content list only on the in-room media devices located within the one or more associated rooms.
US09661364B2
An exemplary method includes a media content presentation system dynamically maintaining a list of recommended media content programs for a user and available by way of a media content access device during a media content presentation session, detecting a channel surfing command provided by the user during the media content presentation session, and directing, in response to the channel surfing command, the media content access device to switch to a channel presenting a recommended media content program included in the list of recommended media content programs. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09661360B2
Systems and methods for evaluating online videos. One method includes receiving a URL; determining a URL type; detecting whether the URL includes one or more videos; determining at least one of a size of the video, a position of the video on a web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; computing a score based on one or more of the size of the video, the position of the video on the web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; obtaining at least two frames of at least part of the video, wherein each frame is obtained at one or more predetermined intervals during playback of the video; and classifying each detected video based on the at least two frames.
US09661351B2
A method for delivering video over a network includes encoding, by a server, a sequence of video frames as a compressed video stream comprising an initial I-frame followed by a plurality P-frames, the sequence having a skipped frame which is not encoded. The compressed video stream is transmitted over a network to a client device, the skipped frame not being transmitted. In response to detecting the skipped frame, the client device generating a predicted frame that replaces the skipped frame in the compressed video stream, the predicted frame being generated based on extending delta information from one or more previous frames decoded by the client device.
US09661345B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for performing intra-prediction using an adaptive filter. The method for performing intra-prediction includes the steps of: determining whether or not to apply a first filter for a reference pixel value on the basis of information of a neighboring block of a current block; applying the first filter for the reference pixel value when it is determined to apply the first filter; performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference pixel value; determining whether or not to apply a second filter for a prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block, which is predicted by the intra-prediction performance on the basis of the information of the neighboring block; and applying the second filter for the prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block when it is determined to apply the second filter.
US09661344B2
A method for decoding an image, the method including extracting an intra prediction mode of a current block, determining a number of neighboring pixels located on a left side of the current block or an upper side of the current block, and determining a location of one or more neighboring pixels, the intra prediction mode indicating a particular direction among a plurality of directions, the particular direction being indicated by using one of a dx number in a horizontal direction and a fixed number in a vertical direction, and the location of the one or more neighboring pixels being determined based on a shift operation.
US09661338B2
In one example, an apparatus for encoding video data includes a video encoder configured to scan a two-dimensional block of transform coefficients to produce a one-dimensional vector of the transform coefficients, determine values indicative of whether the transform coefficients in the one-dimensional vector are significant; and entropy encode at least one of the values using a context model selected based on at least a percentage of significant coefficients in a predetermined number of the values encoded before the at least one of the values.
US09661319B2
An embodiment contemplates a method of calibrating multiple image capture devices of a vehicle. A plurality of image capture devices having different poses are provided. At least one of the plurality of image capture devices is identified as a reference device. An image of a patterned display exterior of the vehicle is captured by the plurality of image capture devices. The vehicle traverses across the patterned display to capture images at various instances of time. A processor identifies common landmarks of the patterned display between each of the images captured by the plurality of image capture devices and the reference device. Images of the patterned display captured by each of the plurality of image devices are stitched using the identified common landmarks. Extrinsic parameters of each image capture device are adjusted relative to the reference device based on the stitched images for calibrating the plurality of image capture devices.
US09661318B2
In a method and apparatus for optically inspecting an FPD in a reduced time, the apparatus for inspecting the flat panel display (FPD) comprises a lighting device separated from a top surface of an object and emitting light toward the top surface of the object, a photographing device separated from the top surface of the object and photographing an image using light emitted from the lighting device and then reflected by the top surface of the object, a controller controlling the lighting device and the photographing device to move in a plane separated from and parallel to the top surface of the object, and an image processor connected to the photographing device and processing the photographed image, wherein the image processor samples some of pixels included in the photographed image and converts the sampled pixels to binary form.
US09661316B2
A multi-layered image display device for realizing a multi-layered image with a depth by overlapping a plurality of two-dimensional images includes: a display which can be selectively transparent and produce a first two-dimensional image through a combination of a plurality of pixels, a screen which is disposed behind the display so as to be overlapped in a forward-backward direction with the display; and a projector which is disposed behind the screen so as to project a second two-dimensional image on the screen. By adopting a screen and a projector instead of a rear display and a backlight unit, the cross stripes of the rear display can be removed so as to prevent the occurrence of the interference pattern (Moire phenomenon) due to the interference of different pixel patterns, and an additional diffuse layer can be omitted so that an assembling process of the multi-layer image display device can be simplified.
US09661315B2
A method for 2D/3D switchable displaying includes: real-time detecting a 3D display area; when a change of the 3D display area is detected, calculating a gradient coefficient based on a number of frame of change and a rate of the change of the 3D display area; adjusting a 3D image area and a 3D grating area based on the calculated gradient coefficient; and performing a stereoscopic display by the adjusted 3D image area and the adjusted 3D grating area. When the 3D display area starts a change and ends the change, the 3D display area gradually is switched to be 2D display and switched to be 3D display respectively, so that a gradient visual effect is achieved, and the problems of viewing image jitter and 3D effect mistake caused by pixel arrangement and hardware control in the 3D display area being not synchronized can be avoided.
US09661293B1
This disclosure describes a system configured to present primary and secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content to a user. Primary virtual reality content may be displayed to a user, and, responsive to the user turning his view away from the primary virtual reality content, a sensory cue is provided to the user that indicates to the user that his view is no longer directed toward the primary virtual reality content, and secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content may be displayed to the user. Primary virtual reality content may resume when the user returns his view to the primary virtual reality content. Primary virtual reality content may be adjusted based on a user's interaction with the secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content. Secondary, tertiary, etc., virtual reality content may be adjusted based on a user's progression through the primary virtual reality content, or interaction with the primary virtual reality content.
US09661290B2
An image processing method includes: receiving a captured image, determining block statistics which indicates image characteristics of each of a plurality of blocks by using the plurality of blocks obtained by dividing the captured image determining a shading estimation coefficient to be applied to the captured image by using the determined block statistics and an amount of infrared light included in a light source, and correcting shading of the captured image by using the determined shading estimation coefficient.
US09661288B2
A projection display system includes a projector to project an image onto a projection surface, and a remote controller to control the projector. The remote controller includes a first sensor to measure a current value of horizontal distance to the projection surface, a second sensor to measure a current value of vertical distance to the projection surface, and a processor to obtain, from a memory, preset values of horizontal distance and vertical distance corresponding to a screen size selected by a user, and to control a display to display a screen including the obtained preset values of horizontal distance and vertical distance, the current value of horizontal distance measured by the first sensor, and the current value of vertical distance measured by the second sensor.
US09661287B2
A device for projecting images from a video generating device such as a computer, television receiver, or similar device onto a screen or other surface is described in this invention. The device uses a rotating disk containing numerous lenses to direct a light beam from a laser or other light source towards the screen. In one embodiment, a pulsed laser light from red, green, and blue lasers are combined into a single light pulse that is transmitted through the rotating disk that transmit each light pulse to a specific location on the screen.
US09661282B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing local expert sessions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request to initiate a local expert session from a user; identifying available local experts in response to the request, wherein a local expert is a user who has registered to offer local expert sessions in a geographic location relevant to the physical location of the user; selecting an available local expert; and initiating a local expert session between the user and the selected local expert, wherein initiating the local expert session comprises providing video captured by a session accessory worn by the user to a user device for presentation to the selected local expert and establishing communication between the user and the selected local expert.
US09661271B1
Multiple display planes for participant collaboration are provided. An end of a first physical display is arranged adjacent to an end of a second physical display to define an angle. An example method includes detecting the angle, establishing, based on detecting the angle, a first physical display plane on the first physical display, a second physical display plane on the second physical display, and a plurality of virtual display planes on the first physical display and the second physical display, and presenting a different video feed of several video feeds in each of the first physical display plane, second physical display plane, and one or more virtual display planes of the plurality of virtual display planes.
US09661270B2
Improved methods, systems, and devices for managing communications are provided. A user device may display all ongoing communications so that a user can visualize the communications network or some subset thereof (e.g., a subgroup or group of users). A system may maintain the user device in an instant ready-on mode of communication with the other user devices. A user may then initiate communications with a subgroup (e.g., a pair) or group without initiating a new connection. Accordingly, a user can simultaneously and fluidly communicate at the subgroup level, at the group level, or at the inter-group level. Moreover, users can function as independent actors that can freely form and leave subgroups as well as groups.
US09661260B2
A method of capturing photographs or videos and associated metadata. The method includes capturing a photograph or video using a mobile camera device at a shooting location and encompassing a shooting area, identifying a shooting area using positional and orientational detectors of the mobile camera device and known camera properties and recording a definition of the shooting area, and sending the captured photograph or video to a server system. Either at the mobile camera device or at the server system, the presence of peer mobile devices within the shooting area is identified using positional information reported by those peer mobile devices, and the captured photograph or video is tagged with identities associated with those peer mobile devices.
US09661252B2
An image capturing device includes: an image capturing section having a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix and configured to output a pixel signal via a first signal line connected to pixels arranged in a first direction among the plurality of pixels; a plurality of calculators including: a comparator configured to compare a magnitude of a first analog signal with a threshold value to generate a digital value according to a comparison result; an amplification section configured to amplify the first analog signal by multiplying the first analog signal by an amplification degree β (1<β<2) and output a second analog signal by executing computation according to the digital value; and a switching section configured to output one of the pixel signal and a β estimation signal as the first analog signal when a most significant bit of a first digital value sequence is computed.
