US09864895B1
The present invention relates to a method of sensing a fingerprint pattern of a finger using a fingerprint sensing device. The method comprising: controlling a group of sensing elements to change a potential of a group of sensing structures comprised in said group of sensing elements; acquiring, in response to said variation in potential, a response signal from a finger detecting circuitry indicative of the capacitive coupling between the group of sensing structures and the finger detecting structure; comparing a variation in the response signal with a predefined threshold value; and providing a signal indicating that a finger is present when the variation in response signal is greater than the threshold value. The invention also relates to a corresponding fingerprint sensing device.
US09864874B1
A data storage management process is directed to aspects of managing encrypted data via data storage volumes in conjunction with a service provider computer network that hosts virtual machine instances. A volume can be created and configured for managing encrypted data with an encrypted version of a volume key. The volume can be attached to a virtual machine instance such that the virtual machine instance accesses the volume in a transparent fashion based on the volume key. Encrypted data specific to the volume can be copied across multiple regions of data storage each associated with distinct encrypted versions of a volume key corresponding to the volume.
US09864866B2
A data object update system provides a flexible framework that can be used to upgrade, renew, replace or supplement data objects that are provisioned in a large base of network-enabled devices that been deployed in the field to end users. The system has the flexibility to configure, for example, the following items, based on different requirements received from network operators: which device key and/or certificate is to be used to authenticate request messages from network-enabled devices before a specific data object update request is accepted into the system; which device identifier is to be used to authorize data object update requests; which device identifier is to be used for generating device specific data objects; and which protection mechanism is to be used to secure the delivery of data objects to network-enabled devices.
US09864854B2
Techniques described herein may be used to implement a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) test that requires a user of a user device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, etc.) to physically move in a certain pattern. In one implementation, a user device may prompt the user to physically move the user device according to a specified pattern. As the user does so, sensors of the user device may detect the movements of the user, and cause the user to be authenticated based on the physical movements. In another implementation, a user device may request that the user make a physical gesture in front of the user device. In so doing, an infrared sensor of the user device may detect the user's movements, and the user device may cause the user to be authenticated based on the physical movements.
US09864851B2
A system, device and method for authenticating a user. The system, device and method may employ a computing device for providing credentials required for access to an on-line resource available over a network. The computing device may connect to the on-line resource to register a user. The computing device may receive from the on-line resource at least one request for a credential to identify the user. In response to the request, the computing device may generate a random credential, store the random credential in association with an on-line resource identifier and the request in a data store accessible to the computing device and, submit the random credential to the on-line resource to register the user.
US09864842B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein include systems, methods, and devices for automated delivery of medical services and products. In certain embodiments, the systems and/or methods are at least partially controlled by a computer.
US09864839B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for tracking, registering, etc. of medical staff, patients, instrumentation, events, or the like according to a treatment staging plan. For example a medical apparatus includes a right-patient verification device having an interrogation interface device that elicits at least one of identification data, authorization data, or treatment plan data from a medical procedure authorization device associated with a patient; and a right-site verification device that generates patient-specific treatment staging data consistent with the at least one of the identification data, the authorization data, or the treatment plan data.
US09864836B2
A computer-readable recording medium stores a rendering program that renders simulation results and causes a computer to execute a process that includes detecting a range of physical values of a rendering element group to be rendern and of an area specified in a simulation model that is a set of elements each having a physical value for each position to be simulated; identifying from the simulation model, an adjacent element group that is a set of elements adjacent to rendering elements included in the rendering element group; determining whether the physical value of each adjacent element included in the adjacent element group is within the range; adding to the rendering element group, an adjacent element for which the physical value is determined to be included in the range; and rendering the simulation model according to the rendering element group to which the adjacent element has been added.
US09864833B2
The present invention generally relates to methods of rapidly and efficiently searching biologically-related data space. More specifically, the invention includes methods of identifying bio-molecules with desired properties, or which are most suitable for acquiring such properties, from complex bio-molecule libraries or sets of such libraries. The invention also provides methods of modeling sequence-activity relationships. As many of the methods are computer-implemented, the invention additionally provides digital systems and software for performing these methods.
US09864832B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for an automated analysis of a collection of melt curves is provided. The analysis can identify certain characteristics of double stranded nucleotide sequences (e.g. DNA or other nucleotide sequences) which were melted. For example, a variation (e.g. a mutation) in the sequences (also called amplicons) may be determined from the analysis. The amplicons may be amplified via any amplification mechanism, such as PCR or Ligase chain reaction (LCR). The automated analysis can include identifying a melt region, normalizing a melt curve, and clustering melt curves.
US09864822B2
A method for the determination of workplace transport trajectories in a multiple station press, comprises the steps of providing a set of constraints for the workplace transport trajectories, the constraints comprising at least pickup and deposit positions for a workplace in a plurality of stations of the multiple station press, providing machine properties of the plurality of stations and of at least one transfer device for transporting the workplace from a first of the plurality of stations to a second of the plurality of stations, providing information on a candidate workplace transport trajectory, simulating the plurality of stations and the at least one transfer device based on the provided information for determining whether the candidate workplace transport trajectory conforms with the provided machine parameters, and displaying the result of the determination.
US09864812B2
A networked version of a spreadsheet application can be automatically created from an existing “conventional” spreadsheet. In one implementation, a server may obtain a data file, where the data file represents a networked version of a spreadsheet application that was converted from the “conventional” application and the data file defines characteristics of the networked version of the spreadsheet application including logic and interactivity attributes of cells in the networked version of the spreadsheet application. A remote request may be received from a client to access the networked version of the spreadsheet application. In response, the server may transmit a document to the client that represents a portion of the networked version of the spreadsheet application that the interactivity attributes specify as being displayable to the client.
US09864811B2
The present disclosure discloses a terminal device, a system for providing picture and a method for transmitting picture and pertains to the field of network communications technologies. The method comprises: obtaining a URL of a picture to be transmitted according to a picture request initiated by a terminal device; determining the picture quality value of the picture to be transmitted according to the state of the network where the terminal device is located; determining the maximum resolution value of the picture to be transmitted according to the state of the network where the terminal device is located and the resolution value supported by the terminal device; sending the URL of the picture to be transmitted, the picture quality value of the picture to be transmitted and the maximum resolution value of the picture to be transmitted to a picture bed server; receiving the returned picture which had been processed by the picture bed server according to these parameters, and displaying it on the terminal device. Under the premise of not affecting the experience of viewing a picture by a user, the technical solution of the present disclosure realizes the beneficial effects of reducing the transmission size of the picture, increasing the transmission speed of the picture, and at the same time guaranteeing the picture quality as much as possible.
US09864801B2
A responsive layout based on behavioral intent in a multi-tenant PaaS system is disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes determining a profile of a user of a PaaS system, an application context for each application associated with the user and hosted by the PaaS system, and a task context of an access to the PaaS system by the user, providing indicators of the determined profile, the determined application context, and the determined task context to a browser application of the user, and providing HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files of the management console to the browser application, wherein the provided indicators are applied to the HTML and CSS files to generate a responsive layout, wherein the indicators are associated with one or more variants of the HTML and CSS files that provide the responsive layout.
US09864800B2
A method and system of performing high-throughput identifications of broadcast content is provided. A device can send a content identification query, which includes a sample of content being broadcast, to a server to request an identity of the content. The server will perform a computational identification of the content, return the result to the device, and store the result. For all subsequently received content identification queries requesting an identity of content being broadcast from the same source and in a time during which the content is still being broadcast from the source, the server will send the stored content identification in response to the subsequent queries. If a subsequent content identification query does not request the identity of content being broadcast from the same source or is not received during the time that the content is still being broadcast, the server will perform a computational identification of a content sample.
US09864793B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for language tag management includes: accessing a standardized language tag repository to identify changes in repository language tags; searching records of a data source categorized using language tags to identify language tags present in records of the data source; determining whether the language tags present in the records of the data source are inconsistent with the repository language tags; responsive to determining that the language tags present in the records of the data source are inconsistent with the repository language tags, determining a language tag update policy for the data source; and performing a language tag update process for the records according to the language tag update policy to re-categorize the records based on the repository language tags.
US09864791B2
Embodiments are directed to replicating data in distributed storage. A replication message may be retrieved from a message queue associated with a source table. The replication message may include a row identifier. One or more target storages within a same replication group as the source table may be identified. A row from each of the one or more target storages may be obtained corresponding to the row identifier. A winning row may be determined from the obtained rows based on a latest timestamp of the row. A replication operation may be created based on the winning row. The replication operation may be performed on the obtained rows from each of the target storages.
US09864790B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for facilitating analytics on data sets stored in remote monolithic files may include (1) identifying, within a secondary storage system, a secondary copy of a data set duplicated from a primary copy of the data set stored in a primary storage system, (2) generating a set of virtual objects that represent at least a portion of the secondary copy of the data set, (3) exposing the set of virtual objects to a remote analytics engine via a network such that the set of individual data objects appears to be stored locally on the remote analytics engine, and then (4) enabling the remote analytics engine to perform at least one analytics job on the set of individual data objects by way of the set of virtual objects via the network. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09864788B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium storing instructions thereon for implementing methods are directed to facilitating data exchange, such as accessing and operating on data objects, between field applications, such as mobile clients, and dedicated servers by leveraging the features of middleware. An embodiment includes a first server providing a first set of services and data to a mobile client. A first communicating middleware is connected between the first server and the mobile client according to a first communication functionality. A second server provides a second set of services and data according to a second communication functionality that is different from the first communication functionality. A second middleware communicates with the second server according to the second communication functionality, and communicates with the first middleware according to the first communication functionality. The second middleware is connected to the second server and the first middleware.
US09864784B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for classifying search queries. A computing device identifies a user account associated with a submission of a search query to an electronic commerce application. The computing device then identifies a network page provided by the electronic commerce application, wherein the network page is requested with the user account. Subsequently, the computing device classifies the search query based at least in part on the requested network page.
US09864782B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating matching phrases based on user-defined criteria including a desired stress pattern of a phrase. The system may determine a stress pattern based on user-defined criteria including an auditory file of a melody, and use the determined stress pattern to generate a plurality of matching phrases that include the same stress pattern.
US09864774B2
Responsive to determining an in-memory image of a metadata disk block, a buffer is generated in memory and includes metadata updates made to the metadata disk block. Metadata updates to the disk block by a first transaction are recorded and stored in the buffer. Transfer of metadata updates that are logically complete, but remain in an active transaction list stored in the buffer, are delayed to a completed transaction list, scheduled to be written to a log file on disk at a subsequent time. A determination is made as to whether the metadata disk block is deleted by a second transaction following the first, and responsive to determining the metadata disk block is to be deleted and the metadata updates of the second transaction transfer to the completed transaction list, preventing the writing of the metadata updates to the log file and the metadata disk block to disk.
US09864760B1
Concurrently backing up data streams based on backup time estimates is described. A system identifies multiple data streams scheduled for backup. The system identifies multiple backup time estimates corresponding to the multiple data streams. The system creates a ranked relational sequence based on the multiple backup time estimates. The system concurrently backs up the multiple data streams based on a concurrency limit and the ranked relational sequence.
US09864756B2
According to a method for providing a notification on a face recognition environment of the present disclosure, the method includes obtaining an input image that is input in a preview state, comparing feature information for a face included in the input image with feature information for a plurality of reference images of people stored in a predetermined database to determine, in real-time, whether the input image satisfies a predetermined effective condition for photographing. The predetermined effective condition for photographing is information regarding a condition necessary for recognizing the face included in the input image at a higher accuracy level than a predetermined accuracy level. The method further includes providing a user with a predetermined feedback for photographing guidance that corresponds to whether the predetermined effective condition for photographing is satisfied. According to the method, a condition of a face image detected for face recognition is checked, and if there is an unsuitable element in recognizing the face, it is notified to a user such that an obstruction environment hindering the face recognition by the user is removed, for enhancing a success rate of the face recognition.
US09864754B2
Techniques presented herein provide an approach for sharing folders and files across devices. In one embodiment, folder redirection is employed to permit a device running a virtual infrastructure (VDI) client which connects to a remote agent to access folders and files shared by other devices. To enable such folder redirection, a folder redirection management module generates, for each shared folder, a redirection mapping that associates an original folder path with a uniform naming convention (UNC) scheme. When a device attempts to launch a remote desktop in a remote agent using the same username as that associated with other devices that share folders/files, the folder redirection management module transmits redirection mappings for those devices to the remote agent and opens permissions of the corresponding UNC schemes, the remote agent mounts the shared folders as virtual drives, and the shared folders are then accessible through folder redirection based on the redirection mappings.
US09864747B2
There is provided a device that generates a first feature based on information of a first type included in first content selected by a target user in past, generates a second feature based on information of a second type included in second content selected by the target user after selecting the first contest, generates a relational feature showing a relationship between the first content and the second content, based on the first feature and the second feature, and searches for content to be recommended to the target user by using the information of the first type included in content newly selected by the target user and the relational feature.
US09864729B1
The present invention relates to a signal processor, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of using a comprehensive sensor fusion algorithm to integrate sensor data collected by accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers. The signal processor dynamically applies a Complementary Filter to merge a rotation based gyro output and a FQA output that is obtained by combining acceleration rates and magnetic field magnitudes. Therefore, motion information is derived to generate a motion control signal. Such a comprehensive sensor fusion algorithm significantly reduces the complexity of computation, and the power and area overhead is controlled. As a result, the signal processor may be implemented based on local computation capability of a sensor system, and its integration within such a sensor system is made possible without relying on an external microprocessor.
US09864723B2
An information-processing method performed in an information-processing apparatus, the information-processing apparatus performing wireless communication with a first apparatus and wire communication with a second apparatus, the information-processing method including the steps of: transmitting an interrupt signal to the second apparatus by using the wire communication when data is received from the first apparatus; receiving, by using the wire communication, a clock signal from the second apparatus which receives the interrupt signal; and transmitting and receiving, by using the wire communication, data between the information-processing apparatus and the second apparatus.
US09864718B2
A physical layer network interface module (PHY-NIM) adaptation system provides a PHY-NIM device and an attachable media access control (MAC) device. The PHY-NIM device interconnects with the attachable MAC device and the attachable MAC device interconnects to a network appliance to provide at least one of network switch capabilities and MAC device capabilities for use by the network appliance. The PHY-NIM device interconnects directly to the network appliance where the network appliance has at least one of an internal network switch and an internal MAC device in a southbridge input/output (I/O) interface chip of the network appliance.
US09864713B2
A method includes receiving a group of logic signals to be sampled at a common sampling timing. Individual time delays, which individually align each of the logic signals to the common sampling timing, are selected for the respective logic signals in the group. Each of the logic signals is delayed by the respective selected individual time delay, and the entire group of the delayed logic signals is sampled at the common sampling timing.
US09864711B2
Examples are disclosed for automatic downstream to upstream mode switching at a universal serial bus (USB) physical (PHY) layer including activating a switching structure to switch a USB port operating in a downstream mode to an upstream mode based on an attempted attachment by another USB port also operating in a downstream mode. The examples may also include facilitating attachment of the switched USB port now operating in the upstream mode to the other USB port operating in the downstream mode.
US09864705B2
A method for switching between access methods while a data set is open includes attempting, on behalf of a first system, to gain access to a data set. The method further determines whether the data set is already open by a second system. In the event the data set is already open, the method uses a first access method to access the data set. In the event the data set is not already open, the method uses a second access method to access the data set. In certain embodiments, the first access method is an RLS (Record Level Sharing) access method and the second access method is a base VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) access method. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US09864701B1
One or more resources for an SoC can be directly mapped to a host address space in a host system as peripheral bus functions. A translation unit can provide translation between the host address space and an SoC address space for transactions targeted for a resource from the one or more resources to facilitate performing the transactions with the resource using the host address space. Some embodiments of the technology can provide peer to peer capability for communication between the SoC resources using the translation unit.
US09864697B2
The present disclosure includes memory having a static cache and a dynamic cache. A number of embodiments include a memory, wherein the memory includes a first portion configured to operate as a static single level cell (SLC) cache and a second portion configured to operate as a dynamic SLC cache when the entire first portion of the memory has data stored therein.
US09864696B2
A multilevel cache-based data read/write method and a computer system. The method includes acquiring a query address of a physical memory data block in which data is to be read/written, acquiring a cache location attribute of the physical memory data block, querying whether a cache is hit until one cache is hit or all caches are missed, where the querying is performed according to the query address in descending order of levels of caches storable for the physical memory data block, and the levels of the caches are indicated by the cache location attribute, and if one cache is hit, reading/writing the data in the query address of the physical memory data block in the hit cache; or, if all caches are missed, reading/writing the data in the query address of the physical memory data block in a memory.
US09864692B2
Managing cache evictions during transactional execution of a process. Based on initiating transactional execution of a memory data accessing instruction, memory data is fetched from a memory location, the memory data to be loaded as a new line into a cache entry of the cache. Based on determining that a threshold number of cache entries have been marked as read-set cache lines, determining whether a cache entry that is a read-set cache line can be replaced by identifying a cache entry that is a read-set cache line for the transaction that contains memory data from a memory address within a predetermined non-conflict address range. Then invalidating the identified cache entry of the transaction. Then loading the fetched memory data into the identified cache entry, and then marking the identified cache entry as a read-set cache line of the transaction.
US09864680B2
Address-based thresholds for freemained frames are used to determine retention actions. Based, at least in part, on a comparison of a number of freemained frames for an address space against a threshold of freemained frames for the address space, freemained frames can be retained or rejected and/or the threshold can be adjusted.
US09864678B2
Techniques are described herein that are capable of performing automatic risk analysis of software. An automatic risk analyzer may determine correlations between binaries of the software and source files of the software, between the source files and functions (i.e., sub-routines) of the software, between changes to source code of the software and defects, new features, and/or feature enhancements in the software, between attributes of the software (e.g., attributes associated with the changes to the source code), etc. at various time instances. The automatic risk analyzer may compare the correlations corresponding to a first time instance and the correlations corresponding to a second time instance to determine any of a variety of temporal relationships regarding underlying factors, including but not limited to new feature(s), feature enhancement(s), defect(s), churn rate, code coverage, code complexity, etc. The automatic risk analyzer may determine risk(s) for the software based on the temporal relationships.
US09864672B2
Visualizing execution of an application in a trace coverage graph includes receiving module trace data gathered during execution of an executable module. The module trace data includes data representing sequences of execution between individual executable components. A trace coverage graph is generated and displayed from the module trace data. The trace coverage graph includes graph nodes that each correspond to a different executable component. The trace coverage graph also includes graph edges that each visually connects two of the graph nodes. Each graph edge visually indicates an amount of trace data present for the sequence of execution between the graph nodes that are connected by the graph edge. Thicker graph edges represent the presence of a larger amount of trace data, and thinner graph edges represent the presence of a lesser amount of trace data.
US09864662B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing cable failover in multiple cable Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) IO interconnections to an external IO enclosure. System firmware is provided for implementing health check functions for the PCIE IO interconnections to identify a faulted low byte cable. A cable failover mechanism recovers a PCI link to the external IO enclosure. A multiplexer logic is provided between the PCIE host bridge (PHB) and the cable connected to the IO enclosure to perform a full lane reversal of the PCIE lanes.
US09864654B2
A data storage device includes a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The memory is configured to store first data and second data. The controller is configured to unlock the first data using a first key, to unlock the second data using a second key, and to determine that the second data is indicated as being uncorrectable in response to unlocking the second data using the second key.
US09864652B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for archive verification are disclosed. More specifically, embodiments of this archive verification can comprise loading media into a drive and reading data from the media to verify that the media and data on the media can be read. In one embodiment, media can be loaded into a drive and read according to a verification policy. As part of verifying that media and data on media can be read, read errors or other verification data associated with media can be obtained. Using this verification data a result for the media may be determined.
US09864650B2
Communicating with a logical partition of a computing system based on a separate logical partition in which each of one or more computing systems includes a central electronics complex (CEC) capable of concurrently operating multiple logical partitions, each CEC includes a support element (SE), in which the SE includes access to memory locations of each of the multiple logical partitions within memory of the CEC, and the SE has a mapping of the memory locations for each of the multiple logical partitions. A request to retrieve data from the memory of a logical partition with an operational condition is detected. The request is transferred to an SE interface which enables remote access to the logical partition with the operational condition, and in response to receiving the data, the data that includes the operations status from the memory location of the logical partition is displayed.
US09864649B2
Technologies for identification of a potential root cause of a use-after-free memory corruption bug of a program include a computing device to replay execution of the execution of the program based on an execution log of the program. The execution log comprises an ordered set of executed instructions of the program that resulted in the use-after-free memory corruption bug. The computing device compares a use-after-free memory address access of the program to a memory address associated with an occurrence of the use-after-free memory corruption bug in response to detecting the use-after-free memory address access and records the use-after-free memory address access of the program as a candidate for a root cause of the use-after-free memory corruption bug to a candidate list in response to detecting a match between the use-after-free memory address access of the program and the memory address associated with the occurrence of the use-after-free memory corruption bug.
US09864645B2
The described technology is directed towards handling errors in an application program that allows for a taxonomy and precedence order of errors. Exception wrapping includes preserving relevant information with an exception, and consolidates a series of errors into a single dominant exception instance that is handled appropriately depending on the exception type. Also described is a centralized exception manager that outputs an interactive dialog based upon the exception type, and takes a recovery action based upon user interaction with the dialog.
US09864633B2
An network processor is described that is configured to multicast multiple data packets to one or more engines. In one or more implementations, the network processor includes an input/output adapter configured to parse a plurality of tasks. The input/output adapter includes a multicast module configured to determine a reference count value based upon a maximum multicast value of the plurality of tasks. The input/output adapter is also configured to set a reference count decrement value within the control data portion of the plurality of tasks. The reference count decrement value is based upon the maximum multicast value. The input/output adapter is also configured to decrement the reference count value by a corresponding reference count decrement value upon receiving an indication from an engine.
US09864631B1
In one embodiment, a method includes empirically analyzing a set of active reservations and a current set of consumable resources belonging to a class of consumable resources. Each active reservation is of a managed task type and includes a group of one or more tasks requiring access to a consumable resource of the class. The method further includes, based on the empirically analyzing, clocking the set of active reservations each clocking cycle. In addition, the method includes, responsive to the clocking, sorting a priority queue of the set of active reservations.
US09864620B2
Machines, systems and methods for managing quality of service (QoS) in a multi-tenant virtualized computing environment, the method comprising: collecting transmission rate statistics associated with data communicated in a virtual network, wherein at least one virtual switch monitors communications initiated by at least a virtual machine (VM) executed on a host machine serviced by the virtual switch; determining, by way of the virtual switch, profile parameters associated with a first communication initiated by the VM belonging to at least a first group, wherein a connection request is submitted by the virtual switch to a traffic controller to assist in establishing the first communication; classifying the connection request for establishing the first communication according to the profile parameters associated with the first communication; determining a first aggregated transmission rate associated with the VM that initiated the first communication based on the classifying.
US09864611B2
Systems and methods are provided for modifying webpages. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented system can include: an authoring component configured to generate and output a file of metadata indicating contents for a new webpage and specifying a template for the new webpage. The system also includes a transformer component configured to receive the file of metadata indicating contents for the new webpage and specifying the template, and merge, with the template, the file of metadata. The transformer component is also configured to automatically generate a file describing the new webpage, wherein the new webpage is based, at least, on the contents for the new webpage and the template.
US09864608B2
A mechanism for performing a network boot sequence and provisioning a device may generate a command by a server and have the command executed by the device. The command may be used to verify the authenticity of the device, and may be used to establish ownership of the device. After authenticity and, in some cases ownership is established, bootable software may be downloaded and executed. The device may be provisioned with software applications.
US09864605B2
An integrated circuit (IC) that includes a processor circuit can be booted by receiving, using a storage interface circuit of the IC, a first boot image from a nonvolatile memory chip. The first boot image is executed on a processor circuit of the IC to configure a bus interface module that is designed to communicate with a host device over a communication bus that links multiple devices and the IC. Using the bus interface module, a second boot image is received from the memory of the host device to a memory of the IC. The IC is booted by executing the second boot image.
US09864604B2
Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for implementing a reset controller of a microprocessor or other type of computing system by connecting the reset controller to a reset controller bus or other type of general purpose bus. Through the reset bus, the reset controller signals used to generate the reset sequence of the system may be transmitted to the components of the system through a bus, rather than utilizing a direct wire connection between the components and the reset controller. The wires that comprise the reset bus may then be run to one or more components of the microprocessor design that are restarted during the reset sequence. Each of these components may also include a reset controller circuit that is designed to receive the reset control signals from the reset controller and decode the signals to determine if the received signal applies to the component.
US09864603B2
A processor includes a front end including a decoder to decode an instruction, a scheduler to assign execution of the instruction to a core, and a core to execute the instruction. The instruction specifies that interrupts such as corrected machine check interrupts are to be selectively suppressed. The processor further includes an error handling unit including logic to determine that an interrupt caused by an error is to be created and that an error consumer has requested interrupt notification. The error handling unit further includes logic to, based on the instruction specifying that interrupts are to be selectively suppressed, send the interrupt to a producer that issued the instruction rather than the error consumer.
US09864595B2
Disclosed are a method system, and device of updating local software. The method comprises: broadcasting a broadcast message for updating local software to multiple client ends; determining whether a response message about existence of the update software is received, updating local software through the client end sending out the response message, or through a remote server if no response message is received. Accordingly, restriction on transmission speed by OTA server in software update process and congestion in data transmission process can be avoided, thus improving downloading speed and facilitate a simultaneous update of software for a mass of devices.
US09864593B2
When a server receives a request for an information payload from a remote device, the server may determine the device's type and identify an optionally-installable application that can be used to access the information payload on devices of that type. When the optionally-installable application is not installed on the remote device, the server may store a identifier for the remote device and send the device a redirection message via which the device can obtain and install the application. Subsequently, when the server receives an installation indication from the application executing on a remote device, the server may identify the device as having recently been redirected to install the application and store or update a record indicating that an application-installation event occurred.
US09864592B2
There is provided a system, method, and machine readable medium to deploying software into a computing environment by a processor. A model of the environment into which a model of software is to be deployed is provided. A plan for deploying the software into the computing environment is provided where the plan matches elements of the software to characteristics of the computing environment. The software is deployed into the computing environment according to the customized deployment plan.
US09864589B2
In one embodiment, a method includes generating an executable version of a decision tree by compiling source code into executable code and verifying the executable code by comparing a result of executing the executable code with a result of evaluating the decision tree in interpreted mode. The method further includes replacing the decision tree evaluated in the interpreted mode with the executable code if the executable code is verified or discarding the executable code otherwise.
US09864582B2
A processing network including a plurality of lookup and decision engines (LDEs) each having one or more configuration registers and a plurality of on-chip routers forming a matrix for routing the data between the LDEs, wherein each of the on-chip routers is communicatively coupled with one or more of the LDEs. The processing network further including an LDE compiler stored on a memory and communicatively coupled with each of the LDEs, wherein the LDE compiler is configured to generate values based on input source code that when programmed into the configuration registers of the LDEs cause the LDEs to implement the functionality defined by the input source code.
US09864581B2
Techniques to provide and use modularized XML namespaces are disclosed. In various embodiments, a resolution request associated with a first module is received. A resolution context associated with the first module is used to determine that a component made available by a second module is associated with the resolution request. Access to a shared instance of the component made available by the second module is provided.
US09864577B2
Because a voice recognition device in accordance with the present invention can change the position where or the display form in which a display item corresponding to a voice recognition result is displayed according to the degree of importance of a display area in which the display item is displayed when recognizing a voice uttered by the user, the voice recognition device can prevent the acquisition of other information important for the user from being blocked due to the display of the display item, and improve the user's convenience.
US09864574B2
A computing device may maintain a database of representative spectral characteristics. The computing device may also receive particular spectral data associated with a particular playback environment corresponding to the particular playback device. Based on the particular spectral data, the computing device may identify one of the representative spectral characteristics from the database that substantially matches the particular spectral data, and then identify, in the database, an audio processing algorithm based on a) the identified representative spectral characteristic and b) at least one characteristic of the particular playback device. The computing device may then transmit, to the particular playback device, data indicating the identified audio processing algorithm.
US09864573B2
An audio mixer is provided comprising: an audio receiver configured to receive an audio signal comprising a plurality of audio channels and a controller comprising one or more modules configured to: receive an audio content setting from a user interface device, adjust the relative volumes of the audio channels according to the audio content setting to provide a plurality of adjusted audio channels and combine the adjusted audio channels to generate a custom audio content.
US09864569B2
Sound-producing devices such as headphone sets or loudspeakers are disclosed that can removably mate with an external interface. The external interface may plug into a port on an exterior of the sound-producing device. The external interface includes conversion circuitry that is powered by a power source in the sound-producing device. The external interface receives a first audio-encoded signal from a source device such as a mobile phone, tablet computer, or the like, and converts such signal to a conditioned signal which is compatible with the sound-producing device. Connection between the source device and the external interface may be a first type of wired or wireless connection. The sound-producing device may operate with other source devices that produce different audio-encoded signals by replacing the external interface with a different external interface whose conversion circuitry converts the different audio-encoded signal to the same conditioned signal. Alternative sound-producing devices are also disclosed.
US09864568B2
Methods, apparatus, computer program products embodied on non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums, and systems of sound generation for monitoring user interfaces include storing a mapping of visual elements of a user interface (UI) to respective coordinates in a virtual space, each of the respective coordinates having a corresponding distance within the virtual space from a virtual listener. For each mapped visual element in a first set of mapped visual elements, a respective sound component is generated based on a state of the mapped visual element within the UI, and the distance between the coordinates of the mapped visual element and the virtual listener. A plurality of the sound components is then transmitted to a remote device.
US09864567B2
A method of outputting a includes detecting a touch on a shortcut icon of a plurality of shortcut icons displayed on a touch screen, executing an application corresponding to the shortcut icon in response to the touch, detecting an angle between a first housing including a first touch screen and a second housing including a second touch screen by using a sensor, and determining an output mode based on the angle and a property of the application, and outputting a sound through a plurality of speakers according to the output mode.
US09864558B2
A method of controlling an image reproduction system, wherein a process duration is estimated on the basis of a measured time (D) for the processing of a number (n) of pages that have been processed already, the method comprising storing a digital table which contains a number of pre-defined job types as well as a respective correction factor (A4) for each job type; when a job is received (S1), assigning (S2) a job type to the received job; calculating (S3) a first estimate (D1) for a time needed for processing at least a specified collection of pages from the job; calculating (S4) a second estimate (D2) by multiplying the first estimate (D1) with the correction factor (A4); when said specified collection of pages has been processed, calculating a deviation of the first estimate (D1), and updating (S9) the correction factor (A4); and storing the updated correction factor.
US09864552B2
When a service of interest is specified, a communication apparatus searches other communication apparatuses capable of providing the specified service and establishes a wireless communication with the specified communication apparatus.
US09864551B2
Example implementations relate to determining, based on a system busy level, throughput of logical volumes. In example implementations, a system busy level may be increased in response to a determination that a latency goal associated with one of a plurality of logical volumes has not been met. A throughput for a subset of the plurality of logical volumes may be determined based on the system busy level.
US09864545B2
Systems, methods, and/or devices are used to automate read operations performed at an open erase block. In one aspect, the method includes: receiving a read command, at a storage device, to read data from non-volatile memory of the storage device. In response to receiving the read command, the method further includes: 1) reading data using a first set of memory operation parameters in response to a determination that the read command is not for reading data from a predefined portion of an open erase block (e.g., an erase block that is determined to be an open erase block) of the non-volatile memory and 2) reading data using a second set of memory operation parameters (i.e., the second set is distinct from the first set) in response to a determination that the read command is for reading data from the predefined portion of an open erase block of the non-volatile memory.
US09864532B2
A location of a log file is determined, wherein data corresponding to writes is written sequentially starting from a starting block of the log file. A determination is made in the log file of a range of blocks in which data corresponding to a next write is anticipated to be written. Preprocessing operations are performed corresponding to the range of blocks of the log file in which the data corresponding to the next write is anticipated to be written.
US09864531B2
Determining a preferred interface for write access to a data storage system having multiple interfaces. Interface preference is determined at the data-stripe level. Write requests are routed to the preferred interface.
US09864527B1
A computer-executable method, computer program product, and system of managing I/O requests in a distributed data storage system, wherein the distributed data storage system includes a first node and one or more data storage array, the computer-executable method, computer program product, and system comprising receiving an I/O request at the first node enabled to utilize a storage engine to process the I/O request, wherein the storage engine is comprised of two or more layers, analyzing the I/O request using a first layer of the two or more layers to determine whether the I/O request relates to a portion of metadata managed by the first layer of the two or more layers, and processing the I/O request based on the determination.
US09864524B2
An integrated circuit including a first EPROM, a second EPROM, and a circuit. The first EPROM is configured to provide a first state and a second state. The second EPROM is configured to provide a third state and a fourth state. The circuit is configured to select the first EPROM and the second EPROM individually and in parallel with each other.
US09864522B2
The memory card includes a non-volatile memory, an internal memory, a bus converter, and a media controller. The non-volatile memory is rewritable. The internal memory is configured to divide data transferred from a host into M (M is an integer of 2 or more) segments each of which including N (N is a natural number) times a minimum transfer unit of the non-volatile memory as a unit to record. The bus converter is configured to output 1/M of the minimum transfer unit of data in parallel from each of the M segments recorded in the internal memory. The media controller is configured to integrate 1/M of data belonging to each of different segments input in parallel from the bus converter as one minimum transfer unit of data to record in the non-volatile memory.
US09864520B2
A policy-based orchestration method in an exascale class cloud storage environment, and a storage system using the same are provided. The storage orchestration method includes: allocating a combination of different storages to a user as a storage space; and adjusting the combination according to a user's using pattern. Accordingly, the storage can be operated optimally and autonomically, and thus can be operated efficiently and economically.
US09864517B2
Technology is described for actively responding to data storage traffic. The technology can provide an application program interface; receive, via the application program interface, from an application, a command to query a data storage attribute associated with a virtual data storage component; query the associated virtual data storage component; and return to the application a value for the data storage attribute.
US09864516B2
A keyboard for cooperation with a keystroke and behavioral biometric analyzer, including a blank translucent surface for use as an input device, a capacitive layer mounted underneath the translucent surface, for enabling detection of touch location and touch pressure on the translucent surface, a projection system for dynamically projecting a visual layout of keys of a keyboard on the translucent surface, and a biometric generator, coupled with the capacitive layer, configured to receive user input in conformance with the projected layout of keys, and to generate therefrom a time series of touch location and touch pressure data, for use as data by a keystroke and behavioral biometric analyzer.
US09864511B2
An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a display unit installed in the housing and having a display area to display an image or a menu icon, a sensing unit installed in the housing adjacent to the display unit, having a virtual area to sense an object which is disposed over the display area of the display unit, and having a first camera to photograph and display the virtual area in a photographing mode and a second camera to extract the object from the virtual area and display a sensed image of the extracted object in a sensing mode, and a controller to analyze status of the object according to the sensed image of the object, and to determine the analyzed status of the object as a user input in the sensing mode.
US09864508B2
In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.
US09864506B2
In a method for removing folders from a touch screen of an electronic device, a preset triggering operation for activating the folders is detected when performed on the touch screen. An acceleration of the electronic device is obtained in real time by the gravity sensor when the preset triggering operation is detected. The electronic device is determined that whether the electronic device is being shaken based on the obtained acceleration; and the folders are removed from the touch screen, the application icons of the folders are displayed on a desktop of the electronic device when the electronic device is being shaken.
US09864503B2
The disclosure provides a touch method applied in an electronic device and the corresponding electronic device. The electronic device has a first key arranged at a first position of the electronic device, and the first key is operable to respond to a first operation to control the electronic device to generate a first executable instruction based on the first operation for instructing the electronic device to display a first main interface through the first executable instruction. The method comprises: receiving a second operation via the first key when the electronic device displays a first interface of a first application program; judging whether the second operation satisfies a first preset rule to acquire a first judgment result; generating, according to the first judgment result, a second executable instruction based on the second operation; and controlling, according to the second executable instruction, the electronic device to perform an operation corresponding to the second executable instruction.
US09864499B2
A user is notified with a tactile sensation in the case where a display position of a boundary preset in a display object passes through a predetermined position as a result of scrolling of the display object according to a command. The user is thereby more easily able to locate a desired item from among items that are scrolled.
US09864490B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards transitioning from an existing screen (e.g., a page or the like) to a new screen, in which element(s)/control(s) of the existing screen are shared to the new screen. An existing screen acts as a source screen to provide element-related data (e.g., names) of its existing elements; the existing elements are intersected with those desired by the new/destination screen. The destination screen takes over ownership of any common elements. A navigation service may coordinate the exchange of information and the transition. The transition may include animations and/or other effects to provide a visually smooth transition or the like between screens.
US09864485B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of controlling a dental laser system. The method can include providing a dental laser station and a controller for controlling certain functions of the station. A graphical user interface can be used to provide input to the controller. The graphical user interface can include a control wheel with selectable segments and a menu navigation portion located adjacent the control wheel. Treatment categories, procedures or laser control options can be selected using the interface, and the interface can be updated based on data from the station.
US09864484B2
A blind control system for a vehicle includes a touch screen configured to detect an input operation of a user and a position of the input, output a corresponding signal, and display an operated menu item, an accelerator pedal sensor configured to detect an operation of an accelerator pedal and output a corresponding signal, a storage configured to store a non-driving mode including a plurality of set menu items, and a driving mode including a plurality of set menu items; and a controller configured to selectively execute the non-driving mode or the driving mode stored in the storage according to an input signal of the accelerator pedal sensor, execute a corresponding menu item according to an input operation of the touch screen, and a position of the input when a currently executed mode is the non-driving mode or the driving mode.
US09864482B2
Electronic publications are increasingly replacing physical media, where standards have evolved to mimic these physical media. Accordingly it is beneficial to provide electronic publication software systems and/or software applications to enable new paradigms that provide consumers, authors, publishers, retailers, and others with a method of navigating electronic content comprising the ability to generate a user interface that supports individual page turns as well as small, moderate and large adjustments of position within the electronic content, wherein the user interface supports these adjustments in a manner that is consistent. The method further comprising the ability to receive an indication of an action by a user relating to an adjustments of position within an item of multimedia content rendered on a display device; determine a characteristic of the action; determine a first action relating to the retrieval of additional content of the item of multimedia content based on the characteristic of the action; and determine a predetermined subset of a plurality of objects to render to the user based on the characteristic of the action.
US09864479B2
Disclosed is a system and methods for selecting, organizing and presenting selected regions of digital documents within a dynamic display window for the arrangement and review of such regions.
US09864472B2
A touch driving detection circuit includes a plurality of region driving detection circuits. Each of the plurality of region driving detection circuits includes a control module, a strobe output module, a detection module, a first trigger signal line and a second trigger signal line. The first trigger signal line is configured to input a first trigger signal to the control module to control the strobe output units to output touch scanning signals simultaneously. The detection module is configured to detect whether a touch is present in the touch region and when a touch is present, the detection module triggers the second trigger signal line in the region driving detection circuit to input a primary trigger signal, so that the control module controls the strobe output units to output the touch scanning signals sequentially, thereby determining a location of a touched point in the touch region.
US09864469B2
A vehicle includes a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display unit, an optical sensor unit, a touch sensor unit, and a processor. The processor can determine whether a hand is located within a first distance range away from the display unit and whether the hand is located within a second distance range away from the display unit that is closer to the display unit than the first distance range. The optical sensor unit is configured to recognize the received light based on the hand being located within the first distance range, and the touch sensor unit is configured to recognize the hand based on the hand being located within the second distance range. The processor can cause the touch sensor unit to operate based on a determination that the hand has transitioned from being located within the first distance range to being located within the second distance range.
US09864465B2
The present invention is applicable to the technical field of touch control. Provided are a touch detection system and a noise suppression method therefor. The method includes the steps of: sequentially driving a touch detection system with all driving frequencies that the touch detection system supports, and detecting a currently existing interference strength value when driving with each driving frequency; and frequency-hopping to the driving frequency corresponding to the minimum interference strength value, and driving the touch detection system with the driving frequency corresponding to the minimum interference strength value to perform a normal operation. By detecting an interference strength value at each driving frequency and then using the driving frequency corresponding to the minimum interference strength value as an operating frequency of a touch terminal, the present invention minimizes the signal interference of a touch detection system.
US09864460B2
One variation of a method for manipulating virtual objects within a virtual environment includes: determining a first position of a touch sensor within real space; based on the first position of the touch sensor within real space, bounding a virtual surface of a virtual object within the virtual environment tractable through inputs across the touch sensor; generating a first force vector comprising a magnitude related to a force magnitude of a first input on the touch sensor surface and a direction related to an orientation of the touch sensor within real space; locating an origin of the first force vector within the virtual environment based on a first location of the first input on the touch sensor surface and the first position of the touch sensor within real space; and manipulating the virtual surface of the virtual object within the virtual environment according to the first force vector.
US09864457B2
A display device with a touch sensor (100) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a pixel substrate (20) including a plurality of pixel electrodes (2); a counter substrate (10) opposing the pixel substrate (20); a black matrix (8) extending in a first direction and in a second direction different from the first direction; and a touch sensor electrode (6) extending in the first direction. In a plan view where the counter substrate (10) is seen from a direction vertical to a planar direction of the counter substrate (10), a width in the second direction of a line of the black matrix (8) extending in the first direction is larger than a width in the first direction of a line of the black matrix (8) extending in the second direction; a width (W1) in the second direction of a line of the touch sensor electrode (6) extending in the first direction is smaller than a width (W2) in the second direction of the line of the black matrix (8) extending in the first direction; and the line of the touch sensor electrode (6) extending in the first direction and the line of the black matrix (8) extending in the first direction overlap each other.
US09864453B2
Methods and apparatus of embodiments of the present invention include a classification system configured to treat edge contact of a touch screen as a separate class of touch events such that any touches occurring near the edge of the touch screen are to be processed by a classifier that is configured to process edge contacts as compared to a classifier that is configured to process other contacts that may occur in the approximate middle of the touch screen which may be wholly digitized. An apparatus may employ two separate and distinct classifiers, including a full touch classifier and an edge touch classifier. The touch screen may be configured to have two different sensing regions to determine which of the two classifiers is appropriate for a touch event.
US09864452B2
A coordinates measurement system for measuring positions of a finger and a coordinates indication device other than the finger is provided, which determines the touched position of an object such as a stylus pen, while using a single touch screen.
US09864445B2
Touch screens with more compact border regions can include an active area that includes touch sensing circuitry including drive lines, and a border region around the active area. The border region can include an area of sealant deposited on conductive lines, and transistor circuitry, such as gate drivers, between the active area and the sealant. The conductive lines can extend from the sealant to the active area without electrically connecting to the transistor circuitry. The conductive lines can have equal impedances and can connect the drive lines to a touch controller off of the touch screen. A set of drive signal characteristics for the drive lines can be obtained by determining a transfer function associated with each drive line, obtaining an inverse of each transfer function, and applying a set of individual sense signal characteristics to the inverse transfer functions to obtain the corresponding set of drive signal characteristics.
US09864444B2
A touch-sensitive display device is provided. The touch-sensitive display device includes a display panel and a touch panel. The display panel includes first and second substrates facing each other. The display panel is configured to display images through the second substrate. The touch panel is disposed on the second substrate and is configured to detect a touch event. The touch panel includes sensing electrodes spaced apart from each other, a conductive layer, and a touch processor. The conductive layer is electrically separated from the sensing electrodes. The touch processor is configured to provide sensing signals to the sensing electrodes and to obtain touch coordinates to which the touch event is input based on delay values of the sensing signals.
US09864431B2
Computer systems, methods, and storage media for changing the state of an application by detecting neurological user intent data associated with a particular operation of a particular application state, and changing the application state so as to enable execution of the particular operation as intended by the user. The application state is automatically changed to align with the intended operation, as determined by received neurological user intent data, so that the intended operation is performed. Some embodiments relate to a computer system creating or updating a state machine, through a training process, to change the state of an application according to detected neurological data.
US09864424B1
Techniques for generating schedule(s) specific to a merchant for managing power states of component(s) of a point-of-sale (POS) system of the merchant are described. Transaction data associated with transactions involving the merchant may be received from a POS application of the POS system. Based at least partly on the transaction data, a schedule for managing the power states of a component, such as a battery-operated payment reader device, may be determined. The schedule may indicate when to change a first power state of the component to a second power state. The schedule may be sent to a POS system. The POS system may use the schedule to manage the power states of a component of the POS system, such as a battery-operated reader device. Additionally, or alternatively, the POS system may determine triggering events and may manage the power states of the component based on the triggering events.
US09864401B2
A multiple display system having at least two mechanical arrangements such that in one of the at least two arrangements one of the multiple displays is stowed, out of the way mechanically and visually, when only a first display is in use; and one of the other of the at least two arrangements wherein the other of the multiple displays is substantially coplanar and adjacent to the one screen when both screens are in use. The other display in the one of the other of the at least two arrangements also runs the graphical user interface of an application, permitting the multiple display system to offer at least two programs running simultaneously, each with its own visual user-interface operating on its own display.
US09864391B2
A facility is connected to an electricity utility and is responsive to Demand Response Events. A plurality of devices is each individually connected to the electricity grid via an addressable switch connected to a secure network that is enabled to be individually switched off by a server. An occupant of a room in control of the plurality of devices provides via a Human Machine Interface on a tablet a preferred order of switching off the plurality of devices in case of a Demand Response Event. A configuration file based at least partially on the preferred order and on a severity of the Demand Response Events determines which devices which of the plurality devices will be switched off. The server accesses the configuration file and switches off the devices included in the configuration file.
US09864387B2
Provided is a voltage regulator which is not affected by a variation in output impedance of a reference voltage circuit, that is, which is configured to output voltage with a small change due to temperature. Two reference voltages respectively having positive and negative temperature coefficients are added together through transconductance amplifiers having large input impedances, respectively, and the resultant is amplified.
US09864386B2
A regulator for providing a load current at a regulator output voltage to a load at an output of the regulator is described. The regulator has a differential input stage to provide a differential output voltage based on a reference voltage and based on the regulator output voltage. Furthermore, the regulator has an output driver to generate a control signal based on the differential output voltage. In addition, the regulator has a pass transistor to provide the load current in dependence of the control signal. The regulator also has clamping circuitry to sense an overvoltage indication which indicates that the pass transistor is being turned off. Furthermore, the clamping circuitry clamps the differential output voltage to a clamping voltage, if the overvoltage indication indicates that the pass transistor is being turned off.
US09864385B2
The disclosure provides a protection device including a temperature detection circuit, a switch circuit, a control circuit, and a warning circuit. The temperature detection circuit outputs temperature signal to the control circuit. The control circuit obtains the temperature signal from the temperature detection circuit, and compares the temperature signal with a preset temperature range and outputs a first control signal. The warning circuit sends warning based on the first control signal.
US09864378B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing supplemental identification abilities to an autonomous vehicle system. The sensor unit of the vehicle may be configured to receive data indicating an environment of the vehicle, while the control system may be configured to operate the vehicle. The vehicle may also include a processing unit configured to analyze the data indicating the environment to determine at least one object having a detection confidence below a threshold. Based on the at least one object having a detection confidence below a threshold, the processor may communicate at least a subset of the data indicating the environment for further processing. The vehicle is also configured to receive an indication of an object confirmation of the subset of the data. Based on the object confirmation of the subset of the data, the processor may alter the control of the vehicle by the control system.
US09864376B2
The invention relates to a control system for an autonomous vehicle, a method and an autonomous vehicle. The system comprises an image capturing means capable of capturing at least a first image of the environment of the vehicle and a second image of the environment, wherein the images are captured in a close time relationship but with different image capturing parameters. A processing means configured to obtain and process the images captured with different image capturing parameters separately and taking into consideration a first intensity threshold when processing the first image and a second, different intensity threshold when processing the second image. A control means for generating and outputting a control signal on the basis of a result of the at least one of the processed images.
US09864368B2
A method for calculating vertical trajectory values is provided. The method obtains aircraft performance data for a particular aircraft and atmospheric condition data associated with an air route; calculates a cost-efficient vertical trajectory for the air route, based on the aircraft performance data and the atmospheric condition data, wherein the cost-efficient vertical trajectory comprises a plurality of altitude values for minimizing cost for the particular aircraft during travel of the air route; obtains an altitude consistency threshold; and adjusts the cost-efficient vertical trajectory using the altitude consistency parameter, to create an optimized vertical trajectory for the aircraft route.
US09864358B2
Disclosed is an event input module, wherein the event input module receives time information which is an IRIG-B signal of a predetermined method from an outside time provider, allocates the time information to a detected event and determines event generation information.
US09864343B2
A three dimensional support element for a timepiece sensor, made in 3D-MID and including integrated electrical connection paths, a flexible connection interface formed of bent wire springs or flexible finger-pieces, and a rigid connection interface.
US09864342B2
A device for monitoring athletic performance of a user has a wristband configured to be worn by the user. The electronic module may include a controller and a screen and a plurality of user inputs operably associated with the controller. The user inputs may include a user input configured to be applied by the user against the screen and in a direction generally normal to the screen. The controller may further be configured to generate one or more user interfaces in response to various user inputs and conditions. For example, the controller may generate workout mode interfaces and non-workout mode interfaces including various goal information, workout data, reminders and the like. In one or more arrangements, multiple types of information may be displayed simultaneously.
US09864335B1
According to one embodiment, an estimation unit corrects ambient temperatures or ambient humidities measured by an environment measurement unit on the basis of conduction states of charging members provided in the one or more image forming units, so as to estimate ambient temperatures or ambient humidities of other photoconductors of which the ambient temperatures or the ambient humidities are not measured. A control unit determines image formation conditions for the image forming units forming images on the photoconductors of which the ambient temperatures or the ambient humidities are not measured, on the basis of the ambient temperatures or the ambient humidities estimated by the estimation unit.
US09864333B2
A drum unit usable in the process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum having an axis L1 and a coupling member having an axis L2. The coupling member includes a first end portion connected with the photosensitive drum, a second end portion having an outermost surface, an axle portion connecting the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, and at least one projection extending from the second end portion. For at least part of the outermost surface of the second end portion, a maximum distance from the axis L2 to the outermost surface along a line perpendicular to the axis L2 increases as the distance along the axis L2 from the axle portion increases.
US09864332B2
A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus includes: a frame; an accommodating portion, constituted by the frame, for accommodating a developer; a seal portion for preventing the developer from being leaking out from the accommodating portion, wherein the seal portion is formed by injection molding at a seal forming portion provided on the frame and is projected from the seal forming portion; and a sprue which is formed integrally with the seal portion by a resin material remaining in a path for permitting flow of the resin material melted when the seal portion is formed by the injection molding and which is projected from the frame in a position different from a position of the seal portion so as to be higher than the seal portion on the basis of the frame.
US09864331B2
The process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum having an axis L1 and a coupling member having an axis L2. The coupling member includes (i) a first end portion connected to a drum flange, (ii) a second end portion, and (iii) a connecting portion connecting the first end portion and the second end portion. The coupling member is movable between (i) a first position in which a tip of the at least one projection is a first distance away from the photosensitive drum as measured in the direction of the axis L1 and (ii) a second position in which the tip of the at least one projection is a second distance away from the photosensitive drum as measured in the direction of the axis L1, wherein the first distance is greater than the second distance.
US09864329B2
A developer cartridge comprises a first gear. The first gear may include a first protrusion extending in a radial direction of the first gear. The first protrusion may be positioned at a circumference of a column of the first gear. The first protrusion may be spaced apart from a second end face opposite to a first end face facing an exterior surface of a casing configured to accommodate developer therein. The first protrusion may be further from the second end face than a large-diameter gear in an axial direction. A rotational circumference of the first protrusion defined by rotation of the first protrusion and a portion of the large-diameter gear are aligned in the axial direction.
US09864328B2
A developer cartridge comprises a first gear. The first gear may be rotatable about a first axis extending in an axial direction. The first gear may include a first surface rotatable with the first gear, and a second surface rotatable with the first gear. The first surface may extend in a circumferential direction of the first gear. The second surface may extend in the circumferential direction. The second surface may be separated from the first surface in the circumferential direction. A length of the second surface in the circumferential direction may be greater than a length of the first surface in the circumferential direction.
US09864322B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer; a charging member to charge the surface of the image bearer; an irradiating member to irradiate the surface of the image bearer to form an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image bearer; an developing member to develop the electrostatic latent image with a toner to form a visible toner image on the surface of the image bearer; and a transferring member to transfer the toner image onto a transfer material. The image bearer includes a charge generation layer including an asymmetrical disazo pigment and a metal-free phthalocyanine pigment, and a charge transport layer. The irradiating member forms the electrostatic latent image at an irradiation energy greater than a half decay exposure of the image bearer and not greater than 2.5 times of the half decay exposure. The image bearer is not discharged every image forming process.
US09864305B2
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt, a driving roller, a driven roller, a belt cleaning device, and a counter roller. Toner images formed on image carriers are transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt. The driving and driven rollers rotatably stretch the intermediate transfer belt. The belt cleaning device has a cleaning blade that removes residual toner adhered to the intermediate transfer belt. The counter roller is disposed facing the cleaning blade with the intermediate transfer belt interposed therebetween. The belt cleaning device is disposed at a position that is downstream of the driving roller in a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer belt but is upstream of the driven roller in the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer belt. A leading end edge portion of the cleaning blade is disposed upstream of a top of the counter roller in the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer belt.
US09864303B2
A developer container includes a container configured to store developer and capable of discharging the developer from an opening, a sealing member configured to seal the opening, an unsealing member, rotatably supported, configured to open the opening by removing the sealing member from the container, and a sheet member attached to an attachment portion of the unsealing member in a relative position where the sheet member is held between the sealing member and the unsealing member.
US09864295B2
An upper cover attached to an optical box included in an optical scanning device includes a flow path in which a sealing member is injection-molded. The flow path includes a first bottom portion, a second bottom portion, and a step. The step is formed between the first bottom portion and the second bottom portion, and the area where the sealing member and the upper cover adhere to each other increases by an amount corresponding to the provided step so that adhesiveness between the sealing member and the upper cover is enhanced.
US09864294B2
A resin composition includes at least one selected from compounds represented by formula (I-1) and at least one selected from compounds represented by formula (I-2) and compounds represented by formula (I-3): wherein R11 to R14, R21 to R24, and R31 to R34 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group, R15, R16, R25, R26, R35, and R36 independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, X and Y independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, or a tellurium atom, with the proviso that plural X's each represent the same element, plural Y's each represent the same element, which is an element different from the element selected as X, A1 to A3 independently represent a divalent group represented by formula (a1) or (a2), which is bonded at the * positions.
US09864291B1
A hybrid toner includes a core having at least one amorphous polyester resin and at least one crystalline polyester resin, and at least one styrene/acrylate resin, a shell comprising at least one styrene/acrylate resin, at least one wax, and optionally a pigment dispersion, the first modulated differential calorimetry scan of the hybrid toner shows at least two melting point peaks below about 80° C., and the difference between the two melting point peaks is less than or equal to about 15° C.
US09864288B2
A toner set includes a brilliant toner including a brilliant pigment; and a chromatic toner including a coloring agent that is different from the brilliant pigment, wherein the toner set satisfies the following expression: 1.2≦Q1/Q2≦5.0 wherein Q1 represents an endothermic quantity of the brilliant toner and Q2 represents an endothermic quantity of the chromatic toner.
US09864264B2
A display system comprises a projector combined with a retro reflective screen and a viewer distance from the projector such that the observation angle is less than approximately 2-3 degrees. The brightness of the image on the screen for the proposed display system is increased by a factor of ˜100-500× as compared to traditional display systems with for an equivalent power/intensity light source.
US09864261B2
An electronic device includes a movable mirror system to selectively reflect an incident image projection beam traveling along a first path toward a second path different than a first path. The image projection beam displays a corrected image at a first location but would otherwise display an uncorrected image at a second location when the movable mirror system reflects the image projection beam toward the second path. The electronic device also includes an optical correction system having at least one corrective optic element to correct the image projection beam to display a corrected image at the second location when the movable mirror system reflects the image projection beam toward the second path.
US09864248B2
An aim of the present invention is to reduce manufacturing costs and lower the electrical resistance of composite metal electrodes while lowering the contact resistance of the composite metal electrodes with respect to an organic semiconductor film. A TFT (semiconductor device) of the present invention includes an organic semiconductor film formed from an organic semiconductor material, and a source electrode and a drain electrode that are composite metal electrodes that contact the organic semiconductor film. The source electrode and the drain electrode are configured such that a low-resistance metal material that makes ohmic contact with the organic semiconductor film, the contact resistance thereof being lower than that of a base metal material formed of a metal material, is mixed with the base metal material, and the low-resistance metal material is disposed so as to be exposed at least at a contact surface with the organic semiconductor film.
US09864235B2
The present invention prevents the shaving of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS method using photo-alignment. A plinth higher than a pixel electrode is formed at a part where a columnar spacer formed over a counter substrate touches a TFT substrate. When an alignment film of a double-layered structure is applied over the pixel electrode and the plinth, the thickness of the alignment film over the plinth reduces by a leveling effect. When photo-alignment is applied in the state, a photodegraded upper alignment film over the plinth disappears and a lower alignment film having a high mechanical strength remains. As a result, it is possible to prevent the shaving of the alignment film.
US09864232B2
A light source includes a light reflector and multi-pixel light modulators. The light reflector is surrounded with reflective surfaces. Light can be injected into the light reflector and diffused throughout the light reflector. The multi-pixel light modulators have individual transmittance states based on image data to modulate light that illuminates multi-pixel portions of a light receiving surface.
US09864231B2
A backlight unit includes a bottom cover; a plurality of light sources on the bottom cover; a first support side at an area directly along a first edge of the bottom cover adjacent to a corner of the bottom cover; and a second support side directly adjacent to the first support side and along the first edge of the bottom cover. The first support side includes a first vertical portion, and a first inclined portion connected to a top of the first vertical portion. The second support side includes a second vertical portion, and a second inclined portion connected to a top of the second vertical portion.
US09864230B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels which displays an image in a front direction, and a backlight unit which provides a light to the display panel and includes a first light source part which is disposed at a rear surface of the display panel, includes a first support substrate and a first light source mounted on the first support substrate and emits a first color light, and a second light source part which is disposed at the rear surface of the display panel, includes a second support substrate partially overlapped with the first support substrate and a second light source mounted on the second support substrate, and emits a second color light having a wavelength band different from that of the first color light, where an opening is defined through the second support substrate and corresponds to the first light source.
US09864221B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. In one aspect, the display apparatus includes a flexible display panel configured to display images and a first frame arranged on the front surface of the flexible display panel and curved in a first direction. The display apparatus also includes a second frame arranged on a rear surface of the flexible display panel and curved in the first direction and a spacer arranged on at least one of the first and second frames. The spacer is configured to adjust the distance between the first and second frames.
US09864219B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for detecting a liquid crystal module and a method for detecting the quantity of liquid crystal. The method includes a cover for fixedly accommodating the liquid crystal module. An accommodation space for accommodating collision units is formed between the liquid crystal module and the cover, the collision units being connected to the top wall of the cover through elastic members. The collision units are spaced from the liquid crystal module in a certain distance in a static status, and collide with a panel of the liquid crystal module through vibration of the cover in the vertical direction during detection. The device for detecting a liquid crystal module improves the detection efficiency.
US09864218B2
Techniques are described for a device that includes an optical channel configured to transport an optical signal. The device further includes a magnetic material with low optical absorption through which a portion of the optical signal is configured to flow. The magnetic material is configured to receive an electrical signal that sets a magnetization state of the magnetic material. The magnetic material is further configured to modulate, based on the magnetization state, the portion of the optical signal flowing though the magnetic material.
US09864215B1
Provided is a substrate-type optical waveguide, having a phase modulation function, (i) in which a reflection of a signal to be inputted via a coplanar line is restrained and (ii) which consumes less power. In a case where the substrate-type optical waveguide is partitioned into a plurality of sections by cross sections orthogonal to a direction in which light propagates through a core, a local capacitance in each of the plurality of sections gradually increases as a distance from an entrance end surface increases.
US09864207B2
Polarizing beam splitter is disclosed. The polarizing beam splitter includes a first polymeric prism, a second polymeric prism, a reflective polarizer that is disposed between and adhered to a hypotenuse of each of the first and second polymeric prisms, and a hardcoat that is disposed on each of the first and second polymeric prisms. The polarizing beam splitter includes an input major surface and an output major surface. At least one of the input and output major surfaces has a pencil hardness of at least 3H. The polarizing beam splitter has a low birefringence such that when polarized light having a first polarization state enters the optical element from the input major surface and travels through at least 2 mm of the polarizing beam splitter and exits the polarizing beam splitter from the output major surface, at least 95% of light exiting the polarizing beam splitter is polarized has the first polarization state.
US09864206B2
An optical modulation device includes a first electrode layer in which a plurality of electrodes are arranged and a second electrode layer, where the optical modulation device configures a Fresnel zone plate wherein groups of adjacent electrodes of the plurality of electrodes define zones of the Fresnel zone plate. A method of driving the optical modulation device includes applying a common voltage to the second electrode layer, applying starting voltages to the first electrode layer in a first step, applying lens voltages to the first electrode layer in a second step, where polarities of the lens voltages with respect to the common voltage are inverted for every zone, and an absolute difference between starting voltages applied to electrodes adjacent to a zone boundary in the first step is less than an absolute difference of the lens voltages applied to electrodes adjacent to a zone boundary in the second step.
US09864202B1
The present invention relates to a collapsible virtual reality viewer. Aspects of the viewer include a body portion and a viewing portion, each having a plurality of panels abutting fold lines. The viewer may be folded along the fold lines to move from an expanded configuration to a collapsed configuration when it is not being used. In one aspect, the viewer includes a detachable portion in which a detachable panel is removeably coupled to the viewer along a plurality of perforations. Promotional material may be printed on or attached to the detachable panel. In another embodiment, the viewer is of a unitary construction in which the panels of the body portion and the panels of the viewing portion are die cut from a single piece of material and folded along fold lines to form the viewer.
US09864201B2
An electronic device has a flexible display. An apparatus and method for providing the electronic device includes: a display unit formed of flexible material having at least one curved surface, a transformation unit coupled to at least part of the display unit, and a control unit configured to alter the transformation unit to deform the at least one curved surface of the flexible material of the display unit.
US09864198B2
A head-mounted display includes a mounting unit, a display unit, a sensor unit, and a control unit. The mounting unit is configured to be mountable on a head of a user. The display unit is provided in the mounting unit and capable of providing the user with a field of view of a real space. The sensor unit is provided in a periphery of the display unit, includes a sensor that is capable of detecting a hand of the user that is brought close to or in contact with the sensor due to an action of the user, and performs output based on a detection result of the sensor. The control unit displays an image in the field of view and changes a display state of the image, based on a change in output of the sensor unit. With this configuration, the head-mounted display enables an intuitive operation to be performed using a natural action of the user.
US09864196B2
A head-up display system includes housing, a combiner to display information in an operating position and a cover to protect the combiner. The combiner moves between the operating position and a storage position. The cover moves between an open position and a closed position to protect the combiner in its storage position with the cover in its closed position. The system includes a drive to move the cover between its open and closed positions. The drive includes a main lever and a support lever that is pivoted with a moving end to the main lever and with a fixed end to the housing. The main lever is pivoted with a cover end to the cover and with a driver end to a rotational drive to drive an essential linear movement of the cover end of the main lever during the movement of the cover between its open and closed positions.
US09864190B2
Aspects of the present invention are directed to apparatuses, arrangements, systems and methods for collecting information using one or more modalities. As consistent with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second scanning mirror arrangements having different scanning axes and respectively facing different directions. The first scanning mirror arrangement directs source light and image light in two paths, and the second scanning mirror arrangement directs image light from a target to the first scanning mirror arrangement. The first and second scanning mirror arrangements cooperatively scan source light from the first scanning mirror and via the second scanning mirror to target locations with at least two degrees of freedom, and direct image light from the target locations.
US09864189B2
In a mirror drive device, a first and second actuator sections are arranged on both sides of a mirror supporting section that supports a mirror section so as to sandwich the mirror supporting section. Division of an upper and lower electrodes of each of the first and second actuator sections is performed correspondingly to stress distribution of principal stresses in a piezoelectric body in resonant mode vibration, and a piezoelectric body portion corresponding to positions of a first and third upper electrode sections, and a piezoelectric body portion corresponding to positions of a second and fourth upper electrode sections have stresses in opposite directions to each other. Division of the lower electrodes is performed similar to the upper electrodes, and drive voltages having the same phase can be respectively applied to the upper and lower electrode sections of the piezoelectric body portions that are different due to a division arrangement.
US09864173B2
A spot scanning imaging system with run-time alignment includes a beam scanning device configured to linearly scan a focused beam of illumination across a sample, one or more detectors positioned to receive light from the sample, and a controller communicatively coupled to the beam scanning apparatus, the sample stage, and the one or more detectors. The controller is configured to store a first image, transmit a set of drive signals to at least one of the beam scanning device, the sample stage, or the one or more detectors, compare at least a portion of the second sampling grid to at least a portion of the first sampling grid to determine one or more offset errors, and adjust at least one drive signal in the set of drive signals based on the one or more offset errors such that the second sample grid overlaps the first sample grid.
US09864161B2
A lens barrel includes an optical element, a barrel body configured to hold the optical element, the barrel body including a female thread, a presser including a male thread fastened to the female part and contacting the optical element, and an elastic member held by the presser, wherein in a fastening state in which the male thread is fastened to the female thread, both the presser and the elastic member contact the optical element, and the elastic member applies a force in a direction of fixing the optical element onto the barrel body.
US09864159B2
The imaging device is constituted of a lens, an imaging device receiving the incident light and converting the incident light to be an electrical signal, a cylindrical member accommodating the lens, a holder holding the imaging device, a groove formed of an outer periphery surface of the cylindrical member and an inner periphery surface of the holder, an adhesive provided in the groove with the outer periphery surface and the inner periphery surface being contacted with each other, and an anchor mechanism provided in the groove, producing an anchor effect in combination with the adhesive, thereby increasing the strength of a joint between the cylindrical member and the holder.
US09864158B2
A high density fiber enclosure system includes a chassis, cassette trays, an optional unification clip, cassettes, and an optional trunk cable management system. The chassis, cassette trays, and cassettes are configured such that individual cassettes may be installed, removed, and otherwise positioned for easy access by a user. The unification clip allows two adjacent cassette trays to be connected to one other such that cassette trays move as one unit. The trunk cable management system is designed to organize trunk cables and trunk cable furcation legs as well as relieve strain on the trunk cables and trunk cable furcation legs.
US09864151B2
A fiber optic cable assembly includes a fiber optic cable and a fiber optic connector. The cable includes a jacket having an elongated transverse cross-sectional profile that defines a major axis and a minor axis. Strength components of the cable are anchored to the connector. The fiber optic connector includes a multi-fiber ferrule defining a major axis that is generally perpendicular to the major axis of the jacket and a minor axis that is generally perpendicular to the minor axis of the jacket. Certain types of connectors include a connector body defining a side opening that extends along a length of the connector body; a multi-fiber ferrule configured for lateral insertion into the connector body through the side opening; and a cover that mounts over the side opening after the multi-fiber ferrule has been inserted into the connector body through the side opening.
US09864146B1
An apparatus for handling a fiber-array to be attached with a silicon-photonics chip. The apparatus includes a bottom-plate having a first trench formed with two first branches connected to two first recessed regions at a first end and one second branch straight to a second end thereof and a second trench sharing the same second branch and having two third branches connected to two second recessed regions with an angle towards two sides outside the two first branches. The bottom-plate includes many female clip structures located at the first end, the second end, and the two sides. The apparatus includes a top-plate having corresponding male clip structures configured to lock with the female clip structures to at least have two shaped cavities at the first end for firmly holding fiber ferrules of the fiber-array substantially without lateral and axial motion while leaving excess lengths of fibers outside the second end.
US09864143B2
The invention relates to a directional coupling-type multi-drop bus of which the impedance is matched with the bus at the time of coupling so that the speed is increased. A directional coupler is formed when a second module provided with a second coupler end is mounted on a first module provided with a first coupler end, and as a result, the coupling impedance where the proximity effects in the coupling state of the directional coupler are reflected is matched with the impedance of the bus.
US09864134B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a processed semiconductor substrate. The processed semiconductor substrate includes active electronic components. The semiconductor structure also includes a dielectric layer that covers, at least partially, the processed semiconductor substrate. An interface layer that is suitable for growing optically active material on the interface layer is bonded to the dielectric layer. An optical gain layer and the processed semiconductor substrate are connected through the dielectric layer by electric and/or optical contacts.
US09864119B2
An infrared filter includes a substrate having a front and surface. The infrared filter includes screened ink and an optically clear medium, or dye impregnated medium. The screened ink has a front surface nearest the substrate and a back surface. The screened ink has a first index of refraction. The optically clear medium abuts at least a portion of the back surface of the screened ink. The optically clear medium has a second index of refraction that differs from the first index of refraction of the screened ink by less than a predetermined amount. The dye impregnated medium has a spectral transmission over an infrared wavelength of greater than 70% and a spectral transmission over a visible light wavelength of less than 5%, while at same time maintaining MTF performance of a vision system imaging through the filter. Methods of manufacture are also described.
US09864107B2
An optical element having antireflection function includes a substrate including a first relief structure, which includes a plurality of convexes and a plurality of concaves arrayed with a pitch of at most a half of a wavelength λ. A thin film layer including at least one thin film on the first relief structure. The at least one thin film each has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the substrate. The optical element satisfies the following conditional expression: 1/4 ≦h1/h0≦2 and 1/5 λ≦D≦2λ, where h0 represents a first height difference between a top and a bottom of the first relief structure in a normal direction of a bottom plane of the first relief structure, h1 represents a second height difference between a top and a bottom of the second relief structure in the normal direction, D represents a maximum thickness of the thin film layer, and the wavelength λ is 550 nm.
US09864102B2
Acrylate-acrylamide copolymers are disclosed. They are rigid and glassy in dry state at room temperature (from about 23° C. to about 28° C.), but are soft and very deformable and have a high refractive index, a high glistening resistance and a low aging-related surface light scattering in fully hydrated state. They are particularly suitable for making wet-packed intraocular lenses (IOLs) which can be delivered through sub 2.0 mm incisions.
US09864101B2
Provided a polarizing film which comprising a substrate and a PVA-based resin, wherein it has good adhesion between the substrate and the PVA-based resin to allow the PVA-based resin to become less likely to be peeled off from the substrate during stretching and/or conveyance, and exhibits excellent appearance, wherein the polarizing film is obtained by providing a layer of a PVA-based resin on a substrate and stretching the substrate and the PVA-based resin layer together. The PVA-based resin contains a modified PVA, wherein the modified PVA exists in an amount allowing a modification rate with respect to the entire PVA-based resin to be in a range of 0.04 mol % to 1.4 mol %.
US09864065B2
A method and a system for detecting cross correlation in a satellite navigation receiver (SNR) in real time are provided. The SNR parallelly receives navigation signals from multiple satellites via multiple input channels. The SNR extracts ephemeris data from sub-frames of navigation data of each of the navigation signals. The SNR compares the ephemeris data of each navigation signal with the ephemeris data of another navigation signal. The SNR detects cross correlation between the navigation signals when the ephemeris data comparison results in a match and discards the navigation signal with low signal strength. The SNR also retrieves a ranging code from the sub-frames of navigation data of each navigation signal. The SNR compares the ranging code with a pre-programmed satellite identity code of a corresponding satellite. The SNR detects cross correlation when the code comparison results in a mismatch and discards the navigation signal with the mismatched ranging code.
US09864058B2
Provided are a sonar system and transducer assembly for producing a 3D image of an underwater environment. The sonar system may include a housing mountable to a watercraft having at least one transducer array. The transducer array may include a transmit/receive element configured to transmit sonar pulses and a second transducer element. The transmit/receive element and the second transducer element may receive first and second sonar returns convert the first and second returns into first and second sonar return data. A sonar signal processor may then generate a 3D mesh data using the first and second sonar return data and at least a predetermined distance between the transducer elements. An associated method of using the sonar system is also provided.
US09864056B2
The present invention discloses a matching system between a convective cell in a weather radar image and lightning, and a control method thereof. In other words, according to the invention, convective cells are detected in a weather radar image, lightning is detected through a total lightning detection system, and the detected lightning is matched with the detected convective cells in the weather radar image. Therefore, it is possible to rapidly and accurately match and confirm a lightning-generated convective cell of a plurality of convective cells.
US09864041B1
Systems and methods for beacon device fleet management are provided. One example system includes a plurality of beacon devices, a plurality of mobile computing devices, a fleet management system, and a fleet owner computing devices. One example method includes receiving, by the fleet management system, a device status request from the fleet owner computing device. The fleet management system determines one or more operational statuses of beacon devices owned by the fleet owner and transmits data indicative of the one or more operational statuses to the fleet owner computing device. The operational statuses can include a current detection status (e.g., online or offline), a location status, a power source status, and/or other operational parameters.
US09864032B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system to be used over a target area of a subject includes first and second RF coils for receiving an RF signal from the subject. The first RF coil is fixed to a position device and movable over the target area of subject. The second RF coil is larger than the first RF coil and has a larger field of view than the first RF coil. The system further includes an image processing device programmed to process RF signals coupled from the first RF coil and the second RF coil to form an MRI image.
US09864021B1
A radiofrequency antenna has a plurality of channels. A Q-value calculating unit computes reflected signals of the plurality of channels of the radiofrequency antenna, respectively, in a case where transmission signals as electrical signals are simultaneously supplied to the plurality of channels of the radiofrequency antenna, also including a signal obtained when the transmission signal supplied to one channel of the plurality of channels is reflected from another channel, and computes a Q value of the radiofrequency antenna using the reflected signal. An SAR calculating unit calculates a specific absorption rate (SAR) using the Q value.
US09864018B2
A method of diagnosing a fault by using impedance of an output terminal of a power supply device for an environmentally-friendly vehicle is provided. The method estimates impedance of the output terminal of the power supply device and diagnoses a fault by using the estimated impedance, thereby preventing an auxiliary battery from being discharged. Whether or not the fault is generated according to the impedance when the estimated impedance exceeds a reference value is determined.
US09864009B1
A ZSI testing apparatus includes a fault generation circuit, a plurality of cable assemblies coupled to the fault generation circuit, wherein the cable assemblies are structured to be selectively coupled to selected circuit interrupters, a human machine interface, and a controller coupled. The controller is configured to: (i) selectively cause a fault current to be provided to a number of the cable assemblies, (ii) receive an input from each circuit interrupter that is coupled to one of the cable assemblies, each input being indicative of a trip signal output of the circuit interrupter, (iii) determine based on the received inputs (a) that an error has occurred with respect to operation of the circuit interrupters and (b) a recommendation for fixing the error, and (iv) cause an output indicative of the error and the recommendation to be provided on the human machine interface.
US09864007B2
Embedded processor-based self-test and diagnosis using the compressed test data is described for ICs having on-chip memory. Techniques for compressing the test data before the compressed test data is transferred to a device under test (DUT) are also described. A modified LZ77 algorithm can be used to compress strings of test data in which don't care bits are handled by assigning a value to the don't care bits according to a longest match in the window as the data is being encoded. The compressed test data can be decompressed at the DUT using a software program transferred by the automated test equipment (ATE) to the DUT with the compressed test data. Decompression and diagnostics can be carried out at the DUT using an embedded processor and the on-chip memory. Results from the diagnostics can be read by the ATE.
US09864005B1
One example embodiment includes a circuit system. The system includes a wave-pipelined combinational logic circuit comprising at least one logic gate between an input node and at least one output node and configured to perform logic operations on a data sequence received at the input node. The system also includes a scan path connected to the input node and comprising at least one delay element configured to propagate the data sequence from the input to a scan path output to capture values of the data sequence provided to the wave-pipelined combinational logic circuit as a serial data stream. The system also includes a scan point device configured to deliver one of input data and scan data as the data sequence to the wave-pipelined combinational logic circuit and to the scan path via the input node in a respective one of a normal operating mode and a scan mode.
US09864001B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an antenna structure, a radio frequency signal transceiving circuit and a testing structure. The antenna structure is disposed on the PCB. The radio frequency signal transceiving circuit is disposed on the PCB, and is connected to the antenna structure through a conductive line. The testing structure includes a testing point and a grounding structure. The testing point is disposed on the conductive line, and the grounding structure is disposed on the PCB.
US09864000B2
An apparatus for detecting difference in operating characteristics of a main circuit by using a replica circuit is presented. In one exemplary case, a sensed difference in operating characteristics of the two circuits is used to drive a tuning control loop to minimize the sensed difference. In another exemplary case, several replica circuits of the main circuit are used, where each is isolated from one or more operating variables that affect the operating characteristic of the main circuit. Each replica circuit can be used for sensing a different operating characteristic, or, two replica circuits can be combined to sense a same operating characteristic.
US09863995B2
A penetration terminal for connecting the coaxial cables inside and outside of the apparatus thereto is attached on the electric apparatus' frame, and the measurement of a combined capacitance of the antenna and the coaxial cable in the inner side of the apparatus is made possible from the outer side of the apparatus, so that it is possible to perform at any time the determination whether a wiring connection of the antenna mounted in the inner side of the electric apparatus is appropriate.
US09863976B2
A test system includes a test socket assembly for capturing low energy electromagnetic emissions from radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs). The test socket assembly is structured to direct electromagnetic radiation from the device under test (DUT) to a socket port coupled to one end of a waveguide for transmission to a tester. The combination of the materials comprising the socket assembly is selected to more efficiently couple electromagnetic emissions from the DUT into the waveguide. For example, a reflective plane with an adjustable position may be located below the DUT in order to increase coupling of electromagnetic radiation from the DUT into the waveguide.
US09863974B2
A method is provided for determining flow conditions for a body immersed in a fluid. The method comprises obtaining flow sensor data downstream of the leading edge stagnation point (LESP) using one or more minimal calibration flow sensors. The method further comprises obtaining at least one normalizing flow parameter value and normalizing the flow sensor data using the at least one normalizing flow parameter value. The method also comprises determining an overall flow condition for the body using the normalized flow sensor data.
US09863969B2
A method of evaporation control of a sample which is stored in a thermally insulated state is configured for preventing evaporation or denaturing of the samples and specimens. The method includes carrying the samples contained in individual containers out from a cold container having a capability of cold storage. An elapsed time that each sample container has been removed from the cold container is measured and is compared with a preset time. If the elapsed time is less than the preset time, the sample container can be returned to the cold container. An alarm is output if the elapsed time exceeds the preset time.
US09863955B2
A method for screening an AMPK activator, wherein inhibition of an interaction between prohibitin and AMPK is used as an index is provided. Besides, an AMPK activator comprising, as an active ingredient, a compound inhibiting an interaction between prohibitin and AMPK, and a prohibitin-AMPK complex are also provided.
US09863940B2
The invention generally relates to methods of using compositions that include sets of magnetic particles, members of each set being conjugated to an antibody specific for a pathogen, and magnets to isolate a pathogen from a body fluid sample.
US09863924B2
A hand-held microfluidic testing device is provided that includes a housing having a cartridge receiving port and a cartridge for input to the cartridge receiving port. An optical detection system in the housing is capable of providing an illuminated electric field useful for Raman spectroscopy. The cartridge may have a sample well. The sample well is loaded with a mixture of water containing the analyte, Raman-scattering nanoparticles and a calibration solution. The calibration solution contains an analog of the analyte differing in its Raman response, for example an isotope of the analyte. Optionally, a chemical compound capable of increasing interaction between the analyte and the nanoparticles may be added.
US09863921B2
A fluid transfer device transfers a fluid from a first fluid channel with a first cross-sectional area into a second fluid channel with a second cross-sectional area, larger than the first cross-sectional area. The fluid transfer device includes a fluid inlet interface at which the fluid is transferable from the first fluid channel into the fluid transfer device; an inlet branch configured to split the fluid from the first fluid channel into multiple inlet branch channels; multiple outlet branches, each of which is configured to split the fluid from the inlet branch channels into respective outlet branch channels; and a fluid outlet interface configured to transfer the fluid in the outlet branch channels into the second fluid channel. The inlet and output branches and branch channels are disposed such that the fluid exits from the fluid outlet interface, distributed in a two-dimensional manner across the second cross-sectional area.
US09863917B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for condition monitoring of and/or fault diagnostics in solid dosage compaction presses and, more particularly, to methods and systems for real-time vibroacoustic condition monitoring of and/or fault diagnostics in solid dosage compaction presses.
US09863908B2
An ion selective electrode sensor includes a housing containing an internal solution and enclosing a reference element containing a metal salt solution; open mesh fabric sieves traversing an opening in the housing; and at least one ion sensitive film layer on the mesh fabric sieves.
US09863904B2
A method of analyzing a molecule is disclosed. A voltage source is selectively connected to or disconnected from a capacitor using a switch controlled by a reset signal. A charge is stored in a capacitor when the voltage source is connected to the capacitor. The capacitor is discharged through a nanopore in a membrane when the voltage source is disconnected from the capacitor. A duty cycle of the reset signal is determined such that the voltage source and the capacitor is connected for at least a one tenth portion of a reset signal period and disconnected for a remaining portion of the reset signal period, such that a voltage across the nanopore is maintained at a higher level during the portion of the reset signal period in which the connection is maintained than during the remaining portion of the reset signal period in which the connection is not maintained.
US09863901B2
A semiconductor gas sensor device includes a substrate, a conductive layer supported by the substrate, a non-suitable seed layer, and a porous gas sensing layer portion. The non-suitable seed layer is formed from a first material and includes a first support portion supported by the conductive layer, a second support portion supported by the conductive layer, and a suspended seed portion extending from the first support portion to the second support portion and suspended above the conductive layer. The porous gas sensing layer portion is formed from a second material and is supported directly by the non-suitable seed layer in electrical communication with the conductive layer. The first material and the second material form a non-suitable pair of materials.
US09863897B2
There is provided an X-ray nondestructive testing device which irradiates X-rays to an article, the article including a substrate having a predetermined X-ray absorption coefficient and a measurement target object disposed therein and having another X-ray absorption coefficient differing from that of the substrate, the device including: an X-ray source configured to irradiate the X-rays to the article; a detector configured to detect the transmission amounts of the X-rays passed through the article at at least paired different locations; a detection position specifying designator configured to specify the paired different locations as a set of paired locations based on a pre-stored design information; a driving mechanism configured to move the detector to the set of paired locations; and an operation calculator configured to calculate the thickness of the measurement target object based on the transmission amounts of the X-rays detected by the detector.
US09863890B2
A solar cell testing apparatus may include an illuminator for directing light energy on a solar cell under test. The solar cell testing apparatus may also include a device for selectively positioning different filters of a multiplicity of filters in an optical path between the illuminator and the solar cell under test to at least one of measure performance and detect any defects in the solar cell. The multiplicity of filters may include a first set of filters and a second set of filters. Each filter of the first set of filters is adapted for passing a predetermined percentage of intensity of the light energy from the illuminator onto the solar cell under test. The second set of filters being adapted for testing the solar cell under different spectrums of light.
US09863884B2
A SERS element comprises a substrate having a front face; a fine structure part formed on the front face and having a plurality of pillars; and a conductor layer formed on the fine structure part and constituting an optical function part for generating surface-enhanced Raman scattering. The conductor layer has a base part formed along the front face and a plurality of protrusions protruding from the base part at respective positions corresponding to the pillars. The base part has a thickness greater than the height of the pillars.
US09863879B2
A sample analyzer has a support for an assay sample vessel, a detector, and a shutter assembly. The assay sample vessel contains an assay sample within an assay sample reservoir. The detector has an optical axis aligned with the assay sample reservoir, so as to detect luminescence from the assay sample. The shutter assembly includes an illuminator and is positioned between the detector and the support, intersecting the optical axis, such that the illuminator causes luminescence of the assay sample. Thus both illumination and detection occur on the same side of the assay sample vessel.
US09863876B2
Provided herein is an apparatus including a photon emitter configured for reflecting photons from a surface of an article onto a first reflective surface. In addition, a second reflective surface is configured for reflecting photons from the surface of the article back onto the surface of the article. The apparatus also includes a detector configured to provide information corresponding to photons scattered from features of the article.
US09863874B2
A method for signal detection with a gas analysis system (1, 1′) includes a radiation source (3); a gas measuring section (9) containing gas to be measured; a Fabry-Perot interferometer (13); a thermal sensor (17) configured to cause a change in voltage between electrodes with electromagnetic radiation falling thereon and arranged such that radiation released by a second interferometer mirror falls on the thermal sensor. The method includes irradiating the gas measuring section with radiation source radiation, continuously increasing or decreasing a distance of interferometer mirrors during a generating of time signal pulses at a constant period of time from one another. After a predefined number of time signal pulses, the voltage generated between the electrodes is detected and stored as a measured signal value. After a further predefined number of time signal pulses, the voltage generated between the electrodes is detected again and stored as a measured signal value.
US09863872B2
A sample analyzer includes: a preparation unit configured to mix a sample with a reagent to prepare a measurement specimen; a measurement unit configured to irradiate the measurement specimen with light to acquire optical time series data; and a controller configured to divide the time series data acquired by the measurement unit into data segments, determine first regression lines respectively of the data segments, select the first regression line with the highest matching degree with the time series data, set as an analysis target region a region of the time series data matching with the selected first regression line among the time series data acquired by the measurement unit, determine a second regression line using the time series data included in the set analysis target region, and perform an analysis using the second regression line.
US09863868B2
Various systems and methods of analyzing one or more properties of a sample are provided. The system includes a self-contained purging device having a sample holder and one or more analyzers for analyzing one or more properties of the sample. The purging device is configured to remove sample contained within the sample holder when an analysis is complete. In one embodiment the purging device is configured via an air pump having a tube in fluid communication with an air inlet of the sample holder, wherein the air pump is configured to deliver pressurized air to the air inlet and thereby purge the sample. The pressurized air is localized ambient air, and substantially free of contaminants. Methods and other systems are also described and illustrated.
US09863867B2
Apparatuses, methods and systems apparatus for automatically updating hard iron and soft iron coefficients of a magnetic sensor of a device are disclosed. One method includes making measurements of a magnetic field by the magnetic sensor during rotations of the device, determining by at least a criterion whether to input the measurements of the magnetic field into a coefficient estimator, calculating, by the coefficient estimator, new hard iron and soft iron coefficients upon receiving the measurements of the magnetic field, determining a quality of the newly calculated hard iron and soft iron calculated coefficients, and updating existing hard iron and soft iron coefficients to the newly calculated hard iron and soft iron coefficients only if the quality of the newly calculated hard iron and soft iron coefficients.
US09863866B2
A cold-test system for testing a camera at a cold temperature includes a test-chamber with a window, a nozzle, and a recirculator. The window is installed in the test-chamber so the camera is provided with a view of a test-target outside of the test-chamber. The nozzle is located proximate to a first edge of the window. The nozzle is configured to direct air from an air-source in a first direction and adjacent to an outside-surface of the window. The recirculator is located proximate to a second edge of the window opposite the first edge. The recirculator is configured to receive the air moving in the first direction and re-direct that air in a second direction opposite the first direction and adjacent to the air moving in the first direction opposite the window. The nozzle and the recirculator cooperate to form a bi-directional air-curtain proximate to the outside-surface.
US09863865B2
A MEMS-based cell sorting system is disclosed, which uses a novel combination of features to accomplish the cell sorting in the microfabricated channels housed in a disposable cartridge. The MEMS-based cell sorting system may include a microfabricated cell sorting valve that is responsive to an applied magnetic field. The MEMS-based cell sorting system may further include an electromagnet that generates a magnetic field to actuate the microfabricated cell sorting valve. The electromagnet may have a design which allows it to create a very localized magnetic field while having adequate thermal properties to operate reliably.
US09863864B2
Disclosed is a threshold selector that selects a threshold by generating a histogram from a detector signal and a flow cytometer. The detector signal includes both data and noise. A histogram is generated, which includes height data from the pulses of the detector signal as well as noise. The flow cytometer can be operated without samples to generate a histogram that includes only noise. The threshold signal can then be selected by selecting an intensity level on the histogram that is between the noise and data.
US09863858B2
An exemplary embodiment of a jacket for heating and cooling a test cell generally includes an inner liner having an exterior channel along at least a portion of the liner exterior wall surface; an outer shell tightly fitted over the interior liner; openings provided in the outer shell, the openings proximate upper and lower ends or segments of the channel of the inner liner; and connectors provided on the outer shell openings for connection of fluid lines, thereby providing for fluid flow intermediate the upper and lower ends or segments of the channel of the inner liner. An exemplary embodiment of a method for producing the jacket generally includes providing the channel in the inner liner and providing an interference fit between the inner liner and the outer shell, whereby fluid communication there between, and a substantially fluidly impenetrable seal between the inner liner and the test cell, are provided.
US09863855B2
The present invention provides an electrostatic atomizer comprising: a container having an inlet; an atomization electrode having one end projecting in the container; an opposite electrode provided in the container; a tubular collection electrode provided opposite to the atomization electrode; a mask surrounding an outer periphery of the tubular collection electrode; and a cooling part for cooling the tubular collection electrode. The opposite electrode is provided between the atomization electrode and the tubular collection electrode. The mask is formed of resin. The mask comprises a mask through-hole. The tubular collection electrode is inserted in the mask through-hole. One end of the tubular collection electrode is located in the mask through-hole. The present invention provides a method for efficiently obtaining a liquid sample from a gaseous sample and an electrostatic atomizer suitable for the method.
US09863839B2
Examples disclosed herein generally relate to methods and apparatus for the positioning and alignment of an electrodynamic shaker system relative to an excitation point on a structure to be tested. The electrodynamic shaker system includes a base plate, a support plate, and a locking mechanism. The base plate comprises a plurality of rollable ball transfer units coupled to the base plate. The support plate, supporting an electrodynamic shaker and trunnion thereon, is seated on the ball transfer units of the base plate such that the support plate may be aligned relative to the test article via the ball transfer units. Once the electrodynamic shaker system is in the desired location, a flexure of the electrodynamic shaker may be precisely aligned with and coupled to a test article. The electrodynamic shaker system disclosed utilizes no precision components and is tolerant of dust, dirt, and other environmental contaminants typically present in testing locations.
US09863836B2
The invention relates to a monitoring apparatus for a steam plant, the apparatus comprising: a sensor unit (110) associated with a component of the steam plant, the sensor unit (110) being configured to provide an output indicative of the operating condition of the component; wherein the sensor unit (110) has a plurality of operating modes, each operating mode having a different resource usage; the apparatus further comprising: a selector (130) for selecting one of the plurality of operating modes; wherein the operating mode is chosen based on a current operating condition of the steam plant. The invention also relates to a method of operating such an apparatus.
US09863832B2
A method and system for identifying a work piece center of mass includes coupling a work piece to a manipulator assembly. The manipulator assembly includes a force and torque sensor. The work piece is positioned in at least two different orientations relative to a gravity vector with the manipulator assembly. The at least two different orientations include at least first and second orientations. In the first orientation the force and torque sensor measures a first torque and at least a first force associated with the work piece in the first orientation. In the second orientation the force and torque sensor measures a second torque associated with the work piece in the second orientation. The work piece center of mass is identified according to at least the measured first and second torques and at least the first force.
US09863830B2
A pressure sensor, including a platform of ceramic, a measuring membrane arranged on the platform, a pressure measuring chamber enclosed in the platform under the measuring membrane, and at least one metal body connected with the platform via a pressure-tight, preferably elastomer free, mechanical connection. Thermomechanical stresses arising from the connection are reduced by features including that the pressure-tight, mechanical connection occurs via an adapting body arranged between the platform and the metal body. The adapting body has a thermal expansion coefficient, which rises in direction (z) extending from the platform to the metal body from a coefficient of expansion corresponding to a thermal coefficient of expansion of the ceramic of the platform to a coefficient of expansion corresponding to the thermal coefficient of expansion of the metal body, and the adapting body is connected by a first joint with the platform and by a second joint with the metal body.
US09863815B2
A method and a system for measuring an optical asynchronous sample signal. The system for measuring an optical asynchronous sampling signal comprises a pulsed optical source capable of emitting two optical pulse sequences with different repetition frequencies, a signal optical path, a reference optical path, and a detection device. Since the optical asynchronous sampling signal can be measured by merely using one pulsed optical source, the complexity and cost of the system are reduced. A multi-frequency optical comb system using the pulsed optical source and a method for implementing the multi-frequency optical comb are further disclosed.
US09863813B2
A flame sensor apparatus is provided including a sensor for sensing specific characteristics of a flame within a combustion chamber. The sensor includes a silicon carbide photodiode, and the sensor is spaced a distance from the combustion chamber. In addition, a fiber optic cable assembly extends between the sensor and the combustion chamber. The fiber optic cable can convey the specific characteristics of the flame from the combustion chamber to the sensor. The fiber optic cable assembly is included as part of a sealed array filled with an inert gas. In addition, a method of sensing specific characteristics of a flame is also provided.
US09863812B2
A first radiance meter that is provided so as to face an object in an atmosphere in which there is dust and measures the radiance of the object and a second radiance meter that is provided so as not to oppose the object and measures the radiance of the dust between the object and the first radiance meter are used to measure the temperature of the object on the basis of the object radiance that has been measured by the first radiance meter and the radiance of the dust between the object and the first radiance meter that has been measured by the second radiance meter.
US09863799B2
A scoop for use in scooping and dispensing a powdered item such as powdered sugar includes a first bowl or spoon connected to a second bowl or spoon by a stem. A lid is attached to the top of the scoop, and is selectively movable to cover the first or second spoon. In some versions, one of the spoons or the lid may include a section of mesh.
US09863796B2
Flow sensors, systems, and methods for continuous in situ monitoring of a rheologically complex fluid flow within a vessel, such as particulate and multiphase media for ascertaining certain fluid flow parameters, such as flow rate, dynamic viscosity, fluid density, fluid temperature, particle density and particle mass, from flow sensor measurements. The system involves a fluid flow sensor having a body member with internalized strain gauges configured to measure the deformation of certain segments of the body member. Based, at least in part, on these deformation measurements, the system is used to compute the fluid flow parameters.
US09863792B2
An encoder able to maintain liquid-tightness over a long period of time. The encoder is provided with a housing unit holding component parts of the encoder. The housing unit is formed by a housing and a cover closing an opening part of the housing. At a boundary part of the housing and the cover, an O-ring is placed. The housing is formed with a guide groove at the outside in the radial direction from the O-ring and a discharge guide groove communicated with the guide groove and opening toward the outside in the radial direction. The cover is formed with a ring-shaped guide projection projecting out toward the guide groove at a position corresponding to the guide groove.
US09863784B2
Apparatuses, methods and systems apparatus for sensing an orientation are disclosed. One apparatus includes an accelerometer, wherein the accelerometer generates a sensed acceleration of the accelerometer and a gyroscope, wherein the gyroscope generates a sensed orientation of the gyroscope. The apparatus further includes a first adaptive filter, the first adaptive filter operative to receive at least the sensed acceleration and the sensed orientation of the gyroscope, and generate a first orientation (Q) of the apparatus, a second adaptive filter, the second adaptive filter operative to receive at least the sensed acceleration and the sensed orientation of the gyroscope, and generate a second orientation (Q′) of the apparatus, wherein a tuning for the first adaptive filter is different than a tuning for the second adaptive filter.
US09863780B2
A mapping program for execution by at least one processing unit of a device is described. The mapping program selects a traffic segment defined in a first data structure describing congestion in an area of a map. The mapping program identifies a portion of a road in the map area that corresponds to the traffic segment by using a second data structure to correlate the traffic segment in the first data structure to the road that is defined in a third data structure. The mapping program defines a traffic congestion representation to render for the identified road portion, based on data about the corresponding road in the third data structure.
US09863778B2
Systems and methods for directing foot traffic are disclosed. Crowd data is gathered from one or more crowd data sources to monitor crowd densities of a geographic area. Locations are received for pedestrian client devices within the geographic area. Augmented reality commands are determined and supplied to the pedestrian client devices to direct movement of users, generally away from more dense zones and toward less dense zones within the geographic area. The augmented reality commands may direct haptic augmented reality output by a pedestrian client device and/or an accessory associated therewith.
US09863773B2
In one aspect, information of multiple anchor points is received and stored. The information of each anchor point includes Global Positioning System (GPS) data of a particular location and radio frequency (RF) data that was obtained at a device at the particular location. A geo coordinate is determined for an indoor location based on the RF data obtained at the indoor location and the information of the anchor points. Various embodiments pertain to software, systems, devices and methods relating to anchor points and/or the obtaining of a geo coordinate for a location.
US09863766B2
A method of calibrating a contact probe having a contact element includes measuring with the contact probe a first geometric property of a calibrated artifact and a second geometric property of the or a further calibrated artifact. The first and second geometric properties are such that a deviation between a measured value and the expected value, resulting from a difference between an effective diameter of the contact element and an assumed diameter used for determining the measured value, has the opposite sign for each of the first and second geometric properties. The method further includes identifying a difference in the effective diameter of the contact element from the assumed diameter including comparing deviations of the measured value to the expected value for each of the first and second geometric properties to determine whether there is a difference in the deviations.
US09863761B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for facilitating an inspection of a sample using an inspection tool. An inspection tool is used to obtain an image or signal from an EUV reticle that specifies an intensity variation across the EUV reticle, and this intensity variation is converted to a CD variation that removes a flare correction CD variation so as to generate a critical dimension uniformity (CDU) map without the flare correction CD variation. This removed flare correction CD variation originates from design data for fabricating the EUV reticle, and such flare correction CD variation is generally designed to compensate for flare differences that are present across a field of view (FOV) of a photolithography tool during a photolithography process. The CDU map is stored in one or more memory devices and/or displayed on a display device, for example, of the inspection tool or a photolithography system.
US09863759B2
An illumination apparatus includes: a light emitting unit that outputs light; a light condensing unit that condenses the light output from the light emitting unit; a diffusion unit that diffuses the light condensed by the light condensing unit; and a uniformizing optical system that receives the light diffused by the diffusion unit, uniformizes a brightness distribution thereof compared with that of the light being received, and outputs the resulting light.
US09863755B2
Apparatus and methods of determining a position of a height sensor in a dispensing system. The dispensing system includes a dispenser, height sensor, camera, and a calibration device configured to receive a signal from the height sensor. The calibration device may include an optical sensor that generates an alignment signal in response to receiving light from the height sensor and/or a fiducial that causes the height sensor to generate the alignment signal in response to a detected height change. The alignment signal is used to automatically determine the position at which the height sensor is aligned with the calibration device. The position of the height sensor relative to a camera is determined by aligning the camera with the calibration device and recording its position. The recorded coordinates of the camera are compared to the coordinates of the height sensor when the height sensor is automatically aligned with the calibration device.
US09863744B2
A one-piece four-blade machined broadhead and sharpener for sharpening the blades of a four-blade broadhead is described. A broadhead may be machined as a single component from, for example, bar stock material. A broadhead of the present disclosure may be machined on a multi-spindle machine such as but not limited to a Swiss or Swiss-style screw machine. A broadhead may be machined in a reverse configuration such that an attachment end for attaching the broadhead to an arrow is positioned at or near an open end of the bar stock material. One or more steps of the broadhead machining or manufacturing process may be automated, for example by the use of one or more robotic gripping arms. Furthermore, a sharpener of the present disclosure may have sharpening stones positioned at angles such that a two blades of a four-blade broadhead may be simultaneously sharpened.
US09863734B2
A device for adjusting the level of a shooting rest. The device includes a triangle-shaped insert having a sloped first side that can receive the shooting rest thereon. A second side of the insert includes a plurality of slots that extend along the length of the insert, toward the first side. Each slot corresponds to a different level in which the shooting rest can be adjusted to when the insert is engaged therewith. An aperture on the insert receives a cord, wherein the cord can form a loop around the shooting rest for securing the insert thereto. The device is used with an existing tree stand or, in some embodiments, includes a tree stand. The insert receives the shooting rest against the first side thereof and the second side further secures to the tree stand, thereby providing adjustability of the insert for repositioning the level of the shooting rest.
US09863733B2
A firearm barrel has a gas channel in fluid communication with a gas port. The gas port diverts a portion of the gas produced when firing a round of ammunition into the gas channel. The gas channel extends longitudinally and substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the barrel to a gas block. The gas channel provides fluid communication between a gas block and a gas port located in different longitudinal positions on the barrel.
US09863732B2
A composite barrel assembly for a gun, such as a muzzle-loading mortar for fin-stabilized projectiles. The composite construction of the barrel has a plurality of generally concentric layers built-up around a rigid supporting liner which may be fabricated from any of several metal or ceramic compositions. An inner thermal barrier coating of inorganic glass, metal refractory alloy, chromium alloy, functionally graded material or ceramic is disposed within the liner. An overwrap layer of continuous fibers embedded in a matrix surrounds the liner. The matrix is either a resin, polymer, ceramic, glass or metal. An outer shell of continuous fibers embedded in a high temperature polymer matrix surrounds the overwrap. When the liner is made from a metal-based composition, an outer thermal barrier coating may be applied in between the liner and the overwrap.
US09863728B2
A cylinder breech block device (100) of a repeating firearm has a breech block cylinder (200) pivoted in a system housing (160) of the repeating firearm for execution of repetitive action thereof and capable of being locked to said system housing (160) for firing a round. A firing pin (140) capable of being cocked by a tension spring is mounted for linear displacement in the direction of a cartridge (141) stored in a magazine (141) of a barrel (143). Cocking of the firing pin (140) is effected by causing rotation, through a predefined angle, of a breech bolt handle (300) rigidly connected to a tension crown ring (400) that is pivoted on a central shaft (210) of the breech block cylinder (200).
US09863726B2
A cooling medium circulating apparatus includes first and second flow paths configured to circulate a cooling medium, and a flow path switchover unit for connecting or disconnecting between the first and second flow paths. A method for controlling a cooling medium circulating apparatus includes detecting temperatures of the cooling medium flowing through the flow paths. The method further includes calculating a temperature difference between temperatures of the cooling medium flowing through the first and second flow paths. In the cooling medium circulating apparatus and method, a prescribed cycle is set, and connecting and disconnecting periods are set. The connecting and disconnecting periods are periods for connecting and disconnecting, respectively, between the flow paths in the prescribed cycle. The flow path switchover unit is controlled based on the connecting and disconnecting periods. The prescribed cycle becomes shorter as the temperature difference becomes larger.
US09863723B2
An integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger and method of use are provided. The integrated pressure compensating heat exchanger includes an inlet configured to input an internal fluid; a first conductive bellows connected to the inlet, configured to accept the internal fluid from the inlet, configured to transfer heat between the internal fluid and an external fluid, and configured to compensate for a pressure by compressing in length; and an outlet configured to accept the internal fluid from the first conductive bellows and to output the internal fluid.
US09863716B2
A heat exchanger is disclosed which includes a plurality of heat exchanger plates. Each plate has a plurality of hollowed out pins arranged in a pin fin pattern. Each plate also includes an inlet aperture and an outlet aperture in fluid communication with one another. A plurality of heat pipes are defined by several of the plurality of hollowed out pins. A wicking material is arranged within the several hollowed out pins. A heat transfer fluid at least partially fills each heat pipe.
US09863704B2
According to a first embodiment, a dryer for removing hydrocarbons and/or moisture from metal chips is provided. The dryer includes a top portion and a base portion. The top portion comprises an elongated tubular chamber containing a scrap conveyor. The base portion comprises a burner, a heat exchanger, a high temperature VOC elimination chamber and a vent for returning reduced VOC gasses to the top portion. The top portion is configured to receive the metal chips at an inlet and transport the metal chips to an outlet while receiving heated air from the base portion.
US09863703B2
A grain drying tower comprises a heater and blower separating a heating plenum and a cooling plenum. The dryer is provided with a heat reclamation/heat recycling system and/or counter-flow cooling to reduce the energy requirements of the tower dryer. The heat reclamation system comprises a chamber external to the outer wall of the tower and which is and located at a point along the drying path. The bottom of the chamber is open to the atmosphere. Hot exhaust air enters the heat reclamation chamber at the top of the chamber and is drawn back into the tower by the blower as the exhaust air exits the open bottom of the chamber. In the counter-flow, the walls defining the grain path of the in the cooling section are not air permeable, and air is drawn into the cooling section through outer wall ducts which are closed at the inner wall. The entering air travels up through heated grain to be warmed, and then enters the plenum through inner wall ducts, which are closed at the outer wall of the tower.
US09863702B2
A process for ore moisture removal by exposure of the ore to a hot and dry air stream is described. Also described is a conveyor belt and a transfer chute adapted for the use of the above process. Among other aspects, the process has the function of reducing moisture in ores prior to the shipping stage of this material.
US09863700B2
For providing inline sterile freeze drying of a product containing solid matter and a solvent, such as water, in a plurality of trays accommodated in at least one trolley, a system comprises a filling station having an inlet end and an outlet end, or a docking station, a freeze storage, a freeze dryer unit, an emptying station having an inlet end and an outlet end, or a docking station, a plurality of trays adapted to be accommodated in at least one trolley. A cleaning and sterilizing unit is provided between the outlet end of the emptying station and the inlet end of the filling station.
US09863697B2
Described herein is a method and system for liquefying a natural gas feed stream to produce an LNG product. The natural gas feed stream is liquefied, by indirect heat exchange with a gaseous methane or natural gas refrigerant circulating in a gaseous expander cycle, to produce a first LNG stream. The first LNG stream is expanded, and the resulting vapor and liquid phases are separated to produce a first flash gas stream and a second LNG stream. The second LNG stream is then expanded, with the resulting vapor and liquid phases being separated to produce the second flash gas stream and a third LNG stream, all or a portion of which forms the LNG product. Refrigeration is recovered from the second flash gas by using said stream to sub-cool the second LNG stream or a supplementary LNG stream.
US09863686B2
A device for adjusting a full-ice level includes: an ice making tray for making ice; an ice making tray fixing unit positioned on both sides of the ice making tray to support the ice making tray; an ice storage unit positioned below the ice making tray and for storing ice that is separated from and drops from the ice making tray; a full-ice level sensor for sensing the highest level of ice stored in the ice storage unit; a sensor guide on which the full-ice level sensor is installed, and positioned in the ice storage unit; and a motor on one side of the ice making tray fixing unit and coupled with the sensor guide, and for moving the sensor guide upward and downward in the ice storage unit.
US09863673B2
A heat pump including an evaporator and an adsorber is provided. The adsorber is regenerated by applying heat from a chemical thermal storage reactor, a heat accumulator or an external heat source, at a temperature higher than or equal to a temperature to regenerate the adsorber.
US09863665B2
An attachment point apparatus and system for photovoltaic arrays is disclosed. One embodiment provides a rail system for receiving a PV module, including a first rail, a second rail, a substantially rectilinear double male connector adapted for coupling an end of the first rail to an end of the second rail, and a connector adapted to attach a PV module to the first rail. Another embodiment provides a PV module including a PV laminate, a frame integral with and supporting the PV laminate, and a spanner bar adapted to solely span a width of the PV module, orthogonally connect at various locations along the frame, and attach to a support structure. A further embodiment provides a coupling device for a PV module comprising a first coupling portion adapted to rotatably engage a PV module, and a second coupling portion adapted to rotatably engage a rail.
US09863662B2
A vessel including a concentrator configured to concentrate electromagnetic (EM) radiation received from an EM radiation source and a complex configured to absorb EM radiation to generate heat. The vessel is configured to receive a cool fluid from the cool fluid source, concentrate the EM radiation using the concentrator, apply the EM radiation to the complex, and transform, using the heat generated by the complex, the cool fluid to the heated fluid. The complex is at least one of consisting of copper nanoparticles, copper oxide nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanorods, carbon moieties, encapsulated nanoshells, encapsulated nanoparticles, and branched nanostructures. Further, the EM radiation is at least one of EM radiation in an ultraviolet region of an electromagnetic spectrum, in a visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum, and in an infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
US09863661B2
An air conditioner includes a main body unit and an auxiliary housing. The main body unit forms a first air outlet which blows out a cool or warm airflow. The auxiliary housing is attached to at least one side of the first air outlet to be freely movable, and forms a second air outlet which blows out taken-in indoor air. A control circuit controls a second wind direction plate so that a second reference plane PL2 which regulates a wind direction of the second wind direction plate intersects a first reference plane PL1 which regulates a wind direction of a first wind direction plate, on a downstream side of the airflow.
US09863658B2
A room management apparatus is provided. The room management apparatus includes a central controller that recognizes an operation state of an air conditioner, and determines that one or more rooms are assignable on the basis of the operation state of the air conditioner.
US09863655B2
The invention relates to a device for storing articles in a controlled atmosphere, comprising: at least one storage module capable of receiving the articles to be stored; a storage module provided with at least one shelf for positioning the articles, the storage module having a substantially parallelepiped shape, and having two substantially vertical and opposite walls between which the shelves extend, wherein the device is characterized in that shutters are provided, each shutter being positioned opposite one of the shelves, and between one of the two walls and the shelf in question, so as to prevent the gas from flowing vertically at the location of a shutter, and to allow the gas to flow only transversely along the shelf associated with the shutter in question.
US09863653B2
A closed circulating water cooling apparatus includes an internal cooling apparatus, a plate heat exchanger, and an auxiliary cooling apparatus. The internal cooling apparatus comprises an internal cooling circulator pump and an air cooler. The auxiliary cooling apparatus comprises an external cooling circulator pump and an underground water pipe. Internal cooling water flowing through the plate heat exchanger from the internal cooling apparatus exchanges heat with external cooling water flowing through the plate heat exchanger from the auxiliary cooling apparatus. Utilization of the closed circulating water cooling apparatus and method allows for increased cooling capacity, when the environmental temperature is greater than the maximum inflow water temperature permitted by a piece of technical equipment, for the cooling apparatus to still provide sufficient cooling capacity, and for the equipment to obviate any water loss during operation.
US09863652B2
A cylindrical hole is formed between peripheral belt portions of two container constituent plates of a thermal storage material container of an evaporator with a cool storage function. A cylindrical portion of a thermal storage material charging member having a thermal storage material charging passage is disposed in the cylindrical hole and brazed to the two container constituent plates. That portion of the thermal storage material charging member which protrudes from the cylindrical hole includes a crushed portion and a cylindrical uncrushed portion. The crushed portion seals the thermal storage material passage. The cylindrical portion of the thermal storage material charging member is smaller in outside diameter than the uncrushed portion, and the cylindrical portion and the uncrushed portion have the same inside diameter. The cylindrical portion has an inward protrusion protruding into a thermal storage material containing space, and the inward protrusion has a radially expanding engagement portion.
US09863650B2
A heat dissipation structure of a fan drive of an air conditioner outdoor unit, and an air conditioner outdoor unit are provided. A side plate of the air conditioner outdoor unit is disposed between a side plate of the fan drive and a baffle plate, and the side plate of the air conditioner outdoor unit clings to the side plate of the fan drive; a first air vent communicating with the outside of the air conditioner outdoor unit is provided on the side plate of the air conditioner outdoor unit; and a second air vent is provided on the baffle plate, the first air vent and the second air vent form an air duct between the side plate of the air conditioner outdoor unit and the baffle plate, and the second air vent enables the first air vent to communicate with an inner chamber of the air conditioner outdoor unite.
US09863648B2
An equipment protector including a tubular body extending from a first end to a second. The tubular body is manufactured from a waterproof, collapsible material and has a first diameter. A buoyancy ring is sealingly connected to the first end of the tubular body and defines a through passage. The buoyancy ring has an outer diameter which is larger than the first diameter such that the buoyancy ring extends radially outwardly from the tubular body and is susceptible to a buoyancy force created at the exterior of the tubular body. A method of protecting equipment is also provided.
US09863639B2
A method for controlling a gas-fired appliance is presented, wherein the gas-fired appliance includes a combustor, at least one flow-regulating valve, and a solenoid valve which are all interconnected, and adaptive to low or no power supplied to the gas-fired appliances, including the steps of: using the solenoid valve to block fuel gas, determining whether the power returns to normal, and if not, maintaining the solenoid valve block, and if so, closing the flow-regulating valve to thereby block the fuel gas such that the fuel gas flow is paused when the solenoid valve is open during a next ignition try.
US09863637B2
Provided is a combustor that is made compact and achieves NOx reduction. In the combustor (1) including a pilot nozzle (21) disposed along the central axis of the combustor (1) and performing diffusion combustion, a plurality of main nozzles (22) disposed on the outer peripheral side of the pilot nozzle (21) at intervals in the circumferential direction and performing premixing combustion, a single inner cylinder (2a) surrounding the pilot nozzle (21) and the main nozzles (22), and an outer cylinder approximately coaxially surrounding the outer side of the inner cylinder (2a) to form a compressed air passage (6) between the inner peripheral surface thereof and the outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder and turning the flow direction of compressed air flowing in the compressed air passage (6) in approximately the opposite direction at the end of the inner cylinder (2a) to introduce the compressed air into the pilot nozzle (21), the compressed air passage (6) is provided with a flow rate controller that makes the flow rate on the combustor (1) inner peripheral side of the passage larger than that on the outer peripheral side. An example as the flow rate controller is a baffle plate 51 provided with holes 55, 56.
US09863632B2
There is provided a process for operating a coal-fired furnace to generate heat. The process has the steps of a) providing the coal to the furnace and b) combusting the coal in the presence of a first slag-reducing ingredient and a second slag-reducing ingredient in amounts effective to reduce slag formation in the furnace. The first slag-reducing ingredient and the second slag-reducing ingredient are different substances. The first slag-reducing ingredient is selected from the group consisting of magnesium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide, magnesium oxide, magnesium sulfate, and combinations thereof. The second slag-reducing ingredient is selected from the group consisting of copper acetate, copper nitrate, aluminum nitrate, aluminum oxide, aluminum hydroxide, and ammonium phosphate. There is also provided a method for reducing slag formation in a coal-fired furnace.
US09863621B2
A trunk lighting system of a vehicle with a vehicle ceiling, where the trunk lighting system includes a trunk floor panel positioned in a trunk of the vehicle and movable between a first position and a second position, the trunk floor panel being closer to the vehicle ceiling at the second position than at the first position. The trunk lighting system has a lighting device, and a switch connected to the lighting device and to trigger a second lighting output from the lighting device when the trunk floor is at the second position, the second lighting output being greater than a first lighting output from the lighting device when the trunk floor panel is at the first position.
US09863620B2
Provided is a controller for use with a luminaire. The controller that includes a processor connected to at least one lead of a receptacle included in the luminaire. The processor can be programmed to multiplex at least one lead of the receptacle to achieve at least one of a plurality functions.
US09863619B2
The present application relates to a lighting device and in particular to a lamp, a transition member for mounting a lamp, a lamp body and a junction box assembly, by which problems such as inconvenient operation and low efficiency in connecting wires during the mounting of a lamp can be solved. The lamp provided by the present application comprises a lamp body and a transition member which is configured to mount the lamp body in a mounting position. The transition member comprises a mounting portion and a placement portion; the mounting portion is configured to be mounted in said mounting position; and the placement portion enables the lamp body to be placed thereon before the mounting is completed, and in this state, wires connected between the lamp body and the mounting position are not shielded so that it is possible to connect the wires.
US09863611B2
A signal column includes a rod-shaped, transparent housing, inside of which a rod-shaped signal generator is arranged. At least one light distribution element is arranged in the housing between the signal generator and the transparent housing, wherein the light distribution element directs light evenly from light sources of the signal generator to the housing wall.
US09863610B2
A lighting device includes a housing, a light emitting device, and an optical array. The housing has a base and the light emitting device is connected to the base for producing a light output. The optical array includes a lens and removably connects to the base. The optical array is repositionable on the base to modify the light output.
US09863607B2
An optical system for a stage lamp wherein the optical system comprises: a light source, a light condensing device, an effect component, a lens, a multi-reflector optical component fixed on an upper portion of the lens, a light emitted by the light source being reflected by the light condensing device and converged to form a main light beam along a transmission direction of the light, the main light beam sequentially passing through the effect component and the lens and being reflected by the multi-reflector optical component; wherein the multi-reflector optical component is provided with at least three reflective mirrors, and is connected to a at least three-stage linkage mechanism which is capable of driving the multi-reflector optical component, and achieving a three-dimensional dynamic light spot effect. When the optical system according to the present invention is applied to the stage lamp, one lamp simultaneously presenting a plurality of same dynamic spot effects is implemented.
US09863606B2
An arrangement for light output having an LED light source for generating light and emitting the light in a main emission direction, a reflector for optically influencing the light, and an optical element for optically influencing the light, wherein the optical element is arranged to take effect between firstly the LED light source and secondly the reflector, is configured in a manner curving forward in the main emission direction, and in this case consists of a light-transmissive material.
US09863601B2
Overcoming limitation in brightness and heating effects for LED based Precision Approach Path Indicators and allowing both colors to be imaged in the far field with the proper abrupt transition between the red and white sectors, making use of linear arrays of LED's and cylindrical optics.
US09863597B2
A lighting device for a vehicle, the lighting device including: a lens; a light source device configured to emit light; a first reflection unit configured to reflect light emitted from the light source device toward a second side of the lens; a reflective phosphor configured to (i) convert a wavelength of light reflected by the first reflection unit and (ii) reflect light which wavelength is converted toward the lens; a second reflection unit configured to reflect a portion of light that is reflected by the reflective phosphor toward the second side of the lens; a sensing unit configured to sense light reflected by the second reflection unit; and a controller configured to control the light source device based on sensing information sensed by the sensing unit, is disclosed.
US09863592B2
A lighting unit is provided that has a housing with a lighting portion and a solar panel portion. Solar panels are mounted on the solar panel portion and the energy gathered by the solar panels is stored in a rechargeable battery. The lighting portion has a conical shaped wall that meets with a circular shaped wall. Each of the conical shaped wall and circular shaped wall defines light recesses defined by light recess walls, and an LED is disposed in each recess. The LEDs are powered by the rechargeable battery and are capable of illuminating a flag whether or not there is a breeze or wind. The circular shaped wall defines a wall opening and the solar panel portion has pole extension that is fitted in the wall opening. A flagpole extends through the pole extension and the lighting unit is mounted on the flagpole
US09863591B2
The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting fixture and a method for replacing a light engine such as a LED light engine in the lighting fixture by replacing one part carrying the light engine, where the heat sink (e.g., extruded elongated heat sink) can be split into two parts, a replaceable part carrying the light engine and a fixed part. Both heat sink parts may be attached together with a clip to allow the unclipping and replacement of the removable part carrying the light engine. The geometry of the two heat sink parts can be designed in such a way that one part can be attached on top of the other, while providing a predefined alignment and continuous thermal conductivity between the two parts. A space between the two parts can be used to place the clip.
US09863589B2
Described herein is a bulb-like LED lamp comprising a base, a lamp cover and a threaded cap, the lamp cover and the threaded cap are connected to two ends of the base respectively, wherein the base is sheathed with a heat-dissipation tube integrally formed by a first column tube and a first polygonal tube, a heat-dissipation plate is embedded in an opening end of the first polygonal tube, an exterior surface of the first polygonal tube is sheathed with an LED fixing loop and an LED board.
US09863586B2
An LED display device includes an installing pillar, a first fixing plate, an enclosure module, an LED display screen module and a first connection member, the enclosure module includes a front surface for display and a rear surface opposite to the front surface, the installing pillar is positioned on the rear surface of the enclosure module, the first fixing plate closely contacts the installing pillar, the first fixing plate defines a first fixing hole, the first connection member extends through the first fixing hole from the rear surface of the enclosure module and connects with the enclosure module, thereby clamping and securing the installing pillar between the first fixing plate and the enclosure module, and the enclosure module is fixed to the installing pillar via the first fixing plate and the first connection member, the LED display screen module is assembled to the front surface of the enclosure module. Thereby the LED display device can be maintained with a high flexibility and it is convenience for operation, and the cost thereof is low, thus a front/rear side-maintenance type assembly can be realized.
US09863582B2
A gas tank container having increased volume is disclosed. The gas tank container for storing and/or transporting gas and/or liquid, includes a tank vessel, a frame and at least one outlet valve. The end of the outlet valve is attached to a tank flange, which is sunk in a recess at the end of the tank vessel. By recessing at least one outlet valve of the gas tank container, the length of the tank vessel can be optimized within the frame.
US09863574B2
A display device which can elevate and rotate to a position includes a base, a controlling member mounted to the base, and a supporting frame. A display is mounted on the supporting frame, and a first magnetic piece is positioned on the controlling member. A second magnetic piece is positioned on the supporting frame. The first and second magnetic pieces are configured to attract each other. The controlling member includes a first elastic piece between the base and the supporting frame. The first elastic piece retracts to enable the supporting frame to rotate. The controlling member can slide to detach the second magnetic piece from the first magnetic piece, and the first elastic piece retracts to allow an upward rotation of the supporting frame thereby changing height of the display.
US09863573B2
Improvements in an expandable stand with an adjustable travel stop within a musical instrument stand or elevating speaker is presented. The stand supports some weight of the instrument or speaker to relieve the weight. The stand has a securing mechanism that grasps a tubular section to hold the musical instrument. The stand is collapsible to fit within or can be carried with the case for the instrument. The speaker stand can be easily collapsed for transportation and storage. An adjustable travel stop for the travel stop to be inserted and removed from the inner tube diameter. The ability to insert and remove the travel stop allows the extension or the travel of the lift to be adjustable by moving the travel stop within the tube. The travel stop can be used to stop the travel length and or to establish the starting point for expansion.
US09863560B2
An expandable threaded connection includes: first and second tubular components including respective male and female ends including respective first and second and third and fourth threaded zones, insertion regions, first and second annular tongues, prominent abutment faces, and first and second concavities; the first and second tongues are respectively engaged in the second and first concavities in a made up condition, the abutment face of at least one tongue in contact with at least one concavity; the male end including a first surface between the first threaded zone and the first tongue, and the female end including a second surface between the third threaded zone and the second concavity; in the made up condition, the first and second surfaces define an annular space include large and small radial dimension zones which, after expansion, can form a metal-metal contact seal, the first tongue bearing on the second tongue.
US09863556B2
Tubing clamps having a minimum contact area between the tubes and supporting surfaces of clamp support bodies are provided for minimizing the collection and retention of liquids at the supporting surfaces. A minimum spacing is maintained between the tubes supported by the tubing clamps while maintaining sufficient ventilation between the tubes and the clamp support bodies to permit drying of any liquids which contact the tubes and the clamp support bodies at tubing support points. This prevents electrolysis and corrosion which may be caused by liquid retention and by contact between dissimilar metals. The tubing clamps are adapted to secure tubes having differing outer diameters in a single row or in multiple rows, such as in a stacked configuration. The clamps are provided with upper and lower supports, each having matching grooves that have chamfered edges forming the upper and lower tubing contact surfaces. The supports are secured together with fasteners to clamp the tubing therebetween.
US09863540B2
A valve assembly comprises a housing, a chamber having a first product opening, a second product opening, a first closable secondary opening that can be connected to a steam line, and a second closable secondary opening. The assembly also includes a first closing element by which the first product opening can be closed, a second closing element by which the second product opening can be closed, and an outlet associated with the second secondary opening. A switching valve is arranged between the second secondary opening and the outlet such that a fluid connection between the outlet and the second secondary opening can be switched to a fluid connection between the outlet and an inlet provided on the switching valve. The inlet can be connected to a steam line, while simultaneously closing the second secondary opening. A system comprising the valve assembly and a method for operating the system are described.
US09863538B2
As assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This assembly includes a component and a brush seal. The component includes a first surface and a second surface. The brush seal includes an annular bundle of bristles which extends longitudinally along an axis to a bundle tip. The bundle of bristles axially contacts the first surface at the bundle tip. The bundle of bristles proximate the bundle tip axially overlaps the second surface, and the bundle of bristles is operable to radially contact the second surface.
US09863527B2
A control device is provided for a transmission having at least three shift actuators for the gear selection, a plurality of valves for actuating the shift actuators and a further plurality of valves for actuating the clutch. The shift actuators, the valves for actuating the shift actuators and the valves for actuating the clutch are combined in a common housing and that, within this housing, the shift actuators are grouped into a spatially connected shift group, the shift actuator valves are grouped into a spatially connected valve group and the clutch actuator valves are grouped into a further spatially connected valve group, wherein the shift group and the two valve groups and do not spatially overlap.
US09863525B2
A clutch-controlled transfer gear having a drive shaft which is mounted so as to be rotatable by way of at least one drive shaft bearing, a primary shaft which is mounted so as to be rotatable by way of at least one primary shaft bearing, a secondary shaft which is arranged with an axial offset with respect to the drive shaft and which is mounted so as to be rotatable by way of at least one secondary shaft bearing, a transfer mechanism which is arranged between secondary shaft and drive shaft and bridges the axial offset thereof, and a clutch which is arranged between the drive shaft and an offset gear, by means of which clutch the secondary shaft is, for the operation thereof, coupled to the drive shaft and, for the deactivation thereof, decoupled from the drive shaft, as required.
US09863516B2
A corn head row unit gearbox includes an input shaft, that rotates about a first axis of rotation and that drives a set of bevel gears. The bevel gears transfer rotation of the input shaft into rotation of a set of gathering chain output shafts about a second axis of rotation, generally transverse to the first axis of rotation. The gathering chain drive shafts each rotate within a bushing mounted within a frame structure of the gearbox. The frame structure defines a bore that communicates with a bevel gear cavity, in which at least one of the sets of bevel gears rotates, and an interior of the bushings mounted on the gathering chain drive shafts. Rotation of the bevel gears carries lubricant to an inlet aperture on the bore and drives the lubricant through the bore into the bushings.
US09863515B2
A self-locking actuator for moving a flight control surface of an aircraft and for self-locking in response to an external load applied to the actuator. The actuator includes a motor, a screw, and a drive gear that is rotatably driven by the motor to rotationally couple with the screw. A pawl support is coupled to and rotatable with the screw, and a swivel assembly is coupled to the pawl support for rotational movement with the screw and pivoting movement relative to the screw. The swivel assembly engages a cage that is fixed relative to the rotating screw, drive gear, and swivel assembly. Pivoting of the swivel assembly about a pivot axis engages the swivel assembly with the cage to positively lock with the cage and to prevent rotation of the screw in each of first and second opposite rotational directions of the screw about a rotational axis of the screw.
US09863514B2
A ball screw apparatus includes a ball nut through which a ball screw shaft is inserted. A recessed portion is formed in an inner periphery of the ball nut and is recessed so as to extend in a tangential direction of a ball track. A ball train including a plurality of main balls and a coil spring are housed in a raceway. The recessed portion includes a first surface that supports a second end of the coil spring via a stopper ball and a second surface that regulates movement of the stopper ball in a nut axial direction. The second surface is inclined by an angle corresponding to a lead angle of the ball track of the ball nut from an axially perpendicular plane of the ball nut so as extend in the direction of the lead angle.
US09863510B2
A hydraulic auto-tensioner includes a cylinder with a sleeve fitting hole, and a sleeve press-fitted therein. A rod has its bottom end slidable in the sleeve. A return spring is mounted between a spring seat at an upper portion of the rod and a bottom surface of the cylinder. An oil passage, with a check valve, is formed between the fitting surfaces of the sleeve fitting hole and the sleeve and communicates the pressure chamber with the reservoir chamber. The rod has a valve fitting hole open to its bottom surface, and an oil passage communicating the valve fitting hole with the reservoir chamber. A relief valve, mounted in the valve fitting hole, includes a valve seat with a valve hole having an orifice for restricting the flow rate of oil released from the pressure chamber into the reservoir chamber through the oil passage when the relief valve opens.
US09863508B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft receiving torque of an engine, an output shaft outputting torque of the engine, a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set, a fourth planetary gear set, a first shaft, a second shaft, a third shaft, a fourth shaft directly connected to the input shaft, a fifth shaft, a sixth shaft selectively connectable to each of the first, second, and fourth shafts, a seventh shaft, and an eighth shaft selectively connectable to the seventh shaft, and directly connected to the output shaft.
US09863505B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle having an input shaft for receiving torque of an engine; an output shaft for outputting torque; a first planetary gear set including first, second, and third rotation elements; a second planetary gear set including fourth, fifth, and sixth rotation elements; a third planetary gear set including seventh, eighth, and ninth rotation elements; and a fourth planetary gear set including tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotation elements, improves power delivery performance and fuel economy by achieving at least ten forward speed stages.
US09863501B2
A dual-clutch transmission having first and second clutches which selectively engage to couple a drive shaft with a respective first and second input shaft. The input shafts are coaxially aligned with the first input shaft extending through the second input shaft. A transmission output shaft is coaxially aligned with and extends behind the input shafts. Either six, seven or eighth forward gears and at least two reverse gears are produced by gearwheels that are arranged in six gearwheel planes on the input and the output shafts and a countershaft. The gearwheel planes are sequentially arranged axially along the transmission. Depending on the shifting positions of eight interlocking shifting elements, when six forward gears are provided, the last forward gear is a direct gear. In contrast, when either seven or eight forward gears are provided, the last forward gear, in each case, is an overdrive gear.
US09863496B2
A dumping structure includes a first frame on which a driving portion is mounted, a second frame, a fixture fixing the first frame to the second frame, a restrict portion, provided around the fixture and provided between the first and second frames, which restricts a distance between the first and second frames, and a damping member, provided around the restrict portion, which is compressed by the first and second frame. The damping member has rigidity lower than rigidity of the first frame, rigidity of the second frame and rigidity of the restrict portion, and has a loss factor, measured by a mechanical impedance method in the state being compressed between the first and second frames, of 0.05 or more.
US09863490B2
A motor vehicle disc brake includes a cover with two tiered bores of parallel axes, each bore includes at least one first section; a caliper slidably mounted axially with respect to the cover by two pins of parallel axes rigidly connected to the caliper and each including at least one guiding section which is slidably mounted, with a radial clearance, in the tiered bore of the cover; and brake, wherein a cylindrical outer guiding surface of the sliding guiding section of each pin includes at least two opposed axial portions, extending angularly about the axis of each pin according to an angle less than 90°, a median axial plane of the two portions being parallel with a plane passing through the axes of the two pins.
US09863488B2
A motor vehicle drum brake (10) includes: two braking segments (18A, 18B); an anchoring element (28) including two bearing surfaces (32A, 32B) of two second ends (24) of the braking segments (18A, 18B); a wheel cylinder (34) which, in a first “simplex” operating mode, is suitable for transversally separating the adjacent first ends (22) of the segments (18A, 18B); the anchoring element (28) including: a fixed body (42) wherein two sliding pistons (50A, 50B) each carry a bearing surface (32A, 32B); and elements (44) for separating the pistons (50A, 50B) between an anchoring position wherein they abut against the body (42), and a sliding position wherein the pistons (32A, 32B) are separated to allow the sliding thereof during operation in so-called “servo-dual” mode.
US09863469B2
In a bearing preloading device in which a compression coil spring is used, a hole is defined in a bearing race or in a separate member axially opposed to the bearing race. The hole has an inner periphery constituted by a threaded portion connected to a bottom surface of the hole, and a shallow hole portion connected to an edge of the hole. An inner diameter of the shallow hole portion is larger than an inner diameter of the threaded portion.
US09863465B2
A method of manufacturing a slotted entry bearing assembly includes inserting an inner race into a central space of an outer race. The outer race is configured to receive the inner race through at least one slot. Once the inner race is fully inserted into the outer race, it is rotated approximately ninety degrees within the center space, effectively locking the inner race within the outer race. After the inner race is rotated ninety degrees, a molded seal is molded between the inner race and the at least one slot. The molded seal adheres to the at least one slot and is made of a polymeric material. The molding process used to mold the molded seal may be compression molding.
US09863463B2
A ball joint has a dust cover fitted onto the outer periphery of a socket formed into the shape of a cylinder with a bottom. The socket has a dust cover groove into which a socket-fitting portion of the dust cover is fitted, and a dust cover-recieving surface for supporting a socket-facing surface of the dust cover. The dust cover-recieving surface inclines toward the socket-facing surface while extending from the outer side toward the inner side. Radial projections are formed on the inner peripheral surface of the socket-fitting portion of the dust cover. An axial projection which projects toward the dust cover-recieving surface is formed on the socket-facing surface of the dust cover.
US09863462B2
There is provided a half thrust bearing having a semicircular-ring shape for a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, including a back metal layer and a bearing alloy layer having a slide surface on which thrust reliefs are formed adjacently to both circumferential end surfaces so that a wall thickness of the half thrust bearing becomes thinner from the slide surface toward the circumferential end surfaces. A thrust relief length L1 of each thrust relief extends over a circumferential angle θ1 from the circumferential end surface toward a circumferential central portion, and is constant between an inside end portion and an outside end portion in a radial direction of the half thrust bearing. A flat surface of each thrust relief includes a first region on the circumferential end surface side and a second region on the circumferential central portion side.
US09863459B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a fastener lock for engaging a threaded fastener. The fastener lock defines a discontinuous circular opening therethrough with at least one extending tab extending into the discontinuous circular opening. When a threaded fastener is disposed in the discontinuous circular opening, the at least one extending tab engages the threads of the threaded fastener.
US09863453B2
An apparatus and method of manufacturing silicon seed rod in which two silicon seeds are joined into one long silicon seed rod by mechanical coupling. A mechanical seed coupler is a body in having an outer wall, an upper surface with an upper aperture, a lower surface with a lower aperture, and an inner wall surrounding an inner space. The mechanical seed couple can be of a shape including a cylinder shape, an elliptical tube shape, a rectangular tube shape and a square tube shape. Furthermore the mechanical seed coupler can be of unitary construction, made from one solid piece of material, or it can be composed of subparts.
US09863450B1
A hydro-mechanical device for providing tactile feel curve shaping, including: a housing; a fluid displacing element; and, a preloaded flow regulating assembly operatively connected to the housing. The housing has a working fluid chamber formed therein, the working fluid chamber containing working fluid. The fluid displacing element is positioned within the working fluid chamber. The fluid displacing element divides the working fluid chamber into at least two cavities upon which fluid is transferred upon movement of the fluid displacing element. The flow of the working fluid is controlled through the preloaded flow regulating assembly in accordance with a custom force profile combining a controlled velocity dependent force component and a controlled resisting force component which opposes an applied force at a controlled maximum threshold.
US09863448B2
A hydraulic circuit for a construction machine, capable of enhancing the effect of reducing a pressure loss due to return oil from a head-side chamber of a hydraulic cylinder, with a simple structure. The circuit includes a hydraulic cylinder, a control valve, a return pipeline, and a tank direct-communication line providing direct communication between the control valve and a tank separately from the return pipeline. The control valve has a flow path leading return oil from a head-side chamber of the hydraulic cylinder to the tank direct-communication line and a flow path leading return oil from a rod-side chamber of the hydraulic cylinder to the return pipeline.
US09863444B2
A hydraulic energy recovery system (101) has an output drive unit (103), which can be actuated by a driver (102), and by which a hydraulic motor-pump unit (104) can be driven. In at least one energy feed position, the motor-pump unit supplies an energy storage device (106) and/or working hydraulics (107) with fluid. In a recuperation position, the motor-pump unit discharges fluid under pressure from the energy storage device (106) at least to the working hydraulics (107) and/or is used to actuate the output drive unit (103).
US09863442B2
An aspirator system is disclosed comprising a collapsible/extendable aspirator air channel, wherein a burstable seal for entrapping air across the exit channel is provided, wherein said entrapped air creates a pressure causing the aspirator to extend to its extended state, whereupon the seal bursts and opens the air channel.
US09863439B2
An annular backing plate for a diffuser in a centrifugal compressor comprises an inner diameter and an outer diameter disposed radially opposite the inner diameter. The backing plate also includes a first surface extending between the inner diameter and the outer diameter of the backing plate. A step is formed on the first surface proximate the inner diameter, wherein the step shifts a portion of the first surface encompassed by the step axially aft relative a portion of the first surface not encompassed by the step.
US09863436B2
A pump housing has a spiral housing and includes a suction channel (14) which runs out in a space (15). The space (15) is for arranging an impeller (6), rotatable about a rotation axis (5), and includes a spirally peripheral channel (16) open to the space (15) and running out into a pressure channel. A receiver (20) for a differential pressure sensor is provided within the pump housing. A first sensor channel (22) is provided, which connects the receiver (20) to a pressure-side interior of the pump housing. A second sensor channel (23) connects the receiver (20) to the pressure-side interior of the pump housing. The receiver (20) for the differential pressure sensor is arranged between the spirally peripheral channel (16) and the suction channel (14), so that the channels can be formed by way of simple bores.
US09863430B2
An air compressor for a fuel cell vehicle includes a volute housing, an impeller mounted to the volute housing, and a motor driving the impeller and cooling the motor and bearings that support a rotation shaft of the motor using air at an outlet side of the impeller. The air compressor has a cooling unit including: a coolant channel provided in plural along a radial direction in a motor housing that is coupled to the volute housing and through which a coolant flows; and a cooled air channel formed between coolant channels of the motor housing and through which the air flows.
US09863428B2
A fan control unit includes: an internal fan that is provided inside a casing, in which an inverter containing a switching element is disposed, and generates an air current for air-cooling inside the casing; a heat sink which is exposed inside a duct provided on the casing and to which the switching element is attached, the duct being provided with an air-intake port and an air-exhaust port; an air-intake fan disposed at the air-intake port of the duct; an air-exhaust fan disposed at the air-exhaust port of the duct; and a control section performing a control such that the air-exhaust fan is turned on earlier than the air-intake fan and the internal fan as output power increases, and that the internal fan and the air-intake fan are turned off earlier than the air-exhaust fan as output power decreases from a state in which all the fans are kept turned on.
US09863422B2
The invention concerns an outlet valve, in particular of a vacuum pump, with a main valve spring which, in a closed state of the outlet valve, closes at least one outlet opening from which the main valve spring lifts off on opening of the outlet valve, and with a hold-down element which forms a stop for the main valve spring on opening, wherein at least one additional valve spring is arranged between the main valve spring and the hold-down element. The invention is distinguished in that in closed state of the outlet valve, the additional valve spring is partly spaced from the main valve spring in the opening direction, in particular spaced with a free end from a free end of the main valve spring.
US09863417B2
A variable displacement vane pump is provided. This pump includes a pump housing including, a driving shaft, a rotor, a plurality of vanes, a cam support surface, a cam ring, an intake port formed at the pump housing, a discharge port formed at the pump housing, and a cam ring control mechanism disposed at the pump housing and configured to control an eccentric amount of the cam ring with respect to the rotor. The cam support surface is formed in such a manner that a shortest distance between the cam support surface and a reference line decreases from a second confining region side toward a first confining region side, and the cam ring is formed in such a manner that a cam profile radius change rate decreases first and then increases again on the second confining region side when eccentric amount of the cam ring is maximized.
US09863411B2
A control valve is configured such that a suction pressure, which is used to displace a sub-valve element in a valve opening direction after a main valve has been closed, is varied according to a value of current supplied to a solenoid. A crankcase communication port, which communicates with a crankcase of a compressor, and a suction chamber communication port, which communicates with a suction chamber of the compressor, are provided in a body. A sub-valve chamber whose diameter is larger than that of the main valve hole is formed between the crankcase communication port and a main valve hole, and a sub-valve is placed in the sub-valve chamber.
US09863393B2
An ECU controls waste heat quantity of an engine according to a required heat quantity in response to a heat-utilize requirement. The ECU controls a valve opening period of an intake valve based on an engine driving condition and an ignition timing based on a most efficient timing at which fuel economy is highest. The ECU determines whether there is an ignition advance margin relative to the most efficient timing. When there is no margin, an actual compression ration of the engine is decreased by advancing or retarding a valve close timing of the intake valve and the ignition timing is advanced relative to the most efficient timing in order to increase the waste heat quantity.
US09863391B2
An embodiment of an ignition device comprises an ignition coil including a first winding and a second winding electromagnetically coupled to each other, a first switch electrically connected to a first end of the first winding, a battery electrically connected to a second end of the first winding, a booster with a first end electrically connected to the battery, a second switch electrically connected to a second end of the booster and to the second end of the first winding, and a drive device electrically connected to the first switch, that turns the first switch and the second switch on and off. The drive device feeds a secondary current to the second winding by changing the first switch from an on-state to an off-state, and supplies an output from the booster to the first winding by changing the second switch from an off-state to an on-state.
US09863390B2
An engine starting apparatus is equipped with a starter which, when it is required to start an engine, moves a pinion to establish engagement with a ring gear coupled to the engine and energizes an electric motor to produce and transmit torque to the ring gear through the pinion for cranking the engine. When the rate of decrease in current flowing in the electric motor or the rate of rise in voltage appearing at a terminal of the starter or a power supply for the electric motor exceeds a given value after the engine starts being cranked, the engine starting apparatus works as a firing-up determiner to determine that the engine has been fully fired up.
US09863380B2
When injection-hole inlets and injection-hole outlets are projected vertically onto an X-Y plane (N) perpendicular to a valve-seat axial center, an injection-hole arrangement angle (θ), which is formed by a straight line (a) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet of a reference injection hole and the valve-seat axial center and a straight line (b) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet of the injection hole neighboring the reference injection hole and the valve-seat axial center on the plane (N), is set so as to become smaller as being closer to a Y-axis. A fuel turn angle (α) on a wide-angle side, which is formed by the straight line (a) and a straight line (c) passing through a center of the injection-hole inlet and a center of the injection-hole outlet on the plane (N), has a relationship: 90°<α<180°.
US09863377B2
A process and device for using a PSA oxygen concentrator to provide a high oxygen air intake mass into the combustion chambers of an ICE in order to improve gasoline mileage, reduce undesirable exhaust components and allow a TWC to come into full operation more quickly. A method of improving the quality of an air mass taken into the PSA device is taught. Both a retrofit methodology using commercially available PSA concentrators and a method of using component parts of same to create a differing architectural arrangement suited to fit the particular needs or spaces are presented.
US09863373B2
An active purge system module which includes a passive bypass valve assembly that allows for purge of a canister with engine vacuum or through the use of a pump, and also provides the functions of allowing air to escape the fuel tank during refueling. The valve assembly includes two valve members, which are moved between open and closed positions to direct air through the valve assembly during periods of engine vacuum, or when the valve assembly receives positive pressure from a pressure pump. The module is also used to perform a leak check when the valves are both in a closed position.
US09863372B2
A control apparatus of a premixed charge compression ignition engine that includes an engine body having a cylinder and intake and exhaust passages, and causes a mixture gas to self-ignite inside the cylinder is provided. The apparatus includes a fuel injector for injecting fuel into the cylinder, a water injector for injecting supercritical water or subcritical water into the cylinder, an EGR passage for communicating the exhaust and intake passages and recirculating, as EGR gas, a portion of an exhaust gas discharged from the cylinder to the intake passage, an EGR valve for adjusting an EGR gas recirculation amount, and a controller. The controller includes an engine load determining module for receiving a parameter and determining whether an engine operating state is a first state where the engine load is below a switch load or a second state where the engine load is the switch load or above.
US09863367B2
Systems and methods are provided that lock thrust reversers and also drive fan nozzles of an aircraft. One system includes a coupling configured to selectively engage and disengage. While engaged, the coupling is configured to rotate to drive a Variable Area Fan Nozzle (VAFN), at least a portion of which is on a translating portion of a thrust reverser of an aircraft. Furthermore, while engaged the coupling is configured to prevent displacement of the translating portion.
US09863366B2
A multi stream aircraft fixed geometry nozzle includes an inner nozzle, an outer nozzle, and a supersonic ejector. The outer nozzle is configured to channel a third stream from an aft end of a third stream duct surrounding a bypass duct of a multi stream aircraft engine to the supersonic ejector to merge the third stream with the primary stream. The fixed geometry nozzle is configured to operate between an SFC mode and a thrust mode such that, when the inner nozzle accelerates the primary stream supersonically to the supersonic ejector, at which the primary stream is merged with the third stream, in the SFC mode the total pressure of the primary stream is substantially the same as the total pressure of the third stream, and in the thrust mode the total pressure of the primary stream is substantially greater than the total pressure of the third stream.
US09863365B2
An improved apparatus supplies gaseous fuel from a liquid state to an internal combustion engine comprising an electrical energy generating apparatus for generating electrical energy from a store of chemical energy. A liquid pumping apparatus for pumping the gaseous fuel in the liquid state includes an energy converter for converting the electrical energy to mechanical energy which drives the liquid pumping apparatus. The liquid pumping apparatus also includes a first heat exchanger for vaporizing the gaseous fuel received from the pumping apparatus and a controller programmed to operate the liquid pumping apparatus to maintain a pressure of the gaseous fuel supplied to the internal combustion engine within a predetermined range.
US09863355B2
An electromagnetic actuation system includes an actuator having an electrical coil, a magnetic core, and an armature. The system further includes a controllable drive circuit for selectively driving current through the electrical coil. A control module provides an actuator command to the drive circuit effective to drive current through the electrical coil to actuate the armature. The control module includes a magnetic force control module configured to adapt the actuator command to converge magnetic force within the actuator to a preferred force level.
US09863354B2
An exhaust purification system comprises an exhaust purification catalyst, a downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor and a control device. The control device makes the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas change to an air-fuel ratio at a rich side from the prior air-fuel ratio as air-fuel ratio rich increasing control when the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is made a rich air-fuel ratio and the output air-fuel ratio of the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor is maintained at a lean judged air-fuel ratio or more, and judges that the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor suffers from an abnormality, when, due to the air-fuel ratio rich increasing control, the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is made to change to the rich side air-fuel ratio and the output air-fuel ratio of the downstream side air-fuel ratio sensor changes to the lean side.
US09863351B2
A PCM (50) that is an engine control device functions to acquire a master vac negative pressure which is the negative pressure of a stabilized chamber of a master vac (126) which amplifies a brake pedal depressing force applied to a brake pedal (102), and also acquire a brake working fluid pressure that is a braking hydraulic pressure produced by a master cylinder (144) in accordance with the brake pedal depressing force amplified by the master vac (126), and in a case where both accelerator pedal (104) and a brake pedal (102) are depressed or actuated simultaneously, determine whether or not it is necessary to decrease engine output based on such master vac negative pressure and brake working fluid pressure to execute the output decreasing control for decreasing the engine output.
US09863350B2
When a predetermined restart condition is satisfied after an engine is automatically stopped, whether or not a piston of a stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder which is in a compression stroke falls within a specific range set at a bottom dead center side of a predetermined upper limit position is determined. When the piston of the stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder falls within the specific range, a first compression start is executed in which fuel is injected from an injector into the stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder for the first time and is then self-ignited. In the first compression start, a start timing of a first fuel injection operation with respect to the stopped-in-compression-stroke cylinder is set to be earlier as a stop position of the piston of the cylinder gets closer to the bottom dead center within the specific range.
US09863349B2
In an exhaust gas control system for an internal combustion engine operable at a lean air-fuel ratio, after a request to stop the internal combustion engine has been issued, the internal combustion engine is operated at a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio or lower until an air-fuel ratio in an SCR catalyst becomes lower than or equal to the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio, and then supply of fuel to the internal combustion engine is stopped.
US09863340B2
A method for controlling valve timing of a turbo engine may include classifying a plurality of control regions depending on an engine load and an engine speed, applying a maximum duration to an intake valve and controlling a valve overlap between an exhaust valve and the intake valve in a first control region, maintaining the maximum duration of the intake valve in a second control region, advancing an intake valve closing (IVC) timing and an exhaust valve closing (EVC) timing in a third control region, controlling the IVC timing to be close to bottom dead center (BDC) in a fourth control region, controlling a throttle valve to be fully opened and retarding an exhaust valve opening (EVO) timing in a fifth control region, and controlling the throttle valve to be fully opened and controlling the IVC timing to prevent knocking in a sixth control region.
US09863320B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger of an air circulation channel of a turbomachine, the heat exchanger being configured so as to have fluid to be cooled passing through it and including a plurality of fins protruding from a support surface, the heat exchanger being characterized in that each fin includes a base and a preferably continuous leading face which extends axially from the base in the air circulation direction while tapering from upstream to downstream along an axis parallel with the support surface.
US09863315B2
A gas turbine having a compressor for compressing air, a combustor for taking in compressed air discharged from the compressor, mixing it with fuel, and burning them, and a turbine driven by combustion gas generated in the combustor, comprising: inlet guide vanes installed at a stage near an inlet of the compressor for adjusting a compressor flow rate by changing an attaching angle thereof, a steam injection mechanism for injecting steam to the combustor, a steam adjustment valve for adjusting the steam injection rate, and a steam rate control mechanism for adjusting an opening of the steam adjustment valve, a steam monitoring mechanism for monitoring the steam rate injected to the combustor, an air temperature monitoring mechanism for monitoring an atmospheric temperature, and a control unit for determining whether a restriction value of the steam injection rate using a temperature, an opening of the inlet guide vanes, and the steam injection rate as indexes is satisfied, and controlling at least one of a temperature of air flowing into the compressor, the steam injection rate, and the inlet guide vane opening.
US09863314B2
The carbon dioxide membrane separation system in a coal gasification process contains introduction of a mixed gas of hydrogen (H2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in a high temperature and high pressure condition generated through water gas shift reaction from a water gas shift reaction furnace, while maintaining the temperature and pressure condition, to a zeolite membrane module containing a zeolite membrane for removing carbon dioxide, thereby removing carbon dioxide and generating a fuel gas rich in hydrogen. The fuel gas rich in hydrogen in a high temperature and high pressure condition discharged from the zeolite membrane module is fed to a gas turbine of the power generation facility while maintaining the temperature and pressure condition.
US09863310B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining the length of a traction mechanism that is part of a traction drive of an engine. In one example, a method includes determining a position of a movable tensioning device relative to a traction mechanism drive using measuring technology, determining an actual length LAS′ of a traction mechanism computationally using the position of the tensioning device, determining a length change ΔL with respect to a predefinable setpoint length LAS computationally using the computationally determined actual length LAS′, and adjusting one or more operating parameters based on the length change.
US09863308B2
The objective is to provide lubrication oil and internal-combustion engine fuel for reducing the fuel consumption and for reducing carbon dioxide and other exhaust gas components. The lubrication oil is injected with lubrication oil impregnating agent composed of dimethylalkyl tertiary amine in the range from 0.01 to 1 volume % and desirably in the range from 0.1 to 0.5 volume %. Petroleum oil fuel is injected with fuel oil impregnating agent composed of dimethylalkyl tertiary amine in the range from 0.5 to 1 volume %. The petroleum oil fuel is light oil, kerosene, gasoline, or Bunker A. Any one or both of these lubrication oil and petroleum oil fuel is/are used for an internal-combustion engine.
US09863300B2
A holding jig has a tubular jig base member, and a tubular expansion/contraction member disposed on an inner peripheral surface side of the tubular jig base member. Both end sides of the tubular expansion/contraction member are fixed to both end sides of the tubular jig base member along the whole periphery. A configuration of an inner peripheral surface of the tubular expansion/contraction member is smaller than a surface configuration of a pillar-like body (a honeycomb structure) to be held. On the other hand, a configuration of an inner peripheral surface of the tubular jig base member is larger than the surface configuration of the pillar-like body (the honeycomb structure) to be held.
US09863293B2
A system according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a valve actuator, a pump, an accumulator, and a control valve. The valve actuator actuates at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve of an engine. The pump supplies hydraulic fluid to the valve actuator through a supply line. The accumulator stores hydraulic fluid. The control valve is disposed between the accumulator and the valve actuator.
US09863290B2
A valve timing adjusting device includes a housing, a vane rotor, a sleeve, and a spool. The housing includes a timing pulley connected to a crank shaft through a dry belt, and rotates in association with the crank shaft. The sleeve includes a supply port, a drain port, a first control port, a second control port, and a first drain oil channel. The spool includes an oil connection channel that is arranged at an axial center portion of the spool and controls the supply port to be connected with the first control port or the second control port depending on an axial-direction position. The drain port is connected with a first drain space through a second drain oil channel. A second drain space is connected with the first drain space through a third drain oil channel that is provided to span the vane rotor and the cam shaft.
US09863281B2
In a power generation facility (10) wherein a fluidized bed combustion unit (12) produces steam to power a steam turbine generator (32), a heat recovery steam generator (20) produces steam for the steam turbine generator. Electrical power from the steam turbine generator is conducted to a motor (40) that drives and air compressor (36). The air compressor provides pressurized air back to the fluidized bed combustion unit (12) to promote fuel combustion. Flue gas from the heat recovery steam generator is selectively conducted to a CO2 capture unit (18) and then to a gas expander (42) that assists the motor in driving the air compressor (36). A heat exchanger (46) that is upstream of the CO2 Capture Unit and a heat exchanger (56) that is downstream of the CO2 Capture Unit and upstream of the air expander have thermal fluid sides that are connected in a closed circuit. The heat exchangers (46 and 56) convey heat away from the CO2 Capture Unit and provide heat to flue gas flowing to the gas expander to avoid icing conditions in the gas expander and acid condensation in the air emission stack.
US09863276B2
An actuator housing is provided. The actuator housing may comprise a body, and a first side of the body including a first pin interface and a first threaded hole clocked relative to the first pin interface. The first pin interface and the first threaded hole may be configured to interface with a solenoid housing. A second side of the body may be orthogonal to the first side. The second side may include a circular geometry with a cylindrical member disposed central to the circular geometry. A toggle assembly interface may be recessed in the second side and disposed within the cylindrical member.
US09863273B2
The invention relates to a bypass turbojet comprising an exhaust housing having a central hub (13) and connecting means (11) that can transmit the forces generated by the turbojet to the structure of the aircraft that it propels, said connection means being two arms extending radially from the central hub in order to cross the cold flow of said turbojet and being characterized in that they are secured to said central hub and positioned in a diametrically opposed manner in relation to each other. An additional connection means (14) extends between the hub (13) and the area (9) for securing the exhaust housing to the structure (12) of the aircraft in order to transmit the exceptional dimensioning loads, said connection means being on standby during normal use, without any transmission of force between said hub and said area.
US09863268B2
A dynamic system estimation device and method, whereby estimation for more performance parameters than there are sensors can be performed, the estimation taking temporal changes into account. The dynamic system estimation device includes: a prescribed number of sensors that detect prescribed observation values from a gas turbine engine; and a Kalman filter that uses a dynamic model of the gas turbine engine and estimates the state of the gas turbine engine, on the basis of the observation values detected by the sensors. The gas turbine engine includes an element having changes in temporal performance recorded by performance parameters. The Kalman filter enables more than the prescribed number of performance parameters to be estimated, as a result of introducing a first-order lag element in place of the element.
US09863260B2
A nozzle segment assembly for a gas turbine engine may generally include inner and outer ring support segments and a nozzle fairing positioned between the inner and outer ring support segments. The nozzle fairing may be formed from a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material and may include both an outer endwall and an inner endwall. In addition, the nozzle fairing may include a strut vane extending between the inner and outer endwalls. The nozzle segment assembly may also include a metallic strut extending through the strut vane between the outer and inner ring supports and at least one secondary vane configured to be received through at least one of the outer endwall or the inner endwall of the nozzle fairing such that the at least one secondary vane extends between the inner and outer endwalls at a location adjacent to the strut vane.
US09863249B2
A process is provided for repairing a damaged portion of a gas turbine blade comprising: providing a preform comprising a low-melt alloy material and a base alloy material; locating the preform on the gas turbine engine blade damaged portion; and heat treating the preform and the blade such that the preform is brazed to the blade.
US09863245B2
The present invention provides a device comprising: (a) a proximal end of the device comprises an inner first conduit within the lumen of an outer second conduit, (b) a distal end of the device comprises the outer second conduit in fluid communication with a third conduit and a fourth conduit through a Y-shaped, T-shaped or U-shaped junction, (c) the third conduit terminates in a triggering mechanism, and (d) the fourth conduit is in fluid communication through a one-way valve, wherein fluid can only convey in a direction from the fourth conduit towards the second outer conduit, with an aperture.
US09863233B2
Selecting hydrocarbon wells for workover. At least some of the illustrative embodiment including: calculating a plurality of present-performance index values for a respectively plurality of wells, each present-performance index value based on a well's performance with respect to the plurality of wells, and each present-performance index value dimensionless; calculating a plurality of future-performance index values for the respective plurality of wells, each future-performance index value based on a well's expected future performance with respect to the plurality of wells, and each future-performance index value dimensionless; combining a present-performance index value and a future-performance index value for a first well to create a first combination index; combining a present-performance index value and a future-performance index value for a second well to create a second combination index; selecting the hydrocarbon well based on the first and second combination indices.
US09863232B2
A method of controlling a downhole operation includes: deploying a work string into a wellbore, the work string comprising a deployment string and a bottomhole assembly (BHA); digitally marking a depth of the BHA; and using the digital mark to perform the downhole operation.
US09863231B2
A method of fracturing a reservoir comprising the steps of pumping a geopolymer precursor fluid through a wellbore into the reservoir at a fracture pressure, the geopolymer precursor fluid at the fracture pressure generates fractures in the reservoir, wherein the geopolymer precursor fluid is comprised of an amount of aluminosilicate, an amount of alkaline reagent, and a permeability enhancer, allowing the geopolymer precursor fluid to fill the fractures in the reservoir, shutting-in the wellbore at a wellbore pressure, the wellbore pressure maintains the geopolymer precursor fluid in the fractures, allowing the geopolymer precursor fluid to harden for a hardening time to form a geopolymer in the fractures, the geopolymer has a geopolymer matrix, the geopolymer matrix has a permeability, the geopolymer has a compressive strength, and reducing the wellbore pressure allows a reservoir fluid to flow from the reservoir through the geopolymer matrix of the geopolymer to the wellbore.
US09863227B2
A device for heating hydrocarbon resources in a subterranean formation having a wellbore therein may include a tubular radio frequency (RF) antenna within the wellbore, and a tool slidably positioned within the tubular RF antenna. The tool may include an RF transmission line and at least one RF contact coupled to a distal end of the RF transmission line and biased in contact with the tubular RF antenna. The tool may also include an anchoring device configured to selectively anchor the RF transmission line and the at least one RF contact within the tubular RF antenna.
US09863225B2
A method for the recovery of hydrocarbon from a reservoir includes arranging a chamber in fluid communication with the reservoir via at least one conduit. The chamber includes first and second wall parts movable relative to each other. An impact pressure is provided in the fluid to propagate to the reservoir via the conduit, where the impact pressure is generated by a collision process between an object arranged outside of the fluid and the first wall parts for the first wall part to impact on the fluid in the chamber. The chamber is arranged to avoid a build-up of gas-inclusions where the first wall part impacts on the fluid. This may be obtained by arranging the conduit in or adjacent to the zone where the gas-inclusions naturally gather by influence of the gravitational forces, or by placing the first wall part impacting on the fluid away from this zone.
US09863220B2
Hydrophobically modified amine-containing polymers (“HMAP”) may be useful in mitigating scale buildup in a subterranean formation. For example, a method may include preparing a treatment fluid that comprises a base fluid and a plurality of HMAP-coated particulates that comprise particulates at least partially coated with an HMAP, wherein the HMAP comprises a plurality of hydrophobic modifications on an amine-containing polymer; introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation; forming a particulate pack that comprises at least some of the HMAP-coated particulates; and inhibiting scale buildup on the HMAP-coated particulates.
US09863217B2
A magnetic cleaning tool for collecting ferrous debris in a wellbore and a method of cleaning a wellbore. The magnetic cleaning tool has a tool body for attachment in a work string, one or more magnets supported on the tool body, and a sleeve located around the tool body which is arranged to be moveable along the body to provide selective coverage of the magnets. Embodiments are described providing shear pins and spring loaded balls to hold the sleeve either over the magnets or free of the magnets. An expandable piston, moveable by action of a drop ball, is described to release the sleeve. The sleeve is arranged so that the magnets can be covered and therefore effectively inactive on run-in and during downhole operations, and uncovered to be active when pulled out of the wellbore.
US09863212B2
An improved method and apparatus for dropping a ball, plug or dart during oil and gas well operations (e.g., cementing operations) employs a specially configured valving member with curved and flat portions that alternatively direct fluid flow through a bore or opening in the valving member via an inner channel or around the periphery of the valving member in an outer channel. In one embodiment, the ball(s), dart(s) or plug(s) are contained in a sliding sleeve that shifts position responsive to valve rotation. An optional indicator indicates to a user or operator that a ball or plug has passed a selected one of the valving members.
US09863207B2
Subsea well assembly having a Xmas tree (107, 207) and wellhead (103). From a tubing hanger (113) a tubing extends into the well. A part of a production flow passage extends vertically from the tubing hanger (113) in a vertical bore (111) of the Xmas tree. A fail close production master valve (PMV) (117) is arranged in the production flow passage. The tubing hanger (113) is arranged below the Xmas tree (107), such as in the wellhead (103). The Xmas tree (107) exhibits a branch (115) that deviates from the vertical bore (111), which branch constitutes part of the production flow passage. The fail close type production master valve (PMV) (117) is arranged in the branch (115).
US09863206B2
The invention relates to a blowout preventer stack comprising blowout preventer stack components. A part of the blowout preventer stack components has a blowout preventer with an electric blowout preventer drive means for operating the blowout preventer. The energy necessary for operating the blowout preventer is provided by kinetic energy storage devices. The kinetic energy storage devices are flywheel energy storage devices, which serve as motor-generator-combination and store, provide and receive kinetic energy and exchange it into electric energy. A steam turbine arrangement and further emergency energy supply and emergency control systems serving as emergency energy supply system are connected to the blowout preventer stack and can be operated parallel to energy supply and control systems. This facilitates a multi-redundant energy supply and control system with upmost effectiveness as to fail-safety of the blowout preventer stack.
US09863205B2
A running tool with an overshot sleeve is provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a running tool and an overshot sleeve including a first portion threaded onto the running tool and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are connected together in a manner that allows the first portion and the second portion to rotate with respect to one another. The second portion of the sleeve can engage an additional component, such as a casing hanger, and the running tool and the overshot sleeve can be configured to selectively convert rotation of the running tool into axial motion of the overshot sleeve with respect to the running tool. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US09863203B2
An all-elastomeric sealing element for a rotating control device includes a base portion, a conical portion and has a central pipe opening through both the base portion and the conical section. The conical section has an elastomeric core layer and an elastomeric surface sealing layer which encases the core layer. The surface sealing layer is softer than the core layer, as measured on a standard durometer scale.
US09863202B2
Systems and methods for using propellant as a force generator in component actuation are disclosed. One embodiment may take the form of a method including deploying at least one component to a subsea location, controlling operation of the at least one component using a control system, and igniting a propellant. The ignition of the propellant actuates the at least one component. Another embodiment may take the form of a subsea system including a control system, a propellant system in communication with the control system, and a component in communication with the propellant system. The propellant system is ignitable by the control system upon receipt of a ignite signal and upon losing communication with the control system after being placed in an armed state by the control system. The component is actuatable by the propellant system after ignition of the propellant system.
US09863201B2
A wellbore isolation device comprising: a first material, wherein the first material: (A) is a metal or a metal alloy; and (B) partially dissolves when an electrically conductive path exists between the first material and a second material and at least a portion of the first and second materials are in contact with an electrolyte; and an electrolytic compound, wherein the electrolytic compound dissolves in a fluid located within the wellbore to form free ions that are electrically conductive. A method of removing the wellbore isolation device comprises: placing the wellbore isolation device into the wellbore; and allowing at least a portion of the first material to dissolve.
US09863198B2
A sensor transportation apparatus to convey a sensor assembly through a wellbore. The apparatus comprising has an engagement structure to connect the sensor transportation apparatus to the sensor assembly, and one or more wheels arranged to rotate about an axis of rotation substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the sensor assembly when the transportation apparatus is connected to the sensor assembly. An orientation structure defining a form having a transverse outline which has a rotational center, wherein the rotational center is offset from a centroidal axis of the elongate sensor assembly.
US09863193B2
A hydraulically powered trough extension attached to a pipe handling, pipe pickup and pipe laydown tool can be extended hydraulically to facilitate transport of pipe to/from a drill rig. The hydraulically powered trough extension is semipermanently attached to the trough of the pipe handling, pipe pickup and pipe laydown machine to eliminate the need for special equipment to attach a trough extension to the trough. A specially designed hinge enables the hydraulically powered trough extension to be folded so as to lay flat on the trough of the pipe handling, pipe laydown and pipe pickup machine. When the hydraulically powered trough extension is fully extended the hinge mechanism does not obstruct the movement of pipe on or off the pipe pickup and pipe laydown machine. This feature enables the hydraulically powered trough extension to be easily and safely extended for moving pipe to/from the drill platform and when folded for easy transport to another work site without the need for extra equipment.
US09863192B2
A slip insert is disclosed that includes a body having a curved face for receiving a tubular member, a plurality of first threads formed in a first direction on the face, and a plurality of second threads formed in a second direction on a portion of the first threads, the second direction being opposite of the first direction.
US09863185B2
A retractable covering such as a door or window blind or shade has a top rail, a bottom rail, a covering material extending between the top rail and the bottom rail, at least two lift cords extending downwardly from the head rail to the bottom rail for supporting the bottom rail, a covering operating system for enabling retraction and deployment of the covering, and an adjuster connected to at least two of the lift cords. The adjuster is preferably mounted in the bottom rail. The retractable covering also comprises an individual cord tensioner for allowing at least one of the lift cords to be individually tensioned. The individual cord tensioner operates independently of the adjuster. A method of adjusting the orientation and drop height of the bottom rail of the retractable covering is also provided.
US09863180B2
An assembly for closing an opening comprising a door panel adapted for sliding movement between an open position and a closed position, a first extendable member located at a first edge of the opening and extendable towards an opposed second edge of the opening, and a second extendable member located at the second edge of the opening and extendable towards the first edge of the opening, and wherein the door panel includes a stop member attached thereto and movable therewith, the location of the stop member defining the limit of movement of the first extendable member towards the second edge of the opening, and the limit of movement of the second extendable member towards the first edge of the opening.
US09863178B2
A two-way soft closing device is mounted in a sliding door and has a sliding door track, two soft closing activation triggers, two roller carriers and a soft closing device. The sliding door track is an elongated member. The soft closing activation triggers are mounted movably in two ends of the sliding door track respectively. The roller carriers are mounted slidably in the sliding door track and are spaced apart at an interval. The soft closing device is mounted in the sliding door track, is located between the roller carriers and is mounted firmly in one of the roller carriers. Therefore, the soft closing device absorbs a collision between a sliding door plate and a doorframe when the sliding door is opened or is closed. Meanwhile, the two-way soft closing device eliminates noise coming from the collision and prevents an elder or a little child from being hit by the sliding door plate.
US09863163B2
A portable ice shelter comprises a base, a rigid frame member, a multi-panel skin and a first set of flexible poles. The base comprises a bottom wall and a sidewall that forms an outer perimeter. The rigid frame member is pivotably mounted to the base at first and second locations, and is moveable between a stored position against the base and a deployed position. angled from the base. The multi-panel skin is coupled to the rigid frame member, the multi-panel skin defining an enclosure when expanded. The first set of flexible poles extend from the rigid frame member, and each of the flexible poles in the first set is connected in an expandable fashion so as to expand at least a portion of the multi-panel skin when the rigid frame member is in the deployed position.
US09863161B2
A tower assembly having a tower, the tower assembly for maintaining the tower in a vertically upright position wherein the tower nor any part of the tower assembly penetrates the ground on which the tower is disposed. The tower of the tower assembly has a near end and a removed end, the near end being attached to a tray having a flat floor and upstanding vertical perimeter side walls. A mounting assembly mounts the tower to the tray. A ballast, typically comprising multiple small stones, is provided for laying on top of the flat floor of the tray, so as to provide sufficient weight to prevent the tower from tipping over.
US09863157B2
A reusable tile template for self installation of tile on a horizontal or vertical surface, each template being supplied in the same dimension as the large tile being laid, each tile template having an erasable marking surface and made of a bendable material, preferably a recyclable cardboard stock, the tile template being located over the spot where a complex cut tile is to be placed. A mark of fold is applied to the template of the proper size and shape of the next laid tile after which the template dimensions are transferred to the tile to be cut for installation. The tile template is subsequently restored to its flat origin and reused for the next tile as a template until the entire tile installation is complete.
US09863136B2
A method for designing a structure includes selecting an initial cage, defining a secondary cage by positioning a plurality of tiles, reduced tiles, or larger patches obtained or derived from a selected one of the uniform Archimedean tilings over the faces of the initial cage, resizing edges of the secondary cage such the cage is equilateral, and planarizing the cage faces. In an embodiment the patch comprising a network of edges and vertices from a uniform tiling decorates the faces of a polyhedron to define a non-polyhedral cage that is transformed by planarizing the faces. In an embodiment the secondary cage comprises tiles derived from an Archimedean tiling that decorate faces of the initial cage comprising a polyhedron. In an embodiment the secondary cages resemble a nanotube.
US09863134B2
A backwater valve has a valve body, and a valve member pivotally movable about a pivot axis between an open position away from the valve body and a closed position covering the valve body. A control linkage is provided with at least one of a float or a counterweight in communication with the valve member via the control linkage to modify operation of the valve member.
US09863133B2
Implementations of a toilet installation guide and methods for installing a toilet. Implementations of toilet installation guides may include a shaft including a bolt receiving portion configured to receive a portion of a bolt and align a length of the shaft with a length of the bolt, a taper configured to be passed through the installation hole of the toilet while lowering the toilet toward the floor, and a visual aid configured to be seen through a toilet installation hole as an installer attempts to lower the toilet onto the floor over the bolt. In implementations the shaft may selectively couple to and decouple from the bolt with threads located on an inner wall of a cylindrical opening in the shaft. In implementations the toilet installation guide may be configured to be installed and uninstalled by hand, before and after lowering the toilet to the floor, respectively, to be reused.
US09863130B1
A pressure flushing funnel for a toilet is a funnel that is curved to make a 90 degree bend, one end of which can be inserted into the opening of the flush channel of a toilet bowl. The funnel is held in place via a holding bracket that overlaps the sides of the bowl and prevents lateral movement. A predetermined amount of water is rapidly poured into the top end of the funnel which increases pressure as it nears the opening of the flush channel to dislodge the obstruction.
US09863122B2
A cooling device includes: an introduction pipe configured to introduce a charge air supercharged by a supercharger; a first aftercooler connected to the introduction pipe and configured to cool the charge air; a branch pipe branched from the introduction pipe; a second aftercooler connected to the branch pipe and configured to cool the charge air; and a cooling fan configured to supply a cooling wind to the first aftercooler and the second aftercooler, in which the first aftercooler and the second aftercooler are disposed to be shifted from each other in a rotation axis direction of the cooling fan.
US09863117B2
A coupler is configured to couple an implement to an earth moving or materials handling machine. The coupler includes a locking member for locking a pin of an implement into a coupler in the recess. The locking member is driven by a hydraulic arrangement, with the hydraulic cylinder body being formed integrally with either the coupler body or the locking member. The coupler may be adapted to accommodate a range of implement pin spacings and/or diameters, so that the coupler can be used with different implements and in particular with different makes of implement.
US09863114B2
A self-aligning and torque transmitting coupler assembly includes an outer coupler coupled to a first shaft of and an inner coupler coupled to a second shaft. The outer coupler comprises an inner surface having primary and secondary alignment and torque transmitting features, and the inner coupler comprises an outer surface having primary and secondary alignment features. The primary and secondary alignment features are configured to interlock and facilitate alignment of the first and second shafts along a common axis in an exemplary application of a foundation support system.
US09863102B2
An automotive building machine comprising a material bunker for accommodating therein pavement material to be laid is provided, the building machine being a road finisher or a charger. The material bunker comprises at least one lifting device, which is adapted to enter into releasable engagement with a movable tailgate of a truck supplying the material bunker with the pavement material and which is configured for displacing the movable tailgate of the truck between a first position and a second position. A method used for this purpose is also provided.
US09863096B2
A railroad switching apparatus utilizing a tie which is positioned under rails and points used in switching railroad cars. A support is interposed the tie and the rails and points and includes a passageway to guide the first and second indicator bars which are attached to the points. A slider is also employed at the attachment point of the indicator bars to the points to accommodate the thermal expansion and contraction of the rails and points. The indicator bars are formed into a coaxial unit in order to allow simple observation of the relative movement between the first and second indicator bars to determine proper movement of the points relative to the rails.
US09863078B2
The present invention relates to a coupling system intended more specifically to the fitting and attaching of additional and removable internal baskets defining isolated washing rooms in clothes washing machines. Such a system is intended more particularly to clothes washing machines (1) comprising a cabinet (2) within which it is located a fixed tank (3) with which cooperate a washing basket (4), a balancing device (5), a removable washing compartment (6) and an stirrer element (7), characterized by the fact that the balancing device (5) comprises at least one surface comprising a plurality of coupling members (51) and the removable washing compartment (6) cooperates with the balancing device (5), wherein said removable washing compartment (6) comprises at least one surface comprising a plurality of coupling elements (61) cooperating with the elements coupling (51) of the balancing device (5).
US09863075B2
A method of washing fabric articles in a tunnel washer that includes moving the fabric articles from the intake of the washer to the discharge of the washer and through multiple modules or sectors. Liquid can be counter flowed in the washer interior along a flow path that is generally opposite the direction of travel of the fabric articles. A dual use zone includes multiple of the modules or sectors. In a dual use zone, a module or modules can be used to both wash and thereafter rinse the fabric articles. While counterflow rinsing, the flow rate can be maintained at a selected flow rate or flow pressure head. One or more booster pumps can optionally be employed to maintain constant counterflow rinsing flow rate or constant counterflow rinsing pressure head. During rinsing, extracted water or reuse water is first used to rinse followed by a clean water rinse.
US09863073B2
A hydroentangled integrated composite nonwoven material, includes a mixture of randomized continuous filaments, splittable shortcut staple fibers, and optionally non-splittable staple fibers. The splittable fibers should be 3-16 mm long bicomponent fibers. Preferably there should be no thermal bonding points between the filaments. The nonwoven material has improved textile feeling and reduced two-sidedness. The continuous filaments should preferably be spunlaid filaments. Some of the staple fibers can be colored. A process of producing such a nonwoven material is disclosed.
US09863069B2
A junction band with high tensile strength in order to suppress rupture of a ground fabric from the junction band. Provided is a hollow-weave base fabric that includes a hollow-weave section (111) with a dual layer structure containing a first fabric layer and a second fabric layer, and a junction band (112) formed continuously from threads which form the hollow-weave section. The junction band comprises a first junction structure section (121), in which a structure of two layers is formed by the alternating positional relationship of a first continuation thread that extends from the first fabric layer of the hollow-weave section to the first junction structure section and a second continuation thread that extends from the second fabric layer of the hollow-weave section to the first junction structure section. The first junction structure section comprises at least one free perpendicular thread (400, 400′) within the two-layer structure of the first junction structure section, and the free perpendicular thread extends in a direction perpendicular to the first continuation thread and the second continuation thread and does not form part of the structure of two layers of the first junction structure section.
US09863067B2
The present invention provides a crimped conjugated fiber having a crimpable cross-sectional configuration wherein a cross section of the fiber comprises at least two portions: a portion (a) and a portion (b); the portion (a) comprises a propylene polymer (A) and the portion (b) comprises a propylene/α-olefin random copolymer (B); the propylene polymer (A) has Mz/Mw(A) and the propylene/α-olefin random copolymer (B) has Mz/Mw(B) wherein the difference thereof is in the range of 0.10 to 2.2; and the propylene polymer (A) has a melting point [Tm(A)] and the propylene/α-olefin random copolymer (B) has a melting point [Tm(B)] wherein the difference thereof exceeds 10° C. The present invention also provides a non-woven fabric comprising the crimped conjugated fiber.
US09863060B2
Method for manufacturing a single crystal according to a CZ method, including: pre-examining a correlation between an Al/Li ratio in a quartz raw material powder used for producing the quartz crucible, a use time of the crucible, a devitrification ratio at the use time, and occurrence or nonoccurrence of melt leakage attributable to the devitrification part; setting a range of the devitrification ratio of the quartz crucible in order not to generate the melt leakage, and determining a maximum use time of the quartz crucible according to the Al/Li ratio so as to fall within the set range of the ratio, on the basis of the correlation; and growing the single crystal by using the quartz crucible in the range of the maximum use time. This provides a manufacturing method which can efficiently use a quartz crucible to grow a single crystal while preventing occurrence of melt leakage.
US09863054B2
The present embodiments are directed to systems and methods for plating of work rolls. In one embodiment, a system includes an inner tank having an inner diameter dimensioned to receive a work roll, and an outer tank, wherein the inner tank is disposed coaxially within the outer tank. The inner tank and the outer tank may each include cylindrical shapes. A temperature regulating tank, positioned outside of the outer tank, may be in fluid communication with an annular space between the inner and outer tanks. An exhaust hood having a generally ring-shaped profile including a plurality of slots formed therein may suction fumes from the inner tank. An anode configuration also is disclosed, having a shunt incorporated into the anode, wherein current going to the anode passes through the shunt.
US09863048B2
The present invention relates to a new method for preparation of biobased imidazolium salts and derivatives thereof; in particular, for the preparation of imidazolium hydrogenooxalate. The present invention also relates to uses of imidazolium hydrogenooxalate salts, especially as a precursor of imidazolium carboxylate compounds. The present invention also refers to a green electrochemical process providing imidazolium compounds, especially imidazolium carboxylate compounds. Especially, the invention refers to a one-compartment electrochemical cell and its use for the preparation of imidazolium carboxylate compounds of formula (II):
US09863047B2
An electrolysis device of an embodiment includes:an anode, a cathode having a nitrogen-containing carbon alloy catalyst, and an electrolysis cell having a membrane electrode assembly composed of an electrolyte present between the anode and the cathode so that voltage is applied to the anode and the cathode, wherein the electrolyte is any one of acidic, neutral, or alkali, water is produced by the electrolysis device at the cathode, when the electrolyte is acidic, and hydroxide ion is produced by the electrolysis device at the anode, when the electrolyte is neutral or alkali.
US09863044B2
A method for forming a polymerized film on a surface of a non-conductive material and subsequently forming an electroless metal plating film on the surface is described. The method includes the step of contacting the surface of the material with a solution including (A) an amine compound having at least two functional groups, where at least one of the functional groups is an amino group, and (B) an aromatic compound having at least one hydroxyl group on the aromatic ring.
US09863042B2
A method for coating a substrate surface such as a syringe part by PECVD is provided, the method comprising generating a plasma from a gaseous reactant comprising an organosilicon precursor and optionally an oxidizing gas by providing plasma-forming energy adjacent to the substrate, thus forming a coating on the substrate surface by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The plasma-forming energy is applied in a first phase as a first pulse at a first energy level followed by further treatment in a second phase at a second energy level lower than the first energy level. The lubricity, hydrophobicity and/or barrier properties of the coating are set by setting the ratio of the O2 to the organosilicon precursor in the gaseous reactant, and/or by setting the electric power used for generating the plasma.
US09863031B2
Provided is a method for plating a biocompatible coating with nano structure on the surface of a nickel-titanium shape memory alloy, particularly a method suitable for plating a coating on the surface of medical devices made of nickel-titanium alloy. The method includes the following steps: heat treating, surface pretreating, ion sputter cleaning, depositing a pseudodiffusion layer, plating a sub-layer film, plating a pure TiN layer, and so on. The coating has the following advantages: 1) it could deform in response to the deformation of substrate without delaminating and cracking; 2) it has less resistance to the deformation of substrate; 3) it has less penetrable holes so as to reduce the dissolution of nickel into bio-body through these holes; 4) the coating has better biocompatibility compared to the substrate material.
US09863026B2
A dual phase steel sheet including: in mass %, C: 0.01 to 0.1%; Mn: 0.2 to 3%; Al: 0.04 to 1.5%; Ti: 0.015 to 0.2%; P: 0.01% or less; S: 0.005% or less; N: 0.01% or less, in which [Ti]−48/14×[N]−48/32×[S]≧0% is satisfied and when Ex.C (%)=[C]−12/48×{[Ti]+48/93×[Nb]−48/14×[N]−48/32×[S]} is set, 0.001≦Ex.C (%)/fsd (%)≦0.01 is satisfied, and a balance being composed of Fe and impurities, in which at the position of ¼ thickness of a sheet thickness, a microstructure is a dual phase with its main phase composed of polygonal ferrite precipitation-strengthened by carbide of Ti and its second phase composed of 1 to 10% in area fraction (fsd (%)) of low-temperature transformation products dispersed plurally, and an average crystal diameter of the low-temperature transformation product is 3 to 15 μm and an average value of a distance of closest approach between the low-temperature transformation products is 10 to 20 μm.
US09863017B2
A solvent extraction settler arrangement comprising a mixing unit for preparing a dispersion from mutually immiscible solutions and a settler having a feed end and a discharge end. The settler is arranged to separate solution phases from a dispersion fed from the feed end while the dispersion flows towards the discharge end. The arrangement further comprises a feeding device located at the feed end for feeding the dispersion prepared by the mixing unit to the settler. The feeding device comprises an elongated feed launder having a first end for receiving the dispersion from the mixing unit, and a second end. The feed launder extends alongside the feed end of the settler. The feed launder has a form of a conical tube with a cross-section converging towards the second end and an inclined bottom ascending towards the second end. A plurality of feed pipes are arranged along the length of the feed launder at a distance from each other, each feed pipe having a third end opening to the inner space of the feed launder at the bottom to receive the dispersion from the feed launder and a fourth end opening to the settler to conduct the dispersion to the settler.
US09863016B2
This super non-magnetic soft stainless steel wire rod includes, in mass %, C: 0.08% or less, Si: 0.05% to 2.0%, Mn: more than 8.0% to 25.0% or less, P: 0.06% or less, S: 0.01% or less, Ni: more than 6.0% to 30.0% or less, Cr: 13.0% to 25.0%, Cu: 0.2% to 5.0%, N: less than 0.20%, Al: 0.002% to 1.5%, and C+N: less than 0.20%, with the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which Md30, which is expressed as Equation (a) described below, is −150 or less. Md30=413−462(C+N)−9.2Si−8.1Mn−9.5Ni−13.7Cr−29Cu (a)
US09863015B2
A manufacturing method for strip casting 550 MPa-grade high strength atmospheric corrosion-resistant steel strip, comprising the following steps: 1) smelting, where the chemical composition of a molten steel is that: C is between 0.03-0.08%, Si≦0.4%, Mn is between 0.6-1.5%, P is between 0.07-0.22%, S≦0.01%, N≦0.012%, Cu is between 0.25-0.8%, Cr is between 0.3-0.8%, and Ni is between 0.12-0.4%, additionally, also comprised is at least one micro-alloying element among Nb, V, Ti, and Mo, where Nb is between 0.01-0.08%, V is between 0.01-0.08%, Ti is between 0.01-0.08%, and Mo is between 0.1-0.4%, and where the remainder is Fe and unavoidable impurities; 2) strip casting, where a 1-5 mm-thick cast strip is casted directly; 3) cooling the strip, where the cooling rate is greater than 20° C./s; 4) online hot rolling the cast strip, where the hot rolling temperature is between 1050-1250° C., where the reduction rate is between 20-50%, and where the deformation rate is >20 s−1; austenite online recrystallizing after hot rolling, where the thickness of the hot rolled strip is between 0.5-3.0 mm; and, 5) cooling and winding, where the cooling rate is between 10-80° C./s, and where the winding temperature is between 570-720° C. The microscopic structure of a steel strip acquired is primarily constituted by fine polygonal ferrite and pearlite.
US09863013B2
A method for heating a blast furnace stove includes combusting fuel in a combustion chamber in the stove, providing combustion gases from the combustion chamber to heat refractory material in the stove, recirculating exhausted combustion gases into the combustion chamber, enriching the combustion chamber with oxygen sufficient for maintaining combustion in the combustion chamber without damaging the refractory material in the stove.
US09862998B2
This disclosure provides a method of determining a sequence of nucleotides for a nucleic acid template. The method can include the steps of contacting the nucleic acid template with a conformationally labeled polymerase and at least four different nucleotide species under conditions wherein the conformationally labeled polymerase catalyzes sequential addition of the nucleotide species to form a nucleic acid complement of the nucleic acid template, wherein the sequential addition of each different nucleotide species produces a conformational signal change from the conformationally labeled polymerase and wherein the rate or time duration for the conformational signal change is distinguishable for each different nucleotide species; detecting a series of changes in the signal from the conformationally labeled polymerase under the conditions; and determining the rates or time durations for the changes in the signal, thereby determining the sequence of nucleotides for the nucleic acid template.
US09862986B2
The invention relates to muteins of the pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase 1 (PYCR1), to nucleic acid molecules comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding such muteins, to methods of determining in a subject a predisposition of having an age related disorder associated with PYCR1, to methods of identifying a compound capable of modifying the expression of PYCR1, and methods of treating a subject having an age-related disorder associated with PYCR1. The invention further relates to a genetically modified animal and a method of modifying the expression of the PYCR1 gene in an animal.
US09862984B2
The present application discloses methods and apparatuses for single molecule drug screening, discovery and validation. These methods and apparatuses allow a user to detect rapidly, using observation of single molecules, whether and how a drug candidate interferes with a target enzyme involved in a particular disease pathway. The methods and apparatuses described herein utilize single molecule manipulation and detection technologies (e.g., optical or magnetic tweezers) to directly detect whether the characteristic dynamics, or “mechanical signature,” of the target enzyme-substrate interaction are substantially altered or modulated by a drug candidate. Furthermore, the methods and apparatuses are useful for analyzing the modulation of the mechanical signature in order to identify potential interference mechanisms of a drug candidate. In one aspect of the invention, the methods and apparatuses disclosed herein relate to monitoring the real-time dynamic mechanical signatures of individual polymerase molecules (e.g. DNA polymerases, RNA polymerases, and reverse transcriptases) along a polynucleotide substrate in the presence of drug candidates that either inhibit or otherwise modulate the polymerization process. Identification and analysis of such drug candidates is critical for anti-viral, anti-cancer, and antibiotic drug development.
US09862982B2
The present invention provides for an isolated or recombinant polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 70% identity with the amino acid sequence of a Halorhabdus utahensis cellulase, such as Hu-CBH1, wherein said amino acid sequence has a halophilic thermostable and/or thermophilic cellobiohydrolase (CBH) activity. In some embodiments, the polypeptide has a CBH activity that is resistant to up to about 20% of ionic liquids. The present invention also provides for compositions comprising and methods using the isolated or recombinant polypeptide.
US09862981B2
A genetically modified organism comprising at least one nucleic acid sequence and/or at least one recombinant nucleic acid isolated from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius and encoding a polypeptide involved in at least partially degrading, cleaving, transporting, metabolizing, or removing polysaccharide, lignocellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, chitin, heteroxylan, and/or xylan-decorating group; and at least one nucleic acid sequence and/or at least one recombinant nucleic acid encoding a polypeptide involved in fermenting sugar molecules to a product. Additionally, enzymatic and/or proteinaceous extracts may be isolated from one or more genetically modified organisms. The extracts are utilized to convert biomass into a product. Further provided are methods of converting biomass into products comprising: placing the genetically modified organism and/or enzymatic extracts thereof in fluid contact with polysaccharides, cellulose, lignocellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, starch, sugars, sugar oligomers, carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, chitin, heteroxylans, glycosides, and/or xylan-, glucan-, galactan-, or mannan-decorating groups.
US09862980B2
The present invention provides a process for enzyme mediated hydrolysis of biomass for production of soluble sugars, wherein the said process comprises of steady addition of small portions of biomass to enzyme solution, enabling rapid solubilization of biomass. The process used for enzymatic saccharification allows for increased biomass loading, enzyme recycle and mitigation of substrate and product inhibitory effect. The recycling of unhydrolysed biomass along with soluble enzyme ensures complete reuse of the said enzyme for effective repeated hydrolysis thereby increasing the overall productivity of enzyme used.
US09862974B2
A genetically enhanced cyanobacterial host cell, Cyanobacterium sp. ABICyanoI, is disclosed. The enhanced Cyanobacterium sp. ABICyanoI produces a compound or compounds of interest.
US09862966B2
The present invention relates to the field of plant breeding. More specifically, the present invention includes a method of using haploid plants for genetic mapping of traits of interest such as disease resistance. Further, the invention includes a method for breeding corn plants containing quantitative trait loci (QTL) that are associated with resistance to Gray Leaf Spot, a fungal disease associated with Cercospora spp.
US09862965B2
Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for pesticidal polypeptides are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated pesticidal nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:7, 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12, the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:4, 5, or 6, as well as variants and fragments thereof.
US09862961B2
The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, a gene for increasing biomass production isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana, and a method for producing a transgenic plant by using the same. More specifically, the present disclosure provides, inter alia, a composition for increasing production of plant biomass, a recombinant expression vector and a transgenic plant, comprising a base sequence encoding for the amino acid sequence of sequence number 2. Consequently, by using the gene for increasing biomass production of the present disclosure, it is possible to obtain a transgenic plant with which the amount of biomass production is increased and, ultimately, by using the same, it can be expected to be possible to increase starting materials for the pulp and papermaking industries, and starting materials for bioethanol.
US09862959B2
This invention provides transgenic plant cells with recombinant DNA for expression of proteins that are useful for imparting enhanced agronomic trait(s) to transgenic crop plants. This invention also provides transgenic plants and progeny seed comprising the transgenic plant cells where the plants are selected for having an enhanced trait selected from the group of traits consisting of enhanced water use efficiency, enhanced cold tolerance, increased yield, enhanced nitrogen use efficiency, enhanced seed protein and enhanced seed oil. Also disclosed are methods for manufacturing transgenic seed and plants with enhanced traits.
US09862950B2
Described herein are compounds comprising modified oligonucleotides that are complementary to miR-103 and/or miR-107 and methods of treating diseases and disorders using the compounds.
US09862948B2
The present disclosure relates to the finding that microRNA-155 plays a role in inflammation, hematopoiesis and myeloproliferation, and that dysregulation of microRNA-155 expression is associated with particular myeloproliferative disorders. Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for diagnosing an treating disorders, including inflammation and myeloproliferation, modulating the levels of expression of one or more genes selected from the group consisting of Cutl1, Arnt1, Picalm, Jarid2, PU.1, Csf1r, HIF1α, Sla, Cebpβ, and Bach1, and the like.
US09862944B2
The invention provides oligonucleotides complementary to a non-coding chimeric mitochondrial RNA as well as compositions and kits comprising the same, and their use in treating and preventing metastasis or relapse of a cancer in an individual previously treated for cancer with a therapy. The invention also provides oligonucleotides complementary to a non-coding chimeric mitochondrial RNA as well as compositions and kits comprising the same, and their use in treating a refractory cancer (e.g., a refractory HPV-associated cancer).
US09862942B2
The objective of the present invention is to improve the efficiency of screening/selection of a membrane protein in molecular evolutionary engineering (for example, an enzyme evolutionary method).The above-described objective is achieved by providing a unilamellar liposome comprising: (a) a DNA comprising a promoter sequence, a translational initiation sequence, and a sequence encoding a membrane protein; (b) an RNA polymerase; (c) a ribonucleotide; and (d) a cell-free protein synthesis system. In one aspect of the present invention, the membrane protein is a transporter, and the unilamellar liposome further comprises (e) a factor that binds to a ligand transported by the membrane protein.
US09862941B2
Methods of non-destructively obtaining the genotype of a plant cell from a plant sample are disclosed. The plant cell is isolated from a plant cell sample using an integrated microfluidic device. The integrated microfluidic device includes an individual cell trap located downstream from a microfluidic channel and, the microfluidic device is configured to trap the plant cell in the individual cell trap. mRNA is extracted from the plant cell by contacting the plant cell with an atomic force microscope (AFM) probe and by attracting mRNA from loci of interest to the probe end using a dielectrophoresis DEP force under the alternating current (AC) field applied to the probe. The genotype of the plant cell is determined from cDNA obtained from the extracted mRNA. Alternatively, the mRNA is analyzed to determine gene expression patterns of the plant cell.
US09862928B2
The present invention relates generally to methods to prepare NK and LTi-like, NK22 cells from HSCs and uses of those cells.
US09862923B2
Various embodiments are directed to consumable products incorporating a matrix of cultured tobacco cells. Any tobacco variety may be utilized for establishing in vitro tobacco cultures, including native tobacco varieties and genetically modified tobacco varieties derived from any tobacco variety. Various embodiments are directed to methods for producing tobacco products incorporating cellular material and/or extracts derived from tobacco cells cultured in vitro.
US09862912B2
The present invention relates to cleaning composition, preferably a laundry detergent composition, comprising a cationic polymer capable of improving the overall sudsing profile of such cleaning composition.
US09862911B2
The present invention patent application belongs to the field of mechanical engineering and consists of a system and process for palm oil extraction integrally configured for processing the entire fresh fruit (rachis, spikes and seeds or fruits) by stages of cracking, threshing, dynamic sterilization and subsequent pressing. Said disclosed system and process allow increasing the percentage of oil extraction with less equipment and a smaller workspace compared to that required by the already known conventional processes, as well as using smaller amounts of water and energy. Additionally, the disclosed system and process allow obtaining sterilized plant material with low humidity, which may be used as organic matter for composting or as fuel of the extraction system itself.
US09862907B2
Long chain ether compositions may comprise at least one long chain ether of general Formula I: wherein R1′ and R2′ are independently selected from C5-C21 linear or branched alkyl and C5-C21 linear or branched alkenyl, and R1′ and R2′ are the same or different, and R is selected from linear or branched alkyl having up to 52 carbon atoms and linear or branched alkenyl having up to 52 carbon atoms. In an embodiment, long chain ether compositions of matter such as those disclosed herein may find applications as lubricants.
US09862906B2
Provided herein are isoparaffins derived from hydrocarbon terpenes such as myrcene, ocimene and farnesene, and methods for making the same. In certain variations, the isoparaffins have utility as lubricant base stocks.
US09862899B2
A port assembly for controlling the delivery of gases into the horizontal rotating reactor such as kiln gasifier is disclosed for introducing reactant gases. The port assembly comprises a cylindrical conduit is divided into noncommunicating four or more sections extending through the entire length of the kiln and supported by the stationary end plates of the rotating kiln gasifier. Each section of the conduit communicates with external supply of the reactant gases and each supply of reactant gases is independently controlled in terms of the composition and quantity. Each section of the port assembly communicates with the interior of the kiln gasifier through the plurality of nozzles are confined in the lower part of the conduit. The number and the size of the nozzles in individual section of the conduit is based on the desired flow of gases and available pressure for the supply of the reactant gases.
US09862898B2
The present invention relates to an integrated process to convert crude oil into petrochemical products comprising crude oil distillation, reforming, dearomatization, fluid catalytic cracking and aromatic ring opening, which process comprises: subjecting crude oil to crude oil distillation to produce naphtha and one or more of kerosene and gasoil; subjecting naphtha to reforming to produce reformer gasoline; subjecting kerosene and/or gasoil to dearomatization to produce a first stream enriched for alkanes and naphthenes and a second stream enriched for aromatics; subjecting the stream enriched for alkanes and naphthenes to pyrolysis to produce a pyrolysis gasoline or to fluid catalytic cracking to produce a FCC gasoline; subjecting the stream enriched for aromatics to aromatic ring opening to produce a ARO gasoline; and subjecting one or more of reformer gasoline, FCC gasoline and ARO gasoline to gasoline treatment to produce BTX. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a process installation to convert crude oil into petrochemical products using the process of the present invention. The process and the process installation of the present invention have an increased production of petrochemicals at the expense of the production of fuels and an improved BTX yield.
US09862897B2
The method for producing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon includes a cracking and reforming reaction step in which a catalyst for producing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing crystalline aluminosilicate which has been subjected to a heat treatment in an atmosphere containing water vapor in advance is loaded into a fixed-bed reactor, and a feedstock oil having a 10 volume % distillate temperature of 140° C. or higher and a 90 volume % distillate temperature of 390° C. or lower is brought into contact with the catalyst to cause a reaction, so as to obtain a product containing a monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 8 carbon atoms.
US09862895B2
The present disclosure provides a method for removing sulfur compounds from a fuel containing sulfur compounds. The method includes contacting the fuel with an adsorbent that comprises a carbonaceous material doped with nanoparticles of aluminum oxide to reduce the concentrations of the sulfur compounds. The carbonaceous material is at least one selected from the group consisting of activated carbon, carbon nanotubes, and graphene oxide, and the adsorbent has a weight ratio of C to Al in the range from 3:1 to 30:1, and a weight ratio of C to O in the range from 1:1 to 10:1.
US09862891B2
The present invention relates to processes for converting a feedstream comprising predominantly light alcohols into liquid transportation fuels in the gasoline boiling range. In certain embodiments, the feedstream is a bio-waste stream derived from the conversion of sorbitol or glycerol to propanediol.
US09862886B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, n is 0, 1, or 2, and a substituent represented by X is F, Cl, CF3, CF2CF3 CHF2, CH2F, OCF3, CN, NCS, or a C1 to C5 alkyl including 1 to 3 fluoro substituents and a CH2 group independently substituted with one or more oxygen atoms; (R1) is hydrogen or a C1 to C15 alkyl, at least one CH2 group being independently replaced with —C≡C—, —CF2O—, —CH═CH—, —O—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, or —O—CO—O— in a way that oxygen atoms are directly connected to each other, and 1 to 3 hydrogen atoms of the C1 to C15 alkyl being replaced with halogen; (F) indicates that a fluoro is optionally substituted in place of a hydrogen, and each of is independently
US09862877B2
Provided herein are inter alia novel compositions and methods having application in the field of enhanced oil recovery. In particular, the short hydrophobe compounds and mixtures thereof presented herein can be used, inter alia, for the recovery of a large range of crude oil compositions from challenging reservoirs.
US09862874B2
Methods of introducing a treatment fluid into a subterranean formation having a filtercake deposited thereon, wherein the treatment fluid comprises a base fluid and an inclusion complex comprising a cyclodextrin compound and an acid precursor ester, and wherein the cyclodextrin compound delays hydrolysis of the acid precursor ester; contacting the treatment fluid with the filtercake; and hydrolyzing the acid precursor ester, thereby removing at least a portion of the filtercake.
US09862864B2
A swelling tape for filling a gap and a method of filling a gap are provided. The swelling tape can be applied within the gap having a fluid to realize a 3D shape thereby filling the gap, and be used to fix a subject forming the gap as necessary.
US09862863B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a polishing composition including colloidal silica having an average particle size of 5 to 200 nm and pulverized wet-process silica particles having an average particle size of 0.1 to 1.0 μm, wherein a value of the ratio of the average particle size of the wet-process silica particles to that of the colloidal silica is from 2.0 to 30.0. The polishing composition, according to various embodiments, achieves a high polishing rate and has a good surface smoothness, without the use of alumina particles.
US09862855B2
A transparent film for a display is provided. The transparent film enables smooth writing in input operation using a pen-input touch panel, like writing on paper with a pencil. The transparent film comprises a transparent substrate film and a coat layer on at least one side of the transparent substrate film. The total light transmittance of the transparent film in accordance with JIS K7136 is adjusted to not lower than 85%, and the surface of the coat layer is adjusted to a maximum height of rolling circle waviness profile (WEM) of not less than 15 μm in accordance with JIS B0610. The transparent film is disposed at the outermost side of a display in a pen-input touch panel. The coat layer may contain a particle and a binder component. The particle may have an average particle size of about 1 to 5 times as large as the thickness of the coat layer. The binder component may further contain a thermoplastic elastomer.
US09862854B2
A coating composition for a food or beverage can that includes an emulsion polymerized latex polymer formed by combining an ethylenically unsaturated monomer component with an aqueous dispersion of a water-dispersible polymer.
US09862848B2
An ink set includes a treatment agent containing fumed silica and a bright pigment ink containing a bright pigment and water. The treatment agent or the bright pigment ink contains urethane resin.
US09862836B2
A thermosetting powder coating material includes a thermosetting resin, a thermosetting agent, and metal salt containing an alkyl group having 5 to 20 carbon atoms.
US09862827B2
A polyamide molding composition and uses thereof, and moldings produced therefrom, comprising the following components: (A) semicrystalline semiaromatic polyamide with melting point above 270° C., or a mixture of these polyamides; (B) copolymer of oxyranyl acrylate and/or oxyranyl methacrylate with at least one other olefinically unsaturated monomer, or a mixture of these copolymers; (C) one or more fibrous reinforcing materials; (D) one or more heat stabilizers; where the proportion of (B) is in the range of 1 to 15% by weight, based on 100% by weight composed of the entirety of the components (A) and (B), with the proviso that the polyamide molding composition is free from grafted impact modifiers.
US09862822B2
A thermoplastic resin composition comprises (A) a polycarbonate resin; (B) a rubber-modified aromatic vinyl copolymer that includes a rubbery polymer having an average particle size of about 0.5 to about 20 μm; and (C) metal particles. A molded article can be prepared using the composition.
US09862817B2
An at least two layer rotomolded article is described herein which may include a layer A and a layer B. Layer A can include an aliphatic polyester, a polyolefin, or a co- or ter-polymer that includes ethylene or styrene monomer, an unsaturated anhydride-containing monomer, epoxide-containing monomer, or carboxylic acid-containing monomer, and a (meth)acrylic ester monomer. Layer B can include a polyolefin and a polyester, or a co- or ter-polymer that includes an ethylene or a styrene monomer, an unsaturated anhydride-containing monomer, epoxide-containing monomer, or carboxylic acid-containing monomer, and a (meth)acrylic ester monomer.
US09862814B2
Provided are pneumatic tires or studless winter tires that achieve a balanced improvement in fuel economy, reinforcing properties (flex crack growth resistance, abrasion resistance, tensile strength, adhesive strength, resistance to air permeation), grip performance (wet-grip performance, performance on snow and ice), handling stability, and heat aging resistance, and methods for producing such a pneumatic tire or studless winter tire. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire including at least one component selected from the group consisting of a sidewall, a base tread, a bead apex, a clinch apex, an innerliner, and an undertread, each of which is formed from a rubber composition that contains a highly purified, modified natural rubber whose pH is adjusted to 2 to 7, and carbon black and/or a white filler.
US09862811B2
Methods for synthesizing stabilized polymers of chlorotrifluoroethylene and products manufactured using such polymers are disclosed herein. In one exemplary embodiment, a method for synthesizing chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE)-based polymers includes reacting, in the presence of an initiator and in a reaction medium at a pH of about 1.5 to about 2.5, one or more monomers comprising CTFE and after an amount of polymerization reaction time has passed, adding a neutralizing agent to the reaction medium to increase the pH of the reaction medium to within a range of about 1.8 to about 6.0.
US09862810B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel process for the preparation of a precipitated silica, in which: a silicate is reacted with at least one acidifying agent, so as to obtain a suspension of precipitated silica, said suspension of precipitated silica is filtered, so as to obtain a filtration cake, said filtration cake is subjected to a liquefaction operation comprising the addition of an aluminum compound, after the liquefaction operation, a drying stage is carried out, characterized in that methylglutaric acid is added to the filtration cake, during or after the liquefaction operation. It also relates to novel precipitated silicas and to their uses.
US09862807B2
A nanofibrous spongy microsphere includes porous walls that define an exterior of the microsphere and that extend through an interior of the microsphere. The porous walls consist of interconnected nanofibers and spaces formed between the interconnected nanofibers. A plurality of micro-scale pores are formed throughout the interior of the microsphere. Each of the micro-scale pores i) is partially defined by the porous walls, ii) has an interpore opening that opens to an adjacent micro-scale pores, and iii) has a diameter ranging from about 1 μm to about 100 μm. A total diameter of the microsphere ranges from about 5 μm to about 1000 μm.
US09862799B2
Provided is a poly-p-xylyene having at least one chemically active functional group present in a form of particles. In an embodiment, the functionalized poly-p-xylylene is synthesized via CVD, and electrospinning is then performed at a relatively low polymer concentration, so as to produce functionalized poly-p-xylylene particles. The functionalized poly-p-xylyene particles have a particle size at nano-scale or micro-scale. Such functionalized poly-p-xylyene particles can be applied to biological fields extensively.
US09862796B2
A one-part moisture-curable polyurethane composition of the present technology comprises: a preliminary composition containing a urethane prepolymer (A); and an adhesion promoter (B); the adhesion promoter being a reaction product of a compound (b1) having three or more isocyanate groups; and a compound (b2) of at least one type of a compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by Formula (1) to (4) described below and hydrogenated compounds of compounds represented by Formula (1) to (3) described below; wherein a ratio (NCO/OH) between an isocyanate group (NCO) of the compound (b1) and a hydroxy group (OH) of the compound (b2) is 1.2 to 3.2; and a content of the adhesion promoter (B) being 0.1 to 10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the preliminary composition.
US09862793B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a polymer by efficiently removing residue of metals such as titanium, aluminum and lithium from a polymer solution containing the residue of these metals to successfully obtain a purified polymer solution containing a smaller amount of the metal residue and having satisfactory color tone and transparency, a polymer solution and a polymer obtained by the production method.
US09862773B2
The present invention is directed to a monoclonal antibody that recognizes human CD9 in its native form. The invention is also directed to a hybridoma cell line that produces the monoclonal antibody, and exosome isolation kits using the antibody.
US09862772B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising an anchor region capable of binding to a plasma cell; and a binding region associated with the anchor region, wherein the binding region binds a specific plasma cell antibody.
US09862762B2
This disclosure provides a robust, sensitive, and specific assay for the detection and measurement of periostin levels in samples obtained from human patients having, or suspected of having an IL-13-mediated disease or disorder. The disclosure further provides novel antiperiostin monoclonal antibodies that recognize at least isoforms 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 of human periostin, and assay kits comprising one or more of these antibodies.
US09862761B2
The present invention is a composition and method for the prevention and treatment of a tauopathy. The composition of the invention includes N-terminal amino acid residues of the tau protein, which have been identified as being involved in toxic activation of a PP1/GSK3 signaling cascade and inhibition of fast axonal transport in human tauopathies.
US09862757B2
An inhibitor targeting specific complement, the inhibitor targeting specific complement is a protein, the protein has a targeted inhibition function on the complement activation, and the amino acid sequence of the protein comprises CRIg extracellular domain and complement inhibiting domain; the amino acid sequence of the protein is consist of the CRIg extracellular domain and the complement inhibiting domain connected directly, or indirectly through a linker which can connect the two domains. The preparation method of the inhibitor targeting specific complement comprises connecting the protein polypeptides of the CRIg extracellular domain and the complement inhibiting domain by gene engineering technology. The protein can be used to prepare a drug targeting inhibition of complement activation. The inhibitor targeting specific complement, its preparation method and applications provided by the present invention, can be used in the treatment and prevention of human diseases caused by complement activation disorders. It has great potential application value and development prospects.
US09862754B2
Provided herein are peptides, that in combination with metformin, are effective for the treatment of type I diabetes, Type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or obesity, or of appetite suppression, or for mitigating insulin resistance, or for reducing an undesirably high fasting serum glucose level, or for reducing an undesirably high peak serum glucose level, or for reducing an undesirably high peak serum insulin level, or for reducing an undesirably large response to a glucose tolerance test in synergistic combination with metformin. The peptides are selected from sequences SEQ ID NO: 11, SEQ ID NO: 12, SEQ ID NO: 13, SEQ ID NO: 14, SEQ ID NO: 15, SEQ ID NO: 16, SEQ ID NO: 17, SEQ ID NO: 19, SEQ ID NO: 20, SEQ ID NO: 21, SEQ ID NO: 22, SEQ ID NO: 23, and SEQ ID NO: 24.
US09862753B2
The present invention relates to the design, manufacture and use of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) polypeptides having improved receptor specificity. In particular, the invention relates to isolated FGF2 polypeptides comprising a truncated N-terminus and optionally N-terminal amino acid substitutions. The present invention provides polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides, compositions comprising same and methods for use thereof.
US09862744B2
A method of treating a patient to reduce risk of developing Clostridium difficile-associated disease or reducing existing Clostridium difficile-associated disease in a mammalian subject involves administering to a mammalian subject an effective amount of a germination-inhibiting compound derived from taurocholate. Novel compounds of this class are also provided.
US09862738B2
Novel heterocyclic selenophosphites, method for preparation thereof and use thereof as ligand unit for preparing ligands for use in complexes.
US09862735B2
An organosilicon compound having diphenylethyl and methoxysilyl groups is more readily hydrolyzable than ethoxysilyl-containing organosilicon compounds and generates no hydrogen chloride on use.
US09862734B2
A metal-ligand complex has formula (I): wherein J, L, M, R1, R2, R3, R4, X, p, q, and r are defined herein. The metal-ligand complex is useful as a catalyst or catalyst precursor for olefin polymerization.
US09862731B2
The present invention provides a difluoroboron dipyrromethene fluorescent probe having a structure represented by the following general formula I, and a production method and an application thereof. Said difluoroboron dipyrromethene fluorescent probe exhibits low background fluorescence, and a rapid and significant fluorescence enhancement up to 100 times after the addition of hypochloric acid. The fluorescent intensity of said fluorescent probe shows a good linear relation with the concentration of hypochloric acid in a nanomole level, and the detection limit thereof is 0.56 nanomole. Said fluorescent probe has good selectivity since it hardly responds to other reactive oxygen species such as H2O2, O2−, TBHP, HO., TBO., 1O2 and NO., and is not interfered by pH in a wide range. Said fluorescent probe can be applied to detect hypochloric acid in living cells.
US09862729B2
Broad spectrum beta-lactamase inhibitors. Certain inhibitors also exhibit potent antibiotic activity in addition to beta-lactamase inhibition. Compounds of the invention are designed such that on cleavage of the beta-lactam ring reactive moieties are generated which can inactivate beta-lactamase. Also provided are methods of making beta-lactamase inhibitors and beta-lactam antibiotics exhibiting such inhibition. Additionally provided are pharmaceutical compositions for treatment or prevention of bacterial infections and methods of treatment of such infections.
US09862728B2
Crystalline forms of the anti-HCV compound (1aR,5S,8S,9S,10R,22aR)-5-tert-butyl-N-[(1R,2R)-2-(difluoromethyl)-1-{[(1-methylcyclopropyl)sulfonyl]carbamoyl}cyclopropyl]-9-ethyl-18,18-difluoro-14-methoxy-3,6-dioxo-1,1a,3,4,5,6,9,10,18,19,20,21,22,22a-tetradecahydro-8H-7,10-methanocyclopropa[18,19][1,10,3,6]dioxadiazacyclononadecino[11,12-b]quinoxaline-8-carboxamide (Compound I) were prepared and characterized in the solid state: Also provided are processes of manufacture and methods of using the crystalline forms.
US09862721B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a drug having the inhibitory activity on ENPP2 which is a different target from that of the existing drug, as a medicament useful in a urinary excretion disorder patient for whom the existing drug has the insufficient effect. The present invention provides a compound represented by the general formula (I): (wherein definition of each group is as defined in the description) having the ENPP2 inhibitory activity, a salt thereof or a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof, and an agent for preventing or treating urinary excretion disorder and/or improving symptoms thereof, containing them as an active ingredient.
US09862716B2
The present invention is directed to a bicyclic heteroaryl benzamide compounds of formula (I) which are tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk) family protein kinase inhibitors, and hence are useful in the treatment of pain, inflammation, cancer, restenosis, atherosclerosis, psoriasis, thrombosis, a disease, disorder, injury, or malfunction relating to dysmyelination or demyelination or a disease or disorder associated with abnormal activities of nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor TrkA.
US09862713B2
The present invention relates to certain substituted bicyclic compounds that are agonists of RXR and which are therefore useful in the treatment of certain disorders that can be prevented or treated by activation of this receptor. In addition the invention relates to the compounds, methods for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and the uses of these compounds in the treatment of certain disorders.
US09862707B2
The present invention is directed to a bicyclic heteroaryl benzamide compounds of formula (I) which are tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk) family protein kinase inhibitors, and hence are useful in the treatment of pain, inflammation, cancer, restenosis, atherosclerosis, psoriasis, thrombosis, a disease, disorder, injury, or malfunction relating to dysmyelination or demyelination or a disease or disorder associated with abnormal activities of nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor TrkA.
US09862705B2
The present invention relates to salt forms of the Pim kinase inhibitor N-{(7R)-4-[(3R,4R,5S)-3-amino-4-hydroxy-5-methylpiperidin-1-yl]-7-hydroxy-6,7-dihydro-5H-cyclopenta[b]pyridin-3-yl}-6-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-5-fluoropyridine-2-carboxamide, including methods of preparation thereof, and intermediates in the preparation thereof, where the compound is useful in the treatment of Pim kinase-related diseases such as cancer.
US09862684B2
Disclosed herein inter alia are compositions and methods useful in the treatment of diseases, for example pain, neurodegeneration, or mood disorders, and for modulating the activity of a K2P channel.
US09862672B2
Certain embodiments of the invention provide antioxidant-based diacids and polymers comprising glycol groups as described herein, and methods of use thereof. In certain embodiments the polymers described herein are formulated as microspheres or hydrogels. Described herein is the chemical incorporation of antioxidants, e.g., coumaric acid, ferulic acid, and sinapic acid, into a polymer backbone for use, e.g., in applications for localized release and rapid delivery. As provided, the chemical composition of the linker molecules used (of which hold together two bioactives via ester linkages) may be used to vary the hydrophilicity of the polymer. The bioactive release rate may also be altered for a tunable release delivery system, allowing for increased bioactive release compared to other linkers previously utilized.
US09862658B2
The present disclosure covers the use of polymers or copolymers having a naphthalene-type unit in their structure as heterogeneous hydrogen transfer agents for hydrogenation, hydrotreatment or reduction reactions. These heterogeneous hydrogen transfer agents may or may not be supported on metallic oxides and may be used in the presence of reducing agents such as hydrogen or methane. These hydrogen donors, being solid at the reaction temperature, may be recovered from the reaction mixture and reused, and are thermally and chemically stable at temperatures up to above 450° C.
US09862649B2
A raw setter has a plate shape, is made of the same material as in a honeycomb formed body, and has a chamfered portion in which a circumferential portion of one end face is chamfered in an oblique direction and whose has a tapered cross-sectional shape by reducing a diameter of an end face portion to an outer diameter, a ratio of an area of a flat portion to an end face area is from 10 to 85%, an angle formed between the flat portion and the chambered portion is from 3 to 50°, a flatness of each of the flat portion of the one end face and a flat portion of the other end face is 0.3 mm or less, and a thickness of cell partition walls is 0.1 mm or less.
US09862636B2
A heat-absorbing glass plate containing iron, tin and sulfur, where, as represented by mass % based on oxides, the amount of total iron as calculated as Fe2O3 is at least 0.3%, the amount of total tin as calculated as SnO2 is less than 0.4%, and the ratio (SnO2/SO3) of the amount of total tin to the amount of total sulfur as calculated as SO3 is from 0.2 to 100.
US09862632B2
The invention relates to a unit and method for melting in a furnace comprising a combustion-heated melting chamber, in which the air is heated by means of heat exchange with the fumes generated by combustion. The heated air is used in a gas turbine in order to generate electrical and/or mechanical energy. In addition, the effluent from the gas turbine is used to pre-heat the combustion oxygen and/or gaseous fuel upstream of the melting chamber.
US09862625B1
A water conditioning system for use in a building that produces wastewater that contains phosphates. The wastewater exits the building through a pipe that directs the wastewater directly to a septic tank. A phosphate precipitation solution is provided in a reservoir. A flow meter is installed that measures fresh water flowing into the building. Furthermore, an injection port is installed into the pipe before the septic tank. The phosphate precipitation solution is pumped into the pipe through the injection port at a rate that is controlled by the flow being measured by the flow meter. The phosphate precipitation solution mixes with the wastewater to create treated effluent. The treated effluent flows into the septic tank where the phosphates form salts and collect as solids.
US09862618B2
The water treatment system, particularly reverse-osmosis system, comprising a water line with a plurality of filter stages, is characterized in that before and after at least one filter stage a respective line branches off from the water line, which is provided with a valve adapted to be switched by a control device and leads to a pressure sensor device.
US09862611B1
Disclosed is a method for producing a carbon nanotube, including supplying a carbon nanotube and a catalyst to a reactor in a predetermined order or simultaneously and fluidizing them to form a fluidized bed, wherein a difference in minimum fluidization velocities (ΔV) according to Formula 1 below is 5 cm/s or less: [Formula 1] Difference in minimum fluidization velocities (ΔV, cm/s)=|Vcat−Vcntproduct| wherein Vcat is a minimum fluidization velocity of catalyst, and VCNTproduct is a minimum fluidization velocity of carbon nanotubes supplied to a reactor in the step of forming a fluidized bed.
US09862610B2
Methods and systems for converting a biomass and biogenic wastes to hydrogen with integrated carbon dioxide capture and storage are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods include the following: mixing at least one of a dry solid or liquid or liquid hydroxide and catalysts with a biomass to form a biomass mixture; heating the biomass mixture until the hydroxide and the biomass react to produce hydrogen, carbonate, biochar, and potentially fertilizer; calcining the carbonate or performing double replacement reactions of the carbonate to produce sequestration-ready carbon dioxide and a hydroxide; storing the carbon dioxide produced; transferring the hydrogen produced to a fuel cell; and generating electricity with the fuel cell.
US09862603B1
A system and method is provided for producing and delivering a product. The system includes a chamber having an inlet end, an outlet end and quenching points positioned therebetween. The inlet end is configured to receive a plurality of precursors and the quenching points are configured to receive water to obtain quenching of the reaction in the chamber thereby providing varying concentration of the resultant product.
US09862602B1
A process gas (such as a hydrocarbon gas) is flowed through a thermal cracking apparatus to crack the process gas into constituent components (such as hydrogen gas and solid carbon nano-particles, e.g., carbon nano-onions, necked carbon nano-onions, carbon nanospheres, graphene, graphite, highly ordered pyrolytic graphite, single walled nanotubes, and/or multi-walled nanotubes). The thermal cracking apparatus has an elongated heating element disposed within an inner volume along a longitudinal axis thereof. The elongated heating element heats the process gas as it flows within a longitudinal elongated reaction zone to thermally crack molecules of the process gas into the constituent components of the molecules.
US09862598B2
A method of forming at least one Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) includes forming a beam structure and an electrode on an insulator layer, remote from the beam structure. The method further includes forming at least one sacrificial layer over the beam structure, and remote from the electrode. The method further includes forming a lid structure over the at least one sacrificial layer and the electrode. The method further includes providing simultaneously a vent hole through the lid structure to expose the sacrificial layer and to form a partial via over the electrode. The method further includes venting the sacrificial layer to form a cavity. The method further includes sealing the vent hole with material. The method further includes forming a final via in the lid structure to the electrode, through the partial via.
US09862596B2
A micromechanical component formed from, a substrate (100) having a first cavity (112) and a second cavity (113), a first micromechanical structure (117) arranged in the first cavity (112), and a second micromechanical structure (118) arranged in the second cavity (113). The first cavity (112) and the second cavities having respective first and second gas pressures having different values. The first gas pressure is provided by a closed configuration of the first cavity (112) and a first channel (115) opens into the second cavity (113), and the second gas pressure is adjustable via the first channel (115).
US09862590B2
A liquid drawing device includes a main body assembly, a drawing pump mounted inside the main body assembly; an adjustable air intake is mounted outside the air intake hole of the connecting seat of the main body assembly, and the first liquid delivery pipe of the connecting seat is mounted with a drawing straw. With the drawing pump drawing liquid inside a container, the procedure of liquid drawing may not be restricted by whether an airtight condition of an opening of the container is well maintained, and an opened degree of the air intake hole of the connecting seat can be adjusted by the adjustable air intake. Besides, because the drawing straw is a telescopic pipe assembly with a plurality of sections, the liquid drawing device can be conveniently carried around after the drawing straw is retracted and shortened.
US09862584B2
A method for processing containers includes introducing flushing gas into a container's interior while the interior remains connected to a vacuum source, and adjusting flow of the flushing gas and an underpressure of the vacuum source such that, while flushing gas flows through the interior, a flushing pressure in the interior lies between 0.46 and 0.9 bar.
US09862581B2
The disclosure describes load supporting stands and methods of supporting a load. Such systems and methods may include providing a load supporting stand with a column having an outer diameter, and a first end opposite a second end, a saddle attached to the first end of the column, a load bearing pin that extends transversely through the column and may be fixedly attached to the column, and a conduit capable of receiving the column, and a plurality of pin receiving slots disposed in the conduit and capable of receiving the pin, wherein the conduit may be capable of receiving the column and pin through the first end of the conduit, and wherein the column may be configured to be rotated within the conduit to translate upward from a top of the conduit such that the saddle engages the load to be supported.
US09862572B2
A system and method for monitoring a first wire rope and a second wire rope is provided. The first and second wire ropes each include a contact portion that contacts a sheave, a first end portion, and a monitored portion that extends between the contact portion and the first end portion. The sheave electrically connects the contact portions of the first and second wire ropes. The system includes a controller that is electrically connected to each of the first and second wire ropes to form a circuit with the monitored portions of the first and second wire ropes. The controller selectively applies a signal to the monitored portions of the first and second wire ropes and determines an electrical characteristic thereof. The controller uses the determined electrical characteristic to determine a condition of the first and second wire ropes.
US09862569B2
A brake comprising a frame, a braking member mounted on the frame movably between braking position and released position, and a rotatable lever mounted on the frame, the lever being functionally connected to the braking member such that movement of the lever axially away from frame moves the braking member towards released position. At least one cylindrical roller is mounted on one of the brake frame and lever, to be positioned between the brake frame and the lever, and the other of the brake frame and lever comprises a recess for receiving said cylindrical roller, and in that rotation of the lever is configured to cause said cylindrical roller to roll outwards from the recess along an edge portion of the recess forcing the lever to move axially away from the frame, thereby causing the braking member to move towards released position.
US09862568B2
A method of operating an elevator system is provided. The method includes powering, using a battery, the elevator system when an external power source is unavailable. The method also includes controlling, using a controller, a plurality of components of the elevator system. The controlling comprises operating at least one of the battery, an elevator car, a drive unit, and a brake. The method further includes determining, using the controller, a run profile of the elevator car in response to a selected deceleration. The method yet further includes operating, using the controller, the elevator car in response to the run profile determined, and determining, using the controller, an actual velocity of the elevator car.
US09862557B2
Provided are a container terminal and a control method therefor that enhance a cargo handling efficiency by reducing a movement of each yard crane to a minimum possible extent. The container terminal is provided with a first transfer area 44 outside one end portion of a storage lane 20, and a second transfer area 47 outside the other end portion. When a circulating transport vehicle 31 and a shuttle vehicle 32 transfer a container k therebetween via a first yard crane 13 in the first transfer area 44, the shuttle vehicle 32 transports the container k to a second yard crane 14, and the second yard crane 14 handles the container in an unloading container area 46 of the storage lane 20. When an external chassis 33 and the shuttle vehicle 32 transfer a container k therebetween via the second yard crane 14 in the second transfer area 47, the shuttle vehicle 32 transports the container k to the seaside yard crane 13 and the first yard crane 13 handles the container in a loading container area 45 of the storage lane 20.
US09862551B2
Embodiments of methods and systems of transferring proppant for fracking to reduce risk of production and release of silica dust at a well site are provided. An embodiment of a method can include positioning a plurality of containers each having proppant for fracking contained therein onto a conveyor at a well site, downwardly discharging proppant from each respective container of the plurality of containers, funneling proppant from the one or more outlets of each of the plurality of containers through a plurality of conveyor hoppers, receiving proppant onto the conveyor belt, conveying proppant on the conveyor to a chute, and depositing the proppant into the chute for use in a blender or other location at the well site.
US09862547B2
A multi-track conveyor for transporting containers includes two transport elements adjacent to one another to form a common transport surface on which the containers stand upright on their container bases. Each transport element has a dedicated electric drive motor. The drive motors are external-rotor motors with an internal stator connected in a torsion-resistant manner to a machine frame and with an external rotor, which forms an offset drive driving the respective transport element. The drive motors of at least two transport elements are coaxial with their motor axles oriented perpendicular to the transport direction. The stators of which are connected via a common support in a rotation-resistant manner to the machine frame.
US09862543B2
An autonomous transport robot for transporting a payload, the autonomous transport robot includes a payload bed having at least one reference datum surface and at least one payload justification device, the at least one payload justification device being configured to position a payload on the payload bed in substantial contact with the at least one reference datum surface to place the payload in a predetermined position on the payload bed.
US09862533B2
A package including a fitment for dispensing a liquid from a flexible bag is disclosed. The fitment is secured to the bag and includes a compressible bulb and a piercing member that are coupled together. The fitment is configured such that when the bulb is first actuated, e.g., pressed, it causes the piercing member to pierce through the wall of the bag so that the contents of the bag can be dispensed through an outlet port of the fitment. In one embodiment of the fitment a portion of the piercing member is permanently located within the bag after first use and a valve is provided to open and close the outlet port thereafter. In another and more preferred embodiment the piercing member is extended into and out of the bag to dispense the contents of the bag through the outlet port, without necessitating use of a separate valve to open and close that port.
US09862532B2
An apparatus includes a box including one or more side walls, each of which defines an inside surface. A bag is disposed in an internal region defined by the box. Drinking water is contained in the bag, the water being non-alcoholic. The bag is adapted to protect the water from contaminants, tastes, and odors, each of which originates from either the bag itself or a source external to the bag. A water-resistant coating may be applied to the respective inside surfaces. When condensate forms on the bag, the water-resistant coating at least resists absorption of the condensate into the one or more side walls. The apparatus may include a spout, which permits the water to be dispensed from the bag for human consumption. In an exemplary embodiment, the water is treated with a sanitizing additive such as, for example, ozone. The apparatus mitigates the environmental impacts of drinking water packaging.
US09862528B2
The present invention is related to a cap assembly which is put over a mouth of a bottle and a method for capping of capping the cap assembly to a bottle, and includes a function that makes it possible to open an inner stopper only by operating a cap when removing the cap initially, and makes attaching thereof to the bottle easy. There are included an inner stopper 40 and a cap 50, which respectively include a male screw thread 411c and a female screw thread 541, and the inner stopper 40 and the cap 50 while a state in which they are assembled is maintained are capped to a bottle 60, and when the cap 50 is removed initially, the cap 50 is firstly rotated in a direction of closing to have a junction section 52 broken, and then the cap 50 is rotated in a direction of opening so that the lid body 42 of the inner stopper 40 is removed together with cap 50, thereby causing the inner stopper 40 also to be in a state of being opened.
US09862525B2
A pouring fitting having a flow passage for flowing fluid substance 100, wherein said flow passage is forming a liquid-permeable surface 110 in at least the tip portion thereof that serves as a pouring port. The pouring fitting has markedly improved slipping property and non-adhering property for liquid or paste-like fluid substances.
US09862522B2
Embodiments of this disclosure include a rigid tray container and methods and equipment for using the rigid tray container in batched process operations. In one embodiment, a mass container is sized and dimensioned to receive one or several rigid tray containers. In other embodiments, equipment is configured to lid/unlid, secure, stack, load/unload, and buffer rigid tray containers. In other embodiments, equipment is configured to stack and stage mass containers. In some embodiments, methods are provided for batch processing items.
US09862520B2
A package for a prolate spheroidal ball having a longitudinal axis. A back plate is disposed between a first end and a second end of the package. A first cradle extends from the back plate adjacent the first end, and is operative to receive a first portion of the prolate spheroidal ball along the longitudinal axis. A wing portion extends from the back plate adjacent the second end, and at least partially circumscribes the longitudinal axis of the prolate spheroidal ball. A flap portion extends from the wing portion and defines an end surface of the package. The longitudinal axis intersects the flap portion.
US09862511B2
A processing method for automatically opening a slide-open package of tobacco articles with a hinged lid; the processing method including the steps of: mechanically clamping an outer container of the package; exerting pull on the lid to rotate the lid into an open position by means of a first actuator, which contacts a top wall of the lid, and has a suction head which engages the top wall by suction; and, simultaneously and in coordination with the step of exerting pull on the lid, exerting thrust on an inner container of the package, to slide the inner container axially with respect to the outer container, by means of a second actuator, which contacts a wall of the inner container through a window formed through a corresponding wall of the outer container.
US09862499B2
A human machine interface linked to the throttle lever of an aircraft used to control the energy of an aircraft is disclosed. The HMI has upper part, which corresponds to the forward stroke of the lever, and a lower part, which corresponds to the rearward stroke of the lever. An upper shutter is positioned over the upper part, and a lower shutter is positioned over the lower part. A “cursor” acts as a visual representation in the HMI of the lever and its handle. The cursor moves forward or backward as the pilot acts on the lever/handle. The cursor indicates an ordered release of more or less aircraft energy, depending on its position on the display. The upper and lower shutters also indicate the ordered release of more or less aircraft energy, depending on the respective lengths of the two shutters. The HMI also includes a column in the display having a length symbolizing a current value in actual aircraft push or braking, depending on whether an aircraft push or braking has been ordered by releasing of more or less aircraft energy. The column changes in length as the actual aircraft push or braking changes. The cursor is further depicted in the HMI display as containing a memorizing button on the handle and a Go-Lever button on the lever below the handle.
US09862498B2
A high-speed propulsion system for a high-speed vehicle includes an air intake duct, a compression section, a combustion section, and an expansion section. A gas dynamic laser generator is disposed proximate the expansion section and generates a source of laser light. A laser transmission mechanism receives the laser light and transmits the laser light from the gas dynamic laser generator to the combustion section and to presents the laser light into the air/fuel mixture of the flowpath which promotes mixing, combustion, and flame stability.
US09862496B2
An aircraft galley chiller is disclosed characterized by a cassette that inserts into the galley compartment above the beverage cart and houses an air return duct, a heat exchanger, a fan, and an air supply outlet. The chiller further includes a control valve for controlling the amount of air passing through the heat exchanger, and an electronic control box for control over the chiller, where the cassette is disposed between the beverage cart and a galley work deck.
US09862491B2
An optimized, multi-configuration cabin and lavatory arrangement for a single aisle aircraft that adds either another row of seating or increases cabin space without sacrificing performance or function of the existing components. The invention includes a space efficient lavatory that may incorporate various design configurations to meet the needs of airlines seeking to generate additional revenue. The configuration of the present invention uses a reduction in the lavatory floor plan with the option for a modular flex wall area to provide a customizable combination that gains extra cabin space for carriers that can be utilized for additional revenue streams.
US09862489B1
A preferred embodiment of a method and apparatus for detection and disablement of an unidentified aerial vehicle (UAV) includes arrays of antenna elements receiving in two modalities (for instance radio frequency (RF) and acoustic modalities, or RF and optical modalities). Signal processing of outputs from multiple antenna arrays locates a potential UAV at specific coordinates within a volume of space under surveillance, and automatically aims video surveillance and a short-range projectile launcher at the UAV, and may automatically fire the projectile launcher to down the UAV.
US09862487B2
The subject matter of the invention is a remote-controllable, disk-shaped aircraft platform, comprising a platform housing and at least one transport housing, the platform housing having a plurality of motor-driven, horizontally aligned rotors, each rotor being connected via a support arm to a support structure holding the support arms of the rotors, the support structure being centrally arranged in the platform housing, the support structure accommodating at least one transport housing in a vibrationally isolated manner.
US09862483B2
An aircraft landing gear assembly includes a fibre composite leaf spring arranged as a down lock spring to make the lock link.
US09862481B2
A computer-implemented method for protecting a vehicle from a directed energy attack is provided. The method includes receiving, at the vehicle, a beam of directed energy, determining a threat level of the beam of directed energy, and causing the vehicle to automatically execute at least one evasive maneuver when the threat level of the beam of directed energy is greater than a predetermined threshold.
US09862477B2
A structure having a panel, a stringer, and a rib is disclosed. The stringer includes a stringer flange that is joined to the panel and a stringer web that extends away from the stringer flange. The rib includes a rib web that has first and second faces and a rib foot that has a first rib foot flange that is joined to the stringer web, a second rib foot flange that is joined to the panel and a rib foot web that is joined to the first face of the rib web. The first rib foot flange is connected to the rib foot web by a first corner that includes at least one layer which runs continuously from the first rib foot flange into the rib foot web via the first corner. The second rib foot flange is connected to the rib foot web by a second corner that includes at least one layer which runs continuously from the second rib foot flange into the rib foot web via the second corner.
US09862473B2
A method is provided for controlling a boat. The boat is adapted to float in a body of water. The boat includes a hull having a longitudinal extension along a hull longitudinal axis, a lateral extension along a hull lateral axis and a vertical extension along a hull vertical axis. The boat also includes a set of drive units, the set of drive units comprising at least one drive unit. Each drive unit in the set is arranged such that it, during driving of the boat, is adapted to be at least partially submerged into the body of water; adapted to be pivotable, relative to the hull, around a drive unit longitudinal axis that is substantially parallel to the hull longitudinal axis such that a drive unit roll angle can be varied, and adapted to be pivotable, relative to the hull, around a steering axis that forms an angle with the drive unit longitudinal, axis such that a drive unit steering angle can be varied.
US09862466B2
An example inflatable paddle board includes a first inflatable chamber forming a stand-up board, and a second inflatable chamber connected to the first inflatable chamber to form a curve-shaped front hull. In an example, the second inflatable chamber at least partially overhangs the first inflatable chamber. In another example, the first inflatable chamber at least partially overhangs the second inflatable chamber. A tent may cover between the first inflatable chamber and the second inflatable chamber.
US09862463B2
Sealed and thermally insulating tank in which a first tank wall and an adjacent second tank wall form an edge, the tank further including a sealed corner piece fixed in a sealed manner to the sealing membrane of the first tank wall and of the second tank wall, the corner piece including a sheet metal corner angle-iron situated in line with the edge, a first reinforcing flange, a second reinforcing flange, a first locking piece, a second locking piece wherein the locking pieces are fixed to the insulating barrier, the first reinforcing flange and the second reinforcing flange each include a tab fixed to the lower face of the first and second locking pieces, respectively.
US09862459B2
A vessel (1) has at least three cavities that are distributed across the bottom in the length direction along a line extending from the center line near the bow, to a respective side. Furthermore, the vessel accommodates for each cavity or pair of cavities on opposite sides of the center line at a predetermined length position, a corresponding compressor for injecting air into the cavity at a pressure substantially corresponding to the hydrostatic pressure in each cavity. Each cavity (33) may include a deflector that has an elongate part (29, 34, 34′) extending in the length direction of the cavity over at least at least 5%, preferably at least 10% of the cavity length L. An air inlet opening (23) may be provided in the top wall (19).
US09862457B2
Rear boat extensions for boats and boats having such are provided. The rear boat extensions described herein are generally suitable for boats comprising a transom and a plate that is pivotally mounted via a hinge near a bottom edge of the transom, such that the plate is pivotable about an axis of the hinge upwardly toward and downwardly away from the transom. In some embodiments, the rear boat extensions described herein may include a bottom surface including a recess and one or more sloped or curved sections disposed on either side of the recess. The recess is disposed at a front end of the rear boat extension and configured to accommodate pivoting of the plate beneath the bottom surface of the rear boat extension. The sloped or curved sections disposed on either side of the recess serve to push water toward respective outboard sides of the boat to manipulate the size and/or shape of the wake produced by the boat.
US09862454B2
A bicycle crank assembly has a rotational center axis and comprises a crank member, a sprocket member, a sliding mechanism, a first stopper member, a second stopper member and a damping member. The crank member rotatably is arranged around the rotational center axis. The sprocket member is integrally and rotatably attached to the crank member. The sliding mechanism movably coupling the sprocket member in an axial direction with respect to the crank member. The first stopper member is attached to the crank member. The second stopper member is attached to the sprocket member. The damping member is attached to at least one of the first stopper member and the second stopper member. The damping member is configured to contact the other of the first stopper member and the second stopper member while the sliding mechanism is in operation.
US09862445B2
A water bottle cage for a bicycle includes a bracket extending along a first axis and adapted to be attached to a frame of a bicycle. The bracket includes two first sides spaced from each other about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and a second side connected with the two first sides and facing a receiving space adapted for receiving a water bottle. The bracket further includes at least one attaching device arranged on one of the two first sides, and at least one tire lever is removably attached to the attaching device. The tire lever can be removed from the attaching device without the need to move the water bottle away from the receiving space.
US09862435B2
An industrial cart system and method for operation thereof. The industrial cart system comprises a mother cart and a daughter cart. The mother cart comprises an upper frame and a lower frame. According to an embodiment, the lower frame is configured to support the daughter cart in a loaded or travel position. The lower frame is further configured to allow two-way loading and unloading of the daughter cart. According to another embodiment, the mother cart comprises a chassis and one or more lift mechanisms operatively coupled to the lower frame. The chassis is configured to support the daughter cart and the lift mechanisms are configured to lower and raise the chassis (and the daughter cart) to facilitate the loading and unloading of the daughter cart.
US09862432B2
A cab tilting stay easy-unlock system includes: a tilting stay portion including an upper stay rod rotatably combined with a vehicle cab, a lower stay rod rotatably combined on an axis to the upper stay rod and rotatably combined with the vehicle body, and a locking handle provided at the upper stay rod and that fixes or unfixes the upper stay rod and the lower stay rod by being combined with the lower stay rod; and a tilting handle portion connected to the tilting stay portion by a cable and operating the tilting stay portion to be in a folded state.
US09862427B2
An underbody of a motor vehicle has a base plate (3) and an impact protector (6) connected a lower side of the base plate (3). The impact protector (6) is a material composite composed of metal and fiber composite material.
US09862414B2
A method for compensating a steering wheel angle signal, which is subject to an offset, in a vehicle, includes: a filtering step; and a use step. In the filtering step, the steering wheel angle signal is filtered while the vehicle is traveling, using a filtering rule, in order to obtain a mean value of the steering wheel angle signal. The steering wheel angle signal is filtered if a lane and/or a roadway of the vehicle meets predetermined criteria. In the use step, the mean value is used to compensate the offset.
US09862412B2
In one aspect of the invention, a steering column assembly is provided. The assembly includes a tubular jacket having a first end and a second end, a steering shaft at least partially disposed within the tubular jacket, and an elastic vibration damper disposed between the steering shaft and the tubular jacket.
US09862394B2
A door operating assembly for a railcar includes an actuating device. The railcar includes a railcar container and a lower portion coupled to the railcar container. The railcar container includes two opposing sidewalls and at least one door coupled to the lower portion. The railcar defines a longitudinal axis extending therethrough. The door operating assembly also includes at least one door operating mechanism coupled to the actuating device. At least a portion of the at least one door operating mechanism extends longitudinally along one sidewall of the two opposing sidewalls. The door operating assembly further includes at least one axial drive member coupled to the at least one door operating mechanism. The door operating assembly also includes at least one door drive assembly coupled to the at least one axial drive member. The at least one door drive assembly is coupled to the at least one door.
US09862388B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling a drivetrain having an internal combustion engine, a dual-clutch transmission, having a first and second sub-transmission having at least one shiftable gear ratio, a first friction clutch disposed between the internal combustion engine and the first sub-transmission and a second friction clutch disposed between the internal combustion engine and the second sub-transmission to provide a drivetrain torque at a transmission output of the dual-clutch transmission by transferring an engine torque adjusted thereto via the friction clutches. So as to be able to continue operating a friction clutch which may have a previously damaged friction lining, at a first clutch torque transferred via the first friction lining, depending on a friction coefficient and a current temperature of a second friction lining of the second friction clutch, the second friction clutch is engaged at a gear ratio selected in the second sub-transmission and the friction lining is heated to a specified temperature.
US09862386B2
A control method of a tracked vehicle having a track belt and configured to advance the tracked vehicle provides for acquiring the driving speed of the tracked vehicle; acquiring the speeds of the tracks with respect to the tracked vehicle; calculating a range of expected values of traveling speed as a function of speed of the track; and varying the speed of the track when the traveling speed of the tracked vehicle is outside the range of expected values.
US09862383B2
A method for operating a vehicle, whereby a first setpoint trajectory is ascertained at a first point in time, based on which a setpoint trajectory of the vehicle is controlled, wherein, at a second point in time which is subsequent to the first point in time, it is checked whether or not the actual trajectory of the vehicle can continue to be controlled based on the first setpoint trajectory, and if yes, the actual trajectory of the vehicle continues to be controlled based on the first setpoint trajectory, while if no, a second setpoint trajectory is ascertained based on which the actual trajectory of the vehicle is controlled. A driver assistance system and a computer program product are also provided.
US09862382B2
A travel control device acquires subject vehicle information including the position of a subject vehicle, acquires object information including the position of an avoidance object which the subject vehicle should avoid, plans a target route for avoiding the avoidance object in accordance with the position of the subject vehicle and the position of the avoidance object, and outputs command information for driving the subject vehicle on the target route. The planning function is used to reduce the distance from the subject vehicle to a turning point as a margin distance decreases. The margin distance is the distance between the subject vehicle and a lane marker on a road on which the subject vehicle is traveling and is along a width direction of the road. The turning point is a point at which the location of the target route along the width direction varies by a predetermined distance or more.
US09862379B2
A parking assist apparatus includes a parking switch for instructing an execution or a release of a parking assist function, a sensor for searching a parking slot, and a controller for searching the parking slot using the sensor when the parking switch is turned on, entering a vehicle speed control mode to check an interface operation by a driver, controlling vehicle speed according to the interface operation, and performing a parking assist.
US09862357B2
A pivot link for a wiper blade of a vehicle window in a motor car is disclosed. The pivot link includes a substantially cylindrical shaft configured to be attached to a mechanical connector of the blade, and includes fluid-distribution means.
US09862349B2
A vehicle curtain airbag device has a curtain airbag. The curtain airbag is configured such that: a front end side is Z-folded toward a vehicle width direction inner side, the curtain airbag is further folded top-to-bottom, and, in the stowed state, a front end portion at the Z-folded region is covered by a rear end portion of a front pillar garnish; a corner portion at a front end side and an upper end side of the front side sub chamber is formed in a circular arc shape; and in a mid-deployment state, a front end side and an upper end side of the Z-folded region are covered, the corner portion overlaps a vehicle width direction outer side of the rear end portion, and a rear end of the corner portion is positioned further to a vehicle rear side than a rear end of the front pillar garnish.
US09862340B2
An automotive control system includes a plurality of control units including a touch sensor. The automotive control system also includes a control unit recognizer that recognizes a control unit of the plurality of control units that a driver has touched through the touch sensor. The automotive control system also includes a voice recognizer that recognizes selection of a function of an automotive information appliance by analyzing a voice command from the driver. The automotive control system also includes a controller that connects the selected function with the recognized control unit and controls the selected function according to operation of the recognized control unit.
US09862337B2
A tubular outer member which houses and protects a conductive path, the tubular outer member includes a fixing member mounting portion in which a conductive path fixing member is to be mounted so as to fix the conductive path. The fixing member mounting portion includes a guide groove configured to guide a conductive path winding portion of the conductive path fixing member extending like a line or a belt, and a pair of lead-in/out portions. The conductive path winding portion is to be inserted to and pulled out from the pair of lead-in/out portions.
US09862336B2
A vehicle an electric parking brake mechanism including a power source, unshielded power wires connected to the power source and covered by an outer sheath, and a brake caliper configured to receive a power from the power source via the unshielded power wires, and an ABS mechanism including an ABS sensor detecting a rotation speed of a wheel, unshielded signal wires connected to the ABS sensor and covered by the outer sheath together with the unshielded power wires, and a control unit for conducting an ABS control based on a signal input from the ABS sensor via the unshielded signal wires.
US09862332B2
In an in-vehicle camera 1, when an in-vehicle camera body 5 is hooked on a hook portion 33 of a bracket 3 attached to a windshield, a leaf spring 34 presses the in-vehicle camera body 5 against the bracket 3 to fix the in-vehicle camera body to the bracket 3. Therefore, the in-vehicle camera body 5 can be attached to the windshield without permitting the windshield to come off from the vehicle by the bracket's being strongly pushed such as by a jig, or without permitting the jig to scratch the windshield. Since the in-vehicle camera body is fixed to the bracket 3 by being pressed against the bracket 3 by the leaf spring 34, there is no problem of causing backlash relative to the bracket 3.
US09862331B1
A combination carrier adapted to be mounted at a rear of a vehicle consists of an upper frame and a lower frame interconnected by a transverse connecting element. The upper frame is formed by first and second upper arms. The lower frame is formed by first and second lower arms. The first upper arm, the first lower arm; the second upper arm and the second lower arm are pivotably connected to each other at respective first and second hubs. A proximal support assembly is movably arranged at the first hub at the junction between the first upper arm and the first lower arm. The distal support assembly is movably arranged at the second hub at the junction between the second upper arm and the second lower arm.
US09862326B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for carrying objects, in particular medications or medical articles, in a vehicle. The arrangement includes a storage compartment for accommodating the objects to be carried and a regulating unit for regulating at least one parameter characteristic of the climatic conditions present in the storage compartment. The regulating unit is designed to carry out the regulation in dependence on the presence of one or more objects in the storage compartment.
US09862315B2
A system for determining driver errors includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a safety warning from a safety warning system. The processor is configured to determine an appropriate driver response based at least in part on the safety warning; determine a driver response; determine whether the driver response comprises the appropriate driver response; and in the event the driver response does not comprise the appropriate driver response, indicating a driver error.
US09862309B2
A vehicle sill illumination assembly has a main body, an illumination panel and a controller. The main body includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion that together define an inverted U-shaped structure as viewed in cross-section. The first portion has an upright surface. The second portion extends horizontally inboard from an upper edge of the first section. The third portion extends downward from an inboard side of the second portion. The illumination panel is installed to an area of the first portion of the main body such that the illumination panel faces in an outboard direction with the main body installed to a vehicle sill structure. The controller is located within the main body and is configured to control illumination of the illumination panel.
US09862301B2
A vehicular rear panel with a new configuration is provided. The vehicular rear panel according to an aspect of the present disclosure is made of a resin material and disposed on a rear vehicle body part. The vehicular rear panel includes a light guiding unit configured to guide light from the light source along an extending direction of the vehicular rear panel and a light emitting unit configured to emit light in the light guiding unit to a rear side of a vehicle.
US09862283B2
The present disclosure provides a non-contact charging apparatus including a power transmitting coil and a power receiving coil which face each other. At least one of the power transmitting coil or the power receiving coil includes a magnetic body and a coil wound around the magnetic body. The magnetic body has, on both end portions, exposed regions in which the wound coil is absent. One of the exposed regions that is on a face facing the power transmitting coil or the power receiving coil is larger than another one of the exposed regions that is on a face not facing the power transmitting coil or the power receiving coil.
